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> - =_== : ===== =-=--- - - - ====== : : -i--??--===== .BYOL NESCA LES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1897._VOL. XXXIII.- NC. 21. 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 offers, which your common sense tells you will never be fulfilled. AS GOOD SUITS 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. RED KROINTT. Profits Twisted Off at the Roots. MILLINERY, MILLINERY, To be sold at prices never heard of before. A regular 25c. Sailor Hat for 10c. A regular 50c. Sailor Hat for 25c. A regular 75c. Sailor Hat for 50c. Trimmed Hats, sold all over the place for SI.50, now 75c. The secret is that we have no expensive trimmer hired. Our Miss Dora Geisberg attends to trimming a3 well as selling. In fac , we do all our own work. No Clerks to pay, hence our expense is very small in comparison with other houses who employ a large force, all of which the consumer pays for. Men's and. Boys' Clothing For less than others are offering at Cost. QUILTS and BLANKETS from 50c. up. A regular S3.50 MACKINTOSH for S2.25, which is guaranteed to w ear, made by ore of the most reliable firms in the country. We do not sell trash. We were boru here, and expect to be here, so the Goods we sell must be as represented. NO FAKES IN OUR BUSINESS. Remember the {dace THE FAMOUS, 14 Brick Range, West Side Public Square. L. 'S'EISBERG, Proprietor. WE ARE THE FEEDERS. TAVI2 G bought the Stock ami a-'od will of E. FT. Pooro &, Co. we ktndlv ask XJL y our attention to the fact iltur, we are 'The Feeders ol' the People." Our "mar tur, is supplied with th t v rv hps' Moa than money c-m buy-BEEF, PORK" MUT TON. FISH, OY8TBRS. CHICKENS, SLICED HAM, BREAKFAST BACON, ... vbe piece or sliced Mr T. G. Nally ha charge nf our Fresh M fat Department, and will look aftor the '.. ants of our customers with the greatest care Our Vegetable, Fruit and Grosery Department is presided over by quiet and bon 6st Mani Fant. In addition to the above we have opene 1 a Cit? Dining Room and Restaurant, where regular Meals will be served from 12 to 2 Bsforn and after those boura the Restaurant feature will prevail, where the nicest Fish, Oysters, Birds, Steaks, Hains, vc. can be had t all houri. * Mr. Lyeth ban spent the greater part of bis life in the Hotel and Restaurant bus iness, and knows how to cater to the Hppetite of his fellows. This Store will bo rim a- a High (' ass St r , where everything will be conducted 'J:: stictly legitimate and business principles. Very respectfully, BUTLER & LYETH, MAXAUKIUL W. L. LYETH; Manage' Restaurant M I.. CANT. Manager Grocery Department. J. C N*LLY, Manager of Market. K. M. BUTLER Back Number. STATE NEWS. - Greenwood County's first Court of General Sessions convened Monday, 15th inst, - Thc Clemson Exhibit nt the State Fair is spoken of as highly creditable and interesting. - ( cn. Wade Hampton has returned to Columbia. He is looking well and enjoying the best of health. - The government reports that the 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 $695 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 Morin an preachers have been sent in to this State. There are over fifty of them at work through out thc south, two women preachers included. - A nugget of virgin gold, wei -li ing 20 pennyweights, was picked up by a plowman on Mr. Jessie Nance's farm, two miles from Gaffney, a day or two ago. - The South Carolina Methodist Conference meets in Florence on Dec. Sth 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 Internal 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 dispensaries. - Charleston's cotton reeeipts are piling up at a lively rate and it is con fidently expected that the total receipts for the year will he 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 lef ter from an admirer in Newberry county saying that he named his twins McLaurin and Ellerbc, after the Junior Senator and the Governor of the State. 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 arc 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 lost by fire, last Thursday, his dwelling with the entire contents, in cluding wearing apparel, &c, and .$131 in money. Thc 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 the fall of the bot tle from the mantel at his home in Abbeville a few days ago, the acid was spilled on his right hand and foot, inflicting severe burns. The burn on the foot is particularly painful and the prospective Congressman from the Third district has no little trouble in moving about his two hundred pounds, more or .less, of avoirdupois. - Rattlesnake skins are cf some utility and Mr. Charles Bultmann, of Florence, can offer the 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. Thc slippers are beauties. - The State penitentiary is getting to be profitable to the State. Super intendent Neal says that after paying all debts he will have at least $10,000 profit to be paid into thc State treas urs. The authorities arc holding the cotton grown on the State farms in hope of better prices. They have done this before and made money by it. This year the State's crop is not less than a thousand bales. - At Greenwood, Mr3. Elizabeth Hughey, widow of William Hughey, committed suicide by severing her i jugular vein with a knife. Mrs. j Il ugh ley owned considerable estate at j Abbeville and elsewhere. She was 82 : years old, and lived with her nephew. I W. li. Buchannan, at whose house I she committed thc rash act. No cause ; caa bc assigned except temporary aberration of thc mind, caused by ill health, from which she frequently suffered of late years. At these times she often threatened to take her life. She had no children. - A gray fox, with a liking for! travel, was caught Monday afternoon ! in thc woodyard of W. il. Reamer within the city's limits. The fox ar rived here ina carload of wood ; but was not a part or parcel of thc con signment. The wood was shipped from up the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, and was loaded at a lonely siding. After thc car had been filled, it is supposed reynard leaped in j through the open door and concealed himself. On the arrival of the car ho ! jumped out when no one was looking and hid in a pile of wood in thc yard. There he remained for a day or two i until spied Monday afternoon by tho j sharp eyes of one of thc Negro emplyecs ' of the place. An exciting fox chas ; of half an hour followed. With a dog and 5 yelling Negroes, reynard was soon run to earth. Ile is now a pris- : oner.-Columbia State, nib inst. Newbold Kills a Respected Citizen of Spurtanburg. Sr ttTAXBURG, S. G.. Nov. 10.-The bloody ground of thc State constables has been stained 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 the hand of a cowardly assassin. Mr. Turner lived four or five miles above town. He aimed to take the morning train for the State fair. He left home in a buggy with W. C. Bruce, a young 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 the church and followed after the buggy.. One moved faster than the other and soon passed in front. Bruce was driving and be fore he could check his mule the man j fired twice, one ball entering the neck I of Turner. He then said, "I've got to search that buggy" and he called for the other man in thc rear to come I and riake thc search. . He kept his pistol out all the time in a threatening position. Bruce told him to search, which he did, before thc other man came up. Bruce then said: "You've shot him." The reply was: ''Yes, he's shot, and you had better carry him toa doctor." Bruce then came on to town and the man in the rear came with him. That man was Con stable Howie. When they reached Dr. Dean's Turner was dead. He never spoke after he 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 three 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. The shooting took place about 5 a. m. The coroner will hold his inquest to-day. It 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 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. Mr. Bradley's Pinn to Plant Cotton, To the Editor of thc 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 the fact that we are getting nothing for cotton, our money crop; and this is caused, as we well know, by overproduction. Varioas reme dies have been suggested. It is a problem that has taxed the minds 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 cure for all the 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 ready to plant, let him plant every other row in cotton, and in June let him plant the remaining rows in peas. This, you will observe, reduces the acreage one-half, but does not reduce thc 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 acre with, every alternate row in peas, have an abundance of feed, and conse quently lat stock and your bacon at home. Besides, you save one-half fertilizer, one-half hoeing and one third plowing. Wc have in cultivation this year 24-. 000,000 acres. Wc will make fin round numbers) 10,000,000 bales. This cotton is worth, at the present price $2.")().U00.<IU . Now, to follow t he pea suggestion, wc would have 12, 000,000 in cultivation, which would yield 7,500,000 bales, or $300,000,000 at Sc. per pound, again of$50,000,000, to say nothing about the cost ol' pro duction, which, as I have shown, would bc about one-half. If it is not desirable to plant so :nany peas, you can plant pindars, sweet or Irish potatoes, with equal success. I bought ten acres of very poor land and farmed it as above sug gested, and to-daj;I am offered ?4I)0 for thc ten acres. I am making abale ol'cotton per acre, and corn, etc.. in proportion. Now. Mr. Editor, what has been done on a small scale eau be dene on a large one. Let any man follow this plan and he will have a like experi ence. \V. T. BRADLKY. Troy. S. C., Nov. ll, 1S! 7. - Ile who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternit\*, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. Tlic Cotton ( rowers' Convention. Thc Cotton < rowers' Convention, called by President WLjbornc. of thc State Alliance, was held in Columbia last week. Nearly all of thc counties of the State were represented, there being about 200 delegates iu atten dance. It was decided to project ar organi zation of the cotton grower;! of the South with a view to contacting thc acreage tu-trc planted next year. All of the counties in the State are to be organized along this line by townships, and it is proposed to perfect county organizations, as far as possible, on the first Monday in December. To Hon. A. C. Latimer was delegated the work of organizing Anderson County, and in another column he publishes a call for that purpose. It was also agreed that a convention, to be composed of delegates 'from all thc cotton growing States-one mem 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 prepare the order of business for thc meeting, your com mittee beg leave to report thc follow ing resolutions : "1. That it is the sense of this Association that any and all efforts made to advance and promote the interests of the 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 the cry of over-production as a justification of low prices, the crop is taken and con sumed ; yet in order the more readily to accomplish our purpose of controll ing prices, we recommend the increase of other crop3 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 the country in adopting some system by which prices can be maintained, so as to give the producer fair remuneration. "4. Looking, therefore, to the 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 active co operation of 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 "I.. Resolved, That the president of the Convention be authorized to call 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 which meeting each cotton growing State be requested to send as many representatives rs it now has members of the United States House of Kepre- | sentatives, for the purpose of devising ways and means to avert the disaster that threatens. "2. That a delegate from each Con gressional district be appointed tb said Convention 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 of 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 0. P. Men Wm. ATLANTA, GA.. November 13. Judges Pardee and Newman, of thc United States Court, handed down a decision in the famous dispensary case this morning, enjoining thc Southern from refn.sing to haul liquor into South Carolina in future. The decision is an important one. in that the original package law is in volved. Thc Judges decided that li quors and wines in buttles packed in boxes and shipped in carload lots were, under the law of South Carolina, clearly admissible, and should be handled by any railway. The people ol' Cuba do not seem to want autonomy, and this is especially the ease 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. Thc Cubans pre fer tu fight to thc death rather than bc crushed by such a burden. The large majority prefer annexation, or at least a protectorate by the I'uited States. The question is whether we want either. - Tho moro serious thu dilHcnlty that confronta 3*011 tho more ia the reason why ycu should show yourself a man. CHRISTMAS IS COMING. YES, and the Housekeeper is making preparations for its reception.' We j 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 line of CONFECTIONS cannot be surpassed, and we still have a I select Stock of CIGARS and TOBACCOS. Our Go ds are fresh and first-clas3, and our prices will please you. Give us a call and see our Stock. Yours to please, Gr. F. BIG-BY. BS, Free City Delivery. CHEPEST STORE ai\3 THAT is what the people need and arc looking for, and we claim the distinction of being the cheapest folks iu Town. Of course we are, or we wouldn't, in these days ol' live-cent Cotton,'be selling more Goods than ever before. Wc have the biggest Stock of Goods we ever carried, but it's not too big. Our trade demands a big Stock. Wc get in New Goods every day and sell them. Can't get overstocked with Goods thc 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 Gooda 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 ( )o the same expense, and with our economical and aggressive management ran not only meet but beat any competition, cost or no cost. Don't buy'till you see us, aud we will mighty quick convince you that wo are the cheapest Store in Town. Remember, we not only .-ell as cheap hut cheaper than anybody. Yours always for business. BROWNLEE & VANDSVERS,