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Anderson Intelligencer. PUBLISHED EVERY. WBDNESDA 7. J. F. UL1NKSCALES, I EDITORS AND 0. C. LANGSTON, i PROPRIETORS. T TERMS: ONE YEAR.fl 50 SIX MONTHS . 75 * - WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1897. THE BLACK DIAMOND RAILROAD. The citizens of Anderson owe it to themselves not to forget the Railroad meeting to-morrow (Thursday) even ing, at 8 o'clock. We are informed that delegates will be here from Walhalla, Westminster, and other points to Beaufort and Port Royal. S.C. . The heaviest preliminary work in surveying and locating the road in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina has been practi cally accomplished, and it now re mains for South Carolina, and Ander don in particular, to fall into line. It was indifference on the part of the business men of Anderson that lost us the Air Line Road, and the same sort ofi indifference permitted the Sea-Board Air Line to be built south of us without an effort on our part to secure it. Men said the road would never be built, they had no faith in it; but the road was built re gardless of our want of faith, and run ning before our people waked up to their second lbs3. The third and last chance for a through line is knocking at our door. Will we still sit still and do nothing? If that be our conclusion, thea we are . not in it, and deserve what we will get-get left! Side-t:raoked for all time ! Now, don't forget the meeting Thursday night at the Opera House, at-8 o'clock. , Col. S. E. Boone, Hon. William Kirby, President, and Gen. J. C. J. Williams will he there to present the road and its claims to yon. Let us pull ourselves together and help build, this road, and future gen erations will rise up and call you wise men._ President McKinley has designated Thursday, 25th inst., as a national Thanksgiving Day. It is said that the friends of Mayor s Carter Harrison, of Chicago, are train ing him for the Democratic .noinina tion for President in 1900. ?m-*- mimi.-. Capt. J. N. King, of Ninety Six, and*"Hon. E. E. Veruer, of Oconee County, are the latest additions to the list of candidates for Congress From .the Third District. _ ; (Jen. Hampton has resigned as National Railroad Commissioner, and Gen. Longstreet has baen appointed his successor by President McKinley. Gen. Longstreet is no doubt happy and his bride happier. There's nothing exciting in the prospect of general war in Central America. The most startling intelli gence from that-chronically disturbed country would be that telling-of a prospect of general peace. Henry George, candidate for Mayor of Greater New York, died suddenly of apoplexy in that city last Friday. By his death this country loses one of its purest men and one of its ablest and most original thinkers. The Savannah Press remarks that the late Henry Grady used to say that "cotton is a fool," and so it is. Pri es are always low when they ought to be high, and, in spite of increased consumption all over the world and the opening of new markets, cotton has been going steadily down. When a mao sits dowo to study the situa tion or reason the whole thing out, he will find that cotton will do just the opposite of what was expected. -mam President Wilborn, of the State Farmers' Alliance, has issued a call which means tho inauguration of % movement towards securing a conven tion of the cotton growero of the Southern States for the purpose of taking definite action in regard to the planting of next year's crop. The all protides for tho holding of a State Convention in Columbia on Wednesday night, 10th inst. Every . County in the State is urged to nend ialegates._ We have received the prospectus of the "Southern Farmer and H&rticul arw ," which will he published at Newberry. S. C., in l&ps^e form twice a month at $1 per year. The first is sue will appear on 15th of November, 1897, and the second on the 15th of December, and after that on the 1st and 15th of every month. The vol umes will run with the calendar year. Subscriptions taken this year will be credited to the 1st of January, '39. All communications and matters for publication should be addressed to Prof. J. S. Newman, Clemson College, 8. C., and all matters pertaining to the business or subscription depart ments of the paper should be addressed to the publisher. Prof. Newman has absolute control of the editorial man agement. E. H. Aull, of Newberry, is publisher. Elections were held yesterda}' i fourteen States for Governors. Legi latures and other officers. Great ii tercst was manifested in the munie pal election in Greater New Yorl There were four tickets in the fiel< and Judge VanWyck, who was Tan many's candidate, was elected Mayo: Statistics prove, it is said, that i New York State more crime is con mitted by men twenty-nine years ol than of any other age. Thi3 fact is s far unexplainable by the student c criminology. A man at that period c his life is supposed to be in full pof session of his mental and physict powers, and to have a complete appre ciation of right and wrong and thei respective consequences. For the sb teen years following twenty-nine th percentage of crime is small. At foi ty-five there is another outburst o evil.which nearly equals that accredit ed to criminals twenty-nine years o age. _ ^_ About the sorriest thing extant i what we call quarantine as now consti tuted. There is no recognized centra authority, and hence it comes abou that numerous conflicting orders ar issued, to the great confusion of al concerned. In this day of interstat commerce we really need an interstat1 quarantine under control of the fed eral government, to which all loca boards are subject. This is no against local sell:-government, for lo cal quarantine is something each com munity can employ regardless of out side pressure. But what is needed i an intelligent plan for the control o any disease when once it begins t< spread, and the federal governmen can best perform this service. Some clever statistician in the Wa department at Washington has calen lated that forty-eight years,. mus elapse before the burden of federa pensions now carried by the govern ment is entirely removed. At tb present time, acoording to the record; of the war department, there are 1, 095,628 federal survivors, or nearly twice the number of nen enlisted ii the Confederate army thirty-five yean ago. On the federal pension rolh there are now 760,000 survivors; and instead of being reduced under Presi dent McKinley's administration, it i. likely that several thousand more wi! be added from the remaining number. That gross frauds have been commit ted in the name of justice to the ole soldiers cannot be denied, and equal ly is it certain that before many years have elapsed the government will open its eyes to the enormity of these frauds. Without uttering a word ol complaint, the South is perfectly will ing to bear her-part of the burden, feeling assured that the time is not far distant when the entire country will rise up in protest against the frauds of the pension system. Of the 1,095,628 survivors now living i tis es timated by the above mentioned sta tistician that 900,939 will he living in 1900; 820,687 in 1905; 026,231 in 1910; 251,727 in 1920; 37,033 iu 1930; 340 in 1940 and none in 1945. So far as the above figures are concerned, there is very little relief offered to the present generation of taxpayers. In addition to the number of actual sur vivors on the federal side, there are 219,000 widows and orphans on the pension rolls who receive something over one-third of the $140,000,000 an nually appropriated by the govern ment. That the government will be much longer than forty-eight years in paying out money to these pensioners is evident from the fact that on its pension rolls there are seven widows of the American revolution. These figures are rather discouraging and show that the burden, of federal pen sions is one that stretches far into the next century. Uncle Sam Can't Molest Mrs. Mullins. Mrs. Mullins, who sell? whiskey down in Hancock County, Terin., and whiskey, too, which bears the govern ment seal, has defied Uncle Sam and his vassals. Mrs. Mullins' defiance carries great weight, for she tips the scale at 690 pounds, and is proud of it. She sits all day in her little cabin by the side of a barrel and dispenses the genial juice of the golden grain at so much a tin cup. Her house ii at the end of a trail up the mountains where no wagon could ever go. All the machinery of the United States government seems powerless to pre vent her from dispensing his mad dening moonshine. Why do not deputy marshals arrest her ? you &BL That is easier said than done. She will not come out of her own accord, and it would be im possible to get her down that steep and rocky trail. She oannot be placed in a wagon, for the reason that no vehicle could ever get up to that rock botnd fortress. She would break the hack of any mule OB earth. Some body has suggested that the trail be converted into a toboggan slide and that the lady of the tin dipper and the sparkling spirits be slid down the declivity ; but Mrs. Mullins ha grown so large that it is impossible to get her out of her house. Thc door has remained the same size, while Mrs. Mullins has increased in girth and in thc favor of the thirsty moun taineers. The government officials would glad ly rig a derrick over the house, remove the roof and lift Mrs. Mullins and her barrels out of thc place. Here still another obstacle presents itself. They have no authority either to tear down the house or to enlarge thc door. The dwelling belongs to Mrs. Mullins, and the government has no right to dostroy her property. Grenier New York ligures. London was a city 1,500 years be fore the Dutch bought Manhatttan Is land for a song, and to-day London, with more than six million people and G88 square miles of territory, has scarcely twice the population of the American metropolis-3,200,000. New York increases faster in population, too; in fact, at the rate of 315 a day, while the increase daily in London is 230. Third in population among the cities of the earth is Paris, with a population of 2.600,000, and Berlin is fourth, with but twenty-five square miles of territory. The area of Pans is 173 square miles. Chicago, press ing Berlin close in population, com prises more than 180 square miles. By making some comparisons from the statistics compiled concerning the great city, one finds many curious re sults. For instance, the Dutch pur chasedv Manhattan Island for $24 in 1826 from the Indians, and the sur rounding country at that time was not considered .worth having. To-day land in the enlarged city isoworth on an average $125,000 an acre, and 50 cents a square foot for the entire 360 square miles. Of course there are sections in lower Broadway and Wall street which are worth nearly a thous and times as much, and some one has said that the wages of a workingman for twenty years would not buy six feet of earth in some parts of Greater New York. The number of men on the city pay roll will be greater than the regular army of the United States, the police contributing nearly 7,000 and the "white-winged" street cleaners 4,000. The population of the city is equal to the combined population of thirteen new States and Territories, whose area is three thousand times greater than that of the city and about two fifths of that of the entire Republic. Then men, women and children of Greater New York, drawn up in single rank, would form a line one thousand miles long. A child is horn every six minutes in Greater New York, whioh means about 90,000 a year, and, although the death rate is comparatively low, 70,000 persons die annually, or one about every seven minutes,-day and night. New York is unique in the character of its population. It is the largest Irish city in the world, its 850 Irish being twice as numerous as the population of Dublin. The Germans are the most numer ous though, there being 900,000 of them here. Thus, with the exception of Berlin, New York is the largest German city in the world. The for eign-born population numbers 1,250, 000, and with its children numbers 2, 500,000, or about two-thirds of the city's entire population. The drafts and checks passing through the clearing house of Greater New York make an aggregate of $96, 000,000 a day, which is twice as much as the clearings of all the other cities of the nation combined. In its manufactures the greater city employs 635,000,000 workmen and pays $400,000,000 a year in wages. The city will have an area of 360 square miles, making it second in size to London. Its greatest length will be almost thirty-five miles-that is, from Mount St! Vincent to Totten ville. There will be more than ten saloons for each church. The assessed value of the real es tate of New York, Kings a d Rich mond Counties and that part of Queens County included in the greater city is $2,264,142,968. The indebt edness of the combined cities and towns is about $170,000,000.-New York Herald. Down on Lynching. ATLANTA, Ga., October 27.-Mob law was severely condemned by Gov ernor Atkinson in his message to the Georgia Legislature, which convened here to-day. The message bristled with a scorching and sensational at tack on the lawless spirit that fosters lynch law in this State. He says that to exterminate the practice of lynch: ing the crime mu t be made odious and shameful. He advocates strin gent legislation against the mobs, and insists that thc Legislature pass a law making every County wherein such a crime is committed subject to a large indemnity to the relatives of the mob's victim. The Northern lynchings are spoken of by the Governor. Of this he says: It is no excuse to say that the North ern people, who have less to provoke them to it, lynch. Let us not take them as a standard, hut rather show a higher type of civilization in our State and erect here a standard to which they aspire. The Governor is in favor of arming the prisoners and allowing them to de fend themselves from mobs. He says : The arresting officer is now clothed with authority to take the life of 'jhe assailants when resisting their efforts to take a prisoner from his custody, and it is his duty to take life if neces sary to protect the prisoner and retain him in custody. This he should be required to do at the hazard of his own life, or the prisoner should be un shackled) armedk aud given an oppor tunity to defend himself. Theknowl edgo Ob the part of the mob that this would be done would deter it from pursuing its lawless purpose, and the law would be permitted to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. - A minister met a little boy Sunday aftenoon with a string of flab, none of which was more than two inches in length, says the Ohio State Journal. "Don't you know," Baid the minister, "that you committed a sin in catching those little fish on the Sabbath dav?" " 'Tain't my fault," replied the boy, " 'cause the big ones wouldn't bite." Freo Pilla. Send your address to H E Buckan & Co., Chicago, and get. a free hampl- b..jt of Dr. King's New Life Pill* A tria. convince you of their merns. Th --e t> ls ire ea*y in action and are parti-uUry inflective in the cure of Constipan ? *tid Sick Headache. For M ilaHa an<l Liv r troubles they have been proved iiivalutthl . They are guaranteed tob- per IM-iv free irom every deleterious HU batanee and t.-> b - purely vegetable They do not. weaken hy their aoti n, but by giving tone tot-to'iiach and bowels greatly invigorate th -M8t -m. 1 Regular sise 25c por box Sold bv Hi. - Orr Drug C L ' -Are penitentiaries a failure? The question seems to be answered in the affirmative by the discovery ol' tho fact that in the Pennsylvania penitentiary a number of convicts have been making fifty-cent pieces, which are said to be magnificent specimens of the coinerjs art, and that a large number of them* have been put in circulation through outside persons. The milling on the coins is almosit perfect and it is not an easy mat ter, so well made are the dies, to detect the counterfeit.-New Orleans Slates. - This new disease is reported by the Hartwell Sun: "John Banks, colored, reported Bick the other morning. Mr. Wilcox asked : 'What's the matter with you, John?' 'Don't know, sir j de doc tor Bays it is yaller Alexanders.' " - A Pittsbure jury awarded a woman a verdict of 6,000 againBt a liquor dealer because her husband loaded up on liquor and permitted a freight train to grind his leg off. If the verdict stands, there will be quite a strain on the liquor dealer's leg. -mt -O mm - Your Boy Won't Live a Ho nth. So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill St-, South Gardner, Mass , was told by the doc tors. His son bad Lung trouble, follow ing Typhoid Malaria, and he spent three hundred and seventy-five dollars with doo tors, who finally gave him up, saying : "Your boy won't live a month. He tried Dr. King's New Discovery, and a few bot tles restored him to health and enabled him to go to work a perfectly well man. He says he owes his present good health to the use of Dr. King's New Discovery, and knows it to be the best in the world for Lung troubles. Trial Bottles Free Hill-Orr Drug Co._ L ND FOR SALE. THE J. B. Low Place in Martin Town ship, 180 ocres. The Whitfield Place, near Townville, 126 acres. JOSEPH N. BROWN, Nov. 3,1897. Attorney for the parties. Georgia Land for Sale. THE undersigned offers for sale six Tracts of Land, containing from 70 to 300 acres, in Franklin County, Ga., six miles from Carnesville. Land in good state of cultivation. Allcaab, or partial payments with interest at 7 per cent, to snit the purchaser. Call on or write to me at Red Hill. Ga. J. W. CRUMP. Nov S, 1897 _19 3 LOST i IN the Town of Belton, on Friday,"Oe - tober 29th, one Double-Faced Elgin Gold Watch. One side of the Watch has the monogram, "M.'E B ." engraved on it, anIotho other side was enameled in blue forget-me-nots, roses and birds, and had a small diamond in it. A reward of 5.00 will be paid the finder if returned to me. (MIS3) MATTIE E. BROWN, Belton, S. C NOTICE. OUR Clients will take notice that we have removed our office from rear of Farmars & Merchants Bank to the Town send Building on East side of Main Street, just North of Post pfflce Our office ls in rear up stairs rooms, next to Railroad Cut. We now occupy three rooms, and have better facilities for transacting busi ness with dispatch TRIBBLE <fe PRINCE, Attorneys at Law. Anderson,S. C. 19-4 NOTICE. IHAVE placed all my Books and Ac counts in the bandsx>f J. J. Gilmer for collection, settlements, <fec. I have Accounts on my Books that have been running for years, being unable to effect a settlement. I now put them on notice as well as all others, if not settled by January 1st, 1898, same will be sold regardless of whose feelings it may hurt. In the mean time, Mr. Gilmer will either call on you in person or notify you by letter. Will say fartuer, that if I owe you I am ready to settle. Very respectfully. F. M BUTLER. Nov 3. 1897 19 IT'S IN THE BLOOD and you can't get it out even if you drink a river full of "blood medicines." Impurity of blood B caused only by the failure of the Kidneys, the natural purifiers of the blood, to filter cut the impurities that come from the waste tissues and ashes of the food. If you are tired, dull, aching and Butler ing greatly from a combination of ail ments, you may be sure your KidneyB are clogged and inactive. Cure your KidneyH and the blood will take care of itself. You can be CURED. I waa afllicted with rheumatism many years. Have been treated by physicians but without relief whatever until I tried Dr. Hobba Sparagus Kidney Pills. Since using them the rheumatism is cured, and I wish everyone who is suffering as I did knew the virtue there B in Dr. Hobba Sparagus Kidney Pills. K. MCDANIEL, 1106 K St., N. W., Washington, D. C. HOBBS Sparagus Kidney Pill HOBBS REMEDY CO., PBOPBIBTOBS, CHICAGO. Dr. Hobbs Pills For Sale in ANDERSON, S. C., by WILHITE & WJLHITE, Wholesale and Re tail Druggists, 39 Public Square. PROFESSIONAL. DR. WM. F. MERCER, OF GREENVILLE, S. C., SPECIALIST Diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Will be in Anderson City, at Hotel Chi quola, for ten days* from November 8th to 17th, inclusive, prepared to treat* all diseases in his Specialty, and respectfully offers his services to the Profession and the Public. Refer by permission to Doctors Nardin and Orr. Respectfully. WM. F. MERCER, M. D., Late Adjunct Professor Diseases of Eye Ear and Throat, Medical College of Va. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, By W. F. Cox, Judge of Probate. Where-s, J. I*; Fowler has Applied to me to grant him Letters of Ad ministration on the Estate and effects of J. M. Fowler, deceased. These are therefore to cit and admon ish all kindred and creditors of tho said J. M. Fowler, deceased, to bo aiid ap gear before me in Court dr Probate, to e held at Anderson Court. House, on the 17th day of November, 188T, after pub lication hereof, to shew cause, if any they have,- why the said administration Bhould not bo granted. Given under my hand this 2nd day of November, 1897. R. M. BURRI8S, Judge of Probate. Nov 3, 1897 19 2 LAND SALE. T WILL sell at auction iu the City of An X dereon on Salesday in December,'if not sooner disposed of by private salp.tbe Plantation known as Grumblethorp Hall, owned by Estate of Mrs. L. C. Maxwell, deceased, containing 461 acres, situate on both sides of Eighteen Mile Creek, ad joining Lands of 0. A. Bowen, B. F. Gantt and others. . This Land will probably be divided and sold in small Tracts. For terms and other information apply to J. D. MAXWELL. Anderson, S. C. NOTICE. IWILL sell at the Home place of Eliz abeth Ashley, deceased, on the 15th day of November, 1897, one Tract of Land containing 89 acres, and all Rents of said Landa. Terms of Sale-Cash. To be paid inside of thirty days. JOSHUA W. ASHLEY, Adm'r. Oct 27, 1897 18 ' 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Ali persons having demands against the Estate of C. H. Holcombe, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, prop erly proven, to tte undersigned within the time prescribed by law, and those in debted to make payment M. W. CALLAHAM, C. L. HOLCOMBE, Executors. Oct 13. 1897 _16 3 Remarkable Thing When Cotton is worth 5 l-2c, and everybody is talking about hard times, is when our trade is best. WHY IS THIS ? Men and Women who are looking for a place to make a dollar go furtherest. Our Prices are paralyzers. They are strictly in line with Fire Cents Cotton ! - All we ask is a - Comparison of Prices with any House in the City. If we can't save j ou from 7 to 15 per cent on STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES and GROCERIES, We don't ask you to buy from us, Yours truly, D. C. BROWN & BRO. TREED AT LAST A LL Buccwsful P * nra hnotertj ha-e been fooled ; so are we this time. Our game, XJL in UH denperation, pin up the customary nauseating defense, hopa from limb t<* limb, -inks one es e 'o H8el', and in lonee that bespeak the anguish of its stricken heart. wailH m th igh>ng winds-nt Cost! at O'mt ! ! a'Cost!!! Now, ain't that a prettv mouth to pu' tn People nf A '*er-on C >nnt , believe if or not, as you HI, the fact remains that never in O'ir experio vt> ha e ever had such M large tr>ide as now. We are not com plaining ah.mr li r tun-* W wt* ou vi nu mr unir- -f the (tatton, and of course we ure goiun to hiv-on siMie tv 'tie tr. He W** I a-dlv ever do nell out at Cost, and MooieiimeH we lo ??' ; ui^rvfore, c il m i hive in d' it I'nw, hecauae we havent the fiiilbtMit irit-a oi K"> -ut bu-w-iM-hesidis our G-md* ur going out fast enough at a r -HM nable pr fl Wtieii Ch'i^ mun . 'np- C"iiiifi|g oi re H ye-r, when we cnn'' sell more Dean'a Patent Flour limn aoy o n r *r.? KH '1 m Amlnr ! . . minn an ' prove it; when we can't beat thn tow-, o ? sb i H, ami heu h . o id people . d Andenon C iuuty say to us ilia we have iunMi-'-i u. ..li tumo * d duped (hem, ' eu, Hint not till then, will your bumble servan H i ' r<> . u. lie -f'l.ue .rt cloie ..ut ai 0-wt Until then y<iu can g t what you w i.r-Drv G od . Boot Mbn s, Hatt., Jen. S, Flour and other Groceiisa ai d Canned M**i a> cneapni our (kort* HM nvwiiere 1-e, hut. you'll not get them at Cost. DEA* & RATLIFFE, C ton hu e Guano D al-r- n U 'uain Vendors to the Trade. $90,000 THE ALLIANCE STORE will go out of business at the close of this year, if not earlier. My physicians have advised that I cannot stand the strain of the mercantile business any longer. The Directors of the Store are unwilling to accept my resignation as Manager and elect another man in my place. So the only alternative left is to close out, and we realize fully in order to do so speedily it will be imperative to offer great inducements in prices. Unfortunately for our Stockholders we bought a much heavier and better'Stock of Fall and Winter Goods than ever before. It was an error in judgment, but I thought in July and August that we were making a big crop in this country, and would get a good price for it, but it is cut both ways, and our idea is the first loss is the easiest borne. We have a cash offer from a party in New York to take our entire stock at so much on the dollar, but it 4s so much less than real intrinsic value for fresh, new, desirable Goods, we have, decided that where we are forced to give away anything we prefer that our own people shall get the benefit of it. Hence we inaugurate A SLAUGHTER SALE All through the Store. - Heretofore we have endeavored to maintain the one price system, but now in order to close out in a short while, quantities will necessarily be something of a leverage in prices, as it is necessarily lese ex pense to close out quickly than to take a long time to do sb. Again, it is impracticable to sell all lines at uniform cut rate. It'is im portant to reduce the stock uniformly, so as to keep a geod assortment intact, thereby enabling us to fit up every customer. Any articles we are specially overetocked in we will naturally cut lower at first, and afterwards we may make further reductions on lines not moving so rapidly. For instance we are OVERLOADED in-* ' Shoes* Men's Clothing, Hats and Furnishings,* , . And Ladies' Fin Brv>ss o ds, Millinery and lotions* And we have CUT PRICES on many of these Goods T TH Q CK.. Remember, these Special Prices are for PROMPT CASH only. An early visit to our Store will handsomely pay any would-be purchaser. Very respectfully, 1 Manager. N.B.-All who are indebted to us will confer a great favor by prompt payment. ' And yon will find out that yon are often deceived h)f a very small animal. . WE say come at us with your search-light, (so you mean business,) and yoU will see which way the cat is jumping. INVESTIGATE, And you will find no danger to your peace nor your purse in buying your HARDWARE From us. Throw out your search-light on u and our Goods. It will save our talk and our time, and save you from pain and loss. INVESTIGATE. Sullivan Hardware Co > & S m n co > C/5 j 35 ll S I CC >i w N Q I: as < 2 ii o I 3 i! cr jj 5 jj "3 ii o i SC u ii <J3 jj C li S- ii O li U Ii OCTOBER 20, 1897. Ho. 20450, K EVANS' LIVER PILLS. 3Box one. SIGNA : One Pill every night. Dr. Groodhealth. RILEY'S JDTJSTTISrOr BOOM -Is the place to buy A Dollar's Worth of COFFEE if want something Rich and Strone J. G. RILEY...