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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON._ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1897._VOLUME XXXIL?NO. 29 25 Per Cent SALE ON Tuesday we began our 25 per cent Discount Sale on all. CLOT NG and WINTER UNDERWEAR. Crowds of people have been in and saved money on their purchases. It lasts until Saturday night. You get our $5.00 Suits, 25 per cent off* $3.75. $10.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $7.50. $15.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $11.25. None of the above Goods taken out on approval. Spot cash. No deviation. B. 0. EY?N5S CO. LA GRIPPE CAPSULES, For Coughs, Colds and "Grippe." A BIG LOT ON HAND. Evans5 Pharmacy, No. 4 Hotel Ohiquola. TKOS. A. ARCHEK. CLARENCE OSBORNE. w ARCHER * OSBORNE ISH the public to know that thrv i:ave recently opened up a new lino of FIRST CLASS Cooking and Heating Stoves, Cooking Utensils of all kinds, Crockery, Lamps, Glassware, Tinware, "Woodenware, &c, An i that they prppose selliog theua as cbesp as anybody in Anderson. Come and see our Goods and get our pr!ce3. We will treat vou right. Wo want your trade. We want to give you full value for it. We uro al -o prepared to do all kinds of TIN WORK, ouch ?ft Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is well equipped, and we will do your work on short notice and at rea sonable prices. We are keen np for business. Don't give us the go-by. Yours truly, ARCHER & OSBORNE. LEND US YOUR EAR AND LISTEN TO OUR SONG! We have on hand the largest stock we have ever carried, and our motto is to sell goods, not keep them. . . OTJR line of Shoes is large and complete. Cloiing ont a lot of Ladies $1 CO Shoes at 75c. Also a lot of Men's High Cut Ero gane at SI 00. There is good wear in both of these Shoes, and the price is dirt cheap We don't mean to be undersold in Flour, All bought before the rise, and it's bound to go in a hurry. 50 barrels of good family Flour to go at ?3 50. Tobacco cheaper than ever heard of before. Come md try our "Tar Heel" at 21??. One of the best chews on the market. We mean business, and ask you to give us a chance and we aro bound :o sell you. A new lot of Blue Siraw Wheat jnst arrived. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO, P. 3.?Bring your Peas, C^rn, Battsr, E^?s, etc , to up. A. Bis: Failure! E are glad to announce that the CORN CROP for lS'JG with our SHOE YY CUSTOMERS has been a total failure- Tnis explains the absence of smiling Corn Doctors in our midst, together with the fact that onr sales s on SHOES have increased 43 per cei^t. Figures talk for themsblves?so y doourSoce3. Our Shoe line isa dandy, but "there are others." For in stance? Our Elegant line of Flour, On which we have a booming, growing trade and a happy set of customers. | Once a customer on Dean's Patent always a customer. See us before buying even a pound of COFFEE, SUGAR, or any thing. Yours always truly, DEAN & RATLIFFE. ? Cotton Buyers for Trade?not for Profit. | , SHOES. J"ust Opened, our Fai At Greatly Reduced Prices. Call and examine our Stock before buying, as we can SAVE YOU MONEY. THE YATES SHOE COMPANY, A-iiderson, S. C. A GREAT SOUTH CAROLINIAN. Gen. Dafaney H. Maury's Tribute to Gen. Stephen D. Lee. t After our defeats at Iuka and Cor inth by Rosecrans, in October, 1S62, Grant was strangely inactive until late in December, when he formed that fine plan of campaign which, but for Sherman's defeat by Gen. Stephen D. Lee, might have ended the war in 1863. Assembling all his forces from Ten nessee and North Mississippi. Grant moved down the Mississippi Central Railroad with an army of 60,000 men, while he sent Sherman down the Mis sissippi to capture Yicksburg, and then moved east to Jackson, whence their united forces would move on Meridian, Mobile, Selma, Atlanta and Charleston?if they could. The heavy batteries of Yicksburg consisted then of five 10-inch guns and about thirty other siege pieces, all defended by the movable force of infantry?2,300?under command of Gen. S. D. Lee. Late in December, 1862, Sherman debarked his arrry of 28,000 men upon the lower Yazoo River, and moved to Chickasaw Bayou, at a point sis miles from Yicksburg, where he found Gen. Stephen D. Lee ready to meet him with 2,300 men drawn up with the bluff behind them. Sherman re-em barked his army, moved up toSnyder's Mill by boat and again landed his army. Lee had moved his forces thither by the road, and after firing a few shots Sherman re-embarked again, and moved down to Chickasaw Bayou, where was fought, December 26, one of the most remarkable battles of the war. After several hours' conflict Sher man retired, leaving his dead and wounded thick upon the field. Lee's loss was ten wounded ; Lieut. Hamil ton, his aide, was killed by the ex plosion of a caisson. On Christmas Day our army was drawn up in order for battle along the Tallahatchie, at Granada, when the news came that Van Dorn had passed behind Grant's army and destroyed his great depot of stores at Holly Springs. This, as intended, had com pelled Grant to retire at once, upon the 24th.. On Christmas Day, as a large and happy company of generals and staff officers, with Gen. Price at our head, were sitting down to a sumptuous dinner, a telegram was handed Gen. Price, ordering Maury's division to move at once to reinforce Lee at Yicksburg, where Sherman was about to attack him. About 2 o'clock the next morning Maury reached the battlefield of Chickasaw Bayou, whence Sherman had been driven the evening before. The night was as black as a wolf's mouth, a cold rain was beating down upon us. and upon Sherman's dead and wounded, who lay thick upon the field where they fell. Lee's surgeons and hospital attend ants were moving about with their lanterns, ministering to the wounded, and bearing them to the field hospi tals. Under these weird circumstances Gens, tee and Maury met for the first time since Lee had been a boy at West Point, where Maury was his in structor in belles lettres, ethics, etc. Lee was now a Brigadier General, who had won his grades upon many a hard fought field in Yirginia, while Maury had risen to Major General in the Western battles. They greeted each other most cor dially, Maury saying : "Lee, I am here with 400 men ; my whole division will be up by daylight ; meantime, as I don't know anything about the con dition of things before us, you will retain the command and I the respon sibility. You shall have the glory of the victory we shall win, and I will be responsible if anything goes wrong. For, you see, Lee, I don't know where the enemy is ; I don't know where I am. so go ahead, Lee, and complete your victory." And so he did, and from that day Lee and myself have been trusting, affectionate friends. Together we worked three days, to Sherman's dis comfiture and defeat. Gen. Sherman left his dead swell ing and festering three days there in the rains and sun before he sent a flag of truce to ask permission to remove and bury them, and then, instead of addressing his letter to Geu. Lee and singing it himself, he addressed it to me, and' caused Gen. Morgan to sign it. I gave the letter to Lee, saying : :iIlerc. Lee, you killed all these men ; give Sherman two hours to remove them, and sign your name and rank to your reply." Gen. Carter L. Stevenson had by this time come up with his tine divis ion, making our whole force 15,000 men?and as it was evident Sherman was preparing for something we were resolved to have a general battle next day, but lo and behold ! with the first morning light we saw the last of his great flotilla as it retired down the Yazoo. Lee took the 2d Texas Sharpshoot ers and five or sis other regiments and hastened to the levee of the Yazoo, whence he killed and wounded a number of Sherman's rear guard. Crowded as they were upon the steam ers, they were terribly cut up. Lee won great and wcll-dcservcd reputation for this extraordinary vic tory. It was great in execution and great in its results. I recommended Lee to be promoted, and the President of the Confederacy promptly appointed him a Major Gen eral, and a year later he was made a Lieutenant General. I NEW STORY ABOUT R. E. LEE. On the occasion of the great Con federate reunion in Richmond Lieut. Gen. Lcc was the O'ator of the day. At a dinner given to him he related the following remarkable story about Gen. . . Lee, never heretofore pub lished. Said Gen. S. D. Lee : "The battle of Sharpsburg, or An tietam, was one of the bloodiest and fiercest fought in the four years of the war between the States. Gen. R. E. Lee having defeated the Federal army under Gen. Pope and driven it to the defence of Washington, the two ar mies of McClellan and'Pope were con centrated there, and McClellan put in command of both. (Jen. Lee deter mined to cross the Potomac into Ma ryland, capture Harper's Ferry and then concentrate his army and light McClellan. Hii written plan of cam paign in some way fell into the hands of McClellan, who rapidly moved Iiis army and attacked Lee before he could concentrato, at Sharpsburg, on the morning of September 17, 1862. Gen. Lee had less than 40.000 men during the battle, while McClellan had 87,000 on the field. The losses were far the Union army about 12,500 and for the Confederate army 8,000 in killed, wounded and missing. The two armies fought from 3 a. m. until after dark, maintaining the same rela tive positions they held at the begin ning, and faced each other all day. On the ISth of September Lee buried his dead without rcnewiug the battle. Both armies were pretty well used up and exhausted from the terrible strug gle of September 17. The battle raged fiercely near the Dunker Church, on the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown pike, on Gen. Lee's left wing, wherewith three corps?Hooker's, Mansfield's and Sumner's?afterwards reinforced by Franklin's corps, McClellan at tempted to turn Gen. Lee's left. The great effort was resisted by Jackson's corps and Hood's division of Long street's corps (mainly.) By 8 o'clock in the morning two corps of the Federal army were de feated, and Hood's division was driv ing the Federals back, when Sumner's corps came in fresh and drove him back, and it looked as if the day was lost on the Southern side, as Jackson had also been driven back with great loss. Jackson and Hood held the ground near the Dunker Church until the arrival of McLaw's division, about 9 a. m., when the Federal attack was checked and the Confederate line re stored and maintained. "In the fighting," continued the narrator, "the Federals had forced the Confederates to form at right angles at the main line of the battle, and ex pose themselves not only to the fire of the artillery and infantry in their front, but to the fire of twenty 20 pounder Parrott guns across the An tietam Creek. "At the time Jackson and Hood were driven back, and were with diffi culty holding the ground near the Dunker Church, Hood came up to my (the narrator's) battalion of artillery (five batteries,) which had been en gaged during the entire morning and was pretty well wrecked, having lost thirty-five men and sixty horses, and ordered me to turn over my artillery to the next officer in command, and to go personally to find Gen. . E. Lee, and tell him the condition of affairs, and to say to him that unless rein forcements were sent at once the day was lost. I protested against leaving my artillery in its wrecked condition. He insisted, however, and I went. I soon met Gen. Lee on horseback with one orderly, moving at a walk towards that part of the field, and about half way between Sharpsburg and the Dunker Church. I reported the con dition of affairs on the left, and de livered Gen. Hood's message. "He quietly said, 'Don't be excited about it Colonel, g? tell Gen Hood to hold his ground, reinforcements are now rapidly approaching between Sharpsburg and the ford ; tell him that I am now coming to his support.' "I said, General, your presence will do good, but nothing but infantry can save the day on the left." "I started to return, and had not gone over 100 yards when Lee called me and pointed to McLaw's division, then in sight, and approaching at a double-quick. These reinforcements arrived just in time to save the day, and this was aided by Gen. Sumner, of the Federal army, halting his corps for alignments, when he was driving the Confederates before him. The Confederates restored their line on the left, and the Federals were con tent to remain in a strong line of bat tle the balance of the 17th, and all of the 18th, on their right. "The battle was renewed on Gen. Lee's centre and right, where Burn eide's corps crossed the Anuetam, but was finally repulsed on that part of the field before dark. "There can be little doubt that this battle was as bloody during this day (17th of September, 1862,) and the loss of life as great as on any one day's battle during the war. Both armies were completely exhausted by the great struggle, and welcomed night to stop the terrible slaughter. "Gen Lee's headquarters were on the 'pike leading from Sharpsburg to the Potomac, and about half a mile f-oin the town. About one hour or more after night had set in the weird scene of the great battlefield had changed, in that the firing had ceased everywhere, and more open help was being given to the searching for dead ones, and caring for the dying and wounded. Gen. Lee had summoned his corps and division commanders to meet him. For once during the day he had some of his staff and escort about him, and one by one his com manders began to arrive, generally two to three horsemen with them. "As they came up," continued the narrator, "Gen Lee inquired quietly, 'General, how is it on your part of the line ?' I, too, had been summoned, and was. a quiet, intensely interested observer of oue of the most remarkable scenes and interviews I ever witness ed. To the inquiry of Lee, Long street, apparently much depressed, replied to the effect that it was as bad as could be; that his division had lost terribly, and his lines had been barely held, and there was little better than a good skirmish line along his front, and he volunteered the advice that Gen. Lee should c.oss the Poto mac before daylight. D. II. Hill came next. lie said that his division was cut to pieces ; that his losses had been terrible, and he had no troops to hold his line against the great odds against him. He, too. suggested cross ing the Potomac before daylight. Next came Jackson, lie quietly said that he had had to contend against the greatest odds he had ever met. He had lost a good many Colonels killed and several division and brigade commanders were dead or wounded, and his losses in the different com mands had been terrible. He, too, suggested crossing the Potomac before daylight. Next came He id. To Gen. Lee's inquiry he displayed great emotion, seemed completely unmann ed. He replied that he had no di vision. Gen. Lee, with more excite ment than I ever witnessed in him, exclaimed, 'Great God ! Gen. Hood, where is your splendid division you had this morning ?' Hood replied, 'They arc lying on the field, where you sent them. But few have strag gled. My division has been almost wiped out.' "After the opinion of all had been given there was an appalling stillness over the group. It seemed to last several minutes, when Gen. Lee, ap parently rising more erect in his sad dle, said: 'Gentlemen, we will not cross the Potomac to-night. You will go to your respective commands, strengthen your lines ; send two offi cers from each brigade towards the ford to collect your stragglers and get them up. Many others have also come up. I have had the proper steps taken to collect all the men who are in the rear. If McClellan wants to fight in the morning I will give him battle again. Go !' "The above was in substance what occurred and was said. The group gradually broke up. each going to his command, and, if I read their coun tenances aright, they said : 'This is a rash conclusion, and we fear that the Army of Northern Virginia is tak ing a great risk in the face of the day's battle, and the great numbers opposed to us.' The two armies faced each other all the next day, (18th of September,) the guns unlimbered, the lines of battle and skirmishers in place, but everyone beirjg careful not to let a gun go off for fear, apparently, the terrible slaughter and scenes of the day before might be renewed?one army was afraid, the other 'daresn't.' "During the morning of the 18th of September a courier from Gen. Lee's headquarters came to my battalion of artillery with a message that Gen. Lee wanted to see me. Ifollowed the courier, and on meeting Gen. Lee he said : 'Col. Lee, I wish you to go with this courier to Gen. Jackson and say to him I sent you to report to him.' I replied : 'General, shall I take my artillery with me?" He said: 'No; just say that I told you to report to him. and he will tell you what he wants.' "I soon reached Gen. Jackson," said the narrator. "He was dismount ed, with but few persons around him. He said to me : 'Col. Lee, [wish you to take a ride with me.' And we rode to the left of our lines with but one courier, I think. It was very quiet ; no firing anywhere, and everybody apparently talking in an undertone, but intently watching any one else who was moving in any direction. We soon reached a considerable hill, very similar to an Indian mound, but for its being larger. "We dismounted and Gen. Jackson said : 'Let us go on this mount or hill and be careful not to expose your self, for the Federal sharpshooters are not far off. The hill bore evidence of the fierce fight of the day before. A battery of artillery had been on it, and there were wrecks of caissons' broken wheels, dead bodies and dead horses. Gen. Jackson said : 'Colonel, I wish you to take your glasses and carefully examine the Federal line of battle.' I did so, and satisfied myself in witnessing a remarkably strong line of battle, with more troops than I koew Gen. Lee had. After locating the different batteries, unlimbered and ready for action, and noting the strong skirmish line in front of the dense mass of infantry, I said to Gen. Jackson : 'General, that is a remark ably strong position, and there is a large force there.'. He replied: 'Yes, Col. Lee, I wish you to take fifty pieces of artillery and crush that force, which is the Federal right. Can you do it V I can scarcely de scribe my feelings as I again took my glasses, and made an even more care ful examination. I at once saw such an attempt must fail. More than fifty guns were unlimbered and ready for action, strongly supported by dense lines of infantry and strong skirmish lines, advantageously posted. "The ground was unfavorable for the location of artillery on the Con federate side, which, to be effective, should move up close to the Federal lines, and that, too, under fire of the infantry and artillery. I disliked to say what I felt and knewj I said, 'Yes, General, where will I get the fifty guns ?' He asked : 'flow many have you ?' I replied, 'About twelve out of the thirty I carried into the ac tion the day before. My losses were great in men, horses and carriages.' He said: can furnish you with some, and General Lee says he can furnish some.' I replied: 'Shall I go for the guns ?' 'No, not yet,' he replied. 'Col. Lee,' he resumed, 'can you crush the Federal right with fifty guns ?' I said, 'General, I can try ; I can do it if anyone can.' He re plied : 'That is not what I asked you, sir; if I give you fifty guns can you crush the Federal right ?' I evaded the question again and again, but he pressed it home. Finally I said : 'General, you seem to be more intent upon my giving you my techni cal opinion as an artillery officer than my ,?oing after the guns and making the attempt.' " 'Yes, sir,' he replied, 'and I want your positive opinion?yes or no.' I felt that a great crisis was upon me, and 1 could not evade or dodge. I again took my glasses and made an other examination. I waited a good while, with Jackson watching intently. "Finally I said : 'General, it can not be done with fifty guns and the troops you have near here., In an instant he answered : 'Let us ride back, Colonel.' I felt that I had pos sibly shown a lack of nerve, and with considerable emotion begged that I might be allowed to make the attempt, saying: 'General, you forced me to say what I did unwillingly. If you give fifty guns to any other artillery officer I am ruined for life. I promise you I will fight the guns to the last extremity, if you will only let me command them.' Jackson was quiet, seemed sorry for me, and said : 'It is all right, Colonel, everybody knows you are a brave officer, and would fight the guns well,' or words to that effect. We Boon reached the spot from which we started, when he said : 'Col. Lee, go to Gen. Lee, and toll him what has occurred since you re ported to me. Describe our ride to the hill, your examination of the Fed eral position, and my conversation about your crushing the Federal right with fifty guns, and my forcing you togiv2 your opinion as an artillerist as to its possibility.' "With feeling such as I never had before, nor ever expect to have again, I returned to Gen. Lee and gave a de tailed account of my visit to Gen. Jackson, closing with the account of my being forced to give my opinion as to the possibility of success. I saw a shade come over to Gen. Lee's face, and he said: 'Colonel, go and join your command.1 "For many, many years I never fully understood my mission that day, or why I was sent to Gen. Jackson. When Jackson's report of the battle was published I saw that he stated that in the afternoon of September 17 Gen. Lee had ordered him to move to the left with a view of turning the Federals' right, but ho found the enemy's numerous artillery so judici ously posted in their front and so near the river as to render such an attempt too har.ardous to undertake. ' afterwards saw Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's report, in which he says that it was determined, the enemy not attacking, to turn the enemy's right on the 18th. It appears that Gen. Lee ordered Gen. Jackson to renew the battle on the evening of the 17th and to turn the enemy s right, and Jackson said that it could not be done. It ak? appears from Stuart's report, and the incident I relate, that Gen. Lee reiterated the order on the 18th, and told Gen. Jackson to take fifty guus arid crush the Federal right and make the attempt. Jackson having reporte ! against *uch attempt on the 17th, no doubt said if an artillerist in whom Gen. Lee had confidence would say tbe Federal right could be crush ed with fifty guns he would make the attempt. "I now have the satisfaction of know ing that the opinion which I was forc ed to give on the 18fch of September had already been given by Jackson on the evening of the 17th of September, and that the same opinion was reitera ted by him on the 18th of September, and confirmed by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart on the same day, (September IS.) "I still believe that Jackson, Stuart and myself were right, and the at tempt to turn the Federal right on the afternoon of September 17, and also on September 18, would have been unwise. "The incident shows Gen. Lee's decision and boldness in battle, and Gen. Jackson's delicate loyalty to his commanding general, in convincing him of the inadvisability of a proposed movement, which he felt it would be hazardous to undertake. "The three incidents as far as they relate to myself are correct in every particular, the speculation as to others may be slightly colored, but I do not think the description overdrawn." These incidents were most effec tively related by Gen. Stephen D. Lee, and, to my knowledge, have never be fore been made public. Dabney II. Maury. Richmond, Va., Dec. 18, 1S96. Everything in its Place. She is a noted housekeeper, says the Chicago Times-Herald, and it is her proud boast that she can always find any article in her house without a light, be the night ever so dark, and that in case of her sudden demise no one need blush for the condition of any cupboard in her dwelling. The other evening she was going out with her husband, but it seemed rath er hard for them to get started. Once she returned to turn hack the r?g be fore the parlor fire, and once to give the cook an order. The husband heaved a sigh of relief as they finally reached the pavement, but it was cut short by his wife's exclamation: "There, it is really ? Md, and I have on this little thin ja et. I must go back and get my old 1 .own shawl." "Look here, how many times are you going back anyhow?" demanded her husband. "Well, John, dear, if you insist upon it, you may get it for me. It is hanging on the third peg on the right hand side of the cupboard in the back roomup-stairs." "But that is where my things are kept." "I know, dear, but since I have given away all your old things to that nice, polite tramp, there's plenty of room. I keep just a fewjthings there because they are old and smell so strong of moth balls. I knew you wouldn't mind. But do go at once; you are making us late. Don't light the gas?oh, he's gone. How impa tient men are." Five minutes later he came back with a jammed thumb and no shawl. "Just like a man," she said, and went up to fetch it herself, returning almost instantly with a neatly folded garment hanging over her arm. "I shan't need it going, after all," she said, "but I may coming back. I found it just where I told you it was, dear." After spending a pleasant hour or two with the friends upon whom they had called they started to walk home, and after they had gone a block or two she threw her shawl carelessly about her shoulders, not without a remark as to the neatness of her cupboards and her ability to find things in the dark. As they slowly strolled toward home several people turned to look after them with almost audible smiles, causing her to say, complacently: "I do believe the people take us for a pair of lovers, John." To which John, man like, replied : "Blamed idiots !" People certainly did behave oddly, and a couple of small boys even fol lowed them home with mirthful shouts. "What can be the matter?" she asked. "To be sure, my shawl is old fashioned, but it can hardly be that." The husband's key was in the I ?ck by this time, and, as she followed him into the parlor, she caught a glimpse of herself in a mirror. Instead of a shawl, she had a pair of her husband's trousers gracefully draped about her shoulders ! In the Line of Reform. Those who contemplate the grow ing of cotton this year should begin at once the work of reform in their plans and methods. Commence with out delay on the line of improving your land and the cotton plant. Mr. J. B. Wilson, a Mississippi planter, states that in 18?4, an ideal year for cotton raising, he made 300 bales of cotton on 300 acres with six mules ; in 1895, a very wet year, on the same number of acres, he made 237 bales with eight mules; in 1896, a very dry year, he made 257 bales with eight mules. It will be observed that the yield per mule varied each year, and that the cost of production was increased as the yield decreased. The cotton grower should have in view from the beginning the lessening of the cost of production, and should work systematically and unceasingly to that end. The thorough pulverization and fertilizing of the soil should lead to an intensive system of culture that would secure the results from one acre that the old method requires two acres to obtain. Why use eight mules to grow 257 bales of cotton when six mules can enable you to grow 300 bale?. Cotton growers should be a unit in establishing as the basis of their ef fort that in futuro their aim will be not so much the production of a large crop of cotton as the increase of the yield per acre at the least possible cost. The time has come when the cotton grower should realize something for his labor. It will never be secured without concert of action and unity of purpose.?So nth urn Cu U ivator. ? He: "When you see my faults I fear jou will cease to love me." She: "I shall never see them." lie: "Why not. dear?" She: i:Lovc is blind." How's This. We ?Her One Hundred Dollars reward for aoy case ff Catarrh Ihat cinnot-be cured by Uall's Catarrh Cure. We, the undersigned have known F.J. Cheney for : he last 1"> years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and Unan daily able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West ATntTAX, Wholesale Driigclsls, Toledo, O. Waloiro. Kinnau & Marvin, wholesale Drug giste, Toledo, O. Hall's Catari h Cure Is taken internally, tetlnir directly upon tho blood and roncone surfaces of (he system. '.Testimonials aenl free. Price 75c. per mila Bold by all ftTf?tsts. THE STATE PENITENTIARY. Annual Report of the Superintendent, Col. W. A. Neal. Columbia, January .?The Peni tentiary report that was made up to day shows the condition of that insti tution. Superintendent Neal's re port, as well as that of the board, show a prosperous and healthy condi tion, and that the Penitentiary is making very much more than its ex penses and is affording every expect ed comfort to the convicts, who are somewhat fewer than heretofore on account of the chain gang. Notwith standing this, the balance sheet shows up better than usual. The directors report as follows: To his Excellency, John Gary Ev ans, Governor of South Carolina? Dear Sir : The Board of Directors of the South Carolina State Penitenti ary have the honor to submit herewith for your consideration this annual re port for the fiscal year, commencing January 1, 1896, and ending Decem ber 31, 1896, accompanied by reports of the superintendent, oaptain of the guards, physiciau and chaplain. The board of directors commenced the year's work with only four mem bers, one vacancy having been made by death previous to the commence ment of the year's work. The board was made complete in March by the election of Messrs. Blackwell and Tatum, in the places of Mr. T. C. Willoughby, a former member, and Dr. Sprott, whose vacancy was caused by death. Appended to this report is a state ment embracing the receipts and dis bursements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1890. The aggregate receipts and disbursements are as fol lows: Receipts.$62,125 17 Disbursements. 63,570 83 Account overdrawn.$ 1,445 66 Cash value cf crop on hand.. 52,925 40 Amount due for convict hire and other sources. 5,108 46 Total.$58,033 92 Account overdrawn. 1,445 66 Leaving .?56,578 26 Liabilities, including Reed farm purchase money.... 18,370 93 Leaving on hand.$38,207 33 "We beg to call your special atten tion to the report of the special com mittee appointed by your Excellency as chairman ex officio to take stock of the institution's effects, which we have appended as a part of our report. Everything has been put at cash val ue, and shows that the institution has been managed by careful and'eompe tent officers. We also beg to call your attention to the condition of tike real estate as well as personal property of the insti tution, which we are sure has been in creased in value by improvements and good management at least 25 per cent. When the purchase money for the Reed farm is paid, which will be in a few days, the institution will have paid for all the property under our directorship, and two of the farms, DeSaussure and Reed, containing about 4,700 acres, which have been bought and stocked in the last six years, are worth, in our opinion, with stock of mules, horses, cattle, hogs and crop provisions on hand and ma chinery, together wir.h the improve ments in the way of damming, ditch ing, terracing, clearing building and otherwise improving the lands by a system of rotating crops and fertilizing $101,565.40. In addition to the -above mentioned farms the State owns a small farm in Lexington County, containing 404 acres, in good state of cultivation, well stocked and provided with other plan tation supplies. These three farms constitute all tho real estate owned by the State for farm purposes. We are pleased to say that each department in the State prison shows efficient and painstaking care has been rendered by each officer in charge. In the last few years a considerable sum of money has been spent on a system of sewerage and va rious other sanitary improvements, which has been money well spent, as the report of each of the subordinates will show. The personal property of the insti tution, as shown by the report of the special committee, is in good condi tion and well cared for. This property, including crops on hand, aggregates $86,873.80. The prisoners show that they are well cared for. There are iu prison 190 less than 12 months ago. The policy of the board of directors and management is to utilize all of the prisoners on the State property, and we are rapidly growing to that end. All contracts for share crops have expired and will not be renewed. In conclusion we desire to thank your Honor for the assistance and ad vice given us during the year. We are pleased to say that our re lations with the superintendent and all officials and employees has been very pleasant and agreeable. Respectfully, T. J. Cunningham, chairman; J. W. Lylcs, S. P. J. Gar r?s, W. O. Tatum, J. II. Blackwell, board of directors. Attached to the report of the board of directors is an itemized report of the stock on hand at the various farms in the State, which makes this showing: DeSaussure farm, $28,457; Reed farm, $23,108.40; Lexington farm, $3,053; prison farm, $31,226.75; hospital, $1,028.65. Total, $86,873. 80. Liabilities, $1S,370.90. including $9,000 Reed farm; $5,748 phosphate and small bills; assets for convict hire, etc., $5,108.46. Total indebted ness, $13,262.47. the SUPERINTENDENT'S report. Superintendent Neal gave his re port to the press to-night. It is an exhaustive paper and reads as fol lows: COLUMBIA, December 31, 18!>6. To the Honorable Board of Direc tors of the South Carolina Penitenti ary?Gentlemen : I herewith submit this my fourth aunual report as su perintendent of the South Carolina Penitentiary for the fiscal year end ing December 31, 1896. We had con fined in the Penitentiary, as shown by the last report made one year ago, !?!?0 prisoners received from the Courts during the year 1896, 276, re captured, 28; total, 1,245); lost by ex piration of sentence, 355; by death, 44; escaped, 42; pardoned, 32; trans ferred to jail, 1;? lost by order of Court, 2: total, 476?leaving in con finement January 1, 1897, 818?mak ing 172 prisoners less than we had twelve months ago. Por a more com plete prison statemi1?' you will please examine the report ?>l Capt. Westfield. You will find lost by death duriDg the past year 44, being three less than the previous year. This record, we think, is good, considering the fact that we get all maimed, diseased and refused from all the county chain gangs in the State. Under the law the county supervisors may take or refuse all prisoners whose sentence does not exceed two years; being giv en the right, they do not, of course, take unsound prisoners. To tho health of the prisoners, care of the sick, we give careful attention, as well as all the money necessary with out stint. In this connection we would state and beg to call the atten tion of the board to the fact that the' chemical analysis of the drinking wa ter at the Penitentiary show both well and spring are becoming more and more unsafe year by year. The last analysis shows the well to be decided ly unsafe and i;he spring barely so. We ought, in my judgment, to take some steps toward getting a pure wa ter supply. With our fine sewerage and other sanitary improvements, pure drinking water furnished, the health of the Penitentiary would be greatly improved For a more minute statement of the health and sanitary condition of the prison would refer you to the repe-t of Dr. D. S. Pope. The chu::ch and Sunday-school room has been r verhauled and put in good condition, with a new organ furnished. We have church service every Sunday n.orning, conducted by the chaplain, also Sunday-school ser vice in the afternoon, superintended by Messrs. Stanley and Adams, with their lady friend,?. I will call your attention to the re port of the chaplain, the Rev. A. Pope Norris. The prisoners seem to be better satisfied, which, I think, is, in a measure, attributable to the re ligious exercises in which many of them take much interest. I am glad to state that a good supply of relig ious literature is being furnished at a small cost to the State by friends and religious societies The new barn for cattle, wagon sheds, cribs, stables, si los, lot fence, slaughter pens; in fact, everything entirely new in the lot has been built this year at a cost of about $5,000. The prison building has been cemented inside the cells, new iron bedsteads, with Hprings, for the pris oners, church overhauled and some other minor improvements in the yard, costing about $1,000. EEED FARM IMPROVEMENTS. New large prison building, guards' quarters, cook shed, cattle barn, etc., at at a cost of about $2,500. Also 150 acres of land cleared and ditched. DEBAUSSURE FARM IMPROVEMENTS. Two new bridges, prison building, improved and made more secure, new guard's quarters, large and complete new dining and cook room for mana gers and guards, new smokehouse, hay sheds, grist mill, engine, boiler and saw mill sheds; all at a cost of about $1,500. Also guano house on railroad track for Reed and Desaussure farms, 20 feet wide, 80 feet long, good brick pillars, strong and substantial, at a cost of $600. This building will be used for storing guano in bulk direct from the cars, which can be sacked and hauled to the fields. The crops have not been good at any of our farms, and especially short at some of our share farms. DeSaussure farm, 30 mule crop: 313 bales of cot ton, at $30 per bale, $3,390; 7,825 bushels of ootton seed, at 15c, $974. 25; 300 tons of hay and fodder at $10, $3,000; 3,196 gallons of molasses at 20c. $639.20; 4,944 bushels of oats at 40., $1.977.60; 800 bushels of sweet potatoes at 25c, $200; 400 bushels of Irish potatoes at 40c, $160; 5,000 pounds of pork at 5c, $250; 5,000 bushels of corn at 50c, $2,500. Total value of farm products made on De Saussure farm, 1896, $19,091.05, which is $635 per mule. REED FARM, 30-MULE CROP. Three hundred and thirteen bales of cotton at $30 per bale, $3,390 ; 7,825 bushels of cotton seed at 15c, $974.25; 4,800 bushels of corn at 50c, $2,400; 2,500 bushels of oats at 40c, $1,080; 300 bushels of peas at 60c, $180; 225 tons of hay and fodder at $10 per ton, $2,250; 1,300 bushels of potatoes at 25c, ?325; 2,674 pounds of pork at 5c, $133.70. Total value of farm products, $16,652.95, or $565 per mule. LEXINGTON FARM, WITH TEN MULES. Eighty-two bales of cotton, at $30 per bale, $2,460; 500 bushels of corn at 50c, $250; 125 bushels of oats, at 40c, $50; 2,500 buehels of cotton seed, at 15c, $37); 25 bushels of peas, at 60 cents, $15; 250 bushels of potatoes, at 25 cents, $62.50; fodder, $75. Total vaine of crop, $3,737.50, or $373.75 per mulei" The four share farms were very un satisfactory this yeir, and I am glad to say the contracts have all expired, and will not be renewed; hence we will not have any oliare crops next next year, will only have crops on the land owned by the State and under our full control. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. We fully intended tc sell the entire cotton and oat crop during the month of December, but the price of cotton has been so much depressed, and each day expecting the market to re act. We have samples in the com missary building, and will sell the same in the next few days. I am glad to report the financial condition of the institution is better than at any time for the last four years. We will be able to pay every dollar the in stitution owes, including the $9,000 for the purchase of the Reed farm, bought last year, and pay cash for our next year's guano supply, which has been bought some time ago at a_very low price. To tal liabilities, $18,370.93. Assets, 734 bales of cotton, at $30 per bale, $22,020; amount due from con tractors and other sources, $5,108.46; 2,500 bushels of oats, at 40 cents, $1,000; total, $28,128.46, which will leave us. after paying all thejiemands against the institution, $9,757.53. We have on hand food supplies, which will not be offered for sale, at low cash value, $24,797. For a further statement of the mon ey transactions connected with the in stitution I would respectfully call your attention to the report of our bookkeeper, Mr. 11. I!. Burrisa. Al low me through you tu thank the managers of our three State farui3 for the push and energy which they have shown during the past year?Mr. S. A. Miller, of the Lexington farm; Mr. W. T. McGill, of the DeSaussure farm, and Mr. J. J. Coolcy, of the Reed farm. Thanking the board of directors for help received from them and courtesy shown during the yea*, all of which I beg rcspectfullv to submit. W. A. Neal, Superintendent. The -li rasher $16 gold piece," which was struck at Newburg, S. Y., in 17S6, was the first apon which "E Plnribus Unum" appes.red. AU Sorts of Paragraphe. ? If we frame ourselves another form than God prescribes, we worship not him but ourselves. ? Arkansas has a town named Credit, Iowa one named What Cheer, and Florida one called Hurrah. ? Daniel Camphell and his wife, of Walton, County, Fla., arc said to be respectively 117 and 112 yearu old. ? "Pop, what is promptness-?" "Promptness ? 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