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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1891). VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 35. A Few People Got offended because we refused to sell them Goods on credit. We wish to say to these people that if we charged Goods to any one we would be glad to have their names on our books. We don't wish to make enemies ; on the other hand we wish to make friends. We have refused to sell on credit some of the belt people in Anderson County ; not because they would not pay their debts, (some of them could buy us out and not feel it,) but because we do a SPOT OAS H business, as we can sell Goods cheaper that way. So you see it isn't a question of how good you are for your debts. We want these good people (who got o?ended) to come in and let us show them the prices we make on good Goods They will quickly see that we couldn't make such LOW PRICES if we sold on credit. No, we charge Goods to no one. We sell strictly for Spot Cash, and if you are not satitfied with any purchase you make here, we will cheerfully give you-your money back if you want it. Isn't that fair ? HOW ARE THESE FOR LOW PRICES : Think of the best pair of Jeans Pants you ever bought -*br $1.00-then come to us and we will give you the same value for 75c. This lot of Pants is worth $9.00 a dozen wholesale, but we found a manufacturer who had too many. He needed money. That's our reason for offering these Pants at 75c. Twenty-five dozen Broad Brim Planters' Hats, the same Hats that other Stores sell you for $1.00, Evans' price is only 75c. <k WE SELL IT FOR LESS." vans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. ARE YOU HUNTING BARGAINS? WE have bought the entire Stock of J. P. 8ULLIVAN ? CO. and will continue business at the same Stand. Having boueht this 8toct at a considerable discount, we are in position to give you BARGAINS ia And ve can 9eli you GROCERIES, Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc., At and below original cost. When you are in Town we want you to make hean! quarters with us and feel just like you are at home, and we will treat you the best we know how, talk about ?hese things, and have a lively time on the Corner. We know that we can save you money, and all we ask 19 that you give us a chance. We will carry a complete line of General Merchandise. We will have a lot of New Gooda in a few days of all kinds. MOORE, ACKER & CO. 9&" My friends and old customers are invited to call on ra6. I will be glad to serve them in any way I can. Don't forget wbere I am-at J. P. Sullivan & Co's. Stand on the Corner. OSCAR MOORE. 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, An elegant Tc^et Powder. Prevents and relieves chapping and charing. Sold in hulk, any quanti ty. 60c. per pound. 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, -ate ami sure. 25c. Landreth's Seeds. Just received, new. t- resh and HILL-ORR DRUC CO To Investigate Col. Neal. COLUMBIA, Feb., IT.-Mr. Stevenson in the House to-day introduced thc fol lowing resolutions which were adopted: Whereas, there are rumors publish ed in the public prints, charging ir regularit.es in management and condi tion of the State penitentiary, and whereas justice to the present manage ment of the penitentiary and the su perintendent elect and to the State, demands speedy and thorough investi gation of all the affairs of said peniten tiary. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring Section 1. That a committee consist ing of two of the Senate and three of the Housii be appointed for the purpose of investigating the affair of said peni tentiary. Sec. 2. That said Committee shall have the right to employ an expert bookkeeper and stenographer, to send for persons and papers, to swear wit nesses, to require the attendance of any parties whose presence shall be deemed necessary and to investigate fully all transactions concerning the peniten tiary and its management, and to take charge o ? the books and vouchers of the institution. Sec. 3. The committee at any time .when they deem it advisable may call to their assistance the attorney gen eral. Sec. 4. (t shall report its findings to the Governor of this State, together with the Testimony taken by said com mittee. When the resolutions were intro duced in the senate Mr. Barnwell ex pressed the opinion that they would involve a useless expenditure of money. The rumers, he said, were founded on newspaper reports. Mr. Henderson said that it was not upon newspaper reports alone that the charge had been made. The senate adopted an amendment that the report be submitted to the leg islature by the Governor with his ac tion and authorizing the committee to sit during the recess. The commit tee has not yet been named.-Special to Greenville News. Joe Talbert Goes to Greenwood. Thursday was the day set for taking testimony at Greenwood in the contest which R. R. Tolbert, Republican, has brought for the congressional seat of A. C. Latimer, Democrat, to whom the certificate of election has been given. But no testimony was taken. There was some little excitement around Greenwood that night and Joe Tolbert, a brother of the contestant, was in town. Ht! feared that an attempt would be made to take his life and others ap prehended there was some possibility of such an occurrence, so that Joe Tol bert was kept well guarded at his hotel by citizens who wished to prevent trouble, [tis stated thar the rumors of an attempt upon doe Tolbert's, life were unfounded, but the reports were circulated and it was thought best to be on tin outlook. The contestant's friends claimed that it was unsafe for anyone to give testi mony in Tolbert's favor in Greenwood and they therefore had the hearing postponed. None of their witnesses were present except one whom they did not produce on the ground that it would jeopardize his life. Notary Pub lic Cohen had been appointed to take the testimony, and it was even said by Tolbert's side that he had been threat ened. The hearing was accordingly postponed on the advice of Tolbert's attorney. These alleged threats are hooted at by those who are in a position to know, and it is stated that as Tolbert's con test is i.nadmissable because of his failure to tile the notice at the proper time, this method of procedure is adopt ed to gain a standing before the con gressional committee. Joe Tolbert stated that he was not in Greenwood on business connected with his brother's contest, and hence it will be contended that the threats against him, if there were such, could have no bearing upon the contest. Joe Tolbert went to Greenwood presuma bly to look after business interests in that county and to visit his farm, but he returned to Charleston yesterday without going to the farm, not earing to incur any supposed risks. Hon. George E. Prince, who is the attorney for Congressman Latimcr, re turned ti Columbia yesterday. He does not seem to think that there was the least foundation for suspecting any trouble nt the hearing, and he backed his judgment liv ottering to insure the lives of all the witnesses that might be brought forward by Tolbert's side. It is net known when or where the taking ot! testimony will occur, but the contestant will doubtless endeavor to have the matter attended some distance from Greenwood as the Toi lie rt s have fears as lo their safety in that part ol; the country, which may be either real or feigned.-The Slate,'/?; h. 7s. SI00 Reward. $100. The readers of lliis p?per will I..- pleased lo loam (liai lhere is al leasl ?nie dreaded disease thal sci ence ha? been aide in eure in all it- sla ?es, and Dial isl ?ii.IM!I. Hall's Oniarrli Cure i- lite willy posi tive, cum now known io lim medical fraternity. Catarrh heilig a constitutional disease re<| 'ires a constitutional treal meut.. Hall's Catarrh Curo i taken internally, actitiu directly upon the hlood and mucous 'Airfares ..I tin- syrtcui. Iherohy de stroying th" foundation of ih?"di-ease, and giving i he pa tieni strength hy Im i lil im; up the eonsl ilu tion ami,assisting nat ure in doini: its work The proprietor; have MI much-fOlli in it? curative powers, tlu?t they oller On i Hundred lollars for any case that it i.t?- t.> i i II ? h-r list of tos ihnnnials Hail's racily Pills ar- lite best. Cost of Cotton Growing. WASHINGTON, 1). C., Pcb. 1 ii.-Under the supervision of Statistician Hyde, of the department of agriculture, the cost of growing cotton has been inves tigated, and the results of the investi gation aro to be published within a few days, in ?1 pamphlet. This report Avili show that the average cost of produc ing an aero of upland cotton in 1808, was 815.4*-', sub-divided in tho follow ing ?terns: Kent, $2.88; plowing, $2.81: seed. 21c; plantiug seed, 28c; fertil izers, $1.50; distributing fertilizers, l?c; chopping and hoeing, $1.31; picking, $3.37; ginning and pressing, $1.02; hag ging and ties, ."57c: mmarketing, (54c; repairing implements, 40c, and other expenses, 41c. It was ascertained that the pounds of lint produced per acre were 255.0, sold for COT per pound; bushels of seed produced 16; price per bushel 11.9 cents. The total return to the planter was $10.03, which gave him a net protit of $3.01 per acre. The cost of picking cotton per 100 pounds was 4iiv4;ej.its. Several thousand planters contributed to these statistics, and of the entire number 20 per cent, reported a loss due to deficient production, ow ing to drought, or other causes. To produce Sealsland cotton costs$21.05 per acre, or an average of 11.20 per pound, and the total return for lint and seed for Sea Island cotton was $28.05, which gave the planter a net profit of $(?.70 per acre. The planters that represent a profit in the raising of upland cotton produced 273.9 pounds per acre, while those that reported a loss produced only 17(1 pounds. The effect of the use of fertilizers in the raising of cotton is very distinctly disclosed and the general result is that in proportion as the quantity of fer tilizers used increased the profit of producing the lint per pound also in creased. It has been discovered in this inves tigation that cotton is produced to a limited extent, but at a high rate of prolit by means of irrigation in western Texas ?and the southwestern part of Utah. In Texas irrigation had the ef fect of producing 512.4 pounds of lint per acre, which is 290.3 pounds greater than the average for the whole State. For 180(5 many special inquiries were made by a former statistician of the department and the estimated cost of producing lint cotton per pound, in gold, was 8.32 cents. One of the re markable revelations of the investiga tion is the comparative eost of market ing cotton in 1840 and in 1897. The comparison is itemized, and shows that in 1840 it cost 18.15 to market a bale of cotton in Alabama to Liverpool, while in 1897 this cost was $7.89. m ? mm Some Weather Signs. Since the failure nf the predictions of tin* ground hog, the faith of many of those who believe in weather signs has been shaken. But they should not be discouraged. There ore signs and signs to lil ?di imaginable occasions ?ind conditions. A Vorkville gentle man contributes the following: "The 15th of February was Ash Wednesday, and the sun shone bright during the greater part of the day: therefore, we are pretty sure to have a good wheat ero]? tins year. I have taken especial notice (d' this time-hon ored sign fora number of years, and it has never yet failed." The above quoted remarks were made by a gentleman in the hearing of the writer on Thursday, and are given for the encouragement and consolation of those who are depressed an account of the long continued cold and wet weather that has prevailed during last fall and the present winter. Another said' "There will be three more snows Ind ore the weather settles." "How do you know1.'" he was asked. "By an unfailing sign, which is that for each foggy morning in August, then' will be a corresponding snow during the following winter. There were seven foggy mornings last August. We have already had four snows this winter and there will be three more. Those whose woodpiles have been exhausted, or getting low, or likely to, during tin* next six weeks, had better take warning and replenish, if the op portunity should oller, sons to be on the safe side- Yorkrillc Muqu? rn; Wants to Know Where Casey ls. Editors Courier: for the sake of suf fering humanity, will yon please give the following space in your valuable paper: There is a woman in this sect ion who wants to know where Aaron Casey is. When Casey was last heard of lie claimed to ?ive on Samuel Sutton's land, in l?rushy Creek township. An derson ('(?linty. South Carolina. I le is very tall: about, 45 or 5(1 years (d' age; dark complected: eyes, she thinks, black or gray: heard and hair get I ing gray. This woman is without home, food or raiment, only as the nci'ghhors con tribute lo her. Am one (hat can give the u riler any information as in (';i>e\'s whereabouts will lie paid rm his ni her 1 rouble. .1. Ai KS/.C I?I:?'\> \. ( laleechee; S. I '. Anderson papers and every paper in the United States, a friend tojuslice. please cop\. Ki tort <? 1 'OHrit r. mt . m. - I lave hm water pipes run from your stove in bath room. Try Osborne & Clinkscales. Corner Creek Siftings. Tin- snow lias conic and gone and the roads arc "bad," muddy, and. in Tact, they are decided in the worst condition that we have ever seen them, al though the public roads of this section are not as bad as it is in other places. For the past three or four years our roads have been efficiently managed by Mr. J. M. Hanks, and now since the way of overseeing the public roads of the County has been changed, we fear in the future that our roads are not going to be as good as they have been in the past, for Mr. Hanks certainly knew how and when to work the roads and also to keep up the bridges. The cold wave of last week we fear has killed pnrt of our oats, which were looking fine. The McAdams school took vacation last week on account of snow. Mrs. J: T. McConnell and pretty lit tle daughter, from Eagle Grove, (Ja., are on a visit to her parents here. Misses Ena and Emma Martin, of Donalds section, visited relatives here the latter part of last week. Mrs. Mary Shirley, who was stricken with paralysis about three weeks ago, we are sorry to note is not improving very fast. We trust site may soon be well again. Wister Bigby came up from Verdery last week and spent a few days with his parents. Several of our young people enjoyed sleigh riding during the recent snow. Just ask one of our married men how he liked it. for he could be seen out riding with his wife. ( ?ur farmers have not done much. Mr. Editor, the time of the year is drawing near for the beginning of an other crop, and it is to be hoped that the farmers of the South "will not" plant such another cotton crop as the one of last year. Our farmers are not going to plant as much, we are sure. Mr. J. X. Shirley, who has been drawn a juror for February term of Court, will leave for the city Monday. AVe presume that he will have to be there for some two weeks. Mr. Will Hanks, our excellent car penter, who has been for the past two months working on the new Methodist Church at Williamston, was at home recently. Tl'RO. Drainage Association. The Anderson Drainage Association met in the Court House Feb. 15, and or ganized permanently by electing A. T. Newell, Pres. and P. H. Brown, Sec. Committee appointed at|lant meeting to draft bill and send to our representatives in Columbia reported they had received notice that their bill had failed to pass. W. W. Russell, representing the Steam Drainage Co. of Russell A: Fretwell, made the Association a proposition to ditch all streams in Anderson county at one-half the cost of hand labor, or he would cut canals at the following prices per rod: S feet wide, i'? feet deep, i*>() cts; 10 feet wide, .'? feet deep, 7"> ets: 15 feet wide, 0 feet deep, SI; IS feet wide, G feet deep, 81.30. < 'ommittees of three were appointed by the.President on different streams in the county to ascertain the number of miles of ditching to be done: also to secure signature of land owners to an agreement to pay their proportion of the expense of draining said streams. The committees to report Salesday in March, at 2 p. m. Rocky laver Committee-John Bailey, P. E. Seybt, W. Q. Hammond. Six and Twenty Committee-J. G. Duckworth. Teat. Dalrymple, IT. H. (?ray. Three and Twenty Committee-M. 15. Richardson, J. I!. Dombitt, Hunter Mc Mustry. Little Six and Twentv Committee-D. 1?. Mcphail, W. W. Smith, J. li. Smith. Town < reek Committee-1.15. Watson, I). E. Brown, Jas. Ashley. Devils Pork Committee-L S. Fowler, Henry Williford, D. J. Bolt. Cox's Creek Committee-I. M. Payne, W. T. W. Harrison, Calhoun Hamlin. Little Beaver Dam Committee-P. C. opp, Jas. Olivens, B. <'. Martin. Big Beaver Dam I'ommitteo-W. n. Tucker, H. G. Anderson, E. M. Duck worth. Picken? ('reek Committee - Earle Smith, Oliver Bickens, Enoch Pepper. Upper Three and Twenty Committee Ed Algood, Thos. Glenn, Geo. Russell. The meeting was attended by a large Crowd of representative men from all : sections of the county, who showed their determination to reclaim our most valua ble farming lands, since it could be done ] so cheaply and effectively by steam. The meeting adjourned to meet in the Court House at '1 p. m. Salesday in March, at which time the different committees are expected and urgently requested to have ? all the information necessary to close the contract for draining swamp lands in Anderson county. P. II. Bnowx, Sec. Soldiers Honor a Read Confederate. The funeral of the late Capt. John McFall, i he Confederate veteran whose death was announced in the Greenville Xeirs of Sunday was characterized by an incident that had never occurred in this State I?efon*. During the services at the grave in Springwood cemetery a detachment of the 20:Jd Xew York sol diers, provost guards oil'duty, marched i into I he grounds under sergeant Keeler, and taking position by I he grave, bared their heads and paid I heir respects to the memory ol'him w ho had worn thc gray. Tin* incident attracted much at tention and was favorably commented j upon i hroiiirhoiii I he r\i\\-(! reen rilli , Xnrs. heh. 27. Cheap Printing. ? Law liriefsal IM) ceiitsa Page-Good Woik. (?nod Paper. Prompt Delivery. M Minutes cheaper Mian ?it any other ( lionse. Catalogues in the bes! style. If you ha ve printing todo, it viii bo l o ? your int crest to write to thc Press mid j < Runner, Ahh?\ ?Ile, S. C. If. h Iron Kim; Stoves aro sild in Anderson only by Osborne & Clihksea'ies. | STATE .NEWS. - deo. M. C. Butler has beeu hon- i orably discharged from the army. - The 4th Missouri Regiment was mustered out in Greenville last week. - An old colored woman in Darling ton froze to death on Monday night. 13th instant. - A good many cattle were drown ed below Columbia last week by the freshet in the Congaree. - John A. Putman, of Laurens county, lost his barn and two h?ad of horses by fire on Saturday night. - An engine near Charleston jump ed the track recently and killed two men and wounded eight others badly. - The prospects seem cheering Ijhat Gov. Ellerbe will soon have re turned to him the money expended in raising the First Regiment - Jacob Peigler, probably the old est resident of Greenville county, died on the 16th inst. He was born in Orangeburg County in 1804. - The Merchants' and Miners' Line steam'er "Wm. Lawrence,'" was wreck ed off Port Royal, S. C.. February 13. Some of the crew were rescued, others are believed to have perished. - Three negroes were drowned in Pee Dee River, near Society Hill, S. C., Feb. 9. They were trying to es cape from their home which had been inundated by freshets. - The coming year promises to be one of great activity in the building and enlargement of cotton mills in this State. The textile papers are full of notices of such enterprises. - South Carolina was represented in the battle with the Filipinos on the 5th instant in the person of Mr. Jack Floyd, a son of Mr. J. S. Floyd, of Walhalla. He is in a Nebraska regi ment. - A severe wind storm struck Sen eca last Thursday morning about 3 or 4 o'clock and did considerable damage. The telephone wires are broken and torn up, fences are considerably blown down and the old Keowee Hotel un roofed. - Dr. James Evans, secretary of the State Board of Health, reports that the smallpox epidemic at Mayes ville is under control, but that the disease is now epidemic at Summerton, Clarendon County, and is spreading in that section. - On the 7th inst, while on his way from Abbeville Bill Wimbush, colored, of Due West, froze to death near thc home of Jim Green where he was found the next day. Bill was loaded up with '"booze" and lav down to take a snooze, and now he is dead. - Aunt Chancy Holden, one of the j oldest colored women in the State, j died at her home on J. C. Garrison's j place, near Walhalla, on Wednesday j morning, 15th instaut. Her age was j said to be over a hundred years. She I was an old woman in slavery times, when she and her husband. Jake Hol den, belonged to Wm. Holden. Uncle Jake died two years ago after seeing over a century come and go._ D. S. VANDIVER. We want to figure with ycu o TOB \ CCO, and all kinds of GROCE and SHOES. Don't fail to see us on GUANO, 1 ATE OF POTASH, or anything in tl money on high grade goods. If you want to settle what you o have to do so quick, as we expect to ph Attorney for collection March 1st by si Yours truly, M L CARLISLE. NEW FANCY AND F AM on North Main Street, tv HAVING opened the above we h everything in the line of Fancy and Family Grocerie Fine Candies, We propose to keep on hand a complet so by dealiug with us you get Fresh Gc Free delivery to any part of City. $30.00 BICYCLE IF you don't believe it come and j t. This is the way to do it : Buy a Leroy Sadler or Frank Pearson, i and . Book which contains ten ot* these Coup o your friends, and when they have boi ict a 830.00 Guaranteed High Grat Icrstand drop in and we will he pleasec rou the greatest line or Wheels in the c THOMS - The Gaffney Ledger says that Aunt Patsy Harris, living in that town is nearly 100 years old. She has good health ?md can see to thread a needle without spectacles. She says when young she did man's work and often cut and split three cords of wood a day. - It ts evident that there are some pretty tough rogues around Greenville. They bieak out in unexpected places and on some curious things. The pest house, outside the city limits, has been robbed on more than one occa sion lately. - Col. J. C. Boyd, of Greenville, a well-known Confederate veteran and a military man of long experience, is about to organize a company of "Old Confeds" to attend the Charleston re union next May in a body. Col. Boyd intends to have his company well equipped, fully armed and uniformed in the old Confederate gray. - Mrs. A. Hazeltine McNeil died at Greenwood Saturday night at sevea o'clock after a long and tedious illness. Miss Bessie McNeil, daughter of Mrs. McNeil, died after a serious sickness brought on by the care and anxiety of taking care of her mother. Mother and daughter were buried together Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. McNeil was a middle-aged woman, Miss Bessie, a young worn; n of twenty-four years of age. - A negro infant was burned to death a few days ago near Sumter. The mother of the child left the house for a few minutes, leaving the baby in a cradle near the fire-place. "When she returned the cradle was ib a blaze and the wall of the house near the cradle was beginning to burn. She screamed loudly for help, but the child was doubtless dead before the fire was discovered, at any rate, life was ex tinct when tte flames were extinguish ed and the body taken from the burned cradle. It is thought that a fire coal popped from the fire-place into the cradle and started the fire. - Constables LaFar. Cooley, Altom, Bishop and Conwell made a raid last week OD the distillery of George Payne, two miles from Greenville and made the biggest haul of the season. They found a barrel of whiskey covered in a pile of cinders. Cans of yeast were found under the floor. The general state of affairs warranted a seizure and Constable LaFar closed the place. The oitfit, including a fine still and nine unstamped barrels of liquor were seized, and the liquor was sent to Co lumbia. Payne and the gauger, A. E. Williams, colored, will probably be handled by the Federal authorities. The C. A. Reed Music House'has taken the State Agency for the celebrated Co lumbia Grapbopboue, and is selling tbem at manufacturer's prices. It will interest every one to call at tbe Music House and see tbis wonderful invention. Iron King Stoves are considered the best. Euy one. Osborne ?fe Clinkscal69, Sole Agents. Roofing, tin work, galvanized iron, work and plumbing done on short notice by Osbcrne & Clinkscalea. Blacksmith Tools are offered so cheap by Sullivan Hardware Co. that the small est farmers will find that it will pay tbem to buy ?.n outfit. E. P. YAXDIVER. n FLOUR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, RIES and STAPLE DRY GOODS LCID, GERMAN KAINIT, NURI le Fertilizer line. We can save you we Brownlee & Yandivers you will ice the Accounts in the hands of au lit, if necessary. VANDIVER BROS. L. H. CARLISLE. ILY GROCERY STORE, YO doors from Post Oftice. eg to solicit the public patronage fer s, Fine Tobacco, Fine Cigars. e line of Fresh Groceries at all time?. )ods at very low prices. Yours to please, CARLISLE BROS. FOR 25 CENTS. iee us and wc will tell you all about Coupon from our Agent.-. I Messrs. ;end it to us with 82.50. and get a ms, which you must sell foi 25c. each ;ight Books, as you have done, vou le 1899 Bicycle." If you do not un 1 to explain our plan, aud also sh w itv. ON CYCLE WORKS.