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?rn m m, 4P j*, i H H II Iii jil |T ill t\ BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. 13 m 1 lr ll I I lr 1 . % ;?>;"> Jar ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. J AX l'A RY H>. 1898. VOLUME XXXII?-N0. m. MENS . Our Overcoats have to meet more exacting conditions, in some ways, than made-to-order Clothing. If the Tailor fails to get style into an Overcoat, it's one Coat spoiled. If we failed a hundred might be left on our hands. Notice how these handsome Kersey Overcoats reach the very.top notch of Style. Then they are low-priced, too. Blue or Black Kerseys, all wool and fast color, well made, with good Italian lining. $10.00 and $12.50 Higher quality Kersey, either Blue or Black, made with lapped seams, lining of all wool flannel or diagonal, satin cleeve lining. $15.00 Still finer quality-silk-velvet collars, satin yoke and satin sleeve lining, with all wool clay diagonal linings. We have others at other prices. Your money back if you want it. RED FEONT ! o to Atoms. Profits Twisted Off at the Roots. MILLINERY, MILLINERY, To be sold at pnceB never heard of before. A regular 25c. Sailor Hat for 10c. A regular 50c. Sailor Hat for 25c. A iregular 75c. Sailor Hat for 50c. Trimmed Hats, sold all over the place for $1.50, DOW 75C. The secret ia that we have no expensive trimmer hired. Our Miss Dora Geisberg attends to trimmiug as well as selling. . In facti we do all our own work. No Clerks to pay, hence our expense :s very small in comparison with other houses who employ a large force, all of which the consumer pay? for. Men's and Boys5 Clothing* For less than others are offering at Cost. QUILTS and BLANKETS from 50c. up. A regular $3.50 MACKINTOSH lor #2.25, which is guaranteed to wear, wade by one of the most reliable firms in the country. We do not sell trash. We were born here, and expect to be here, so the Goods we sell must be as represented. NO FAKES IN OUR BUSINESS. Remember the place THE FAMO??S, 14 Brick Range, West Side Public Square. L. GEIS3ERG, Proprietor. WE ARE THE FEEDERS. HAVING bought the S ock and good will of E. R. Po<ne & Co. we kindly ask 3 our attention t'> the fact thnfc we uro 'The Feeders of the People " Our "mar km is supDli"d with th? very hps'. Menta th:m money on buy-BEEF PORK MUT TON, FISH. OYSTERS, CHICKENS, SLICED HAM, BREAKFAST BACON, Tt.v the piece or sliced Mr. J. C. Nully bas charge of our Frreli Meat Department, and will look after the ?.rants of i-ur customers with the greatest care. Our Vegetable. Fruit and Grooery Department is presided over by quiet ami hon .fst Manie Fant. In addition to the above we have opened a Citv DiniDg Room and Restaurant., where regular Meal? will be servo ! from 12 to 2. Befor? and after theee hours the Restaurant feature will prevail, wheie the uiast Fish, Oysters, Birds, Steak?, Hams, &c. can he bad nt all hours. ? Mr. Lyeth has ?pent the greater part of his life in the Hotel and Restaurant bus iness. ??jd knows how to cater to the ?ppetito of his fellows. i This Store will be run a;- a High Class St ure, where everything will be conducted ?on stictly legitimate ami business principles. Very respectfully, BUTLER & LYETH, M \ NACKI;.-. W L. LYET3. Manager Restaurant. M* L. FANT. Manager Grocery Department. J. C NA CfLY. Manager of Market. F. M. BUTLKR. Back Number. STATE NEWS. - Thieves andxburglars are keeping thc police and sheriff of Greenville busy. - K. McGowan Hill, of Abbeville, recently shipped one hundred talcs of cotton from that town direct to l?us sia. - lt is said that Hon. W. C. Mc Gowan has said he will not oppose Governor Ellerbe for re-election next year. - A Florence county farmer is rais ing pineapples and Marlboro farmers are raising oranges, lemons and ba nanas. - Mr. George W. Tolbert has been appointed postmaster at Seneca. S. C., in place of Mrs. Emma Harper, re moved. - D. R. Crawford, of Goldviille, Laurens county, lost his barn and twelve mules by fire on thc night of the 25th. - The friends of Judge J. S. Coth ran will be pained to know that he is critically ill in New York where 1^ went to consult a specialist. - Newbold has been safely placed in the Spartanburg jail. Ile refused to talk to a reporter about his case, but said he would have a statement to give the press soon. - Mr. A. C. Merrick, of Walhalla, has been appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for this District. Mr. Merrick held this position under the Harrison administration. - No one has yet applied for the ?250 reward offered by Governor El lerbe for Newbold. There is some question whether anybody is entitled to it. It was offered for the capture of Newbold, but ai a matter of f act nobody did that-he simply gave him self up and took his time about jjoing it. - The home of C. A. Britt, of Sandover, was burned down last Wednesday night. The house had recently been remodeled and was con venient. The fire caught from a spark and everything was burned, the family not saving even a change of clothes. 'There was no insurance,-Abbeville Medium. - The Register says there were conferences and wire-pulling, without end, and an allotment of offices, just as if the people had nothing to do with it, during Fair week, and the following prominent gentlemen are spoken of as probable candidates for Governor : E.X. Archer. Spartanburg ; Col. 0. L. Schumpert, Leon J. Wil liams, Judge Buchanan, L. D. Childs, W. C. McGowan, '.'Uncle" George hillman, Senator Harrison, of Green ville ; Col. D. D. Tompkins, Congress man Talbert, Judge Hudson and prob ably others. - The comparative table of total earnings and tonnage among the rail roads of the State, made public by the railroad commissioner for the month of July, 189b' and 1897. shows the twenty-eight roads of the State to be doing a first-rate business. The total earnings for this month in 1897, was $588,699.18 as against $545,604.52 for the same month last year. The total . increase was ?49,071.97, while the decreases amounted to only $6,023.21; the net increase was therefore ?4!i, 048.76. and the per cent, of net in - crease 7.89. - We have heard a report to the effect that a few days ago a white man who lives down on the C. & W. C. railroad, tied his little boy to the track to be run over by the train for the purpose of obtaining damages out of the road. The child was discovered iu time to stop a freight train which was the first to approach thc place where the little fellow was bound to the track, and when asked about how he came there, said his father had tied him to thc track.-Greenwood Journal. - Yesterday that gallant old warrior -who bears the distinction of having been the most dashing of all the cavalry commanders of the late war, Gen. Wade Hampton, was in thc city. Gen. Hampton rode in from Millwood on horseback. He sat his saddle like thc true cavalryman he is. He ap peared upright and graceful on his spirited sorrel thoroughbred and seemed as much at home as if in a chair. Those who saw him pass mar veiled at the sight, for Gen. Hampton has reached a ripe old age.-Columbia Stale, Nbc. 20. - Mr. Charles Benham was burned to death at his home in Sumter on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Benham was an old man and had been sick for a long time. He was in such a condition that he could hardly stir, but yet could sit up. His wife went out on Thursday morning and left him sitting in a ".hair by the fire. When she returned thc house was full of smoke, and the body of her husband, burned almost to a crisp, was lying on thc floor ; the chair was partly burned, as was the bcdclothing. How it happen ed is not known, but it is supposed that fire popped on his wrappings and he could not extinguish it. - Dr. S. F. Killingsworth is now using Abbeville county geld in his dental practice. We saw Monday a piece of gold taken from the Little Mountain gold mine. This lump or rather sheet (for it had been rolled thin) weighed fourteen puts, and was worth about ?14. We sincerely hope that this minc will prove to thc parties interested in its development a veri table Klondike. It has long been a certainty that there is much of this precious metal hidden away in the bosom of mother earth in this county, and at one time tho Dorn mine paid handsomely. If pluck, energy and perseverance will lind pay ore in thc Little Mountain mines then success surej}' awaits thc miners.- Abbrriffc Pew* oiiif /hunier. Four Bales From One Acre. News and Cour irr. YORK VILLE, November 25.-Sev eral weeks ago reference was made in this correspondence to the fact that Mr. E. D. Thompson, of Point Post office, in Bethel Township. York County, had already gathered three bales of cotton from one acre of land and expected to get one more. The fourth bale has now been gathered, ginned and packed, and there is little doubt that Mr. Thompson has raised mope cotton on an acre of ground than was ever before produced on an acre in South Carolina. At the request of the \>rkvjlle En quirer Mr. Thompson hi s furnished that paper with a detailed statement as to tho methods employed, arid through the courtesy of the editor your correspondent is enabled to send the Kens and Courier an advance proof of South Carolina's champion cot ton raiser's r?port: Having finished the gathering of the crop of? my pet acre of cotton, I will now, in compliance with your re quest made to mc some weeks ago, en deavor to give you a history of the ex periment. To begin with, the plot of land was stepped ol? by one of my neighbors as follows: First line 86 yards, second line 65 yards, third line 60 yards, and fourth line 65 yards, enclosing a total of 4,910 square yards of dark gray land with yellow subsoil. Now to go back a little. Two years ago (in 1805) this plot wa.s fertilized with 500 pounds of soluble guarro and planted in corn. The yield was be tween 40 and 50 bushels. Last year (1896) it was fertilized with 16 two horse loads of lot scrapings, scattered broadcast, and 1,000 pounds of soluble guano, Charlotte acid and German kainit placed in drill. After this, it was planted with King Cotton, and* the yield was 846 pounds of. lint. About the middle of March, of the present year, I made a compost heap, consiuting of 50 bushels of cotton seed, six two-horse loads of stable manure, 800 pounds of Charlotte acid and 200 pounds of kainit. After a thorough mixing these materials were covered with rich earth and left in a low, flat heap until the 15th of April, when, after having turned out the old stalks and smoothly harrowed my acre. I spread over it the contents of the compost heap, as evenly as possible, and then turned it under to a depth of from six to eight inches, after which I again used the harrow to level and pulverize the land. With the masure in and the land thoroughly pulverized, I next took a terrace level, ran a line directly through tho centre of the plot, and from this line, each way, laid off the rows 41, feet apart from centre to cen tre. Then, in the furrows, I drilled 790 pounds of equal parts of soluble guano. Charlotte acid and kainit. and after that, with a six-inch steel shovel, I prepared thc land in low, fiat beds for planting. The seeds used were what might vqry properly be called Further Im proved King. They consisted of 100 pounds, carefully selected from the best bolls off the best stalks that grew on the same land the year before. On the 20th of May I side-harrowed the acre, anal two days afterward went over it again, and, by hand, pulled it up to one stalk to every 6 or 8 inches. This work I did myself, in order to be sure that it was done right, and also that I might be assured that there was nothing left but healthy, vigorous stalks. On the 27th of May I side-harrowed again, a;id on the 1st of June thinned to 18 inches in the drill. Next, on the 10th of June, 1 sided with a short, straight shovel and 12-inch bow, and on the 22d I sided again with larger shovel and 16-inch bow. Then, qn the 15th of July, I hoed and run three furrows with shovel and 18-inch heel scrape. Last, on the 28th of July, I went through the middles as deeply as I could with a bull tongue, or scooter, and then, on the same day, *'laid by" by levelling off with shovel and heel scrape. The work of picking, ginning and packing has just been completed, with a total yield of four bales, weighing respectively 430, 441, 453 and 898 pounds, in all 1,722 pounds of lint on the acre. Now, Mr". Editor, 1 know that this is a phenomenal yield of cotton to be gathered fiom one acre, and many of your readers will doubt this report. I have not got anything to say to j Thomas; but to others who believe in ! the possibility of things that they j themselves have never ?cen, I beg to ! say that what I have done is nothing j more than they can do if they will usc j the means. Let them select the right kind of seed, fertilize their land well, j work it properly, and my word for it ; tiley will be gratified at the result. As for myself, 1 have been using ; ?he King variety for some time past. : [ am nob prepared to say that the King is superior to all other varieties l'or all kinds of soil: but in this cli mate, on highly fertilized lands, I think thc King beats any other va riety. While my success this year has j been in a large measure due to the seed-probably I owe more to the seed than anything else: still 1 think til at the deep furrow at thc last work ing had much to do with thc yield. My opinion here is based on past ex- I perience. I have several times before gathered two bales to one acre, and each time there was a considerable ; quantity which failed to mature. ? Some ot it rotted and some of it dried | up. Anyhow, it did not open. 1 bc- [ gan to think it was impossible to cul tivate or fertilize so as to get more , than two bales. The trouble seemed to be that after a certain point the stalks would become so large and the foliage so ^ense as to necessarily cause the moulding and rotting of the lower bolls. But in the King variety this trouble ! is, in a large measure, overcome. ? Owing to the natural habits of the '. plant, dwarf growtli.and early maturi j ty, the stalk does not grow as large ! under same conditions. It puts-on j more fruit to the sine than auy other ! variety of which I have any knowl 1 edge, and while the foliage is all suffi ! cient to give the stalk a heavy growth, ! yet this foliage is- not so dense, even I under the stimulus of high cultiva I tion. and this year I noticed but very i little trouble on account of the retting j of the early bolls. i This year the cotton on t?e- acre re ; ferred to above bloomed at least two i weeks earlier than ordinary varieties. ! It has been earlier every year. It has J also matured earlier. Heretofore I ! have neglected the deep, f urrow al ; ready described. The effect of that ! furrow has certainly been most notice ! able. The cotton kept on maturing ! almost as late as other varieties, and ; I think the deep furrow was largely ; the cause of it. The furrow deepens j the feeding roots and gives greater vi I tality. ? Then another thing. Although I ? have referred to this cotton as a dwarf 1 variety. I wish to be understood only that it has dwarf tendencies and char acteristics under ordinary circum stances. During the present fall I have picked white cotton a foot above my head, or 6' feet from the ground., i In conclusion, let me say also that I have written this account only be cause you asked me for it, and that my object is the same as yours, to disseminate information. I have^ no cotton seed on hand except the King variety, and am selling them to my neighbors at 15 oents a bushel. I do not wish to sell the seed from my pet acre at all. If, however, any indi vidual should be especially anxious for a few of these seeds, and will for ward, the stamps to cover postage (12 cents) I will be pleased to send him a pound by mail: but I hare only a lim ited quantity to dispose of on this basis, and would not care to send mere than a single pound to any one indi vidual. E; D. THOMPSON. ? Point, S. C., Nov. 22,1897. Gov. Ellcrbe Announces His Candidacy. Governor Ellerbe has declared his candidacy for re-election as Governor of the Stato and in advance of his an nual message to the General Assem bly he has seen fit to present his views in regard to the liquor question. He has also strongly expressed him self fn regard to certain criticisms that have been made of his official acts. Last night the Governor gave to the press the following interview. He said: "I see in the News and Conner of Tuesday an editorial commenting on the report from its Chester corres pondent, whichj while not directly do I ing so, may by insinuation lead people to believe that the Governor advised Newbold not to surrender. The lan guage used by the Chester correspond ent is: 'He was instructed by the State authorities not to surrender un ; til to-day or until ?he Court of Gen eral Sessions of Spartanburg County had adjourned.' "[ wish to denounce the statement as absolutely and unqualifiedly false. I sent Mr. Newbold no message, gave him no advice and made no terms with any one for his surrender. I am getting heartily sick and tired of such dirty flings and insinuations.* It seems that a gentleman has no pro tection, but has to submit to such slanderous insinuations. "I have also been harshly criticized for pardoning May and Buice for kill ing Sims. Sims was a desperate moonshiner who was openly violating the laws of the State and when May and Buice attempted to seize the liquor Sims started to lire on the offi cers, and had they not killed him, men in the discharge of their duty would have been killed. Moreover. Mr.. Crawford, who was present, testified that the killing wai in self-defence. This is entirely aside from the peti tions and the endorsement of seven of thc juron. There were in addition to other petitions one signed by many of thc very best of Spartanburg's citi zens. "There seems to be ? common un derstanding on thc part of certain peo ple to destroy the dispensary law and they take advantage of all these un fortunate occurrence'' to use them against the law. Since I have been Governor 1 have tried fearlessly to perform my official duties, and will not be swerved by the idle clamor of senseless criticism. "Several days ago an interview was printed from Hov. Carroll, in which I was reported to have said that 'rather than join thc liquor men, I would go to-.'" A great many have asked rae to fill out that blank. What I said was: "Before I would turu this State over to the liquor element 1 would go home and go to plowing.' '"The most difficult problem that confronts us to-day is that of the liquor traffic. The dispensary. I think, is the best solution of the ques tion, but as the Court: have decided that the dispensary is not a police regulation, lam iu favor of amending the law so as to make it a police regu lation by eliminating thc profit feat ure, and, if necessary, not to sell it as a beverage, but only for medicinal and sacramental purposes. "Those who advocate high license hare surely not read carefully thc de cisions of the Courts, for in thc case of Scott vs. Donald the Court- ad vanced the view that the State could prohibit, they could inspect, but could do no more. If thc dispensary is not a police regulation and thc State can not control thc liquor under thc dis pensary law, it certainly cannot do so under high license. Besides, under a high license system, it would in a few months degenerate into tho open bar room. As a rule, men who would buy a license to sell whiskey would have no moral character and would bc altogether irresponsible'and perfectly indifferent to the welfare of the State and of thc people. Their only object would be to make money and the con stitutional restrictions would be dis regarded. This liiiuoi*fight is nota factional issue. It is a fight between the moral clements oS our people and the liquor men." "Do you propose to make a fight on this nest year?" "I propose to go before the people on. my record and. if necessary, to ad vocate the policy just outlined. Some of my enemies have said I might, be re-elected because of the unwritten law to give a Governor two terms. I' want it understood that no one need, keep out of the race on this account,, and I would not have it as a mere matter of precedent if my efforts did not warrant an endorsement. "If I cannot refute the numerous charges that have been made against me, and cannot show to the people that I have hones??y and faithfully tried to discharge the duties cf the office, I do not care to be re-elected. ? Some people may think it is. a very fine thing to be Governor, but there are other things I value more highly, and before I would sacrifice- my man liness or any principle I would be de feated a thousand times. While I like to please, I would rather have the consciousness of having done my duty than the applause of the world. Columbia State. Nov. 25. Tbc Unloaded Rifle. ORANGEBURG, Nov. 26.-The un loaded parlor rifle did its deadly work to-day. Mr. Thomas J. Jackson > re siding eight miles from the city, hav* ing occasion to use a rifle, loaded one of the two he had, but finding that some parts of it did not work well got the other, and after using it put both down near where he was at work. His two boys, Thomas J., Jr., abd John L., on returning from school sought their father, who instructed them to take the rifles to the house." On the way. the elder, .Ch?mas, who had the empty rifle, playfully snapped it at his brother, who in turn with the loaded rifle did the same to Thomas with tho result that a ball pierced the latter'fr forehead between the eyes, causin.ji.death. almost instantly. The deceased was 12 years of age, both Bright and manly and were de voted to each other. Surgical aid was had as soon as practicable, but life had boen extinct long ere the physi cians reached Mr. Jackson.-Columbia Stav>._ Proposed Golden Statue. NEW YORK, NOV. 25..-Ada Ilehan in- silver is to be outshone by William Mo Kinky in gold, according to the Herald. The added fame which the actress- acquired* by posing for the M'ontaaa statue-of solid silver exhibit ed at the World's Fair, in 189B, is to be approached if not eclipsed hythe President of ihe United States, who will furnish the figure fora life-size statue bf solid gold. Mr. F. D. Higby, of Chicago, who. has been commission ed by several wealthy capitalists to furnish such, a statue for exhibition at the Paris Exposition in 1900, is on his way to-Washington to get the con-, sent of President McKinley to .pose for the figure. "This statue, from its base up, will contain bullion to the value of $1,050, 000," said Mr. Higby. "While it was. designed, primarily to first exhibit this statue at Paris in 1900, the directors of the Pan-Amerioan Exposition, to. be held in Cayuga Island, in the Niagara Kiver. in 1899, are anxious to. have it completed in time fer exhibi tion, there first. It is likely, thatthis arrangement will be made. l eanna, divulge much as to the capitalists who are back of this at present, but there are half a dosten of them., and they are ready to go to work on it as soon as the design is completed. - A shooting scrape occurred near Looper's postoffice, on. W. N? Hughes1 plantation, Sunday. G. H. Anderson shot Butler Anderson, both colored, They were both undsr the influence of whiskey. Butler is not dead, but is not expected to live.-Ptekens Journal. - John Miller* of Berkeley County, West Virginia, bas just sold and delivered > G,0CO barrels of apples at $2.42 per barrel. They were raised on thirty four acres of ground, bought by him twenty vears ago at ?S an acre He ex pects to receive about $20,000 for his en tiro fruit orop this year. Apples can be grown in South Cirotina. The way we are Cutting Prices on' Furniture will be a revelation in Furniture Selling. The rush of Christmas trade is almost upon us, and th? room now taken up by large quantities of Furniture is abso lutely necessary to the display of our-^ HOLIDAY GOODS. To make a prompt and effective clearance of this surplus stock we have made a remorseless use of the knife in CUTTING PRICES. Will you be one of the lucky ones to share in the Big Bar gain Feast we will spread before you the next few daysl ? ThT .argest Stock of Furniture in South Carolina, and at prices at Retail below what the little fellows pay wholesale. So come along and get your Furniture and have money left for Christmas. All prices below everybody else's price. C. F. TOLLY &> SON, The Leaders and Money Savers for Yon._ When it is understood that the tremendous business strides of X). C. Brown & Bro. WERE made during the most depressed business period that this country has experienced in over half a century, it at once becomes a source of wonderful significance, and creates a lively interest in the reasons for this peculiar prominence. Why should one house become so .signally successful, force itself so prominently to the front while others have been halting, re treating, losing ground, and in many cases disappearing altogether? It is simply iu their ability to foresee con ditions and to meet them ; the wisdom to grasp opportunities aud profit by it : the power t ) utilize forces, ia meeting emergencies. In a nut-shell To Sell Goods Cheap, and to Sell them Cheaper than^thers. Does thc fact that the volume of business, the Stock carried, the force employed, the number of customers served, has doubled aud redoubled itself, successfully demonstrate that they have met and mastered the situation, and established their supremacy as a Bargain House, and earned their claim of being the CHEAPEST HOUSE IN ANDERSON. We are not like thc rooster who thought the sun rose every morning just to hear him crow, but wa cannot help feeling justly proud of the record of progress obtained. Now, are you on a hunt for Bargains ? Come and see us. We are sup plying better Goods for less money than can be obtained elsewhere. We are constantly demonstrating our ability to undersell, and to save our customers money. "Nothing succeeds like 'success," and thc mo3t pronounced success in Anderson is O. C. BROWN & BRO The Cheapest House in the City.