The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 21, 1897, Image 2

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Anderson Intelligencer. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. J. F. CLINKSCALES, ) Editors and C. O. LANGST0N, Proprietors. TERMS ONE YEAR.fl 50 SIX MONTHS . 75 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1897. So far the "colored brother" is not faring v?ry well under President McKinley's Administration. Senator Earle has been quite sick in Washington, and his physician has ad vised him to return home to spond a while. Thomas Jefferson's birthday was appro priately celebrated by the Democrats in Washington on the 14th inst. Wm. J. Bryan responded to the toast, "Thomas Jefferson." It seems now that it is a settled fact that Greece and Turkey are cjoing to war. A few battles have already been fought. It is feared that the war will bring on se rions complications throughout Europe. It is too far off from us to affect the Uni ted States. After a painful illness of several months ex-Judge Thompson H. Cooke died at his home in Greenville last Wednesday, aged about 65 years. The deceased was for merly a Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and was well known throughout this section of the State. By reason of an equally divided Courf the State Supreme Court has rendered a decision to the effect that a man cannot keep two and a half gallons of 'whiskey in his house for his. own personal use, without the Commissioner's stamp upon it, without laying himself liable to crimi nal prosecution under the dispensary law. General Gordon has received a special invitation to participate in the ceremon ies at the ded ication of the tomb of Gen eral Grant on the 27th of this month. He has been invited as the commaudcr-in ohief of the United Confederate Veterans, and this recognition of their chieftain will be duly appreciated by ex-Confed -erates throughout the country. The House of Representatives meet two Jays in the week, as there is a constitu tfpnal provision prohibiting them from adjourning longer than three days at a timo. They hold their sessions on Wed nesday and Saturday. Speaker Reed has not yet appointed any Committees', and as a consequence general legislation is impossible except by unanimous consent. That there are a few women in the world who know how to take care of money has been shown by such mem bers of the sex as Mrs. Sarah Frances Dick, Huntington, Ind , who is cashier o: the First National Bank ofthat city. It is said that she can do the work of half a dozen accountants and is in every way capable of filling the position which she holds._'_ Not content with demonstrating to the world that the coarser qualities of cott&n cloth can be manufactured in the South, Huntsville, Ala., is to have a ?1,000,000 cotton mill at which the liner grades will be manufactured. Eastern capitalists supply the money. Thus, step by step, wa are going to the head of the class in the departments nature intended us to excel in ' -m m??? President McKinley has announced the appointment of Senator Edward O. Wolcctt, of Colorado; Hon. Charles J. Paine, of Boston, Mass., and ex-Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson as commis sioners to an international monetary con vention. These appointments are made under the Act approved March 3d, "for the promotion of an international agree ment for bimetallism." Representative Bailey, of Texas, states a universal truth when he says: "Each man is entitled to dress as he pleases, and bo long as he keeps himself clean and de cent no other man can have any just cause to complain. It may be true that when a man goes into society he ought to conform even in the matter of dress to the regula tions which society has prescribed, but a man who does not go into society ought to be exempt from its criticism." There is one of the duties of a President of the United States from which he cer tainly ought to be excused. That is shaking hands with every stranger who calls on him. In the early days of the re public, when there was only one calieron ie chief executive of the nation where now there are at least a hundred, it did not so much matter. It was perhaps a delicate way of indicating to a voter that ie was as good as a president in this land of light and liberty. Now, however, we have been proving that equality for more than 100 years, and all the world knows ~.t by this time. One day since President McKinley has been in office he shook hands with 1000 persons. It is appalling, the thought of wagging all those hands, gloved and ungloved, clean and other wise. So far as the physical exhaustion produced by it goes, the same length of j timo spent in chopping wood could not weary a man more, and it would be a much more healthful exercise. The tax is stl? greater on a president's wife. Mrs. Cleveland is said to have suffered severe ly from the custom. Let it be dropped. There are now too many people in the United States for all to have a tug at a president's or a president's wife's hand. Bowing is enough. Spanish Soldiers Leave Cuba. Washington, April 16.?According to information received from trustworthy sources here, the withdrawal of at least apart of the great army that Spain has maintained for several yetirs in the island of Cuba will begin when the rainy season sets in within a few days. The initial movement will be the departure of 10,000 Spanish troops from Havana for Spain, and within a short time after that 30,000 troops, it is understood, will follow. Whether this movement is to be construed in favor of or against the insurgents, it is Impossible to say. The Spaniards insist positively that it means only that little or nothing remains of the insurrection ; that Gomez bad only about fifty or a hun j dred followers, and that to watch these under the conditions in which the cam paign has been necessarily conducted a Aw thousand men are quite as effective as the army of 180,000 men which has been maintained in Cuba. The Cuban contin gent, on the other band, insist that the Spaniards' financial resources a-e ex hausted, and that the troops are to be withdrawn because of lack of money to them in service. A Whole Family Drowned in Flood. Helena, Ark., April 14.?A distressing accideut occurred 10 miles west of this olty to-day In the drowning of & family of seven negroes. Sylvester Sinders, a ten ant on the Joel Higgins farm, where the current has been so swift as to threaten the destruction of the houses, left with his family of wife and five children for higher ground. Tnfortunately he took into his fiat boat a large bull, which he ralued highly. When near the Calicott place and within a mile of the bills, the bull, which was almost famished, at tempted to eat the ?mall limbs of the wil low trees through which the boat was ing laboriously pushed, he animal's action tipped the boat and htened the inmates, who mado frantic ts to right it. In the excitement, the al kicked the side of the boat to 'ieci3 ant*tDe entire family was drowned. \ota\ negroes saw them, bur. were unable render assistance. Nothing except the mint can make .?ey without advertising. LETTERS FROM A COUNTRY GIRI IN PARIS. No. 5. Quartier Latin, Paris, April o, "97. Editors Intelligencer: There are so many feasts and carnivals celebrated here in Paris that it is hard to know which to tell about lirst. But I suppose Mardi Gras or Boeuf Gras, as they call it, is the most important. Boeuf (iras is celebrated on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. No beef is eaten in Lent, and so this festival la Boeuf Gras or beef festival. There is a grand procession of floats, decorated with flowers and filled with men and women in the most bril liant costumes imaginable. The place of honor is given to King Carnival and about the middle of the procession are two splendid fat oxen, given by the Pres ident of France Last year was the first time Mardi Gras has been celebrated since the siege of Paris, .'30 yeara ago. For days before the Carnival the shops are filled with gorgeous tarleton and gilt bags of confetti o? all the colors of the rainbow, and brushes or whips made of long strips of tissue paper of different colors. The confetti is round bi's of paper, and every body is supposed to throw handfuls of it into every other body's face. Another kind of confetti is yards of paper ribbon rolled into a ball like tape; you pull the end out of the middle ana throw the ball as far as you can. Sometimee it goes clear across the street, where it fastens on a balcony, and you hold the other end of it or fasten it to your own balcony. Or it is dropped into the street and made to tangle around two people going in oppo site directions. It is very amusing in that case. The whole city is just filled with it. The trees on the avenues are all draped with serpentine confetti, and the sidewalks are a foot deep in round confet ti. At night the streets are so crowded with masked and costumed merry-mak ers that it is almost impossible to get about. Then they have torch light pro cessions, dances and everything gay. And Tuesday night they wind up with a grand masked ball, dance all night, and on Ash Wednesday go to early mass and confess their sins without having gone to bed. In most places the churches have forty day: :>f repentance for sin and abstinence from gaiety. But here in Paris they are obliged to bave a break in it, so just in the middle of Lent they have another festi val, Micareme. This is the feast of Wash erwomen! This year Micareme was even gayer than Mardi Gras. The pro cession wa? much finer, and everybody seemed to be trying to cram as much fun as possible into the one day and night. At six o'clock in the afternoon King Car nival was burned at the stake in front of the Pantheon, while the Washerwomen and students danced around him singing. King Carnival was made of rage and stuffed with colored powders which, when ignited, cast a beautiful crimson or gTeen or blue glow over the thousands and thousands of people assembled there. The third festival of importance is the Battle of the Roses, hold in the Champs Elysees, a beautiful Park. This comes off in July and I'm very sorry not to be here to see it. Besides these festivals in which every one takes part there are the processions and fetees of the different churches and cathedrals. Each one has its own patron Saint, and celebrates its own particular Saint's day in its own way and time. For instance, St. Etienne du mont, a little church in the Quartier Latin, has what it calls the Neuvi?me of St. Genevi?ve. It is a nine days' feast and pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Genevi?ve in the church. Services are held all day and thousands of people pass by the tomb and give the old priest their crosses, beads, statues of the Virgin and other things to be blessed. They are placed on a holy stone in the tomb then blessed by the priest. Any one who touches these relics will be healed of diseases, etc. It would be interesting to know about the patron Saint of each church, but I haven't time here to say more on that subject as I want to tell you of the grandest and most perfect object in all Paris?the tomb of Napoleon. This tomb is in the church which is connected with the Hotel des Invalides, or soldiers' hospital, founded in 1G07 by ' Louis XIV. Tne beautiful gilded dome of the church can be seen all over Paris and several wide avennes meet there. As you enter the church the first thing that attracts the eye is an immense altar flood ed with golden light from bottom to top. This efiect ia produced by the yellow glass windows on each sida and above the altar, but out of sight themselves. The tall spiral columns of black marble and the life-sized Christ hanging on the cross between them seem to be bathed in ever lasting sunlight. This altar is called the Chapel of the Emperor. But before you reach the chapel you notice an immense circular balustrade of marble about four feet higb, and you approach and find yourself looking into a circulare:. 20 feet deep and 36 feet in diameter. In the midst of the beautiful mosaic pavement, surrounded by a wreath of laurel rises the sarcophagus of Napoleon I. It is like a coffin carved out of a singlo huge block of red granite weighing about 67 tons and brought from Finland at the cost of up wards of ?30,000. Twelve colossal angels stand guarding the tomb and sixty flags which he captured in different battles wave over the last resting-place of the greatest general the world ever saw. I imagine it would be a great satisfaction to him to know how he is adored by the French. His tomb is the most impress ive, magnificent thing in all Paris. There is a museum in connection with the Inva lides, which has a hat, coat, armor and other relics of Napoleon. When the al lies entered Paris in 1814, the French burned 1500 flags captured by him and destroyed the sword of Frederick the Great, which Napoleon brought from his tomb In 1S0?. The French burned these relics so they wonld not fall into the hands of the enemy. Most of the princi pal avenues are named for Napoleon's battles, as are also several of the bridges across the Seine. At Versailles there are dozens of pictures and statues of him, and many things belonging to him. Above the entrance to Napoleon's tomb are these words quoted from his will: "I desire that my ashes repose on the banks of the Seine, in tho midst of the French people whom I have loved so much." The Hotel des Invalides fronts on the Seine with a battery and twenty cannon. These are used only for firing salutes. The Hotel was built to accommodate 5,C00 inmates but there are now less than 200. They seem very happy with their little church and their beautiful gardens and their grove of chestnut trees where the nightingale sings. Paris is gay, happy, pretty wicked, I suspect, and the people seem to be the most irresponsible, fickle, hotheaded people in the world. But for all that there is a fascination about it which one can only know by experience, and the more you know of Paris the better you like it. The next thing I am anticipating is the curious celebration of Easter and then the event of the year in Paris, the opening of tho Salon, where all the highest, most advanced Art in the world is to be seen. D. J. B. Ran Away From Home and Were Married. Birmingham-, Aia., April 1?.?S. Har per, aged 17 years, and Miss Afton Houser, aged 13 years, pupils at the Henley 8chool, eloped yesterday, and, going to Mont gomery, were married. The pair disap peared from school at the 12 o'clock recess. Nothing was known of their whereabouts until to-day, when Mrs. Houser received a letter from her daughter written in Montgomery, giving the details of the elopement and saying that she and her husband would return if tbe parental blessing was ready. D. M. Houser, the father, who is a prominent business man, was in Jonesboro. Tenn., where he waj notified of his daughter's disappearance. He came home in haste. When he It arac d of the elopement he was furious and de clares he will sue the probate Court, who issued the license, because of the girl's extreme youth. Such recourse can be taken under the laws of Alabama. Mean while the elopers still are in Montgomery, wailing for the storm to blow over. The bride celebrated her thirteenth birthday only three weeks ago. All parties are prominent. Two Brothers Take Poison. St. Loris, April 10.?A special to the Post Dispatch from Fayetteville, Ark., says: Two young sons of a Mr. Ileson, living at Greenland, five miles south of Fayetteville, aged nine and fifteen years, committed suicide while their parents were at Fayetteville trading. The boys were angry because they were left at home and both took a bath, dress ed in their best clothes, wrote notes to the parents, pinned them on the door, took strychnine and went to bed. Both died before their parents return ed home. The notes left bade their pa rents good-bye and expressed the hope that they would meet them in Heaven. Why suffer with roughs, Colds and La Grippe when Laxat-ve Bromo Quinine will cure you in one day. Djes not pro duce the ringing in the head like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for taking. Guaranteed to cure, or money refunded. Price, 25 Cents. For sale*by EvansPnarmacy. A Beautiful Church Wedding. In tho First liin'isL Church of Ander son at high noon to-day were solomnized the nuptials of l>r. Alfred Flournoy Griggs, of West Point, Ga., aud Miss Lillian Baker, of this city. The pleased hum of voices o? the wait ing friends was hushed at the appointed hour by a burst of delightful music from the orchestra. Mrs. J, D.Maxwell was at the organ, and as the sweet old strains of "Zamba" rolled from its mighty depths, strengthened by first and second corntt?, violin and flute, the audience was intro duced to the always beautiful scene which followed Messrs. James Childs and Cullen Sul livan entered first, tho one from tholeft door the other from the right, and, marching down the two aisles, took their stand on the rostrum a little to the left. They were followed iu like manner by Messrs. Rhett Parker and James Brown. Next came Miss Josephine Cashine and Miss Maud Brown, stylishly attired in handsome visiting gowns. They enterod in the same order as did the ushers, and stood cn the right wing of the rostrum. They were joined by Misses Felecia Murray and Imogene Griggs, sister of the groom. Following these were throe little pafees, Ma9tere Joe Wilhito, Duff and Douglass Murray and their petite maids, the Misses Wilhite. Those form ed a pretty picture standing on the floor, with their bright faces peeping up to join the flowers that fringed tho altar. At this moment the groom, with his best man, Mr. Allmand Griggs, of Norfolk, Va., entered the Church from the rear left hard door, and waited at the altar for the fair bride and her maid of honor. Miss Andrena Anderson, of Williamstoni who were approaching by the right aisle to the prayer from "Zampa." Just as the bride, in a jaunty tan aud brown travel ling gown, reached the altar, the groom advanced to meet her. In an instant the music changed, and while Rev. O. L. Martin took their vows and pronounced them "no longer twain but one flesh," the orchestra breathed upon them the prayer from "Der Frieschutz." Then bursts out the inspiring strains of Men delsohn's "wedding march," and the groom, with his bride, left the Church by the left entrance, followed by the best man and the maid of honor, and each usher with a bridesmaid. The bridal ptriy and a few invited guests repaired at once to the residence of Dr. Joe "Wilhite, uncle of the bride, where luncheon was served in Mrs. Wil hitfc's own graceful stylo. Dr. and Mrs. Griggs left on the 3:35 p. m. train for Atlanta, thence to West Point, their future home, bearing with them the best wishes of a host of frionds and acquaintances. Miss Lillian is one of Anderson's sweetest girls, and we can heartily con gratulate Dr. Griggs on his successful choice. Belton Items. Hon. John L. McLaurin, the well known Congressman from the Sixth Dis trict, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address before the Literary Societies of the Belton High School at the closing of the term daring the latter part of May. A Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans was organized here last Thursday. The following officers were elected : Com mandant, J. T. Cox ; Lieutenant Com mander, W. B. West; Adjutant, A R. Campbell; Surgeon, Dr. W. C. Bowen; Chaplain, Floyd Willingham ; Quartermas ter, II M. Geer. Mr. R. A. Lewis has just completed the erection of an additional room to his resi dence Congressman Latimer returned to Washington yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Cox, of Gaines ville, Ga, are visiting relatives in this section. Mesan?. Pelzer and Cox were the guests of Mr. R. A. Lewis on Sunday. Cyclists are taking tdvantage of the beautiful Spring weather and our streets are alive with whce'.s in the afternoons. Six young ladles ride e thec'.ubhas enjoyable bicycle meet*. Mr. C W. Rice, of Furmar, spent Sat urday and Sunday in Balton. Misses Carrie and Rosa Andereon and Aria Burch spent Sunday ia Anderson. Anderson and Belton base ball clubs will have a game of ball in Belton next Saturday. Mr. Oicar Kay and Miss Maude Camp bell spent C;e day with Mies Lucy Lewis Sunday. Fifteen pupils from tho High School Department, t-tood the teachers' examina tion in Anderson Saturday. Honor Rod cf the Primary Department for the Belton High School for last week : John Willii.'?bam. Mary G(er, Henry Campbell, S . a Mattison, Roy Breeziale, Anna Shirley. Carroll Brown, Mary Lewis, Olive LUimer, Frank McKinney, Andrew Holland, Harris Kelly, Ross Shir ley, Alma Shirley. Charlie Brown. The children of the town erjjytd an Eister egg hunt, given by the hdies of the Methodist Church at Mr. J. B. Anderson's Saturday afternoon. Lebanon Items. As it has been some Cms since I have seen anything from Lebanon I will try to give a lew points. Mr. Caldwell is in this community selb ing buggies. The roads in this section ere in the worst fix they have been for years. Mr. John Smith is doing a good thing for the people by having the road chaDged from his house to Mr. G. WebbV. The farmers have been grumbling about it raining so much; t:ow go it while it is clear and get a1! your seed in the ground. We hear the-boys talking tboutbase ball playing. I think it would be much better, and it wouldn't be euch hard, ho' work if they would bave a debating society, and meet on Siturdsy evenings and have Borne Fpeaking instead of playing ball. It would train their minds and make them have heads as well as muscles. The health of this community is in a good condition, except a few cases of the roseola. We bad an excellent sermon pr a?bed at Lebanon by R?v. Mr. Beck. The Church was full. I think they all enjo;ed the eermon very much. We see a gre it many of the young ladies putting on their be-t looks and smiles. Some one is going to get a bicycle. Some one told me I cuirht to vote. I told him I would vote after I saw who goi the whee1. Miss Wingo Hutchinson has returned home from a v sit to her grandfather iu Eiberton, Gi. If we do not have another freeze to kili the fruit we wid hive a t ?lerable good crop. Sina Dono Williamston Notes. Will. D. Up3haw lectured here twice on last Fridav, and amused his audience very much. His apptarance was greeted with hand clapping, and at bhort intervals through the entire lecture, which last one hour and thirty minutes, loud ap plause could be h?ard. His rendition of Bill Scroggin's courtship and marriage created much u.erriment. And parts of his lecture were very serious indeed. Though here only a short time he made many friends- He expressed himself as delighted with our Jown. He is truly a wonderful man. One get t'eman express ed himself as sorry that Ernest Willie did not lectureall night. We hear it predicted that Mr. Up3baw will b3 heard from in the world. So may it be. An eeg cracking was given by Miss Mattie Shedd on Thursday evening. Will. Wells proved to be the champion egg eater, as well as egg crack( r. Mrs. Williams, of Greenvill?, is visiting Mrs. H R Barmore. Miss Khte Cornish, cf Anderson, is test ing the virture of our chalybeate spring. Misses Boo Matthews and Birdie Duck worth, of Greenville, spent Easter here The Methodist Church was beautifully decorated with flowers Sunday. The pastor, Mr Barber, being in attendance on tbe State Epworth Leigue Conference at Spartanburg, Dr. Limier filled his ap pointment. Jno Pitts, the ten-year old son cf Capt. J. G. Pittp, broke his arm yosterday while throwing rocks. A match game of ball ie expected to bs played between P?lzer nine and the Wil liamston school boys Saturday afternoon. Smith Bros, are making preparations to run a delightful excursion to Charleston about the 15th of May. The Smith boys know how to run au excursion, and we predict for them great success. Anderson County Singing Convention. This Convention will hold its semi-an nual session at Welcome Church, seven miles northwest of Anderson, on Saturdav before the first Sabbath in May. The pub lic generally is invited to attend. The PickenB and Oconee papers please copy. John Eskew, Pres. -- One hundred women of the Warren Avenue Congregational Church, of Chi cago, have just earned ??! each for the church. At a meeting tbe other evening each one told what she did. One shaved hor husband ; another got l'ivo cents when ever she got up before bf>r husband; an other offered to wash for her son, and Rot ?1 for letting tbe shirts alone; another assessed her husband ?l for a shine. Still another got the monoy by not singing a song. One woman starved hor husband till he paid up. Townv?lle Items. Mr. W. B. Harris, formerly of this place, but now located at Hartwell, Ga , was mar ried to Miss Eula Morgan, of Barnes Sta tion, on the loth inst. May happiness at tend their pathway through life. Miss Abhy Alexander, a student of the Fair Play High School, attended Church here Sunday. Mr. R M. Tribble and wife, of Seneca, visited kin folks here Sunday. Mrs. R. 0. Tribble. of Anderson, is spending awhile with her daughter, Mrs. Cravton Babb, of near this place. Mrs. '-RoMn De Bow" and the little ' Rosin De Bows." contemplate a trip to the mountains soon. Mi?s Lizzie Bruce, one of our teacherp, attended the teachers' examination at An derson last Saturday. Mr. Editor, we are saving bicycle cou pons, ard will expect soino beautiful young lady to talk mighty nice for them. Brag on our good looks or tell how smart wn are, or something like that. Mr. J. ". Shirley, of this place, has hought a tract of land from Mr. J. B. Hoi combe near this place. Mr. J. \V. Suttles, of near this place, is jubilant now all the time. "It's a girl." Rev. J F. Singleton, pastor of the Bap tiht Church at this place. Se a delegate to lb" Southern Baptist Convention T?eOakway, Townville and Anderson Tslephone Company is nearly completed. Old Rosix De Bow . mt -? - ??? Pine Grove Items. The farmers are getting along nicely puitiog in guano, plaulingcorn and cotton steri. We have been visited by several big frosts, and we think about all of the peach es are killed. Miss Margaret Bruce, who has been visiting friends and relatives in this com munity, has returned to her home in Wal baMa. Miss loia Carroll, from Georgia, has come to spend a few months with her aunt, Mr*. T. C. Carroll. School at this place is out, and the scholars are V6ry sorry of it, for Miss Parrott was certainly a good teacher. Rev. J. R Earle will preach at Salem next Sunday, and there will be conference on Saturday before. We hope all who can will attend. Mr. T. H Burriss is our Superintendent at the Silem Sanday School, and he is a very good one. Mr. S-, next time you go to see your girl, you must go in the house. If you don't, f-he will be disappointed. I guees your horse will stand hitched. One of our young ladles wears a riDg that was found a few days ago. Her father lost it twenty two years ago. One of our 'Toot backers" went to see his girl the other day and stayed until it was dark, then ho went for home. By the looks of his "Sunday-go-to meeting" suit, be must bave fell in the ditch. Mr. Edwin Jolley, who has been very sick with fever, we are glad to say is im proving. Mrs. Rachel Kay, who has been visiting her relatives in Texas, has returned home. Mrs. Kay was very old to take the trip, but bbe Bays eho enjoyed it. Old Joe. Trouble and Plenty of it. Tho Saucy Lass has hoieted her white wings and disappeared with her jag of eight hundred gallons. She has lost Chief Constable Bahr and his band of searchers completely, and it will be some time before the enforcers of the dispensa ry law can get over the agonies of this "scorn." Yesterday Chief Bahr and his men turned their eyes from the waterways and began to look nearer to their skirts for spoiis of war. After considerable ncsing around the Chief laid violent hands upon ninety-two packages of fine stuff in acar?n the South Carolina and Georgia tracks. There will be more music in the air now, for every one of the packages was consigned to a well-known and wealthy resident of the city and every drop of it was for personal consumption. As soon as Chief Bahr had ordered the goods held by the railroad company he telegraphed Attorney General Townsend for advice. In these civilized times, when the high Courts of the land lend an ear to the pleaof the most humble, the dispensary consta ble has to go very slow, and often has to get about one quart of advice for every gill of whiskey he seizes. The ninety-two cases seized yesterday came from W. A. Un dercook & Co., of San Francisco, Cal. It was packed in 10 gallon kegs and cases, and consisted of the finest and rarest wines, cordials and whiskies. Last month Mr. R. R. Turner, representing the San Francisco house, visited Charleston to so licit orders. He had lots of trouble about his samples while here, but got the orders which were to have been filled with the ninety-two cases seized yesterday. It is understood that the packagos were for various individuals, but were consigned to the one party t) save time and trouble. There is not a drop of the liquor seized yesterday that was not intended for table use, and there can bo no doubt as to it being for "personal use," as marked. The railroad company took the receipt from the constablo for the goods and is holding every bit of it. This is by no means either a desirable or agreeable bit of business for the railroad people, as they stiil have an unsettled difficulty over the seizure of the samples of the drummer. Mr. Turner was obliged to engage the services of Mr. J. P. K. Bryan in order to get his sample cases from the road. He said at the time that his house would sue the company for holding its property. In the meantime Chief Bahr is waiting for bis advice and the Charleston buyers expect to hear from Undercook & Co. The schooner Saucy Lass, with eight hundred gallons, is said to be somewhere in the neighborhood of Goose Creek, up the Cooper River, and there are some con stables who do not know whether they are coming or going, and just for the lack of advice.?News and Courier. A Finger for a Fortune. M?s Grace Dinsmore, who has little money and an ambition to be a great singer, came to New Y'ork last evening from Binghampton to sell the middle fin ger of her right hand for ?1,000. A surgeon advertised in a morning newspaper last Thursday for a woman, who, for liberal pay, would be willing to part with a mid dle finger at the middle joint to make a bone grafting operation. Mrs C. V. Barton, of Houston, Texas, had come here to have one of her fingers, which was diseased, replaced by a mem bor which was sound and whole. The surgeon suggested that the bone of some animal be grafted upon the bone of the affected linger. Mrs. Barton was determined to have a new finger which would pass unchal lenged, and she commanded the surgeon to procure a finger at any cost. The ad vertisement was published, and more than a dozen persons answered it in person. Thesurgeon was not satisfied with any of them. Miss Dinsmore, at her home in Bing hamton, N. Y'., read the advertisement She needed money, and the more she thought about it the more temping the offer seemed. She immediately tele graphed to the surgeon and hastened to this city. She arrived yesterday after noon and visited the office of the surgeon. The surgeon pronounced her the success ful candidate. If everything is satisfac tory to M re. Barton the operation will be performed to-day. Miss Dinsmore, when I saw her last evening at the Grand Union Hotel, was perceptibly nervous. She felt much ag grieved that a young woman could not come to New York to sell a finger for Si,ouu and escape to the country without being interviewed. She is a tall girl, with a handsome face and a square set jaw. She has a quick, vigorous way of talking that impresses you with the fact that she means what she says. "I am au orphan," she told me. "When my father died a short time ago I found my position in life completely changed. I had supposed that I would have money. I found instead that I was poor. I had intended to complete my musical educa tion, which is the ambition of my life. I think that I have a career before me as a sincer. It occurred to me that this would be the only way for mo to get the money, so I immediately telegraphed that I would become a subject. I look forw> *d to the operation with considerable nervousness, and I shall certainly leei relieved when tho operation is over. I shall not return home. I shall go to Boston when I get tho money."?New York Herald, April in. ? A call has gone forth for a great con gress of religions, in which every nation of the earth shall bo represented, to meet at Delhi, in 1S9S, and discuss the question of tho true way of salvation, according to the teachings of the wiso men of every race. ? When the Roman Catholic Churc'i in Portsmouth, Va., burnnd down the other day tho Baptist?iul Methodist churches of tho city offered the homeless congre gation tho free use of their chapels until it could pr?vido itself with anothor od i lice, and three Methodist and throe Episcopal clorgymen called personally on tho priest to express thoir sympathy with him and his people. Cattle Ted on Molasses. New Orleans, April 7.?The Louisiana sugar planters bave at last found a use for ono of their chief products, the low grado molasses, or "black strap," as it is commonly called. This stuff has been accumulating in their sugar houses for years. The planters were unable to sell it or to get rid of it in any other way. Formerly Louisiana, or New Orleans, molasses, as it was usually called, was in general demand, sold readily at a good price, and constituted one of the most important lines of revenue to tho planter; but with the introduction of the centrifu gal machinery and other similar improve ments tho yield of sugar to tho ton of cane juice increased, and the amount of saccharine left behind in the molasses be came less and loss until fiually there re mained only a thick black fluid looking like liquid tar and having a slightly sweet flavor. For a few eeasous the planters succeeded in getting rid of most of their molasses, but the rapidly decreasing prices left them little, if any, profit, and the molasses was worked over with the bet ter grades and sold in the rural districts of the South, where it was principally consumed by negroes and poor whites. When, however, the molasses, or "black strap," as it began to be called, sank to 3 and 4 cents agall?n, it ceased to pay to sell or ship it. That is, the cost of coop erage and freight was greater than the value of the molaeses. Tht> cost of a mo lasses barrel is ?1.50 and the contents at 3 cents a gallon, were worth only ?1 f>0, and at 4 cents only ?2. If it were shipped to New Orleans, with freight at?l a barrel, the plantor lost from 50 cents to ?l a bar rel. He naturally declined to soil at a loss, and kept his molasses on the planta tion, waiting for better prices For the last two or three years the great problem in the sugar district has been what to do with the black molasses. Only a small proportion of each year's crop was sold, and the amount left over at the end of the season accumulated and steadily increased nntil there were from 30,000,000 to 00,000,000 gallons on hand. There was no storage room for it, for tho planters had to get rid of it each year to make room for the fresh molaeses of the new crop. Some of them dug immense ponds in the open fields, in which they dumped the molasses by tbe million gallons, to remain there in case it might be in such demand at any time as to pay tor its shipment co market. Others despaired of any improvement in price, and millions of gallons were turned into the Mississip pi and other streams in the sugar district. The molasses in the Mississippi did no barm, and merely sweetened the great river a trifle, but that poured into the Teche soon mined that beautiful stream, once deemed the most picturesque in Louisiana. It killed off tbe fish and aquatio plants; it contaminated the bayou and converted it into a foul sewer, and it drove away many of the planters living along its banks. It rendered it impossi ble to operate mills on the banks, or even to run steamers, as the boilers rusted and were ruined by the molasses in the water. Finally the people rose against the nui sance. The United States Court was ap ealed to, and the grand jury indicted some of the offending planters for dump ing the BtufT Into a navigable stream. This action broke the practice up. But while this mitigated the nuisance it did not get rid of the molasses, which continued to accumulate worse than ever, and the problem of how to get rid of it became mere pressing. Last year it was admitted that the Louisiana planters had some 2f).00C,000 gallons of molasses to give way to any one who could find a use for it and could make it pay the cost of re moval. The notice went far and wide, and the Louisiana Sugar Planters' Asso ciation, the postmaster at New Orleans, arid the newspapers have received thous ands of communications and propositions since then from all the four quarters of the world?from Patagonia, New Zealand and Siberia, There were propositions to convert the molasses into rum, and one factory was erected for that purpose ; but then the cost of this manufacture is great, a large capital is needed, and the demand for rum is not great enough to take off the entire Louisiana molasses crop. The same objection existed to tbe manufacture of vinegar. Other suggestions were the use of the molasses as a fertilizer, as a food for stock and as a fuel. It could be furnished o;a the plantation as fuel at the rate of about ?4 a ton?tha price which coal commands there. It made a good fuel, although it called for a special fur nace for its consumption. A number oi tbe sugar factories have used it as fuel with advantage, but this got rid of only a portion of the molasses crop, and did not result in the shipment of auy of it out ol the State. Last year a number of planters experi mented with it as a food for stock and cattle. At first a steady diet of molasses was found fur from beneficial to the ani mal'', but after many experiments it was discovered what proportion of molasses could be mi:ced with the corn, hay or oats to produce the best results. The scheme worked successfully and the demand for "black strap" as a food for cattle has steadily grown, until it is now in demand in other States, particularly in Texas. The Texas railroads have made such favorable rates to the Western or cat' le section ol the State for molasses in bulk or tanks that "black fitrap" can be ! ad down there cheaper than any other k. ul of food, and it promises to become the chief food de pended on for fattening cattle. It Is be lieved that the demand for "black strap" this year will be sufficient to consume the entire crop, and that the planters will be left with no molasses on their hands. As the crop averages some 125,000 tons, equivalent as a food to 10,000,000 bushels of corn or oats, some idea can be formed of the importance of this new business both to Louisiana and Texas. Texas cat tle in futura will be fed with molasses, not corn, or the business of fattening cat tle for the Western market may be trans ferred to Louisiana in order to have the cattle nearer tho sugar milla.?New York Sun. Clock Tale From Kentucky. George A. Newman, of 1721 Third street, Louisville, hss a cow with an appetite for clocks. A servant left a small silver clock, which she had been cleaning, on the kitchen steps while she stepped into the hcuee for a moment, but on her re turn the timepiece was missing, and de spite the most diligent search could not be looated and was given up for lost. Later in the e rening the small boy of the Newman household was in the yard. Suddenly a s .lvery chime floated in his ear. He listened. Another and another, until five times the chime had sounded, and he recognized it as coming from the lost clock. But where was the clock? There was nothing near but the cow. The boy searched all around the yard and then concluded, as it afterward proved correctly, that the clock was in the cow. He rushed to his father with the news of his discovery. The cow's swallowed the clook ! The cow's swallowed the clock !" he shouted. Mr. Newman did not believe the boy. The latter insinted. So at 5:55 Mr. New man went out in the yard and took his position a few feet from the cow, which was still crof ping grass in reflective fashion. In five minutes a silvery chime floated again on the still air. Another and another, at d this time six sounded. While they we:-e sounding the cow lifted up her head in that inquiring style pecu liar to cows und listened. When the sounds had ceased she resumed her browsing, satisfied that she was keeping time and did not have to be wound up. Mr. Newman decided that his son was correct. Dr. Eiseman was sent for. He said that probably the cow had swallowed the clock and that it had not gone further than her first stomach. It would not change position until it came time for the cow to chew ila cud, whon the bovine would be place! in the painful position of having to chew a hard bit of silverware and steel springs. A powerful emetc did the work. The clock was a little dis colored, but was still ticking away.? Cleveland Plain Dealer. ? Asbestos towels are among the curi osities of the day. When dirty, it is only necessary to throw them into a red-hot fire, and after a few minutes draw them out fresh and clean. The Ideal Panacea James L. Francis. Alderman, Chicago, says : "I regard Dr. King's New Discovery as an Ideal Panacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Complaints, having used it in my family for the last live years, to the ex clusion of physician's prescriptions or other preparations." Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, Iowa, writes: "I have been a Ministor of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial, or that fave me such speedy relief as Driving's New hscovery." Try this Ideal Cough Remedy now. Trial Bottles Free at Hill Orr Drug Co. A Valuable Preacrip'.ion. Editor Monieon of Worlhington, Ind., "Sun," writes: "You have a valuable pre scription in Electric Bitters, and 1 can cheerfully recommend it for Constipation and Sick Headache, and as a general system tonic it has no equal." Mrs. Annie Stehle, 2025 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, was all run down, could not eat nor digest food, had a backache which never left her and felt tired and weary, but six bottles of Electric Bitters restored her health and re rowed her strength. Prices 50 cents and $1 W. Get a Bottle at Hill-Orr Drag Co. BICYCLE CONTEST. Who is the Most Popular Voting Lady In Anderson County ' Thk Iellioencer wants its readera to decide this question by a vote, and the young lady receiving the greatest number of votes will be presented with a Crescent Bicycle. The voting is to be by coupons, which will be printed in each issue of The Intel mo enter from now until Siturday, July 3rd, when the contest closes, the result be ing announced in our issue of July 7th. Every coupon sent to us will be counted, and it is guranteed that the contest will be conducted absolutely fair. The bicycle which we shall present to the lady receiving the greatest number of votes, is a Crescent Model No. 4, and is a very handsome wheel, one of the best manufactured by the Crescent Company, which is represented in Anderson by the Sullivan Hardware Company, who will give the usual guarantee upon it. The bicycle is now on exhibition in one of the show windows of the Sullivan Hardware Company's store, where you are cordially invited to call and inspect it. Here is the coupon, cut it out and write on it plainly the name of the lady for whom you wish to vote and send to this office, where it will be recorded. Nov?te will be counted unless written on this coupon. The vote will be announced from week to week, and should reach us not later than Monday morning, in order to appear in the paper of that week. THE VOTE TO DATE. Miss Ideile Rice. 33 M isa Rose Payne. 29 Miss Ella Sherard. 1!) Miss Mattie Brown. 16 Miss Janie Gantt. 9 Miss Pearl Dahn. 8 Miss Mary Stevenson. 8 Miss Sylveue Peoples. 4 Miss Ella Townsend. 4 Miss Alice Duckworth. 3 Miss Felicia Murray. 3 Miss Sudie Smith. 2 Miss Anna Harper. 2 Miss Carrie Thompson. 1 Miss Eliie Seel. 1 Miss Fannie Pinckney. 1 Miss Edna Earle. 1 ? Paper houses, for the use of travellers in Africa and Australia, have been manu factured by English firms. They are made in sections, and can be put together or taken apart in a few moments. A Noted Atlanta Case. For four years I have been afflicted with a very troublesome nasal catarrh. So terrible has Us nature been that when I blew my nose email pieces of bone would frequently come out of my mouth and nose. The discharge was copious, and at times very offensive. My blood became so impure that my general health was greatly impaired, with poor appetite and worse digestion. Numerous medicines were used without relief, until I began the use of Botanic Blood Balm?B. B. B. ?and three bottles acted almost like magic. Since its use, over a year, not a symptom has returned, and feel in ev ery way quite restored in health. I am an old citizen of Atlanta, and refer to al most any one living on Butler street, and more particularly to Dr. L. M Gillam, who knows my case. Mrs. Elizabeth Knott, Atlanta, G a. Don't buy substitutes, said to be "just as good," but buy the old reliable and standard Blood Purifier of the age. B. . B. ?1.00 per large bottle. For sale by Druggists. NOTICE TO AB0HITE0TS. Architects Invited to Submit Plans for Court House and Jail. AT a meeting of the Building Commit tee of the Court House and Jail on Baturday, the 17th, it was decided that Elans for the Court House and Jail will e received up to May 5th. 1897, at 10 o'clock a. m , said buildings to coat cot exceeding Thirty-five Thousand Dollars. Each Architect submitting plans will be required to deposit with his planea Certi fied Check for One Thousand Dollars on one of the Binks of Anderson, S. C, made payable to W, P. Snelgrove, County Su pervisor of Anderson Cmnty, as a guar antee that the buildings can be built for his estimate. The Ccmmittee reserve the right to re ject any or all nlans. W. P. SNELGROVE, Chm'd. Building Com. WITH a view of making s I have decided to sell my ent In order to reduce the imm every one to avail themselves just what we say, and will some money, We want to get to save all you can, so here is ? M PROGRESS MAC HAS COM! There are thousands of people who tu and will have nothing else. It is a finished goods, and can be used on Machine. It is sold. TWO SPOOLS, 401 One Dozen for Jf?T" Can be had iu Anderson only f D. C. WINTER'S IRON F AND NATURE rejoice3 once more in hi Our supply of? Garden Tools and I Cannot bo surpassed, and we have prices th change. We are Belling POULTRY WIR! son. We are sole Agents for the? Genuine Tern It produco9 the host results. Saves time ai boo dooed, but come straight to 1 leadquarte BROC P. S.-We have COTTON PLANT! proved. Brooks and the Old Brooks SPECIAL NOTICE. E Notes and Accounts due the late Firm of Simpson & Son must be settled at once. After May 1st they will be placed into the hands of a Liwyer for collection. So to save trouble and cost this matter had better be attended to at once. W. D. SIMPSON. Surviving Partner, two doors below Masonic Templo, at Bicycle Emporium. April ?l. IS *7 43 2 IVER JOHNSON, - $100. FITCHBUllG, - - $75. ARE HONEST CYCLES. FOR AGENCY, ADDRESS, THE TABB & JENKINS HARDWARE CO., Southern Agents, Baltimore, Md. April 21, 18!>7 43 4 0 > ( il the NEW YORK WORLD THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION. IS Pages a Vicek?ISC Papers a Year. A P. por ai ustful to you as a great $8.00 daily for only one dollar a year. Better than ever. All tha News of all the World all the time. Accurate and fair to every body. Democratic and for the people. Against trusts and all monopolies. Bril liant, illustrations. Stoiies by great au thors in every number. Splendid reading for women and other special departments of unusual interest. It stands first among "weekly" papers in size, frequency of publication and fresh ness, variety and reliability of contents. It is practically a daily at the low price of a weekly ; and its vast list of subscribers, extending to every State and Territory of the Union and foreign countrie?, will vouch for the accuracy and fairness of its news columns. We offer this unequalled newspaper and The Intellioencer together one year for Two Dollars and Twenty Cents. AN HISTORIC LEGEND ! Many, many moons ago, when young ambition slept and dreamed in the bosom of many a drowsy tradesman hereabouts, and strong-handt:d competition had not yet raised the magic wand which invites and incites the bargain hunter from the four winds of old earth to come and be sated, there chanced this way a weary, weary pilgrim, who became enchanted with the lovely garden spot which the red skins had deserted. On his breast he wore this ensign, ' lead, let those follow who will." On his brow was stamped in scarlet letters this significant word? "defyance." A smile of welcome lit up his counte nance, and soon it was heralded through bill and dale that a new General was in the field, and oi.e born to lead. And for eight years past the indomitable C. S MINOR and the TEN CENT 8TORE have led the van, and cut their road through the solid walls of Competition, and planted their banner above the dis mantled hopes of Competition. We drive the bargains home with such sledge-hum mers as this : Large SlandarJ Limps, fourteen inches high, 133. Common Lamps 10c. The Daisy L imp 25c. The Wild Rose Lamp 25c. The Nellie Bly Lamp 252. Good Tubacco at 15c and 20c per lb. 100 Fish Hooks for 5c. Chewing Gum at half ? .ice to hear oth ers kick. A lot of Organdie* and Lawns to close at lc. to 4c. per \ard for better goods. Nielline of Ginghams at 4c per yard. Heavy Cross-back and Firemen'a Sus penders at 10j. a pdir- commoner goof's at 8c. a?d 4c per pair. French Sboe Polish 5c. Oiline Shoe Dressing IOj. Pocket Knives 5c. Sox and Stockings at 4c. and 5p. a pa, r. Oil Table Cloth l?e. per yard. Turkey Red at same price. Fine Laundered Dress Shirts?Bovb' and Men's?at 24c, 39o. and 48c 200 good Matches in a box for lo. 288 Shirt Battons for 5c. Pants Bottons 5:. per box. Celluloid Collars 5c. Celluloid Cuffs 103. A few painted Water Buckets, slightly damaged, to clcse at 5j. each. Heavy Glass Tumblers at 15c. per sett. High Class Goblets 253. per sett. Half Gallon Pitchers 153. each. Cuff Holders 5;, pair. Caff Buttons 2c. to 10c. pair. Breast Pins 2o. to 10c. each. Spectacles 5c. pair. Composition Gold for little more. Market Baskets, with handles, at 2 for 5c. We seek fame and foitune or poverty and oblivion. We leave it to such figures as above to name our fate. If men be men still, and common sense be not at a discount we know the result. Yours always truly, C. S. MINOR and THE 10c. STORE. great change in my business ire Stock AT A SACRIFICE, ense Stock we invite each and of this opportunity. We mean certainly save whoever comes rid of our Goods and you want a chance for all. ISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. 1HINE THREAD I TO STAY. e it loft any ? YARDS, FOR 5C. wenty-five Cents. rom ? BROWN & BRO. ?ULE IS BROKEN, 3r freedom. Too time of sowing has come. farming Implements at aro sure to sell you If you only give us a ) at prices never before heard of in Ander ?li Cultivator. id labor. Beware of imitations. Don't be rs and get the genuine article. Yours very truly, JK. BROS. BKS world without end. We sell the Im Easter, 1897, is now numbered rvith the past, and also - - - - R. S. HILL'S Large line of Goods brought on l'or the Easter Season. That Stock lias been reduced to a minimum. :::::::: OUR customers who have yet to buy must not think the Stock "picked over," for our New York buyer has just writ ten us of ! arge purchases made by him that will be even prettier, if that were possible, and far better values than those bought earlier in the season. He has bought another lot of those beautiful New Or gandies that will be sold at 25c the yard. Also, a full line of those Genuine French Organdiep, worth 50c, but sold by us at 35c the yard. "If seeing is believing," then "seeing" will be "buying" when you behold our French Organdies. An entirely new stock of Black Dress Goods just receiv ed. From that heavy Serge so serviceable for home wear, and for mountain wear, to the lightest, daintiest Grenadine. A good Black Dress made of any of these fabrics is money well invested. NEW LACES, NEW DRESS TRIMMINGS, NEW MOUSELINE DE SOIE, And NEW WASH GOODS, All to be received this week. A small item, but a very important one these days, is a Belt. You should see our stock, bought direct from the man ufacturer, and in the very latest styles. Hoping that you will come and see these New Goods at the first possible opportunity, I am Yours, with goods to please you, . S. HILL. AOABD. IDESIRE to return my thanks to my many friends for their liberal patronage for the past seven years, and to inform them that I am now occapying the Store room recently occupied by the late Mr. Towers, where I am better prepared than ever before to serve them. I will contiune to supp'y my table with the best the market affords. I want your patronage. Give me a call when 3 ou want a GOOD, SQUARE DINNER. Opposite the Post Office, on Wbitner Street. I am now opening up a lice of PLAIN and FANCY GROCERIES, and am offering them at prices that are bound to please. _J. G. R1LEY. PERPENDICULAR TRUTHS, HORIZONTAL PRICES ! 100 pairs Boys Patent Leather Oxford Ties. Never known to be retailed lor less than $1.50. We offer for.if de 250 pairs Ladies' Oxford Ties, Sandals and Opera Slippers,. In Black and Tan, worth double our price. 68,75,95,98. Men's Hand-made Shoes, in Cong, and Bals.,. $4.50, jours for retailed for less than ^ QQ The above lot was bought from an Assignee Sale for less than 50c. on the dollar ; otherwise we could not oiler them at such low prices. SEEING IS BELIEVING. We invit? all in need of Shoes or Slippers to come and examine these Extraordinary Bargains and High Grade Gocds offered by? THE FAMOUS, 14 Brick Range, West Side Public Square, Anderson, S. C. ANNOUNCEMENT. WE have been the fortunate purchasers of Simpson & Son's stock of Drugs and lessees of their magnificent Storeroom under Hotel Chiquola, to which we have moved our entire business. The friends and customers of both the old Firm and the Phar macy will recognize at once that we have secured a prize in the good will and high esteem the Messrs. Simpson have always enjoyed in the Drug business of Anderson. It shall be our endeavor to please all people who will honor us with their confidence, and special efforts will be directed to perfect as nearly as possible every department? Prescription work receiving more attention than ever. In this we have several competent men with long experience. Give us a call when in need of PAINTS, GLASS, DRUGS or MEDICINE, as we have one of the largest stocks in the upper part of South Carolina. Yours truly, EVANS PHARMACY, Corner Hotel CMquola. A SQUARE DEALING GROCERY STORE :S the kind jou can place confidenca in, feel like 70U are being well treated and get pure Goods jvery time you trade there. That Is the way we vant you to feel about our Store. We will merit rour good opinion of us every time. Everything ;uaranteed the best the market affords. Try some of our English Peas. 12Jc. can. String Beans. 12Jc. can. Cheaper quality Beans. 8ic. can. Monarch Corn. 12*c can. A Good Corn. 8ic can. Three-pound Can Pie Peach. 8Jc. can. Two-pound Can Okra and Tomatoes. 8\c. can. Three-pound Can Tomatoes. 8Jc. can. We have just received a lot of Fine Pickels, half gallons, in Chow Chow, Mixed nd Gerkins at the extremely low price of -5c. each. Florida Cabbage and Beets. ?oT* Send us a trial order and see how well we can please you. Everything deliv" red free in the City. 'Phone 44. OSBORNE & BOLT.