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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. _ ____ WE ARE OFTEN ASKED THIS QUESTION: How can you afford to Sell Goods at such Low Prices ? OUR ANSWER IS_ WE don't credit any one, and do not lose anything on bad accounts. We know (and so do you) that a part of the Goods sold on credit is lost, and you who pay your bills are paying for those who do not. Therefore, if we give no credit we can sell Goods at the very smallest per centage that they can be handled for. We will sell you A 25c. Men's Heavy Cotton Undershirt at 19c. A 25c. Men's Heavy Cotton Drawers at 19c. A 25c. Work Shirt at 19c, A $1.25 Alpine or Railroad Hat at 98c. A $1.75 Mackintosh at $1.29. A $2 2& Mackintosh at $1.49. A $4.00 All Wool Mackintosh at $2.98. A $5.00 Overcoat (all wool) at $3.75. A $7.50 Overcoat (all wool) at $5.63. No credit house caa possibly meet our prices. You save money every time yon trade with us, because " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." Anything in CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHINGS 44 WE SELL IT FOR LESS." THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. GLASS FOR WINDOWS, GLASS FOR HOT HOUSES, GLASS FOR SHOW CASES? GLASS FOR CRAVAT AND GLOVE CASES. CUT ANY SHAPE * WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE. EVANS PHARMACY. THIS IS WO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace WILL. R. "HUBBARD'S, NEXT Td F. and M. BANK, Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . . . XMAS AND WEDDING PRESENTS IN 7111?: CITY. Gora petition doo't ent any ico with rae when it comes to prices, i don'1 kuy goods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and Silver patches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamps, China. Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives $1.50 per Set. A world beater. _ WILL R. HUBBARD. EVERYBODY should be careful what kind of Soap they use in eold weather. You 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 IT* ? ri Triiiar Stamps except on Patent and Proprietary medicines. BREAKS A WRITTEN PLEDGE MADE TO THREE GENTLEMEN. Editorial in Columbia State. Thc nature of this editorial state ment is such that it is best, made over my signature, lt deals with my acts as a citizen as well as an editor, and cannot well be written except from the personal standpoint. In thc summer of 1897 a plan for the settlement of the liquor issue in South Carolina Wits suggested to nie by a friend, to whom it bad been communi cated by a prominent, citizen, who must for the present remain unknow n. Ear nest consideration convinced me that it was not only the best solution of this vexing issue, but the only one which was attainable. It provided for I??cal option by counties; a cindee by ballot of the people of each county between the dispensary, prohibition and high license systems, the elections to bc held in ail counties on the same day. a day distinct from the Democratic pri mary, or genera, election day, and the settlement roached to be of force for a term of two or four years. This plan I submitted to several men in politics, among them Mr. Frank H. Weston and Col. W. A. Neal. The former at once accepted the plan as firacticable and desirable. Col. Neal lad been a warm advocate of the dis pensary, bat he expressed a willing ness to make concessions in the promo tion of peace among the people, and, although at first preferring a settle ment of their own devising, he pres ently came to approve this local option measure. We discussed the marrer several times in the summer and early fall of 1897, and Messrs. Neal and Wes ton undertook to do* what they could to influence Governor Kl e;be tb favor this solution. About that time 1 first proposed the plan editorially. It was in the latter part. of October, I think, that a conference was held be tween Senator McLaurin-who had just returned from Mount Airy, N. C., where he had been recuperating after his physical breakdown during the campaign-GovernorEllcrbe,Col. Neal, Air. Weston and myself, having for irs object the adoption of some common policy in regard to the liquor question which should be urged in the Govern or's message. Various plans were dis cussed, the local option one, however, meeting with more favor than any oth er. Allot' us, except Governor Ellerbe were substantially agreed upon it, and after I had explained it fully thc Gov ernor said that it struck him more fa vorably than ?ny solution he had heard, and asked me to write out. for him in detail my views for carrying out the proposal, as he wished to study the matter carefully. With that the con ference broke up. Not long afterward-about Fair week 1 think-Senator Tillman came to Co lumbia and visited Governor Ellerbe. He had hardly left the city when the Governor, about 10 o'clock at night, telephoned the reporters, summoning them to the Executive mansion, and there gave out an interview in which he committed himself absolutely to the maintenance of the dispensary system. 1 believed at the time that Tillman, by some secret hold he had on the Execu tive, had forced him to do this. Not until after the interview had been given out did any ox' us-McLaurin, Neal, Weston or myself-suspect that he had had such a purpose. We were taken by surprise at. this abruptending of our project to take the question out of polities and settle it democratically according to the principle of local self government. Of course, this ended our hope of in fluencing Governor Ellerbe to take the leadership iu the matter bv proposing in his forthcoming annual message a fair and ration il adjustment.of the one issue which rema med to divide our people. Being much disappointed at the outcome, I rather avoided Govern or Ellerbe after that. A day or two before the Legislative session closed, however, I received a message from the Governor asking me to call at the Executive mansion that night. I did so, and we had a two hours1 talk. Governor Ellerbe was ob viously much distressed and alarmed at the several defeats he had sustained in the Legislature, and sought to in duce me to pledge him the State'* sup port for renomination. 1 tobi him that ,, his dispensary views stood in the way; that I would uot and could not support any man committed to the maintenance of that dishonest, tyrannical and abominable system. Ile pleaded pit eous! for support, which made the in terview extremely unpleasant to mc; but 1 held out, and I left him between 10 and ll o'clock apparently almost broken down. When I was about to start early last May for Tampa, with a view of taking part in the Cuban campaign, I left in structions that the ?State was not to commit itself to any candidate in the primary campaign soon to begin. For it was impossible to tell in advance who would be the competitors, and what pledges they might make, and l? feared lest the paper should be com-i mitted in my absence to a mau or a policy inconsistent with irs record and my convictions. My belief that, the war woidd be a short one, to be ended in three mouths, caused me to antici pate a return to Columbia before the primary election. Returning from Cuba, I readied Key Weston the night-after the first pri mary, and on IIIv way to Tampu on the Masrotte two days later I read ina Jacksonville paper the figures of that election, lt was the first information 1 had that Mr. Featherstone had been a candidate. My disposition at that. | time was to support him in the second primary, as I preferred prohibition to j tlic dispensary. I arrived in Columbia on I he evening ? of September 5, kat, finding myself in j almost total ignorance of what bad : happened in South Carolina and thc j world since about thc middle of June,' and being somewhat "dazed" by a re turn to civilization, I did not at once resume my editorial work, intending to ! study up a week or I wo before attempt- j ing it. Un September 7. however the Spar- j tanburg Herald mude an attack on the 1 dispensary system and called on me. to join in the fight, ?ind that night I wrote, an editorial, which appeared next day in thu State, giv ing my "hearty assent, to the propositions so well pul by the Spartaiiburg Herald,'1 but stating on Account of my hick of hi formal iou ns to'the campaign, the pledges of I he candidates:, their platforms and their alliances I would nc "compelled with regret, to be. u bystander. In addi tion to these stated reasons I had two others: (1) Contrary to my instructio an editorial, mildly endorsing Govgr or EUerbe, had been printed in ti ?State during my absence, and it seem* to tie my hands; and (2) I \v;is inion ed that Mr. Featherstone had pledgi himself to general prohibition ai nothing bat- that, a circumstance th made me. even more hopeless of tl promotion of my local oprion pis through him than through Govern* Ellerbe, because I was sure Mr. Ken tl erstone would do what he said, ai ? was not sine that Governor Ellerl would. That afternoon, September 8. when went to the State office I found a liol on my table from th? cashier statin that M.*. Weston and Col. Neal lui been to the office to see me ami, fail in m do so, asked me to be sure and me? them that night at Mr. Weston's ban office. I kent tho appointment. We talked for nearly au hour on dil feront topics At. last Col. Neal said t me, slapping his knee: "Well, let's come down now to bus; ness. Nearly every paper in the Stat isjumpingon tho Governor; he's pr?tt ba?IIy worried, and is very anxious fi you to h.-lp him out. Can't you do itJi I replied that I had told Govermi Ellerbe all along that. I would m support him for renomination if h stuck to the dispensary, and he ha stuck to it. Mr. Weston said: "The sim?le fae of the matter is that the Govermi feels he is obliged to have the supp?t of tho State, and we have asked yoi here to find out on what conditions yoi will support him." Without, hesitation ?ind on the spa of the moment, I replied: "If he wi I pledge himself to me in writing to nig* the Legislature to passa local optioi law, allowing each county to decid* for itself between high license, prohi bition and the. dispensary, I will sup port him." This idea had been wit! me for a your: it had been the object o nil my effort during the previous f d ami winter, ami it came spontaneously to my lips. I did not stop toconsidei the price I might have to pay in publh misunderstanding of my motives if In should accept my terms. Mr. Weston looked at Col. Neal am then said: "I don't think there will lu much trouble about, that, do you, Colo nejf and Col. Neal replied, to me: "I think he'll do it easy enough; he's gol to do it if you insist." Mr. Weston then asked me if a verb al assurance would satisfy me. I tobi him no; there had been too much question about Ellerbe's verbal assur ances already ; I must have it in black and white for my own protection-but he could tell the Governorthat I would not show the pledge to anybody unless he failed ro observe if. in which case I would. Then Mr. Weston asked : "Would yon object to having the letter addressed to me? I am going to Charleston to try ami help the Govern or down there, and I would like to be able to show it to some of the poli ticians." I answered that I would not object to that, but that after he had used it in Charleston I must have the custody of the paper. The conference broke up willi the assurance that they would see the Governor next day and briug me his answer. The next day, Friday, September ii. Mr. Western came to my room ami handed me an envelope bearing the fa miliar engraved lettering, "State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia,"and addressed: "Mr. F. H. Weston, Columbia, S. C., Personal." Opening it, 1 read: State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, S. C., September 8, 1898. Confidential-Dear Frank: In reply to your inquiry will say-I fully concur in your view as to the best solu tion of tile liquor question. After mingling with the people for three mouths ami thorough consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the. Dispensary Act should be so amended so as to allow each county to settle the liquor question for itself, and have de termined to make such recommenda tion to the next General Assembly. Your friend, W. H. ELLEKBE. To Mr. F. H. Weston. Ali of this, except the printed cap tion and date line, was in Governor Ellerbe's handwriting. The date was wrong-one day behind. It was not as precise a pledge as I would have dic tated, but whateverof vagueness there might be in the phrase, "Allow each county to settle the liquor question for itself," was offset hythe initial state ment, "I fully concur in your view as "to tlie best, solution of the. liquor ques tion." I knew, and it was a matter of public knowledge and record, that Mr. Weston's 'view' was thc; same as my own; i lint he favored county choice be tween the dispensary, high license and prohibition. While I did not fin ve any confidence in Governor Ellerbe's sim ple word, 1 did not believe he would dare to incur the obloquy of exposure for violating this pledge, and I thought I had him fast. As Mr. Weston was going that afternoon to Charleston, and wished to u?e the original to se cure votes for the. Governor there. I took a copy of the letter, on his prom ise to hand nie the original on his re turn. He did return lt, and I have kept it in my pocket most of the time since. I must confess that the Gov ernor's prompt compliance with my ultimatum was not altogether gratify ing, for I had thought the matter over, and concluded that to carry our my part ?if the ag -cement would subject meto much crt. icism and perhaps, sus picion ot my motives, and that I would have to withhold my justification until the Legislature met. Un this account I half regretted my impulsiveness, which had entailed upon me a severe ordeal. Mut the thing was ?lone, ami I went to work tn good faith to carry out my part of the compact, having the satisfaction of feeling that I had acted wholly for the public good. Tho next morning the State contained a signed editorial urging high license voters to support Ellerbe, ami each dav. until thc election, tho paper ?lid its' best, for him. If it changed as many as 2.GOO votes, which would otherwise have gone to Featherstone;, is i.s responsible, I regret to say, for his nomination. I * ?id not see the Governor from the (iiuel rei m in d from Cuba until some three weeks after Iiis nomination by tlie second primary. Ile had called at my office when I was out, and had sent tue messages asking meto \isit him; ? sol went one day to his office ul the Stab* House. After on exchange ?d' civilities he , asked my opinion of the clause in the State Constitu? iou permitting the i si- i of licenses for I he sale of liquor, sa> nig i thal aeeordiog to that clause all liq.tors ? i sold under high license would have lo : be bought i rc mi the Stale dispensary. ' i I ann ly/.* d the section ami sinewed that I it could bear no such inlcrpretaii ni. ] rle, persisted in his claim, however, nr I realized that he was trying to find loophole hy which to escape th?' r< dem pt ion ?d' his pledge. This realists rion angered me so much that I coul hardly trust myself to speak. I pact tinning up and down the Exocnlh chamber, and finally tedd him that was in no mood to be dallied wirb i that fashion.'that it' he intended f bunco me, as several newspapers ha predicted he would do lie might ret assured that I would publish thc pledg and show up the whole affair. Then started our, but as I had my bando the door-knob he called me back an offered to leave the interpretation < the clause lo any lawyer I would selec I proposed Chief Justice Mciver, bu he objected I then suggested Mr. 1 VV. Miami and lien. Leltoy F. Yon mans, and he chose Mr. Shaiid and sai be would submit rile question to bin (Weeks afterward I questioned Mi Shand, and he told me that, the Gov eruor had not said a word to him abou it.) The main issue then came up, a fte some talk, and Governor Ellerbe bare, faced ly denied that he had made au, agreement whatever. (I had his lctrc in my pocket at the time.) He at tempted t ? unload thc whole responsi bility on Weston and Neal, saying ht had told them when he wrote thc lette that he had not changed his views, wa still for the, dispensary, and won h make no agreement. Assuming au ai of virtuous indignation he said lu would send for them and make then set him light. (He never did.) I wa: so disgusted that I again started t< b ave, saying I would expose the vvhoh affair and let him settle it with Nea and Weston as he could; but again lu begged nie. to come back, and then leaving his seat and coining to inj side, in front of thc west window at his right band, he said: "Don't get mad; let's talk this thing over quiet Iv and see if we can't compromise it. And Iben he. proposed to do precisely what he li.nl promised ami what I hail expectetl-to urge the Legislature tu pass an Act, permitting each county to choose by ballot between prohibition, high license and the dispensary, lt was a lightning change on his part, and almost took my breath away. He went on to say that it was no new thing on his part; that he had held those views before lie had written thc letter to Wesroii and had told W. D. Evans of them. Then he added: "Hut I don't see how I can put through au Administration measure carrying out the plan.1' I answered that did not matter; that I did not like this "Ad ministration measure" idea anyhow, and that I thought in this case if might do ?is much harm tis good. All 1 ex pected was that he would do what he nail promised to do ami lea ve thc con sequences with rhe Legislature. He saiil again that bc wimbi make these recommendations and I went sm ay sat isfied. 1 did not see Governor Ellerbe again until last Saturday afternoon. On Fri day Mr. Weston informed me that thc Governor had lett him t hat part of his message relating to thc liquor question, and that it seemed to bim throughout au argument for r lie retell lion of thc dispensary system, although it, did make ti brief and bare suggestion as to letting the people of the counties settle the question for themselves. He did not hive it, he said. I fold him that if the message did not come up to prom ise 1 would show up Ellerbe ruthlessly. The next day, Saturday, Mr. Weston gave me a proof oft.be liquor section of the message, with an invitation from the Governor to call on him at the mansion at 5 o'clock that afternoon. I read the proof, and was greatly in censed at what I found in it. My dis inclination to see the Governor was strong, as I was afraid I could not cou rt ol my temper after this revelation of his duplicity; but, as I did not wish to bring Col. Neuland Mr. Weston into the matter-?is I must do if I exposed Ellerbe-I finally determined to keep the appointment. At 5 o'clock I went, to rhe Executive mansion and found the Governor con versing with a visitor. When the latter left I fold him that. I had read his li quor recommendations ?iud was greatly surprised and disappointed; that he had not said what he natl pledged himself to say; that he had defeated his half way endorsement of local option by lither recommendations of the strong) st characrer. He asked nie fo specify. I pointed out this paragraph, for one: "lt (the. dispensary) must be firmly und permanently established or com pletely done away with." This, I said, ideally meant the establishment of the ilispensary on irs presenr basis or irs idimiiiation from the whole State-it was adverse to partial elimination nuder the influence of local option. Then 1 showed that the context of his recommendation as to local option lim ited the choice to prohibition and the lispensary only, wholly ignoring high license as an alternative. This, I said, ivas not. what he had promised me; if idopted ir won bl defeat, the very policy to which I was committed and which I preferred- high license. I went on to my that the whole deliverance 'was ibnoxious to his professions ?iud pied ares. ?md that I quite understood his motive in limiting the choice to pro hibition anil the dispensary and in im posing special and onerous burdens on prohibition counties-he sought to force thc dispensary on the people as the only endurable alternative. He had made the word of promise to the ear and broken it to the hope, I mid. He replied, with marvelous ef frontery, that be had made no promises; li lt Frank Weston bad notacie l prop erly in concealing from me what lie tad said, and that he would make him uihlisli his letter. I answered that I von ld do that; that I proposed to show he public that I, at least, had acted in rood faith. I got np, bade him good .veuing. and walked out cd' his sirring oom. while, he was saying: "Von can lo as you please." So th sis the end of my hone of doing loiiiclhiug through W. H. Ellerbe fora , air and democratic solution of the, iq nor question. I have made my try ' md failed, and ?ill the, men and papers hat have been saying the man was 'ni thiess and th?' Stale newspaper and ' 'olumhiu would bc buncoed can have < lu ir tiing at me. I am fair game; I nive been buncoed. I can only plead 1 hat I thought I had guarded sign i ut it ? ry securing Iiis pledge in writing. I ic lie veil him quite capable of violating my verba! promise, bul I did not think ie would be quite so shameless as to 1 nvite lite production of proofs in his ?wu handwriting that he had lied. r Todo him justice. I ?lo not believe i hat Ellerbe has neted spontaneously n this matter, but nuder dire comp I ' ann; that be has taken what be cnn- v miers the safest choice between evils. ; believe that Senator Tillman hollis lis written pledge to support the dis- , >cusury, in terms more .?p.cific tiian \> those of his letter to me-or else som?; paper the publication of which would damn him. Tillman, 1 am informed, was here last week and week before last; he whipped Ellerbe back to his feet a year ago, rind it is quite, likely that he put his collar on him again the other day. However that may be, 1 plead guilty to being cheated. I expected to be lied to. but I di<l not expect, to be brazenly swindled. 1 did mit think that W. H. Ellerbe would adopt, the device of sneaking out of an obligation in writing by accusing tuen who had been almost, his only friends of bad faith toward him and toward me. Messrs. Weston and Neal will doubtless speak for them selves; I have refrained from quoting them as to the statements Gov. Ellerbe made to them. My own story is too long. Meanwhile, Mr. Weston is a member of the. House of Representatives and will doubtless have occasion to state his views <ui the liquor question; and the other members can consider in con nection with the recommendation in the Governor's message the following extract from his letter now in my pos session : "Dear Frank: ? fully concur in your view as to the best solution of thc liquor question." N. G. GONZALES. - mm m - - Capture of lie {iress Battery. Since December, 1896, the Atlanta Camp, No. 159, United Confederate Veterans, has been investigating the evidence as to which Confederate or ganization captured the famous De Gress battery in the battle of Atlanta, on Juno 22, 1864. Judge Robert L. Rodgers, the historian of this camp, has made diligent search, taking ichc testimony of living witnesses and the official records of the battle. At the December, 1898, meeting of the camp he made his report, giving due credit to Manigault's brigade, and naming them as the captors of the battery. His sympathies must have been with the claims of the Georgia contestants, ?ind it speaks highly for his indepen dent and manly spirit, and the strong evidences in favor of the claims of the aral laut brigade of Manigault, that he should have been forced by the evi dence to decide as he has done. His report was accepted by the camp [ind the discussion, it is hoped, is now closed. In summing up at the end of his report Judge Rodgers says: "I call special attention to that part of Capt. De. Gress' report where he says that the rebels were repulsed in his front, but, breaking through the centre (of the line, i changed front and charged his battery and captured it. This would seem to show t hat tho troops who went behind the Battery A at the railroad are to be credited with the capture of De Gress Battery, H. What command was it, and who were those .hiring soldiers who got in the rear of Battery A, and caused such confusion ind stampede among the Yankees at that point? * * * The evidence seems bo sustain Col. C. I. Walker as to the capture of De Gress' Battery btdng made by his regiment, or by the troops jf Manigault's brigade. The terrible struggle of the Georgia troops was south of the railroad, and there does not appear to be any evidence that the De Gress Battery, H, was at any time that day on the south side of the Geor gia Railroad." It is fair to Gen. Walker to say that tie has never made any claim that the 10th South Carolina, regiment captured fie De Gress battery, but has always i'aimed the credit for Manigault's bri gade as a whole. Ho has always and mly claimed for the 10th South Caro ma regiment individually that the ?egiment captured the four guns of Hattery A, which were north of the Georgia Railroad. The gallant men of Manigault's bri gade, composed of the 10th and 19th South Carolina and 24th, 28th and 34th \labama Regiments, are pleased that iheir splendid achievements on this af - ;ernoon have been acknowledged in ;he city iii whose defence they fought. - mm . mm Will Keep Out of Prison. CHARLESTON, W. VA., Jan. 12-Judge Thomas Jefferson Mackey, the South karolina jourist, who was indicted at he November terni of the circuit court n this county on the charge of bigamy, jfthere this morning in company with Deputy Sheriff S. C. Young and his mungel, Cleon Moore, for Martinsburg, kV. Va., where he was admitted to bail )efore Judge Faulkner. He married Hiss Katherine Porterfield, daughter if Col. G. A. Porterfield, cashier of the {auk of Charleston, in July last, and a cw weeks after a woman claiming to Hi his lawful wife turned up ill New fork. She stied him for a divorce, vhich has been granted in that place, md now he will be remarried to Mi.-s 'orteriield, tho license having been ssued yesterday. - Miss Florence Caldwell, daugh er of (Jolted States Judge Caldwell, f Cleveland, graduated as a civil rigiueer last June from the Colorado Irate School i?f Mines, at Golden. She rill not practice, her profession, how ver, as she is about to marry anotror i vi I engineer, whom she met in Colo ado. _ H'JW'8 Ititi. We offer 0?e Hundred. Dolbira reward for any .se f ?-HI tr rh Ih.t cannot be cm ed by Hall't. it ?rrh e?ri? vVe i hi' under -Ure d hara kttnu'ti r-. . Phoney ir tit?' a*i M y;tr-< a .ii b-llere bim pert?uth i.numbie m nil biiiiiit'i? l.iatinacthi ia and Un;tn i:nly Mille io canyt out any ob lamons marie, hy Itel rt tm WK T ? TROAX, Wholesale OruiMNis. ToM ?. O. ITAL?'INC! KISNAS A MARVIN, Whol ?ale Druje i-i*. r.iit-Ho. i U.el's . at?, i ?i .'ure lu U.ken Internally acting tr ct I > upon th" blu?-l and inucoua MI rf-terso! i? aytteiu. I' MtnonUiB -n-ni fro?. Prie? 76c, er think- Sold by all dru.;gittt. 1 STATE NEWS. - The ?. M. C. A. State Conven tion will meet in Spartanburg Feb ruary 9-12. - The Dew year found the peniten tiary with 784 convicts, 61 more than this time last year. - It is reported that a bleachery enterprise is in process of organiza tion at Spartanburg, S. C. - The farmers of the ea>tern part of the State arc going to increase their tobacco acreage this j ear. - The Gaffuey cotton mills have concluded to run day and night. The demand for their goods warrants this. - A Laurens negro who had de serted his wife and five children was mobbed by negroes and severely han dled.' - The Newberry dispensary did a big business the last quarter in 1898. The total sales for the three month* were $10.838 77. - T. C. Robinson, E-q., of Pick ens, and Cole L. Blease, E?q., of Newberry, are candidates for members of the State Board of Control. - For the third time within a few weeks Mr. R. T. Blair, of Ridgeway, S. C., suffered considerable loss by in cendiary fire on the night of Jan. 5. - President Hartzog, in his annual report on Clemson College, asks the Legislature for an appropriation of $40,000 for the College for the current year. - Spartanburg will soon enjoy the advantages of a thoroughly equipped and modernly arranged sewerage sys* tem, covering about eighteen or twenty miles of territory. - The little 8-year-old daughter of Mrs. Hancock, who lives on Maj. J. S. Floyd's farm in the suburbs of Walhalla, was accidentally burned so seriously last Saturday afternoon that she died during the night. - The Charlotte News reports that Squires Bailes, whose domicile is just on the line between North and South Carolina, married 201 couples during the year 1898. His home has been named Gretna Green. - The 2d South Carolina regiment at Havana has been sent to Buena Vista, 9 miles in the country. Their first night was spent in the pouring rain. Previously they had been en camped at Morro Castle. - Thirty-five negroes left Green wood Sunday over the Southern for Tallahasse, Fla., where they go to work on turpentine farms. They were for the most part "town negroes" and nobody regretted their departure. - Sheriff L. M. Clyburn, of Lan caster, killed his pig Wednesday. Ii was just 13 months old and weighed net 547 pounds. It was Poland China breed, and every one who saw it says it was the largest hog for its age they ever saw. - A sad accident occurred near Packsville which caused the death of Hampton Cutter. He was working at the saw mill of his father, Ben Cut ter, when a piece of plank was caught in the rapidly revolving saw and hurl ed it in the direction Mr. Cutter waa working and struck him on the head, crushing his skull. - The revenue officers have recent ly got a hump on them and have made things lively among the illicit dis tillers along the line of Lexington and Orangeburg counties. They recently made a raid and succeeded in captur ing and destroying eight or nine stills. - James B. Williams, the slayer of Major W. A. Williams and of Charlie Potts, died suddenly Friday afternoon io the Greenville county jail, where he was cool oed pending the decision of the State supreme court on his ap peal for a new trial in the Potts case, in which he was convicted of murder at the last term of court and seotenced to be hanged on the 27th of this month. - Gov. Ellerbe has had placed at his disposal a scholarship in the Oread Institute, at Worcester, Mass. The scholarship includes board and tuitior. rhe school opens on January 25tb. Originally the Oread Institute was tl e New Era Cooking School of Worcester, rhe special work of that school WJ g Lhe teaching of cookery, and the. fit ting of girls for teachers, lecturers, ind demonstrators in cooking alone. - The Columbia State, a few days ?ince, published a report on the sub ject of thc petrified man exhibited in :his State a few years ago. It w*s dairaed by the owners to have been \>und in this State, and they have probably made a fortune out of it, but icientists in Berlin have since exam* ned it and have pronounced it a f ake? Choy say that it is an artificial com* mund of lime and clay silicate. No loubt many io this comity saw the )e>rified mun when it was exhibited in Jul nalbia and will be surprised to hear hat it1 is a- fraud.