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t*? Y. ^< W M Wk* % - k .> ?ss* ! Cl i . gl ll > i ll I ? ?ss? U / 1 IV M I \ \I ? Cl 7\ i \7 nrviHMi , . ...... Christmas is at hand and you will soon have to purchase ^Presents for relatives and friends. What to buy is the ques tion/ Any article below will be an acceptable gift for man or boy. The goods are the best, and the prices-well, you can see for yourself. "NECK GEAR." Perhaps you think nothing presentable can be had for 50c. We have Scarfs, Bows, Puffs and Four-in-Hands innu merable at that price, some as low as a quarter. Lawn Ties for evening wear, just the thing for Christmas or New Year parties. (Two in an enameled pasteboard box; 50c. GLOVES AND HANDKERCHIEFS. These are, perhaps, the most acceptable gifts-articles that make a good show for little money. For $1.50 we can give you as good a pair of Gloves (silk lined) as a man could wish to wear. For the same money half dozen Hemstitched Linen Handkerchiefs. Silk Handkerchiefs, in great variety, 25c np. Collars, Cuffs, Half Hose, Night Robes, Overcoats or a good Suit of Clothes. THE' SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. TO THE TR ADI NG P U BLIC. If you want one yard of Cloth or any kind of BET GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, Or anything we keep in Stock between this date and Christmas you can suve money by simply coming to ste ns. NO FAKE-straight business. We will certainty sell you if you come to see us. Fine Groceries Cheaper than anybody. If you owe us an Account we need and MUST collect it.^?s Yours for business, _BROWNLEE & VAND1VERS. THIS IS NO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace WILL. R. HUBBARD'S, WEXT TO F. and M. BANK. Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . . . XMAS AND WEDDING PRESENTS IIN THK CIXY. Competition don't cut any ice with rae when it comes to prices. I don' buy poods to keep. 1 want the people to have them. Gold and Silver Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamps, China. Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives $1.6? per Set A world beater. WILL. R. HUBBARD. EVERYBODY should be careful what kind of Soap they use in cold weather. Yon want good, pure Soap. We have one of the nicest assortments of Toilet Soap ever opened here. Use the best and you will not be troubled with chapped hands and face. Call and see us when you want nice Soap. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. P. S. We give Trading Stamps except on Patent and Proprietary medicines. l*i ep MT fur a ('??ni I* a tn i ne. We have received from a prom i Chicago firm of brokers, membc thc Chicago board of .trude ami New York stock, produce and c exchanges, a circular letter on the supply which, although intendci promote speculation in that grain think we can put to better use by ( municating its substance to the f; ers of South Cand?na lor their in mation against next spring's plant lt is insisted that "the best po private authorities, the trade jotin the crop experts, and thc larger best posted grain firms throughout country.'1 agree that the governn estimate of 1900 million bushels of i ?ts this year's crop is from 100 t< million bushels too high and fha conservative estimara of thc crop \v< not be over 1700 million to 17.10 mil bushels." The husking shows thal thc ero large portions of the surplus corn St; is poorer in quality and condition t any crop in ten years, much of i only for hog feed. ''The. reserve! old corn have been reduced tu a m mum.*' .More cattle are being foi corn in the surplus corn States 1 ever before. Various indications g( prove that the consumption by h will be very large during the com year. "Thc continued shortage, feeding stuffs on thc continent of i rope and in thc United Kingdom stimulated the demand for corn, b for human and animal food, and opel up innumerably .new uses and u markets. Last year saw the larg export of corn from this country, T year will more than equal it. Aire? since July 1 to date wo have expor over 1,000,000 bushels more than the same time last year, and the? maud seems to increase from week week, stimulated in a measure by t partial failure of the Danubian C( crop, which leaves Europe almost ? tirely dependent on us for its ct supply." Eighty per cent of our corn crop is asserted, is consumed on th?* tai and there the feeding and conseqm consumption is larger than was VA before known. Assuming the govei ment estimate of 1925 million bush to be correct, the statistics are giv to prove a shortage of corn suppl next year, as compared with the en sumption this year, of 217,000,000 bus els, leaving not a bushel of reset November 1, 1890. The circular continues : If, however, the generally accept estimate of the eorn crop as ascertain by the husking is correct, there is addition to the shortage of 217,000,C bushels, as shown by the govern me figures, an additional shortage of 101 000,000 to 200,000,000 bushels to be tnk> care of; a total shortage so large as force extreme prices for corn befo another crop is on the market. But these figures do uot tell ti whole story. A year ago the visit supply of corn was 42 million busht against 22 million bushels to-dn showing a shortage in our immedia available supplies of 20 million bus els. A yeai' ago every point not ii eluded in the visible supply stateniei was loaded with com. The lake por of Collingwood, Midland, Present Kingston, Ogdcnsburg ami Erie coi fained at least four million bushe more corn than at the present tim and not oin; bushel of it appears in tl visible supply. A yeal ago every pr vate elevator here and elsewhere WJ full to overflowing with corn. To-da they are practically empty, these stud being at least 8 to 10 million bushe less than last year. A year ago every com crib at ever railroad station in the surplus coi States was til hid. To-day a large nm jori ty of the corn cribs an; empty, an a very conservative estimate of th shortage in this crib supply (and must be remembered that the govern ment figures do not include corn tim has left farmers' hands) would b somewhere from 30 to 40 million bush els, so that it is safe to say that w enter the present crop year with stock of corn in all positions at lea? 400,000,000 bushels less than we actual 1 used during the 12 months from Marci 1st, 1897, to March 1st, 1898; in othe words, consumption has overtaken th supply, and, as compared with (?ti actual needs, thc corn crop of 1898 i thc smallest this country has eve raised. On this showing it is easy to ngrci that "our actual needs will carry con prices high, and speculation will carr them still higher." The weekly commercial reports havi long revealed the. persistent and ?lim inons denuind tor our corn in Europe On Saturday we printed Dunn's reviev showing that corn exports for the weel were 4,151,000 bushels against 3,:J13,O0l for the corresponding week last year "Sucha foreign demand,'' said Dunn "at prices much higher than last year and with wheat cheaper, is proof oft state of things abroad which Ameri cans hardly appreciate. The price de clined only i cent, with enormous ie ceipts." '! he moral of this to the South Caro lina farmer is, of course, to plant heav ily of corn next year-fal" more heavily than ever. If there shall be a short agi the. southern crop, coining into tin market far ? ailier than than the west ern, will command thc; best juices even though the west plant much mort heavily than usual to supply the ex pected deficiency. In such ti case corr will l.m a cash crop and salable al every I railroad station in tho Stale. In any ease the jrrc?it :iinl growing European demand not only for American corn but American meats, thc product nfl corn-feeding, will ensure a higher level of ju ices t han usual, i But it is not only to make money hut to save money that we need to plant amply of this grain in the south. With j higher prices the southern farmer, never with less ready money than now -and he won't have much more next year unless he cuts cotton to a greater extent than we think probable-will not be able to buy westo n corn. Ile must supply himself or do without. The corn crop of South Carolina has increased materially of late, but it is far, far behind what it can be, what it ought to he and what, it used to be 35 or 40 years ago. There is no more le liahle corn .State in the. Union than this, and more than one test has shown ? i hat the crop cnn he made, as produc tive as it is reliable. It is not only necessary to produce next, year all that shall he needed at home, hut there will he no better year for testing the merits of the crop as a money-producer. Of course this is quite early to preach of next.years planting, hut we wish to lay the foundation for further remarks and stimulate some wholesome winter reso 1 u t i o n s.-The State. Tapers Family are Patriots. Mr. McDonald Furman, writing to The State from Privateer, S. C., has the following Confederate record of the CH pei s family : "The Capers family of the Sont h and we believe it is exclusively a Southern family-made a remarkable fighting n cud dining the late war Fr un i he album of a friend we send you the following, as embracing the members of this family, who were sol diers under i he red-crossed banner of D'xie in the Confederate anny : Two brigadier generals, one colonel of ar ? illt-ry, one lieutenant-colonel of artil lery, two colonels of cavalry, one major of artillery, one lieutenant-Colonel of cavalry, four captains of cavalry, thre? captains of infantry, three srr?eant.<. two chap'ains, three suntan t??, 14 privates - making a total of 37. The-e were, without exception, brothers, uncles, or cousin?. Nine were killed in battle, three died of wounds, two died of disease, thirteen were wound ed more than once, seven wounded once, and only three came through -afe. Eleven of the officers were pro moted for gallantry on the held of battle." Two Lovers Murdered. MISSOURI CITY, Mo., Dec. 8.-A double murder was committed to-night in a country church two miles out from Missouri City. Miss Della Cle ve ger was shot down, mortally wound ed, and h r escort to the meeting house, Geonre Alden, was instantly killed. The murderer was Earnest Clevenger, cousin to she young woman who was one of his victims. The trag edy occurred immediately after the congregation had been dismissed, as the worshipers were leaving the church. Young Alleu and Miss ('levenger were walking out together. Karnot Clo venger slipped up behind them, placed a revolver close to Allen's head and tired. His victim fell dead at hi* feel. The as.-a sin turned the weapon upon his fair young cousin, shooting her in the back. She fell across the body of her murdered escort. The murderer escaped. Jealousy was the cause. The Lookout Point Buttery. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5).- The Gov ernment, through the Chickamauga Park commission, has secured the deeds of sixteen acres on Lookout Point, the highest point in the Chick amauga chain, and overlooking seven States and all the battlefields adjacent tn the park. During the siege of Chickamauga this point was an im portant Confederate position, occupied by a battery. The park commissioners will at ouce replace the battery iu the position it occupied during the war. bud will erect historical tablets at im portant points. It will be left to the several States whose troops were en gaged at this point to erect monuments and memorial tablets. ? Drowns Herself. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Dec. 7.-Yester day afternoon Miss Amie Willis,(laugh ter of Dr. Willis, founder of the church of thc Reoeemer, a few miles north of town, went horseback riding, as was her habit. She did not return listuiuht and search was instituted. This morning her horse was found hitched near the French Broad river, three miles from home, and footprints leading toward the river. About noon her body was found in the river, where it had drifted atiainst a rock. Miss Willis is about ?JO years old and be longed to a prominent English family. The verdict of thc coroner's jury was that Miss Willis committed suicide itt a moment of mental depression. - Socrates was said to be the ug liest man of his time. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL ?PPLIC\TIt?S, ?Hther onnnnt n m lt ll? . WAtof th-tusen-e . a'nrrli i< niiin.nl ur i:<i>i*ltfiiii<itinl ili?^as?, ti nd In or 1er to cur?? ti yon iiiii?i luke IM? .?! re'ii*dl?*a ll-dl'.i < ni .nh Cnn- U liken it.l wally, awl MCI? direly on * !.?* Mond HUI) H nc UH Mina 0.1 ll.ill H I'?I'M rr h ''un in not H <niH<:k medicine I' wiw pr,MMIIHII Iiy ?.ne nf th?* lic-l plivmeinn? lit llil.i u o 11 try for yiMr?, und I? H mcular |?r?>erl|itioa li liront. |Mi8t-d'or thu ln'.it I o i. loi known, coiiiliinnl w th I lld lieut Mond purifier*, Neting di reel Iv un t ? mu?.oil? H'.'ifaceH The perfi-i I emu nf tint inn of tho two Ingredient4 ls what, product's such witmirrtul r>-i'll lu lu curing*Catarrh- tieud for teal i mut?lala free. I Egyptian (.'ulina Established m ?Y Iii'- Cotton Growers' Journal, Waco, Texas, prints inn letters week from Mr. W. \Y. Wentworth Karney, in the snme'Stnte. with re? to the progress ol' his experiments v Egyptian entton, which contain nm of much interest for cotton prodm generally. In one letter Mr. Wentworth rep< that his "crop of Egyptian cotto ginned and about ready to send Boston, where cottons of this and ot grades find ready sale at good prici and he adds that the 1,800 pound that product "will bring as much 5,000 pounds of lint from common < ton."' About 1,500 pounds of the Eg lian lint, he explains, was gallie from a six-acre tract, which was at. rate of 250 pounds to the acre, and rest from a patch which, owing to late stand and "the detrimental li j bug called boll weevil, was almo: ! failure.*' in another letter, he remarks t had he received, "the assistance begs for in 180.1 from the scientific gent men, Texas would to day be shipp thousmds of bales of this beau ti fibre" to factories in thc North, a "realizing a handsome profit." Of i four different cottons now grown this country-sea island, Egypti; long staple, native, of ii inches length, and the short or common ci ton-he says, "thc Mit Allifi (Egypt's stands pre-eminently alone, asno ntl cotton approaches the peculiarities its fibre." "Thc strength of the Te> raised, the silky lustre, and tin; s< feeling of fine lambs' wool, place.? peculiarly aloin:," and he adds: "WI; a victory for Texas! to know that her ordinary cotton lands, from t Sabine to the Rio Grande, she can pi duce a superior fibre to that import from the fertile valley of the | Ni valued at $150 per acre." It will I noted particularly that thc cotton question can be grown on "oldina cotton lands" in every part of Texj and Mr. Wentworth remarks that ari "strong in wealth" have now come his assistance, after his four years struggle, and it may bc assumed th the. crop he has introduced will so? ligure extensively among Texas' pr ducts. In an editorial note introducing oi of his letters, the Journal says: "W may add that Mr. Wentworth tells t in a private note that his cotton, sei to Heston and classified by an expe in fine fibres, was valued at 14 cents pound." And he adds that the Egyj tian, on our Texas lands, will prodm as much, acre for acre, as the comme variety. His cotton was ginned on tl "Ideal" roller gin, and not by the M> Carthy knife roller gin. * * * A honor to him. He has labored ansel ishly, overcoming obstacles for tl common good, and we think withi haifa decade, when Texas is produciu several thousand bales of Egyptia cotton annually, Mr. Wentworth wi find that his work is appreciated as deserves. He has won his fight. Tl Journal congratulates him most hear! Hy. It appears to be a safe conclusin from all this that Mr. Wentworth ha made a complete and notable succei of his effort to introduce the culture < Egyptian cotton on a large and pro! itable scale into this country. He lui grown it by the acre and made it jin duce as much as ordinary cotton. 1 will grow on ordinary cotton land an is worth three times as much as ord i nary cotton. The Texas grown tibi ?seven superior to that grown in Egypi The "boll weevil," which attacked i this year, does not affect that coito alone, but attacks any kind: it is at n special disadvantage on account of tin foe. We submit to the cotton plnntiu fraternity in South Carolina that th experiments of the "modest, patieu and untiring" Texas pioneer is wei worth repeating in this State in thei interest. Possibly the "cotton problem" wil be8olved for the more intelligent ant progressive cotton farmers by the pro duction of this fine fibre ia large quan tifies, leaving the coarse and cheape product to the rest. The demand fo the fine fibre has grown rapidly in th past few years, and is growing ever year. No limit can as yet be assigne* to such demand. As it is "stronger than the common fibre, it may wei displace that fibre in many manufac tures in which the lattens nowcmployei ahme, and so make new demands as it: certain supply increases. lt is lobe noted, finally, that then is a present established market in thi; country, for the fibre which is supplie* by the Egyptian grown product, am which will insure our farmers higl juices for all they can produce for sev eral years to come; and that when they are in position to supply the whole de mand they will be in position to move effectively for the exclusion of the for eign product under our Protect ive tarif system. The only excuse t hat has beer given for admitting the foreign pro duct free, heretofore, has been that il "did not compete with any domestic product," as il was "wholly unlike tin Sea Island and other long staple vari eties." That, excuse will serve ne i longer, and it only remains now for flu I cotton farmers to produce the foreign ! staple at home in order to claim and capture the "home market" for it. A'cavi ii nd Courier. - Thc term hana, uaed i i measur i iog, mi aas four inches. 4 Views of i'islmp Turner, ?.f iii? Afri can Church. MrxTsviLi.i-:, ALA., Dec :}.-I.ishop Henry .M. Turner, the best-known colored eliureliman ?ll the Southern Stales, wini is at present presiding over the Conference of the African Methodist ('hinch, in session here, says of the condition of the negro flint as a race he lias no manhood future in tins country. "Re-enslavement, emigration or ex termination," he says, "confronts him. No man who luis any knowledge of the degrading surroundings of the negro doubts these assertions. "The negro can no more hold up under the brutalizing decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and all the degrading laws ol* thc several State Legislatures, than he can carry the Rocky .Mountains upon his head. "The class and prejudicial laws en acted by the Legislatures of the several States, and the cruel decisions hy a thousand Courts to blight the future ol' the negro will lill a massive volume. "Where is the negro who can get a cup (d' tea or cottee on any railroad between the Potomac Uiver and the Rio Grande, much less a decent meal of victuals? Nor are negroes allowed to keel) an eating stand for t he accom modation of their own race, while the admission ol a negro boy to any ma chine shop North would make hundreds (d' employees lay down their tools and walk out. "Could Hie barbarous ages surpass such a condition of aita irs? lam not so apprehensive of re-enslavement as 1 am of extermination. The white pau pers coming from the Old World, and those now here by millions, will do the scullion labor that was conceded to the negro and may prevent re-enslavement, for they are monopolizing that kind of labor. "The Jews are the only people in re corded history (the greatest race on earth) who ever made ?my progress under oppression, and they made but little comparatively. Yet the color of the skin was not a badge of degradation, a in the case (d' the negro here. "The negroes in the United States are practically without law, existing upon the mere whim of the white man. If they fall into humane hands, they I have some show, but if into cruel or ' whiskey besotted hands they are lynched, burned or shot, and horrible allegations are flashed over the nation -allegations in many instances with out foundations in truth. "And the degro cannot send a cor rection over the same wires. The j greater number of newspapers manu facture hurtful sentiment against the negro. If the negro could stand up and hold out under this slander, abuse and misrepresentation, he would be the mightiest race on earth to-day. "There is, therefore, but one ulti matum-the negro must appeal to the National Congress for one hundred million dollars and let those who have any manhood leave thiscouutry and go to Africa, and do what God intended when He allowed him to be hrought here; go to Africa and begin the. work of civilizing his kin. We will thus show ourselves men and vindicate the wisdom of the Almighty in our crea tion. "There are some fool'negroes,, void of scholarship and wide reading, be lieving that they were born to be scul lions, who will object to this, the only plan ottered hy God and nature. "Three millions of us are now ready to leave and he warmly received by millions on millions of our brethren rising up in grandeur, 10,000 of whom I received into the African Methodist Church when I was in the Transvaal, six months ago. "Unless this nation helps us God will overthrow it as He did the Kornau Em pire and al! other nations who op pressed the weak; for the blood of thousands of negrojnen, women and children are crying to Heaven daily for retribution, and millions of prayers are ringing in the ears of thc"Al mighty every minute, and when God moves men and nations must give way. "The white lynchers, politicians and liw-makers may turn a deaf ear and refuse to hear our groans, our wails and our cries, but God will not refuse, though he bear with them long. "These tens of thousands of churches, and hundreds of thousands of pray? r meeting? which are being held in them, and in private retreats, will revolution ize this nation sooner or later. A hun dred miliion dollars for emigration may, however, avert the vengeance of Heaven, do justice to an oppressed people and save this nation from fur ther crime, bloodshed and ".ultimate ruin."- Washington Innes. -- There is a great deal of specula tion and talk in Charleston as .-to the personality of a young lady-who is a?cused (d' s.mding objectionable and annonymous letters through the mail to parties about the city. Thc'young lady is very pretty and accotnp'ishcd and her friends who know of the-affair cannot account for thc] whim which lcd lo her arrest. For months she has been mailing letters to various people of an annoying character. The young woman was taken before United States Commissioner Smith and put under bon 1 to answer at the next term if ooart for her conduct. s IM iii M; ns. - The roll of Clemson College'has 120 t?nmes at present. - The Baptist Sr ate Convention .viii in?? t in Gaffney next year. - A commission has been issaed to organize a bicycle factory in Columbia , tfith a capital of half a million. :1' - The State Legislature will meet in Columbia on the second Tuesday ia J.innary, which is the 10th day of the month. - Prof. Charles B. Smith, of Wof ford College, has resigned his position to return to the active work of the uii n is try. . y - Thc militia is beginning to re organize ami it is possible that the State will do better by it than it has in the past. : - Col. J. W. Floyd, adjutant gen eral-elect, says he has not yet selected his assistant adjutant general.-' Ht has about 40 applications. - Thc State Dispensary is piying $20,000a month into the public school fund and the local dispensaries are paying a similar amount to the cities and counties. ?. - Pauliue Pratt, a colored woman, was found murdered in the woods near her home in Gosham township ia Union county, last week:. Eier hus band, Tom Pratt, is in Union jail charged with the murder. - There are several deserters from the Second regiment whom Lie officers would like to find. Three or fourar rests of soldiers charged with deser tion have been made in Columbia bj the police and the men were returned to the regiment. - State Superintendent of Educa tion Manfield says that the reports oa the selection of the State flower are not coming in rapidly. Only two coun ties have reported officially, although a number of schools have recorded their vote. So far the wild rose and yellow jessamine are the favorites, with the former slightly in the lead. - It is the belief of mill men who have visited mills ia many States thai the Piedmont mills fare better than any they sec. They have comfortable houses, and they live better than they did before they entered the mills. The health of the mill hands is also good. - It is said'Governor'Ellerbe is in favor of having a new inauguration day, and will suggest to the Legisla ture to appoint January 18 as the day to hereafter install the newly-elected Governor and State officials, thus avoiding the past confusion created by the change in our fiscal year. - In Columbia last week Private Atkinson, a member of a Tennessee regiment, disarmed a negro who was about to shoot Policeman McDonald, whose back was turned to the would be murderer. The negro was theo ar rested. In Court the mayor publicly thanked the soldier for thcbrave aofc. - A freight train on the?Colurabia, Newberry and Laurens road was badly wrecked at Leapheart, about seven miles of Columbia. Nine box cars were derailed and piled upon each other, their contents being badly broken and scattered. The accident occurred on a down grade and the train had consider able momentum. Among the cars wrecked was one loaded with horses. Strange to say but one of the animals was hurt, his leg was broken. - Superintendent of /;Educatio? Mayfield's report shows that the en rollment in the public schools of the State during the fiscal year was whites 125,102; colored 150,787. Of the whites the number of females enrolled was 61,386 ; males 63,716. Of the col ored 79,223 were females and 71,551 males. The grand total was 275,889. The average school term for the pub lic schools of the State {was four months. - The Milford Baptist Church, four teen miles from Greenville inJO'Neal township, is minus a'floe organ which c ist $100, and two pulpit lamps. Tho congregation are indebted for their loss to some sneak thief, who visited thc place and took away the'propeity probably Sunday night, the -27th cf last month. The theft was not re ported to the sheriff of Greenville till Thursday, and a very weak clue is gi yen upon which to-work. - Col. ll. M. Sims, o who was one of the best known and most, highly ep? t 'cincd citizen of South Carotina, dud at his home in Columbia on Saturday after an illness of a fortnight. He was elected Secretary of State on the ticket with Hampton in 1876 and served thrco terms, retiring voluntarily. Ile wtj sixty-two years old. He volunteered in the Confederate army as a privato, but became adjutant and inspector gmeral of Bratton's brigade, and later a I jutant general of Longstreet's corps? Hi carried the Jast flag of truce at Appomattox.