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?BYIILT^KSCA LES & LANGSTON. ^~ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1897. VO17. Xv X II I. M^lilT ^immwmm mmm^"^ia.mmMMaMMMMBaaMMiMMBMto aaaBI?panaataaaaammmaaaa?a?aaa????a????"a????-a??a?a^^ ' '? '? i IS thc 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 offers, which your common sense tells you will never be fulfilled. AS GOOD ?? >i ?*..> SX-, . I St; AND OVERCOATS As money can 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. 0 fl dritio nip i A D. U. L y ana tt Ul. RED FRONT. USS \ Prices Blown to Atoms. Profits ^Twisted utr ai the Moots. MILLINERY, MILLINERY, To be sold at prices nevr . heard of before. A regular 26c. Sailor Hat for 10c. A regular 50c. Sailor Hat for 26c. A regular 75c. Sailor Hat for 50c . Trimmed Hats, sold all over the place for $ 1,50, now 75c. The secret is that we have no expensive trimmer hired. Our Miss Dora Geisberg attends to trimming as well as selling. In fact, we do 'a?i OUF own WOTS. . No Clerks to pay, hence our expense j is very small in comparison with nft?er houses ivLo empioy a large force, all j of which the consumer pays for. Men's an4 Soys' Clothing:* For less than others are offering at Coat. QUILTS and BLANKETS from 50cv up. . A regular 83.50 MACKINTOSH for 82.26, which is guaranteed to wear, reade by one of the most reliable firms in the country. Wo do not sell trash., We were born here, and expect to be here, so the <?cods we sell must be as represented. NO FAKES IN OXIJrV BUSINE8S. Remember tho place THB :FA.:M:OTJ-S5 i4 Brick Range, West Side Public Square, ?L- C?EiSBEf?G? Proprietor. M M :v.;--.r A ? WE ARE THE FEEDERS. "AVTNG bought-tho. Stock aud Rood will of TC. ft. Poora & Co. we kindly ask y our attention to the fact that we Ure ''The Feeder? bf the People." Oar mar KPH f? ?upplie? with th* vory best ?t?oam than money e*n buy-BEEF, PORK, MUT TON. FISH, OYSTERS. CHICKENS, SLICED HAM, BREAKFAST BACON, hythe niece or sliced Mr. J. C. Nally bastiharge nf our Frosh Meat Department, and wilt look after wanta of our customers with the greatest care Our Vegetable, Fruit aad Grocery Department ie presided o vor by quiet and hon est Manie Fant. In addition rn th?above we hove opened a Git? Dining Boom and Roat&urnnt, where? regular Meal? will be eevvod from 12 to 2. Before and after those hoars the Restaur&wt feature will prevail, where tho nicest Fish, Oyster*, Eira?, Steaks, Hams, *c. can be hadst alt houri. ? . . ? v .Mr. Lyetb ha? epant the greater part of bia life In tho Hotel and Restaurant bus men koowa how to catoMo thc nppetlto of his ^ Th!? Store wilt bo ruu *>/. a High Class Stbr*, Where evory thing will be conducted on Ptictly legitimate and business principles. : \ V?ry respectfully, BUTLERS LYETH, MANAGERS. Wi L. LYKTR. Manage' Restaurant. M. I*. FANT. Maciagnr Grocery Department. J. C NALLY, Manager of Market tf. M, BUTLER, Back Number. STATE NEWS. - Greenwood County's first Court of General Sessions convened Monday, loth inst, - Tho Clemson Exhibit ut the State Fair is spoken of as highly creditable and interesting. - (?en. Wade Hampton hus returned to Columbia. He is looking well and enjoying the best of health. - The government reports that tho sweet potato crop for South Carolina is 16 per cent short of being a full crop. - Mr. McCoy, chairman of the board of control for Berkeley, has re ported the Moncks Corner dispensary short $6!)5 to the State board. - A poultry department is to be established in thc department of agri culture at Clemson College for the purpose of experiment ami instruction, i - Two. more M orman preachers I .have been sent in to this State. There aro 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 miles from Gaffney, a day or two ago. - Thc South Carolina Methodist Conference meets in Florence on Dec. 8th next. There will bo from 350 to 400 ministers and lay delegates in attendance. - The dispensary law without the constables means free liquor aud with the constables it means free murder added. Pay' your money and take your choice. The octopus must go. Spartanburg Herald. - T;he Columbia Register says that the Internal R? venue 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 dispensaries. - Charleston's cotton receipts are piling up at a lively rate and it is con fidently expeoted that the total receipts for the year will be considerably in excess of the half-million mark. The 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 ho camed his twins McLaurin and Ellerbe. sifter thc Junior Senator and the Governor of thd State, lt is a complimentary blend of names. - Mr. D. L. Evans, of the Provi dence section of Orangeburg county, has on his plann-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. iii van? himself. The nuts are very large and fine. - Roger Boyce, living about two miles from Princeton in Greenville county lost by fire, last Thursday, his dwelling with the entire contents, in cluding wearing apparel, dbe., and $131 in money. The fire was accidental and the property was insured in the Farmers' Mutual, of Greenville, for $500. - Stenographer Wyatt Aiken is slightly disfigured and almost incapa ciated for duty as a result of a collis ion with a bottle of carbolic acid. In attempting to stop tho fall of the bet tie from the mantel athis home in Abbeville a few days ago; the- acid was spilled cn his right hand and foot, inflicting severe burns. The burn on the foot is particularly painful and the ?respective 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 tho proof. For a young lady of that city he has made of the skin of one of those poisonous reptiles a pair of dancing slippers, to one of which fourteen rattles are attached. The slippers ste beauties. - The State penitentiary is waiting tu bu profitable to the State. Super intendent Neal says that after paying aii debts he will have at least $10.000 profit to he 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 these times she often threatened to take her life. She nad no children. - A gray fox, with a liking for travel, was caught Monday afternoon in the woodyard of W. H. Reamer within the city's limits. The fox ar rived hero ina carload of wood ; but was not a part or parcel of the con signment. The woo? was shipped from up the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, and was loaded at a lonely siding. . After the oar had been filled, it is supposed reynard leaped in ?brough the open door and concealed limself. On the arrival of the oar be jumped out when no one waa 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 oyes of one of tho Negro emplyees of the- place. An exciting fox chase of half an hour followed; With a dog and 50 yelling Negroes, reynard was soon run to earth. He is now a pris oner, -^Columbia State. 10th imf. Newbold Ullis a Respected Citizen of Spurtanburg. S l'A UTA NO l'UM, S. C.. Nov. 10.-TllC bloody ground ol' tho State constables bas been staiued again with the blood of a good citizen. J. Henry Turner, a most quiet, gentle, peaceable man. lies dead at his home this morning, slain by '.he hand of a cowardly cssassin. Mr. Turner lived four or five miles above town. He aimed to take thc morning train for thc State fair. He left homo in a buggy with W. C. Bruce, a young whito man, who has been liv ing with him for some time. Neither was armed with anything uuless it was a pucket knife. They liad nothing iu the buggy. As they were passing Stevens Grove colored church, about two and a half miles north of town, slowly trotting on thc grade, two white men ran out from nea/* tho church and followed after the buggy.. One moved faster than thc other and soon passed iu front. Bruce was driving and be fore he could check his mule thc man fired twice, one ball entering thc neck of Turner. He then said, "I've got to search that buggy" and he called for the other man in tho rear to come and make the search. . He kept his pistol outall the time in 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 6hot, and you had bettor carry him to a doctor." Bruce then came on to town and the man in thc rear came with him. That man was Con stable Howie. When they reached Dr. Dean's Turner was dead. He never spoke after ho was shot. Dr. Dean told Bruce the best thing to do was to carry 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 animal. 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 eommunity. 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 bia inanest to-day. it is said that Newbold will not report hero 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 herc through another person and that he will take the train for Columbia and attend the fair fes tivities to-night and to-morrow. Our people denounce this as the act of a blood-thirsty coward who takes advantage of his office to shoot down innocent people. Hr. Bradley's Plan to Plant Cotton, To the Editor of the State: It is a fact well known to every one that our financial condition is depressed-I mean the Southern States-and it is all due to tho fact that we are getting nothing for cotton, our money crop; and this is caused, as we well know, by Overproduction. Varions reme dies have been suggested. It is a problem thai has taxed the ' jindu of our best thinkers and most practical farmers for years. That something must be done is evident, or we cannot see future relief. -I suppose it will not come amiss for me to give my experience 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 conceded that re duction of acreage is the eure for all thc ills. How to bring about this re duction is the question. Any of the plans suggested would bring the de sired relief if carried out. My plan is this: Let the farmer prepare as much land for cotton as he may wish, but when he is regdy to plant, let him plant every other row is colton, and in June let him plant the remaining rows in pean This, you will observe, reduces the acreage one-half, but does not reduce the yield so much, as my experience teaches me. I make at least three-fonrths of a crop of cotton, and peas without limit. You enrich your land, so that in a few yearsoyou oan make a bale per acre with every'alternate row in peas, have an abundance of feed, and conse quently fat stock and your bacon at homo. Besides, you save one-half fertilizer, one-half hoeing and one third plowing. We have in cultivation this year 24,-' 000,000 aorcs. We will make (in round numbers) 10,000,000 bales. This cotton is worth, at the present price $250,000,000. Now, to follow the pea suggestion, wo would have 12 - 000,000 in cultivation, which 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 many pea?, you can plant pindars. ?weet or Irish potatoes, with equal success. I bought ten acres of very poor land and farmed it as abovo sug gested, and to-day4I am offered $400 for the tenaores. I am making abale of cotton per aero, and corn, etc., in proportion. Now. Mr. Editor, what has been done on a small scale can he dene on a largo one. Let any man follow this plan and he will have a ? like experi ence. \V. T. BRADLEY. Troy, S. C., Nov. ll, 1897. - He who provides for this life, but takes t?o care for eternity, ls wise fora moment, but a fool forever. Tho Cotton <. roners* <.'onventlo:i. Tho Cotton CJrowers' Convention, called by President Wijborne. of tho State Alliance, was hehl in Columbia last week. Nearly all ol' the counties of the State were represented, there being about 200 delegates in atten dance. it was decided to project an organi zation of tho cotton growers of tho South with a view to contracting tho acreage to be planted next year. All of the counties in the State are to be organized along this linc by townships, and it is proposed to perfect county organizations, as far as possible, on tho lirst Monday in December. To lion. A. C. Latimcr was delegated the work of organizing Anderson County, and in another column he publishes a call for that purpose. 1* was also agreed that a convention, to be composed of delegates "from all the cotton growing States-one mein ber from each Congressional District - be held in Atlanta on thc first Tues day in January. The following resolutions were adopted by tho Convention : "Having had under consideration thc resolution of this Association, instructing it to preparo the order of business for thc meeting, your com mittee beg leave to report thc follow ing resolutions : "1. That it is the senso of this Association that any and all efforts made to advance uud promote thc 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 tho cordial endorsement and support of this Association. "2. That, notwithstanding the cry of over-production as a justification of low i rices, the crop is taken and con sumed ; yet in order the more readily to accomplish our purpose of controll ing prices, we recommend tho increase of other orops and the consequent re duction of the cotton crop, thereby becoming less dependent on others for supplies and more independent in the salo of our cotton. "3. That this meeting should adopt decisive measures to secure the co operation of cotton growers in all sections of tho country in adopting some system by which prices can bo maintained, go us tc- give tao producer fair remuneration. "4. Looking, therefore, to tho fur therance of the above recommenda tions, we adopt as a part of our report tho 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 thc producers of cotton, involving the active co- j operation cf the individual producer " from North Carolina to Texas ; and in view of the necessity for a full repre sentative meeting at every stage of the organization. Be it "1. Resolved, That the president of the Convention be authorized to call an Inter-State Cotton Growers' Con vention to be held in tho city of At lanta the first Tuesday in January, or as soon thereafter as practicable, at which meeting each cotton growing State be requested to send as many representatives rs it now has members ul the United States House of Repre sentatives, for the purpose of devising ways and means to avert the disaster that threatens. "2. That a delegate from each Con ?ressional district he appointed to said lonvention from this State. "3.- That the president of this 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 respective States, for the purpose of discussing the situation and electing delegates to the said Inter-State Cot ton Growers' Convention. "4. That in the opinion of this body, nothing short nf a township or ganization as the basis, reaching up through county and State organization, will prove effectual in this great work. "And we recommend that delegates from the several Congressional districts in the State and two delegates at large be elected to represent this Associa tion.' '_ The O. P. Men Win. ATLANTA, GA., November 13. Judges Pardee and Newman, of the United States Court, handed down a decision in thc famous dispensary case this morning, enjoining the Southern from refusing to haul liquor into South Carolina in future. The decision is un .important one, in that thc original package law is in volved. Tho Judges decided that li quors and wines in bottles packed in boxes and shipped in carload lots were, under tho law of South Carolina, clearly admissible, and should bc handled by any railway. Thc people of Cuba do not seem to want autonomy, and this is especially the case with the business men and planters. The reason is not far to seo. ? If they accept autonomy they accept with it thc mountain of debt which Spain has inourred in hor 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 the death rather than he crushed by such a burden. The large majority profer annexation, or at least a protectorate by thc United States. The question is whether wc want either. - The more serious the difficulty that confronts yon the more is the reason why I you should show yourself a man. ? II nr niv rcr- ? rn?- n?~?*-*? ~ ,._ 1T_ CHRISTMAS IS COMING. YES. and tho Housekeeper is making preparations for ita reception. We are prepared to assist the Housekeeper, and are now receiving NEW CURRANTS, NEW RAISINS, NEW PIGS, 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; ?nd other Fruit*. Our line of CONFECTIONS cannot be suroassed. find we still have a select Stock of CIGARS ?ud TOBACCOS. Our Gooda are fresh and first-class, and cur prices will please you. Givo us a call and see our Stock. Yours to olease, . ?'?ii, Or. JP. BIGBY. " Free City Delivery. CHEPEST STORE -IN THAT ia what the people need and aro looking for, aud 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,'bc selling more Goods than ever before. We h'avo the biggest Stock of Goods we ever carried, but it's not to*> big. Our trado 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 Goads 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 nt what they cost-you. We sell more Goods than any Firm in the County On the same expense, and with our economical aud 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 wo are the cheapest Store in Town. Remember, we not only sell as cheap hut cheaper than anybody. Yours always for business, BROWNLEE & VANDIVER8?