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BY CLI MoCA. I /ES^^ANGSTON " Avnvtt^iT'TT^ ^ ----^ _ _--?--A M DijjRSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. O??TOI?KI? ia iuor V - : WE AR? 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 had accounts. We know (and so do you) that a part of the Goode sold on credit is lost, and you who pay your bills are paying for those who do not. Therefore, if we give no credit *e can sell Goods at the very smallest per centage that they ^ 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 25 Mackintosh at $1.49. A $4.00 AU Wool Mackintosh at $2.98. A $5.00 Overcoat (all wool) at $3.75. A $7.50 Overcoat (all wool) at $5/?3. No credit house can possibly meet our prices. You save money every time you trade with us, because " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." Anything in CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHINGS " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." B. 0. Evans & Co, THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. GLASS FOR WINDOWS, GLASS FOR HOT HOUSES, GLASS FOR SHOW CASES* GLASS FOR CRAVAT AND GLOVE CASES. CUT ANY SHAPE * WITHOUT EX??4 CHARGE. EVANS PHARMACY. THIS IS NO FAKE ! That Jeweiry^Palace WILL. ^HUBBARD'S, NEXT TO F. and Bl. BANK. Has the largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . . . XMAS AND WEDDING PRESENTS I?N TUN CITY. Competition don't ent any ice with me when it comes to prices. 1 don*' jj? ponda to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and Silver Fatches, 8rerliojr and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamps, China. Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives $1.60 Per Bet. A world beater. _ WILL R. HUBBARD. TOILET 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 sea us when you want nice Soap. HILL-ORR DRUC CO. P. 5 T? i arl vi Tr* lia; Stamps except on latent and dietary medicines. ELLERBEKS DUPLICITY. llltEAKS V WBlTTtN PLEINE M A HE TO TH KKK (?KNTLKMKN. lui i to rial in Columbia Statt'. Tin? nat ure. of thin editorial state liM'liI is such that it is bes} made over my signature. lt ?Irais with my arts asa citizen as well ns nu editor, and cannot well lin written except from thc personal standpoint. In thc Hummer ot 1807 a (dan for the settlement ot the liquor issue in South Carolina, was suggested to mc l?y a friend, to whom it ?tjttl heeu communi cated Itv a prominent citizen, who must tor thc present remain unknown. Kar nest consideration convinced mc that it was not. only thc best solution ot' this vexing issue, but. the only one which waa ut tu i nuble, lt provided for local option Itv counties; a choice hy ballot nf t he people of each county bet ween thc dispensary, prohibition* ami Ililli liecuse- systems, thc elect ions to be held iii all counties on thc same day. a day distinct from thc Democratic pri mary, or genera, election day, and thc settlement reached to be ol' force, for a tenn of two or four year?. This plan I submit ted to several men in politics, anions them Mr. Krank ll. Weston and Col. \V. A. Neal. The former at once accepted thc plan ns practicable and desirable. Col. Neal liad been a warm advocate of thc dis pensary, but he expressed a willing ness to make concessions in thc promo tion of peace. muong the people, and, although ut tirst preferring a seule ment of their own devising, he pres ently caine to approve this local option measure. Wo discussed thu inaner several times in thc summer ami carly fall of 18117. and Messrs. Ni al and Wes ton undertook to do* what they could to influeuco Governor Kl c bc. to favor this solution. About that time I tirst proposed the plan editorially. It was in thc latter part, of October, 1 think, that a conference was held be tween Senator McLauriu-who had just returned from Mount Airy, N. C., where he had been recuperating after his physical breakdown during the campaign-Go vernor Ellcibe.Col. Neal, Mr. Weston and myself, having for its object thc adoption of some common policy in regard to the liquor question winch should be urged in the Govern or's message. Various plans wert; dis cussed, thc local op'lou one, however, meeting with more favor than any oth er. All of us, except Governor Kllcrbe were substantially agreed upon it, and after I had explained it fully thc Gov ernor said that it struck him more fa vorably than iiuy solution he had heard, and naked nm to write out for him in detail my views for carrying out thc proposal, as he. wished to study thc matter carefully. With that thc con ference broke up. Not long afterward-about Fair week I think-Senator Tillman came to Co lumbia and visited Governor Kllcrbe. He had hardly left, the city when the Governor, about 10 o'clock at night, telephoned thc reporters, summoning them to thc Executive mansion, mid 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 hohl he had on thc Execu tive, had forced him to do this. Not until after the interview had been Siven out ?lid any itf us-McLauriu, eui. Weston or myself-suspect tina he had bad auch a purpose. We were taken by surprise at thia abrupt ending of our project to take the question out of politics und settle it democratically according to the principle of local self government. Of course, this ended our hope of in fluencing Governor Kllcrbe to take the leadership in the limiter by proposing in his forthcoming annual message a fair and ration il adjustment of the one issue which remained to divide our j people. Being much disappointed at the outcome, 1 rat her avoided Govern or Kllcrbe after that. A ?lay 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 hours'1 talk. Governor Ellerbe WAR ob viously much distressed and alarmed at the several defeats he hail sustained in the Legislature, and sought to in duce me to pledge bim the Stat*?* sup port for renomination. 1 tobi him that, his dispensary views stood in the way; thai I would not 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 me; but 1 hebl 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, 1 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 I feared lest the paper should be com mitted in my absence to a mau or a policy inconsistent with ifs record and my convictions. My belief that the war would ba a short one, to bo ended in three months, caused me to antici pate a return to Columbia before the primary election. Returning from Cuba, I reached Key Weston the night-after the tirst pri mary, and on my way to Tampa on thc Mascotte two days later I read in a Jacksonville paper the figures of that election, lt was thc tirst information I had that Mr. Featherstone had been a candidate. My disposition at that time was to support him in the second primary, as I preferred prubi bi i ion to the dispensary. I arrived in Columbia on Iheevcning of September 5, kut, buding myself in almost total ignorance of what had happened in South Carolina and tho world since about the middle of .lune, and being somewhat "dazed" by a re turn to civilization, I did tint at once resume my editorial work, intending to study up a week or two before at tempt - ing it. Gu September 7. however the Spar enburg Herald made an attack on thu dispensary system mid called on mo to join in the tight, and that night 1 wrote an editorial, which appeared next day. in tim ?State, giving my '.hearty assent to the. propositions HO well put by thu Spnrtnnlmrg Herald,'' but stating on account of my luck of information ns to'the campaign, thc pledges of thu candidates, their platforms and flu ir alliances I would oe "compelled with regret, to b? a bystander. lu addi tion to these stated reasons I had two others: (1) Contrary tn my instructions ?in editorial, 111 i 1 . 11 > endorsing Govern or Kllcrbe, had been prill ted in the Stale tit trill? my absence, ami il seemed to ti?* my hands; and (i) 1 waa inform i'd that Mr. Feat hirst ono had pledged himself tn crucial i inhibition anti nothing hut that, a circumstance that made inc even inure hnpclcHSof thc promotion a ol' my local option plan through him than through Governor Kllcrhe, hccau.se I was sure Mr. Feath erstone would do what lie said, and I was mu sun- that (?overnor Kllcrbe would. That itfternooii, Septembers, when I weill lo tim Slate o'Mce 1 lound a luni on my table from the cashier statiner that M.. Weston and fol. Neal hail liceti to I he other tn SIT m?- and. ta il in.ir Mi do so, asked me l<? he MIHI* and meet them that nihill al Mr. Weston's hank oilier. I kent thc appointment. We talked lot neat ly an hour on dif ferent topics Al last Col. Neal said to me, slapping his knee: "Well, let's come down now to busi ness. Nearly every paper in thc Stale is jiitnpingou the (fovernor; he's pretty hadly worried, ?mil is very anxious foi you to li. lp him ont. Can't you do it?" I replied that I had told Govornor Kl Iel ht- all ilion*? that I would not support him for renomination if he stuck lo the dispensary, and he had i stuck to it. Mr. Weston said: "The simple fact I of the mattet' is that the (?overnor | feels he is obliged to have the support of the Stale, and we have asked you here to timi ont on what conditions you will support, him.*1 Without hesitation and on the spur of the moment, I replied: "If he will pledge himself to me in writing to inp* the Legislature to passa (oral option law, allowing each county to decide for ii sell lat ween high license, prohi bition and. the dispensary. ! will sup port him.11 This idea had been with me fora vear: it hail been tim object of all my elfint during the previous f ill ami winter, ami it. came spontaneously to my lips. I did not stop to consider the pri?e I might have to pay in public misunderstanding of my motives if he should accept my terms. Mr. Weston looked nt Col. Neal and then said: "I don't think there will ho much trouble about that, do you, Colo nel f auld Col. Neal replied, to me: "I think he111 do it easy enough; he's got to do it if you insist.11 Mr. Weston then asked me if a verb al assurance would satisfy me. I told him no; there, had been too much question about Kllerbc's verbal assur ances already ; I must have it in black and white for my own protection-but he could tell the Governor I hut I would not show tin- pledge, to anybody unless he failed to observe if. in which case I would. Then Mr. Weston asked : "Would you object to having the letter addressed to mei [ am going to Charleston to Irv and help the (iovern or down I here, and I would like to he. able to show it to some of the poli ticians.'1 I answered that I would not object, tn that, but that after he had used it in Charleston 1 must have thc custody ol' the paper. The. conference broke up willi the assurance that they won hi see the Governor next day and bring me his answer. Th? next, day, Friday, September i?. Mr. Weston came to my room and minded me an envelope bearing the fa miliar engraved lettering, "Stat*? of South Carolina, Kxecutive Chamber, Columbia,"and addressed: "Mr. K. H. Weston, Columbia, S. C., Personal.11 Opening it, I read : State of South Carolina, Kxecutive Chamber, Col um bia. S. C., September 8, 1898. Confidential-Dear Frank: In reply to your inquiry ?ill say-{fully concur in your view as to the best solu tion of tuc liquor question. After mingling with the people for three mouths and thorough consideration. I have come to the COIICIIIH?OU that, the Di spcu sa rv Act should be so amended so as to allow each county to settle the liquor question for itself, and have, de termined to make Hitch recommenda tion to the. next General Assembly. Your friend, W. ll. Eti.EKBB. To Mr. K. H. Weston. All of this, except the printed cap tion and date 'inc, was io Governor Ellerbek handwriting. The date was wrong-ope day behind, lt- was not as precise a pledge as I would have dic tated, but whateverof vagueness there might be in the phrase. "Allow each countv to settle the liquor question for itself, WUM offset hythe initial state smen!. "I fully concur in your view ns "to tile best, sol ul iou of the. liquor ques tion." I knew, and it was u matter ot public knowledge mid record, that Mr. Weston's 'view1 was the Mame as my own; that he favored county choice be tween the dispensary, high" license und prohibition. Wii?e I did not have any confidence in Governor Kllerbe's sim ple word, 1 ilid not. believe he would dare to incur the obloquy of exposure for violating this pledge, and I thought I had him fast. AM Mr. Weston wa* going that, afternoon to Charleston, and wished to use thc original to se cure votes for the Governor there. I took a copy of the letter, on his prom ise to hand mc the original on his re turn. Ho did return it, and I ba vt kept it in my porker most of the time since. I must confess that tho Gov ernor's prompt compliance with my ultimatum was not altogether gratify ing, for I hud thought the matter over, and concluded that, to carry out tn> part of the ag cement would subject me to much cri.icisin ami pei imps, sus picion ot my motives.and that I would have to withhold my just i heal ion until the Legislature met. On this account I half regretted my impulsiveness, which had entailed upon me a Heven ordeal, (bit the thing was dom*, and I went to work in good faith to curr*, out my part of the compact, ha vi uv the satisfaction (d' feeling (hat I hue acted wholly for the public good. Tin next morning the Stale contained > signed editorial urging high licciisi voters to support Kllerbe. and euell day. until the election, the paper di? its' best for him. If it chang.-d m many as 2.CH) votes, which won I? otherwise have gone to Featherstone is is responsible, I regret to any, for. bit nom i na i ion. 1 did not se? the. Governor from tin time I rei urned from Cuba until som? three weeks after his nomination b.i the second primary. Ile had called a my ollie?- when I was out, and had sen mc message asking meto visit him Sol Wellt om; day to his ollie?; Ut till State House. After on exchange of civilities In asked my ?pinion of the claus * in th? Stale Const il ul iou permitting the i Si or licenses for the sale ?d' liquor, MU "vi oj thai according to that clause all liquor sold limier high license would have ti be bought I mill the State disprtisarv I aualy/.ed thc section and showed thu il could bear no such interpr?tai i m ilY persisted in hi> claim, however, ami j I rca I i/.eil that h<< was trying to timi a loophole by which lo escape there ilomptiou ol' his ph iltre. This realiza tion angel eil me so imieh that I couht ha ni ly trust myself to speak. I pareil fuming up ami dow II tia- Kxcculivc chamber, ami filially told him thai I was in no mood io lu- dallied within that fashion, .that if he intended to' bunco inc, as several newspapers had predicted he would do he might rest assured that I would publish thc pledge and show up (lie whole allait'. Theil I started oui. luit as I had my hand on the door-knob lu-called me hack ami tillered lo leave I lit* intel pit-tat ion ol the clause to any law vcr I vt mild select, I proposed Chief .lustiee Mciver, hat lu* objected I then suggested Mr. 15. W. Minmi and lieu. Lol'oy !'. You maiis. and he chose Mr. Sh.iiid and said he would submit tin- question io him. (Weeks afterward 1 questioned Mr. Shaml, ami In* told nu-thal the Cm ci nor had not said a word lo him ahoiil it.) The main issac then came up. after some falk, ami Governor Kllcrbe hare faecdly denh-d thal he h.c.I made aux agleeim-ut whatever. il had his letter in my pocket at the lime.} Ile at tempted t ? unload lin- whole responsi bility mi Weston and Neal, saying he hail told them w hen he w rot?- thc letter thal he had not changed his views, was still fm the dispensary, ami would make no agreement. Assuming an air of virtuous indignation he. said he would scud for them ami make them sel him tight. (Ile never dill.) I was so disgusted that 1 again started to have, sating I would expose the whole afluir ami let him settle it w ith Neal and Weston as he could; hut again he begged me to come back, ami llieu, leaving his scat ami coming io my side, in front of the west window at his righ hand, he said.: "I'mri gel mad; let's talk this t liing over quiet Iv ami see if wc can't compromise it.*' And then In- proposed lo do precisely what he had promised ami what I hail expected-lo urge the Legislature tu pass an Act permitting each county tu choose by ballot bet ween prohibition, high license and thc dispensary. If was a lightning change on his part, ami almost took my breath away. He went on to say that, it was no new thing on his parr; that he had helli those views before, he had written thc letter to Weston and hail told W. IK Kvans of them. Then he added: "Hut I don't see. how I cati put through an Administr?t iou measure, carrying out thc plan.'1 I answered that did liol matter; that I did not like this "Ad ministration measure'* idea anyhow, ami that I thought in this case it might do as lunch harm as good. AU I ex pected was that ht*, would do what, lu lind promised it? do ami leave thc con s?quences with the Legislature, lb said again that he would make thesi rccom mendal hms and I wein ut*, ay sat istletl. 1 did not sec. Governor Kllcrbe agaii until Inst Saturday afternoon. On Kri day Mr. Weston informed me that tin Governor had rea him that part of hi: message rel.liing lo the liquor question and that it. seemed to him tlirougho'tl au argument for thc rel eu lion of th: dispensary system, although it. dit make a brief and bart; suggest ion as ti let ling thc people, of the counties set th thc question for themselves. Ile. di? not like it, he said. I told him that i thc message did not come, up lo prom isa I would show up Kllcrbe ruthlessly The next ?lay, Saturday, Mr. Wcstoi gave mc a proof of the liquor sect lol of thc message, with an invitation fron the Governor to call ou him at tin mansion at Ti o'clock that afternoon, read thc proof, and was greatly in censed at what I found in it. My tlis inclination to see tho Governor wa strong, as I was afraid I could not con liol my temper after this revelation o Iiis duplicity; but. ita 1 ?lid not wish b bring Col. Neal ami Mr. Weston iub the matter-as I must do if I expose* Kllcrbe-I tinnily determined to kec| tin* appointment. At 5 o'clock I went, to the Executive mansion and found the Governor cnn versing wit h a visitor. When thc latte letti told him that I bad read his li quor recommendations timi was great I. surprised and disappointed; that he ha? hot said what ht*, had pledged hiiusel to say; that lu; had defeated his half way endorsement of local option h. other recommendationa of thc strong, s character. Ho asked me to specify 1 pointed out this paragraph, for our "lt (tin*, dispensary) must bc ti rm I, ami pt-riuaiifidly established or com pletely done away with/' This, I sail! clearly meant, the. establishment of th dispensary on ita present basis or il elimination from tilt*, whole. Stale-i was adverse to partial climiuntio under the influence, of local option Then I showed that tilt*, context of hi recommendation as to local option lint ?lcd tho choice to prohibition and th dispensary only, wholly ignoring lng license us au alternative. This, 1 sait was mit what he had promised me; i adopted it would defeat the very nolie to which I was committed and which preferred-high license. I went on I say that the whole, deliverance 'wa obnoxious to his professions and pled pcs. and that I quite understood hi motivo in limiting the choice topi? h i bi t ion nut! tht*. dispensary and in mi posing special and onerous burdens o prohibition' counties-he sought t loree the dispensary on thc. people ii thc. only endurable alternative. ile. had made- thc word of promise t Ila* ear and broken if to the hope, ?aid. Ile replied, willi marvelous el Frontery, that he had made no promise, that Krank Weston had not ac to-1 proi .cly in concealing from nu; what fi liad said, and that, he would make hil |uil?lish his letter. I answered that would do that; that 1 proposed to hbo the public that I, at least, hail acted i irood faith. I got up, bade him goori .vening, and walked out of his ai tt i tl loom, while he was saying: "Voa ca ilo as voa please." So til sis the em) of HIV honeofdoiu ?linetliing through W. il. Km*rta* for fair mid democratic solution of th liquor Question. I have made my tr ind failed, and all thc men ami papel I hat have been saying thc mau wi faithless ami lim Staff newspaper an Columbia would bc buncoed can hav their tiing nt mc 1 am fair game; nive been buncoed. I can only plea hat I i bought I had guarded uiniiiit I ry securing his pledge in writing, indieved him quite capable of viola I in my verbal promise, bul I dill not thin ie would be quite so shameless tis I avile t he product iou of proofs in li ?wit handwriting that hi* had lied. Todo him justice. I do not belie Imf Kllcrbe has acted spuntaneou-1 II this matter, but nuder dire comp don; that lu* has taken what he cot tillers tho safest choice between evil I believe that. Senator Tillman hob lis written pledge to support (hedi icitsary, in terms moro . pacific tau (hose nf his h t In to tn?- or cist some papci'tli?* publientiou of which would lanni him. Tillman, I am informell, was her?'last week and week he for?' last; lu- whipped Idh i he hack to his f?-?'l a year ago. ami il is ?pute likely that he put his collar on him again the ?it her tiny. However that may he, I plead guilty to lieiug cheated. I expected io he Iu d to. hui I did not expect to he hra/.enl\ sw nulled. I ?lui not think that W. 11. Kl le I he would adopt the device of sneaking out of au old i gat ion in writing In aeeiising men who had lice li almost his only friends of had faith toward him .md tow ?ii ?I nu'. Messrs. Weston .md Ni .d will lion ht less speak for t hem selves: I have refrained from quoting i hem as to the st al ?tuen ts (iov. Kl lei he inaili ?o [hem. My own story is too long. Mean wini?'. Mr. Weston isa member of t he House ot Repr?sent?t ives and will doubtless have occasion l?i state his views on the liquor question;nuil I he ol her members can consider in eon - nerti.m with thc recommendation in the (ioveimu's message (he follow ing extract from his letter now in my pos session : "Hear Krank: I tully concur in your view as l?i the best solution of I he liquor question." N. i;. (??IN/.M.I s. --am m am Capture nf Ile tirevs Mattery. Since December, t*!?ii. thc Atlanta Camp. No. 151?, rioted Confederate Veterans, has been investigating I he ! evidence as to which Confederate or [ gaui/.alioti captured the famous |)? Cress battery in the hattie of Allanta, on .lune 22, isti}. Judge Uobcrl K. Rodgers, the historian of this camp, has made diligent search, taking thc testimony ?if living witnesses and thc otlicial records ?if the hattie. At the December, 18MS, meeting ?il thc ? amp he made his report, giving ?lue credit to M a tl iga ul t's brigade, ami naming them as thc captors of the battery. His sympathies must have been with t he claims ?d' the Georgia contestants, and it speaks highly for bis indepen dent and manly spirit, and thc strone ?vidences in favor of tho claims of thc gallant brigade of Manigault, that lu should have been forced by thu evi dence to decide as he has done. His report, was accepted by the cani|i ami the discussion, it is Imped, is now closed, lu Humming up nt the cud ol his report.?Iuilge itodgers says: "I call special attention to that part of Capt. De Cress1 report where he says that Hie rebels were repulsed in his front, but, breaking through the centre (of thc line.) changed front, und charge?] his battery and capt Ul cd it. Tho would seem to show (hat the troop* who went, behind the Mattery A at. thc railroad are to he credited with Hu 1 capture of De (?ress Mattery, H. What I command was it, ami who were those daring soldiers win? got in the rear ol Huttcry A, und caused such confusion and stampede among the Yankees at that point ? * * * The evidence seem* to sustain (Nd. C. 1. Walker as to Hu capture nf Do H ress' Battery being made by his regiment, or by the troop* of Manigault's brigade. Thc- tcrrihb struggle of the Georgia troops wa* south of the railroad, and there doc* not appear to be any evidence that the De. G ress Battery, H, was ut ?ny time that day on the south side of the Geor gia Kail road." It is fair to Gen. Walker to say that he has never litado any claim that thc 10th South Carolina regiment captured t ie De (? ress battery, but baa always ? c'aimed the credit for Munigault's bri? gaile as a whole. Ho hos always and only claimed for the lUth South Caro lina, regiment individually that thc regiment captured the four guns of Mattery A, which were north of thc Georgia Railroad. The gallant men of Manigual Ks bri gade, composed of the 10th and liJth South Carolin" and 24th, 28th and .'itii Alabama Regiments, urti pleased that their splendid achievements on this af ternoon have been acknowledged in tho city in whose defence they fought. mm m mm - Will Keep Oat of I'rlson. CIIAIU.KSTON, W. VA., Jan. 12-Judge Thomas Jefferson Mackey, the South Carolina jourist, who waa indicted at the November term of thu circuit court in this county on tho charge of bigamy, 1 -fthere this morning in company with Deputy Sherill' S. C. Young and his counsel, Cleon Moore, for Martinsburg, VV. Va., where he was admitted to bail before Judge Faulkner. He married Miss Katherine 1'ortcrficld, daughter of Cul. G. A. Portcrfield, cashier of tho Matik of Charleston, in July last, and a few weeks after a woman claiming to be his lawful wife turned up itt New York. She sued him for a divorce, which has been granted in that place, ami now he will bc. remarried to Mi-s I'ortcrticld, the beens?? having bei n issued yesterday. - Miss Florence Caldwell, daugh ter of United Stutts Judge Caldwell, of Cleveland, gruiluuted as u civil engineer la?t Juno from tim Colorado "?bate School of Mines, at Golden. Ste will not practice lier profession, how ever, us she is about to marry alioth* f civil engineer, whom she tuet in Colo rado. ^ ^ ^ _ Hutu's i hit. We'iflcr o*p Illicitrt-d DolUra reward for ?ny I:.M> f Catarrh th.t cannot bennett by Hair? . '?t irr li ' ur?? W? II:H mi'lrr-l/ri'd harn k unwii K . rh**n?*y fur th?> ?-i '? jr?*?M. ? .il h llev.- lilia |?Tl>-i:tl% 'iitn<ir?ti'?- >u ?II butinera I? Aunadlo tn ?nd Armit -lally MIIIM lo c*rry, uni any oil i^.iunni luadr Uy lli.'l Situ WK T A TKUAX, WtviltHiai.? rtriiMtila, TolM >, o. WALMNI* KIHNA* & MARVIN, wtini aale Ortig. itr.ii>, 1'olrdo. O. HA'I'A . a?a"Q i'uro 1? tuk.Mi ino-rualiy. acune lir l ill upon itc bl.i.?l And tniH'il'ia niirl I'i'd ol . hi- ??'i-in. r tl mon l tia u rn fra*. Prie* 7Ac p<-r butilo Sold by all dnugtaUi. ST ATE NEWS, Thc V. M. C. A. Stat.; Conven tion will meet in Spartauburg Fob* mary '.' Iii. The new year found the peniten tiary with TM convict*, til more tluui ihi> time last year. It is reparten1 that a bleachery enterprise is in process nf organisa tion at Spurtanbuig, S. C. Thc fanners et'th ti eastern part "t the State are going ti> inert a??: their tobacco acreage this > mir. The Gall'ucy cotton mills have concluded to run ?lay and night. The demand for their gumin warrants thia. - A Laurens negro who had de serted his wife and live children waa mobbed by negroes and severely han died. - The Newberry dispensary dit!? big business thc hist quarter tu IS?hS. Thc total sales fur thc three months were rjtlO.K'itf 77. T. C. K.ibinsnn, F-q., <d" I'ick ens, and Cole L. BIcasc, F-q., of Newberry, are candidates for mctubcra of tin; State Hoard of Control. - For the thin! tillie within a few weeks Mr. K. T. Blair, of Ridgeway, S. C., sulVcrcd considerable loss by in cendiary tire on tho night ol' dan. ii. - i'resident I "art zog, in his annual report on Clemson College, asks the Legislature for an appropriation of *IO,(HH) for thc College for thc current year. - Spartauburg will soon enjoy thc advantages of a thoroughly equipped and modernly arranged sewerage sys* tem, covering about eighteen or twenty miles of territory. ' -The little S year old daughter of Mrs. Hancock, who lives on Maj. J. . S Floyd's farm in thc suburbs of Walhalla, was accidentally burned so ? Hcriously last Saturday afternoon that she died during the night. ? - The Charlotte AVi/w- reports that Squires Hades, whose domicile is just on thc linc between North and South Carolina, married -01 couples during thc. year 1S9S. His home has been 1 named Gretna Creen. '. - The 2d South Carolina regiment ' at Havana has been sent to Buena Vista, ?" miles in the country. Their first night was spent in thc pouring , rain. Previously they had been cn * camped at Morro Castle. 1 -Thirty live negroes left Grccn ' wood Sunday over thc Southern for \ Tallahassc, Fla., where they go to , work on turpentine farms. They were I for the most part "town negroes" and i nobody regretted their departure. ? - Sheriff h. M. Clyburn, of Lan ' caster, killed his pig Wednesday. It was juHt 13 months old and weighed net 547 pounds. It was Poland Chins breed, and every one who saw it says ; it was thc largest hog for its age they i ever saw. - A sad accident occurred near 1 Packsvillc which caused thc death of Hampton Cutter. He was working at thc ?aw mill of hia father, Ben Cut , ter, when a piece of plank was caught ! in thc rapidly revolving saw and burl ? ed it in thc direction Mr. Cutter was working and struck him on thc head, crushing his skull. - Thc revenue officers have recent ly got a hump on them and have made things lively among thc illicit dis tillers along thc linc of Lexington and Orungcburg counties. They recently made a raid and succeeded in captur ing and destroying eight or nine stills. - dames H. Williams, thc slayer of Major W. A. Williams and of Charlie Potts, died suddenly Friday afternoon , in the Greenville county jail, where he was confined pending the decision of the State supreme court on bis ap peal for a new trial in thc Potts case, in which he was convicted ov ? urder at thc last term of court and sentenced to be hanged on thc 27th of this month. - Gov. Hllerbe hat had placed ab his disposal a scholarship in thc Oread Institute, at Worcester, Mas?. The scholarship includes board and tuittor*. The school opens on January 25th. Originally thc Oread Institut?? was tl o New Era Cooking School of Worcester. Thc special work of that school wt s the teaching of cookery, and tho Ot ting of girls for teachers, lecturer?, sud demonstrators in cooking alone. - Thc Columbia Stair, a few days since, published a report on thc sub j ct of the petrified man exhibited ia thia State a few years ago. It wi s claimed by thc owners to have been found in this State, and they have probably made a fortune out of it, bet scientists in Berlin have since exam? i ned it and have pronounced it a fake. Titey say that it is an artificial com pound of lime and clay silicate. No doubt many iu this county paw tho perilled man when it was exhibited ia Columbia and will be surprised to bear that it' ?a a fraud.