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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. _ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 189?. VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 32 A so-called advantage in buying from other Clothing Stores in Anderson is credit-long credit, six months or a year. They have to give something in return for the large prices demanded. If that's what you want you can't buy our Clothes, but we give you everything else they do, and more-your money back if you want it. . Ml IRE 1 FEW OF 00? PRICES': One lot of Neglige Shirts, with two separate Collars and one pair of Cuffs, credit Stores make a leader out of these Shirts at 50c. We sell them for 40c. ? One lot of Men's Heavy Cotton Undershirts, in white or grey. Credit Stores ask you 25c. for them, but we sell them for 19c. One lot of Men's .Alpine or Railroad Hats, in black and . brown, like other Stores sell you for $1.25. We sell them for 98c. We sell you an All Wool Mackintosh (worth $4.00 else where,) for $2.98. Men's 25c. Neckwear we sell for 20c. Men's 25c. Work Shirts we cell for 19c. Men's $5.00 All Wool Overcoats we sell for $3.75. Wilson Bros. Colored Bosom Shirts, with one pair of Cuffs to match, like you have always paid $1.25 for, we sell for only 90c. We mention these few items to give you an idea of our way of doing business. Not a single article in the Clothing, Hat or Furnishing line but what we can save you money on. It's a duty you owe to your income to examine our Stock. It's a pleasure to show how cheap we sell good Goods, and you will find it's not a mere catch-phrase but a true state- j ment of facts that WE SELL IT FOR LESS." 0. Evans & Co THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VANDIVER. "WE ARE STOCKED AND LOADED ON FLOUE, COFFEE, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, RICE. SUGAR, LARD, And, iu fact, all kinds of First Class Groceries, and want any part or all of j your trade, promising our very best efforts to please in price and quality ol' Goods. We are strictly in it on High Grade Charleiton Guano, Acid, Kainit and Muriate of Potash. See either of us or Mr. J. J. Major before buying. VANDIVER BROS. P. S.-All Notes and Accounts of the late Firm of Brownlee & Vandi ver will be-placed in the hands ot an Attorney for collection in a few days. 1 rp A "O MTTVpT For Rheumatisai and Neuralgic lAJXmil^l. Pains rub with our .... The Cough and Cold that irritates and torments is NGI*VB ?111(1 relieved with TARMINT. 25c. and 50c. Bone Liniment. It is the BEST. 25c and Johnsons 50c Headache Powders. T, , ^ rr i i , Johnsons Worm Believe Headache and Neuralgia. 10c. and 25c. ^(J L?V6r SyrUp. Removes Worms, is pula Infant table, safe and sure. 25c. Talcum Powder, Au elegant Toilet Powder. Landfill S Prevents and relieves O.-Jp chapping and chafing. ?e?Ub .So! ' in bulk, any quanti- Just received. Fresh and ty. 00c. per pound. new. Down With the Dispensary ! Coi.mi MIA. Jan. 27.-Mr. Feather stone, who received such a large vote for Governor, has made the following statement: Will you jilcn.se allow me to explain my position on the whiskey question V What the reporter put me down as saying does not do me justice. In fact, what I said was not intended for publi cation at all. To start with, let nie state that I have no desire or authority to speak for the Prohibitionists of the State. Any views 1 may express are mine as an individual, and the Prohi bitionists are not responsible for them in any shape, form or fashion. At the same time I would not knowingly take any position that might be calculated to injure the cause of the Prohibition ists, for I am as staunch :i believer in prohibition, upon principle, as ever, and will do as much for its sake as any man in the State. My friends, or some of them, may ditter with me as to the means of accomplishing our ends, but they will not question my motives. What is the situation that confronts us? We have the dispensary system, j Under the Constitution of 1803 we can not go back to the old bar-room sys tem. If we let matters remain in their present shape what have we accom plished? The dispensary system can never lead to prohibit ion. It has fought us heretofore nt every step. It has j done more to make the whiskey traffic ? appear respectable than any system \ that Ave have ever had. The longer the system stands the more power will it acquire and the more influence will it exercise in political circles. The tremendous power it already has e;ui only be known fully by those who have come in contact with its practical work ings in a campaign. How eagerly are the positions upon the board of control sought after. Why.' Partly, at least, because they realize the power of tin dispensary in elections, and they want its influence exerted in their behalf. If allowed to stand will its influence along these lines be decreased? ire peat the question: What have the Pro hibitionists to gain by allowing the present system to stand.' Absolutely nothing. If it stands they have gained nothing, and their tight of last year counts for nothing. On the other hand, what would the repeal of the dispensary .mean tons' With it repealed, and with no other law enacted, we would have prohibi tion in every county in the State. The tacking on of a local option feature would mean that in those counties where public sentiment is not sutti ciently strong to give us prohibition, the license system or the county dis pensary system would be in loree. Under either of these systems we would have all of the good features of thc present dispensary, for under the Con stitution they have remained. If pro hibition were forced upon said coun ties it could not be enforced, for it is nonsense to talk about enforcing any law which is not supported by public sentiment. The non-enforcement of a prohibition law in those counties would do our cause hann, because we would be held responsible for its en forcement. True, we might have whiskey rings to tight in those particu lar counties in the future, but what, would they bc as compared to the great State whiskey ring now in existence.' I believe that at least three-fourths of the counties in the State would remain under the operations of the prohibition law. Would thal not give us three fourths of a victory, which is better than no victory at all.' Again, those counties woidd givens a tremendous leverage in our future tights. The only sound objection that cnn be urged against the view that I present is that the present Administration is hostile to prohibition, and that, therefore, the law might be killed by a weak-kneed enforcement thereof. There is some force in such an argument, but in my judgment that objection will be more than offset by the benefits that will ? accrue. Remember, we get rid of the tremendous influence of the dispensary in politics. With the dispensary out of i our way and with three-fourths of the , counties in thc State at our back, sure ly we will be in a better position to ] push on to complete victory. The plan | which I advocate', in a nut shell, means ? to make the most of our present oppor- ? tunities-to take three-fourths of a , loaf rather than no loaf at all; take and j occupy the position from which we can | make the best light in the future, ll ( docs not mean a sacrifice of principle. , lt means that as practical men we are ] to seize what, is best for us when the | importunity otters; it. means thai in our i judgment it is better not to have whis key legally.sold in three-fourths of the ; counties than to have it sold in all. To | urge that by doing as I advocate we i become allied with the whiskey men is I all bosh and sentiment. We do noth- . ing of I he kind. Ontheotherhand.il' , we are ottered prohibition in three- < fourths of the counties in the Slate and i fail lo lake it, where does the responsi- j bil ?ly lie? For my part I am willing lo , take ali that we can get, ami then keep ? on lighting nut il we get il all. I repeal \ that there is no saerilice ol' principle ? involved, ll is ?i ipicslion ol exped?- | einy. which in list be settled in a prac- , I ?cal \\ ay. I C. C. FK VI lill! ' 'N I . Tremo i ul ou.s slick nf Cu ru-, bought before tho high t.;iill wont into < Meet. Sullivan Maid ware < 'o. will sell you a i Gun cheaper than limy cati bo bou ?j ht to- I day at wholesale from ??? lUetory. J The Legislative Elections. Senator D. J. Griffith ot' Lexington County was yesterday eleeted superin rendentof thc penitentiary over four competitors, by changes made at the dose of tlie first ballot. Capt. Griffith is ?1 man of excellent standing, is cred ited with good business capacity, and by his courtesy and his broad-minded course in the Legislature has made many friends. He will doubtless give a successful and satisfactory adminis tration of the penitentiary. The defeat of .Superintendent Xeal was not unexpected. We have heard it said quite often that the Ellcrbo revelations in the State would defeat him; and when his address came out thc other day we were told that that would defeat him. The truth is that ne i flier did; the causes lie lin ck of these publications and his opponents simply used themas convenient pegs to hang prior motives on. Long before it seemed probable that, there would be any exposure of Ellerbe, necessitating the mention of Col. Neal's name in con nection with the local option matter, we considered him far too sanguine about his prospects and entertained much doubt of his success. Ile had too many enemies-that \v;is the cause ot' his det'eal. Col. Neal managed McLaurin's cam paign and made enemies ol' .McLaurin's enemies. Me managed Ellerbe's cam paign and made enemies ot' Ellerbe's enemies. Hesides these, he had made quite a lot of his own. They caine to thc legislative session armed with carefully sharpened daggers. In a spirit of pleasantry John L. Mc Laurin eighteen months ago referred to his friend and campaign manager as ''the Mark Hanna of South Carolina." The phrase stuck and it did its wearer a lot of harm. Col. Neal was active in political work close to the throne of power, and the public, which has no tolerance for things it can't see and is very jealous of the high priests of po litical mysteries, got the notion in its head that then- must be something very w rong going on behind the veil. Finally, the idea obtained that Col. Nea! was "managing" Gov. Ellerbe; and all (d' Ellerbe's blunders were charged to his account. In truth, he was trying to keep Ellerbe from mak ing his worst blunders-but he couldn't tell rae public that. So that was the way of it: and it will be a hard matter now. we opine, to get anybody to manage anybody else's State campaigns, to consent tobe called ".Mark Hanna" and to be suspected of a controlling influence over Hill Eller be. Col. Neal has made a gund superin tendent and has done much to build up the penitentiary property. It will bc a satisfaction to him to know he was not defeated on his record asan admin istrator. The notable feature of the election for directors of the penitentiary was tin- success, by a higher vote than any other candidate received, of Mr. A. Iv. Sanders of Sumter county. It is sig nificant of the changed condition of things, fur u very few years ago Mr. Sanders, who yesterday received all but2<! of the l.jti votes casi for direc tors, was with other "Straightout*' members from his county deprived of Iiis seat in tlie house liv a factional vote after a bitter factional tight. If evidence Were Heeded to show what great and pervasive power the State dispensary luis become it would have been afforded by the spectacle witnessed in.joint assembly yesterday during the election of a member of the board of control. A contest t'orUnitcd States Senator could not have so con vulsed the legislature as the election nf <tne ol' live members of an unsalaried board controlling the State's whiskey business. There was a fact ional light in the board of control, involving the control of that great liquor directorate, mid the chairman. Mr. Hasclden, had set himself to defeat Mr. Doutliit for re-election. There were evidences t hat Gov. Ellerbe also had his hand against the Anderson member. The contest ivas a desperate une. The dispensary lobby invaded the hall of representa tives .md pursued members in the lisles. \\'e saw one lobbyist run after i member and catch him hy his coat, .argerly appealing to him to change Iiis vote. The nuisance became so in tolerable and the confusion >o great hat on appeal to i he chair the hall was unified cleared. Hui even then the obby did not retire, and was presen! o applaud a mot iou of a vote which told in its favor. There was a miscount of votes, au istonishing willingness to take advan age ot technicalities in deciding Hie (.suit, and ultimately, aller much coll usion ami dela}', a poll of the.joint as sembly, w hich showed Mr. I ?out hit's le feat. The Stain, ol'course, had no candidate for such an office, and is not o he understood as limiting its censure o one side: Inn thc w hole performance vas of such au ex I rnordinary character is io warrant thi> reference lo it. kV 11 eu the dispensa r\ is grown so greal uni so dominating as to lill the halls of i cgislntion with ifs lobb\ and dictate candidates lu the relierai asseinhh ii s t ?me to make an end of il for j he ?nfc!,\ of the Stale; Cnlitiiiliiit Stale, hm. K?r light training ami pleasant exor .iso, u'v ?1 Hero IJieye!? i> runs OHsy. l-'urhu.i work ^ei some other bicycle ind y m'll uot l>" di appointed. I,' An Anderson Doy's Impression of Cuba. Our fellowtowmsman, Mr. .J. W. Trowbridge, received tin- following letter a few days ago from his son. Joe, who is one of the lenders of the Ban?! of the 2nd Regiment, S. C. V.. now stationed in .Cuba. Knowing that it would be read with interest by Joe's many friends, we have been granted the privilege of publishing it : HAVANA, CI KA, Jan. 20, 189?). DEM: FATHER: We received the first letters from you all last night that we have gotten since we reached Cuba. Sam was sick all day yesterday, but when the letters came in he forgot all about it. He is up and all right this j morning. We have all been hard at | work cleaning up the camp for the last : few days. I have been oui from camp for a mile or two. ami have seen :i ! little of Cuba. I expected to lind a j very Hat and sandy country, but in- j stead it is hilly and fertile. From our cam]) you can see for seven or ten miles, and the prettiest bottom lands j I ever saw. In some places ir is rather ? rocky, but could soon be cleared up, j and a good farmer could make lots of money. They raise two crops of some things a year. Potatoes, tobacco and sugar-cane seem to be the chief pro ducts. These people are so lazy that they won't half work a crop. Von can lind royal palms, cocoanuts. oranges, pineapples and lots of other fruits growing wild. Thc palms are beauti ful. They louie very mich like a pal metto tree, only about thyee times as tall. It is said that one cocoanut ripens on a tree for every day in rite ! year. We can get all we waar in short distance of our camp. In the mornings from \'-'- until 12 tin.' weather is as hot as the mischief, but the evenings and nights remind me of the first of .Spring ar home. 1 have not heard but two or three mosquitoes since we got here. We are troubled lots with lizzards and tree frogs. Most every night some fellow will run out of his tent, shaking cither one or the other oif of his clothes. We hang our clothes on a rope stretched across the center of our tent. Eugene reached up to get his shirt ami touched one of those frogs, lie came very nearknock ing down the tent getting out. lb' ?wore a snake had bit him. Most of tin- Companies and officers have small Cuban boys "living witii them and are trying to learn Spanish. Major Wauuainakcr has one thai stays with him all the time and rides behind him every where he goes. There is a big park here thai covers about ten acres. At night thousands of people sleep thereon the ground. Two (d' our crowd went down down to ' see the sights and drank too much ? Cognac brandy. They got lost and j wound up in this park. They went lo sleep on one of the benches. The next | morning one of them found thal his pistol had been taken out ?d' his pocket and some one lied taken the other fel low's shoes and hat oil". All kind of people li vi lien-Chinese, Negroes, Indians, and all go together. | They do not object to i he color. The Cubans and Spaniards a re ral her dark, but asa rule are very good looking, those thai are not scaned up by small pox. The poorer class ol' men and boys wear very thin and cheap cloth ing. A large straw hal. ti gauze shirt, linen pants and clot h slip] ers are about . all they wear. They do not wear un-? derclothes and sox. The stores are all small and dirty. I believe yon could buy ou: mosi of the stores in Havana from li II dollars up: nol over a thousand for the larges! one. I believe a farmer or carpenter would do well h.-re now. bul I think it w ill bc ; next fall before business opens up ?it good shape. As soon as we ir? t lo go up town 1 ? can tell you more about the [dace. They still have yellow fever, small pox and leprosy uptown, and I am not ' too anxious to go there very often, lj believe the country about ten miles out from the city isas heall hy as Anderson, j { All the sickness is caused from tilth. Write soon. As ever your devoted son.__ J0E' Attention, Landowners ! To the owners of all creek or bottom j lands in Anderson County: We, the undersigned, respectfully idpies! you to meei us in Convention in the Court House at 12 m..on the loth day ?d' Feb., ISIKI, to consider a proposition made us by a Steam Drainage Company, to ditch out all the swamp lands in An derson County at about fifty percent, of the cost of hand labor. This scheme can be made a success, and our County will reclaim our most valuable lauds, thereby making us com sellers rather than buyers, and al the same time improve thc health ot our people fully fifty per cent. A. T. XKWKI.I.. J. S. FOWLKK, W. Q. HAMMOND, J. J. FKBTWEI.I., W. II. Tn KKK. m . - m - - The railroad commission in this State li;i> tixed thc rate on fertilizers ?it 8)5.10 a ton instead of 83.30 fren Charleston to points north of Colum bia. This is known as thc "blanket rate'' and covers all junctional and intermediate points. lt is ii"! alway- the man that looks like a foo' that is one. - - He who gives fair word- feeds /ou with au empty spoon. STATE NEWS. - Gov. Ellerbe has been confined to his bed with the la grippe. - The belled buzzard is now mak ing its headquarters near Newberry. - Each session of the South Caro lina Legislature costs the State about 850,000. - The Second Tennessee Regiment now encamped in Columbia is being mustered out. - it is probable that the troops now encamped at Greenville will be transferred to Augusta. - The irrepressible G. Walt Whit man, has announced already that he is in the race for governor in 1900. - A drummer named G. A. Baker committed suicide in Columbia last Wednesday night by cutting his throat with pen knife. - The citizens of Greenwood coun ty have erected a nice monument over th?' -rave of Mr. J. I. Ethridge. who was killed at Phoenix on the Sth of November last. - ?dr>. M. A. Waring, a widow of G< irgetown. S. C.. committed suicide hy taking morphine at a hotel in Sumter. She was about 26 years old and had been in the hospital for the insane a short time. - Col. John T. Sloan has been ap pointed local counsel at Columbia for the Postal Telegraph Company. It is said that this company, at a later day. expects to extend its line throughout the towns of the State. - Tiie First Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg was badly damaged by (ire last Saturday night. The build ing caught from the furnace. The orgaD and all the inside work were destroyed. The building was insured. - Gov Ellerbe has received an in vitation from the Union League Club of Philadelphia to attend a dinner in honor of the Knited States peace com missioners to be given by the club on Saturday evening. February 4, at six o'clock. - No news lias yet been secured concerning Rev. W. A. Kelly, who mysteriously disappeared in Charles ton just before Christmas. It was re ported that he had been founc. in Augusta, Ga., but this proved to be a tel stake. - Work on the Atlantic Coast Line extension from Denmark to Robbins is progressing rapidly. Crossties are being put down and steel rails laid. It is the object of the officials to have the entire road completed by June or July. - The State Phamaceutical Associ ation has begun its warfare agai.nst unlicensed druggists, in accordance wi til thc resolutions adopted at the annual meeting in Rock Hil! some time ago. The association has secured j the services of A. 31. Talley, who has ilready begun to make a tour of the "tate. r - Henry Jones, colored, convicted of murder at the last term of court for Bamberg county and sentenced to be hanged on Friday, February 3, will not be executed, Gov. Ellerbe having on Saturday commuted the sentence to li?e imprisonment in the peniten tiary. - By direction of Gov. Ellerbe Dr. James Evans of the State board of I health visited Ellenton and pronoun ! ced the suspicious disease in the vi j cinity "confluent smallpox." The in I fected district has been quarantined, ; and local physicians are making every j effort to check the scourge. j - Rev. H. W. "Whitaker, the preach . er appointed by the last Annual Con ? ference for the Walhalla Circuit, has i written to Presiding Elder J. B. Wilson j declining to serve the charge. He 1 and his family are residing at New bery and will remain there. He says the salary is too small for the support of himself and family, and hence he will locate. - On Thursday. Jan. 7. Mr. Thos. R. Towles. of Mine Creek Section, Edgefield county, left his home and told his family he was going out on business. Not returning that day, they began searching for him. He was traced to Johnston and here all trace has been lost. When he left home he had about ten days' growth of red dish gray beard ; he was about 55 years old and he weighed about 135 pounds. The family can ."ot imagine any cause for this unaccountable dis appearance and are greatly distressed. - The Johnston correspndent of the Augusta Herald says" ':It will be of , interest to the friends of President and Mrs. Kartzog to know-that their twin boys will bear the names of Clem son and Calhoun. By request of the faculty they are given these names, and may their future be for them even ! greater than those whose names they I bear. We heartily congratulate the proud parents." - In the estimates given out by the river and harbor committee of Congress, the following are those for improvement and maintenance of rivers and harbors in South Carolina: Great Pee Dec river, $4,000; Santee river. $20.000; Waccamaw river, (North and South Carolina,) $3,000 ; Wateree river, $2,500, and Charleston, $175, 000. - A New York girl has been placed in an insane asylum, the victim of ex cessive cigarette smoking. How's This. We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any ! case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's. ; Catarrh Cure. We, the undersigned have known . Cheney ? for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan cial ly able to carry out any obligations male by - their firm. WEST & TRCAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDISO. Kimi AN ? MALVIN, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces o: tho system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per b?ttl*> Sold nv &U druggists Hall's Family Pills are the best. $30.00 BICYCLE FOR 25 CENTS. THIS i? the way it is done. Listen : Buy a Coupon from one of our Agents and send it to Thomsou Cycle Works with 82.50, and you can ge: a book which contains ten of these Cou lions, which you must sell for 25c. each to your friends, and when they have ?ought books, as you have done, you get a 830.00 Guaranteed High Grade LS99 Bicycle. If you do not understand how it is done come to the Empo 'ium and tlie plan will be fully explained to you. THOMSON CYCLE WORKS. Dver Post Office. Thone No, 115, M. MATTISON . AGENT, UFE, FIRE, ACCIDENT11 Call for nice Calendar. Office always open. IRE IOU HUNTING BARGAINS? WE have bought the entire Stock of J. P. SULLIVAN ct CO. and will continue usines? at the sanie Stand. Having bought this Stock at a considerable discount, re arc in position to give you BARGAINS in GROCERIES, iml we can soli you Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc., LI and helow original cost. When you are in Town we want you to make head liners wit h us and feel ?ti-! like you are at home, and we will treat you the best .,. know how, l ok about thus ) tilings, and have a lively time <>n tho Corner. Wo know ihm wc e.a save you money, and all we ask is that you give us a luuvo W:- will carry complete line ol'?General Merchandise. We will have a lot.of New Goods iu a few days ol'all kinds. MOORE, ACKER & CO? 2sSr* My friom?s and ? ; mers are invited to o all on mo. I will Ju? glati to irvi'j thom in :mv \va\ I -an. Don't lorgetwhere 1 am-at J. !\ Sullivan:7* (.Vs. .au 1 on Lhc Corner. OSCJi ll MOORE.