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M?erso? intei?ig?ncer. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. J. F. CL?NKSCALES, ? Editors and C. C. LANGSTON, t Proprietors, TERMS. ONE YEAR.SI 50 SIX MONTHS . 7."; * WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1898: Hon. E. E. Verner, a member of the Legislature from Oconce County, is a candidate for Congress from the Third District. i - ? - The annual reunion of the Confed erate Veterans will be held in Charles ton next April. The ''grand old city by the sea" will give them a cordial welcome. The contract for the State printing has been awarded to the Bryan Print ing Company, of Columbia, for ?7, 500. This is just about one-half of what it has been costing the past few j years. The announced candidates for Gov ernor are Governor Ellerbe, Senator Archer, George D. Tillman, R. B. Watson, O. L. Schumpert and Walt. Whitman. Afjw more counties are yet to be heard from. Miss Frances E. Willard, President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, died in New York last Friday night. She was a remarkable woman in many respects, and accomplished great good daring her life. Rev. Sam Jones has announced him self as a candidate for Governor of G-eorgia. He will no doubt put a lit tle life in the campaign. Mr. Jones is making the biggest mistake of hi3 life in seeking a public office. The syndicate of European bankers who are scheming to buy Cuba, in or* der to make good their holding of Spanish bonds, and to get this country to guarantee the payment of $400, 000,000 in new Cuban bonds, are en gaged in one of the most daring specu lations ou human suffering the world has erer seen. - - . j a m* The General Assembly adjourned last Wednesday night after a session of thirty-seven days without accom plishing much for the betterment cf the people; though the members worked hard and faithfully. Several hundred bills were introduced, most of which were of a local nature, and without special interest to the people at large. Happily factionalism cut lit tle figure during the session. -:? m? 9 t*? - Last week forest fires swept through many of the counties of the middle and lower sections of the State and great damage resulted. On many plantatians not a house was left stand ing and the^farmers lost everything they possessed. Many families moved all their effects into the fields to es cape the burning houses, and had everything burned there. On Sunday the Columbia papers contained an ap peal for aid for the sufferers in Rich land County. The new county government law does away with the couuty board/of commissioners, consisting of a county supervisor and the chairman of each township board, and provides instead for a salaried supervisor and two county commissioners to serve at three dollars per day for actual ser vice. Gov. Ellerbe: it is said, will not sign the new bill, and it will therefore not become law for a year yet, and will then become law with out his signature. .He docs this in order to make the law apply to all the counties in the State at the same time. That statistics can be made to prove anything has been often said. Juat what the honest statistics do prove, however, as to the relationship be tween crime and ignorance on the one hand, and between virtue and educa tion on the other, is much disputed. A New Y'ork paper has opened its columns to the discussion of this question, with the resuit that some of its correspondents assert that crime and educatieh are increasing together, while others :i"ist that the more highly educated people become the fewer crimes arc committed. And both parties to the argument make a plentiful use of atitisties. Farmers should think seriously be fore pitching aad apportioning their crops, that if another 11,000,000 bale crop of cotton is made this year they will have to sell their crop for ;> cents or less. If every farmer in the cotton belt should reduee his acreage in cot toa this year 25 per cent, there would still be an abundant crop of eotton made, but at remunerative prices, and they would have largely increased supplies of the neecssaries of life for home consumption. If one bus what ! he needs at home lie requires but lit- ; tie money, unless he wants to tackle J three-card-monte cr some other game of chance, in which all the chance is j against him. If one raises what he needs for home consumption he can simply stay at home and consume it. ? Isaac Snoll, who died recently in Jersey City at the ;sge of ninety-seven, was married four times and was the father of t wenty-nine childre n. We are opposed to the annexation of Hawaii. The mission of our eoun try is to build up what it already has. ! To do that is a task under which it is j to-day struggling and an enhancing of ! the burden would be the height of fol ly. We already have more territory [ than we can conveniently handle. We [ want no more, we need no more. We j certainly do not want islands ret !:icg j with leprosy, populated with mixed j peoples of the most undesirable char acter and situated so far away from us that an immense navy would be an absolute necessity for its defense. Wc arc strongly inclined to believe that the annexation of Hawaii is nothing more nor less than a job seek ing to benefit a few at the expense of the country r.t large. The most appalling disaster to our navy in recent years was the blowing up the battleship Maine in Havana harbor on Tuesday night, 15th inst., by which 200 sailors lost their lives and the splendid ship was made a to tal wreck. No one knows the cause of the explosion, and perhaps it will never be known. Many believe that a conspiracy on the part of zealous des peradoes wrought the disaster, while others hold that it was purely acci dental. Whatever the cause, the ef fect is most shocking in its horrible details. The sailors were asleep in their bunks when the explosion oc curred and were hurled into eternity without a moment's notice. Only two officers were killed, Merritt and Jen kius. Many sailors were mangled and are in Havana hospitals. The other survivors were taken to Key West. The Maine was a second-class armored battleship, completed in 1890 at a cost of over $2.500,000. The Spanish authorities have shown great sympa thy in the calamity and have been ac tive in receiving the wounded. A committee will investigate the cause of the disaster. If by chance it should be traced to a Spanish source, nothing can prevent war. laws Passed By the Recent Session of the Legislature. THE JIM-CROW CAR HILL. An Act to require all railroads and railroad compauies operating trains and doing business in this State to provide and operate separate coaches, or separate apartment in coaches, for the accommodation and trans portation of white and colored pas sengers in the State. Be it enacted by the (ieueral As sembly of the State of South Carolina: Section 1. That all railroads or rail road companies engaged in this State as common carriers, of passengers for hire shall furnish separate apartments in first-class coaches or separate first class coaches for the accommodation 5 of white and colored passengers; Pro- ; vided,-equal accommodation shall be supplied to all persons, without dis tinction of race, color or previous con dition, in such coaches. Section 2. That any first-class coach of such carrier of passengers may be divided into apartments, separated by a substantial partition, in lieu of sep arate coaches. Section 3. That should any railroad or railroad company, its agent or em ployees, violate the provisions of-this Act, such railroad or railroad compa ny shall be liable to a penalty of not more than live hundred dollars nor less than three hundred dollars for each violation, to be collected by suit of any citizen of this State, and the pen alty recovered shall, after paying all proper fees and costs, go into the gen eral fund of the State treasury. Section 1. That the ' provisions of this Act shall not apply to nurses on trains, nor to narrow guagc roads, or to relief trains in case of accident, nor to through vestibule trains, nor to of ficers or guards transporting prisoners, being so transported. Section 5. That in case the coach for cither white or colored passengers should be full of passengers and another coach cannot be procured at the time then the conductor in charge of the train shall be. and he is hereby, authorized to set apart as much of the other coach as may be necessary to accommodate the passengers on said train. Section (!. That there shall be in audition to the first-class coaches pro vided for in this Act a second-class car, in which it shall be lawful for anh and all persons to ride by paying sec ond-class fare or having a second-class ticket. Section 7. That the provisions of this Act shall not go into effect until September 1, 1898. Section s. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed: Provided, that noth ing in this Act shall prevent the rail roads of the State from attaching pas senger coaches to freight trains. The provisions of this Act shall not ap ply to roads under forty miles in length. Approved, February IS, 1898. To LEND MONK Y TO COUNTIES. An Act to amend an Act eutitled ''An Act requiring the sinking fund com mission to lend funds to the several County Hoards of Commissioners of the State for the use of their coun ties in preference to lending same to other applicants for said funds,' approved February 25. A. D., 1897. Me it enacted by the Ucncral As sembly of the Stall' of South Carolina: Section 1. That Section 2 of said Act he amended by striking out after '"more than' and before "of the tax levy" the word one-third.and in- j sert in lien thereof the word "one j half. ' so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Section 2. The said loan shall be i made by the said commissioners upon ' the valid securities of the several j States of the I nited States, giving preference thereto, or upon the note of the County Treasurer and County Supervisor of any of the comities of j this State, who shail make application 1 for a loan, provided the said loan be I not more Lluui one-half of the tax I levy for said couuty, and the whole of the (axes ei' said county . hall he I pledged for the repayment of the money so borrowed of the said sink ing fund commission. Sectio:! 2. That Section ? of said Act be, aud the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word ' one-third" in the iirst proviso of j said section and inserting in lieu [thereof.the word "one-half,': so thai, tlie said provjs?, when amended, shall read as follows: "Provided, that no j loan shall be made t-> any county in excess of one-half of the amount of the tax levy for such county for coun ty purposes." Section 3. That ail Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved the 18th day of Februarv, A. D., 18?IS. SETTLE*! ENT-O.F ESTATES. An Act to amend an Act entitled '"An Act to facilitate the settlement of estates of testators." approved 25th day of February, A. D. 1S!>7. He it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of South Carolina: That the Act entitled "An Act to facilitate the settlements of estates of testators,"' approved 25th February, lS'JT, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all of Section 1 and inserting in lieu thereof the fol lowing: Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of South Caroli na: If, after the expiration of two years from the time when any legacy be comes due and payable under any will or testament, it shall be made to ap pear to the satisfaction of the Judge of the Court of Probate, by whom let ters testamentary were granted, that the executor or executors of such will I or testament, or the administrator or administrators, with such will or tes tament annexed, is or are unable to ascertain the whereabouts of any lega tee under such will or testament, or to ascertain whether such legatee be dead or not, it shall be lawful for the executor or executors, or the adminis trator or administrators with the will annexed to pay over to the Judge of said Court of Probate the amount of the legacy of such legatee, and any interest that may be legally due there on, and such payment of the amount of such legacy to the Judge of the said Court of Probate shall be a full and complete discharge to the executor cr executors, or the administrator or administrators, with the will annexed. The said amount so paid to the Judge of the said Court of Probate shall be protected by his official bond, and shall be held by such Court of Pro bate for such legatee subject to the order of such Probate Court or any other Court of competent jurisdiction. Approved the 11th day of February. A. 1). 1898. TO DEFINE THE USURY LAW. An Act to regulate the rate of inter est upon contracts arising in this State for the hiring, lending or use of money or other commodity. Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of South Carolina: Section 1. That no greater interest than 7 per cent per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed .upon, or al lowed, upon any contract arising in this State, for the hiring, lending or use of money or other commodity, either way of straight interest, dis count or otherwise, except upon writ ten coutracts, wherein, by express agreement, a rate of interest not ex ceeding 8 per cent may be charged. Section 2. Any person or corpora tion who shall receive, or contract to receive, as interest any greater amount than is provided for in the preceding section, shall forfeit all iuterest and the cost of the action, and such por tion of the original debt as shall be due shall be recovered without inter est or costs, and where any amount so charged or contracted for has been actually received by such person or corporation, he or she or they shall forfeit double the amount received in respect of interest, to be collected by a separate action or allowed as a coun ter claim in any action brought to re cover the principal sum. Section '.). That the borrower, and his heirs, devisees, legatees or per sonal representative, or any creditor, or any person having a legal or equita ble interest in the estate or assets of such borrower, may plead the benelit of the provisions of this Act, as plain tiff or-defendant.and the same shall be effectual at any suit at law. or in equity, and. any person offending against the same shall be compelled to answer, on oath, any complaint that may be exhibited against him for the discovery of any sum of money or things in action, so charged, agreed upon, reserved or taken, in violation of the foregoiug provisions, or cither of them. Section 4. That all Acts and parts ni' Acts. ' iconsistcnt with this Act. be. and the same are hereby, repealed; provided, that this Act shall not ap ply to contracts made before it goes into effect. Approved the Hhh day of February. A. D, 18?JS. ? Tho best lly destroyer in tho world is a common or garden wasp. An ex pert ays that be bas known one wasp to kill a thousand Hies in ? day. -? - Consumption Positively Cured. Mr. \\ Ii. Greeve, merchant, of Chil howie, Va., certifies that he had consump tion, was given up to die, sought all med ical treatment that money could procure, tried all cough 'emedies he could hear of, but got no relief ; spent many nights sit ting up in a chair ; was induced to try Dr. King'? New Dipcovery, and was cured by use of two botiles. For pa?t three years has been attenuin^ to business and pays Dr. King's Nevv Discovery is the grandest remedy ever made, as it has done so much for linn and also for others in his commu nity. Dr. King's Now Discovery is guar anteed for 0?neb", Colds and Consump tion, [t don't fail. Trial boUle-i free at ETillft >rr Drug < !o. SALE OF JAIL. np'ilK OLD JAIL, as it now stands, will J. be sidil at unhlic outcry, tu tbo high est bidder, on Saturday, March 5, at II o'c!< cL .i m \Y P. SN BLGIK ?V li, < <.. S ip. W. 6. MeG-EE, SUSGEOP? DENTIST. OFFICE?Front I loom, ovor Farmers and Merchants Bank? ANDEKSON, S. C. Feb !', 1S9S Richlan;! Crock Eteins. Thsre ;-i a great dial ofs?ckneis in this section. Mr. Je-30 ?nirloy, of this place,.is very iii at. ?hin writing. Mr. St'bvonsoR, Mrs. C.irter and MJas Fannio \7illifbrd~ of: this section, visitad relatives in Earl w.< !i, G ; . last was i:. Mr. F. M. Brooks, < (> !. :.[' ] i'.' his daughter. Miss Kris, of this p:. <v. visite relatives in Oconeo ! '. Snncay; We have a tlourishiu ; Sund ty Scl Providence Nearly all of our farmers are . . gr*??t deal of grain. Misses Evie and Emma l?rooks and Faunie Wiliford, of this stctibu, <vili vir-ii Portman ShoalsS itur lay; I'.i.r:: Eyks A Card <?f Thanks. '!'., family of the decease i busband and lather, Mr. Lemuel iV el born", thus ex press their heartfelt gratitude t-> their in.!? y ioruiH and neishbors ft r r.ho kind nc->. tenderness, and constancy with which thsy assisted in nursing their d-: p*rt'< 1 love oca daring Iiis lato iihif-ss. "l'on proved yourselves friends in netd scd neigh bora indeed; arid wo certainly ippi aujd your ticu^htfalness acd syrn ! (5od grant that your li'vsa may Le , ever h tp; y. and j lydus. ' ".'Sleep-soft, bftlov'd'wo sometimes say. hnvK no to charm awav s * S dre .ms that through i he :>> elids creep; ; Kat never doleful dream again i S h >i i i break the happy rdumbfl'r. when ' He eiveth his beloved slrep.'!' ALL those interested will please take notice thai ii becomes our duty by order of the .Stockholders of the Co-Operative Alliance ?Store to sell at oublie outcry in front of Court House on SALES DAY IX MARCH all uncollect able accounts due the Store. This is indeed n very disagreeable task, but what else could be done? The business is sold out and the purchase money paid in, and all that now delays a settlement with the .Stockholders is the col lection or disposition of these accounts, and every one on reflection will see that the Store has made too great a sacrifice in closing out the Goods to be able to stand the expense of keeping a b iok- keeper or two for months trying to collect accounts, many of which are so small that the actaal expense in curred in trying to collect them would perhaps amount to more than the ag gregate sum realized. Hence the necessity of di sposing of all the remaining assets of the corporation by selling them as above mentioned. Besides, we do not know of a single individual that owes the Store who could not get up a good Note perfectly acceptable to either Bank. So if they ever intend to pay their honest debts no, hardship would be worked on any one. Yours very truly, E. S. HILL5 Manager. N. B.?Many Stockholders have not yet surrendered their Certificates of Stock for liquidation. This must be done at once, for they cannot share in the distribution of assets otherwise. The following Certificates of Stock are lost, and all persons are warned not to trade for them as they cannot be transferred any way except on the books of the corporation : A. W. Guyton, Certificate No. 131?1 share. J. A. Welborn, Certificate No.-1 share. L. C. Chamblec, Certificate No. 184?10 shares. J. F. McClure, Ceitificate No. 170?1 share. Due notice is hereby extended to all. OFFICE OF'" AT THE 10c. CENT STORE, No. 27 South Side Public Square, ANDERSON, S. C, Feb. 21,1898. Whereas, some unscrupulous or unthoughtful person or persons have tried to reflect discredit upon my name, together with that of the Firm by whom I was employed from September 1st, 1897, to February 9th, 1898, by reporting or insinuating that this Firm is underselling competition by giving short measure and short weights, and that they have required their force of assistants to impose upon confiding friends in this way. I take pleasure in voluntarily stating that the Firm of C. S. Minor & Co. are not made of that kind of stufl. From the beginning of my term of employment with them to this moment I was never instructed or expected to defraud any person out of one cent, inch or ounce. On the other hand, my in structions were to always give even and exact measurement and weight, make change to the cent, and act square and fair with every customer, and so far as I am informed the same instructions were siven to everv other man in the house. In fact, the men in the em ploy of C. S. Minor &. Co. are not the class of men that would put up with any such instructions, and further still would they be from carrying out such plans of business. 1 wish emphatically to state that any person making state ments contrary to the facts above given, either knowingly or un knowingly, states what is false und cannot be verified. fSio-ned) J. L HOLLAND. We have it to wholesale and retail. Also, Sullivan's "T. C. D." and . ''Our Own," Big Winston, Harvey s Nat. Leaf, Cannon Ball?in fact, we have twenty-six varieties of Tobacco to retail from. Also, fifteen varieties of Smoking Tobacco. Better get our prices and examine our goods. FANCY C;i*OCEi*IES. Old Time Seed Tick Coffee 8 lbs. for 81.00. Kingan's Bure .Lard in Tubs-and Ting, always reliable. The finest Can Goods in our city. Try us. Armour's "Star" Hams and Kingan's Breakfast Bacon. GARDEN SEED. Potato Seedlings, Buist's Early Kose, Peerless, Goodrich, Beauty of He bron, Burbanks. Onion Sets, Peas and Beans in bulk. NAVASSA CUANO. Reliable, High Grade Fertilizer. Fresh lot SOUK KRAUT. Phone 89 H. B. FANT & SON.^ RAGS, RAGS, RAGS ! I am again buying; Rags -Save them up and bring them and your Hides ! If"von immmI :i ?yoot? STSEI SANGE OB STOVE AT bottom prices, either for ( !ash or on time for a good Note don i, fail to see my line. I will swap you a New Stove for your old'ono or lor Cattle, and give von the market price for your Cattle. Now is the time to get you a good Stove before cotton-planting time Tinware, Crockery, Glass, Lamp Goods, &c, SPECIALTY. Thanking you all for past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same? Etesp? cl fully, JOHN T. BUKRISS t c5p g a hp t n m a i \ 1 Ifr U I U i l li We were highly honored by the manner in which you took the informal introduction of ourselves to you last week through these columns. It would, of course, please us all the more if wc were able to meet every one of you, and shake yon by the hand. To tell you personally that we have come in your midst, not only in the effort to gain patronage, but to gain your confidence and share your esteem. We are unable to say much at this writing as to our Stock, except, as stated last week, that Miss Cater, of the Dry Goods Department, and Mrs. Gardner, of the Millinery, are still in New York making Spring purchases, and during their absence we still continue the? 'remendous Sacrifice Sale. Our new friends are taking advantage of the rare bar gains and profit thereby. T i ? 0 HI Successor to S. Hill It affords me genuine pleasure to inform my friends and the trade generally that I have been most favorably impress ed with Messrs. Julius H. Weil & Co. I consider the gentle men of first-class business qualifications, who recognize that it is to their own interest to continue to conduct this busi ness to the interest of its customers as well. They have re tained almost our entire force of Sales-people. I very cheer fully commend them to the confidence of our people. Very respectfully, r. s. hill. HEAVY GROCERIES, OATS, MOLASSES, EVERYTHING necessary to supply the Farm, and we will make you prices which will reduce expenses to the minimum. We buy Goods cheap and sell you correspondingly. We constantly keep on hand all grades of? UANO, And guarantee our prices on satno. These Goods have stood the te^ for years, and all who have used them will tell you there are none better. WE ARE AGENTS FOR? Powers, Gibbs & Co's. Eagle Island Guano, Gibbs' High Grade Guano, And Almont Acid Phosphate. Aiso, the old Reliable Pacific GHano. PRICES LOW AS THE LOWEST. HEAVY GROCERIES AND FARMERS SUPPLIE: At extremely low prices. S&T 500 Barrels FLOUR, all grades, at prices to unload quickly. Very truly, O- C. BROWN & BRC. PIA ?S? S AND ?OESIHK :<? int'inn the public that I am now Agent for the following well nown Musical Instruments : RMERSON CHICK'**111 N*0 and MEHLIS. ORUAXK -WKAVKK, MILLICH and other High Grade Organs. Representing the Mann fad rers dire-'t. Lam enabled to sell you either a lauoor an Organ at a very LOW PK 10!**. and if you eonte.i.plato buying either it vill pay vou to call on or address me at Anderson, S. ('. M. Ii. WIE/.9S. ROCM - Ls the place to buy - A Dollar's Worth of COFFEE if want something Rich and Strn". .T. G. RI IE Y.