The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 03, 1897, Image 2

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Anderson Intelligencer. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. J. F. CLTNKSCALES, ) EDITORS AND O. C. LANGSTON, I PROPRIETORS. TERMS : ONE YEAR.fl 50 SIX MONTHS . 75 "WEDNESDAY," MARCH :-J, 1897 Senator Teller and his silver associates have issued a call for the organization of the Silver Republican party. The commercial agencies report contin ued improvement in business, with a big boom in the iron and steel trades. The Legislature will adjourn to-day. It has been in session seven weeks. The members have evidently tried to do their work well. The iniquitous liceuse bill in the Leg islature has been postponed until the -next session. The Anderson delegation voted to postpone. Mr. Moody, the evangelist, has discov ered the meanest man in history in the person of the elder brother o? the prodi gal son of holy writ. Gen. Thomas A. Huguein, a distin guished Confederate soldier, who was the last commander of Fort Sumter, died at his home in Charleston last Saturday night. It seems that nearly every other citizen of the new County of Greenwood wants an office. A primary election will be held on the 8th inst, and the candidates are hard at work. The St. Louis Republic is correct when it says a few more Fitzhugh Lees as dip lomatic representatives abroad would make the American Eagle a much more impressive object to the eyes of foreign ers. Major McKinley will, at the time of his inauguration, be 51 years of age. Nine Presidents entered the white house at an earlier age-Grant, at 47; Cleveland, at 48; Garfield and Pierce at 49; Polk, at 50; Filmore, at 50; Tyler and Arthur, at 51 ; and Lincoln et 52. - ?A. M. Howell, off Greenville, has been appointed to go to Australia as an expert to take charge of tho experiments of that Government in the culture of tobacco. The appointment is quite an important one, and pays a fine salary and expenses on a three years' engagement. The Fifty-fourth Congress, which will expire at noon Thu reday, will be held re markable principal ly Tor what it failed to accomplish. In on 3 respect-in the num . ber of bills and resolutions introduced-it was a record-breaker. In the House alone over ten thousand four hundred bills and three thousand one hundred resolutions were introduced and referred tt> various committees. Only a fraction of these passed the House and fewer still became laws. Some mighty interesting reading ia furnished in the investigations by the Lexow Committee of the New York Leg islature into the great Sugar and Coffee . Trusts. The Sugar Trust makes ?20,000, 000 a year profit out of a cap'tal which was originally not so much as that. They acknowledge to making 9J per cent pro fit, which they distribute in dividends to their stockholders. But the 9J per cent is calculated on the basis that a share which was originally ?100 is now worth, say, ?400, and the business must earn 9i per cent profit on the ?400. The South Carolina Pres3 Association will hold its annual meeting in the grand old town of Newberry on the 25th of May, and will go from there to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville. Hon. Patrick Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle. has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual address. Newberry is the home of the Association's clever President, Editor Anil ol the Herald and News, and the citizens propose to literally torn their city over to tho press gang durine their stay. The meeting promises to be one of the most interesting in the history of the Association. The C. & G. R. R., we venture to say, is doing a more profitable business than aoy railroad of the same length in the en tire Southern Railway system. The pas senger business is increasing every year, and.it seems to us that another train each way-over the Road every day would prove profitable. A night; train, for instance, between Greenville and Columbia, both ways, would be appreciated by the trav eling public, and we believe would in crease the passenger business. Let the citizens of Greenville, Anderson, Abbe ville, Greenwood, Newberry and Colum bia and other towns along the line make a combined effort to secure the additional trains. The Missouri Supreme Court has ren dered a decision which opens to women nearly all the elective office of the State. The decision was made iu tne cafe of the State against E. P. Hostetter, clerk of the St. Clair county court. Mrs. Maggie D. Wheeler was elected to succeed him. He refused to surrender the office, on the gronnd that women were ineligible to hold office. The State sued to oust him. The Court holds that a woman is eligible to hold any elective office in the State which is net specifically barred against her by statute. It developed in the trial of the case that most ol the early statutes specifically barring women from holding office have been so changed by amend ment or repeal that there are now few offices in tho State to which women may not aspire. ; . Arrangements have been perfected by which the Southern Railway's territory will be- represented at the Exposition which opens at Nashville on May 1. This, like former exhibits made by that Com pany, will include sample specimen's of mineral, agricultural, forest and other products of the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, .^Mississippi, East Tennessee and Ken tucky. This Company's exhibit at the Atlanta and Pittsburg Expositions at tracted the attention of the agricultural ist, manufacturer, miner, stock-raiser and others, and did more to educate the visitors to an appreciation of the great wealth and possibilities of the South than any other one exhibit that was shown, and it is the purpose of the Company to actively continue this method of adver tising. The scenic beauties of the coun try through which the Southern Railway runs will not be neglected in this exhibit. Practically, this exhibit will be a bureau of information, so that visitors from the North and abroad can obtain specific lata relative to all branches of industry in and tributary to tbe vast number of points on the Southern Railway. This exhibit is under the direction of the Land and Industrial Department of the South ern Railway with headquarters at Wash ington, D. C., and persons located along that system having exhibit material that they think will interest the public md thereby help advance the best interest of the section from which it comes, should at once communicate with the agent of that Department. This is an exhibit in which every citizen ol'thi3 section should be interested, and we hope that some of our readers can supply something to rep resent our territory. - Without a disenting vote the New York Senate passed the bill providing that persons convicted of placing obstruc tions on railroad tracks should be guilty .of murder in the first degree. Large Counties are the Best. Editors Intelligencer: Ic looks eur pris iog and unaccountable to rue why the people of Auderson and o'her Intros can lie supinely down and allow our legisla tors to make fools and knaves ct' them selves to the utter ruin of the State without raising a hand to prevent it. Are you aware that South Carolina is the richest, most prosperous and most enterprising State south of Mason and Dixon's line? That she manufactures more cotton, runs more spindles and looms, oil mills, phosphate works, etc, than any other Southern State ? That bhe has more banking capital, discounts, deposits and ready money per capita, and that she makes more cotton, corn, &c, both per capita and per acre than any other State south of the Delaware? Now, these magnificent results are un doubtedly owing to large counties, with every County Bite a large and prosperous city, with their immense cotton factories, oil, lumber and other mills, Ac, with splendid graded schools, electric lights, water works, ct?., where a farmer can sell anything from a thousand bales of cotton to a dozen eggs, or buy anything from a car load of mules to a jews harp. South Carolina is wow, owing to large Counties, the' Empire State" of the South. Contrast her with Georgia-with her 150 or more little precincts called Counties-and what do you see ? Instead of large flour ishing cities in every County famishing i good markets for farmers to Bell or buy anything they please, yon will see 150 or 200 little cross roads hamlets, with not a man in them able to buy ?0 bales of cotton or sell 100 barrels of flour. The logical result of this new County scheme will be iiually to cut four Counties from Anderson. Now, take four-fifths of its pationage from the city of Anderson leaving the same amount of County taxes and what will she become? Look at Old Pendleton and reflect. The most tyrannical, not to say rascally, part of the whole new County scheme is the sequestering of a portion of our County and adding it to the jurisdiction of another without the consent of the people inter ested. This is contrary to every principle of international law and justice, and if done, the people of Anderson Bbfould ap peal to the Courts in rotation, and that failing, to a still higher tribunal. Toe citizens of Anderson should not delay a single day in raising two or three hundred dollars and sending two or three good and true men to Columbia to work against this crazy and ruinons scheme. SPECTATOR. Evergreen, Feb. 27. Letter from Texas. HEARNE, TEXAS, Feb. 18,1897. The weekly visits ot the ANDERSON IN TELLIGENCER are much prized-as a letter from home-read with greatest interest The paper, with two others, including the Baptist Courier, ?B forwarded to me regu larly from Tyler. Texas, my post office. I spent the Sommer in Waco, 138 miles weat of Tyler, situated on the Brazos River, County seat of McClellan County, called "the Geyser City," because of num erous artesian wells and abundance of good water, noted aa Hot 8prings, Ark., for their healthful properties, curing rheu matism and purifying the system. Gal veston and Waco ara the prettiest towns in Texas ; they have natural advantages over many. In September and October I visi ted several Associations in the interest of my papers-agent and traveling corres pondent of several Baptist papers. No vember 4 began travel on railroads, stop ping at all the important towns on each. First, from Tyler, via Henderson, Jhen south about 300 miles to Houston ; there 18 days. Then Southern Pacific, ' Sunset Route," 209 miles west to San Antonio; 18 days there. Then northeast, via Aus tin, towards Tyler, over 300 miles. Rente traveled will be near 1,000 miles when I reach Tyler. I have been blessed with excellent health, pleasant experiences. Preach from three to six times every week. See the people, country, hear the news, and have a busy time noting events and securing subscribers and sending news notes to my papers. I find all over the State oomplaint of "hard times"-a financial stringency nev er experienced in this country before. In the main provisions, goods of all kinds cheap, money scarce to buy. Farmers are busy, and well advanced in their work over Brazos bottom farms, the richest and finest I ever saw. Some planting corn. Saw thousands of bales of cotton lying at gins on their places ; s great deal unsold all over the State. Been much sickness and many deaths from la grippe throughout the Stat?. Peo ple rushing, hurrying on a whirl of even ts, and busy life everywhere. I was in a gracious revival in Houston, First Baptist Church-35 services-one of the moat won derful meetings I was ever in. It contin ued for over threa months, and the pastor is baptizing every week. The influences for good pervaded the city, and is felt in a general way over the State. In a number of the toWnB I preached was the goodness of God manifested in meetings of much power during the Summer, and in services yet. In San Antonio revival services for seven weeks. Preached several times, and, as in all the other towns, acquainted with majority of the Baptists, as well as a host of others. A week in Austin. Saw ex Governors and present Governor. Sen ate and Legislature in session. Saw, heard and shook hands with Mr. Wm. J. Bryan. The many thousands there and over the State showed the enthusiasm and interest most intense, as so generally dis played before the election. A grand and noble man, a Christian gentleman ; he honors God, and is honored of Him. I meet many South Carolinians and old acquaintances in my travels. Saw Bro W. D. Beverly in Austin, and spent e few days with bim and family. He is pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church. He looks old ; is in good health. One can imagine our conversation of Anderson and South Carolina. He is doing well. I have prom ised to return in a few weeks and aid bim in a meeting, the Lord willing. EDWIN C. RICE. A Railroad Massacre. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., February 21. About 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Southern Railway, four miles from this city, incoming passenger train No. 7, traveling at a high rate bf speed, struck a a covered country wagon, which was try ing to clear the tracks ahead of the train at Avondale Crossing. The wagon was hit squarely in the centre and with its occupants hurled high into the air. The occupants were : Mrs. W. J. Woodward, her eight children and one grandchild, and all but one were killed. The dead are: Mrs. William J. Wood ward, Mrs. Lizzie Woodward Montgom-' erv, a married daughter, aged 20: her two-months infant daughter; George T. Woodward, aged 23; Delia Woodward, aged IS; Mary Woodward, aged 15; Daisy Woodward, 10. The last two named lin gered several hours after the accident. A striking feature of the catastrophe is that no limbs were broken, but in nearly every case the skulls of the victims were crush ed to fragments, each body seeming to [ describe an ellipse through the air and I falling upon its head, several fifty to one hundred feet from the scene. Lizzie Montgomery, a comely young matron, descended on the pilot of the locomotive and Btill held her two-year-old sister, who escaped with a few scratches and was the only one saved, in her lifeless arms. The unfortunates were the family of a well known farmer living near King's Point, Tenn. They were returning home from this city in a wagon of the "prairie schooner"'type and George Woodward, the oldest son, was driving. Nearing the crossing the young man heard the dan ger signal and tried to check his team, which, however, became unmanageable and dashed on the track. The crossing is particularly dangerous, as trees friDge the railroad almost to the crossing, which is also partly hidden behind a curve. Fifty yards from the place the engineer, Abra ham Laird, reversed his lever, giving the usual danger signal, but too late todo any good. The ground for some distance presented a gory sight. The bodies wero gathered up after much searching and taken to the morgue, where the nine members of .the Baue family made a gruesome spectacle. The infant, which was undoubtedly shocked to death, lay like a wax figure in its mother's arms. Every window in tho passenger coaches were broken and the engine's pilot was demolished. The engineer is absolved from blame lor the accident. The father and one child remain of a family of twelve. A Half Million Steal. LINCOLN, KEB., Feb. 27.-The ex-State treasurer, Jos. Uartloy, is to-night nomi nally in the custody of the sherill" with a possibility of going to jail in the event of his inability to secure bail. Decisive ac tion in the shortages of the ex-treasurer, aggregating half a million dollars, was taken to-day by Attorney Ceneral Smyth, who swore out a warrant in the county court, charging him with embezzlement of State funds in the sum of ?3o7,7fj2. Tho information embraces 14 counts. With bia attorneys, Mr. Bartley appeared in the county judge's oilice this afternoon, where the information was rend, a plea of not guilty entered anda c itinuauce granted until next Thursdn Bail was fixed at $?o,0u?. This he * -, unable to furnish and a deputy sheriff accompanied him while ho endeavored to raise the amount. He was unsuccessful up to a lato hour to-uight. i Merchant Hunt Lured to Death. HARMONY Gnu VE, GA., February 20. The foulest uiurder in the history ol' Jackson county was committed near here Monday, February l?tb. M. C. Hunt, a wealthy merchant ol Bellton, Ga., was killed and bia body weighted down with rocks and thrown into the Coonee river. Grady Reynolds, ol' Bellton, has made a full confession and is now in the Gaines ville.j ail. A lew weeks ago Reynolds purchased Hunt's store and contents, telling Hunt he had the money hore to pay for it. Hunt came here with Reynolds to receive his money. Reynolds under some pretext, lured Hunt out of town, and that was tho last seen of Hunt alive. Next day Reynolds returned to Bellton in Hunt's buggy. Ho had Hunt's store key, pistol, purse and watch in his pock et. Reynolds claimed that he had pur chased Hunt's store and that Hunt bad gone to Carson City to s?o the prize fight. Reynolds began soiling Hunt's goods for almost nothing, converting thom into cash rapidly and his couduct aroused sus picion. Hunt's relatives started an investiga tion. Reynolds heard of it, left the store with the clerks and came back to tho scene of his crime. A warrant was issued for Reynolds and he was arrested yester day and carried back to Bellton, where he made a full confession to-day, and alleg ing he had an accomplice. Keynolds gave all the details and de scribed the spot where the body was sunk in the river. Upon receipt of this news a large party went to the spot described by Reynolds, where the body of Hunt was found ex actly as told by Reynolds. Hunt's va lise was also found in the river. The body was well preserved, and looked nat ural. Hunt was killed by a pistol shot, the bullet entering behind the right ear, coming out at the mouth and splitting the tongue. The murderer after shooting Hunt took a chop axe and split his left Bide open. Hunt's body has just beon brought here, where an inquest is being held now. Great excitement prevails at Bellton and a lynching there was feared by many. It is safe to say there will be no lynching if Reynolds is brought back to Jackson county, as our citizens believe in allowing the law to take its course. This case is similar to the Crowie*, kill ing in Atlanta by Will Myers, only ex ceeding it in boldness and design. The murdered man always carried a large sum of money on his person and hada foolish habit of exhibiting this money in public. Hunt was seen with a large roll of bills, not less than ?2,000, on the day he was here and this fact was well known by Reynolds, and he lured his victim on to hi9 death. The inquest ia now being held over Hunt's body and will not be completed before to morrow afternoon. Reynolds, in his confession, implicates Bud Brooke, both of whom are well known characters hereabouts. Had it not been for the timely arrival of Sheriff Munday, of Hall county, at Bellton fer Reynolds that place would doubtless have been the scene of a lynch ing to-night. Hunt came to Bellton about three years ago and ran a cash store. While of a re tiring disposition and not what one would call familiar, he attended to his own bus iness. He was liked by all who knew him. A cash store does not carry on a rushing business and recently Hunt was saying if he could sell ont his business here he would leave. Grady Reynolds went to Hunt, told him he had come into the pos session of money and would give him the right kind of a trade. Hunt acquiesced, and together he and Reynolds invoiced the stock of goods, drew up a bill of sale and everything was completed except the payment of the money to Hunt by Reynolds. Reynolds has been making crossties on Mrs. Batter's place near Harmony Grove. He induced Hunt to gb with him to that place and there was where the crime was committed. Reynolds olaims that for killing Hunt Brooks got the money which they found upon Hunt amounting to $1,500, and that it was understood ho was to have the stock of goods and the other property. A Calf's Costly Meal. WASHINGTON, February 17.-Treasurer Morgan to-day received a little wooden box from Texas containing a wad of what appeared to be fragments of United States bills. Later in the day a letter from J. Slacingame, of a small town near Gal veston, Te.xap, arrived at the treasury de partments, which explained tho contents of the box: The wad of green paper is all that is left of ?210 owned by Mr. Blacingame, which he rescued from the stomach of a yearling calf. It seems that the Texan recently sold a herd of cattle, for which he received ?470 in bills as fol lows: One ?100, one ?00, and sixteen $20 bills. He placed tho money in an ordi nary memorandum pocketbook, but the bills were in such a position that tho ends stuck beyond the edge of the book, Blacingame carelessly threw his coat on the ground in a cow lot, and a yearling coming along saw tho green bills and proceeded to devour them. The animal took in the entire bunch at one mouthful and was discovered in the act of chewing Blacingame's $470r Tho Texan, with the assistance of his brother, succeeded in recovering from the mouth of the calf thirteen of the $20 bills in a comparatively uninjured condition. This money was afterward passed oil" by Blacingame in payment for some cattle. The calf was shortly killed and from its stomach was taken a mass of chewed bills, stained and discolored. The fragments were boxed up and sent to the redemption division of | the treasury department. Blacingame prepared a sworn statement of the disap pearance of his money and forwarded it to Treasurer Morgan. The latter had the case examined and found the facts to be as stated. Accordingly $210 in crisp, new bank notes were to-day sont to the cattle dealer to replace the money masti cated by his calf.-Brooklyn Magie. Died to Save his Father. GALVESTON, TEXAS, February 27. Paul L Lefevre made an heroic and suc cessful effort to save the life of his father this morning, but lost his own. Eugene Lefevre and son, carpenters and house movers, were engaged in moving an old building, but their progress was obstruct ed by wires." Eugene Lefevre, who was standing on top of the building, grasped ono of the wires with both bands in an effort to raise it to the top of the house. Instantly he was paralyzed, blue Hashes of electricity Hew from his body, his hands were smoking and the smell of' burning ilesh made th9 lookers-on turn sick. Paul, who was on the roof with his father, sprang to bim and tore him loose. As his father fell on the roof, his life saved, the son fell upon the wires and his life was sacrificed. The young man was 23 years old. Tho elder Lefevre's hands were fearfully burned and his escape from death was miraculous, and was duo to the bravery of his son. Work the Roads Right and be Done With it for (?ood. The Yorkville Enquirer is trying to stir the people on the subject of better public roads. It has come to the conclu sion that the best way to do anything is to do it, and hence the best way to get better roads is to eet them. It gives as an illustration of this, that a number of years ago a congregation desired to build a stone wall around a cemetery, an old member suggested that a day be appoint ed, and all the members of the church come with their wagons, tools, etc., and go to work and build it. They soon had the wall completed. The Enquirer sug gests that very much the same plan be tried with the roads, lt is not a bad idea, and what will make better roads in York county will make better roads iu Fairfield, if tried here. Suppose that all those living on a sec tion of fou;- or five milos call a meeting of | all the neighbors, and enter into an agree ment that next summer when the crops are laid hy they will all work a section of j five miles. Not simply throw a little dirt in the ruts to be washed away by the first big rain, but macadamize it. A few weeks work all th.ough the county would ac complish a great deal of good, and the taxpayers would bo fully compensated for their labor by having better roads. When the roads are onco macadamized it will require a great deal less labor to keep thora in repair than is now expended on them. We agree with the Enquirer; the way to do anything is to do it. Let our people i ca provo the roads, and stop talk ing so much about the bad road problem. This will solve the problem.- IVinnsboro Xavs and Herald. - only six of tho forty-five States of the Union indulge in the extravagance of aunual sessions of tho Legislature, to-wit: Georgia, Massachusetts, Now York. Rhode Island and South Carolina, all belonging to tho original thirteen. Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and La Gripp? when LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE will euro you in one flay. Doea not pro duce tho ringing in tho head like Sulphate of (?uinino. Put up iu tablets convenient for taking. Guarantee'! to carp, or money refunded. Price, 25 Cent9. For salo by EvausPbarniacy. Bishop Branch Hems. Nows around here is very tearer, The farmers are very busy hnuling their fertilizers and preparing to go to work when the grouud gets dry. A few have begun to p!uw, but the grouud is too wet. Mr. Edward Whitten is having bis land laid off in terraces and cut up iu ditches to dry it so he can plow it. There is still mme sickness in the com munity. Mr. Will. Norria' mother has been very sick with erj'gipelas, and Mrs. Hombree has also been v? ry sick, but is thought to be some belter. Miss Theola Rogers, from near William ston, has been visiting the falnily of Mr. T. C. Rogers, near Pendleton. Mr. Frank Pilgrim and several other young mon, from Piorcetown, have been making a good many visits in our com munity. Mr. Dan Stephen is keeping bachelor's hall near Pendleton. I tbink as many young iadiea as there are in the world he might get a housekeeper. SKYLARK. Roberts Items. Tue healih of this community is very good. The farmers are behind with their work on accouut of the bad weather. Messrs. J. II. and W. H. Gilmerare running a saw mill now and are doing some nice work, and I suppose the fore man is doing a nice piece of courting, as he is boarding with his best girl. Misses Eva M. and Mamie A, like to go to the Pot' Oflice now-a-days, aa they can meet their best fellows there. Messrp. J .T. Major and J. F. Arnold made a flying trip to Central last week. We have a nourishing little schcol at Ridge Spring, under the care of Mi3s Ida Relie Cromer. Mr. Clarence II. has made several visits to Georgia in the past two months. He has found something very attractive I guess. CAT. Fraud Medical College. CHICADO, Feb. 27.-Frederick E. Rut land, who calls himself doctor and presi dent of the Wisconsin Eclectio Medical college, has been arrested by the govern ment officers on the charge of using the mails to defraud. It is claimed he has been issuing fraudulent medical diplomas upon payment of anywhere from $10 to SaO. Rutland claims that the college is a regularly chartered corporation under the laws of Wisconsin, and that its proceed ings have been regular in every way. His method was to allow the "student" to study at home, and Rutland was to conf?ra diploma upon receipt of money and the answers to a set of questions. Ile claims to have graduated 907 students last year. Au Alabama Romance. Some forty years ago a young man of Calhoun county, Alabama, named W. H. Allen, abandoned wife and children, fam ily and friends, and, with several hundred dollars in gold, made his way to the far west, in search of a better fortune than he was obtaining in his native State. He was traced as far as Missouri, but there lust. Some time ago there waa published in a New York paper the story of a man who had been confined In an asylum for the insane in New York State for twenty years, the victim of a railroad accident. He had been picked up, a stranger, in the streets of New York city, and was cared for by the authorities. Alter these twenty years had elapsed, the man suddenly regained his reason, told his name and asserted that he had investments of prop erty in California. An enquiry showed that what he said was true that the prop erty had risen in value until it was worth several million dollars.-Rome Tribune. Bride and Groom Arrested. ATHENS, GA., February 27 -Michael John and Nazora Hatam, two Syrians, came to Athens from Greenville, S. C., yesterday. They wanted to get married and chanced to strike Dr. W. H. Young, pastor of the First Baptist Church, who spoke Arabic, and who married them. The groom purchased an elegant wed ding trousseau for his wife and carried it to the dressmaker to have it made up. This afternoon Deputy Sheriff Gilreatb, of Greenville, S. C , carno in with a war rant for tho two. The warrant was sworn out by Mary Hatam, mother of the young woman, who charged the two with steal ing from her ?000. Tho parties hero deny the charge and went back willingly with the officer. The young woman says she brought only a few dollars belonging to her and that her mother, who was opposed to her mar riage, is simply trying to wreak her ven geance on her. Wild'for Bryan. WASHINGTON-, D. C., Feb. 21.-Wm. J. Bryan received an ovation from the house to-day. Business was practically suspended. While the Speaker rapped for order the applause rang through the hall and ech oed from the galleries as Bryan appeared in view. The democratic members crowded around him and created such a commo tion that tho Speaker kept rapping loudly for order. Finally Bryan retired to the cloak room on the arm of Bailey and held a re jeption to the democratic "members. When he re-entered the chamber, interest in the late candidate had not abated. Bryan took his old seat and was soon the centre of so much interest and commotion that here moved again to the cloak room to cease obstructing the house, The Speaker finally sent a page to Bry an requesting him to come forward, and the House cheered wildly as Reed and Bryan clasped hands. Glass Swallowing. I notice in the Baltimore Sun that a man in your city professes to eat glass, screws, knife blades and the like. The Sun says that the medical faculty exam ined the man and could not account for his digestive power. Once, when I hap pened to be at Charleston, S. C., just such a person was on exhibition. A prominent dentist and his father-in-law, an eminent physician, had a warm dispute about the man. Tho dentist declared that he had examined the phenomenon and could not account for his feats. He was, however, satisfied that they were genuine. The old doctor substantially said: "My son, no man can take such things into his stomach and live. I am confident ofthat. There is some trickery on his part and delusion on yours." The dentist was not convinced. He had ad ministered the glass fragments and seen them disappear, The explanation, I am informed, is this: The performer is a professional sword swal lower. Ile conceals a tube in his lower throat and not a particle ol glass enters his stomach. This willprobably solve the apparent mystery. I once knew a Jesuit scholastic, from Switzerland, who seem ingly swallowed glass, but I have no idea that he really did so. All such startling tricks are very simple when revealed. Jame* ll. Randall in thc Catholic Mir - Facts are stranger than fiction and more easy to record. Frightened by a blast in a stone quarry near Atchison, Kas., a high-spirited horse attached to a carriage containing a woman dashed furiously down the street. The driver sat pale and helpless in the vehicle, ex pecting to be dashed to death at any moment. A workingman in the quarry took in tho situation, and at the risk of his own life stopped the ruuaway horse aud saved tho woman from being hurled on tbe rocks and killed. The following day the woman, who is in comfortable circumstances, sent for the brave fellow to bestow a substantial reward upon him. Ho responded to tho summons and in tho interview which lollowod it developed that tho two woro brother and sister. Separated by the death of their parents many years ago in Switzerland, and com mitted to different charitable institutions, they had both finally drifted to this coun try and had sought each other in vain until the brother's bravery brought them together. - According to tho Herald, an Albany, Ga, jewlcr has unearthed tho greatest fool since Simple Simon. "I sold a clock to a country negro," said the jeweler, "and he carno in afterwards and claimed that tho thing was no good-that the hands wouldn't work right. I told him to bring it in and I would see what was the matter with it. W _n he carno again and brought tho clock he had the hands tied together with a cotton string. Tho longest hand, he .said, would go clean round tho dial in an hour, while the other onlv moved an inch or so. Ho just couldn't make them run together, he said, until he tied them, and then, ho said, the thing wouldn't run at all. .After so long a timo I succeeded in explaining to bim that it was the busi ness of the long hand to go clear round tho dial once every hour, while the hour hand moved only from one hour mark to ?mother but i'll bo blainod if he ain't tho blue ribbon fool of the country," I - The Fiedmont Headlight makoa Ihe sLatement that Governor ?llerbe has ex pressed the determination not to interfere with the enforcement of the dispensary law until after tho legislature adjourns, when he will thoroughly overhaul and reduce the constable loree. He desires to appoint conservative and good men, who will enforco the law and suppress the illicit sale of whiskey through the ma chinery of our courts, and not at the muzzle of a pistol. If this statement is correct, it will put an end to drunken State constables terrorizing people by nourishing drawn pistols as was the case in this city on Wednesday afternoon when one of them named Hester had to be arrested by Policeman Pickling for such conduct. - A Vienna paper devotes along article to telling the biography of tho wife of a needy linen weaver who lives in Neuer cheniield, a suburb of the Austrian capital. Her claim to fame rests on the fact that, though now only 40 years old she has given Francis Joseph thirty-two new subjects, all of whom are still alive, and twenty-six of whom have been or will be numbered among the armed defenders of the Empire. The record of this remark able woman includes four children at a birth on two occasions, triplets six times and twins three times. - Dr. Lyman Abbott has made the following most forcible illustration : He says that if Adam, the son of God, waa in truth born 0,000 years ago, and were now living, and if every day of his life had been spent in honest toil, only resting on the Lord's Day, and had in addition to supporting his large family, been able to lay ^side as the result of his toil ?100 every day-the idea of interest not having been conceived-in all of these il.OOO years of accumulation Adam to-day would not be worth as much as Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Vanderbilt, or Mr. Gould, who had noth ing, or whose fathers had nothing com paratively, a few years ago. - A negro who lives near Hartwell, Ga, was recently sick, and, meeting a physician, asked for some remedv. The M. D. told him he ought to take Three B's. The darkey waa not familiar with the name of this well known medicine, and when ho returned home, sent his son to a neighbor's, who kept seyeral hives, to secure three of the little honey makers. The bees were parched, made into powder and the decoction swallowed by the negro. He is reported by the Hartwell Sun, authority for the story, to have recovered forthwith. Old People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Bitters. Thia medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the performance of the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aida digestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at Hill-Orr Drug Co. Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, Jil. was told by her doctors she had Con sumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery completely cured her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thoa. Eg?era, 139 Florida St. San Francisco, Butlered from a dreadful cold, approaching Con sumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such results, of which these are samples, that prove the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at Hill Orr Drug Co. Regular size 50c. and $1.00. Estray Horses. IHAYE taken up one gray Mare and a bay Pony with one eye. The owner can get them by proving property, pay ing expenses, and paying for this adver tisement. Call on Greenville road, one and a quarter miles from Court House. HENRY MCGOWAN. March 3, 1897 _3G 1 FRESH GARDEN SEED ! From 3- landreth & Son. THESE Seeds are reliable. (Old Seeds have been burned.) Also. Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron Potatoes from Landreth's Seed House. I have been selling Landreth's Seeds for fifty years, and can recommend them. A. D. TOWERS. NOTICE. "WlLL be let to the lowest responsible bidder On Tuesday, 16th inst, at the bridge place,-near Waco Behool House, in-Wil liamston Township, the building of a Bridge across Hurricane Creek, on the new road. Plans and specifications made known on day of letting. W. P. SNELGROVE, Supervisor A. C., S C. SALE OF LAND. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUKTY OF GREENVILLE. OTICE is hereby given that default having occurred in the payment of a certain obligation executed by Harrison Austin, to me secured by a Mortgage exe cuted by him to me, of dato the 21st of February, 1893, recorded in the R. M. C. oflice for Greenville County, in Book ('.< 3, page 23,1, as Attorney for Harrison Aus tin, and in accordance with the powers conferred upon me by the said Mortgage, will at public auction in the Town of Pelzer, S. C., on Thursday, March lS:h, at 10 o'clock, sell to the highest bidder for cask, that certain lot of Land, lying in the County of Greenville, State aforesaid, and in Danklin Township, containing sixty six acres, more or lesa, known as the Vin cent/Austin tract, and bounded by laDds of Thoa. Austin and others, being the same tract conveyed to Harrison Austin by Vincent Austin by deed recorded in the R. M. C. office in Book JJ, page 631, reference to which is had for a more com? plete description. THOS. J. MARTIN, Attorney lor Harrison Austin. March S. 1897 30 2 NOTICE OF ELECTION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ColWTV OF A.NDE1I.10X. NOTICE in hereby given that an election will be held in Anderson County on the <|iicstion of building a new Court House and Jail on the 3d day of April next. The polls will open at 7 o'clock a. m., and close at 4 o'clock |i. in. All persons en titled to rote at a general c'.eclion will be entitled to vote at said election. Those in favor of thc New Court House and Jail will vote "Court House and Jail, Yes," and those opposed will vote "Court House and Jail, No." The following named persons have been appoint ed Managers of Election at the various precincts, viz: Anderson C. H.-W\ S. Haynie, W. V. Miller ?nd T. M. Norwood. Belton-J. K. Harris, J. T. Green and I. P. Clinkscales. Craytonvillo-J. C. Shirley, M. S. Stickland and J. J, Robinson. Contervllle-A. B. Bowden, J. J. Williamson and Lawrence Stevenson. Pendleton-E. H. Shanklin, J. II, Mounce asd W. M. Gibson. Sandv Springs-J. W. Rothrock, T. P.Hobson and J. \V. Bowden. Five Forks-O. W. Casey, A. N. Richardson and J. N. Wilson. Hopewell School House-D. B. McPhail, C. C. King and A. T. Newell. Greenwood-J. P. Glenn, G. A. Rankin and G. W. Russell. Wllliauiston-W. N. Hammond, J. B. Hogg and B. C. Martin. Honea Path-M. B. Dunlap, R. M. Latimer and J. V. Kay, Clinkscales-J. R. Pennell, T C. Druitt and L. N. Martin. Milfords-F. W. Banister, W. P. Bell and S. M. Bowen. Cedar Wreath School House-W. C. Dickens, S. M. Sitton and H. D. Celcy. Moffattsville-A B. Gailcy, A. M, Check and G. F. Burditt. Wllliiord's Store-J. P. Anderson, J. C. Gilmer and li. F.Shirley. Broyles Mill-S. L. Boleitan, H. F. Dobbins and M. D. Mays, Tugaloo Academy-J. S. Cromer, C. E. Maret and P. S. Mahaffey. Starr-R. B. Dean, J. L. Herron and B. F. Gentry. Piedmont Factory-R. I. E rod, G. M. Reid and W. A. Simpson. Holland's Store-J. II. Little, W. II. Wright and W. S. Manning. Peher-L. B. Roberts, A. F. Llrod and W. H. Griffin. Hunter's Spring-S. N. Browne, T. E. McCon nell and J. AaP'Meal. Flat Rock*W. T. Dean.S. W. Hall and S P. Tate. Neal's Creek Church-J. R. Anderson, Silas Major and James Elgin. One of the managers will act as chairman, and call at Clerk's oflice, Anderson C. II, S. C., on 1st <>r 2d April next for loxes, instruction and regis tration books, etc. Given under our hands and seals Feb. 26,18D7. S. N. PEA RM AN, Chm. [LS.] J. J. li ILM ER, [1-8.1 W. E. LEE, li.H.J Bd. Ccms. of Election for Anderson County, S. C. J. C. WHITEFIELD, DENTIST. OFFICE-Front Room, over Farmerb' and Merchants' Bank, ANDERSON, S. C. Feb IO^JS?T;_33_ FOR SALE. rvNE No. 1 DeLoach Saw Mill. \J One 20-inch x 10 feet Engine Lathe. 31-4 H. C, TOWNSEND, WANDO FERTILIZERS Cannot be equalled on the market. Buy your Fertilizers from nie, as ? am the first one that originated the plan of selling the farmers at Wholesale prices. Load your wag- " ons with my goods. JOS. J. FRETWELL, Agent for Upper S. C. P. S.-Also, have Tennessee Wagons, Mules, Buggies, Har ness, &c., to please any one. .'?' -i NEW FIRM, NEW GOODS, NEW PRICES. THE FAMOUS Has just opened a new Stock of Goods, consisting of - - - - MILLINERY, NOTIONS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES:, LACE CURTAINS, LACE BED SETTS. PILLOW SHAMS, BED SPREADS, TOWELS, WINDOW SHADES, GENTS' FURNISHINGS, HOSIERY, LADIES' WAISTS, WRAPPERS, BOYS' CLOTHING, All of which has been purchased for SPOT CASH from Bankrupt Sales at prices that will astonish all who may examine cur many Bargains. Never before in the commercial history of this nation have prices dipped so low or qualities soared so high. Severe competition, modern improvements, scientific applications and over-production in all lines, has caused such a decline in values, that people of moderate means are enabled to secure com modities which, a few years ago, were considered luxuries by the more wealthy, even. We solicit business only on the basis of perfect satisfaction. We know the spots where bargains grow, starting out with a determina' tion to sell Goods on very low margin?, feeling confident, and assuring you that a saving of 15 to 30 per cent will result in favor of all who may patron ize us. The prosperity of the nation is built on the economy of the indi vidual. ONE PRICE TO ALL. Polite attention, strict adherence to honorable and upright business methods will be our standard in building up a reputation and the basis upon which we solicit your trade. Very respectfully, THE FAMOUS, L. GEISBERG, Proprietor, No. 14 Brick Range, West Side Public Square, next ?cor to County Treasurer's Office. SOT Keep your eye on our low prices to be quoted next week. Be sure you make no mistake in finding the right place. WE CAN SELL YOU THE finest FLOUR ground jost as cheap as inferior stuff. See us before buying and be convinced. WecanEellyonNEW ORLEANS SYR UP for iess money than you can buy the same quality elsewhere. If they sour we take them crt' your hands. We can sell you TOBACCO Corless than you ever bought it for before. See our To bacco. We cnn please anybaly on COFFEE!. All Always Reliable. ?rade3'from l?c*per pound up> We have an Elegant line of Dry Goods and Shoe? THAT WE SELL CHEAP. You ought to see us before buying one dollar's worth of Ojods, to get posted on the prices. It will pay you even if you don't buy from us. Yours hungry for trade, _ BROWNLEE & VANDIVERS. \ YOU INTEND TO PAINT THIS SPRING! Tm Xl } X I Remember, it costs as much in time and money to put on cheap Paint as it does to put on good Paint ! - - - HILL-OER DRUG CO. ANDERSON, S. C., Jan. 27,1897. GENTS : Replying to your request for my opinion of MASTIC READY MIXED PAINT, I desire to say that I am very much pleased with it. Several years ago I had my bouse painted with the best English White Lead and strictly pure Linseed Oil, and had it put on by an experienced Painter. Three years ago I painted it myself, with the assistance of a hired hand on the place, with the Mastic Paint, using a shade Of green that some people said would not stand. To the contrary, I can report that it has stood well-has not chalked, as did the White Lead I first used, and I cheerfully recommend it (the Mastic Ready Mixed Paint) as a first-class, honest and re liable Paint; and further I would state that I found considerable difference in the cost, in favor of the latter. Yours truly, J. D. MAXWELL. We have no "cinch" on the business, and therefore don't handle all the good paint, but we back the MASTIC against anvbody's at an y price. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. cidPhosphate, ATLANTIC SOLUBLE GUANO, And other brands of their well known High Grade Fertilizers, for sale by : : : : : : : : : JD. JP. SLOJLU Entirely too many Goods on hand-Unload we Mnst. For Cash and CASH ONLY we offer the Greatest Bar gains in Winter Goods this Town has eyer seen. --=38*9#???t?*?esa To begin with we have left . . . 97 Elegant Wool Bed Blankets That we sold early in the season as real-bargains at $2.50 to S5.00, now ie duced to 81.87 to 83.75. Thirty-nine pair that has considerable wool in them that we made a leader of at ?1.75, now 81.50. In the lower grades of Blan kets our stock is too much reduced to advertise. Jackets and Capes. We want also to make a clean sweep in Ladies' and Misses' Jackets and Capes, of which we have eighteen of the former and eleven of the latter, nearly every one a fine garment. The Jackets we offer at 10 per cent, less than thc factory net cash ccst, and the Capes at fi wt cost. Dress Goods, Flannels, Etc. We are offering Eome very special bargains in Woolen Dress Goods, Flannels, Hosiery, etc., and in this connection we beg to inform the ladies that we have just received about 25,000 yards of the newest and most hand some Laces and Embroideries at prices that will astonish you. This, with White Goods, has always been a favorite Department with us, but now we have still further improved it, just as we propose to add strength to all our other Departments later on. In addition to the Laces and Embroideries our New York buyer, Mr. Stradley, picked up many other special bargains for us just before the holidays. Among them a case of beautiful White Checked Nainsook that was made to sell at 8c. to 10c, but our price is 5c. 100 Dozen Elegant Pure Linen Towels, With slight imperfection in some of them, that we are retailing at less than wholesale prices. Seventy-five doz. Embroidered Handkerchiefs we are retail ing at 10c, the wholesale price of which was $1 25 per doz. We carry an elegant line of Embroidered Handkerchiefs from 10c to $1.00 each. Shoes. Notwithstanding the stifi advance in leather, we are now offering some great bargains in Ladies', Misses', Men and Boys' Winter Shoes, and if you come to us you can select, not only from the best, but the largest stock, we believe, carried by any house in this State, certainly in this section of the State, Clothing, Overcoats, Etc.. In Clothing, Overcoats, Gents' Furnishings and Hats we, perhaps, can do you more good than in any other Department. We have left 60 of those Black all-wool Tricot $5.00 Suits that you can buy now for at $3.75. 35 more of those all-wool Gray Cassimer Suits that we gave such a bargain in at $5.00, now 84.50. 37 of the very heavy Gray Wool Cassimer Suits that we had such a run on at 84.50, now 83.75. 17 All-Wool Kersey Suits that we sold at $4.50, now 83.50. And then we have in smaller quantities roany numbera in finer and cheaper grade Suits that, we make similar reductions on. 38 pair Cassimer Pants, former price 81.50, reduced to 81.00. 36 pair Caisi mer Panta for 81.25, former price 81.75. 37 pairs dark Cassimer Pants for 81.00, worth 81.75. A lot of Fine Cassimer Pants from $2.00 to $4 00, for mer price $3.00 to $5.00. A lot of Heavy Overshirts at greatly reduced prices, and as for Overcoats if we can't sell you some of them for less money than anybody hereabouts pays for them we will give bond to quit business on the 4th of March next, but unfortunately for would-be purchasers we havn'fc many left except in the lower priced goods. So if any one is in need of a medium or fine Coat we advise them to call early. We, this season, had an unusual run on Men's Wool Mackintoshes, and our buyer just before Christ mas bought us a big lot of very fine ones, and in consequence of this lucky purchase we offer these goods at less than half manufacturer's prices. They are going fast. In our Millinery Department we have many special things to show,' Don't fail to lcok at our Bargain Counter of Ribbons. Yours truly, , >. R. S. HILL Not all is Gold That Glitters ! THERE seems to be thoie who would try to make you believe that we are not the cheapest people in the world. Now, we have neither the time nor inclination to argue the point with you, but will name a price or two for your edification : . We have got large White Plates, measuring 7 i inches, at 15c per set Large Plates, 8] inches, at 20c. Extra large, 91 inches, at 25c. 7k inches Decorated Plates at 25c. 8} in. Decorated Plate at 35c. per sef. 9T inch Dec orated Plate at 40c per set. A.. very nice and good size Teacup and Saucer, with handles, at 30c. per set. A large one at 35c. per set. Large size Cham? hers, the best goods on the market, at 25c. each.. Large Yellow Chambers, to arrive to-night, at 15c each. Pull your hat over your eyes when you pass if you don't want to trade with us, otherwise our competitors will miss a sale or two. We are not selling above Goods at cost, but we don't try to get rich on one sale. Will sell you large, square Wood Trays at 18c, 20c and 25c each. We have a nice Swinging Lamp, with 14 inch Shade, at $1.50. We are closing out a large lot of Sox at 4c per pair. We have about four bales extra heavy Richmond Shirting, sent us bf error, that we will let go at 15 yards to the dollar. Regular pries 10 to 15? yards. This is the goods that don't wear out. A nice Bleached Towel, good size, at 5c. each. Turkey Red Table Cloth at 15c per yard. Oil Table Cloth at 15c yd. Tip-top Writing Paper at 3c. per quire. Envelopes to match at 3c. per pack. Cheaper goods if you want them. Composition Books at lc. each. 200 Matches in a box at 10c. a dozen boxes. 5 papers large Pins 5c 2 dozen first-class Safety Pins 5c. . Good Buggy Whip3 5c, 7c. and 10c. each. One of the best Brooms made for 10c A very good one for 8c 2 five cents Handkerchiefs for 5c. Have a few pieces of good Wool Cassimere, just the thing for Spring Suits or Pants. Other people sell at 30c-will close out at 15c. a yard. A few remnants of Jeans at special figures, such as 8c, 10c and 15ic. a yard. But little over two-thirds what others get for same goods. Yours always truly, HOLD A MINUTE !-Just for fun will sell a good Glass Tumbler at 15c. per set. Goblets at 25c. per set. Colored Ball Thread and Woman's Heart Smoking Tobacco, Celluloid Starch. We are Making Special Prices on . . . TOBACCO ! IF you want to buy Tobacco by the Box or pound it will pay you to see_our Stock aud get our prices. Paney and Pine Groceries to snit Every One. We sell D. M. Ferry & Co's. GardenlSeed. Also, Multiplying Onions and Onion Sets. COME TO SEE US. THONE 44. . FREE CITY DELIVERY. OSBORNE & BOLT.