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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ' ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1899. YOLUME XXXIY-NO. 45 . YOU had a story to tpH-one that you knew was true, one that you wanted believed-how would you tell it ? Use big adjectives, high sounding phrases, or tell it quietly ? Perhaps we are too modest. We can save you money on your Clothing, Hats and Furnishings because1 we do "a strictly Spot Cash business. We have no bad debts/ We keep no books. You don't have to pay for the losses occasioned by bad debts when you trade with me. We^wiHgive you more value for 75c. cash than our competitors would for $1.00 on credit, and remember your money back if you want it. NEW LINES 0F Hats and Furnishings Beady for your inspection. TELL YOUR FRIENDS THAT " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. Hill- Orr Drug Company's Specials ! -..'.rj.;.>':': ^VT: .':'-'.".. \- . !'.. ..'.?'.. ^rup Red Glover Compound, % % -\ " ' The greatest and best blood purifier. Pint bottle S1.00. Johnson's Headache Powder. Safe and sure for all pains in the head. 10c. and 25c. Tannin!, The best of all Cough Remedies. 25c. and 50c. H. 0. Go's. Horse and Cattle Powder. - A teaspoonful is a large dose and the result will surprise you. A fine Tonic and specially good for hide-bound and stoppages. 15c. and 25c. a bagful. Johnson's Palatable Worm and Liver Syrup, Removes the worms every time, is safe, and is not to be followed bv castor oil or other active ad nauseating medicines. 25c. Xamnol. We offer this new and latest remedy for Headache, Neuralgia and all pains. This remedy we need not recommend, as it stands above all remedies heretofore offered as a reliever of any "kind of pain. * ? 25c boxes. , HILL-ORR DRU Headquarters for Medicines of all kinds, Paints, Oils, Glass, Seeds and Dye Stuffs. IS now open for the inspection of the public, and ive 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 Tics at $i.00-former price $1.25. Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-former price $1.2;")-our now !?t at only 90c. In Fine Shoes we have all the latest and newest produc tions, in all shades of Tans and Vici Kids, Cordovans und Patent Leathers. Wc can give you any style Toe or any width made. In Ladies' and Misses Shoes we are sure there is no house in the city -yho can compare with us IN STYLE, FIT OE PUK E. We have everything in Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoes, in Blacks and Tans. If you want to sec thc most perfect-fitting, attractive and elegant line of ?ty?ish 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. Verdict Was Reached in Nineteen Minutes. G li EEXVII.X.E, April 28.-When the United States court met this morning the district attorney announced that the government had closed its case against ?he citizens of McCormick, who were under indictment for conspiracy. The defense examined a half dozeu witnesses and one of the defendants among thein,.Mr. Dunlap, who testified in regard to the interview at Tolbert's house when he and others gave assur ance to Tolbert that he would be pro tected at McCormick for a reasonable time, but that they feared violence from men who might come from other communities. Some of the witnesses flatly contradicted Tolbert's evidence on several points. The district attor ney raised .the question as to the con spiracy relating to Tolbert as a gov ernment official or as an individual and said he would withdraw the prosecu tion if the court would hold that he was not involved as an official. Judge Brawley said that the jury must deter mine thc matter on the evidence and it was not for him to decide. An effort to agree upon the time to be consumed in the argument resulted finally in a conclusion to submit the case to the i jury without argument. Judge B raw ley's charge occupied half an hour in which he made general remarks upon the duty of the juries to maintain the law and punish the guilty regardless of all considerations other than the evidence. The jury retired at 12:30 and after an absence of nineteen minutes returned with a verdict of not guilty. The de fendants were discharged .+vom custody and received warm congratulations of their friends on all sides. The verdict was a foregone conclusion, as the gov ernment utterly failed to connect the defendants with the conspiracy charged in the indictment.-Columbia State. A Lesson to South Carolinians. The emigration of white people from South Carolina to the southwest, which took away from this State in 75 years hundreds of thousands of residents and built up other States with millions of their descendants, has practically ceased, but it is worth while now and then to fortify the resolution of the stay-at homes by showing them what a good many South Carolinians have left their State to find in new fields. The Piedmont Headlight prints a let ter from Mr. B.P. Templeton of Ely sium, Bastrop County, Texas, to his brother, who resides near Cross Anchor in Spartanburg County. Mr. Temple ton left South Carolina for Texas in 1867. Under date of March 23 he wrote: I wish that some of the rain that the papers say is falling in the Allegheny and Blue Ridge region could bc trans ferred to this God-forsaken, drouth stricken, water-famine-cursed western Texas. You know I have been writing you about the very light rainfall which we have had for several years. Since the weather has turned warm the little surface moisture we had on the ground is rapidly disappearing. Many people all over western,'northwest and south west Texas are hauling water anywhere from 5 to 20 miles and in many places the water supply that they are now drawing upon is being rapidly ex hausted, hundreds and thousands of people all over this drouth-stricken section will soon have to abandon their farms and homes and go for many miles to water, and camp where the water is until it is exhausted and then move to other water if they can find it. If it does not rain in a few more weeks thousands of stock (horses, sheep and cattle) will be dying for water, it will be impossible for their owners to save them. If they are driven to pennanent water they will starve for something to eat, therefore it will be impossible for their owners to save them. I tell you it is terrible to think of; it is blank, black despair for thousands of people all over western Texas; no such conditions ever existed before. During the drouth of 1856 and 1857 in west Texas, there were but few people here tobe affected by it and the d? portions of the country were entirely unsettled at that time, where it is now largely rh cultivation and thickly set tled where the land is good and water to be had. You have often heard the expression "Hell broke loose in Georgia,'7 but if it docs not rain soon all over western Texas thc expression must bc changed to "Hell's broke loose in Texas." Think of it, people hauling water 5, 10, 15 and in some places 20 miles. Right here in this section some people are going 4 and 5 miles with their plow teams once a day for water, and this is inhere on thc Colorado river where the water is supposed to be permanent. What would you do, ii! you turned out to night after a hard day's plowing and had to go - 3 miles to let your poor old mule or horse get a drink of water.' 1 tell you it is terrible, and then- is ho sign of rain. All signs and indica! ions point to a long continuation of thu present; weather and conditions. li' wc could get sonic of: the rain that you fellows don't nerd we would be all right. I am discouraged, disgusted and heart-sick and will nut bore you with the snbjcctany longer.luit ! can't think ol! anyt hing else. To make the crop with tin? ieasf ex pense is busiriesy, HIKI ii' .you mean busi ness it H simply business to buy voi?r Harrow*, Hoes, ive, ol' Sullivan Hard ware Co'. Presbyterian Schism. The Bremerton Presbyterian church in Laurens county is about to swing loose from the church fold and become an independent congregation. The people there have called as their pastor the Kev. N. J. Holmes and he has ac cepted. The Presbyterian church au thorities say that such action is irregu lar, as Mr. Holmes having retired from the Presbyterian pulpit is no more eligible to the pastorate than a Baptist or Methodist minister. It is said that the church, however, intends to stand by its choice regardless of the conse quences and defy the presbytery. The Brewerton church was organ ized several years ago by thc Rev. Mr. Holmes and lias a strong membership roll. The Kev. Mr. Holmes, it will be remembered, withdrew from the pres bytery last fall along with the lier. Mr. Todd when they were organizing the Paris Mountain Bible institute to teach divine healing. The views of the Kev. Messrs. Holmes and Todd were inves tigated bj- a committee of presbytery and they withdrew from the denomina tion. As Mr. Holmes is a man of great popularity the action of presbyter}' created some feeling, which the action of thc Brewerton church is tending to revive. During Iiis campaigns as evan gelist he organized a number of church es in that section and it is said that it is not unlikely that some churches will follow the lead of the Brewerton church and cut loose from the presbytery, en dorse the Rev. Mr. Holmes' views and become independent organizations. Those opposed to Mr. Holmes say there is no foundation for this report. The Brewerton church has sent a pe tition to presbyter}- asking to be al lowed to withdraw on account of the holiness views of the congregation and a committee has been sent to investi gate the case. The Kev. Dr. J. S. Watkins, of Spartanburg, aud the Kev. Dr. B. G. Clifford, of Union, are mem bers of the committee, which is in structed to make a report at the next meeting of presbytery at Keidville next September. It is said that the church was unanimous in its request, but, though there was no minority report the presbytery assumed that there might tie some who did not want to withdraw, and appointed the commit tee to look after the interest of the property. This condition of affairs presents the possibility of a lawsuit over the property. Presbyterians here say that if there are members of the church who do not want to withdraw, the property, if its title is not vested in a board of trustees, belongs to the minority, and that if the majority in sist on withdrawing they will have to get out and build a new house of wor ship. The majority will naturally re sist this view, and the courts may be called in to decide the very delicate question involved. Efforts are being made among mem bers of the presbytery to get the Rev. Mr. Holmes back into the church and those at work along this line are hope ful of success. They recognize that he is a splendid man and they are sorry that he saw fit to leave them. Others, however, say that with the views ho now holds he can never become a mem ber of presbytery and that unless he renounces these views he will never be received back into the fold, and they do not believe that he will ever re nounce any views he has expressed. "Whether Mr. Holmes wishes to get into the presbytery could not be as certained yesterday. He had left the city to be gone several days. The situation the Brewerton church's action presents has never been pre sented here before and it is causing much talk in Presbyterian circles. Greenville News. Bishop Twiner Prefers Sla?ery. ATHENS, GA., April 30.-Bishop Hen ry M. Turnerpreachedto-day at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church, and to the white people at the court house. The sermon to the negroes urged them to conduct themselves aright aud to teach their children to observe law and religion. He said the newspapers of Georgia had done the negro preachers a great injustice by saying they were not-preaching to their congregations against the crimes of murder, rape and arson. He said the ministers did preach against such crimes; he always did; and that the newspapers, as a rule, knew as much about what the negro preachers were saying as a gang of monkeys, for they did not, in many instances, have re porters at- churches to report the ser mons. During his address to the white peo ple. Bishop Turner s:iid lie would pre fer to see his people, the black race, again in slavery, since- slavery afforded them protection, than in their.prcsent condition. He sees little future in this country for the negro, in competition with the wi i i te race. Hi-does not be lieve it; possible to bring about assimi lation or equality, lacking w J deli there must continue, to be race prejudices. The negro was brought to America, la said, by divine will, and taught by ex ample the basis of a high civilization. Now ic is manifestly the will of God that the iiegroshould go back to Africa and civilize the savage races there. The race question, lie concluded", would never he settled until the black man returned to his nal ive country:. lUshop Turner is ihe.leading figure in the A trican M. E. church, south. Ile is much respected by thc whites and re vered by the negroes; He ts a '?2d de gree Milson. A Death-Dealing Tornado. KiRKSVJJXE, Mo., April 28.-As a re sult of the tornado that swept through the eastern portion of this city yester day afternoon demolishing half of the residences and other buildings, two hundred families are homeless and nearly fifty dead bodies and seventy injured persons have been recovered from the ruins. More than a dozen of the injured will die. Although the rescuers have been searching the ruins ever since the Storni spent its fury, many are still missing, and it is thought that a considerable number of the un fortunate were consumed in the flames that broke out soon after the storm had ceased. The work of rescue con tinues, but it may bc days before the total number of the victims is known. When thc tornado struck the city last evening most of t hc residents were at supper. Thc t ornado cut a clean path one mile long and six hundred feet wide through the residence section, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Buildings were demolished or twisted apart and scattered to the four winds. A conservative estimate places the aggregate amount of damage at $200,000, the individual loss ranging from. $100 to $100,000. 4 The wind played many pranks and there were some miraculous escapes. J. C. Coonfield and his family were eating supper when the tornado struck their home. The house was picked up and dumped against a hill. The build ing was not completely wrecked, and the family escaped without anything worse than a severe shaking up. Houses on both sides of the residence of W. M. Hull were blown into splin ters but the wind was content with twisting his house off its foundation and leaving it intact. The house was in the center of the district and it was used as a hospital after the storm. P. J. Rieger, a prominent attorney, ran into the path of the storm to save his family, who were helpless with fear. Dashing into the cellar, as he stumbled into the place of safety the building was levelled to the ground. Among the first of the buildings wrecked was the elegant ten thousand dollar residence of Mrs. Mary Hensley, in the southeastern part of the city. Not a vestige of it is left. The residence of H. Lowell, just out side the town, was twisted into a heap of ruins and three of his children bur ied in the debris and killed. Other large residences were lifted from their foundation and literally torn into kindling wood. For a time the people in that portion of the town not touched by the storm were panic stricken, but as soon as they recovered their wits they imme diately went to the aid of their unfor tunate townsmen. Calls for help were sent to surrounding towns and were quickly responded to. The wounded were carried to the homes of hospita ble neighbors and given immediate at tention. Twenty-five doctors from points along the line of the Wabash Railroad came to Kirksville last night in response to urgent calls for medical assistance. St. Louis, April 28.-According to the best information the storm which caused so much loss of life and de struction of property in Northern Missouri originated in Nebraska. Its course was southwest through western Iowa to the Missouri State line, thence through Harrison, Sullivan, Shelby, Grundy,. Linn, Macon and Marion counties, north and west through Lewis, Knox, Sullivan, Adair and Putnam counties. When the storm retraced its course it was almost paral lel with the other track traversed, and it was then that Kirksville and New ton were struck. As far as known, Kirksville, Newton and Lancaster, Mo., are the only towns that felt the full force of the storm. Lancaster, Mo., April 28-A great many articles of wearing apparel, hats and pieces of jewelry bearing the names of Kirksville persons were found strewn over the eastern part of this county to-day. They were blown from Kirksville, twenty-five miles away, by the tornado. Among other things was a $100 bill. Omaha, Neb,, April 28.-A special to thc Bee from Milan says that four fam ilies were annihilated by a tornado at that place. There was great damage to property. - A distressingly sad accident oc curred in Packsvillc on last Saturday. Mrs. diaries Broadway had her little baby io thc yard where she was clean ing up and burning some trash ; in some unknown way thc child's cloth ing caught on fire ; the mother in her efforts to save her baby got her own clothing on tire, and both were so bad ly burned that there is bur little hope ol' cither of thuin recovering from the effect.-. Tho clothing td' both mother and child was entirely burned from their bodies. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, ns mercury will surely destroy the sense of s ruell ?iud completely derange the whole system when entering it through the minons su nae os. Such articles should i.over bo used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, us Hu; damage they will du i.s ten fold to the good you can poss i hlv derive from them. Wall's Catarrh ('uro manu factured br F.J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. G.. con tains ii" mercury-, and is takrn internally, uctin?; directly upon tine blond and mucous surfaces of t-o system. In buying Hall's catarrh Cure in stil e you ::<'t. thc genuine. It is taken into-a'ly. :LII<1 made in Toledo, Ohio. by F.(.'??cao' ("... Testimonials freo. ?Sr*Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle; Ha'.l'a Fan? il* Pills arc ih'j bo?:. Regulars Salute Confederate Dead. SAVANNAH, GA., April 20'.-The fea ture of memorial day exercises here to-day was the presence at the head of the procession of two companies of the Second United States infantry (regu lars) tinder command of Lieut. John L. Hines, and the firing hy that body of tiie customary salute to the dead at the Confederate monument in Forsyth park. The participation of the regulars in the exercises was somewhat unex pected. This morning the veterans' association having charge of the cere monies received a tender of escort from the regulars and quickly and cor dially accepted. This is probably the iirst time in history when a salute in honor of dead Confederates has been tired by regular troops of the Federal army. Following the regulars there were in linc the Confederate veterans, thc local militia aud citizens. AUGUSTA, GA., April 2G.-The Chron icle will say to-morrow: Confederate memorial day in Augusta, 180!)."was marked by one of those happy occa sions that so frequently in the past year have borne witness to the fact that we are one great, loving, loyal na tion united in thc strongest bonds of patriotism and brotherly love. It was with grateful hearts that Augustans received the tender of the bands of the Fourth Illinois and Third Nebraska regiments to participate in the ceremo nies of the day. The emotions of the people as they saw in the same proces sion tiie bands of blue and the Con federate survivors in their old gray uniforms were too deep for cheers, but the scene is engraved upon their mem ory and will always be one of the most sacred' pages in Augusta's history. VICKSBURG, MISS., April 20".-The Confederate decoration day ceremonies were probably the most notable ever held here. A detachment of 75 marines and sailors from the United States gun boat Nashville took a leading part in the ceremonies. The blue jackets were heartily cheered by the Confederate veterans. Several officers of the gun boat also took part in the exercises. Free Kural Deliveries. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.-On May 1 the postal service of almost the entire State of South Carolina will be altered, nearly all the star routes'.in the State being replaced by rural free de liveries. Twenty-three rural free de livery routes will be established, and all the star routes, except the longer and more important ones, abolished. This move is in the nature of an exper iment, as the postoffice department de sires to ascertain if it is possible to serve rural districts in sparsely popu lated regions by means of carriers, who, in addition to delivering the mail will perform the ordinary duties of the star route carriers. In some places in South Carolina the country postoffices have been served only twice a week by means of the star route. They will now receive their mail at least two and possibly four times a week. Ry doubling up, the de partment expects to .obtain a much bet ter service, at a very slight increase in cost. In one case the carrier will serve four routes; making a delivery over each route once in four days. Many applications are being-sent to the department for free delivery service by means of a wagon, such as has been started neat Westminster, Md, Thus far the department has been unable to comply with any of these requests. In some places, noticeably in Tippecanoe county, Ind., the carriers voluntarily provide themselves with light wagons, something similar to the Westminster wagon, which is a miniature travelling postoffice, and have them lettered like other mail wagons. In many places the roads are too bad to permit of the use of a heavy wagon. This is true of Illinois among other States, although in one instance, where a route was es tablished over roads where the mud came almost to the axle of the earner's vehicle, the representative of the dis trict applied for two additional routes. The department was unable to comply with his request on account of thc bad roads. Negro Troops For Otis. WASHINGTON, April 2.").-A proposi tion to utilize negro troops to a large extent iii future military operations in thc Philippines is attracting much at tention, and it is believed will be con sidered by the Administration in the near future. Snell a policy is urged on the theory that certain racial affilia tions may be utilized in a way to de feat rebellious acts on thc part of Aguinaldo and his party, and to bring peace to the newly acquired posses sions of the United States in the East. One-third of the population of the Philippines are negroes ot: the same race as those in the United States, and while not numerous about Alanila com prise nearly tin- entire population of some of the islands. Tile advocates of the scheme believe that in a short time there would be au assimilation be tween the negroes of thc Philippines and their kindred from the United States, and that there would follow for the colored people opportunities to get homes ami possibilities of careers they could not hope for this country. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at (JO cents a Unge-ti oed Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style. lt you have printing to do. it will be to voiir interest to write to rite Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. ti. STATE NEWS. - At Converse College, in Spartan burg. 461 students are enrolled. - In Edge?^ld County the other night an old white man of 74 married a young lady of 20. - Superintendent of Education Mc Malian has arranged for a fine summer school at Winthrop College. - Mormon missionaries are making such headway in Hampton County that a backwoods church is .likely to, be built soon. - Gov. Ellerbe is not doing as well as was expected at Summerville, though there is nothing alarming in his condition. - Mrs. John Sutherlin, who lives in the upper part of Greenville Coun ty, presented her husband last Friday with three vigorous and hearty boys. - The Governor has offered a re ward of ?150 for the capture and con viction of the negro fiend who com mitted rape on Mrs. Williams of Green ville. - Dr. A. Coke Smith will preach the commencement sermon before the South Caroliua College and Judge J. Ii. Hudson will denver the baccalau reate address. - On Lieut.-Governor McSweeney has fallen the pleasant duty of deliv ering the address of welcome at the Confederate Reunion to be held in Charleston next week. - Commissioner Yance has turned, over, the State Dispensary to Mr. Douthit. He had on hand $30,006 in cash, $20,000 stock at State dispen sary and $21,000 stock in sub dispen saries. * - Gen. Butler denies emphatically that there is auy sort of a deal, po litical or otherwise, between him and Senator Tillman. He declares fur thermore that he is out of politics and will stay out. - While a Magistrate was hearing a case in Greenwood a few days ago Constable Rook's pistol fell from his pocket and was discharged, the hall, going dangerously near the head of. one of the witnesses. - Col. S. W. Vancejate State Li quor Commissioner, who was defeated for re-election by Mr. J. B. Douthifc, has been elected State Phosphate Commissioner, defeating Mr. A. W. Jones, the present encumbenfc, - A convention of all Southern Ly< ceums and lecture courses will he held in Charleston on May 11th and 12th. The object will be to co-operate in the sec. .ement of lecture courses and to extend the Lyceum system in the South. - The faculty of the South Caro lina College has given the students of that institution three days holiday during reunion week that the college may attend the celebration in a body. The days given are Thursday, Friday and Saturday. - Dr. John T. Wightman who went from this State about 15 years ago and joined the Baltimore conference was placed on the superannuated list at the recent Conference held in Washington. He had been in active service 50 years. - On last Monday morning Martin Welborn shot and fatally wounded Rowland Chastain in Pickens county. The shooting occurred in the yard of Mr. Welborne. Mr. Welborne imme diately came and gave up to Sheriff McDaniel.-Pickens Sentinel. - Counterfeit silver half dollars of the year 1876 are being circulated in the city of Columbia, lt is such a good imitation of the genuine half dollar that detection is difficult, but if scratched with another coin or the floger nail the soft metal betrays it self. - Great preparations are being made in Cherokee for the big celebra tion which is to take place on the Cowpens battleground on the 27th of May. There will be a general holiday in the country. Many distinguished men of this and other States will be present. - Last Wednesday afternoon light ning struck one of the cotton ware houses at the Manchester Mill in Rock Hill. It was filled with more than 400 bales of cotton and this was set afire. The factory force was soou on the grounds aod succeeded in saving most of the cotton. The loss is con siderable. - Gov. Kllerbe has received a let ter from Mr. John P. Hickman,, of Nashville, askiug permission for au armed body of men to pass through the State. These armed men will be elad in gray, and will march accord ing to [lardee*s tactics, for they are Confederate Veterans, two companies of them. The Governor readily as sented to the request, and the Vet erans, arrayed as in 't!l-'l?5, will be warmly received at the Reunion in Charleston.