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own,Osborne&Co. ARE NOW READY FOR arly Spring Business, And are showing a large assortment of IKES AND EMBROIDERIES the latest Spring Styles and newest and neatest designs. Iso SPRING NOVELTIES Calicoes and Percales. We are offering an exceptionally ieap Percales. It is 36 inches wide, good quality, and sold innerly at 10c. Our price is 5c. per yard. Not remnants, ther Comes in bolts. You can buy any quantity you i. Also, good line?, of Percales at 6 l-4c. and 8 l-3c. per ird, and the very best Percales, in New Spring Styles, jrth 12 l-2c-we are only asking 10c. per yard. We also have a new stock of WHITE NAINSOOKS, [riped, Checked and Plain, and prettier WHITE DIMITIES, Stripes and Checks, than ever before. A good assortment DUCKS, white and colors. A big line of the newest thing in WHITE WELTS, id we pride ourselves on our selection of WHITE P. K'S., id will show you the largest and most up-to-date line of1 I K's. in the city. Our Stock of WASH FABRICS I now complete, and we are ready for the EARLY SHOPPERS io wish to get first choice of the New Things. We are po showing some new things in our BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT. Our Stock of DOMESTICS |also large and complete. In fact, we are ready to supply wants with almost anything in the way of General Merchandise ! roceries, ardware, - AND - Farm Supplies, AND FERTILIZERS. Tours truly, Brown, Osborne CY CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in en eral ]VIei?clia,iiciise. v :V:DE?:RHOI>J. ?I. o. ?? Mll?Mll I ? I ' I l-l ? Local News* WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 18!?9. TH2 COTTOH MABKET. Co rr ec tad Weekly by Brown, Osborne A Co. Strict Good Mddling-?i. Good Middling-Kt. Strict Middling-?. Middling-5|. Stained Cotton-4 to 5J. Next Tuesday ia St. Valentine's Day. The price of cotton continues to ad vance a little. This section surely has no deficiency in rainfall now. Capt. P. Ii.. McCully, spent a few days in Columbia last week. The People's Hank of th's city receiv ed its charter last Thursday. Your attention is directed to the new advertisement of ti. F. Highy. To-day ono week will In* Ash Wed nesday-the beginning of Lent. The drummers are numerous now seek int; orders for Spring goods. Chief of Police Dillinghnni has boen confined to his room with the grip. Mr. John \Y. Todd, of Seneca, was in the city visiting relatives last week. Miss Nora Martin, of Williamston, is in the city visiting Mrs. N. 1!. Green. Cobb & Cray ton aro offering winter shoes al cost. See their new advertise ment. Only a few moro days in which to make your lax returns to tho County Auditor. Mr. Julian W. Fant, of the C. \ W. C. IL IL, is at home this week fora short stay. J. II. Weil & Co. make their first an niversary announcement in their new advertisement. Tho new advertisement of c. F. Jones & Co. announces the arrival of new Spring goods. AY. F. Blassingamc, Esq., of Pickeus, was in the. city last. Thursday ou pro fessional business. The price of iron and steel is advan cing, and of course nails, hardware, ! etc., arc going up, too. 1 Last Monday was an unusually quiet Salesday. The bad weather kept near ly everybody at borne. Several of the farmers of Anderson County are going to experiment with the tobacco crop this year. Freeman & Pack, furniture dealers, have suid their stock to H. Frank Cray ton and retired from business. Mr. Edward Dodd, one of our print ers, luis been seriously ill the past week, but is now convalescing. Miss Nannie Johnson, of Lowndes ville, is in the city visiting the family of her brother, W..G. Johnson. Congressman Latimer is now distrib uting seed from the Agricultural De partment among his constituents. The firm of Allen Pruitt, at Starr, bas been dissolved, P. li. Allen retir ing. See notice iu another column. If you are afflicted with the grip, it will do you good to read the new ad vertisement of the Evans Pharmacy. Thc. manj- friends of the Hov. Sidi IL Brown will regret to learn that he is seriously ill at his home in Columbia. The need of a thorough and com plete sewerage system is being felt more and more every day in Anderson. The landowners should not forgot the convention to be held in the Court Hons?; next Wednesday at 12 o'clock in. Wiiiie doctors affirm that very few people die of the grippe yet about, nine out of every ten think they aro going to. IL IL Hassell has sohl his stock of goods to M. L. and L. IL Carlisle, who will continue the business at the ?dd stand. In his new advertisement .LC. < >s borne calls attention to his line stock of groceries, which he is offering at low prices. In spite of the continued bad weather the clerks in town keep their show windows dressed in a niosr tempting manner. You that have plenty of food and fuel, should remember your poor neigh bor, especially during this rough weather. A local weather prophet says we, will have, dry weather through March, April and May and plenty of rain through June and July. i Abe McCauley, an aged negro, died at his bonni in this city last Friday, lb' bad been a great sufferer from dropsy for a long time. ' Mr. J. J. Baker bas accepted the po- i sit ion of traveling salesman for a Scale Manufacturing Co., of Indiana, and .bas entered upon bis work. Mrs. Foster Font returned from Co lumbia last Saturday. She went down there to attend the funeral of her brother, Mr. J. Heady Norris. Mr. W. H. Pickens, a substantial and worthy-citizen of the Ensley section, was in the city a few days ago ami was a welcome visitor to our sanctum. Mrs. Alice Gaines, wife <rf J. D. Gaines, died suddenly at her home in Pelzer on January 27, leaving seven little children to mourn her death. The mardi gras festivities begin to day in New Orleans- and will continue for a week. The railroads will sell you a round-trip ticket for one fare, ?rood j until 21st inst. "Our venerable townsman, Capt. A. ? T. Broyles, win? has boon confined to j his room for several weeks with a se- 1 vere attack of tho grip, does not im- 1 prove rapidly. Messrs Sam. D. Harper, Theo. Wat son and Charlie Harper left last Wed nesday for Macon, Cia., when' they will attend thc Georgia-Alabama Business College. Married at the residence of Mr. J. M. Fletcher, in this city, on Thursday, January 2?, 1899, by Kev. S. ?. Harper, Mr. Albert Pittman timi Miss Nooma Fletcher. Kev. W. T. Capers spent last Sunday in Columbia, where he witnessed tito ordination of his brother, Rev. Walter Capers, to thc priesthood of the Epis copal Church. Mrs. Abigale Brown died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. Willis Moore, in Oconce County, on the 1st inst., aged TH years. Sin* was the mother of Mr. Robert Brown, of Andersen. Married, at the residence of Mr. Ken ben Adams, Hart County. Cu., Janu ary ','6, 1899, by Kev. K. E. Telford, Mr. W. H. F. Taylor, of Slubtown, S. C.. and Miss Margaret .McMahon. Invitations are ont for ti largo dance to be given by the Anderson Dancing Club at the Chhptola l'a rb ?rs on Feb ruary 14th. A large crowd will attend front Abbeville.-.!/</?? <.///. Medium. in a few days another drug store will be opened in Anderson, at the old stand of Freeman & I'tick. It will be man aged by Mr. Blair (.'raytoil, who will return to Anderson for that purpose, j A meeting of Camp W. W. Hum- j pineys Sons of Confederate Veterans j will be held next friday afternoon ?it ."> o'clock. Every son of a veteran who j is not a member should join this camp, j Samuel Nardin, only son of Mr. and ? Mrs. S. C. linker, died in this ? itv last I Thursday night ?d' meningitis, aged ' one year. The remains were interred in Silver Brook cemetery Friday after noun. Brown, Osborne & Co. announce in this issue that they are now ready for early Spring business, with an up-to- ? date line of such goods as the early j shoppers want. Read their advertise ment. The April term of the Cnited Stales Circuit Court will be convened in Charleston on April ll. S. T. Craig, R. .1. Poole and A. J. Stringer, of An- I derson County, have been drawn to serve on the Petit Jury. Carlisle Bros, make their bow to our readers this week, and we direct your attention to their advertisement. They will carry a linc of groceries, confec tions, tobacco, etc., and will sell them at pri?es that will please you. Invitations have been issued to thc marriage of Mr. Will F. Tolly and Miss Aliee Harper, which will take place on Wednesday, 15th inst., at -bao o'clock p. m., at the home of the bride's fath er. Mr. G. M. Harper, near this city. Mr. Thomas A. McMnhan, a well known citizen of Eickens County, died tit his home near Easley hist Wednes day, in the 48th year of his age. He had been si great sufferer from Bright's disease for several months. A widow and five children survive him. Mrs. Robbie Craft died at lier home in Smith County, Miss., on the ard of last October, aged about W years. Mrs. Craft was formerly of Anderson Coun ty, and was a sister of Mr. A. W. Guy ton, of Hopewell Township. She has many friends and relatives in this County who will regret to hear of her death. The gentleman who is laboriously iindulging the hallucinating fantasy that he luis absorbed all knowledge in tho realm of human intelligence can just skip over Dean & Ratliffe's new advertisement this week, but the gen tleman who is poor in purse sind lean of tiesh cnn now get tut on Dean Jv Rat- | ?ffe1? tiour sit prices from cheap up. ? The editor of a Western exchantre says he believes in tin- Christ ?sin relig ion, he loves sacred music mid consis tent Church members, but when he hears ;i nain who ??wes him three years' subscription split his lungs singing. "Jesus paid it sill," et?-., lu- feels like forgetting himself for the time being sind going ??vcr with si club and giving tin" del implen t a receipt in full. Mr. Howard E. Odiornc, brother-in law of * . J. C. Harris, visited Ander son tl. /eek. Ile has twice buen to Manila, being in the merchant service. His vessel, being a large one, was unn ble to get into Manila Bay, sis it is shallow, sind the cargo of sugar and hemp was brought out to them on light ers, taking about five weeks to load the vessel. Mr. Jits. M. Harbin died ut his home in Centerville Township last Wednes day. He had been atllicted with paral ysis for more than a year, ami his death wjis no surprise to his friends sind rela tivos. Mr. Harbin was about 04 years of tige, and had been si member of New Prospect church since his boyhood. II?' was sm upright citizen and highly es teemed by his friends. The Bamberg ItentM, in its issn?' of the 25th ult., states thsitsi lew nights previous the bani sind stables, with corn, fodder, -etc.. and two horses of Mr. Hartwell M. Ayer were destroyed by fire. His friends sympathize with him in his heavy less, stud sire contrib uting to his aid, through tho solicita tion of Capt. D. H. Rice. Any amount sent to him at Olar will be turned over .to Mr. Ayer. Mr. Thoa. E. Watkins, si prominent farmer who lives in Hopewell Town ship, about five miles north of this city, has mysteriously disappeared, lie came to this city on the 27th of Janu ary sunl left his horse at a livery stable. It is reported that he was at Calhoun Falls the next day, and that he hoard ed thc west-bound train un the Sea board Air Line. Nothing has been heard from him. and his family and friends sir?' very unesisy about him. No cause has liecn nssigne:! for his erratic conduct. Th? Rough and Ready Five Company mot last night and elected the follow ing onicera to serve the ensuing year : President, John C. Hutlcr; Vice-Pr?si dent. Wm. Oliver; Secretary, Harold J. Taylor: Treasurer. John Peyton. The Company is in line condition, and wants to have a Tournament in An derson in the summer. We know our citizens will aid them in this at the proper time. Capt. John McPall lies critically ill at his home ii? the city ot* Greenville. He is the oldest child of Andrew Nor ris McFall, deceased, td* High Shoals, this County, and is one of the most re markable men the County ever pro duced. He was a Captain ?d' a Compa ny from Marion County, Fla., during the civil war, and lost the use of his right arm hy a wound for the "Lost Cause." His many friends in this sec tion will regret to hear of his illness. During the ?-arly part ?if tin- present session of the Legislature, a bill was introduced providing that all swim dying of disease should he cremated. When the bill came up on ?ts second reading, Representative K. lt. A. Rob inson secured the tloor ami said thal among many objections he might ad vance against the hill there was one w hich should appeal to every fie?' boru American, and which he though! should bc sufficient to kill the lull. His ob jection was thal it would lu- lobbing th?- commissary ?if the hird which stood next to the American Kugle- the buz Ka rd. The hill was killed. Lust Friday night, in (?arvin Town ship. Sam Wilhams ami Moses llrown, with several iU her negro boys, wen* out hunting, when one ol them Int he would kill more birds than any ot her member ol' the party, Ono word fol lowed another, until llrown pulled his pistol and lirod, the ball striking Wil liams and killing him. Magistrate'!'. T. Wakefield held au inquest on Satur day, and after a thorough investiga tion th?-jury returned a verdi??! ol'ac cidental killing. The hoy was ?lis charged, hut as then; is some dissatis faction alunit the verdict, tint (?rand Jury will prohably take up the eas?' and let the Court of (?enera) Sessions pass upon it. Mrs. Lucretia Carpenter, wife of Mr. A.A. Carpenter, ?lied at her home in Broadway Township last Thursday af ternoon. Fora long time she had been confined to her bed with that ever-fatal disenso, consumption, but she. bore her snivelings with that patience charac teristic of a devoted Christian, and when ibo summons fame she was ready and anxious t?? g??. Mrs. Carpenter was about 4(1 years ?d' ago. and was tho youngest daughter ?d' the hit?* Thus, (??.??i-. In her girlhood she joined the Neal** Creek Church, and throughout her life was a most consistent member. One Saturday her remains were laid t?> rest in th?- Neal's Creek churchyard tin* funeral services being conducted by Kev. o. J. Copeland, in the* presence of many sorrowing friends and relatives. A husband und four children are left to cherish her memory. Ash Wednesday falls upon the 15th of February this year, which is unusu ally early. And Faster, therefor??, will have come before the springtime is fairly started. Last year Easter fell upon the 10th of April. This year it. will fall upon the. 2d-earlier than for five years. lu 1S8?> it fell upon the25th -the latest it ever conics. And this will not occur again until 104?l. As tilt; dato of Kastor ia fixed by calculating the first Sunday after the first full moon after th?* 22d of March, th?' festi- I val can occur as early as th?* 2:Id ?d' March, and has actually dom* so. lu 1788 it fell upon that date ami also in 1845, 185?, mid in 10i:i it will be repeat ed. In IS'.M Easter ? ame upon the 30th of March, which proved to be thegold est and most inclement day of the win ter. All th?* various trees preparing for appearing in spring attire wein frozen and the services in the churches were scantily attended. As the festi val also comes comparatively early this year, there is som?' uneasiness lest his tory repeats itself in this respect. m . mm In .Memoriam. S.\ M UKI. NAKMS ItAKKIt. The ang?'l children who surround Hu.1 blessed Saviour lum* welcomed to their miilst another lit!!?' one. With out stretched hamls they bore to th?* loving Jesus'* arms the baby spirit of little Nardin. On th?* wings of th?- mighty wind which raged on Feb. 15th, IH'js, and (.?lily those who have daily watched and loved a little baby know how complete ly li?; lilh'd the hearts aud'livcsid' tilos?* to whom he was "Our baby."" Hut Jesus, too, loved this little child, and bad need ?if him. On Feb. :i, 1800, the little spirit joined tho happy band of tims?* dear children who shall never know sorrow, or pain. There he waits his mother's coming, always ber angel baby. A tittle while frail mortals mourn their absent lovell ones, then comes a glad reunion, ami, free from earthly hindrances, we shall know our Father ?biet h only what is best. A L?>VIN<; SVMI'ATIII/.KK. An Enterprising Druggist. Tli're are f?*w men more, wide awake nmt ntit?r|>riAln?2 than Mill-Orr Drug Co., who H'iart< no pains to s-ecur?: the beat ?>t' everything in ihtir lina for their many ?.na'.or.'iera. Th?*v now h iv? the valuable agency for Dr Klnji's New Dif*c?>v?rv for ('?onaumption, Cough* au?! Cold* Thin IP the wonderf.il roundly that ia producing Mich a turor all <?ver the country by ita many startling cure?. If absolutely cures Asthma, Brooch Ja. Hoareeneas and ail MilVrthms of tho Throat, Clus- and Lings. Call at above ?Irug blore and cet a trial b?>ttle free OT a regular aissj for .">(> t:ent<*. nod ?1 oo. Guaranteed to eure or price refunded. Tho Rleetrlc < ity Shoe Store is selling their ei.tire stock ot Winter Shoes at ?:oat. It will pay you lo go there tor your Nbnes. (? real bargains :to-tf. Blacksmith Tools ?re oflVrod sn cheap by Sullivan Hardware Co. that thoHtnall oit larmer* will lind that lt will pay them to buy an outfit. HERE WE ARE AGAIN, READY TO GIVE YOU New Year Prices, Our business has been successful, and we extend our sincere thanks to our patrons and friends, and wish for them, as well as ourselves, a prosperous "New Year." OUR SHOE AND HAT STOCK We always keep in shape. We have Shoes in all the latest lasts and toes. They will be a little heavy for our Spring business, so they must bc moved to make room for our Spring Stock. PRICES ARE CUT IN TWO. You find low prices and solid leather. Men's, Youths, Ladies' and Misses' Shoes-any price you wish. Our new style Hats Shell Bands-are quite the rage. Grays, Pear's, Tans and Newturies. Come and see how one will look on you. Our Clothing Department Is broken. What we have you can buy at your price. Every one knows we are head and shoulders above competitors. Down they go, and they will go at the Cut Prices. "Seeing is believing." HALL & MILFORD. IMPORTANT NOTICE EVERYTHING IN OUR . . . WINTER WEIGHT SHOES AT CO Come and look through and see if you can't find the size you want. Every pair guaranteed. Remember " WE SELL THEM FOR LESS." Yours for Reliable Shoes, COBB & CEAYTON, The Shoe Store People in Masonic Temple. Bt?r Can't give you Trading Stamps with the above Gouds. SIT ON THE FENCE Aar:.: SLEEP! . . . Wm i JK tbo procession ]>HSHOB if you waut to. Nobody will disturb you. Hut if you aro alive to your own interests arouse yourself, shake oil' slumber, climb into tho band-wagon anti wend your way with tho crowd to THE JEWELRY PALACE OF WILL. R. HUBBARD! They that want tho best and prettiest to be obtained in Diamonds. .Jowolry, Silver arni (Mated Ware, Watches and Clocks that will keep timo and aro backed with a guarantee, Fine (.'luna ami Olasswaro and beautiful Novelties, know that to Will. H. Hubbard's is tho placo to go. They that want honest treatment know that this is tim placo to lind it. All Oonda aro just as represented, and aro tully oovored by guar an too The young man who has a yiri and wants to keop hor goes there. Hubbard will belt? you keep her. The young married couple goes there tn beautity their little home. Hubbard beautifies it for you. Tho rich pooplo go them because they can alford it, and tho poor go thore, also, because they eun alford it. m9r- Everytbiag NEW and l l' To DATE. nm- 1 INO RAVI NO ERBE. WILL R. HUBBARD, Jewelry Palaoo, next to Farmers and Merchants bank. NEW YEAR GREETING TO ALL! Look Ont for my New Ad. Next Week. ALLOW mc to thank you all for the liberal patronage of last year, and also in Christmas Goods, which I appr?ci?t.) very much. In the meantime if you need a NICK COOK STOVE don't forget T ant Headquarters for .Stoves. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURR1SS.