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BY CLI MoCA. I /ES^^ANGSTON " Avnvtt^iT'TT^ ^ ----^ _ _--?--A M DijjRSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. O??TOI?KI? ia iuor V - : CHEAP 99 IS the one argument advanced by four-fifths of those who want to sell you Clothes. The market is literally flooded with so-called "Custom-Made" Clothes, backed up by adver tising which is an insult to the intelligence of the commu nity. Don't be tempted by such oners, which your common sense tells you will never be fulfilled. AS GOOD StJltS AND t'/''; . '. ) J? i /VJ OVERCOATS As money caji buy from $5.00 to $20.00, and every one excel lent value for the price named. We are in the push for your business, and if you want the best Goods at the least possible price come to see us. . Your money back if you want it. Ci E1/21.1C inf .Tn MDEI> FRONT. o Atoms. Profits Twisted Off at the Roots. MILLINERY, MILLINERY, To be sold at prices never heard of before. A.regular25c. Sailor Hat for 10c, A regular 60c. Sailor Hat for 26c. A regular 76c. Sailor Hat for 50c Trimmed Hats, epld all over the place for $1.50, now 75c. The secret is that we have no expensive trimmer hired. Our Miss Dora Geisberg attends lo trimming aa well as selling. In facti w? dc ali our o?? v:or?. Ho Clerks iu pay, hence our expense is very small in comparison with other houses who emn?oy a large force, all ot which the consumer pays for. ?PS?Cen's and Boys9 G lotlxrag> For less than others are offering at Coat. QUILTS and BLANKETS from oOcup. A regular 83.60 MACKINTOSH for $2.25, >chich is guaranteed to wear, made hy one of the most reliable firms in the country. Wo do not sell trash., We were horn here, and expect to he here, so the Ocods we sell must be as represented. NO FAKES IN O?tR BTJSINE9S. Remember the place ?I3E3C"ES _^J?^2?4IOT7S5 < 14 wrick Kange, West 8ide Public Square. L. CE?SB?S? C, Proprietor. ET A VIN G. bougbt'th? Stock and (good will of -HS. H. Po^re & Co. wo kindly ask JUL $onr attention to the fact that wo aro "The Feeder* of the People." Oar mar Ret fr ?upnlled wUh th? Very best Mea?? than money cnn btiy-Bf?KP, PORK. MUT TON. PISH, OYSTERS. CHtCKSNS, SLICED HAM, BREAKFAST BACON, by the piece or sliced Mt3. I. C. Hally has charge t\t one Frosh Meat Department, ?nd will look after the wants of our customers with the greatest care Our Vegetable, Fr ult and Groqery Department IB presided over by quiet and bon est Mani? F?at. In addition to th? above we have opened a City Dining Room and Restaurant, where regular Meats will be served from 12 tu 2. Befora and after these hourn the Restaurant reatare wM prevail, whore the nicest Fish, Oysters, Birds, Steaks, Hams, ?fee. can be bad ? tali heure. ? Mr. Lyeth h aa epenl the greater part of his Hf? In tho Hotel ?nd Restaurant bus ing abd knowe bow to cater to the Appetite of hts fellows. This Stor? will ba ruo High Oas? Qtor.?, where everything will be conducted on Htictly legitimate and business prltHples. Very respectfully, ' ' < BUTUSR -& LVETK, MANAGBI?. W. L. LY ET**. Manage* Restaurant. M L. WANT. Mauegtsr Grocery Department. J. <J Na LLY, Manager of Market. P. M. BUrLRR.Beck NuoAber. STATE NEWS. - Greenwood County's first Court of (?eueral Sessions convened Monday, 15th inst, - Tho Clemson Exhibit ut thc State j Fair is spokeu of as highly creditable and interesting. - (.Jen. Wade Hampton has returned to Columbia. He is looking well aud enjoying the best of health. - The government reports that tho sweet potato crop for South Carolina is 10 per cent short of being a full crop. - Mr. McCoy, chairman of tho board of control for Berkeley, has re ported tho Moncks Comer dispensary short $605 to the State board. - A poultry department is to be established in the department of agri culture at Clemson College for thc purpose of experiment and instruction. - Two. more Moram u preachers have been sent in to this State. There arc over fifty of them at work through out thc south, two women preachers included. - A nugget of virgin gold, weigh ing 20 pennyweights, was picked up by a plowman on Mr. Jessie Nance's farm, two railes from Gaffney, a day or two ago. - The South Carolina Methodist Conference meets in Florence or? Dec. 8th next. There will be from 350 to 400 ministers and lay delegates in attendance. - The dispensary law without the constables means free liquor and with the constables it means free murder added. Pay your money and take your choice. The octopus must go. Spartanburg Herald. - The Columbia Register says that the Internai Revenue Department of the United States has issued over 400 licenses to sell liquor in South Caro* lina since last July. Of this number only 90 were issued to dispensarios. - Charleston's cotton receipts are piling up at a lively rate and it is con fidently expected that the total receipts for the year will Be considerably in excess of the half-million mark. Thc receipts have been particularly heavy during the past couple of weeks. - The Governor has received a let ter from an admirer in Newberry county saying that he named his twins McLaurin and Ellerbe, after the Junior Senator and the Governor of the Stato. It is a complimentary blend of names. - Mr. D. L. Evans, of the Provi dence section of Orangeburg county, has on his place' several pecan trees that are just now beginning to bear well. The trees are about fifteen years old, and were grown from the seed by Mr. Evans himself. The nuts are very large and fine. - Roger Boyce, living about two miles from Princeton in Greenville county last by fire, last Thursday, his dwelling with the entire contents, in cluding wearing apparel, dbe., and $131 in money. Thc fire T'as eec?dental and the property was insured in the Farmers' Mutual, of Greenville, for $500. -Stenographer Wyatt Aiken is slightly disfigured and almost incapa oiated for duty as a result of a collis ion with a bottle of carbolic acid. In attempting to stop the fall of the bot tle from the maur.ei athis home in Abbeville a few days ego; the-aoid was spilled on his righi hand and foot, inflicting severe burns. The burn on the foot is particularly painful and the 5respective Congressman from the 'hird district has no little trouble in moving about his two hundred pounds, more or Jess, of avoirdupois. - Rattlesnake skins are of some utility and Mr. Charles Bultmann, of Florence, can offer the proof. Fora young lady of that city he has made of the skia of one of those poisonous reptiles a pair of dancing slippers, to one of which fourteen rattles are attached. The ?llnners urn besuties. - The State penitentiary is getting to be profitable to thc State, oaper intendent Neal saya that after paying all debts he will have at ieast $10,000 profit to be paid into the State treas urs. ; The authorities are holding the cotton grown on the State farms in hope or better prices. They have done this before and made money by it. This year the State's enp is not less than a thousand bales. - At Greenwood, Mr3. Elizabeth Hughey, widow of William Hughey, committed suicide by severing .her jugular vein with a knife. Mrs. Hughley owned considerable estate at Abbeville and elsewhere. She was 82 years old,'and lived with her nephew, W. R. Buchannan, at whose house she committed the rash act. No cause can be assigned except temporary aberration of the mind, caused by ill health, from which she frequently suffered of late years. At theso times she often threatened to take her life. She bad no children. - A gray fox, with a liking for travel, was caught Monday afternoon in thc woodyard of W. H. Roamer within th/e city's limits. Tho fox ar rived hero in a carload of wood ; but was not a part or parcel of the con signment. The wood was shipped from up thc Columbia, Newberry and .Laurens railroad, and Was loaded ats lonely siding. After the ear had been filled, it is supposed reynard:leaped in through the open door and concealed himself. On the arrival of the oar he jumped out when no one was looking and hid in a pile of wood in the yard. There he remained for a day or two until spied Monday afternoon by-the .sharp eyes of one of the Negro emplyees of the place. An exciting fox chase of half an hour followed. With a dog and 50 yelling Negroes, reynard was so?n run to earth. He is now a pris oner.-- Columbia State, 10th inst. Newbold Kills a Respected Citizen of Spartanburg'. SPAHTANUULtQ, B. C., Nov. 10.-The 1 bloody ground of tho State constables has been statued ayain with tho blood of a good citizen. J. Henry Turner, a most quiet, gentle, peaceable mar . lies dead at his homo this morning, slain by the hand of a cowardly assassin. Mr. Turner lived four or live miles above town. He aimed to take thc morning train for thc State fair. Ile left home in a buggy with \V. C. Bruce, a youug white man, who has been liv ing with him for some time. Neither was armed with anything unless it was a pocket knife. They had nothing in the buggy. As they were passing Stevens' Grove colored church, about two and a half miles north of town, slowly trotting on the grade, two white men ran out from near thc church and followed after the buggy.. One moved faster than thc other and soon passed in front. Bruce was driving and be fore he could check his mule thc mau lired twice, one ball enuring the neck ' of Turner. Ile then said, "I've got to scavch that buggy" and he called for the other man in tho rear to come and make thc search. . He kept his pistol out all the time iu a threatening position. Bruce told him to search, which he did, before the other man came up. Bruce then said : ''You've shot him." The reply was: "Yes, he's shot, and you had better carry him to a doctor." Bruce then came on to to WK and the mau in the rear came with him. That man was Con stable Howie. When they reachc Dr. Dean's Turner waa dead. He never spoke after he was shot. Dr. Dean told Brace the best thing to do was to earry him back home. He did this and Howie went with him. Howie said Newbold did the shooting but he was mistaken in the man. Newbold paid no attention to the matter, no more than if he had shot a wild animai. It is said that Newbold and threo others are traveling around in a cover ed wagon making raids wherever they can. No arrests have been made up to noon. Mr. Turner was one of the best be haved men of his community. For years he has been a consistent member of the church. The most of our citi zens are very indignant. Thc shooting took place about 5 a. m. The coroner will hold his inquest to-day. lt is said that Newbold will not report here but that he will turn up in Columbia to-night. It is sup posed that he ordered a horse and buggy early after the shooting from a livery stable here through another ?ierson and that he will take the train or Columbia and attend the fair fes tivities to-night and to-morrow. Our people denounce this as the av? of a blood-thirsty coward who takes advantage of his office to shoot down innocent people. Mr. Bradley's Plan to Plant Cotton, To the Editor of the. State: li h & fact weil known to every cse that our financial condition is depressed-I mean the Southern States-and it is all due to the fact that we are getting nothing for cotton, our money crop; and this is caused, as we well know, by overproduction. Varions reme die? have been suggested. It is a problem that has tared the ni iud s of our best thinkers and most practical farmers for years. That something must be done is evident, or we cannot seo future relief. I suppose it will not come amiss for me to give my exp?rience in the fond hope that what I say will be the means of doing something to relieve the situation. I have made a study of this subject and shall attempt to give you my experience. It is universally conoeded that re duction of acreage is the cure fer all the ills. How to bring about this re duction is the question. Any of the plans suggested would bring the de sired rr.)[cf if carried out. My plan is this: Let the farmer prepare as much land fer cotton as hu may wish, but when he is ready to plict, let him plant every ocher row in cotton, and in June let him plant the remaining rows in peas. This, you will observe, reduces the acreage one-half, but docs not reduce the yield so much, as my experience teaches me. I make at least three-fourths of a crop of cotton, and peas without limit. You enrich your land, so that in a few years?you can make a bale per aero with every alternate row in peas, have an abundance of fcod, and conse quently fat stock and your bacon at home. Besides, you save one-half fertilizer, one-half hoeing and one third plowing. We have in cultivation this yea? 000,000 acres. AVe will make (in round numbers) 10,000,000 bales. This cotton is worth, at the present price $250,000,000. Now, to follow the ped suggestion, wo would have 12, 000,000 in cultivation, whieh would yield 7,500,000 bales, or $300,000,000 at 8c. per pound, a gain of $50,000,000, to say nothing about the cost of pro duction, which, as I have shown, would be about one-half. If it is not desirable to plant so nany peas, you eau plant pindars, sweet or Irish potatoes, with equal success. X bought ten acres of very poor land and farmed it as above sug gested, and to-day, I am offered $400 for the ten acres. I am making abalo of cotton per aero, and corn, etc., in proportion. Now, Mr. Editor, what has been done on a small seale oka be dene on a largo one. Let any man follow this plan and ho will have a like experi ence. W. TVBEAIH.KY. Troy, S. C., .Nov. U, 1897. - Ile who prov'dos for thia life, but takes no care for eternity, ls wise for a moment, but a fool forever. The Cotton 13rowers1 Convention. :j. Thc Cotton (?rowers1 Convention, c failed by President Wijborne, ot'tlio State Alliance, was hold in Columbia lust week. Nearly all of the counties of thc State were represented, there being about 200 delegates in atten dance. lt was decided to project an organ i * 1 zotioti of the cotton growers of tho South with a view to contracting the * acreage to be planted next year. All p of the counties in tho State are to be i orgaui/.ed along this line by townships, and it is proposed to perfect county j organizations, as far as possible, on j the first Monday in December. To , lion. A. C. Latiuicr was delegated | the work of organizing Anderson County, and in another column he publishes a call for that purpose. was also agreed that a convention, to ba composed of delegates from all tho cotton growing States-one mem ber from each Congressional District - be held in Atlanta on the first Tues day in January. The following resolutions were adopted by the Convention : "Having had under consideration thc resolution of this Association, instructing it to prepare tho order of business for the meeting, your com mittee beg leave to report the follow ing resolutions : '.'1. That it is tho souso of this Association thal any and all efforts made to advance and promote tho interests of tho producers of cotton*, by enhancing the price, establishing and maintaining stability of markets and securing remuneration to the pro ducer, should have and receive the cordial endorsement and support of this Association. "2. That, notwithstanding thc cry of over-production as a justification of low prices, the orop is taken and con sumed ; yet in order the more readily ! to accomplish our purpose of contrail- j iog prices, we recommend the increase | of other crops and the consequent re duction of the cotton crop, thereby becoming less dependent on others for supplies and more independent in the ? sale of our cotton. "3. That this meeting should adopt decisive measures to secure the co operation of cotton growers in all sections of thc country in adopting some system by which prices can be maintained, sc as to give the produoer fair remuneration. "4. Looking, therefore, to thc fur therance of the above recommenda tions, we adopt as a part of our report the preamble and resolutions adopted on yesterday by this Convention, viz : "In view of the magnitude of thc organization necessary to meet with any promise of success, the disastrous conditions that confront the producers of cotton, involving the activo co operation of the individual producer '! from North Carolina to Texas ; and in view of the necessity for a full repro- ! scnt&tive meeting at every stago of the organization. Be it - J Resolved, That the president, of the Convention bc authorized to call j an Inter-State Cotton Growers' Con- ' vention to be held in the city of At lanta the first Tuesday in January, or as soon thereafter as practicable, at j which meeting each cotton growing I State be requested to send as many representatives rs it now has members of the United States House of Repre sentatives, for the purpose of devising ways and means to avert tho disaster that threatens. "2. That a delegate from each Con ?ressional district bo appointed tb said invention from this State. "3. That the president of Ibis meet ing call upon agricultural organizations in other cotton growing States, or in the absence of agricultural organiza tions request the Governor of such State to call similar meetings in their respectivo States, for the purpose of discussing the situation and electing delegates to the said Inter-State Cot ton Growers' Convention. "4. That in tho opinion of this body, nothing short of a township or ganization as the basis, reaching up through county and State organization, will prove eSectuu! in this great work. "And we recommend that delegates from the several Congressional districts in the State and two delegates at large be elcoted to represent this Associa tion."_ The O. P. Men Win. ATLANTA, GA., November 13. Judges Pardee and Nowman, of the United States Court, handed down a decision in thc famous dispensary caso this morning, enjoining thc Southern from refusing to haul liquor into South Carolina in future. Tho decision is au important one, in that the original package law is in volved. The Judges decided that li quors and wines in bottles packed in boxes and shipped in carload lots were, under the law of South Carolina, clearly admissible, and should bc handled by any railway. Tho people r f Cuba do not scorn to want autonomy, and this is especially the case with the business men and planters. The reason is not far to sec. If they accept autonomy they accept with it the mountain of debt which Spain has incurred in her effort to conquer the revolutionists. It would be enough to oppress the insular reve nues for a century. The Cubans pre fer to fight to tho death rather than be crushed hy snoh a burden. Tho large majority prefer annexation, or at least a protectorate by tho United States. The question is whether we want either._ - Tho moro serious tho dtlllcolty that confronts you the more ie the reason why you should show yoursolf a man. >ericnce of leading- growers >ve positively that Kainit thc only remedy. 'o will bc glad lo send, free of charge, resting and useful pamphlets which treat ie matter lu detail. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Np3sm St,, New York.) .IMPS YOU IE NOT .EASED WITH 1UR GROCER. lt may be that thc prices uro 00 high or the quality of Goods )oor. If you want to be pleased jive us a trial order, nud seo how veil we can please you. Our Store is stocked with the rory best quality of everything bat is good to eat, and wo will .ell you as cheap as others charge br cheap quality. Once a customer ol' ours always 1 customer. We want every body that comes to Anderson to :ome aud seo our Goods. Don't natter whether you want to rade or not. No trouble to show rou our Goods. Yours lor trade, OSBORNE & BOLT, FOE SALE. H E TRACT OF LAND known an the Vineyard, containing twenty-'ive 39, more or less, situ?t-d just outside of citv limita, adjoining landa of S. P. in, H. P. Cray ton and J. L. Glenn. A d two-room house, b u n and well on place. It isa short distance of the cot mill and will be a fine location for a ry and trunk farm. fill be sold at public outcry Salcsday December if nut disposed of at private . before that time Terms cash. Pur ser to pay for papers. IS. P. SLOAN. W. W. WHITE, Executor** E?t. Thoa M. White. 12-2, 1811V 13 ll III w*. r~ rn? e*y mm WK-null 1>M\'4)K aud .1IIJK1C.1I. lN?TltU.MEKTN to tho beat trude in his und adjoining Counties. Why not itlow me to soil you a reliar-.'? Plano or >rgnn. We guarantee every Ln&tiumcut hat goon ??ut c t" our Wardrooms, and lave a largo assortment lo select fron:. lave.(nat received new stylos of Ivers & Pond Pianos - AND - Farrand & Votev Organs. u OJ And wu aro getting in nevernl otlu r makes >f high (rrade InutruiucntH A In? . a large line of <J?ui?urH, ItniijoH. Violins, AntoliarpN, Av., ut lowest possible tiguree. HEADQUARTERS for tho Colebiated Nevr Slom?.1, IdcMil und several other leading Sewing Machines. Call and seo UH. or writo for catalogue ami prices. Respectfully, Tis G. A. Reed Music House. TAKE JIOTICE We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleckley & Fretwell past due papers that owing to the death of our senior, Syl vester Bleckley, that the same must be paid at an early day, not later than Nov. 1st next, as a settlement must be made with the heirs at law. Your prompt attention to this notice and a compliance with same will be duly appreciated. Yours very truly, JOS. J. FRETWELL, Survivor Bleckley &Fretwell. Sept 1"), iv:)7 12 YES, They'll wear out, but only after a season of hard ser vice. School Shoes, Bob Roy, Kan go Goat, Colum bus Belle, Red Seal. Sold by cash-buying merchants. Made by J. E. ORR SHOE CO., Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE. mi OE County Treasurer's O thee will be X onen from the 15th nf October next to the 31st of December following for the collection of Taxes for the lineal year issi". For the convenience of Taxpat er? 1 will attend at tbe following places : Slabtown. October 15 Motint Airy. Oatoher 10 Piedmont, October 18. Foiztt'LUctoriAr 1?. CHRISTMAS IS COMING. YES, and the Housekeeper is making preparations ib? ita reception. Wo are prepared to assist the Housekeeper, and are now receiving NEW CURRANTS, NEW RAISINS, NEW FIGS, NEW PRUNES, NEW NUTS of all kinds, CANNED MEATS, CANNED FRUITS, CANNED VEGETABLES, BOTTLED PICKLES, SAUCES, CATSUPS, Etc., Etc. We are also receiving every week APPLES, ORANGES, BANANAS, CRANBERRIES, and other Fruits. Our lina of CONFECTIONS cannot be surpassed, and we still have a select Stock of CIGARS and TOBACCOS. Our Goeds arc fresh and first-class, and our prices will please you. Give us a call and see our Stock. Yours to piesse, Gk F. BIG BY. B*9u Free City Delivery. CHEPEST STORE IN fl THAT is what the pcoplo need and are looking for, and we claim the distinction of being the cheapest folks in Town. Of course we are, or we wouldn't, in these days of five-cent Cotton,'be selling more Goods than ever before. We have tho biggest Stock of Goods we ever carried, hut it's not td* big. Our trade demands a big Stock. We get in New Goods every day and sell them. Can't get overstocked with Good3 the way we buy them We are going to sell more Shoes, Jeans, Flannels, Hats and Groceries from now 'till the end of the year than ever before in same length of time. We know we will do it, for we have the Goods you need cheaper than you can buy them elsewhere. Some folks are mighty sympathetic and want to sell you their Goods at cost because Cotton is low, but you have heard that all your life and know what it means. We all sell Goods at what they cost-you. We sell more Goods than any Firm in the County On the same expense, and with our economical and aggressive management can not only meet but beat any competition, cost or no cost. Don't buy 'till you see us,and we will mighty quick convince you that we are the cheapest Store in Town. Remember, we not only sell as choap hut cheaper than anybody. Yours always for business, BROWNLEE & VANPIVERS.