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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH iii. 189?! VOLUME XXXTY-NO. 40. THEY could pay Cash as well as not, but it's so con venient to just step into a Store, get what ?3 wanted, and tell the Store-keeper to charge it. Yes, it's con venient, but let's see how much you have to pay for your so-called convenience. You buy a Suit at a Credit Store for-say 810.00-and it's charged to you. You could come to us and get the same quality of goods for $8.50, but you would have to pay spot cash. It costs you, m this instance, $1.50 to say charge it. Sometimes we can save you even more on SI0.00. No one undertakes nowadays to claim to tell better Goods than we do, or to sell good Goods so cheap as we do, but our competitors rely upon giving credit as an inducement for thoughtless people to pay them much more than we ask for the same Goods. We sell GOOD, HONEST CLOTHING, and if you become dissatisfied with a purchase you make here, we will give you-your money back if you want it. NEW SPRING CLOTHNG, NEW SPRING HATS; NEW Spring Furnishings, Tell your friends that " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. OUR SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT IS now open for the inspection of the public, and we know we can suit everybody in exactly the Shoe you want. In Men's Shoes we have cut prices, and are selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties at $1.00-former price 31.25. Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-former price $1.25-our new lot at only 90c. In Fine Shoes we have, all the latest and newest produc tions, in all shades of Tans and Vici Kids, Cordovans and Patent Leathers. We can give yon any style Toe or any width made. In Ladies' and Misses Shoes we are sure there is no house in the city who can compare with us IN STYLE, FIT OE PB ICE. We have everything in Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoes, in Blacks and Tans. If you want to see the most perfect-fitting, attractive and elegant line of stylish and up-to-date footwear ever shown in Anderson come in to see us. We are headquarters for Shoes. Very truly, D. C. BROWN & BRO. I'S li TARMINT. The Cough and Cold that irritates and torments is relieved with TARMINT. 25c. and 50c. j Johnsons j Headache Powders. Relieve Headache and I Neuralgia. 10c. and 25c. I I Infant Talcum Powder, An elegant Toilet Powder. ! Prevents and relieves ? chapping and chafing. I Sold in bulk, any quanti- < ty. 60c. per pound. For Rheumatism aud 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. Landreths Seeds. Just received. Fresh and new. INVESTIGATION OF COL. NEAL. Penitentiary Investigation Probe (?ces a Little Deeper. DisjKtich lo (!reen rille Xeirs. Cor.ujrniA, S. C., March 22.-The penitentiary investigation committee resumed its session to-day and the iir.st witness was S. P. J. Garr?s, member ot: the board of penitentiary directors, who asked that he be permitted to tes tify on a question of personal privi lege. The report circulated the past few days that lie had received a car load ol: bricks from thc penitentiary was er roneous, he said. The ear consisted of brick bats which hud been rejected. He tried to sell them but could not, owing to their worthlessness. When questioned about the manage ment of the State farms, Uv. Gain's agreed, as the reports showed, that during IS??S oats had been sold, bring ing 84,4?)."?.70. The published receipts showed that 8l,4tJ9.ft> had been turned in as cash and there was owing on oats 8002.29, thus leaving a balance of 82, 033.7G not accounted for. When this had been developed Mr. Patton paid a tribute to the board by these queries : "Did you ever take occasion as a member of that board to examine into what became of that 8?,000 or $??,000, worth of oats that were sold, and see whether the penitentiary charged itself with them and whether it had been received in cash or if not whether notes or other evidences of the indebtedness were properly set out as assets in mak ing the reports as cash ?" "Did you ever make any such exam ination ?" "Well, no sir; myself I did not.*' an swered Mr. Garr?s. "Did you ever know any other mem ber of the board to make any such ex amination ?" "Of course the board looked over the books." "Do you appreciate now what ap pears To be a very grave discrepancy in that matter since your attention lias been called to it ?" "Yes, sir." "And you had never suspected that or discovered it before ?" "Well, no sir.*' "But don't you think it was 3*0111-1 duty as one who had been charged by the State with the supervision of that large institution to lia ve so posted yourself so that such a discrepancy, if there is one, could not have occurred, and if there is not one so you could have explained how it was5?" Mr. Boggs objected to this question, Mr. Patton insisted. Chairman Steven son overruled the objection and Mr. Garr?s answered: "I have never been educated as a bookkeeper-never had any education much in that line. 1 depended entirely upon the reports made, but neither Mr. Stevenson nor myself are bookkeepers, and I think you understand now. But I. never went into such a close investi gation as you all lia ve. I took it as we had a bookkeeper and superintendent. I had the utmost confidence in their keeping it straight and I never sus pected sucii a thiug. Now 1 am only one of the board you know. I f that is an error 1 had never discovered it." Capt E. II. Westfield, former captain of the guard, was the only witness ex amined in the afternoon. His business, he stated, was to carry out orders. He said there was a pool table at the pen itentiary to oller inducements for the guards to remain there. The table has been there three years and was brought from the asylum. There was furniture made at the penitentiary by Lavalle, a convict. Chairman Cunningham had obtained a book case, Mr. Gards a washstand., book case and other things. Mr. D. H. Tompkins a book case. Mr. Hardy a table and Colonel Neal furni ture, a book ease, a bed and other things but he could not say they were paid for. The board of directors have been entertained at the penitentiary free. During the past six years there have been more visitors than at any time prior to that. The directors occu py rooms there when here and so do visitors free. Governor Kllerbe has got coal and wood there the past two winters but there is only one entry of any pay payment, 8240. The coal is furnished the governor at actual cost and wood at a small profit. I Ie thought this had been done for six years. Coal and wood were always free for Superintendent Neal since Westlich! has been captain of the guards. The superintendent has n ce i ved wood and ! coal free at his home during the past three years. The superintendent has also golton his lard, kerosene, hams, sugar, soap, vegetables, milk and but ter from the penitentiary, anil there is no credit for them, and the books show that they haye not been paid for. Convict labor has been furnished Cree at the governor's mansion, and also at Col. Neal's house. Captain West held said it was custo mary for the superintendent to get tree his wood and coal and vegetables, milk and butter. The getting of other provisions has only started in the last three years, ile charged thom on his commissary books, but the account l'or hams, kerosene, sugar, ele., does not seem lo have been transferred to the penitent ?arv accounts. The penitentiary also furnished Col. Neal with a horse free,[which is cus tomary. There was a steam laundry at I he Penitent iary at which Col. Neal's ; i ml Governor Ellerbe's family wai Jms been done for i Ince yours nothing hail been paid for ir. steam laundry is three years old. charge had been made for 1'amily w ing for Col. Neal or Governor Elb It was said last year there were a 150 hams, some ol' which were fi thc guards. Col. Neal got hams there is no record ot' his having for them. Governor Ellerbe got h Captain Westfield says he cha; them up but does not know if were ever paid for. Ile secnict think not. An outside suggestion isthat Ell exchanged sonic of Ins hams for tl at thc penitentiary. Some outsiders got coal at cost. ( rain Westfield said. Coi.( MIMA, S. C.. Marci! G ernor Ellerbe to-day gave ont thc lowing statement regarding fin* pi tcntiary matter: "From flic testimony ol' Cap? Westfield the public would thin have been getting my laundry d free at the penitentiary. Some 1 ago our washerwoman left thc eily we could not get one todo our w satisfactorily. I told Col. Neal al the matter. Ile told me he had a gi laundry at the penitentiary and t he could do my laundry for me. I apart of it only and am to pay tl i dollars per month. About a month 1 succeeded in getting a washorwohi T have not had any laundering dom thc penitentiary since Tl ie pen i ten tia IT investigation ci mittee to-day dragged along raf heavily. Except for some spicy ii dents the most of thc time was dcvo to trying to straighten out the oats ; brick accounts, which have now bi practically explained and empha> the worthlessness of thc annual ports. The board seems to have accep the statements of farm superintci cuts and they seem to have been ind feront as to facts when report ing wi seemed to bc facts. The investigation to-day develor thc fact that there was a regular gc ernor" s mansion account run by Ti man, Evans and Ellerbe. The accom seem to be for coal. wood, row a horse food and provisions general including molasses and such thin; bought by Tillman and others. Tillman's account has been partial settled, but there is a balance again lum outside of the brick account ?57.0(5. No bills seem to have be sent to him. and the money has n been collected on tin* account report to be due the farm or the penitential This, as all other mansion account was kept in the commissary book. Governor Evans* account, still du is 8181.14. This was never reported an asset of the penitentiary. Neal sa, ing that he would attend to if. Governor Ellerbeks commissary a count still due is S2tG..*?(5. nf rh amount ?n?.!r2 is due for oats whic he expected to trade out for a hors Governor Ellerbc bas been paying i his account. Colonel Neal's commissary accom shows that he owes ???i?'.it?. None < these items, aggregating s I,hui). ha\ been reported to the board as assn except the Ellerbe oats. Manager Cooley, of the Read plant; tion, testified to-day that he had sei Col. Neal at his Easloy plantation 20 000 pounds of cotton seed for which n bill was made nor did lie reporl til ! shipment for payment. Among the pigs given away by hii was a pair to Director ( ?arris. Mr. Gams says that about tine weeks ago he tried to pay for the pig but no one seems to have known wini what they were worth. The evidence to-day showed that i addition to what free furniture ha already been accounted for. that number of large pieces were sent t Tillman, a book case to Asbury kati mer and two wardrobes to Dan Thump kins. Xo charges have ever been mad' for these articles of furniture. Frank Weston testified thal hi bought and paid for four tons of sot" coal at #4.00 per ton. Manager Cooley of the Head farm, testified that hi swapped a cow with his son-in-law and that the cow which the farm go died before his son-in-law took hi: swapped cow away, but the swap wa: made before this cow died. Ne treated a horse for Miss Ellerbe dunged and collected Si'! for his per sonal services hut never rendered ; bill for the feed, which has not beet paid. Captain Westfield testified that Till man, Evans and Ellerbe all ran sinai farms near Columbia on which they made their cow. horse and ot her stock feed; thal these small gubernatorial farms were worked by convict laboi and ploughed by penitentiary mule* and that no charges have been made, or expected, for t he labor or plough ing. Tillman rented about a two acre plat from Newman and EHcrbe's farhi seems to have been from 15 to 'JD acres. One of Ellerbe's credits is S,(MMI pounds ol' pea vines sold at a thousand ami tim pea vines were made on the farm which was worked by free convict la bor. Two hundred and twenty dollars has been paid by the penitentiary fora grail ?fu curbing for the mansion which has never been taken from Hie quarry when- made. The penitentiary has paid lin- bill in labor bul has never been remunerated. The pen i len fia ry ]?;iid oilier bills for which it has not yet been recompensed. . Thc investigation will proceed to ; morrow. i Superintendent Gooley testified that he whipped negroes by giving KIO ! lashes on the ban; back with a leather . strap, lie said he rarely-not in over j six cases-drew blood, j COLLMISIA, S. C. March 24.-The pcn I itentiary investigation did not to-day i develop anything startling. The after j noon session amounted to nothing. The j superintendent of the Lexington farm j was sent for, but he arrived late. To-morrow personal witnesses will bc examined, when an adjournment : will be had until June 12th. when the State farms will be visited and a hew : line pursued. Sergeant Adams, who hus been at the penitentiary for twenty years, was examined. J ie said that t ree wood, coal, vegetables and milk for tin; su perintendent was tia.' custom started the latter part of Colonel Lipscomb's renn, ami continued since. The guber I na tori al farms with free convict labor . started during Tillman's tenn. Witness thought that the prisoners were well treated, except, when Allen was captain of the guard. Officers | i found it necessary to hang prisoners by : the thumbs for discipline. ! lie gave considerable testimony : about the extent of the free entertain ment and said that there were as many '?? as fifteen or twenty visitors entertained j a day at the penitentiary. State constables who were on duty : here frequently were guests at the I penitentiary. Guard Lykes said that he worked a gang of fifteen or twenty convicts - spreading guano on the Ellerbc planta tion, which he said was I5 or 20 acres. Chairman Cunningham dcvo ted much j time to explaining the improvements made since he has been chairman of I the board, and said that the State farms i were now worth 8120,000 and had been ! ent irely paid for out of thc earnings. Contracts for convicts were shown j not to comply with tia; statute. The contract provides for the forfeiture of I $50 for each convict who escapes. The ! statute provides for $50 forfeit for each year the escaped convict has to serve. Mr. Cunningham said the at torney general drew the form of tin; j contract. He said that the sales from ; tin- commissary were a revelation to ; iiiin. and that he would immediately j undertake to collect this money, as j well as all due for gubernatorial farms j and other debts. j Coi.L'.Mi'.lA, S. C.. March 25.-The j penitentiary investigating committee to-day took a recess until .lune 1.3th j when it will rake up new lines and ! visit the State farms. Thi' commission did nor care to (dose J up the present line until Neal could be j heard. j To-day's chief de velop ii icu t was that Colonel Neal liad berni drawing $10 every month for stabling his horses at ! his home. Ile is supposed to have used this in paying house rent. In 1*0-1 he drew $120 in a lum]) for stable rent ami every month since that time has drawn $10 a month, and the board has been in absolute ignorance of it. Chairman Cunningham said that he never looked at the prison pay roll on which this $10 for stable rent was placed by Colonel Neal's order. Ile could have found that the State was paying for the stable rent by looking at the pay roll, lie admits over-confi dence ami sub-ottiecrs check being thought to be all requisite. The horses were kept at Colonel Neal's for con venience. Ile said there was plenty of room to have kept them in the peni tentiary. The horses were fed by the j Stale and belonged to the penitentiary. The Charleston R?union. Charleston will open her homes, as well as her boarding houses and hotels for the comfortable ami pleasant; ac commodation of all of the visitors who will attend the Confederate reunion, May 10 to Pi next. The following in formation as td rates of board and lodging is officially given out: Private homes and boarding houses, lodging 5() cents io $1 a day: singh; meals, 25 cents to 50 cents; board and lodging, 1$ to $2. Hotels, board ami lodging $2 and up wards. Restaurants, meals 25 cents and up wards. Dormitories for ladies 50 cents and upwards: als?) restaurants under the control (d'King's Daughters. Daugh ters (d' the Confederacy and devolution and church societies ol' all denomina tions will be established. Dormitories for ni en with abundant accommodations will be opened at 50 cents. Visitors are urged lo make all ar rangements for hoard and lodging in advance and all information can be ob tained and t| turfers engaged hy ad dressing .Mr. Robert I'. Kvans. chair man commit iee on information. Char leston. S. C. _ STATK OH.OUIO. CITY OK Tor.i:m?, I LUCAS CHINTY. FRANK.I. CiiKN?tv nuikes oat li lita) lit* is the scniar partner of tho tirm of .1. CHUNKY .t Cu . doing liusiucss in thu City of Toledo, Comity ?mil Statu aforesaid ami thal sahl finn will pay tho MIHI of ON li IIUNl'REP 1)0 LL A RS for each ami every ease nf CATA KI:li thal.cannot liv. cu red. hy Hie ilse ol' HALL'S CATA KIHI ("DIO:. KRANK .1. CHENEY. Sworn lo lietore nie and sulwcrihed in my pres ence, iliis lilli dav of Peeeinher, A. 1) issi'.. [ s HAL i -A. W. GLEASON. ytifitry Public. Hull's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and .....ts directly or.tlic Mond and mucous surfaces of Hie system' S>*ijd for testimonials, free. Ad hess, E..1. i "I I ENE V & CO., Toledo 0. Sold IVy OrmriiHfs. 75?, Hall's family I'ills are the host. STATE .NEWS. - Thc Grand Lodge of thc Knights of Honor will meet in Columbia April nineteenth. - The State Medical Association will meet at Harris Lithia Springs next month. - Governor Ellerbe has authorized the State board of health to establish quarantine on April 1st. - A recruiting station has been es tablished at Charleston for enlisting recruits for the new army. - Bishop Duncan went down to Mexico last week to visit thc churches there. Ile will be absent two or three weeks. - Col. J. S. Brubaker. ol' Spartan burg, slaughtered a Poland-China hog a few days ago that weighed 033 pounds gross. - The enlisted men of the 1st S. C. V. I., have presented Col. J. H. Tillman with a magnificent gold medal as a token of esteem. - Judge Samuel W. Melton died in Charleston last Saturday night, aged 09 years. He was one of South Carolina's brightest lawyers. - Gaffney has a well 550 feet deep, and it goes through solid rock except fifty feet. The water flows from the top. It is said to bc strong ly mineral. - W. C. Wyatt, of Mica, Eickens county, lost his barn and stable by fire last week. Mr. Wyatt succeeded in saving his stock, but the fodder and other feed were consumed. - The Cowpens Memorial Associa tion intends to have that famous battle j ground suitably cared for. They pro- j pose also to have a notable celebration | at the battle ground on the 27th of j May. - The quarantine regulations of j this State will be rigidly enforced from Saturday. April 1, at sunrise, and will continue until Tuesday. October 21. at sunset at the several ports of the State. - There will be a conference of or phanage superintendents and workers at Clinton. S. C.. April 1S-20. Repre sentatives from orphanages in Georgia and thc Carolinas are expected* to at tend. - Adjutant General Floyd will issue an order that hereafter members of his and the governor's staff will wear blue fatigue uniforms. This is to correspond with the blue uniforms in general use. - The foundation is being laid at Timmonsville for the largest steam plant for the handling of leaf tobacco so far erected in the State. Its di mensions are 200xb0 feet and two and a half stories high. - The barn and stable of Mr. Willie Edwins, who lives a few miles below Orangeburg, was destroyed by fire on last Friday night. Besides losing all his provisions, Mr. Edwins lost two mules and one horse by the fire. - Union will have the honor of entertaining the State Christian En deavor Convention this year. The time fixed for holding the convention is April 1!) to 21, and preparations are already being made for the entertain ment of the delegates and visitors. - The remains of an unknown mu latto boy, about lb or IS years old, were found by Section Master Holts hauser on the Coast Line track, about one mile west of Timmonsville. It is supposed that the boy was stealing a ride and fell off of one of the night trains. The terribly mangled condi tion of the body would gindicate that several trains had passed over him. - At Darlington last Saturday night i Jim Johnson, colored, was beating Lis wife, and Chief-of Police Dargan heard her cry "Kelp !" "Murder !'? and came to her aid. Johnson assaulted Dargan with a saw, cutting him se verely, and Dargan then shot him dead. - In boring an artesian well in j Hampton county recently heavy beds of coal and traces of oil were found, j Thc owner of the plantation on which I the deposits were discovered has been j offered $100.000 by oil men for thc j place, and have put up 810,000 as a j forfeit ir the price is not paid. ! - It is reported that smallpox has j assumed epidemic form in Edgefield [ and thc State authorities have been j appealed to-for aid. "Within a scope j of country ten miles long and from two to four miles wide, there are fifty j cases and there hare been three deaths ! since the epidemic began. ! - J. E. S. Dunnaway's store at Mc j Cormick was burglarized Sunday. The ! burglars secured about fifty dollars in j silver, which was hid in a shot sack '. on a shelf behind some cloth. It is j believed that the burglary was com I mitted by some one who saw Mr. . Dunnoway place the money there, j - Last Saturday night at Edgefield j John Webb and Will Toney, two ne ; gro boys about IS years old. were killed j and two of their companions, Robert I Seigler ona Will Barrington, were j seriously wounded by four white em ! ployeesof the Edgefield cotton factory. Two of the murderers were mere boys, probably not over sixteen years old. About 13 shots were fired, the weapons ! being lb-shooters. It is difficult to fix the motive, but it is supposed that I the shots which killed the negroes were intended for others. Young i Burnette is in jail and Beese and Oawley are held as accessories. Mistrial in Hughes Case. GREENVILLE, S. C., March i?.-A ! mistrial was ordered this morning in the case of pretty Mrs. Mattie Hughes for killing her husband. She took thc news philosophically, remarking: "Well, a mistrial is better than a conviction." This case has excited unusual inter est on ..ccount of a clever woman being charged with the murder of her hus band. Last winter, Hughes, who was a prominent merchant of Greenville county, and his wife had several quar rels, each charging the other with in fidelity. The feeling between them ran so high that in an open quarrel be tween them M.r.s. Hughes shot her hus band. He died 24 hours afterwards, making a statement that his wife killed him without cause. The womans de fence was that she threatened Hughes with a pistol. He grabbed her arm in such a way as to cause the pistol's dis charge with fatal results to himself. The second trial will come off during thc summer. Murder and Suicide. WILMINGTON, X. C., March 2-3.-A special to the Star from Kingston, N. C., says: Friday morning Mr. Lonnie Lane, about 22 years of age, and Miss Glennie Sauls, about 14, both of well to-do families, took a walk together. Not returning, search was made, and that evening" their bodies were found near the city. It appeared that Lane had shot Miss Sauls and then killed himself with a pistol. His attentions to the young girl were not acceptable to her parents, and he had been forbid den to visit the home. This was prob ably the cause of the tragedy. - m? m m- - Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at (50 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style. If you have printing to do. it will be to your interest to write io the Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C._tf. W,LL EXANDERSON THURSDAY, APRIL 6. THE FAMOUS . . . ULL FIGHTERS ! THE only Exhibition of the truly eminent Mexican spectacle IN AMERICA. A true representation of Mexico's National Sport BULL FIGHT. 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