Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, KEB UT A RY 22. 185M. YOI j I'M E XXXIY-NO. 85. THE BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST SPOT CASH PRICES ! THAT'S the inducement we are making to secure your trade. We couldn't begin to self Goods at lower prices t'aan others if we sold on Credit. |f>h Buying and Cash Selling is the only way to cut prices down. We jjgvc cut them aeep, and the advantage is mostly gained by you. Every cash dollar you spend with us will purchase more than a proiniscd -;tny dollar will buy anywhere. When we say we can save you money on Iwur CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHINGS, we mean every word of it. wc want is a chance to show our Goods and to quote you the low prices kn them Remembar, we give you-YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU ?VANT IT. B'S BLACK WORSTED SUITS. By an interesting turn in trade we secured a big lot of Black Worsted tutti much below their market value. These Suits are full regular made, rith good Serge linings and sewed with silk all over. They are the kind of pails that the Credit Stores make a leader of at $6.50. We have marked $5.00. ^hey wuu't last long at the above pi ice. No matter what you want in the Clothing line you'll save money by Iri?giog y?ur Cash with you to this Store -because 4* WE SELL IT FOR LESS." THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS: Hill-Orr Drug Company's Specials! frap Ked Clover Compound, The greatest, and best blood purifier. Pint bu??ie $1.00. Anson's Headache Powdar? Safe and sure for all pains in the head. 10c. and 25c V irmint, The best of all Cough Remedies. 25c. and 50c. |. 0. D. Go's. Horse and Cattle Powder. ? teaspoonful is a large dose and the result will surprise you. A fine Tonic and specially good, for hide-bound and stoppages. 15c. uuu ?itfbi ?? wogi Ul. ? phnson's Palatr 8 Worm and Liver Syrup, Removes the worms every time, is safe, and is not to be followed bj easior oil or other active ad nauseating medicines. 25c, lol. We oner this new and latest remedy fur 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 DRUG CO., Headquarters for Medicines of all kinds. Faints, Oils, Glass, Seeds and Dye Stuffs. AR SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT IS now open for the inspection of the public, and we know we can suit jJfrybody in exactly thc Shoo you want.. In Men's Shoes we have cut prices, p are selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties at $1.00-former price |25. Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-former price $1.25-our ' lot at only 90o. In Fine Shoes we have ali (.lie latest and newest pvoduc Fi, in all shades of Tans and Vlei Kids, Cordovans and Patent Lechers, can give you any style Toe or any width made. In Ladies1 and Misses Shoes we are sure there is no house in the oity |o can compare with us ?IN.STYLE, WT OB PRICE. We have everything ia Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoes, in Blacks and If you want to see tho most perfect-fitting, attractive and elegant line of lisb and up-to-date footwear ever shown in Anderson come in to seo us. We are headquarters for Shoes. Very truly, j D. C. BROWN A, BRO. Wilson ?Ives Us a ttoou Word. WASHINGTON, May 8.--The Secretary of Agriculture returned this morning from a visit to South Carolina, whew; he has studied the conditions of agri culture and of truck gardening along thc coast, thc manufacturing indus tries, the toa culture, thc Agricultural College of South Carolina and other ; inntters of interest. In au interview to-day thc Secretary said that South Carolina is making rapid progress in all these directions. The farmers are learning how to take better care ol' their soil; how to fertil ize and cultivate it with more profit. The diversification of crops has not ex tended so far as it should or so tar as it very soon will, but the people are gradually working to that end. About one-third of thc cotton pro duced in the State is manufactured there, and the most striking develop ment of South Carolina is perhaps found iu that direction. Home enter prise, and, to a great extent home cap ital, has been utilizing the great rivers of the State in the manufacture of cot ton through electric appliances. Wires extend from the rivers as far as four teen miles, up to the tops of the hills, where healthy conditions are found, and great factories, costing as much as a million dollars, are localed. This work is going on and will continue to progress until the State manufactures all the raw cotton produced within its limits. Eighteen years ago, when the atten tion of the South Carolina people was drawn to the manufacture of cotton, $380,000 was paid to cotton mill labor. Now the State is paying $0,000,000 an nually, which is about two-fifths of all the manufacturing of the Southern States along cottou lines. The Secretary said that with little exception white labor is being used in the mills. In the city of Charleston the experiment of colored labor is being tried, and it is hoped the plan will suc ceed, lt is still an open question, how ever, and is being watched with great interest. He said that other cotton manufacturers will have to take note of the progress made along this line in the South. They are getting the very newest machinery; the hands work probably somewhat longer hours, and perhaps for a little lower wages. The Southern people seem to be entirely satisfied with home labor and evidence no desire for immigration. The farm ers throughout the State are getting better markets for their products, re ceiving a large per cent of the $0,000, 000 paid to the mill hands. This en courages the keeping of dairy cows, the feeding of hogs and the raising of chickens to supply the demand of the factory people in the villages Mr. Wilson said the tobacco industry has been taken hold of and is making good progress. The people are study ing this plant and its products in order to ascertain how they can produce it more profitably. The individual farmers are giving attention to the production of fine horses, such as bring big prices, and Que carriage horses, not only at home, bnt in foreign countries; gaited horses, and hunting horses. The Southern people have & taste along this line and will certainly succeed. There are not enough dairy cows in the State, of course, bet encouraging progress is being made in that direction also. The Secretary said they have some as fine dairy cows aa are te be found any where. They make as fine butter as is to be found in the North. "They keep sheep in the South, but not enough," said he. "They have not quite realized that it is peculiarly their privilege to furnish the early spring lambs for the Northern markets, where they sell at a very high price. "The conditions in the Snsih are en tirely favorable to the production of the bacon hog. The people in the great corn belt of the Mississippi Valley want a market for their corn, and feed the bog as long as he will make any gain. The producer of the bacon hog, how ever, disposes of the animal sooner, at a younger age. "As soon as the Southern people give attention to the dairy industry there will be a great increase in its pro ducts." The Secretary made a point of im pressing upon the people of the State the wisdom of increasing their pastures, and of setting their wood lots to work to produce grass for the colt and the dairy cow, the mutton sheep and the hog. Great progress has been made, he said, at the Agricultural College. They are doing work there that is probably not being done anywhere else. The department of agriculture, for the last two years, has been conducting nati?n-wide experiments to ascertain Whether the people of the United States can produce their own sugar from their own sugar beeta. The matter has gone so tar that the Secretary has no doubt whatever of the success of the industry. About a score of mills were running last fall, another score is being built, and in time complete success will come, and the $100,000,000 dol?a? now paid out for sugar will be saved and kept at home. The Secretary is also sure now that the people of the latitude of South Car olina can produce all the tea needed by the American people, jnstas he was sure, two years ago, that the sugar needed for home coimnmrktion could bs produced from the sugar beet, inde pendent of all other source 3. Har?! Time? tn the South. Judge Hubert Powell luadea speech in Vicksburg last week, tu the course i of which ho discussed "thc poverty of 1 tho South," and explained it in a way i which, though not although original, is i both true and always effective. He < said : .'The reason of our poverty is not < hard to lind. Take our average, citizen, t He gets up in the morning and pulls ? ona pair ol' socks from Lynn, Mass.; < puts on a pair ot shoes from Huston; a 1 suit of clothes from Philadelphia; goes i into his breakfast, draws up a chair made in Chicago, and eats from a table ' which caine from Cincinnati; sweetens ? his cotice from Kio with sugar from i Louisiana; takes a slice of ham cured ' in St. Louis, and butters a biscuit of I Minnesota Hour with oleomargarine I which came from the Lord knows ; where; he eats South Carolina or Lou- 1 isiana rice, and even the very grits i upon his table were ground in some < Northern mill; he goes to his stable 1 and puts a set of harness from St. ] Louis on a mule from Kentucky; hitches I it to a wagon from Illinois, and drives < over to his neighbor's and complains of i hard times. Of course, times are haiti when everything people eat, drink, 1 wear and drive come from somewhere 1 else and only the atmosphere which he breathes is a home institution." J All of this applies with almost as ] much force to the case of the people of < South Carolina, as to the case of the ] people of Mississippi. It is true that < "the average "citizen" of this State 1 may pull on a pair of socks made in the State, and ?eat rice grown in tho 1 State, and a slice ol' ham cured in the < State if he hunts carefully for these l things, and there is a good prospect f that many of them will be able next 1 winter to butter bread made from flour i milled in South Carolina, from wheat i grown in the State; but the fact re- i mains that "the very grits on his table" 1 are still "ground in some Northern t mill" from Northern grown corn, and i all the rest of the story tits him as ? closely as it lits his Mississippi neigh- < bor, and accounts for his "poverty" in J equal degree. t To do him justice, however, the Car- ? olina "citizen," and especially the Car- i olina farjner is beginning to see the t light, and to mend his ways by it. He ? has taken to raising his own pork and i bacon. He is growing more corn than ? he has ever grown before, and nearly i as much as his father grew "before the c war." He is shipping (some) beef cat- 1 tie to the North and West and to Cuba, t He is planting wheat in counties where it wns never planted before. Ho is t growing rice in the hill country and up <! to the foot of the mountains. He is making as good syrup as is made any where, and lots of it. He has intro difced and spread the tobacco crop over nearly half the State and is still t spreading it. 'As Senator Tillman, ? himself a farmer, said at the meeting ? in Florence on Thursday: "Tho day of i cotton has nearly passed, and I and my < neighbors in Edgeticld are seeking r other fields of enterprise on the farm." I So are many of his neighbors in all 1 the counties. They have discovered I th?i ?!xhe day of cottou," aud the day * of hard times go together, and have a set about applying the long, hard les- c son they have learned by "seeking t other fields of enterprise"-and finding ? them, at their own doors-on the farms i they have neglected so long. The day c of cotton is passing-"has nearly pass- ^ ed." It is not too much to say, we be- c Heve, that the day of hard times, also, r has nearly passed, for every farmer in 1 South Carolina, and in the South, as * well, who is prepared to follow the I wise, if belated, example of Senator *t Tillman and ais Edgeticld neighbors.- t Xcws and Courier. t Sehearseri His Own Fanera!. CHICAGO, III., April 38.-Parker H. Mason, a millionaire property owner, died yesterday in his old-fashioned mansion near the lake, not far from the Marine Hospital. Before his death he had tho burial service read, funeral hymns sung, selected his pallbearers and made every preparation for his funeral. Just before his death he summoned iuto his presence the quartette that was to sing at his funeral, and had them rehearse the hymns to be sung over his lifeless body, after which he paid them for their services. Then he asked to see thc Kev. John Hoke, the Presbyterian minister of Washington Heights, who had often been his com panion on fishing excursions. He showed the clergyman the place where he wished to be buried, paid him for the funeral sermon he wanted preached and had the minister repeat the text and a put of the sermon to him. Next he paid for his coffin, settled all the undertaker's fees, picked out tho snit he wished to wear in his coffin and after, designating that a huge boulder, -which had been dug up in his yard thirty years ago, be placed over his grave, closed his eyes and died. Mr. Mason was 56 years of age, was bora in Chicago and leaves a wife and four daughters.-Baltimore Sun. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at CO cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other hoiiRe. Catalogues is thc \o>?l style. If you have printing to do. it will be to Sour interest to write to the Press and (anner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. Au Oklabomo Lesson. Mr. William K. Curtis is continuing uthe Chicago lieront his interesting otters about the young territory, and n his last he starts ort* with a statement .Vilich is big with suggestions for South karolina farmers. Here it is: 1 asked Kilner Brown, who is editor )f tho Oklahoma Times-Journal, a niag udne writer of note ami the secretary >f the Commercial club of Oklahoma 'itv, in what four things the people ol' hut territory found 1 lu* greatest satis faction. "The most grut ifying thing,'1 lie said, .is tho diversity of crops of which t hf ioil is capable. A single fanner may raise .cotton, corn, wheat. Kadli coin which is tho best fodder in the world for fattening cattle and was brought liere from Africa-fruits of all kinds ?nd poultry on the same place, and if the season should bu had foi- one he is ?ire to get good returns from the oth ers; hence he never can fail. The poul try interest is getting to be very im portant with us. A single ti rm in Ok- | lahoma City ships several carloads ol tressed chickens every week the year I round to Denver, Kansas City, New Vork and other cities, and thor?! is al ways a good demand for them at pro fitable prices." Diversity of crops is placed first unong the four things which alford the people the greatest satisfaction. Ile .ause of this diversity the farmers aro prosperous and their financial condi tion warrants sufficient expenditures for schools and public improvements. There is not one of the products inen ioned which cannot be raised in Sont li karolina. Corn and cattle, fruit and poultry, all eau be easily raised on tin mine farm. The corn lauds are plcn iful, but too many of them are planted n cotton, a money crop which brings io money. It's an old theme upon vhich to preach the unheeded sermon : [luise your own corn to feed your cat ie and raise more cattle. There is noney in fruit, as some parts of the State have learned, but the industry is capable of much greater development. Vs to poultry, no chickens cnn excel hose raised in South Carolina if they ire raised right, and the big eastern nnrkets are far nearer to us than they ire to Oklahoma. Raising chickens is generally left to the wife and children md they do not find it hard work, but tooth Carolina farmers could make nany an extra dollar by sending fowls if the right sort to the big cities where 'there is a'way s a good demand for hem at profitable prices.*" We can learn from Oklahoma much hat is well worth learning.-Columbia State. Homestead Net an Asset. SAVANNAH, May 4.-Judge Speer, of he Federal District Court for the southern district of Georgia, has made in important dicision under the new tational bankruptcy law. It is to the ?fleet that the United States Court has io jurisdiction over a homestead taken >y a bankrupt; that tho homestead be ongs to the State Courts and cannot ie construed in the United States ?ourt UH uu asset of the bankrupt; and. LS regards the homestead, the trustee if the bankrupt must look elsewhere han to the United States Court. The (ffect of this decision will be farreach ng, and will, no doubt, be the eau BO if many parties going into bankruptcy vho have heretofore held out. In the ?ase in which Judge Speer has just endered this decision the bankrupt tad waived his homestead by giviug vnivor notes, and the creditors of the muk rupt instituted proceedings to lave the homestead administered by he trustee as assets. The Judge held hat the trustee must set aside the lom estead regardless of the waiver, and hat the Courts were the proper place o attack the waiver. \YThen the bank opt receives his discharge from the Jnited States Court all his debts are riped out, and there is some doubt as o whether the creditors can then pro eed ia the State Courts to have their laini and waiver sustained and their lebts satisfied out of the homestead set side by the Bankrupt Court. The Reina Mercedes Afloat. Santiago de Culm, Muy 5.-The fur ner Spanish Cruiser Heina Mercedes, vhich was sunk in the channel of iuntingo harbor dining the bombard - neut by Admiral Sampson's fleet on 'une O', and which was recently raised, lumped out and brought to this city br repairs, left her moorings to-day nd was towed to the centre of the tarbor in readiness to start for New tort News as soon as the tow boat ar ives. Some practical navigators pre llet a repetition of the disaster which lefell the Infanta Maria Teresa while m her way north if rough weather hould be encountered, but the Heina ilercedes looks ns if she were sea rorthy. leware of Ointments for Getarrh that Contain Mercury, s mercury will surely destroy the nen so of em ell nd completely derange the whole system when uterine it through the mucous surfaces. 8uch rtlcles should never bo used except on prescrib ions from reputable physicians, as the damage bey will do ls ten fold to the good you can posa i - ily derivo from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manu sxtured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, ()., con - .ina BO mercury, and ls taken internally, acting lrectly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of be system. In huyln? Ha?'s Cutirr? Cum be ure you get the genuine. It la taken internally, nd made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Chener . Co. 'ostlmonlala free. ?-Sold by DraralsU, price 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Sumo Komi? ks on Lynching. Mu KIUTOU: I nott* on tho pages of tin* People's Advocate of this week's issue a full account of th?' lynching of tho negro Hose nt Newman, Un., and! as the public demand to he educated ? in that direction I suppose that ii is all right. Hut the editor goes further, ami ' dilates on the .'horrible savagery ami the heart-sickening sight." He says that "then? is nothing in the history of the country, not even in colonial days, to equal it, the has forgotten perhaps of the huming of negroes in th? city of New Yolk1 : as to the wild savage orgy around thc victim at the stake. Now I do not believe any such savage orgy was indulged in by the good people of Georgia-tho one thousand or more that composed the lynching party. If it was indulged in at all, it was a few drunken desperadoes that infest every country and only want an excuse to act the savage. The editor should liol be so sweeping in his denunciation. In one thousand it will not he a diOicull matter to tinda few men who neither care for "Cod. mau nor the devil." The editor goes ou to say, after a dis gusting recital ol' the demon's crime, that "there is another side to thv mat ter; where is all this leading to .' (why tlid he not say to detering the criminal) What of the moral effect on the people themselves? What is to he the out come of this overriding ol' th?-law '.' What is to he the offed upon the nicesi ls it not deeping the animosity between thom, (1 will say yes. if one of out homo papers only suggest the ?doa) 1 loos it not bring us nearer a race war .'" (I say no; even the negroes, barked by the fanatics of the North and en couraged by the impotent rage of th? distinguished infidel. Ingorsol, hav< better sense than to declare in anj shape war. to protect the incendiary, the rapist or thc midnight assassin,) ami ends his lofty periods by asking "if wt aro only civilized savages after all V Now, Mr. Kditor, any idea of a gund clean paper is that it is the host educa tor and disseminator of useful hitor mntion that wo have. Sometimes however, there are some things fha had better, forth?; go? ul of our country be left unsaid. * Mr. Russell did not state a fact tha is well known that the negro of ou country are as fairly treated ns tin whiteman; that he receivers the sam wages and has the same chance in tin pursuit of fortune us his white neigh bor. He is respeeteil for his worth and h<; has respect for tho white man In other words, they aro our friends and we are theirs, and it can be prove: without a fear of truthful contrndic tion. If tho home is desecrated am tho husband, father or brother is lei alive to avenge tho <lcc?l ami does i promptly, he is arranged before th Court of justice and his innocent wif or daughter has to tell her tale of hu militating woe before a gaiting audi euee. If the criminal ia tried befor tho same Court the innocent suffcrc has th?; same to undergo, but the hm band's friends, thc friend of virtuou woman and innocent childi en come i and lynch the brute, and if every lion est man everywhere does not endow it, i nm mistaken in my notion of then As for my neighbors and myself we a say lynch them! every time. I do m propose to tight a man with his ow weapon if I can help it, but I ha\ written this after the approval of man nf my neighbors, not to print, but t suggest that some good paper (and tl INTELLIOKNCER is a fair sample) tal Mr. Russell down a button hole. Tho editorial last week ou the Lal City lynching, while South Curoliniai were being tried for the. crime, wi rather severe and sweeping. The got people of Georgia are of tho same Iii eage aa the good people of South Car lina. They are surrounded hy a lil condition socially, &c, and what th? have done we would have ?lone und similar circumstances. Now, I belier the report of the Newnau lynching stated ahove to be false in the mai but when a Southern paper gives Dut as being true, that a thousand nu took oil' hones and burning flesh of tl negro Hose, will be heralded as true. Hamilton W. Maybie, L. L. H., L I.)., in his history, "The Foot-Prints Four Centuries," page 281, says: "The was a series of laws forbidding negro meeting together. lu th?; ?'arly y?>si of the eighteenth century fears of i surrcction became prevalent. Thc fears culminated in 1741 in the opiso of the so-called negro plot. Vc briefly stated, this plot grew out ol succession of fires supposed to lui been the work of negro incendian* The most astonishing contradictio nn?l self-inculpations arc to be foul in tin* involved mass of tedium taken at diff?rant trials. It is certc that the perjury and incoherent ace nations of these trials ?ran only equaled by those of the alleged witci tit Salem, ol of the famous Popist-p of Titus {.lats. The result is summ up in thc bare statement that in flu months one hundred and fifty negr? were imprisoned, of whom fourtc were burned nt the stake, eight?: hanged and seventy-one transporte "This savage orgy was euttctetl by I Yankees 1741 years after tho birth our Saviour, 200 years after John Ki [?ul tho great reformation, 200 ye after the great Calvin, 100 years af Miantonomoh, the Nnragansett chi gave tho banished Roger Williams a Mrs. Annie Hutchinson and their f lowers the beautiful island of Rh? Island. In 1641 there a little Repul was formed, in whoso constitution free <lom of consett nee was guaranteed anil persecution for opinion's sake forbid . den."'-Itidpath's History. C. S., page 1 SJ. And when John a ' Charles Wes ley were in their prime. This deviltry and savagery has certainly been foi gotten by some nf (mr would-be humanitarians. God gave the brute, creation a large ganglionic nervous system whereby instinct teac hes them ; to man he gave a large, cerebro spinal system, ami reason teaches him. lt. <;. W. Holhnuls, S. C. Mail .;, /VT*. STATE NEWS. - There are S."? names on the pen sion list of Chester County. - Greenville and Spartanburg are, both striving for elect rie street rai! ways. - A hail storm did considerable damage about Hurtsville, S. C.. last week. - South Carolina, it is estimated, produced 18,000,000 pounds of tobacco last year. - Potato bugs are reported dolus much damage in nearly every section ol' the State. - Tlu-State Dispensary Hoard ha* decided not to buy any more second hand bottles. - Thc Attorney General has de cided that Notaries Public must be registered voters. - Senator Tillman will appoint his son, H. ll. Tillman, dr., his private secretary as soon a.? he prepares him self for the work. - One effect of the lease of the South Carolina road to the Southern will be to lower fertilizer rates from Charleston to the up country. - Mrs. Stonewall Jackson spent a few hours in Columbia last Monday on her way to Charleston, and was tendered a reception at the home of Mayor Lipscomb. - Dr. Byrd, of Asheville, will preach the commencement sermon of Wofford College. Senator John L. MoLaurin will deliver the address be fore the literary societies. - The State board of medical ex aminers will begin the examination of candidates on May 10, in Columbia, and will continue three days. There are about fifty or sixty candidates. - There has been another incen diary fire at Hamberg. The loser was T. J. Countz, who has suffered so greatly from incendiary fires. This time it was a large boarding house that was burned. - The American Historical Asso ciation has written to Gov. Ellerbe asking for copies of letters of John C. Calhoun to Governors of the State. The association wants to include them in a history of Calhoun, which will be prepared under its direction. - Senator Tillman called the South Carunna Ccsgro??io??! delegation to gether in Columbia recently. It was announced that the appointment of census takers was the subject for de liberation. Senator MoLaurin and two or three Connressmen wero ab sent. - The Greenville Neus has been interviewing Collector Webster, who is considered boss of "'de party" on thc census appointments. Hu is not inclined to concede anything to the Democrats-at least he says that the Republicans are going to get all they can out of it. - Charles P. Barrett, who was con victed in Charleston last July for violating the postal laws and senten ced to eighteen months in the Ohio penitentiary, was pardoned by Presi dent McKinley on account of the ill health of the prisoner. It is presumed that he will return to his home in Spartanburg. - A big lumber mill is to be erect ed near Charleston. It is believed the new enterprise will help that city. The site is just above Chieora Park, and thc plant ?will have a capacity of 80,000 feet per day. The company has bought 50,000 acres of timber land. Wharves are tc be built, and an enor mous business is expected to be done. - All the final arrangements have been made for the Columbia Firemen's Tournament. The tournament is to take place on Juuc 20, 21 and 22 next, and will * be "open to the world." There will be $1.200 in prizes offered. Thc programme will cover hand and horse reel contests, hand and horse truck contests, steamer contests and foot races. - Amanda Blake, who lives in the George's Creek section on the place of J. J. Jameson, was^struck by lightning and instantly killed on Tuesday the 25th ult. She had gone to the house of a neighbor and several persons were sitting in the house when it happened. The bolt descended a rafter and struck her on top of the head. The other occupants were severely shodked but not seriously injured.-Picken* Sentinel.