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BRIEF SKETCH OF At the meeting of the llobert E. Lee 1 federacy on the afternoon of the 4th in: MRS. ANNIE B. MEANS: ANDERSON. S. C., April 5,189S. I A hundred mimic tragedies had J been enacted in the old National Theatre before John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot ?hat rang out over thc. world. Good Friday night, in the year 1865, bequeathed to history a memorable tragedy, and to the South land a grievous and awful - legacy. In his cruel, ghastly and guilty shot, Wilkes Booth wronged the dead, wronged the South, and tortured his own soul. For the South, poor/but proud, ?faithful even to truth and right, to honor and knightly chivalry, never unsheathes a secret sword, or dims the immortal story of her glori ous sons, who wore the grey, and nobly followed the "fiery cross of Jackson and of Lee/' It is this man, i Wilkes Booth, tu v. assassin of Abra ham Lincoln, whose history we would briefly trace. The son of the English actor, Junius Brutus Booth, Wilkes was born in Baltimore in 1839, and, like his father, became an actor, inherit ing a reckless love of tragic drama. . At Ford's Theatre, in the city of Washington, On the night of April 14th. 1865, President Lincoln occu pied his private box. Here Wilkes Booth fired the fatal shot. Then rushing to the front, he exclaimed, "Sic semper tyrannis ! the South is avenged!" He then leaped over the box down to the stage below, and in the leap caught the spur on the heel of his shoe in the bunting draperies, falling and breaking his leg, but he made his escape through the rear cf the stage (where outside he had in . waiting a youth, an accomplice, by the name of Herold, with one of the fast est horses in the city). Booth mount ed, and he and his deluded follower made their escape, going 60 miles that night, crossing the Potomac over into Maryland, stopping at the home of Dr. Medd. , This awful tragicly annulled the Sherman-Johnson convention, so full of promise to the South, and deprived the South in her most fearful crisis of the great Kentuckian, Abraham Lin coln, who would, if spared, have proved the South's best friend, and the tragedy of whose life and whose death shall exist forever on the his toric page, a man pronounced by Hen- j ry Grady the great statesman, patriot and typical American. The occasion chosen by Booth and his conspirator.' could not have been more favorable to do -their bloody work. It was just after Lee's surren der, at the close of the four years' war, when military rigor was relaxed, and travel north and south was open ing. Certain it is that if military re strictions had been drawn as closely as it was while active hostilities were in progress, the chief assassin and his assistant never would have thundered past the sentinel on the navy bridge and escaped into the yet hostile South. As soon as the news of the assassina tion reached the war department ? thousands of soldiers, policemen and .detectives were despatched to guard -every possible avenue of escape, and fabulous sums of money offered as a - reward for the capture of Booth, Herold and Surratt, Surratt being a .son of Mrs. Surratt, at whose house meetings had been formerly held : .planning the killing of Lincoln. Col. Baker, a brave soldier of that time, headed a party of fifty men, in : the pursuit of Booth, and was the first to discover his hiding place on Gar irett's farm, April 27th. There con cealed in an old tob?ceo house, Booth and Herold were discovered. Herold gave himself up, but Booth refused to ' surrender, saying ?bey could prepare a I a stretcher for him; be would never ' give himself up. At this, Col. Baker t fired the barn with a shuck torch, and Booth made one more leap for freedom, 1 As he sprang out of the door he was 1 shot by Boston Corbett almost in the same place Booth had shot Lincoln. His body was caught up and placed under aa apple tree, and he was rc- < vived by the use of a stimulant long 1 enough to murmur these words: "Tell ] mother that I died for my country." The body was then placed in au an cient and decrepit market wagon, owned by an old colored man. and 1 they started back to Washington with their prize. After 30 miles of heat j and dust, Baker saw the blessed blue ] of the Potomac glittering through the < trees. It was just twilight, and ! Booth's body, wrapped in blue, was ' now gray with dust. A small boat . from the tug was lowered and the i body placed into the boat. Going 1 down thc river, they anchored in the j navy yard, and there: an autopsy and j inquest were held. Late in thc after- j ' noon of thc second day, after Booth's ] body was brought to Washington < (April 28),Col.Baker received orders to j 1 dispose of the body in thc way that ? ' seemed best to hi tn. so that booth's (.'on- ^ federate friends might, never get hold j < of it. He at om e proceeded to the navy j ! yard, thc body was once more sown j up in its bloody winding sheet and j ( lowered into a small boat, and a few | x strokes of the oars sent it speeding j WILKES BOOTH. Chapter of thc Daughters of the Con st., the following sketch was read by out on the black Potomac, into thc gathering darkness. It was believed that the body had been sunk, and for days the river was dragged by Booth's friends, but a shallow grave was in waiting in one of the old cells iu thc old Penitentiary, just outside the city of Washington, where the body was laid and there remained for several years, till friends gained permission to remove it to Baltimore, where it now rests. Crucifixion of Christ. "Crucifixion was a terrible death,'1 writes thc Rev. Amory H. Bradford, D. D., apropos of Holy "Week, in an article on "The Last Week in Christ's Life" in the April Ladies' Home Journal. "It was reserved for offend ers of a servile class and never used for a Roman citizen. The hands and feet of the victim were nailed to the wood, and a kind of rude seat was pro vided-just enough to prevent the weight of the body from tearing through the flesh. The exact spot where Jesus was crucified cannot now be identified. Golgotha was probably some skull shaped hill 'outside the city wall.' Thither a strange proces sion wended its way-the condemned with their crosses on their backs, the hard-hearted rabble making fun of them as they passed. The strength of Jesus failed before the destination was reached, and another was com pelled to carry the cross for Him. This crucifixion, like all others, was cruel and barbarous in the extreme. The executioners were Roman soldiers, but a host of Jews feasted their eyes on the hideous sight. "Such agony was no protection against the gibes of the crowd. With but one of His disciples in sight, and only two or three friendly women near-one of them His mother-Jesus passed the last hours of His earthly life. Those who suffered by crucifix ion sometimes lingered three or four days-Jesus lived about five hours. While hanging ou the cross He spoke seven times. Soon after the cross was raised, looking over the coarse and brutal soldiery, and tuc mistaken fanatics who had hounded Him to that hour, He uttered a prayer, which has probably made a deeper impression on the world than any other single prayer ever offered: 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' " Tuc Sky-Rocket Brand. A man traveling, entered a tavern, and seeing no one present but the landlord and a negro, seated himself and entered into conversation with thc negro. Shortly he asked Sambo if he was dry. Sambo said he was. Stranger told him to go to the bar and take something at his expense. Negro did so and shortly left. Landlord says to stranger: "Are you acquainted with that nig ger?" "No, never saw him before; but why do you ask?" ' "I supposed so from your convers ing with him and asking him to drink." "Oh!" said the stranger, "I was ex perimenting. The fact is, I was dry myself, and I thought that if your li quor didn't kill the negro in 15 min utes, I would venture to take a drink myself." Landlord's curiosity fully satisfied. Xot so Spry as He Was. The Southern black man may never liave had his white brother's advanta ges, but if Southern newspapers are to { be believed, he is something able to \ rive him good advice. An old Georgia negro, hearing that bis former master had decided to en list in the Cuban army, said to hiin: "Marse Tom, doan' do no sich fool j ;hing ez dat-doan' von do it.' "Why shouldn't I?" "Kase, Marse Tom"-and here the J )ld man lowered his voice-"you's got i touch er dc rheumatism, cn you can't .un ez fast now cz you run endurin' )r dc war! -Af/mila Constitution. Blood Poison Cured. There is no doubt, according to the nany remarkable cures performed by Botauic Blood Balm ("B. B. B.") that it is far the best Tonic and Blood Pun ier ever manufactured. All others pale into insignificance when compar ed with it. lt cures pimples, ulcers, ?kin diseases, and all manner of blood md skin ailments. Buy thc best, and lon't throw your money away on sub stitutes. Try the long tested and (dd reliable B. B. B. ?1.00 per large hot tie. For sale by Druggists. A ?AH CASH CURED. Three years ago I contracted a blood poison. 1 applied to a physician at .>nce, and his treatment caine near killing mc. L employed an old physi cian and then went to Kentucky, i then went to Hot Springs and rcmain ?d two months. Nothing seemed to ..ure mc permanently, although tem porary relief was given me. I return ed home a ruined man physically, with :? ii t little prospect ol' ever getting well I was persuaded to try Botanic Blood Balm (I>. B. B..) and to my utter as tonishment it quickly healed every ticer. Vi. T. HALLERTON, For sale by druggists. Macon, (Ja. A KP WHITES ON WAH. Says thc People do not Appear to he Much Concerned. Atlanta Constitution. War is a big thing-an awful thing -but our people do not seem to be very much concerned. They have more curiosity than apprehension. Tho great excitement is at Washing ton, and even there it is based not upon fear or blood or suffering, but upon the struggle between thc two great political parties-which one shall get ahead and what move is the best one to get ahead and stay there. Whatever McKinley does or proposes to do the Democrats must fight it and vice versa. The success of the party is a bigger thing than war. We have never seen Congress so bewildered. Some are for intervention, some foy recognition, some for annexation and all for revenge. Wall street sees nothing but the money that is in it. Some preachers are for peace at any price and some are howling for war. Oi course the army and navy want a fight, for that is their professional business and gives a chance for pro motion. Then there are the editors and publishers who must appear to be at fever heat whether they feel so or not, for it is a harvest time for news and thc people want the news and will buy the papers. Thc farmers, too, are affected and are studying what to plant for profit, and thc speculators in grain and meat arc bulling and bearing, according to their faith. But the great masses of the Ameri can people, the toilers and consumers, who have nothing to gain and nothing to lose by a war, are lookers on with unconcern. They have no axe to grind, nor even a hatchet, but still have a feeble hope of more work and better wages. Down here at the South there is no great interest except in the cities, for our people never get any contracts or government jobs, and don't expect any gain from a war with SSpain. If we get a custom house hore and there the material must come from over the line, notwithstanding the marble and the granite arc at our doors. Northern contractors clean out our rivers and harbors and all the the profit goes away from home. Our mischievous people tell the negroes they have got to go and do all *he .fighting, for it is McKinley's war and they all voted for him. Thc boys read to them paragraphs from the Northern papers which say that North ern soldiers would die of fever in Cuba in a week and that only Southern negroes can stand the climate. Lots of them around here are fixiug to hide out aud have done picked out their canebrake. Clarence, the drayman, is a leader, a heeler in elections, and he says: "I never vote for any war. I ain't gwine to fight. I ain't done nothin' to nobody and nobody ain't done nothin' to me. I ain't mad wid nobody and how can a man fight with-, out he's mad. Mr. Akerman and Mr. Crawford got me into dis scrape and dey must git me out. I wonder if dey is gwine to de war." Last Sunday I saw a gang pf ne groes standing around a preacher and he was reading the big headlines of the Constitution to thean. There is a large pictorial recruiting poster in the postoffice and they stand off and look at it with serious alarm. But they are not going from these parts, neither are thc white people going right now. Old man Ingram was a good fighter in the last war and seemed to like thc business and he says he wouldn't mind going if they will let him fight under General Lee and wear gray clothes. My friend, Captain Dobbs, says he will go along with Dr. Cal houn and will skirmish around awhile and get sick and get thc doctor to give him a discharge at the end of three months and theu he will come home and draw a pension all thc rest of his life. Well, if it has to be a war Mr. Mc Kinley had better turn it over to Gen eral Lee to fight it. Big things are piling in on us just now. The State canvass for State officials is now going on and getting red boland it takes nearly all our time to keep up with that and the war lon. Maybe we will need another war gov ernor and if wc do Colonel Candler has had m<?re experience in that line than some other folks. Colonel Licnfroc could take care uf the negro convicts and march them to the front just like old doc Brown did the 200 convicts in the penitentiary when Sherman came along. Governor Brown went down there with a wagon load of gray clothes and made them take oil' their stripes and he gave them all guns and had them to elect their officers anti then made them a speech and said "(?eiitlemen, Kollow Citizens. ?Sol diers : ll doesn't follow thal because you ate convicts you are patriots. Now H thc great opportunity nf your lives to redeem yourselves and wipe off thc disgrace from yourselves and your kindred. Thc enemy is at your doors ami you mus! light him- yes! i "Fight tiii tho lust armed loo expires fight for your altars and your (ires, C.od ami ymir nativo land." And they hailed their freedom with a shout and they marched forth like new men. and they did fight. Just so, Colonel licnfroe could march the ?,000 negro convicts forth and under his lead they, too, will fight. Then herc is thc cold wintry blast that has come over our country and j killed our fruit and vegetables and paralyzed our hopes. Our most for ward peaches arc not killed, but our potatoes arc utterly prostrated. They will come out again and I think will make us a good ?crop. Two years ago minc were killed down to thc ground, but they came out again and I never had a better crop. This leads mc to think that maybe they had better be cut down early and then they would ; make more fruit and less vines. My wife threw all sorts of old clothes over her Mareschal Neil rose vine that was full of buds. My neighbors covered up their beans and beets, and some of them spread newspapers over their po tatoes and saved them. I was away down in Greensboro the coldest night and it was not cold enough there to kill auything. A few degrees of lati tude makes a great difference. Mr. Marbury, the weather man, foretold us of this coming freeze and I have groat faith in him. "When thc weather bureau was first established we thought it was a humbug, but long observation has convinced the world that the winds and thc waves and the weather are not thc mystery they used to be. Science has revealed their courses aud their changes and the telegraph tells it truly many hours beforehand. Thc scripture says. ''The wind bloweth where it listetet and ye hear the sound thereof, but ye cannot tell whence it cometh nor whither it g?eth." Hut wc can tell now and can fortify against disasters on land and perils on the deep. Verily, there is something j new under the sun. 131 LL ARI?. - The average healthful man eats nearly two and a half pounds of solid food a day. Upon this basis the daily consumption of food by thc human .ace equals 3,607.770.000 pounds, or 1,010,012 tons. T. B. Bice, a prominent druggist of Grceusboro, Ga., writes as follows : "I have handled Dr. Pitts' Carmina tive for eight years, and have never known of ? single instance where it failed to give perfect satisfaction. Parties who once use it always make j permanent customers. We sell more i of this article than all the other Car minatives, soothing syrups and colic drops combined." For teething chil dren it has no equal. The Magic Apple. "Such a raiD37 day!" said little Amy Jolcfully. "I wish that 1, kncwsome thing new to do.'' ".When I was a little girl," said her mamma, "I used to think it great fun to make a magic apple, and surprise my papa. How would you like to make one for your papa? 1 Amy was delighted with thc idea, aud brought a large, fair apple. Her mamma gave her a long needle and strong thread, and showed her how [tn take a long stitch in thc apple close under the skin. Amy drew thc thread, leaving about two inches hanging out of the apple: then she put the needle into thc very hole it came out of, and took another long stitch, and so on all around thc apple, at thc end bringing the needle and thread out of thc very first hole; then she took hold of both ends of the thread and pulled hard, but carefully, and all the thread came out of the first hole. Amy rubbed the apple, which was a fine red one, until it shone like glass. Thc needle-holes did not show. When her papa came home. Amy gave him the apple, and he sat down by thc fire to cat it. He began to peel it with his shari) knife. 0, how surprised he looked when the apple suddenly fell in two when he had little more than half peeled it! Amy was pleased and surprised too. for she did not realize that she had cut the apple in two under the skin when she pulled the thread out: but she had. Any child. with a little care, can make a iragie apple just as Amy did, and surprise somebody very much. Youth's Companion. - A minister, annoyed by tobacco chewing, thus spoke to his congrega tion : "Take your quid of tobacco out of your mouth on entering the house of God, and gently lay it on thc outer edge of the sidewalk or fence. It will positively be there when you go out. for a rat won't take it, a dog won't take it, neither will a hog, and you arc certain of your quid when you go out after it.- Not the filthiest vermin on the earth would touch it. It would even kill fleas on a dog." - When a man begins to do wrong, he cannot answer for himself how far he may bc carried on. He does not see beforehand, he cannot know where he will find himself after the sin is committed. One false step leads to another ; one evil connection requires another. Fresh from August RATTLESNAKE, JONES, and other popular varieties. GERMAN MILLET, CANE SEED. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. TALK IS CHEAP. ]j~T ii easy to claim the world, bat getting a good title to it is tho trouble; so it is L with the merchant who claims to sell everything for nothing. Our last advertisement guaranteed to our customers our Stock of SHOES, which was then too large, at a discount which would place them below the price of any Shoe in Anderson County. The fact that we h<tve never deceivei tnt* peuple in our adver tisements evidences their confidence in our oller when we an noun co that we have not only reduced our Stock to ihe desired point., but have bf??n compelled to replenish it, and now have the newest, nobbiest and completest line of SHOES in Town. Tnis is merely a straw to show the direction of thc wini!. DRY GOODS, JEANS AND COTTONADES 1 lave all been moving tit the same rapid pace. DEAN'S -PATENT.FLOUtt, Ni ver known tn log superfluous on the st "ge, has gotten a double shuffle on itself, and "promenades all" with CHARLIE BUCHANAN'S DELIGHT TOBACCO from good times to better. HIGH GRADE GUANOS ALWAYS ON HAND. DEAN & RATLIFFE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in BACON at Wholesale Prices. CUBA MUST BE FREE ! If you want to enlist at once and at a good salary apply to - - - JD. C. BBOWF & BRO., And they will assist you. IF you don't want to enlist, but want to buy your Goods for the least money apply to D. C. Brown & Bro. We will sell 200 Barrels Straight Hour al. Sd 75 250 Barrels Best Family Flour ?it. d 25 50 Barrels Good Family Flour at. 4 Ot) 70 Barrels Low Grade Flour at. o 50 Wc handle HAY, COHN, OATS, 1511 AN, and all Heavy Groceries, md are selling them below all competition. On SHOES and DRY GOODS wc are headquarters. Come and see us. D. C. BROWN & BRO, Next to Post Oflico. DURING THE SPRING MONTHS While business is supposed to bc dull, we have decided to offer HR KAT IN DUCE M EN TS in our large and well selected StOCk of - - - - ; - - DEY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS and SHOES. iVc have several thousand dollars worth ot* these Goods thal we are goin<r tosell for ess Dian same Goods can bo bought forc?e whore. No wind-work about this. Come iee for yourself. We carry a Splendid Stock of Heavy Groceries, Vol make Specialties of Kine Flour. Molasses, Codee, Tobacco and Sugar. If yon will honor in with :i visit when you want to buy your next hill, wo will tpprpciate it and make ii mighty interesting for you. < 'onie see for yourself. Von rs for Tratlic, BROWNLEE & VANDIVER5. i ?ii^j^Ml I ff ^^^^ R i-.. ^*?r!ZZ^?..ml For Infants and Children. i Always Boii^h? ?V?ge table Prep.3rationforAs - simulating theTood andReg da ring tiieStoMu^saii^ j INFAX?S/CHI?DK?N Promotes Bigestion^Cheeifu? nessandRest.Conta?ns neittier OpwrftMorphin? nor Mineral. T?OT NARC OTIC. 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Bli/RKiS^ 'SK Fpn BBB ?aa ?ES2 tte If you want to have a good Garden plant good Seeds'. WE ARE SELLING D M. FERRY & CO'S. SEED ? Everybody knows they are the best. Euist's Seedling Irish Potatoes, Yellow and White Onion Setts, Multi plying Onions for planting. See us before you buy your Flour?, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Tobacco, Or anything in the Grocery line. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. Yours for business, OSBORNE & BOLT. THE OLD, RELIABLE Furniture Store ! i OF Still in the Lead ! They have the Largest Stock, Best Quality, and Certainly the Lowest Prices I OTHERS try to get there, hut they miss it every time. New, beautiful and sehet Stock of Furniture, <fcc, arriving every day, and at PRICES NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you can get ;ust what you want. Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture : therefore, you can get Goods thar will last. Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES: therefore, you save good big money. Come along, awl we will do you as we have been doiug for the la? forty years-seil von the very best Furniture for the very lowest prices. )ir%. The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Price in the Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just deceived. C. F. TOLLY &> SON, Depot Street, Anderson, S. C._ THIS IS NO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace OF J ILLo R. HUBBARD'S, Nc XT TO F. and M. BANK, Has ihe Largest, Pr9tti?si and Finest lat of . . . MAS A x 11 WED] PRESENTS IN xrii: CITY. Competition don't cn; any ?et1 with me when il comes to price.-. I don't ?ny jjoods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and Silver Watches, Sterling and Pia ted Silverware. Jewelry. Clocks, Lamps, China. Spectacles, Novelties of all kind.-. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives ?1.50 >er Set. A world beater. . R.