Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY CHNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S.^DNESDAY, MAY 18, ISO^ mti?T oimng i We had rather tell the truth about our Goods and sell you next year than to exaggerate and sell you to-day. Bye-and-bye you will learn how satisfactory it is to deal with us. It is the future we are building for. Men Suits! Lined and unlined Suits of a cloth that doesn't muss easily ; that if soiled cleans easily ; that if wet doesn't leave water marks. Thats Serge ! Our kind is blue, extremely light weight, single-breasted Suits $9.00, $1000, $11.00 $12.00. You will be asked at least $1.00 more for them at credit bouses. The newest styles in STRAW HATS AND NEGLIGEE SHIRTS Summer Underwear, too. ^Remember-SPOT CASH. No Goods charged, and your money back if you want it. . Evans a* Co THE: SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. 9 War, War, War ! We are at war with HIGH PRICES AND CHEAP STUFF, JKJST> OXJ1R PRICES AID QUALITY WILL WI U WU 9W><r? SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. ^-Y1VI> SEE U*. & CO CUBA IVIUST BE FREE. If you want to enlist at once and at a good salary apply to - - - ID. O. BEOWF Sc BRO., And they will assist you. IF you don't want to enlist, but want to buy your Goods for th,- least money apply to D. C. Brown & Bro. Wo will sell - 200 Barrels Straight Flour at. $4 7.r> 2?0 Barrels Best Family Flour at. 4 20 .r>() Barrels Good Family Flour at. 4 00 70 Barrels Low Grade Flour at. :) 50 We handle HAY, CORN, OATS. BRAN, and all Heavy Groneries, nial are selling them below all competition. On SHOES and DRY GOODS we are headquarters. Come ami see us. D. C. BROWN & BRO, Next to Post OJiicu. PROGRESS OF TEE WM. The Latest Developments in the War Between United States and Spain? Bombardment of San Juan. PORTO BICO, May lo.-Admiral Sampson, after having pounded so vigorously against the old walls of the fortifications of San Juan, now walks the deck of his flagship a conqueror. There were indications last night that thc admiral had grown tired of waiting for the fleet which never came, and that he had decided upon the alternative movement of reducing Porto Rico. The ships, riding grandly upon the waters, kept maneuvering for position, and when sunrise could be discerned, a swift messenger went belching forth from one of the guns of the Iowa, and sent terror into the hearts of the inmates of the Morro whose history in Porto Rice is fully as repulsive as that of its namesake in Cuba. It was with grim face, full of deter mination, that Captain Robley J). Evans found himself commissioned to send shot and shell into the midst of the hated Spaniards. Xo sooner had thc Iowa's sizzling messenger reached its destination than the guns of the Indiana were trained upou the fortifi cations. From thc slowness with which thc first answer caine back it would appear as if thc garrison must have been asleep, and even when the shells from the American vessels must have aroused them to full wakefulness, their answer was feeble, and as thc walls began crumbling around them they abandoned their guns, and San Juan lay at thc mercy of Admiral Sampson. The work was so quickly done and with such little resistance that the officers of the fleet could scarcely believe that the end had come, but with no enemy in sight, w'th no re sponding shots, it was useless to con tinue the fight. This ending, how ever, was in strange contrast with tho impudence and insulting messages which the Spanish ofiicers have sent during the last day or two. They would not surrender, but showing their teeth in white rage, hissed tuc challenge. "Come and take us if you can." The people of San Juan who could get away have been seeking the interior for a week past. It was well known there that a conflict was at hand; that the bombardment of thc city was inevitable, whether the Spanish fleet came or not. Admiral Sampson did not wish to go any farther than the reduction of the fortifications. That accomplished, the end of Spanish power in Porto Rico has been brought about. It brings with it, however, the necessity of providing for the pub lic safety, for with the destruction of Spanish authority, demoralization reigns in Porto Rico. This will make necessary quick action on our part in order to prevent excesses which the lawless may commit. During the ten days which the fleet of Admiral Sampson has been at sea, it has been closely watched for every move. It was confidently expected on Sunday last that the Cape Verde j fleet would be met somewhere on the ; north coast of May ti. As a conse quence the Hoot kept in hattie form and pushed its way slowly so as to prevent au unexpected meeting and to bc ready for any emergency which might come. As Monday and Tuesday of this week passed away, it brought thc conviction that lite Spanish fleet must not be in these waters. Admiral j .Sampson, steaming clear away from j the shore ot' Porto Rico, passed thc island and went considerably out to ! sea. until he became thoroughly satis- ! lied that there could be no fleet, an j this side of the Atlantic. Then he made up his mind to take ? possession of Porto Rico, and his fleet was turned toward the bay of San Juan with the result already told. AG incident of the day was the cap ture of- the Spanish steamer Rita by the Yale. Thc Rita was disposed to be saucy, but it was no go, and she had to surrender. John Gary Evans? WASHINGTON, !>. C.. May 14 - Ex- , Governor John Gary Evans has! "pulled uff a commission in the 1 army. With thc aid of Senator Till- . man the Ex-Governor has bc on ap-j pointed au assistant adjutant general, with the rani; of captain. UN ap pointment was sent to the Senate lasl , Thur-lay. hut there was a mistake in i the printing ol'his name, hence his! South Carolina friends did not recog ! nize him in his new military title, j Ile arrived herc to-day and was in j consultation with Senator Tiliinan. The Ex-Governor comes from a mi li 1 tary family and he will remain here \ uni.il he receives his commission. ; ,\ ? u'fi ii ml ( 'un ru r. Hen. Joe Wheeler ?ill he in Com- . tumid. I TAMPA, KI.A., May General Joseph E. Wheeler, i he old I lonlcde rate cavalry leader recently commis sioned major general ol' volunteers, will command i he I ?i*c<l States ; cav dry in llie ' ?liban army ol' invasion. lien. Wheeler reached here to-nighl from Chickaiuauga under orders from i Gen. miles and reported to (Jen. Wade, lie will ai. once take?.imand of thc cavalry which it is expected, will be organized into a brigade tn- ! morrow. Progress of the Muster. WASHINGTON, May Lo.-War partaient ollicials are gratified at progress made in mustering the f of 125.000 volunteers called for by President. The reports received to this morning indicate that 60, volunteers have been mustered thc United States army, and, in opinion of Adjt. Gen. Corbin, work of mustering will be com by thc end of the present week While some of the volunteers arc equipped, thc majority are not. Tele grams, that have been pouring the adjutant general's office all day in response to orders directing volun tcers that have already been mustered in to proceed to one or another of points of mobilization, indicate clear ly that the troops are by no means ready for thc field. One field com mandant wired the department that his command was in complete readi ness for service, except that he yet lacked guns, gun carriages, horses ammunition and uniform. Many of the volunteers have gone into the State camps without sufficient 01 proper clothing. Arrangements for thc expedition to the Philippines are being rapidly con [duded'by the war department. Kc ports received up to a late hour to night indicate that 11,900 men selected for thc expedition from volunteer forces in the country west of the Mississippi River, will he prepared to move in a few days. Adjt. Gen. Corbin is of the opinion that in the neighbor hood of 11,000 of these will finally qualify for the expedition. A Palmetto Prophet. Ex-Judge T. J. Mackey was in Washington last week, where the wise men and warrior leaders of the nation were, more or less, gathered together A dispatch gives his predictions, in troducing him as Captain Thos. J Mackey, a captain of engineers in the Confederate army, who did splendid service iu thc construction of the for tifications at Richmond and other points, says that in 1S6G he made a thorough examination of Morro Castle, aud the plans thereof, drawn by him, are in the war department. Judge Mackey will no doubt go to Cuba in a very short time as an engineer in the United States army, and he has been endorsed by numerous ex-Confederate officers, as well as some of the best known Union generals. Ile takes a very different view of the probable length of the conflict from that gener ally entertained. "I think," said he, ''that our war with Spain will extend over a period of three or four years, and possibly much longer. To achieve final victory we will be forced to land an army on Spanish soil, and that will bring on the greatest battle in thc annals of history. A quarter of a million of men will be engaged on either side. The taking of Cuba and Porto Rico, instead of marking thc termination of the struggle, will only bc in its incep tion, and the enemy is wisc enough to have discounted the loss of this terri tory. Spain has a population of 19, 000.000, and is a war-like race. Un less we administer a crushing blow on their own soil they will not stop fight ing for thc next thirty years. A Saving Clause. HM ?tor Watterson, the search-light of Kentucky journalism, has discover ed that nobody in thc south need be alarmed about the high price ol' wheat or the manlier in which tha produce gamblers pitch that price up whenever they please. The brilliant and oftiuics level headed editor says: '"The high price of wheat,and lhmr ? is hard on the pockets of the house keeper, hut it need not hurt anybody. What's the matter with cornbread? Properly cooked, it is a most palatable and nourishing article of diet, and thc i only wonder is that its use is not more general. It is more digestible than the wheaten loaf aud is equally 1 adapted to the requirements of thc ' laborer and the man of sedentary habits. The negro farm hand in thc ? south lives and works thc year rouud on bacon and corn "pone," and there is no more vigorous man than he. A little more cornbread and a little less ' of dyspeptic biscuit would be a real gain lo the nation. Lei us eel I our wheal abroad and din ir; consuming that grain which flourishes hero in its greatest perfection. Xo working man i need suiter because ?li?' price of Hour lois gone so Ililli. True. Xo sweeter bread than that made ol' cuni meal, none better for the ' physical comfort and strength ol' niau has ever been devised. Judgment and skill are required lo make thc best cornbread and oggbrcad, hut those qualities are possessed by every housewife and cook in the south. If the wheat manipulators continue to play football with the material for biscuit, let u.s snap mn-lingers at them ?md devote ourselves as a people tn thc bread ol' which corn meal is the main ingredient. I: eau be made into i a hundred tempting, palatable and wholesome forms, lt is cheap and there i.-- no Let ter I".1 obtainable. . \llniiln .limnidi':. Haw's This. V/c ..?:<T Ot? Hundred Dollars-reward 1'oraiiy .?.:>!? i' Catarrh thal cannot be cured by Halls i 'atarrh run'. i IV?, thc nuderiignrd haye known F. J". Cheney < for thc ?!>? Iii years, and believe him |iorl'ectly iioiiiiralilt-?ii ?11 budines* tinnsaciions and finan * chilly able io carry outauy obligations uiadc by i I heil' linn WEST A Tm?AX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. ? WAI.; iv... KiNNAN .V MAKVIS, Wholesale Drug gists, 'rule d'!. ( ?. < Ha't's Catarrh Cnn' is taken internally, acting directly upon i In' blood and min ons surfaces of I thc svstem. Testimon?ala sent free. Price Tit. lier booie fold by all druggists. STATE NEWS. - X. (:?. Gonzales, Editor of The State, has gone to Cuba. - Thc small pox is spreading over Hunter county-mostly among the jolorcd. - The State Dental Association neets at Harris' Lithia Springs .luly .2th, 13th and 14th. - South Carolina now has 45 coun ies and it will take il weeks for the ?andidates to visit each. - Fire destroyed $15,000 worth of msiness property in Winnsboro, S. C., ?lay 7. Insurance ?7,000. - Much damage was done in Flor mce, S. C., May 6, by a severe storm. So lives lost, but several persons hurt. - Luther Henderson, son of T. II. Henderson, who lives in Butler Town ;hip, Greenville County, was accident illy shot and killed last Sunday morn - The Democratic County Couven ,ion of Saluda endorsed Col. R. B. rVatson for Governor and the Marl bro Convention endorsed Governor illerbe. - The Columbia Evening llecord s conducting a coupon contes'*. It ?fl'ers a sixty dollar silk flag to the volunteer company receiving the argest number of votes. - The barn, stable, two horses, ihrec mules, a carriage, buggy, wagon, md a lot of corn and fodder of S. L. \IcBell; in Grecnvil.e County, were lestroyed by Are Sunday morning. STo insurance. The fire was of incen diary origin. - On account of ill health Mr. Thomas Addison has been forced to retire from the management of the Columbia Register. He has been suc ;eedcd by Mr. W. McB. Sloan. We Nish both outgoing and incoming nanagers abundant success. - Dr. Sydney Bivings. of Spartan )urg. was found guilty of murder and .ecommended to mercy for killing Tom Trimmier. He committed suicide by severing an artery in his leg with a jase knife. Ile was clearly an insane nan from drink and opium. - S veral of the graduates of Clem son College have obtained places as ?leetrieians in the navy. The position is an important one, but there is not much future to it. However, the Doys were anxious to get a chance somewhere, and they have taken this. - John T. Stewart shot his cousin, IV. Oscar Stewart, on Eastatoe, in Picketts county, Thursday. 5th in stant, inflicting a dangerous wound in right side. It is doubtful whether Oscar Stewart will live. John T. Stewart has been arrested and lodged in Pickens jail. - Last week Messrs. J. C. Wallace and W. W. Dixon, attorneys for Mary Aun Wallace, entered suit against Union county for one thousand dollars damage, for injuries inflicted upon their client about two years ago by a mob of '"blaek caps," who took the woman out and severely whipped her. Siv nf thc "cappers' were con victed to IS months each, but upon appeal a new trial was granted and later thc cases were nul prosscd. - On last Friday afternoon our town was visited by a terrific wind storm, which was very destructivo to property in and around town. Thc Methodist church steeple was blown off and completely demolished. The Baptist church as. also, the several colored churches, wore more or less damaged. The Opera House was unroofed at the west end, and the scenery and piano were injured by the rain. A ('Ood many tenant houses, trees and fencing were blown down in every direction. - Marion Star. A bolt <d' lightning .-truck the residence of Dr. W. ?. Dargan, in Towns street, Sunday afternoon, and did considerable damage. The plas tering was torn from the wall in the hallway and also in an adjoining room. Several shingles were also ripped from the roof. Strange to say noone in the house was hurt or the least bit ?iflcoted by the presence of thc mys terious power. The rooms '.vere all lilied with smoke that had about it thc odor of gunpowder. - Grunvith' AW Mis. Betsy Beaver, who lived near Dudi'-y. in Chesterfield county, died last Tuesday night after a .-hort illness. 'I'lo- old lady only lacked a few days of bein- MU years (d'age. Tin- big celebration ol' her one hun dredth anniversary, which was held last year will I"' well remembered. At thai tino she was enjoying excel lent health and walked ii' the church, \ distauec of about one mile from lu r I Itotni , when; the celebration was held. I She had many relatives in thiscouulry ivho used to enjoy the bin- family re unions at her birthday anniversaries. - hain ash r f/Ctfffer. ANDERSON'S HONOR ROLL. The Muster Roll of the Men who form Company C, of the First Regiment, S. C. V., United States Army. Below is given the muster roll of the Anderson Volunteers, the third Company to be sworn into the service of the United States. This Company took the oath of allegiance last week, and will be known as Company C, First Regiment S. C. Volunteers. [J. S. A. Here is the roll : COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Henry H. Watkins, Captain, lawyer, Anderson, married. Joseph IE. Grant, First Lieutenant, lawyer. Clarksville, Ga, single. Joseph N. Brown, Jr, Second Lieutenant, druggist, Anderson, single. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. William P. Nicholson, First Sergeant, merchant, Anderson, single. Edward L Johnson, Second Sergeant, oil expert, Memphis, single. Stephen E. Leverett, Sergeant, student, Moscow, single. Benjamin M. Sullivan. Sergeant, teacher. Pelzer, single. John C. Acker, Sergeant, student, Belton, single. Charles W. Gentry, Sergeant, student, Spartanburg, single. John S. Murray, Jr., Corporal, insurance agent, Anderson, single. Richard 8. Div ver, Jr., Corporal, electrician, Starr, single.' Henry C. Martin, Corporal, farmer, Aaron, single. George F. Baker, Coiporal, teacher, Anderson, single. Charles F Power, Corporal, clerk, Anderson, single. Luther E. Tate, Corporal, farmer. Moscow, single. Joseph J. Trowbridge. Musician, salesman, Anderson, single. Leon P. Brock, Musician, book-keeper, Due West, single. John F. Tatum, Artificer, farmer, Walhalla, single. John C. Robbins, Wagoner, horse-trader, Anderson, single. PRIVATES. Newton Acker, farmer, Belton, single. Saum?! Adams, carpenter, Redmond, single. Paul E. Ayer, horseman, Anderson, single. Thomas H. Bigby, engineer, Honea Path, single. .lames H. Brown, clerk, Iva, single. Prue H. Bcrriss, farmer, Holland's Store, single. Walter, C. Burris, farmer, Mountain Creek, single. Robert B. Cheshire, clerk. Anderson, single. Will W; Cochran, drummer, Americus, Ga., single. Daniel P. Coley, farmer, Townville, married. James A Billingham, liveryman, Kabun, Ga., single John Dodd, mill operative, West Union, single. Joseph B Dodd, clerk, Auderson, single. Adolphus A. Duncan, machinist, Seneca, single. Baylis D Earle, clerk, Anderson, single. Preston C. Kant, printer, Ande:son, single. Clyde N. Fant, larmer, Belton, single. Robert T. Feltman, farmer, Hartville, single. Alfred N. Fortune, brick mason, Pelzer, single. Jell'rtrsou Gaujbrell, farmer, linnea Path, single. Da A. Giles, clerk, Anderson, single. Edward 0. Gordon, farmer, Belton, single. Guy T. Grove, telegraph operator, Anderson, married. Almon C. Hall, farmer, Honea Path, single. James L Ball student, Anderson, single. Samuel D. Harper, larmer, Anderson, single. Primus D. Henderson, salesman, Anderson, single. Steph?-n F. Hoover, druggist, Kershaw, single. William N. Jolly, weaver, Pendleton, single. James P. Killebrew, printer, Edgefield, single. George W. King, farmer, Anderson, single. Lariu O. King, larmer, Auderson, single. Thomas B. Lee, Jr.. stock dealer, Greenwood, single. Jay W. Madden, farmer. Pendleton, single. Juo. W. Martin, laundryman, Anderson, single. Reuben M. Martin, student, Anderson, single. Wade H McGee, clerk Anderson, single. Jacob R. Miller, student, Anderson, single. Hamilton A. Moore, machinist, Eagle Grove, Ga., single. Butler T. Norris, farmer, Touey Creek, single Thomas M. Norwood, carpenter, Anderson, single. Benjamin B, O'Shields, weaver, Anderson, single. Charles Poore, clerk, Anderson, single. Ernest H. Poore, clerk, Anderson, single. Walter B. Pratt, salesman, Greenwood, single. Frank J Rhody, farmer, Mantua, Ala., single. Juo. T. Rose, farmer, Kinard's, single. Etna P. Rudiseal, farmer. Turnerville, (Ga., single. . Thoa. R. Rowland, farmer, Kinard's, single. Edgar M. Scott, farmer, Brushy Creek, single. Noel B. Sharpe, salesman, Anderson, single. Wm S. Sharpe, farmer, Anderson, single. Rufus C. Sherard, farmer, Molfatsville, single. Herman M. Simpson, farmer, Honer Path, single. Luther G. Smith, farmer, Burdine, single. Marseills M. Stewart, clerk, Anderson, single. John T. Stewart, insurance agent, Anderson, single. Frederick Taylor, engineer, Belton, single. Thomas R. Vaudiyer. Jr., farmer, Anderson, single. James R Vandiver, Jr., farmer, Anderson, single. John E. Wood, weaver, Anderson, single. rices. OOH DISSOLUTION SALE HU? attracted .juke a large uumber of cager purchasers, expressing great satisfaction over the unusual low quotations aud high grades we are ottering. More especially have they appreciated our first SPECIAL SALE DAY On Tuesday last, which has proven a success beyond our most sanguine ex pectations, notwithstanding that some of our competitors seem indignant over our methods of doing business, denouncing us as an UNSCRUPULOUS F6RPJJ Because our efforts have been crowned with "success by an appreciating pub lic, who always know real, genuine, honest Bargains when they get thenw Furthermore, the name of Lesser has been known for over forty years iu Anderson and surrounding territory. Xever, in ali these years, have wc ever assumed dictatorship over any of our competitors, always maintaining friendly and humane relations with all other* engaged in business here; but now that a most, unholy war by an ambitious dict?t jr has been waged against ti.-, we beg leave to anuouuee in a ni >3t polite and emphatic inauner to any finn or firms who, hy arrogance or conceit, imagine to inaugurate despotic ruling in this community, that we are American boru, County raised, Demo cratic io our way of thinking, and that we will never submit to others mau agintt our ow n business. IV?? shall continue our Special Sule Days ou Tuesday, As well as any other days wc may see ti: to select.Jwithout askiug for the cornent of any of our competitors. . Look out for our new ad. next werk.. Very respectfully. LESSER & CO., UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE.