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* BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1898. VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 7. MEN'S and BOYS' I Big Price Reduction This is a sale to remove surplus stock quickly. There shall remain no Straw Hats at the close of the season. Some of the lines are broken, a size missing here and there. Styles, however, are all new and desirable. At 15c. qualities that were 25c. At 25c. qualities that were 50c. At 50c qualities that were 75c At 65c. qualities that were $1.00. At 87c. qualities that were $1.25. At $1.00 qualities that were $1.50. This sale includes our whole stock of Straw Hats. Bemember-SPOT CASH. No Goods charged, and your money back if you want it. . Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. FARM MACHINERY. * Have you seen the Latest Mower on the Market ? The true worth and great advantages of our Mowers cannot be explained in an ad. like this. Come to us and investigate. We are not simple Agents for certain Steam Engines. We are more, and are in position to figure down where competition can't touch us. The Eclipse, The Atlas, The Erie City STEAM ENGINES ALL SIZES and STYLES for sale. We carry in stock, aud save big money in freight on from three to five car loads of Engines. THE GREAT SMITH COTTON-GIN, COTTON PRESSES, SAW MILLS, &c, Compose a partial list of our Machinery. HYDRAULIC RAMS, Which give your house and farra pure spring water at little cost where water is within reasonable distance. We are making a great success of our Rains, and charge nothing for information. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO I ALABASTINE. WON'T RUB OFF. Wall Paper is Unsanitary. Kalsomine is tem porary, rots, rubs off and Scales. THE DOCTOR-"Ont /j,,r of ALABASTINE ES25*5? forms a pure and permanent coating and does k not require to be taken off to renew from time f to time. Is a dry powder. The latest make i being adapted to mix, ready for use, with\ Cold Water. Can be easily brushed on by any f one. Made in white and twelve fashionable, tints. ALABASTINE is adapted to all styles' of plain and relief decorating. ASK YOUR PAINT DEALER FOR CARO OF TINTS. li net for sale in your town, write us for name of i v?-- nearest dealer. ' V MANUFACTURED ONLY BY ALABASTINE CO.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.\ "T" ALL COLORS KEPT IN STOCK BY ZEVj?LlSrs PHABMACY, AU Volunteers Will See Service. WASHINGTON, Aug. (5.-The ques tion is being asked here as to how long will the volunteers have to serve, or rather how long they will be per mitted to serve. There is a good deal of anxiety in the question for both the men in the field and the represen tatives of their States do not want their ardor damped by beiDg kept in camp all summer, only to be sent home withont seeing any actual service. I heard Colonel Robertson say once that after the second battle of Manas sas when he had not been in either he felt that he would never smell powder or even be called upon for garrison work. But he lived to see plenty of both. It is very likely that the boys now at Fort Thomas and Camp Alger will likewise see plenty of actual work. They may not fire their Springfields at the enemy or charge a battery, but the chances are that they will have all the rest. Some will go on the memorable march from Ponce to San Juan, entering that city triumphantly and witness the hoisting of the stars and stripes. Others will be called upon for garri son duty at Havana and face the fever in other parts of the island. Fifty thousand alone will be needed for the Havana district, and it is not likely that any of those who served in front of Santiago will be sent south again until cold weather, if indeed they are ever sent at all. Thc Round Robin sent to the ad ministration as to the condition of the men in Cuba has appalled the author ities, and they will be brought back to this country as rapidly as possible. The theory advanced by Colonel Roosevelt that only three or four regi ments will be needed in Santiago is not believed in Washington, and other men, composing a good-sized army, will be sent there for garrison duty. It would not be safe to leave the city open for surprise, either from the Spaniards or the Cubans. Army offi oialii here believe that most of the volunteer force will be under orders for the full term of their enlistment. The administration is determined that Porto Ricans shall see the force of the American militia. It is not in tended that they shall feel it, but it will be sent there as an object lesson for the revolutionary element which is always to be found in Spanish American countries. Secretary Alger said to-day that all the immunes would be sent south and that most of the men now in camp would see service and hoped they would be patient under the restraint. It is possible that the troops scheduled and ordered for Porto Rico may not get there, but may be sent to Cuba io stead. It will be necessary to have a force ready for Cuba the moment General Blanco is ordered to capitulate. It will not be possible to have the cities to be overrun by the Cubans, for this country is under bend practically to protect the prop erty of thc citizens there. Six weeks at least will be required if not three weeks longer to get the Spanish army out of Havana, which will throw the ingress of our troops to that island to the end of September, by which time the rains begin to slaok and the healthier weather begins to set in. The theory is advanced also that the movement of troops to Porto Rico is merely to acclimate them to the tropics before transferring them to Cuba. They are certainly not needed in Porto Rioo as there will be enough there when those at Newport News reaoh there to garrison the island. How About Coming Home? The volunteer soldiers and their friends are beginning to ask anxiously when the volunteers of the United States are to be mustered out of service. It is generally thought among the soldiers that they are to be relieved as soon as the war shall have terminated, but many are under the impression that the volunteers enlisted for two years. This latter arrange ment would probably suit officers with good salaries attached to their titles, but it would hardly please the bigger part of the privates, who make up the army. A private, speaking of the matter yesterday, said : "President MoKinley certainly stated when the call for volunteers was made that the men who enlisted would be mustered out as soon as the war was over. I certainly think that most of the volunteers entered the anny with the idea that their services were not to be required after the establishment of peace. If you talk to the men you will find that ^uite the common idea. We certainly did not expect to be sent off to garrison places for a year or two after the war ended." In Georgia the soldiers are giving much time speculating on the time they will have to serve. Captain Kohlson, in Savannah, is quoted as follows in the Morning jtfetcs of yester day : "There is nothing under the terms of enlistment by which a man can claim that he was to be discharged as soon as the war came to an end. The enlistment is absolutely for two years, without reservation. If the war de partment desires to use all the volun teer'forces for the full term of their enlistment there is nothing in the enlistment to prevent it. Of course there are many men who volunteered who did so to light Spanish soldiers, and not to garrison places for a year or more after the war is at an end, I but thcy~ cannot claim exemption and ask for discharges on that account. Weare in for two years, unless thc war department voluntarily secs tit to dismiss us honorably from the service ! or we die or become disabled in some way." Lieut. Grayson expressed the same views. "It is not a question whether a man likes to serve after thc war is ended or not," said he. ''I remember the exact wording of the enlistment, and there is no ground on which to base a kick against such service in a time of peace if thc Government sees fit to so use the volunteers. While there may be some misapprehension on this point the volunteers are will ing to go and do whatever the Govern ment calls on them to do. If peace was declared to-morrow it is not the impression among the officers and men at Chickamauga that they will be soon mustered out of service. We rather expect that we will be at least held in reserve to meet any emergencies which may arise. While it is generally feared that we will not get any oppor tunity to see active service in war in Cuba, we would not be surprised if we were used for garrison work on that island or Porto llico until everything becomes stable there. I do not see how anyone can question the right of the Government to so use the volun teers under the enlistment." There is some discussion of the matter in the North, and the opinion seems to be entertained there that the volunteer forces will not be disbanded for at least several months after Spain accepts the ultimatum of this country as to peace conditions. The feeling there is that the standing army is to be increased to 100,000 men or more, and that the war department will be desirous of getting all this extra seventy odd thousand men and officers out of the present volunteers. In Cuba, Porto Bico and the Philippines it is believed it will require for some months a force probably equal to half the entire volunteer force.-News and Courier. Admiral Cerrera at Norfolk. NORFOLK, TA., Aug. 5.-Admiral Cervera and his son, Lieut. Cerrera, arrived here this morning from Balti more. They left Annapolis, where they hare been prisoners of war for several weeks, on parole yesterday afternoon, having been granted special permission to visit Capt. Concha, commander of the admiral's flagship Maria Teresa, and the other Spanish sick and wounded at the naval hospi tal here. The steamer flew her bunting in honor of the Admiral and a launch lay at the pier to?receire the distin guished prisoners. Lieutenant Com mander R. M. Gr. Brown, retired, met the admiral and his son as they step ped off the steamer, and it was with difficulty that they pushed their way through the crowd. At the naval hospital the Spanish Admiral was received by a guard of honor and at once conducted to Capt. Concha's room. This was the first time they had met since the fatal dash out of Santiago harbor. The meeting was a pathetic one, the Admiral and Captain embracing one another like children. The admiral then visited Lieut. Noval, of the Pluton, who lost a leg, Drs. Nicoli of the Vizcaya, and the scenes were equally affecting when their former chief entered the ward where the Spanish sailors are. Their faces lit up and they embraced him as best they could, their joy being plainly visible. The Admiral took lunch with Medical Director Clebourne. Admiral Cervera and his son lunched with Commodore Farquhar at the navy, being taken there by Medical Director Clebourne in his private car riage. Col. William Lamb, Capt. W. H. Murdaugh and Ex-Spanish Vice Consul Humphreys called out and paid their respects. The party re turned to the naval hospital and Capt. Concha was again visited, the Admiral and his son spending the remainder of their time with him. At parting with Dr. Clebourne the Admiral paid him a high compliment on the courtesy, care and attention given the Spanish officers and men. At 5 o'clock Admiral and Lieut. Cervera left for the Bay Line boat to return to Annapolis. Several invita ' tions to visit nearby watering places were extended, but was declined with i egrets. Both the Admiral and his son were attired in civilian dress, and attracted little attention from those unaware of their presence in the city. - Our expenditures on account of the war during the month of July were about $30,000,000, the receipts on ac count of the new war taxes about $14, 000,000. Thus thc war may be said to have added to the deficit for thc month of July by about $16,000,000. At such arate the $200,000,000 provided by thc bond sale would last for more than a year. In other words, war expendi tures are running at the rate of $360, . 000,000 a year and the new war taxes are yielding at the rate of about $14, 000,000 a month, or $168,000,001? a vear, so that the new taxes and the $200,000,000 loan would appear to promise together a war fund for the year of $368,000,000, or a little more than enough to meet thc expenditures of the war even if it should bc contin ued for a year, provided expenditures did not exceed the rate they reached for July. But to all intents and pur poses the war is over, and next month will not improbably mark the begin ning of a rapid decline in war expen ditures. $100 Reward. $100. Thc readers or this paper will lie pleased lo learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that BC? ence has been ahle to eure in all its stages, and that ls Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Oitarrh hoing a constitutional disease rcqtlros a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cur?is taken internally, acting directly upon tho blond and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the di ease, and Riving uhc pa tient strength by building up tin: constitu tion and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have .o much f-ith in its curative powers, that they oder One Hundred J'ollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of tes timonials Good Luck of thc First S. C. T. Cor. News and Courier. Headquarters 1st S. C. V. I., Camp Cuba Libre, Florida, Panama Park. July 7, 1898.-The days are still fine and the night pleasant. Even herein the Land of Flowers we have to use a blanket at night to keep comfortable, as the salt breeze is all that one could wish to make sleep sweet and refresh ing. There are not as many mosqui toes herc as there are at Camp Thom as, and so far not one of the much dreaded sand flics has made its ap pearance since we came here. Po licing the camp here is a very easy job, and all the kitchen garbage is hauled and dumped into the river, where it is carried out to sea. To-day is pay day, and every one is looking forward to getting furloughs and leaves of absence to have a big time and spend his money as soon as possible and get the most fun out of it, as this war has so far been one Big picnic, with sometimes real picnia din ners and sometimes meals that are not so "picnicky," but, all the same, the boys are having a good time at Uncle Sam's expense, and it really seems that some of them are going to be sorry when the time comes to break up and go home. The health of the camp has never been better since the regiment was or ganized. We are going to be brigaded with an Illinois and an Indiana regiment, which are to come up from Miami. All three of the regiments are to be camped on the high sand pine ridge, where we are, and we will be close together. The brigade officers have not yet been ap pointed or organized. It is rumored that Col. Alston will be made a briga dier general, and won't this be fine for South Carolina! At the same time no better selection could be made or a more worthy man appointed to fill the place. The drill hours here are so short that the boys regard the drill more as play than work, and the camp work is so light that the men lie around in the shade and play cards and other games for amusement, more than anything else. T. B. LUMPKIN. Cat Her Throat With a Butcher's Knife. CENTRALIA, MO., Aug. 3.-Death probably will ring* down the curtain before morning in the final act of the Havens tragedy. Cora Havens this morning cut her throat with a knife. It is doubtful if she survives until morning. Hers is the third suicide. She is the girl who, from extreme bashful ness, refused to marry her lover, C. F. Fait, a young farmer living near her father's home in Boone County. They had been lovers since childhood, but scarcely a word passed between them, as when she was near him her tongue refused speech. He finally proposed and she accepted him, but when he begged her to name a day for the wedding, she put him off. Her mother and father endeavored to pre vail upon her to name a day, but she steadily refused, stating that she was afraid; that she dreaded marriage. Finally she set July 5 as the date. There was no sign of weakening on her part until a few days before the ceremony. Then she told her mother that she could not marry Fait, although she acknowledged that she loved him. As the day of the wedding drew near she grew nervous and was given to fits of violent weeping and repeatedly begged her mother to allow her to again postpone the date, but her mother was obdurate. On the day for the wedding she told hei mother that it would be impossible for the ceremony to take place. The wedding gueBts arrived and the groom was preseut, when she flatly refused. Coaxing and threats were equally in vain, aud, driven desperate by repeated postponements, young Fait went home and swallowed morphine. When found he was dead. The suicide preyed on the mind of the mother. She constantly reproach ed her daughter for her action. The mother brooded over the subject night and day, changing from a merry farm wife into a morose and gloomy woman. Her husbaad feared that her mind was giving away, and BO he watched her carefully; but early on the morning of July 12 she eluded his vigilance and slipped from the house. She was soon missed and the hus band and daughter began a search for her. She was found, lying face down, in a shallow pond in the garden. She had waded into thc water and then laid down and deliberately drowned herself. The suicide of tho mother brought the reproaches of her father and neighbors on the girl. Gradually a feeling that she was responsible for the death of her lover and mother came to her. She became despondent and waa giveu to fits ol' melancholia, seldom, speaking to any one, and becoming more retiring than ever. Her father endeavored to cheer her? up, but the two tragedies had j broken him down and he was not much comfort to the girl. This morning thc girl could bear it no more. She was in the kitchen, and, taking up a butcher knife, with the edge of a ra/.or, she drew it across her throat. It almost severed her jugular vein. The blood spurted in a river from the gaping wound and when | discovered she was unconscious, hav ing bled almost to death. -?? mm - Mrs. Carolina Croft, formerly Carolina AbigiaTBrewer, of Boston, has left $100,000 to two prominent citizens of that city for investigations to find sonic way of curing cancer, con sumption and other diseases now re garded as incurable. STATE NEWS. - There are six candidates forCon 1 gress in the Fifth District. - The crop reports from every sec tion of the State are very encouraging. - A York county boy, Will Ervin, lost his life in Cuba with the Hough Riders. - Bamberg county, it seems, is to have a county court, which will con vene each month. - A recruiting station for the Third regiment of volunteer engineers, Unit ed States army, has been opened at Spartanburg. - Hardy Smith, a negro boy, went to sleep on the railroad track nine miles from Sumter, one day-last week -and he is still asleep. - At a recent meeting of thejjboard of directors of the Lutheran Theologi cal Seminary, it was decided to perma nently locate the school at Mt. Pleas ant, a suburb of Charleston. - Maj. John Cary Evans., now sta tioned at the military rendezvous at Miami, Fla., has appointed Mr.-James M. McMaster, of Columbia, as his clerk, a position drawing a good salary. - Governor Ellerbe has been in formed by the War Department that all debts incurred by the State in mustering in volunteer troops will be paid by the Federal Government^ - A modern ginnery and cotton seed oil mill will be built forthwith at Westminister The piantis capital ized at $15,000, and the equipment will be thoroughly up-to-date injevery detail. - Engineer Willis? Johnson, who was injured in the wreck on the North eastern road near Columbia on July 26th, died last Friday night in Colum bia from the effects of the injuries re ceived. - More rain fell in South Carolina during the month of July than had be?n precipitatedjjduringjthe previous six months. This is a remarkable statement, but it is made on authority of the weather bureau. - Mr. W. C. Calhoun,?of Hampton county, is the champion watermelon grower of that section, if^not of the State. He has 300 acres planted, and expects to ship 175 acar loads, the weight of the melons averagingjfrom 40 to 50 pounds each. One weighed 67$ pounds, and there were many of that size. - There hare been so manyjincen diary fires recently in Greenwood that the sheriff, Mr. R. F. McCaslan, has felt constrained to bring the matter to Governor Ellerbe's attention, and the Governor has offered a rewardjof $150 for the apprehension with proof to con vict of the guilty parties. - It was rumored? in this city this morning that a family living near Blythetown had been the victims of hydrophobia for several days by reason of drinking the milk of a cow which had this disease. It was reported that the victims were poiioned, but aa yet no fatalities have occurred-Columbia Register, 5th inst. - Dick Simpson, a colored man of Cross Hill, about fifty years old, com mitted suicide by hanging himself in the county jailr' this morning at 3 o'clock. He was confined for a breach of the peace of Cross Hill. He had shown signs of mental aberration for several days. He contrived a rope with his under clothing andgsuspend ed himself from the iron bars of a window.-Laurens Advertiser. - While the sale of the Rita's cargo wag going on in Charleston a gentle man bid $15 on a box, not knowing what it contained, there being no tag on the box. The purchaser-at once prized off the top and to his surprise found that it contained two? very fine ' breachloading guns. He was offered one hundred dollarsjfor the two but refused, as a single gun could scarcely be purchased from the makers at that figure. - At the suggestion of Colonels Jones and Thompson, Gov. Ellerbe has decided upon this .scheme to facil itate the raising of the {Second regi ment: Whoever will raise thirty-four men., a third of a company, will be given a commission. When the com pany is completed they will be muster ed iu and the governor will say who of the three commissioned men. thus brought in shall bet respectively cap tain, first and seoond.lieutenants. - B. T. West killed his wife in Union with a doublcbarreled shotgun. The woman was sitting in a chair near the back door: West stood at the front door. The whole front of the wom an's face from near thc edge of the hair to half of the nose was entirely shot away and mutilated. West gave thc alarm, saying that his wife had shot herself, but au investigation by the coroner disclosed the fact that thc woman had been murdered by her hus band. ' ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR TREASURER. WILLIAM L. BOLT, the ex-8heriff, ia hereby announced as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the action of Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office ot Treasurer of Ander son Couuty, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. JAS. M. PAYNE. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of Treasurer of Ander son County, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. R. E PARKER. The friends of L. O. WILLIFORD, Esq., of Rock Mills Township, respect : fully nominate him &$ a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. BROWN A. WILLSON, of Belton, who /or the last nineteen years has been Railroad Agent there, announces himself as a candidate for Treasurer of Anderson County, subject to the rales of the Derne eratic Primary. FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR. The friends of OLIVER BOLT respect fully announce him a candidate for Coun ty Supervisor, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. I respectfully present myself to the voters of Anderson County for re-election to the office of County Supervisor, subject to the rules of the Democratic PM marv. W. P. 8NELGR0V?. FOR SENATOR. I announce myself a candidate for the State Senate from Anderson County, sub jecttotbe action of the Democratic Pri mary_JA8. M. 8ULLIVAN. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES. The undersigned respectfully announces himself as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. T. T. WAKEFIELD. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the result of the Democratic Primary Election. GEO. E. PRINCE. The undersigned respectfully announces himself as a candidate for the House of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to the action of the D?mocratie Primary. B. C. MARTIN. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the House of Represen* tatfves from Anderson County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic Primary. R. B. A. ROBIN80N. I announce myself to the voters of An derson County as a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives, subject to rules of the Democratic Primary. J. L. JACKSON. HON J. W. ASHLEY is announced as a candidate for re-election to a seat in the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. I announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic PH marv. E. M R?CKER, JB. I hereby announce myself a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. JOHN B. LEVERETT. I announce myself a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives, subject to the mles of the Democratic Primary. J. A. HALL. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the House of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic primary. G. A. BANKIN. FOR COUNTY SUP'T. EDUCATION LEWIS M. MAHAFFEY is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of County Superintendent of Education for Anderson Connty. subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for re-election to the office of Conney Superintendent nf Education, subject to the rules of the Prim arv Election. A. W. ATT A WAY. I hereby annonnee myself as a candidato for Superintendent of Education, subject to the action of the Democratic Primacy Election. R. E NfCtHOT^^V. FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate, subject to tlie rules governing the Democratic Primary. . H. H. EDWARDS. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for Probate Judge, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic Primarv. R. Y. H. NANCI. I herebv announce myself a candidate for the office of Probate Jud?e, subject to the action of the Democratic Primarv. R. M BURRI88. I annonnee myself a candidate for the office of Probate Judge for Anderson County, subject to the action of the Dem ocratic Primary. J. F. RIC'S. I hereby annonnee myself a candidato for the office nf Probate Judge, subject to the action of the Democrstic Primarv. D TT RTTSSWT/F?. FOR AUDITOR. G. N. C. BOLE M AN ia respectfully an? nounned as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Auditor, subject to the RCtion of the * Democratic primary Election. FOR CONGRESS. JULIUS E. BOGGS, of Pickens, is' re spectfully announced as a candidate for the Fifty sixth Congress, sobjeot to the action ot the Democratic Primary. I announoe to the voters of the Third Congressional District that I am a candi date for re election to Congress, subject to the rule* of the Democratic partv of South Carolina A- C. LATIMER. BELTON HIGH SCHOOL, BELTON, S. ?. W. B. WEST, A. G. HOLMES, Principal. lat Assistant, A good corps of experienced teachers, among them Mr. A. G. Holmes, who gave such general satisfaction the past session. Our students take high stands wherever thev go. The Colleges recognize our thor ough work. We try to practice common sense iu education as well as in other mat ters. Send us your ?ons and daughters, and we will do them good. Send to W. B. West. Belton, S. C, for catalogue_ft-6 FOR SALE. Gentle Hamiltonian Mare, vrith Jump seat Phaeton and Harness, compar atively new. Call ot Evans Pharmacy. E. G. EVANS, JB. July 20, 1898 4 3