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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 33 A so-called advantage in buying from other Clothing Stores in Anderson is credit-long credit, six months or a year. They liave 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 ii* you want it. HEBE IRE 1 FEW OF OOH PRICES : One lot of Negligee 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 sell 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 ment of facts that " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." B. 0. Evans & Co THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. D. 8. "VANDIVER..E. P. VANDIVER. WE ABE STOCKED AND LOADED ON FLOUR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, RICE. SUGAR, LARD, And, in fact, all kinds of First Class Gioceries, and want any part or all of your trade, promising our very best efforts to please in price and qua.lity of Goods. We are strictly in it on High Grade Charleston Guano, Acid, Kainit and Muriate of Potash. See cither 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. TARMINT. The Cough and Cold that irritates and torments is relieved with TARMINT. 25c. and 50c. Johnsons Headache Powders. Relieve Headache and Neuralgia. 10c. and 25c. Infant Talcum Powder, For Rheumatism and Neuralgic Pains rub with our . . Nerve and Bone Liniment. It is the BEST. 25c and 50c. Johnson's Worm And Liver Syrup. Removes Worms, is pala table, safe and sure. 25c. An elegant Toilet Powder. Prevents and relieves chapping and chafing. Sold in bulk, any quanti ty. 60c. per pound. Landreths Seeds. Just received. Fresh and new. HILL-ORR DRUG GO. WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. A Thrilling Incident Leads to a Gene ral Attack. WASHINGTON", D. C., Feb. 5.-Admi ral Dewey to-day cabled the Navy De partment as follows : Manilla, Feb. 5.-To the Secretary of the Navy, Washington: Insurgents here inaugurated general engagement yesterday night, which has continued to-day. The American Army and Na vy is generally successful. Insurgents I have been driven back and our line ad vanced. No casualties in Navy. DEWE v. OTIS EXTENDS HIS LINES. Washington, Feb. 5.-Thc following cablegram from Gen. Otis has been re ceived at the War Department : Manilla, Feb. 5.-Adjutant General, Washington : Have established our permanent lines well out and have driven ort' the insurgents. The troops have conducted themselves with great heroism. The country about Manilla is peaceful and the city perfectly quiet. OTIS. ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM < ?TIS. Washington. Feb. 5.-To the Adju tant General : Insurgents in large force opened attack on our outer lines at 8.4? last evening ; renewed attack several limes during night ; at 4 o'clock this morning entire line engaged: all at tacks repulsed : at day-break advanced against insurgents and have driven them beyond the lines they formerly occupied, capturing several villages and their defence works : insurgent loss in dead and wounded large : our own casualties thus far estimated at one hundred and seventy-five, very, few fatal. Troops enthusiastic and acting fearlessly. Navy did splendid execution on rlauks of enemy: city held in check and absolute quiet prevails ; insurgents have secured a good many Mauser rifles, a few held pieces and quick-firing guns, with ammunition, during the last month. QUIET RESTORED. Washington. Feb. '?.-The following dispatch was received at 1.15 this morning : Manilla, Feb. 5.-Adjutant General: Situation most satisfactory : no appre hension need be felt. Perfect quiet prevails in city and vicinity. List of casualties being prepared, and will be forwarded as soon as possible. Troops in excellent health and spirits. OTIS. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE. Manilla, Feb.5-S.15 P. M.-The long expected rupture between the Ameri cans and the Filipinos has come at last. The former are now engaged in solv ing the Philippine problem with the utmost expedition possible. The clash came at 8.40 yesterday evening, when three daring Filipinos darted past the Nebraska regiment's pickets at Santa Mesa, but retired when challenged. They repeated the experiment with out drawing the sentries' fire. But the last time Corporal Greely challenged tile Filipinos and then fired, killing one of them and wounding another. Almost immediately afterward the Filipino line, from Calvocan to Santa Mesa, commenced a fusilade, which was ineffectual. The Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota outposts replied vigorously, and held their ground until reinforce ments arrived. The Filipinos in the meantime con centrated at three points, Calvocan, Gagalangin and Santa Mesa. At about 1 o'clock the Filipinos open ed a hot fire from all three places si multaneously. This was supplemented by the fire of two siege guns at Balik Balik, and by advancing their skir- , mishers ar Paco and Pandacan. The Americans responded with a terrific lire, but owing to the darkness they were unable to determine its eliect. The Ptah light artillery tinnily suc ceeded in silencing the native battery. The 3d artillery also did good work on the extreme left. The engagement lasted over an hour. The United States cruiser Charleston and the gunboat Concord, stationed ott' Malabona, opened fire from their sec ondary batteries on the Filipiuos's position at Calvocan and kept it up vigorously. At 2.45 there was another fusilade along the entire line, and the United States sea-going trouble turret monitor Monadnock opened lire on the enemy from off Malaie. With daylight thc Americans ad vanced. The California and Washing ton regiments made a splendid charge and drove the Filipinos front the vil lage of Paco and Santa Mesa. The Nebraska regiment also distin guished itself, capturing several pris oners and one howitzer and a very strong position at the reservoir, which is connected with the waterworks. The Kansas and Dakota regiments compelled the enemy's right Hank to retire to Calvocan. There was intermittent firing at va rious points all day long. The losses (d' the filipinos cannot be estimated at present, bul they are known to be considerable. The American hisses are estimated at 20 men killed and 125 wounded. The Vgorates, armed with bows and arrows, made a very determined stand in the face of a liol artillery lire, and left many dead on (he field. Several attempts were made in this city yesterday evening lo; assasinatc American officers. Manilla, Feb. (>.-Ir, now develops that fifty-four Americans were killed in the battles here Saturday night and Sunday. The list of the wounded will probably reach 200. IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF ATTACK. According to the best information the immediate cause of the attack on thc Americans by the Filipinos was an ad vance by two Filipinos to the Nebraska outpost on the northwest of the city. When ordered to halt they refused, and the sentry bred. An insurgent signal gun was then bred from block house 7 and an attack was immediately begun on the Nebraska regiment. The lighting soon spread on both sides until firing was in progress on all thc outposts around the city. The American troops responded vigorously, the insurgent fire being heavy and the attack evidently hurriedly planned. This was Saturday night. Firing continued throughout Satur- > day night with an occasional cessai ?DU of from half an hour toan hour at a j time. At daybreak Sunday the warships. Charleston and Callao, began shelling thc north side of thc city. Their lire I was followed later by that of the Mo-j nadnock on the southern side, thc j insurgent positions having been pre- . viously accurately located. Two Amer icans were wounded on the Monadnock. The Filipino loss is reported to have been heavy, amounting to several hun dred. Manilla. Feb. (>.-Careful estimates place thc Filipino losses up to date nj 2,000 dead, ?l.?OO wounded and 5,000 taken prisoners. They Fought at Franklin. Mr. A.H. Langley, of this city, re lates a recent pleasant experience that recalls one not quite so pleasant, lb has again taken charge of a man he captured about thirty-four^ years ago and is inflicting on him all the kindness he is capable of. It came about in this way: About two weeks ago Mr. Langley was on Main Street, when a man in thc blue uniform of the kind the Confede rates used to shoot at with great unc tion, came along and stared binn full in ; the face, grabbed his hand and ex pressed pleasure and surprise in terms more earnest than elegant. Mr. Lang ley could not recall any acquaintance with the man in blue until reminded of a warm occasion in 18(54 around Frank lin, Tennessee. He soon got his recol lection to work and it all came back to him, how he and a .number of comrades of Co. D, lGth S. C. Regiment, dashed through the Federal lines and got in the trendies with thc Federal soldiers, capturing many of them. He remem bered carrying back to his command in triumph a slim "Yankee" boy. He < saw much of his captive later and formed a regard for him, but in the rush of events he had forgotten him. This captive, a Union soldier then, a Union soldier now recognized his cap tor and called him friend. In the last few weeks they have spent many hours recalling the incidents of that other and sure enough Avar. Mr. Langley's captive is named Mc- i Grath, and he is with the Fourth Mis souri regiment. He is too old to be enlisted, but he stays with the boys and does a soldier's duty. He was lately under arrest for missing a roll call while visiting his whilom enemy. He is a pensioner by reason ot service in the war between the States. A great many people are interested in this little romance, and are pleased at this marked exhibition of human change and chance that is really as strange as fiction.-Greenville Moun tain cn: Conducted His Own Funeral Services. PAOLA, Kan.. Jan. 28.-The Kev. August Stewart, an aged minister, died yesterday under most peculiar circum stances 'and was buried to-day. On Wednesday thc Kev. Mr. Stewart preached his own funeral sermon, and at his own request there were no ser- i vices over his remains to-day beyond a ! short mayer. Wednesday morning the Kev. Mr. Stewart, who was in robust health for a mau of his aj,re, announced to his wife that he had" done his last day's work and that he would not live the week out. His wife tried to persuade him out ot' the notion, but he clung to it and prepared for the end, disposing j of all his personal property and making his will. Wednesday afternoon lie I called in his neighbors and made thc same announcement that he made to his wife. Then he announced a hymn, j which was sung, and following it Mr. Stewart preached his own funeral sei - ? mon, closing with a prayer tor the re pose ol'his soul, [inmediately alter-: wards he went to bed. and when a doctor was called he sent him away, saying thal he had been called by death and that medicine would do no good. Ile requested that his body betaken directly tu the cemetery, and that no lunera) sermon bc prcaelied, as he had attended to that. Yesterday he died, and his wishes were observed. Physicians say that he had JIM physi cal ailment and that his death was due entirely !<> his presentiment and his re fusal to combat.-Vincin na ti Enquirer. ^ ? - - . Deafness Cannot be Cured liv local applications, as they rail not. reach tho diseased portion ol' the ear. There is only one way lo cure neatness, and that is hy constitu tional remedies Deafness is caused hy an inllam cd condition of the mucous lining of the Eustach ian Tube. When this tuhe e,et> inflamed you have a rumbling found or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness ia the result, and unless the in tiamat ion can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases oui of ten aie caused hy catar rah, which ia nothing but an in Hamed condition of thc rrucous surfaaes. We will j?ive Ono Hundred Dollars tor any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot he cured by Hall's Catarrh '"ure Send for circulars, free. F. J. CH EN RY .t Ct >., Toledo, O. WSold hy Druggist!!, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are thc hes!. Strait Attacks Mclaurin. To the People of South Carolina: Since manifestos, addresses and ex poses are in order in South Carolina, I have decided to have :i void to say. The star player in tho recent perform ance lins been writing hi.- own plays, criticising and damning all others while painting his own part in glow ing colors without regard to truth or the interests of any save himself. I have decided ii tn he ni}' duty to keep iptiet rn? longer while he is allowed weekly to exploit himself and his aidions through tin- leading news papers <i! our Stare. ! shall confine myself to ?1 statement nf facts thar can lu- fully substantiated hy rite entire delegation in Congress, and. in fact, all who had tin opportunity from rim inside to observe closely the trend of malters during the last six years. The people of South Carolina have a right to know what is now and what luis been going 0:1 behind the curtain. Ami when they have learned all the facts they will mu be slow to make up their minds. The address recen th ivsuedby .Mr. W. A. Neal, it is well kn own, was not written by him. Me was sick at the tinie ami could not judge for himself what tin- effects would be, nor how despicable ?1 made him ippear in the eves of both friends and foes. It is well known that it wa? written by John L. McLaurin, who hastened down to Columbia from Washington and as hurriedly came away airer he had pen ned this infamous .-dander, an instru ment of apostaey, and induced Neal, poor, sick fellow, to sign it. Along with other members of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, I have been subjected to the treachery and undermining tactics of the junior Senator from our State so long that 1 had almost become used to it and did not expect lo have anything more to say during the short period in which I will remain in public life. But there in such an outrageously false accusa- 1 tion against the entire delegation in the Ncal-McLaurin address that I can not longer remain silent. McLaurin has his commission as I Senator until 1903, ami he may feel that I In- can slander us with impunity, bur, I, at least, will not submit in silence. .McLaurin makes Neal charge: "in 1894 I was im ?ted to go to Washington to | attend a conference. I was present in I Irby's committee room when ir was agreed to make John Cary Lvans gov- I ernor of South Carolina. There was I only one man who raised his voice j against it in protest. I was a witness to the scene when he withdrew in anger from the conference." There was no need for him to go back four years to make an accusation of there being a a ring in Washington ar the time which was running Sout h Carolina's politics. He made poor Neal sign a falsehood, knowing at the time "himself that it was a falsehood, and his onlypurpose could be to injure the delegation here in the eyes of the people." Now, the facts ?ire these, and 1 will be sustained 'in my statement by every member who participated, as well as by Senator Tillman, who was at the meeting men tioned-he being governor then: Irby called a meeting of the delegation without letting us know what he want ed with us. Tillman. Neal and Evans were present. As soon as the meeting opened McLaurin mentioned that koester, then editing The Register, and Bowden, two prominent South Carolinians, then in Washington, ought to lie admitted to our council. Irby and McLaurin were then not on good terms on account of a scandal in volving McLaurin, of which I will not speak here, because it is too nauseating, and they began to quarrel, Irby declar ing that he would not have anything to do with a Populist, and before any thing was done, or the purpose for which we had been brought together mentioned, McLaurin angrily left the room, saying he would "stand by his friends." Matters having assumed this shape, Latimer, Talbert and myself, mem bers of thc house, also left, and there was not one word said about running John Gary Lvans for governor. Mc Laurin has become so notorious him self for holding conferences and plan ning political deals, and is by mittlre such a trickster and conspirator, that 1 presume he feels called upon to charge such things to others. Ile was in the "Forty-movement," which hail for its object the destruction of r he Reform party. Ile begged Latimer, Talbert and myself to join him ina Populist manifesto to the people of the State in 1894, saying that the State wits riiie ?ind that the people would rally behind that banner if we would join' him. ile denied this when he was running for the Senate, but 1 can prove it by both the gentlemen referred to. Ile cursed ami damned the dispensary ? law here during the Darlington riot. ! and wrote the "Dear Appell letter" giving Senator Tillman the "Joab stab:" yet when Tillman came on here afterwards he went lo him and begged him md to tight him in his Congres- , sional district for Congress, and dis- , claimed intending anything but friend ship for him. Ile promised Bowden ' that he would run for governor in 1890 : and encouraged Bowden to run for < Congress. He made Tom Beet! believe j he was in sympathy with the Bepubli- I can party ?ind thus obtained his posi tion on the ways and means committee above older ami abler members of the j House, lie has been, in a way, trying ; to deliver the goods, am! his tariff speech was a part delivery. His fawn ing around the president last summer and declaration that McKinley was the "most popular president since Lincoln ? and ought to bc renominated by accla- j tnation" is another pail. All these things go to prove Iiis absolute unreli ability and his unscrupulous ambition. Ile isa Democrat only because he be lieves that is the way to gratify his ambition. I would go on and give instance aller j instance of his treachery to his col leagues, and of his trickery, but this is J enough for one installment. Let bini dispute what I have said thus far and j 1 will give him some more, and what is more to the purpose, let the people know more fully what manner ol'man il is they have sen! to the Dnited States Senate in thc place of the noble Joseph ll. Kaile. V'erv respect fully. T. J. STRAIT. Washington, D. C.. Feb. 1,1899. STATE .NEWS. j - Chester is to have a public li ! brary. - Furman University now has ISO I students enrolled. - Eighty hogs have recently died of cholera in and around Troy. - The dispensary at Newberry was I burglarized one night last week. - The Due "West and Donnalds ; Railroad is beirjg talked of again. I - In Columbia a number of negroes i have enlisted in the United States i army. j - Three prominent and popular cit : izens of the city of Spartanburg died last week. ; - J. 0. Adams, Auditor of Oconee ! county, died at his home in Walhalla ; on the 1st inst. - There are no new developments I in the matter of the appointment of a i new postmaster at Abbeville. - Policeman Heneberry was shot by a negro desperado in Charleston \ last Friday night. The negro escaped. - The Chicora Fertilizer Com , pany of Charleston has reduced its ! capital stock from $500,000 to 850. - ooo. i - It is estimated that there will be ? no fewer than forty thousand visitors ! to Charleston durius the reunion in j May. - The Second South Carolina Regi j ment, uow in Cuba, expects to be I mustered out in a month or so and ; sent home. I - The congregation of the Walhalla I Baptist church has extended a call to ! the Rev. Arthur Crane, of Plainfield, Xew Jersey, to the pastorate of that church. - There was a wreck on the Co lumbia, Newberry and Laurens Rail road a few days ago. Engineer Clif ton and Mail Agent Killian were pain fully hurt. - Governor Ellerbe is getting along as well as can be expected, his physi cians say, when it is considered he has consumption and grip. He is not in imminent danger. - The Colleton cotton mills will be gin operations just as soon as the work of placing the machinery is com plete. Everything is moving to that end with all diligence. -- John McGill, a young negro, while stealing a ride on a freight train from Charleston to Kingstree, fell from his perch under a car and was horribly mangled by being caught in the wheels. - Mrs. Miller, of the Coosawhatchie section, Hampton county, has given birth to an infant daughter which ar rived with two tongues. The baby is doing well and is already trying to talk. - The body of Frank McNair, of Cheraw, who had been missing about two weeks, was found in a field about two miles from the town last Thurs day. There is no evidence of foul play. - It is the intention of the Edge field Manufacturing Company to en large the cotton mill. It is to be made just twice its present size. Work will be commenced as soon as the weather will permit. - Fraud seems to be fostered by the dispensary and exposure has little or no effect. The latest revelation is that the State has been defrauded of $500 in premiums on bogus insurance policies on dispensaries. - The House of representatives has decided to distribute the dispen sary profits among the schools in pro portion to the profit made by the counties. That is, no dispensary, no participation in the State profits. - Mr. Brown Holman, of Black ville, committed suicide in the rail road waiting-room in Augusta one right last week by cutting his throat. His despondency was caused by the death of members of his family and the hopelessness of ill health. - Work has begun on the long dis tance telephone line which is to bring Charleston into communication with the Georgia Capital and the west, and through Columbia and Charlotte to New York. The poles and cross arms have been distributed through the territory of South Carolina and toward the south and north, and gangs of workmen have been started at various ! points working toward each other. - A. B.Carpenter, of Greenville, is in possession of a relic of the battle of Chickamauga in the shape of a cu riously made pistol captured from a Union soldier by a Confederate soldiei. I In addition to carrying ten powder and ball charges in the cylinder there is a shotgun arrangement under r,he pistol barrel proper, so that all told the pistol shoots eleven charges after one loading. The shotgun barrel is about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The pistol was made in Paris. - An old bachelor says that it was Adam's wedding Eve that caused it all._ M. L CARLISLE. JL. JU. CAKJUI?JU?J. NEW FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERY STORE, on North Main Street, two doors from Post Office. HAVING opened the above we beg to solicit the public patronage for everything in the line of Fancy and Family Groceries, Fine Tobacco, Fine Candies, Fine Cigars. We propose to keep on handja complete line of Fresh Groceries at all times, so by dealing with us you get Fresh Goods at very low prices. Free delivery to any part of City. Yours to please, _CARLISLE BROS $30.00 BICYCLE FOR 25 CENTS. IF you don't believe it come and see us and we will tell you all about it. This is the way to do it : Buy a Coupon from our Agents, (Messrs. Leroy Sadler or Frank Pearson,) and send it to us with 82.50, and get a Book which contains ten of these Coupons, which you must sell for 25c. each to your friends, and when they have bought Books, as you have done, you get a S30.00 Guaranteed High Grade 1899 Bicycle. If you do not un derstand drop in and we will be pleased to explain our plan, and also show you the greatest line of Wheels in the city. THOMSON CYCLE WORKS. Over Post Office. 'Phone No. 115. M. M. PATTISON i AGENT. LIFE, T FIRE, I ACCIDENT! Call for nice Calendar. Office always open. ARE YOU HUNTING BARGAINS? WE have bought the entire Stock of J. P. SULLIVAN ?fe CO. and will continue business at the same Staud. Having bought this Stock at a considerable discount, we are in position to give you BARGAINS in GROCERIES, And we can sell you Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc., At and below original cost. When you are in Town we want you to make head quarters with us and feel just like you are at home, and we will treat you the best we know how, talk about these things, and have a lively time on the Corner. We know that weean save you money, and all we ask is that you give us a chanco. We-will carry a complete line of General Merchandise. Wo will have a lot of New (ioods in a few days of all kinds. MOORE, ACKER & CO. ?8- My friends and old customers are invited to call on me. I will be glad to s arve them in any way I can. Don't forget where I am-at .T. P. Sullivan & Co's. Stand on the Corner. " OSCAR MOORE.