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CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, KEB UT A RY 22. 185M. YOI j I'M E XXXIY-NO. 85. Few People Got offended because we refused to sell them Goods (.u credit. We wish io 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 beet people in Andereon 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 CASH 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 oflended) to come in and let us show them the prices we make on ^ood 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 satUfied 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 {1.00-then come to us and we will give you the same ne for 75c. This lot of Pants is worth $9.00 a dozen olesale, but we found a manufacturer who had too many, needed money. That's our reason for offering these ta at 75c. Twenty-five dozen Broad Brim Planters* Hats, the same ts that other Stores sell you for $1.00, Evans' price is y 75c. " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." . 0. Evans & Co THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. E YOU HUNTING BARGAINS? E Lav? bought the entire Stock of J. P. SULLIVAN A CO. and will continue wu) at the same Stand. Having boutrht thia Stock at a considerable discount, ein position to give you BARGAINS in GROCERIES, we can sell you Siloes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc., d below original cost. Wheu you ara in Town we want you to make head :era with us and feel iust like you are at home, and we will treat you the beat now bow, talk about these things, and have a lively time on the Corner. ve know that weean save you money, and all we ask is that you give us a ?. We will carry a complete line of General Merchandise. t's will bave a lot of New Goods in a few days of all kinds. MOORE, ACKER & CO. My friends and old customers are invited to call on rae. I will be glad to [them in any way I can. Don't forget where I am-at J. P. Sullivan ?fe Co's. 1 on tho Corner. OSCAR MOORE. MINT. The Cough and Cold that irritates and torments is relieved with TARMINT. 25c. and 50c. ison s idache Powders. Relieve Headache and Neuralgia. 10c. and 25c. int tom Powder, An elegant Toilet Powder. Prevents ?nd relieves chapping and chafing. Sold in bulk, 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. . Johnsons Worm And Liver Syrup. Removes Worms, is pala table, safe and sure. 25c. Landreth's Seeds. Just received. Fresh and new. ILL-ORR DRUG CO. To Invest?gate Col. Neal. Coi.i Min\ Feb., 17.-Mr. Stevenson in the House to-day introduced the fol lowing resolutions which wer?* adopted: Whereas, there aro rumors publish ed in the public prints, charging ir regularities in management ami condi tion of the Stat?' penitentiary, and whereas justice to the present manage ment of tile penitentiary and the su perintendent elect and to the State, demands speedy ami thorough investi gation of ali the affairs of said peniten tiary. Now, therefore, In- it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senat?* concurring Section 1. That a committee ? ?msist ing of two of the Senate and three of the House b?* appointed for the purpose of investigating the affair of said peni tentiary. Sec. S. That sahl Committee shall have the right to employ an expert bookkeeper and stenographer, to s?*ml for persons and papers, to swear wit nesses, to require the attendance of any parties whose presence shall be deemed necessary and t?> investigate fully all transactions concerning the peniten tiary and its management, and to take charge of the hooks and vouchers of the institution. See. 3. The committee at any tim** when they <le?*ui it advisable may call to their assistant'?* the attorney g?'ii eral. See. 4. It shall report its findings to the Governor of this State, together with the testimony taken by said com mittee. When the resolutions wer?' intro duced in the senate Mr. Barnwell ex pressed the opinion that they would involve a useless expenditure of money. The rumors, he said, wei?* founded ?>u newspaper reports. Mr. Henderson sahl that it was not upon newspaper reports alon?' 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.-Speviat to (?reenrille Neirs. Joe Tolbert Goes to Greenwood. Thursday was the day set for taking testimony at Greenwood in the contest which K. R. Tolbert, Republican, has brought for the congressional seat of A. C. Latimer, Democrat, to whom the certif?cate 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. He 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. It is stated that the rumors of an attempt upon Joe Tolbert'*, life were unfounded, but the reports were circulated and it was thought best to be ?ni the outlook. The contestant's friends claimed that it wsis unsafe for anyon?' to give testi mony in Talbert's favor in Greenwood and they therefore luul tho hearing postponed. None of their witnesses were present except one whom they ?lid not produce on th?* 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 postpontul 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 stilted that as Tolbert's con test is inadmissable because of his failure to file the notice at the proper time, this method of procedure is adopt ed to gain a standing bolero 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 caring to incur any supposed risks. Hon. George E. Prince, who is the attorney for Congressman Latimer, re turned to Columbia yesterday. He ?loes not seem to think that there was the least foundation for suspecting any trouble at the hearing, and he backed his judgment by offering to insure the lives of all the witnesses that might be brought forward by Tolbert's side. It is not known when or where the taking of testimony will occur, but tim contestant will doubtless endeavor to have the matter attended some distance from Greenwood as the Tolberts have fears as to their safety in that part of the country, which muy be either real or feigned.-The.State, Feh. ts. The readers of tills pup?-.- will he pleased to learn that there ts at least one dr? vied disease that tel? enco has Iteen at>h* to cure in .ill its stages, and that ia Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh heinz a constitutional disease fe<i ? i re-, a constitutional treatment. Ila.I'M Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting dfrectiy upon the Mood and mucous surfaces of the >y;t. m, thereby de stroying the foundation of the di-ease, and (riving thc pa tient strength by building m. '.'<.? constitu tion nnd assisting nature in Jmn; its work Tho proprietors have ?o much-filth in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred J ollar* for any case that lt rails to cure. Send for Hst of tes timon?ala Hall's Fan Hy Pills are the best. $100 Reward. $100. Cost or Cotton (ironing. \V vsnIN?.TON. I). C., Feb. 15.-I'nder tli?* supervision of Statistician Hyde, of thc department of agriculture, the cost of growing cotton hus bren inves tigated, and tile results ol the investi gation are to be published within tl few ?lays, in a pamphlet. This report will show that the average cost of produc ing un tier?'of upland cotton in 18118, was $15.43, sub-divided in the follow ing items: Kent, $2.88: plowing, $2.81; seed, 21c; planting seed, 28e.; fertil izers, $1.50; distributing fertilizers, ldc: chopping sind hoeing, $1.01; picking, $:{.:{?; ginning and pressing, $1.02; bag ging and ties, 37c: muitirketiug, 04c; repairing iinplenicnts, 40c. and other expenses, 41e. lt was ascertained that the pounds of lint produced per acte wer?' 255.0, sold for 0.07 per pound: bushels of seed produced n>: price per bushel 11.0 cen ts. The total return to the planter was $10.00, which gave him ti net profit of $:U?l per ncr?;. The <?>st of picking cotton per 100 pounds was 44 cents. Several thousand planters contributed to these statistics, and of tin- entire number 20 percent, reported a loss due to deficient production, ow ing to drought or other ?'?uses. To produce Sea Island cotton costs $21.05 per aere, or an average of 11.20 per pound, un?! the total return for lint and seed for Sea Island cotton was $28.05, which gav?* the planter a net profit of $0.70 per acre. The planters that represent a profit in the raising of upland cotton produced 275.0 pounds per acre, while those that reported II loss produced only 170 pounds. The effect of the us?? of fertilizers in th?' raising of cotton is very distinctly disclosed and the general result is that in proportion as the quantity of fer tilizers usi'il increased the profil 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 ut ti high rate of profit by means of irrigation in western Texas and the southwestern part of I'tah. In Texas irrigation had th?' ef fect of producing 512.4 pounds of lint per acre, which is 200.0 pounds greater than the average for the whole State. For 18H0 many speeial inquiries were made by a former statistician of the department and the estimated cost of producing lint cotton per pound, in gold, was 8.02 cents. One of the re markable revelations of the investiga tion is the comparative cost of market ing cotton in 1840 and in 1807. The comparison is itemized, and shows that in 1K40 it cost 18.15 to market a bale of cotton in Alabama to Liverpool, while in 1H!)7 tins cost was $7.H?. Some Weather Signs. Situ-?- the failure of thc predictions of the ground hog, the faith ?if many of tho??' who believe in weather signs luis been shaken. Hut they should not be discouraged. There ure signs and ; signs to lit all imaginable occasions j and conditions. A York ville gentle man contributes the following: ..The 15th of February was Ash Wednesday, and th?-sun shone bright during the greater part of the day; therefore, wc are pretty sure to have ti good wheat croll this year. I have taken especial notice of this time-hon ored sign for ti number of years, and it bas never yet failed.*' Th?' above ?ploted remarks were made by ti 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 ?md wet weather that luis prevailed during hist fall and the present winter. Another said: "There will be three more snows before the weather settles.*' "How do you know?" he was asked. "Ky an unfailing sign, which is that for each foggy morning in August, there 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 the next six weeks, had better take warning and replenish, if th?? op portunity should otter, s?? as to be on tli<* safe side.- Yorkville Knifuirer. Wants to Know Where Casey Is. KtlUorti Convier: Kor the sake ?if suf fering humanity, will you please give the following space in your valuable paper : There is ti woman in tiiis section win? wants to know where Aaron Casey is. When Casey wsis last heard <d" he claimed to live on Samuel Sutton's land, in Brushy Creek township, An derson County,South Carolina. He is very tall; about 45 or 50 years of age; dark complected; eyes, she thinks, black or gray; beard and hair getting gray. This woman is without home, food or ! raiment, only tis tim neighbors nm t ribo te to her. Any one that can gm- th?- writer any information J?K to Casey's whereabouts j will be paid for his or her trouble. J. ALONZO lin??W.N. Cateechce, S. C. Anderson papers and every paper in the Uti i ted States, a friend to justice, j picnic copy.- Kemree Courier. Have bot water pipes run from your stove to bath room. Try Osborne ?fe I Clinkscales. Comer Creek sifting*. ; Tho snow lias coiiM* ?ind gone and thc roads ari* "had." muddy, and. in lari, they an* decided in the wurst romlition tliut we have ever seen them, al though the public roads ot' this section ure not ns bad as it is in other places. For tho past three or four years our roads have been etliciently managed by .Mr. .1. M. Hanks, and now since thc j way ot" overseeing the public roads ut' th?* County has been changed, we fear in thc tut ure thal our roads ar?' not j going t?? be as good us they have been in tho ?mst, tor Mr. Hanks certainly knew how and when t?i work the ronds . and also to keep up tho bridges. The ?'ol?l wave of hist w?'??k wi- lear has killed part of nur oats, which were looking tine. Th?' McAdams school took vacation last week on tte rou nt of snow. Mrs. J: T. McConnell and pretty lit tle daughter, from Eagle Grove, tia., ar?* on a visit tn her parents here. M issi's F'ta and Kinma Martin, of Donalds s?'ctmu. visited relatives here th?? latter part ?d' hist week. Mrs. Mary Shirley, who was stricken with paralysis about three weeks ago, we ar<> sorry to note is not improving very fast. We trust she may soon bo well again. Wistcr Digby came up from Verdery last week timi spent a few days with his parents. Several of our young people enjoyed sleigh riding during the recent snow, .lust ask ?mc nf uur married men how he liked it. for he could he seen out rilling with his wile. Cur lurmcrs have not dune much. Mr. Editor, the time uf the year is drawing near for the beginning of an other crop, and it is tu be Imped that th?- fanners nf 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 sun-. Mr. .1. X. Shirley, who has been drawn a juror for February term of Court, will leave for the city Monday. We presume that he will have to be there for sonu* two w?'?'ks. Mr. Will Hanks, our excellent car penter, who lias been for the past two months working on tile new Methodist Church at Williamston, was at Imme recently. Tvito. Dralnuge Association. The Anderson Drainage Association met in the Court House Feb. 15, and or g-irdzed permanently by electing A. T. Iv M ell, Pres. and P. II. Drown, Sec. Committee appointed atlast 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. Kussell, representing the Steam Drainage Co. of Russell ?V Fretwell, made the Association a proposition to ditch all streams in Anderson county at one-half the cost of hand labor, or ho would cut canals at the following prices per rod : s feet wide, ti feet deep, Uti cts; 10 feet wide, li feet deep, "."> cts: 1.*, feet wide, <. feet deep, *1 : is feet wide, <> feet deep. Committees of three were appointed by thc,President <>n different streams in tho comity tn ascertain the number of miles of difching tn ho done: also to secure signature uf land owners tuan agreement to nay their proportion of the expense of draining said streams. Tho committees to report Salesday in March, at 'J p. m. I ?ocky Uiver Committee John Hailey, C. E. Seybt, \V. i). Hammond. Six and Twenty Coin tn it tee-I. <?. Duckworth. Teat Dalrymple, ll. II. t? ray. Three and Twenty Committee-M. lt. Richardson, J. I!. Dombitt, Hunter Mc Mustry. Little Six and Twenty Committee-D. 15. Mcl'hail, W. W. Smith, .1. lt. Smith. Town Creek Committee -J. I?. Watson, 1). E. Drown, .las. Ashley. Devils Kork Committee-.1. S. Fowler, Henry Williford, 1). J. Dolt. Cox's Creek Committee-.1. M. Payne, W. T. W\ Harrison, Calhoun Hamlin. Little Heaver Dam Committee-P. C. Opp, Jas. Olivens, D. <". Martin. Dig Heaver Dam Committee-W. IT. Tucker, II. (?. Anderson, E. M. Duck worth. Dickens Creek Committee-Earle Smith, Oliver Dickens, Knock Pepper. Upper Three and Twenty Committee Ed A?good, Thos. (Henn, Ceo. Hassell. The meeting was attendeil by a large dro^d of representative men from all sections of the county, who showed their determination to reclaim our most valua ble farming lands, since it could bo done so cheaply and effectively by steam. Tho meeting adjourned to meet in the Court House at '1 p. m. Sales?ay in March, at which time tho 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. Itnowx, Sec. - mm m mt Soldiers Honor a Head Confederate. Tho funeral of the lute Capt..lohn McFall, the Confederate veteran whose death was announced in the Greenville .Yew* ot Sunday was characterized by an incident that had never occurred in this Stnt?' Before. Dining the services at the grave in Springwood cemetery a detachment of the 20'ld New York sol diers, provost guards ntl'?luty, marched into the gi ?rn mis under sergeant Keeler, ami taking posit inn by I he grave, bared their heads and paid their respects to tlie memory of him who had worn the gray. The incident attracted much at tention and was favorably commented upon throughout the city.-dwnrilh' .v. H s. /..<./?. ?:/. - mm . mu Cheap Printing*. I Law Briefs at 'Kl cents a Page-Goo?! ! 'Work, Good Paper, 1'rompl Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style. If you have printing todo, it w ill bi'to ?'our interest to writ?-to the Press and tanner, Abbeville, S. c. tf. Iron King Stovos aro s dd In Anderson only by Osl ?me it Clink>ealt<s. STATE NEWS. _ j - '?en. M. C. Huller has boen hon- i orably discharged from the anny. 1 The 1th Missouri Regiment was * mustered out in Greenville last week. - - An old colored woman in Darling ton froze to death on Monday night. I'lth instant. - A good many cattle were drown- | ed below Columbia last week by the j freshet in the Co ngaree. - .lohn A. I'ut man, of Laurens county, lost his barn and two head of horses by lire on Saturday night. - An engine near Charleston jump ed the track recently and killed two men and wounded eicht others badly. - The prospects seem cheering that Gov. tillerbe will soon have re turned to him the money expended in j raising the First Uegiiuent j - Jacob l'eiglor, probably the old est resident of Greenville county, died i jon the lt?th inst. Ile was born in Orangeburg County in 1804. - The Merchants* and Miners Line i stcam'er "Wm. Lawrence.' was wreck ed off Fort Koyal, S. C.. February Ll. \ Some of the crew were rescued, I others are believed to have perished. - Three negroes were drowned in Fee Dee Uiver, near Society Hill, S. C., Feb. They were trying to es cape from their home which had been inundated by freshets. j - 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 "?th 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 ? o? 4 o'clock and did considerable damage. The telephone wires are broken and torn up, fences are considerably blown down and the old Kcowee Hotel un roofed. - Dr. James tivanr, secretary oi the State Board of Health, reports that the smallpox epidenrc at Mayes ville is under control, but that th( disease is now epidemic at Summerton Clarendon County, and is sprcadini in that section. - On the 7th inst, while on hi way from Abbeville Hill Wimbush colored, of Due West, froze to deatl near the home of Jim ('reen where In was found the next day. Hill wa loaded up with "booze" and lay dowi to take a snooze, and now he is dead. I - Aunt Chaney Holden, one of th j oldest colored women in the State j died at her home on J. C. Garrison' i place, near Walhalla, on Wednosda morning, 15th instant, lier age wa said to bc over a hundred years. Sh was an old woman in slavery time! when she and her husband, Jake l?o den, belonged to Wm. Holden, linc) Jake died two years ago after see in over a century come and go. - The <'artney Ledger says that Unit Patsy Harris. living in that town nearly 100 year- old. She has good lealth and can see to thread a nee Ile fithout spectacles. She says wi.eu ?outig she did man's work and often m and split three cords of wood a lay. - li is evident that there are some n etty tough rogues around Greenville. They break out in unexpected places md on some curious things. The pest muse, outside the city limits, lias i>een robbed 01 more than one ocea ?011 lately. - Col. J. C. Boyd, of tireen ville, a ?vcll-known Confederate veteran and a Military mau of long experience, i:; ?bout to organize a company of "Old .'oufeds" to attend the Charleston re inion next May in a body Col. Boyd ntends to have his cot ?any well 'quipped, fully armed and uniformed ri the old Confederate gray. - Mrs. A. Hazel ti nc McNeil died it t?- awood Saturday night at seven /clock after a long and tedious illness. Miss Bessie McNeil, daughter ol Mrs. McNeil, died after a serious sickness brought on by the care and anxiety "I" taking care of her mother. Mother ami daughter were buried together Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. McNeil wa:* a middle-aged woman, Miss Bessie, a young worn- n of twenty-four years of age. - A negpi infant was burned to death a lew 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 in a blaze and the wall of the house near tho 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 t?ie 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 on the distillery of George Payne, two miles from Greenville and made th\i biggest haul of the season. Th'iy 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 outfit, including a tine still and nine unstamped barrels of liquor were seized, and the liquor was sout to Co lumbia. Payne and the gauger, A. K. Williams, colored, will probably be handled by the Federal authorities. Th? C. A. Kemi Music H ouse'bas taken tlio stat? Agency tor th? celebrated Co. lumbla (iraphophotte, ami is selling them at immufaeturnr'H prices, lt will intered', every one to call at tho M usic House and see this wonderful invention. Iron King Stoves aro considered the host. Huy one. Osborne A Clinkseales, Sole Agents. Rooting, tin work, galvanized iron work and plumbing don? on short notice by Osborne ?fc Ciiuksoalea lUacksmith Tools are ottered so cheap by Sullivan Hardware Co. ttiat the small est farmers will lind that it will pay tbe^j to buy an outfit. I). S. VANDIVER.E. I\ VAN'DIVEK. VANDIVER BROS. We want to figure with ycu on FLOUR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, TOB \CCO, and all kinds of GROCERIES aud STAPLE DRY GOODS and SHOES. Don't fail to see us on GUANO, ACID, GERMAN KAINIT, NURI ATE OF POTASH, or anything ir 'he Fertilizer line. We can save you money on high grade goods. If you want to settle what you owe Brownlee iv. Vancivers you will have to do so quick, as we expect to place the Accounts in the hands of au Attorney for collection March 1st by suit, if necessary. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. M L CARLISLE. L. II. CARLT3LT*. 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 hand a complete line of Fresh Groceries at all time?, 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 wc will tell you all about it. This is the way to <1 > it : Buy a Coup >n from our Agents, I Messrs. Leroy Sadler or Frank Pearson.) and send it to us with 8:2.?0, and get a Hook which contains ten of these Coupons, which you must sell for '20c. each to your friends, and when they have bought Books, us you have ?lone, you get ?i 8*10.00 Guaranteed High Oratio 1809 Bicycle. If you do not un ricrstand drop in aud we will he pleased to explain our plan, and also eh w you the greatest line of Wheels in the etty. THOMSON CYCLE WORKS.