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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C, W EDNESDAY, FEBRl ARY 1(5. 1!?)?. VOLUME XXXII1--NO. M H?TSI *7V BY an interesting turn in trade we secured Twenty-five Dozen Hats much below their market value. They consist of Fedoras, Alpines and Railroad Shapes?colors brown and black. These Hats are considered cheap at $1.25?most Stores ask $1.50 for them?but to close them out quick we have marked them? 98c Come to see these Hats and expect to see the best Hat for the money you have ever bought. Remember, we sell for Cash and Cash only. No Goods charged. Our 25 per Cent Discount Sale Is still going on. We will save you 25c. on every dollar's woith of Clothing bought of us. . $5.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $3.75. $7.50 Suits, 25 per cent off, $5.63. $10.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $7.50. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO ARE 1 w LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO ! WE have a choice ami select Stock of? FAMILY and FANCY GEOOERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may need to ea?. Our Goods are fresh, Here bought fur cash, and will be sol? as low as the lowest. Please give me ? ? all before purchasing your Groce ies. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same? We are yours to please, Q-- F1. BIGBY, or IThis is Business ? Buy where yo^can best get your Waat? supplied, and that place is ultan Hardware Go's. MAMMOTH HARDWARE ESTABLISHMENT. 'LOWS, FARM TOOLS. IMPLEMENTS, All up to date and prices down?way down. The great Oliver Plows, known the world over as the "est for turning and terracing. . .. Towers & Sullivan's Popular Steel Plows, made to the mt aery notch-proper Georgia shapes, quality of metal the [cry best. The Celebrated "Nimrod" Axes?sold and used in Ander em for over six years, now seU fc.ere ten times faster than *y other make. Ease your mind and protect your pockets by doing busi es with? SULUVAN HARDWARE CO. STATE NEWS. ? A negro has been appointed post master at Georgetown. ? The Lutheran Church at Lcxing- ; ton was burned last week. This church was built shortly after S her- I man had made a bonfire of the previ ous one. ? During the mouth of January forty-six patients were admitted to the State Lunatic Asylum, and the total population is now i?f>7, the largest in the history of the institution. ? A Greenwood merchant ao?d an Edgctield man a box of dates for axle grease the other day. The earth trem bled and the air got blue when that man reached home. ? The Lancaster Ledger says that the Rev. W. S. Sutherland, colored, is operating in Lancaster county en rolling ex-slaves upon a promise to get them pensions from the national government. ? The Abbeville Medium is of the opinion that some of the legislators who voted for partisau text books in the public schools know as much about their contents "as a baby does about heaven." ? Friendship Church, uear May field postofiice in Greenville county, was burned last week. It was being used-as a school house, and it caught from a defective flue. George May field, who is the teacher there, fell off of the roof while trying to extinguish the fire, and broke his leg. ? The Judicial Gallery iu the Su preme Court room has been added to by a splendid oil engraving of the late Judge Munro, which was presented by his son, Col. William Munro of Union. ! Clerk Brooks has hung the picture, and it is quite an addition to the in teresting historical gallery. ? It is announced that the gentle man who has a million dollar contract to furnish granite for the government has opened up a quarry at Cayce's, in I Lexington County, where granite is I abundant. This movement will fur nish work at honest wages for a goodly number of hands. ? E. L. Tattoo, Jr., son of Prof. Patton of the South Carolina College, committed suicide in Savannah last week by taking laudanum. He was a stenographer and generally had work to do. He had made an attempt once or twice before to commit the deed. He was buried in Columbia. ? Judge Benet has removed J. K. Blackman, stenographer for the first circuit since 1877, and appointed F. K. Myers as his successor. The ??eics um! Courier ealis on the Judge to give his reasons for removing one of the most efficient stenographers in the State. ? A gentleman from the neighbor hood of Pickcns gives the information that with favorable weather and no unforscen accidents, the Pickens and Easley railroad will be finished by the 1st of March. There was a slight hitch about crossing the track of the Southern at Easley, but this has been satisfactorily arranged, and the work will now go on unimpeded. ? A mulatto barber by the name of Ed. Signer got in a rage after a quarrel with his wife on Wednesday night and threw a piece of iron at her. The missile missed the woman, but struck a child of the couple, fracturing its skull and injuring it so badly that it died on Saturday night. After the deed Signer ran away, but came back and surrendered to the authorities, and is now in jail. It is to be hoped that au example will be made of him. ?Orangeburg Time?. ? A mule belonging to Mr. Frank P. Rush, of Bradley, was killed in a peouliar way last Friday. The mule was one of a team used in hauling lumber from Vcrdcry to this city, and U was in coming down the hill be tween the Orphanage and the city the j accident occurred. The wagon, heav ily loaded, forced the mules down the hill at a fast irait, when one of them made frantic efforts to hold back, and the wagon tongue got across his back. The mule's back was broken and he j died from his injuries. ? (Jre?ntcood \ Index. ? Capt. J. K. Marshall, of Chester, I was brutally murdered on the 7th I inst. He was a member of the police ; force. A negro went into the bank and presented a check, which was questioned. The bank officers called ' in an officer and Captain Marshall Came in. Thu negro said he?could , show the officer ,the party who gave j the check and the two started out to-1 gether. When the two got some dis- ; tance out some one called Captain Marshall and when ho looked around the negro drew his pistol and shot j Marshall in the head, killing him : instantly. Captain Marshall was blind : in one eyo. Blood-hounds were start- j ed after the negro and after a chase of j six miles he was caught after being I shot twice. ON THE HOME STRETCH. Tlic General Assembly Almost Heady to Adjourn. .V ?-? . ? <uitl CoH?'ier. Columbia, S. C., February Iii,? The General Assembly of South Caro lina is in its last days. It has been a pleasant and serene session, and in a few days more the lawmakers of Caro lina will be at home telling the good people why they voted for this or against the other proposition. There will not be much to he explained this time; that is, nothing specially now, for there was not what might be sailed ;-.vJical legislation. No fundamental change was made in any existing laws. The dispensary system remains the same. The County government sys tem remains unchanged, except in three or four Counties until at least the next session. Taxes remain the same. The offices remain the same. The educational system remains the same as for years. The machinery of the Courts remains unchanged, and so the people of the State will witness no disturbance of their present condi tions. The bulk of the legislation this year has been of a local and what might be called imperative character; that is, the usual appropriation, supply and general laws that have to be re-enacted every session have been passed, and in addition there has been a great deal of local legislation! Some of this local law-making has been necessary, but a great deal more of it has beeti absolutely useless, bat as the Yellow Kid says in Hogan's Alley: "It comes high, but they had to have me." There could be no meeting of the As sembly uuless such measures were proposed and adopted, and so it seems almost a loss of time and energy to hope for any change in this direction. With the proper effort the General Assembly could easily have adjourned yesterday, and if there is no adjourn ment tn Wednesday, as fixed by the concurrent resolution, it will be an imposition, and it can only be excused by some unforeseen event or compli cation, or the desire of the members to continue their pay of $4 per day, and il ?8j of course, presumed thai the lawmakers of a great State would not think of a salary grab. With Wed nesday fixed for final adjournment, legislation stands in much better shape towards that end than is usual. It is so unusual and remarkable as to be almost beyond recollection, that the supply and general appropriation bills should be in the hands of com mittees of conference three or fotir days in advance of adjournment. The House and Senate have both given the supply and appropriation bills their third reading; both of these Houses have indicated their position on amendments, and the points of differ ence have been emphasized. In the supply bill there are oniy three points of difference to be submitted to the committees; they a\e relative to the levy and eouditions for Charleston and Bamberg Counties, and as t? the general provision as to penalties? for the non-payment of poll taxes. It is very unusual for two Houses to come so near to absolute agreement upon so general a bill. There are also very few points of difference on the appro priation bill. The chief differences on any bill of general importance are on the County government bill, and it is doubtful if heads or tails can be made out of the matter, although everyone seems to insist upon a radi cal improvement of the existing law, The only thing thnt is suggested as being in the way of final adjournment on Wednesday is the bill locating the polling precincts of the State. The House began the consideration of this bill last Saturday evening, and as the j Senate bill is under consideration there should be no trouble on this score, and, moreover, if the measure should entirely fail, the present vot ing places are about as good as can be designated in a new Act. and there need be no occasion to spend thous ands cf dollars to arrang? for polling precincts, when the ?lection? ir> South Carolina are settled at the primaries and the polling places now in exist ence are as satisfactory as any new ad justment would be. Reports from confercuco commit tees have been received earlier than usual, and practically all of the differ ences on bills between the two Houses have been obliterated. y Whatever of fighting still remains is mostly on the Senate side, where both of the new County propositions arc; where the separate coach bill is awaiting its fate; where the Verrier dispensary exemption bill is resting on the Calendar, and where quite a num ber of other important matters are awaiting consideration, death or adoption. Politics and liquor have been two of the features of the session's work. T|ie political talk and ups and downs have been prolific, and will not close with the session, but members will no doubt take home with them the in spirations and prejudices against cer tain candidates and measures thut have been nursed in Columbia. Most of the politics here has been of a quiet order, except when it broke forth in all of its fury in the election of the Comptroller General and on the print ing propositions. These were really the only two occasions on which the political schemes came to the surface, but volumes, fiii^iit be written of what is, and has been, going on beneath the surface. There has been no end of gubernatorial prospecting, and, while there are now several candidates before the public a* self-avowed or placed in nomination by their friends, it would appear that the list is not complete. By that is meant that a number of entries- have been an nounced and a number have been sng nested, but when Ihe start is viatic at the lirst campaign meeting the list is likely to be materially changed. Some i of those now looked upon as candi* dates will for good and sufficient rcas- ' ons not be at the starting pole, and others who have not gotten the same degree of promiuenee as possibilities that others now enjoy, will be at the first meeting to make the race. The present session bus emphasized the liquor problem us an issue in the approaching campaign. The issue was clouded during this session, be cause of the laek of combined effort and organization on the purl of the opponents of the present system, and the opposite condition on the part of the friends of the system. There has never been such a total and absolute demoralization of forces and lack of purpose as there is with those who arc opposing the existing state of af fairs relative to the liquor question. Had there been the proper effort made to change the conditions, there is no telling what might have hap pened. The House on every proposi tion if has had that did not contem plate the change of the entire law for something that was not matured, has voted against, the dispensary. The bill to exempt three Counties from the operations of the law went through the House by a decisive vote. The resolution repudiating the granting of hotel privileges was unanimously passed by the House, and so it went. It was no wonder that the Child's bill was not acceptable, when its author said it was imperfect and did not even suit him. Mr. Meave's rider was impromptu and a sort of feeler. Mr. Pollock's bill was merely intended to reach the 'original package stores, and meant no serious change of the existing conditions. Mr. lly driek's bill has not bad a fair test, and the. "snuffers" have been put on Mr. Simkin's resolution lookingvto a popular election on the mutter. . In the Senate they were not ready for a change. It is somewhat remark able that the dispensary advocates have persistently and repeatedly re fused to allow Mr. Simkin's bill to come up on its merits, when it merely proposes to let the people of the State ?not of the counties?say what solu tion of the liquor problem they want. The bill has been held down so that it will not now have time to pass, and Mr. Simkins has offered it in the shape of a concurrent resolution, but in the closing hours of a session no measure has a fair allowing. A year ago matters stood quite differently, and it is noticeable on all sides. There is again some little talk about the hotel lobbies that Senator Tillman will come down and take a hand in the next primary, not as the partisan of any of the candidates?he has had about enough of that. The ?ugges tion is that he will make the race for Governor himself, and do so on the dispensary platform, and spend two years, if need be, in getting that sys tem back into working order according to his view of the way things ought to be run. This, of course, is mere talk, and it would be the unexpected if Senator Tillman should let go in Washington, for oven a short while, to worry his head with the troubles Iiis pet is having iu Carolina. NOTES OF TIIK WEEK. There have been more bills relative to Greenwood County than for any other three couuties. There arc several prospective candi dates among the members of the As sembly. The temptation among members is to ttand for re-election. The usual average of "returns"' is about one third, unless a cyclone comes along in politics. Four hundred bills have already been passed upon by the House. Judge Mackey's familiar face is now seen about the State House. The policy of leaving the dispensa ry law severely alone has been carried out to the letter. Governor Kllerbe wanted the dis pensary law amended so as to elirni autc the profit feature. The bill placing express and tele graph companies under the control of the railroad commission is ready for ratification. There were no anti-football or anti flirting bills in Carolina's General Assembly. The Senate persists in its refusal to appropriate any money for the pur chase of copies of Gen. McCrady's excellent history. The lobby of the Grand Central Hotel this session was something of a Tammany Hall, when the houses were not in session. The two United States Senators kept their distance from the House during the session. The sore arms of the members, who waited until they got h cru to be vacci nated, are all well, and the leg of one member is convalescent. There will be an abundance of legacies in the shape of ideas for future General Assemblies. Although repeated efforts were made to get constitutional amendments before the people,thcCoustitutioii will remain intact for two years longer. ? Miss Addie hVuneess Gillette, whose ! application for admission to the bar of Worcester County, Mass., has created Hiiclt a sensation in that State. Is deter mined to persevero in hnr tight and (eels certain of success. $(00 Reward. $100. 'Ihe readers of Ibis paper will be pleaird to learn that tlu rc Is at least oho dreaded disease that sci ence has been aide to euro in all Mistakes,and thai is Catarrh. Hail's Catarrh Cure is the only po*i livftcure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh la In;; a coiiMitutionnl disease rcqiirai u constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure I? taken normally, acting directly upon (he hlood and mucous surfaces ol ihr? syatoiu. thereby ilo Mrnyluirtbo foundation of the disease, and giving ; die paviient strength by ImiMloi; up the cnnstitii* . tion and assisting nature iu doing iU work. Tin: ; proprietnts hart? >o rauch fiith iu its curative power?, that Ihcy otter One Hundred I oll.im for any case that It ralU to cure. Send lor Un of Ics mmoaiala A Duo und Just Exemption. Whatever is to he said form against the dispensary law. it will br _M iu r.il ly conceded that the House acted pmperly and justly in exempting Oeonec, York and Pickons from it-; further operations, for the reasons given hy the Uepresentatives of those I 'entities. Mr. Yerner stated on behalf of Oeonec County, that its people do not want the law because they do not want to buy and sell intoxicating "liquor*. "They were satisfied with prohibi tion," and in such conditions it was a wrong and an injustice to force the hurtful traffic on them. That it has been hurtful was plainly shown. The County was a prohibition County when the dispensary was forced on it. " H very man and woman in the town where the dispensary is located peti tioned for its removal." The authori ties "had to buy a lot outside of the town for its purposes. The enforced presence of the com ern led speedily to the development of its peculiar "business.' The first year it sold $2f)0 worth of liquors. The second year it sold ?"?,01111 worth. The third year it sold $10,000 worth. A pro fessedly "moral law" was employed to demoralize the community, or su much of it a-; could be demoralized, in face of the irote.-ts and petitions ol the community itself as a winde. It was the same story in the case ol York. There is but one dispensary in the County. The people were sat isfied with 'prohibition. The State dispensary officials wanted to estab lish a dispensary at the Court House. Yorkrillc. The "people" of the town protested against it. The people oi Kock Hill did the same. It was es tablished at the little village of Tir zah. "The whole community has been cursed by it," and by the origi nal package store which it made po siblc. A few days ago "the fourtcc.. voters at Tirzah voted against the dis penser and his clerk alone voted foi it." The right and plain view of the mat 4cr was distinctly ^/escnted by the advocates of the proposed exemption. Mr. McCullough said "it was a burning shame to force the law on Counties that did not want it," mean' ing Counties which did not want the liquor traffic which it authorizes. Mr. Stevenson "read the law and said the present status was unjustly forced oc these Counties." "It is not a ques tion of politics," he declared, hut one of justice.'' Dr. Wyche took a comprehensive view of the matter. "He thought it better to pass a local option bill," and he was right. It was wrong to force the demoralizing traffic <?n Counties which had forbidden it. It iv just as wrong to continue it in force in Coun ties which would prohibit it if they were allowed to do sn. Giving all due weight to the argument that the liauui traffic cannot be suppressed wholly in any community, and that it is propci and expedient, therefore, for its con duct under sanitary and police regula tions, the counter argument that a community which prohibits the traffic and uz discourages it, and tries to sup press it, should have the fullest sup port of the State in their commenda ble endeavor, must prevail. Every good and right law should he made "general" in its application. There cannot be too many exceptions to a bad one, "Prohibition" should be made practicable and easy of adoption to every County, and every communi ty, and every person, who desires to adopt it and practice it. A local op tion law would do this. The Houkc came short of the full measure of its duty and opportunity in not extending the exemption so justly and wisely accorded to three Counties, to every other County that should choose to claim it on the ?amt terms.?Nrws and Courier. -m -mtrnm- - Nine Hundred Patients. The regular monthly meeting of the hospital for the insane was held yes terday. The meeting was an impor tant one. All of the members of the board were present except .Mr. Perry Glenn, who had been called away from the city on account of the death of his brother, lion. J. M. Glenn, a member of the House of fJcprosenta tives from Anderson County. The report of the superintendent showed that during the m mth of Jan uary -10 patients had been admitted to the hospital for treatment. This makes the total number who are now undergoing treatment 000. and is the largest number which has ever been reached since the establishment of the institution. The affairs were found to be in a prosperous condition, and the man agement is to be congratulated on the good showing made. One of the most important subjects before the board was iu regard to the number of negro patients, which is unusually large. Steps are to be taken whereby special attention will be paid to the colored department in the future, and the Parker huildiug will be utilized at once for the col ored men.? Th* State, TillniAii Liquor Control Hill Dies a Sudden Death. Washington, Feb. 11. The house committee judiciary to-day killed the Senate hill Id permit the State <>f South Carolina tu control liquors brought into the State in original packages. The motion to report it, favorably was lost ou a tie vote. The action of the committee to day ends a long contest that has attracted national attention One of the prin ci pa! objections developed is that it would give the States the power to control iiitcr-State commerce and might lead to the invocation of power in the case of other commodities. He fore the direct vote was taken to-day an amendment to the bill providing ; that the States should not discrimi nate against the liquor of any particu . lar State was adopted by a vote of 7 to .*?. The vote on the motion to favora bly report the bill was then lost on a lie vote, as it requires a majority to report a bill favorably. The Doomed Dispensary. That. the Tilhiiau-Latimcr bill would 1 pass the House of Representatives wo have never believed; but with a speak - ' er from Maine there was a chance that it might receive a favorable report ' I from the committee to which it was ! referred. That chance lias been lost. ; Not even tin" resolutions id' the Legis ! laturc of South Carolina, by some in explicable circumstance unanimously ! adopted, availed to secure its favora ble consideration. The vote in com mittee was a tie, and the measure i therefore fails. It cannot get before ' the bouse except by unanimous con . Bent, and that is a possibility quite . beyond consideration. , The bill is dead. The effort to cir cumvent the Federal Courts has failed* . Jl the boasts and promises of Till Irnan have come to naught. The Su preme Court of the Cnitcd States r will, as its past deliverances assuro I us. confirm .Judge Simonton's decis ions. Interstate commerce in liquors : will continue unrestrained. The dis pensary is doomed. It is well. The people are getting I very tired of it with its hypocrisy, its scandald and its oppressions. The > iloundcrings of a Legislature elected in the dispensary interest is the surest ! . evidence of this. In the campaign I ' this year the sense of the Democratic I voters will bo taken andthenex* Gcn : I era! Assembly, we are assured, wHl j not force the State traffic in liquor up >1 on any community which protests against it. The dispensary has lasted [ longer than a great many humbugs, . beeausc it has been fortified with ofii i ces, salaries, spoliation, privilege and I prejudice -but like all humbugs it is . sure to be exposed and ended. ? T/ic r Statt . The Girls Can Stop it. ' i _ ' As a rule girls are not kissed against their wills. The average man may bo no better than he may be, but general ly in the matter of labial privileges he has at least some reason for thinking that One offers him the rosy fruit. Sometimes it is siaiply his sclf-con i ccit and egotism that suggests it. In I such cases he deserves all the punish ! ment he may receive. But if the wo man gives to him and he feasts, he I may be a very weak and "unworthy" yoang man, but he wouid be more or less than human to refuse. From Aiar 's time to the present he has nearly always succumbed. The renae I dy in Atlanta and elsewhere is in the hands of the girls. They ought to re , aline, if they don't, that familiarity breeds contempt, and that while the friendliness and good comradeship that characterize the relations of the young men and young women of the ; duj' are all right, a woman is a woman [ for a' that, and though she ride a bi ; cycle and wear bloomers, she should never permit her male friends to for I get the respect and courtesy that are due t ? her as a lady.? /iaftiinon San. mm mm ii't .Miles in 1*2(1 .Minutes. ' Hi KiAie, N. V.. February Ii?,? New York to Jluffalo, l'2~> miles, in 420 minutes actual running time was the record made over the Krie rail road to-day by a special newspaper j train. The train left .Jersey i'ity at.*!.IS 1 o'clock and reached UolTalo at 10.4H this morning. In ?stops twenty-four 'minutes wcr-2 l>?^t. The train was i made up of engine and three baggage j cars. The ninety-three miles between i Horncllsville and Huffalo were cov ered in eighty-live minutes. Next ! Sunday an attempt is to be made to ! improve on this fast run. mm ? ? The South Carolina College will graduate more students this session than any Other male college in "tliC State. The number being twenty nine, fourteen of whom arc iu the law department and fifteen iu the acade mic