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BY GL?NKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEfiSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBBUABY 2, 1898. VOLUME YYYTTl_WO 39 On and after Feb. 1st, 1898, no Goods will be Charged ! WE have decided, after mature consideration, to do a STRICTLY CASH BUSINESS, and no Goods will be charged i to any one. This step we have taken with the view of! marking our Goods VERY CLOSE, as we will be in position to sell Goods cheaper than any of our competitors. You will i not have to pay, in spending your cash with us, for the losses occasioned in doing a credit business. We will have no book-keeper, no ledger?only a cash-book ; and for every ar* ticle that goes out of this Store its equivalent in money will be in the cash drawer. We wish to thank the trading public for their liberal patronage in the past, and trust for a continuance of the same. Remember to bring the cash with you. No Goods charged. Is in full blast. Crowds of people have taken advantage of the saving, but we still have too much Clothing. We save yoH 25c. on every dollar's worth of Clothing purchased of us. Worth saving, isn't it ? THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO AKE LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO ! y\~E have a choice and select Stock of? FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may ue?d to eat. Our Goods are fresh, were bought for cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give mc a, call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same? We are yours to please, GK F. BIGBY. This is Business ! Buy where you can best get your Wants supplied, and that place is MAMMOTH HARDWARE ESTABLISHMENT. PLOWS, FA EM TOOLS. IMPLEMENTS, ^ All up to date and prices down?way down. The great Oliver Plows, known the world over as the best for turning and terracing. Towers & Sullivan's Popular Steel Plows, made to the very notch?proper Georgia shapes, quality of metal the very best. The Celebrated "Nimrod" Axes sold and used in Ander son for over six years, now sell here ten times faster than any other make. Ease your mind and protect your pockets by doing busi ness with? SULLiVA?M HARDWARE CO. STATE NEWS. - Greenville is declared free from small pox. In a few days the few remaining in the pest house are to be dismissed, j ? There are seven applicants for the position of United States Marshal of South Carolina. J. P Hunter is now Marshal and his time expires March 11th. ? The shingle record has been broken. Out of one pine tree on Mr. P. B. Kemp's place, in Greenwood county lately. Mr. Matt Home made 10,4;>0 good shingles. ? The talk of biennial sessions of the Legislature is gaining ground every day. A iiood deal such talk is going the rounds of the newspapers. Some enterprising politician ought to make the campaign next summer on this economy plea.?Ahl" rill, Medium. ? Only two members of the Wal lace Legislature, Senators Aldrich, of Bamwell, and Jeffries of Cherokee, are in the present General Assembly. The clerks of both bodies. (Jen. lt. R. ITemphill of the Senate and Gen. J. W. 'iray of the House, were in that historic body. ? Five tramps were arrested in Columbia last week for attempting to rob the safe in the SoTtth Carolina Railroad warehouse. Mr. Hertford Parks had just gone into another office, and returning sooner than was expected succeeded in catching one of the party who had got ?14. and hold ing him till the police could come to his assistance. ? S. P. Brcazeale showed us a peculiar corn last Tuesday. The kcr- | nels very much resemble gourd seeds,, and a peculiarity of it is that it grows on the ear with the other corn. All the grains while in roasting ear are full and plump, but after becoming mature, they shrivel up, until they look very much like gourd seed. A bushel of this corn out-weighs a bushel of the old kind. It is very prolific.? Picht ns Sentinel. ? Howard Ellis brought three cop per cents to this office l?ast week which he told us his wife found in the gizzard of an old*hen which she killed a day or two before. The hen laid in the house and eat in the house from the time she was a little chicken, and it is supposed she picked up the coppers on the floor. The money had evidently been in the hen's gizzard a long time as each piece was worn per fectly smooth.? Darlington iXeus. ? It is strange what some thieves will steal sometimes. The Columbia Register says that somebody entered j the Washington street Methodist j Church and stole from the back of the I pews the name plates of the pew- : holders. What the thief could pos sibly waul with them is unknown, as j simply as bits of brass metal they are ' worth nothing. "The pew-holders were much mystified when they found that ; all the plates were gone. No one has any idea who committed the deed. I ? The conspiracy to murder Jailer Colcman by smothering him to death with a blanket when he should come ' to open the cell doors at the county jail was the sensation in Columbia 1 last week. The whole scheme origi nated in the minds of John Rabb and | Laban Voting, two prisoners, who are beiiiir held to await trial at the spring term of the court of general sessions, one on the charge of cow-stealing and ' the other for rape, and had not Jailer Colcman discovered the plot just in the nick of time the conspirators would in all probability have carried out their plans and effected one of the | largest jail deliveries which the State has known. ? Sam Meyers, a lii-ycar-old Negro boy, living on Calhoun street, has fallen a victim to a nose vaccination, j which is giving him no end of trouble. He brought it all on himself by touch ing the vaccination spot and then inserting his fingers in his nose. Meyers was vaccinated the first part of last week at one of tlie colored schools. The vaccination showed signs of having taken after a few days by the intense itching and pain of the arm. The boy was warned to keep his lingers off the ruirniii". sore : bul all t.ie admonitions of his people amounted to nothing. After he had endured the torment.- of vaccination for several 'lay-, hi.- nose began to sw< 11. first in the interior ami then outside 11 became very painful ami soon it was impossible for the boy to breathe through Iii- nostril-. The whole of the fronl of Iii- face began t<- swell. A physician was called in. who proiiouiici d the boy s affliction to I. " nothing short of ;: nose vaccination. II. accounted for i! by the statement i hat l if boy must lia\ e picked at hi nose with :i (iiiL'cr which had touched the vaccination, aie! in this way car ried the poison I" his face. ( 'Harles A LEGISLATIVE REVIEW. A Review of What lias focen Ihme to Date. Xrirs mid Courier. Cou .MiilA, Fob. C!.?The passage of the supply and appropriation bills during the past week were the most notable events. It is a very unusual and at the same time commendable thing for these two most important measures to get through the House in the ordinary progress of the work. As a general thing they have to be pushed through, aud are not consider ed as they should be. With plenty of time and after careful consideration the two vital bills of the session were passed in the House without material discussion, and so carefully had the problem been worked out that there was absolutely no discussion of the tax levy :^s reported by the commit tee, or of any of the other feature- of that bill. It is somewhat noteworthy that, there has been nothing heard or said about the income tax law. It would appear that it is intended to become very much of a dead letter. The compan ion-piece of legislation, urged by Governor Ellerbc. to provide for a graduated license, went to the wall early in the session. Generally there is a strong light made on the appro priation bill, but such was not the ease this time. The only appropri ation which was seriously interfered with was that of the South Carolina College, and it appears that this was brought about by a misunderstanding of the facts with reference to the fees and balances of the College, which made it appear that the College would get all that was wanted without the full direct appropriation. The House showed a disposition by directing the division of the privilege tax between Clemson and Winthrop Colleges, to interfere with the status quo. It was perhaps unfortunate that this bill should have been passed at all by the House on account of the possible construction that will be placed on it. The Senators already have their guns ready for the bill, and as soon as it shows its head on the Senate side it will be killed. The greatest sensation of the ses sion, however, outside of the d?feat of Mr. Epton. was the terrible shock the members received when the house, by a decisive vote, refused to strike out the enacting words of Mr. Child's prohibition bill. There can be no doubt about the surprise, and the dispensary people have not yet quite gotten over it. The policy now seems to be to choke the life out the bill, and this will no doubt be successful. The prohibition sentiment in the House is strong-i? is very strong? but it lacks organization. The oppo sition to the dispensary, as now con ducted, is strong, and is growing, but that too. lacks organization, without a head and without a definite purpose, ( u the other hand the dispensary advocate-; are banded together for the perpetuation of that law. It is not an organization with duly elected offi cers, or anything tangible on which you can put your hand, but it is there, it is felt, it is seen in its work aud is almost to be anticipated. It just shows the difference between the work that can be done. If the Prohibition ists and anti-dispensary advocates were to organize, as did those who fought against Mr. Epton's confirm ation, there would not he a shadow of a doubt that the dispensary law would not recognize itself after this General Assembly got through with it. Mem bers who have been friends of the dispensary, and who are stanch Re formers, told me that they voted for the Childs bill simply because they were not satislicd with the way things are going, and they wanted a change. Mr. Siuikin's bill, with proper push, will go through, but it docs not carry out the popular idea of leaving the settlement of the problem to each of the counties, but simply solicits an expression from the people of the State as a whole : that is better than nothing, but what is desired is an Act that will carry results with it. and indicate that if the people vote foi prohibition they shall have it. and not have the issue side-tracked, as it has been for years, and if the people vote for licensing the sale of liquor, under the constitutional restrictions that it can be had without bucking up against the terrible pressure that the dispensary can bring to bear on any measure through its officials and em ployees generally from one end of the State to the other, who are looking fur the retention of their positions, j they shall have it. Tlii- disposition, however, seems to be to leave the entire liquor issue open until the elections this summer, ami the Federal Supreme Court ren ders its decision in the \ andercook case. Ih this connection ii may be mentioned t hat t ho dispensary law j promises to be the ovi rshadowing j issue of i In approaching campaign. I It did look a: one tine' as if the mat- I ter of higher education would ligure prominently in the campaign, but the ' dispensary seems to he the one vital j issue from t he present oui look. (ioveriior Kllcrbe. ex-State Senator j II. i?. Watson and State Senator j Archer have personally announced their candidacy lor Governor from 'olunibia. where such announcements seem Inn e t heir bin It. The Spar tnuburg Ilcrnhi is authority for tin tnnouncenienl that former Solicitor ^chumpcrt, "f NewbeiTV. will lie in he race, aud thai he lus mad'- t he innoiineenicnl of his eandicacy, ( -apt. !aines 11 Tilluiaii. \\ h.iie i i the city il day or two ago. made the unreserved statement that his father, Col. George D. Tillman. will be in the race, and that he will be a winner, lie outlined the platform in part. Now this does not look as if there will be a dearth of candidates, and the chances are that there will be several new candidates in the held before two months have passed. The chances are that the held will be materially changed in a month or two. that is, when the returns begin to come in as to how candidacies are taking, and what chances there are for certain candidates. There is some talk about the hotels of trying to get Senator George S. Mower to make the race. It is not known whether he will consent, or even that he knows anything about the move. It appears that this move an/1 talk comes front members who voted for him for Chief .Justice, and they say they want to show that their voting for him was because they thought him entirely worthy of the honor, and a proper man to be Chief Justice, and that by supporting Sena tor Mower they show they are not "re actionists." as they have been called. This feeling may die out, but it is an interesting situation. Mr. Mower was not voted for by many of those in the General Assembly, who ordinarily would support him for any office, be cause his candidacy was against that of Chief Justice Mclver. but in a free-for-all race for Governor there would he a material change, it is con tended. Should AIr. Mower be induc ed to make the race, it would -make a material change in'the situation. The two Mayficlds, both the Super intendent of Education and Senator S. G. AI ay field, have been mentioned in connection with the Governorship, and it is quite likely that one of the Mayfield brothers will enter the field. The other day it was remarked that if Mr. Childs could secure the passage of his prohibition bill it meant his election as (lovcrnor of the State, so that it could be given a fair trial un der the man who claimed most for the law. Mr. Childs is a sick man, and not now able to undertake a campaign: what a course of treatment under a specialist, such as he hoped soon to be able to take, will do remains to be seen. It is hoped it will restore him to his former vigor and health. A few days ago he saw me running up the steps to the hall of the House, making two steps at a time, and he remarked that he Would give anything in the world to be able to do that, if he had that strength he would make it interesting for some of the candidates this summer, and he would come so near to passing his prohibition bill that he would keep the liquor drum mers up at nights, thinking how soon they were to lose the cream of their business in this State. The passgae of the Caughman bill, looking to separate coaches for the races, shows what parliamentary en tanglements can bring about. The House had gotten so sick and tired of discussing the question, and had gone up and down the hill so often on that one question, that it completely re versed itself and adopted the Caugh man bill, as an amendment to the sub stitute separate coach, bill* The House had previously killed the Caughman bill and amendments to it were practically agreed upon, yet when the bill was passed by the cir cuitious route, of coming in as an amend'.ient, it was found that the mat ter h.;d been so tied up with parlia mentary clinchers and calls that no amendments were in order, and the bill had to go to its third reading as originally proposed. There is absolutely no reason now why an adjournment cannot be had next week. The Senate has lixed the Kith as the final day of the session, and with a concentration on the work and a sincere purpose to go home by that time it can be dune. There will be bills left on the calendar?there always are numbers of measures left over. If the "four pers" have their way the session can be dragged out a month longer, but if the best inter ests of the members and their con stituency be consulted there is now no reason why an adjournment cannot be had on the Kith. As an outside limit the final adjournment can be had on the 17th or' Wth. The supply bill contemplates an adjournment on the 12th, but that is not likely. ? Probate .Judge Cothran has com mitted six persons, two white, four colored, to the State Hospital for the Insane since he went into office with the existence of Greenwood count}', eight mouths ago. In the February Forum Hon. .lehn Ii. Carlisle has a strong article favor ing such amendment t" the constitu tion a- will allow the election of the President and \ ice-President by a popular vote of the different States of the i it toi I. There is no longer any doubt as to the injustice of the pres ent system id' electing these officials, and the popular sentiment of '.he American people in favor of a change is fast growing hit 1 a demand which cannot long 1.verlooked or refused. $100 Reward. S100. I lit- n aders of'IIds p:?j>er w ill he pleased :?> l am dial I here is al l"-;i -i tine dreaded disease i lint sei- J cit?e h,-.- iieeii aide to eure in all itsslages, and Mint j s<'alarr!i Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only ] >;. live cure now known i" 111tr m?dical fraternity. Catarrh being a onM trillion::! disease re.pires ;i constitutional treatment. Mall's Catarrh Cure i> | lak-eii infernally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous stirtaees the system, ihcreby tie- i s! ro\ in;- the foundation ol th di-' ase, and giviu : ilieji-.i le il . 11. -11 -11 Oy ImiMiiig ooili.iMi:.u libii and assist i ui; nature in doing .us work Tho proprietors have >> much 4 ilh in :i> curative I powers, thai they oiler <?c Hundred Lollars lor any case that ii fails to iure. Sern! fur. list ni tr*- I timoniids I Money to Kuril. i The annual report of the business of the dispensary system for LS?J7, which was published a few days ago, contains some ligures which are worthy of passing note. The total amount of the sales for the year was $1,2.">2,280. The total ; population of the State is represented by about the same figures. The show ing means, therefore, that the sales of liquors from the dispensaries repre- , scnted about one doliar per capita for the whole population including both sexes and all ages and conditions. The dispensaries, however, proba bly did not sell half the liquor that was sold and consumed in the State. If they sold half, the whole sales amounted to about ?2,500,000, or two dollars a head for ever}* man, woman ; and child in the State, which shows a j liberal expenditure for expensive bev erages in a year of hard times. The ! people spent last year for alcoholic | beverages, in other words, the value i of 100.000 bales of cotton, at 5 cents : a pound. And 100,000 bales is one eighth, or 12 per cent, of our average ' cotton crop. It is not too much to ! say. perhaps, that wo spent the whole i prolit of the large crop of last year for whiskey and beer and hard drinks of that sort?while complaining loudly of the hard times. We are not preaching temperance, but only considering facts of record. And there arc some others worthy of 1 consideration. The average family is estimated at five persons, and the head of it usual ly does the drinking for the rest. Some women and some minors drink a little, but they need not be taken into the acceunt. Of the population of the State, it may be assumed, 250,000, or one-fifth, represent the men, strict ly speaking, and the drinking class, : broadly speaking. On the basis of this estimate, the total expenditure for whiskey and such beverages last year represented $-10 per capita for the adult male population, the working i aud money-making element. It was a j pretty heavy tax on the wealth and j industrial resources of the State, and was none the less hurtful for being self-imposed and almost wholly wast ed. The money so used was used to very little good purpose. Most of it j went out of the State to pay the man ufacturers of the liquors, and was so much dead loss to the State. The ! same money would have done a vast | deal of good if it had been kept in the ; State and applied to the necessary and ! useful public and private purposes, j It would have paid all the expenses of j the State government for two years. : It would have built and equipped ; twenty-five ?100,000 factories and mills. It would have made the schools and colleges flourish like bay trees. It would have paid off a large part of the public debt. The figures are not less impressive when considered somewhat in detail and in their bearings on the affairs and conditions of towns and smaller communities. A few examples arc taken at random: Abbeville spent ?30,200: Aiken. $28,200; Anderson, j ?41,034: Barnwcll. ?111,560: Camden, ?21.800; Chester* $35,500; Darling-1 ton, ?35,000; I.aureus. ?27,000; New- j berry. ?32,000: Suinter. ?35,400: j Union. ?24,700, aud so on. Of the j smaller places. Allendalc spent ?12, 400; Bamberg. $lt?,800; Beaufort, ?10,000: Blackville. ?15,300; Dillon, ?15,000; Klloree. ?0,000: Kutawvillc. ?8,000; Monek's Corner. ?4,000: Mayesville, ?7,400: Tort Royal, ?6, 000: Ra-ntowies, $7,000: Saluda. $7, 500: Tirzah, $8.700: Toddville. ?4,-1 000, and so on. Some of these places ; are mere villages or railroad stations, f supplying a small community of their j own people and neighbors. The fig- j tires credited to each would establish j and equip an important small manu- I facturing plant of some kind, and the j ligures represent only the dispensary ; sales of liquor?about half of the j whole expenditure. And this waste- : ful expenditure is repeated annually, j The amount expended in any one of : the several of the County towns! named, for dispensary liquors alone, j is far more than is allowed by the State/or the support of either one of I the two State colleges, aud would pro vide a college, or a cotton, or wool, or ! other factory for the town, and the amount so expended represents half t he local liquor bill. W e are not preaching a temperance i sermon, but only considering the in tiinsie significance of the figures of the ollicial dispensary report, andthey appear to signify, among other things, thai the oft-repcated assertion that i;lie people of the State are "too poor to build mills and support the colleges ! and schools a- they should be sup ported, and improve the roads, ami contribute for the relief of their starving and dying neighbors is ma terially lacking in >pis-:imi'\ \Vmv j an,! ("oii?i'-r. Adulterated Flour. There was a statement in a Chicago paper a few days ago to the effect that since Joseph Leiter has succeeded in cornering the visible supply of first grade wheat, bakers and private fami lies who have been accustomed to using the very best flour, have been entering bitter complaints as to al leged adulteration. The story is that although dealers still use their best brands and charge the high prices, the flour is not nearly so white as it was a few months back, and neither will it rise as it did then. The statement was of sufficient in terest to induce the reporter to make local investigations, and upon appli cation to a well-known Yorkville mer chant, got some information that was startling. The merchant referred to is one who has the reputation of keep ing thoroughly informed as to every detail of his business, and who scorns to misrepresent anything he sells. In fact, he is one of those men who thinks more of self-respect than he does either of his goods or the money he expects to receive for them. "Yes.*1 said the merchant, "it is no doubt a fact that flour is now being liberally adulterated by all the mills in the country. I know of only one big mill that has not been adulterat ing, aud my last information was to the effect that it was putting in the machinery to enable it to adulterate also. They use corn meal ground up with the flour, and the proportion is about 25 per cent, of corn to 75 per cent, of wheat. Some use as high as 30 and 40 perceut. of corn. "But you ought not to be surprised at this information," the gentleman continued. "A few years ago when the best quality of wheat sold at 65 cents a bushel laid down, you remem ber you paid about ?2.75 per hundred for good flour, and now with wheat at $1.15, you are only paying about $3.25. If they did nut mix the wheat with corn as they do, they could not sell flour at any such prices as they are selling it. Can't you see they can't? "I have no doubt." continued the merchant, "that if a man wants to buy pure flour, he can do it; but he will have to pay away up yonder for it: and then again, he will have to be a pretty good judge of ^that article be fore he will be able to tell whether or not he is really getting what he is paying for.?Yorkville Enquirer. Only a Fake. McCoiuiiCK, S. C. Feb. 2.?The story of the 400,000 pesetas, said to be buried on the property of Mr. W. A. Branch, at McCormick, S. C, as published, excited much comment around town yesterday. Some there were who looked on it as a confidence scheme, while others, on the contrary, believed it in toto. This latter class's views may be summed up in a remark of one to a reporter: "Well! If some body wrote to me that ?S0.OO0 were buried on land belonging to me, I'd find it if I had to dump the whole place into the Atlantic ocean." But. alas! it is all a fake, a bunco steercr's dodge, a clever confidence game, as the sequel proves. Among those who read the story was Mr. W. I. Wilson, the undertak er, and a great light broke in upon him at once. He says that his father-in-law, Maj. AY. J. Gooding of Hampton, S. C, had also received a letter from the military prison of Barcelona, signed by Juan Basanta. identical with that received by Mr. Branch, except in re gard to the place where the ill-gotten money was hidden. In tkis case it was on Mr. Gooding's property and and the exact spot would be given on receipt of ?1,000. The letter also enclosed a certificate , from Sabalonga. governor (?) of the military prison, as well as an item ized bill from the "'Young Ladies' College de La Paz." It was all there, just as in Mr. Branch's case. So the clever scheme stands revealed in its true light?a fraud, pure and simple. The matter for conjecture now is, where did it originate? Is it an ema nation of some rascally Spaniard's brain who once traveled this section, or does it come from some confidence man in gay. wicked Now Vork! If the latter, he must have a confederate in Spain, for not only were the let ters written on paper uot used in this country for correspondence, but they bore Spanish stamps and the cancel lation marks of the Barcelona post office. In eithcir ease, there is op portunity for good detective work. Moreover, the end is not yet. Fur ther developments may be confident ly looked for.- -Columbia llcyistcr. The Cauary Club, of Vienna, bas opened a ennan exhibition in that city. The club hi trying :<> foster Ca nary rais ing among working people a ? an easy method of increasing tho income of the poor. Tho exhibiti -n numbers about !. f>0o native eauarios and more than 500 of t;:e Dutch variety. u;ge her with a large number of other foreign ami domestic :;;<n-- birds. It is estimated that tf a man liv s 11 years bo passe* at least .M years in sleep. So, you sec. : man is a pretty good sort oi felloA' ono-third of the time, bad as he may be the remaining two-thirds.