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BY (MNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1899. VOLUME XXXlT---No750= "WE SELL IT FOR LESS." B. Ow EVANS & CO., THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS, ANDERSON? S. C., June 7,1899. DEAR SIR 1& Aa If you have traded w^b us you know our way of doing business : if not, this lettef^will tell you something about us. Our idea in business is tb^nave each individual who makes a purchase of us to be satisfied. We satisfy you by selling good, honest CLOTHING AT LOWER PRICES than any credit store can give. When we sell you a suit of /Clothes, we give you full value for every dollar -invested. If at any time you should be displeased with a purchase yon make ? here, let us know and we will cheerfiatty-grve you-your money back if you want it. We do a STRICTLY SPOT CASH BUSINESS: we keep no bocks ; we have no bad debts. We give you more value for 75c. cash than ' our competitors *rould for $1.00 on credit. If we can't save you' money we don't want your trade. If you will come into our store we can show you exactly why we are able to save you money. We ask you to take our word for the above cnly to the extent of coming in to in vestigate. You will find it not a mere catch phrase to get your businessr*t^itia true statement of facts, that : ..?ir-. 4ti6Af<r WE SELL IT FOE LESS." ~. Yours truly, TB. 0. EVANS & CO. Hill-Orr Drug Company's Specials ! Syrup Bed Clover Compound, The greatest and best blood purifier. Pint bottle $1.00. Jolson's Headache Powder. Safe and sure for, all pains in the head. 10c. and 25c. Tarmint, The best of all Cough Remedies. 25c. and 50c H. ?, D. Co's. Horse and battle Powder. A teaspoonful is a large dose and the result will surprise you. A .w. fine Tonic and epecially good for hide-bound and stoppages. 15c. and 25c. a bag?ul. k ioimson's Palatable Worm and Liver Syrup, Removes the worms every time, is safe, and is not to be followed bj .castor oil or other active ad nauseating medicines. 25c. S&mnol. 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 boxe3. i HILL-ORR DRUC CO Headquarters for Medicines of all kinds, Paints, Oils, Glass, Seeds and Dye Stuffs. 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, aiad are. selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties at $1.00-former price $1.25. Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-fofijer price $1.25-our new lot at only 90c. in Fine Shoes we have all the latagf and newest prod ac tions, in all shades of Tans and Vici Kids, Cordovamr^nd -Patent Leathers. We can give you any style Toe or any width made. In Ladies' and Misses Shoes we are sure there is5 no house in the city ^rho can compare with us IN STYLE, FIT OR PRirE. We h?ve 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 GOV. ELLERBE DEAD. South Carolina's Governor Dies hi Marion Last Night. Columbia State. SELLEHS, June 2.-Governor Ellerbe has passed away atlast, succumbing to the disease against which he has made so vigorous a resistance. Early this morning the governor was about the same as the night before, but about 10 o'clock he had a strang ling spell and came very near dying. The governor said that there was no hope; that he was dying, and called for help. The doctor gave him very strong stimulants from which he rallied a lit tle, but later in the afternoon he began to sink. The doctor said he could not live long, but the end was not expected so soon in the night. At 8:25 he died seemingly very easy. The governors deathbed was sur rounded by all the members of his im mediate family, all his brothers and Bisters being present. The funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock to-morr?w afternoon and the remains are to be interred at the fam ily burying ground, which is five miles from the residence of the family. The first news of Governor Ellerbek death reached the city last^ night through a telegram from the chief ex ecutive's brother to Private Secretary Evans. While it was of course not un expected, the announcement called forth many expressions of sorrow. In official circles the news was received with the most profound sorrow, and at once preparations begun for tue official family to attend the funeral at Sellers. The telegram from Mr. J. E. Ellerbe, the governor's brother, to Private Sec retary Evans, read as follows: "Governor Ellerbe died this after noon at 8:25. Buried to-morrow at 4 p. m., family burying ground. Wire T. C. Moody at Marion number com ing." % Immediately upon the receipt of this telegram Mr. Evans went to the tele- j graph office and sent two messages to Lieut. Gov. Mcsweeney, the one ad dressed to Hampton and the other to Augusta, Mr. Evans having heard that Mr. McSweeney was in Augusta during the day. Mr. McSweeney, owing to the death of the governor, now becomes governor of South Carolina, it being only necessary to appear before a mag istrate or notary, if he so desires, and take the oath of office. It is under stood, however, that Mr. McSweeney will decline to be sworn in as governor until after the funeral of the deceased chief executive. It was feared that the lieutenant governor would not be reached by wire and would thus be unable to get to Sellers in time for the funeral, but later in the night a telegram came from him saying that he would leave for Columbia on the first train and would arrive here at G o'clock this morning over the Florida Central and Peninsu lar in time to go on to Sellers. Mr. McSweeney in his telegram expressed the deepest sympathy at the sad an nouncement of the governor's death. Mr. Evans also notified by wire the two United States Senators, the seven Congressmen and a number of the dead governor's most intimate personal and political friends. He then saw that all the State House officials were notified. These proceeded at once to arrange with the officials of the Atlantic Coast Line for a special train to be run to Sellers, leaving here to-day in time to reach Sellers for the obsequies. The run will be 107 miles and the train will leave here about 11:30 o'clock. The homestead is two miles in one direction from the station and family burial ground is three miles in another. Late last night Mr. Evans was noti fied that his message to Senator Mc Laurin had failed to reach that official. Mr. Evans requests the statement made that owing to the demands upon him last night he may have overlooked wiring to some of the governor's best friends, but he hopes that they will understand and appreciate the cause of any oversight. The message from Mr. McSweeney read as follows: HAMPTON, S. C., June 2,1899. W. Boyd Evans, Columbia, S. (\ I am truly sorry to learn of Govern or Ellerbe's* death. Will go to Colum bia at once. M. B. MCSWEENEY, By reason of the fact that Lieuten ant Governor McSweeney becomes governor, Senator II. B. Scarborough of ilorry county, who is a prominent attorney of Conway, and one of the most highly esteemed members of the State senate, being president pro tem of that body, now becomes lieutenant governor to succeed Mr. McSweeney. THE NEW GOVEKNOK. The Hon. M. B. McSweeney, to whom, on January 18, 1897, was admin istered the oath of office as lieutenant governor for his first term, and who now, owing to his re-election in 1898 to that office, becomes governor of South Carolina to fill out the unexpired term, is a good example of what pluck and perseverance will do for any one against the most adverse conditions. Young McSweeney was left fatherless in Charleston at the age of 4 years. His tenth year saw him struggling for a livelihood. He sold newspapers and clerked in a bookstore, and while en gaged in the latter occupation attend ed a night school, where he developed a fondness for reading. Mcsweeney afterwards worked for Burke & Lord, job printers, and frc there lie went to Edward Perry's, whe he completed his apprenticeship a? job printer. While employed at t latter place a scholarship at the Was ington and Lee University of Lexin ton, A'a., was offered to the Chariest? Typographical Union, which was to 1 awarded to the most deserving youl man employed in Charleston printii offices. By a majority of the votes the union, young McSweeney w; chosen, and the scholarship given him. After staying at the univers! for a part of a session he was force to leave for the lack of means to pi for his board and clothes. This end< his hopes for a college education, ai he once more applied himself to h trade. He was a union printer, ai served the Columbia Typographic; Union as recording secretary and af te: wards as president. While living i Columbia he was also secretan* of tl Phoenix Hook and Ladder Company. Mr. McSweeney has an enviable K cord as a Democrat. In 1STG he did e* cellent service, which is not yet forgoi ten by men who stood shoulder t shoulder with him in those trying day: It was about that time that the Rici land Rifle club was organized, of whit Mr. McSweeney was a charter mem ber. air. McSweeney's first venture as journalist was when he moved t Ninety-Six and began the publi'catio of the Ninety-Six Guardian. His cap ital was just #65, but he bought a sec ond-hand outfit for $500, paying $55 ii cash. He was energetic, econ?mica and gave the people a newsy papei thus enabling him at the end of th year to pay the last cent of his indebt edness. Mr. McSweeney's paper, the Hampton Guardian, made its first appearanc August 22.1879. From the first it ha been well managed and well edited and to-day ranks foremost among tin county papers of the State. In all enterprises for the good o Hampton county Mr. McSweeney ha shown himself indefatigable. For fir* terras he served as intendant of tb town, and then declined re-election For eight years he was president of tin South Carolina Press Association; ha been a member of the legislature, am was a meinler of the last Constitution al Convention. Twice he has beei honored as a delegate to che Nationa Democratic Convention. In 1888 hi voted for Cleveland and Thurman, an( in 1896 he voted for Bryan and Sewall For ten years Mr. McSweeney wa: county chairman of Hampton. He has taken great interest in th< military affairs of the State. During the last two sessions of the legislature before his election as lieutenant gov. ereor, he was chairman of the commit tee on military and was a member oj the governors staff with the rank ol colonel. Mr. McSweeney's interest in educa tional matters exceeds even his inter est in military affairs. Ile was foi some years a trustee of the South Car olina college. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 3.-Governoi Ellerbe's funeral was quietly held to day at Sellers. About fifty went from Columbia. A large crowd of people from the neighborhood were out. The pall bearers were Govemar Mc sweeney, Secretary of State Cooper, Attorney General Bellinger, Dr. Bab cock, F. H. Hyatt, Superintendent Griffith and H. C. Graham and J. G. Ho?liday, of Marion. There were no services at the house and at the grave the Rev. Mr. Beard, the Methodist pastor, read the simple funeral service. Floral decorations were numerous. Many telegrams of condolence were received by Mrs. Elleber. Thc State, June ~f. t Hon. Miles B. McSweeney, who first saw the light of day on April 18,1853, now occupies tho exalted position of Governor of South Carolina. It was exactly 10 minutes past ll last night in the parlors ot Wright's hotel when the chief justice, standing on one side of a tete-a-tete chair, with Mr. McSweeney on the other, their hands grasping a small Bible, administered thc oath of office. T\e ceremony was informal, though there was some 50 or more gen tlemen, consisting of the State officials, who had made die trip to Sellers, and a number of friends of the governor present in the parlor at tho time. As soon as Gov. McSweeney had af fixed his signature with Justice Pope's fountain pen, the chief justice congrat ulated the governor warmly and was followed by the associate justices. Gov. McSweeney then turning to the gentlemen present spoke briefly as fol lows : Gentlemen-I don't think it is neces sary to make a speech on this occasion. I realize thc importance of the posi tion I occupy to-night in South Caro lina and I promiue you I shall endeavor to do my duty faithfully and imparti ally. If I am not governor of South Carolina it will riot be my fault. No man can feel more sympathy, more honest sympathhy than I do to night for the blow that has befallen our State; that sympathy extended to my home. My wife last night on re ceiving the news of Gov. Ellerbe's death telegraphed to Mrs. Ellerbe ex pressing her sorrow at her great loss. God kuows I feel sympathy for Mrs. Ellerbe and her children. It is my duty under the constitution to assume this responsibility, and with God's help I shall try to do it faithfully. I appreci atc the kind words of these distinguish ed gentlemen on my left (the supreme court justices). 7 shall seek them al ways for advice, and with the attorney" general and other State officers I intend to perform the duties of my office as faithfully as I know how. I deeply re gret the occasion which makes nie gov ernor of South Carolina. 1 have tried to be as prudent and careful as possible. I have been asked by some why I did not come here to Columbia and assume the duties of governor. I believe Gov. Ellcrbe did his duty and those around him believe that he did his duty, but I believed that he wanted to bc governor of South Carolina when he died and ? thought his wishes and desires should be regarded. To-night I assume the duty and I ask those here to help me. I am going to do my duty as faithfully and as efficiently as I cnn, and if ? don't make a faithful, true governor it won't be my fault. Thc audience warmly applauded the governor when he concluded. - mmm % mm The Blight of Trusts. The Journal referred recently to the practical destruction of a lately thriv ing town in Pennsylvania by a trust. Thc town had been built up by sev eral mills for thc manufacture ot' wire and wire nails, lt was almost entirely dependent upon these mills; they were profitable to their owners and gave employment to hundreds of men. wo men and children. A trust was form ed to control the industry in which these mills were engaged and their owners had no choice but to sell out to the trust or be crushed by it. They sold oat. The mills were closed at once, their employees were thrown out, every other interest in the town was paralyzed and ruined, every store was closed, property that was valuable a few weeks before could not be sold at an\r price; a blasted town and an almost despairing population was the spectacle which the merciless power of a trust presented where there had been a scene of prosperity and happiness. This is not the only instance of the blighting exercise of the power of com - bines and monopolizing capital that has recently been witnessed in thc United States. The Washington Post gives this ac count of the effect of trust methods upon another town: "The town of Fairmont, near Cincin nati, affords a pertinent illustration of this phase of trust operations. Thc American Steel and Wire Company owns wire fence works there that have been in operation for twenty years or more. Until recently these works em ployed 500 men, nearly all of whom lived in Fairmont or its immediate vi cinity. The pay-rolls amounted to something like $3,000 a week-more than 8250,000 a year. It is said that employment was steady, wages good, and that many of the workmen own their homes. Fairmont was, in fact, a tj'pical manufacturing village. Last Tuesdaynigh t the works closed-'closed down indefinitely.* The trust does not need them, because it can make all the wire it can sell at other plants where production i? cheaper. These works were purchased at high figures in order to kill off competition. Their cost, as well as that of others similarly treated, has gone, with nobody knows how much water, into the capitalization of the great combine. "This sort of thing bears hard on the displaced workmen and their families. It is more of a tragedy than a comedy. And this is what is going on in many another town. But the injury is not confined to the workmen and their de pendents. The weekly payment of $5,000 will be sadly missed iu the busi ness of the town and among the farm ers of the adjacent country. Trade will languish, the value of real estate will decline, and discontent will pre vail where prosperity and happiness abounded."7 The Post, which has not been con spicuous as an anti-trust newspaper, admits that "in many of the States there are small towns that have been blasted by the trusts through the shut ting down of manufacturing establish ments." Wc wonder if the men who organize aud control trusts believe that they can push the methods which have made them already despicable just as far as they please. We wonder how much longer the people will tolerate trusts or any po litical party that does not oppose them, not by words and platforms, but by actual, practical and effective legisla tion to prevent the outrageous abuse of their power.-Atlanta Journal. Deafness Cannot be Cured hy local applications, as they cannot reach tho diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, aad that is by constitu tional remedies Deafness is caused by an inflam ed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustach ian Tube. When thin tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling -ound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely c osed deafness ia the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrah, which ia nothing but in flamed condition of the mucous surfaaea. We will give One Hundred Do.lars (or any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's CaUrrh ^re Send for circulara, free. F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, O. ?-Sold hy Druggists. 75c Hall's Faailjr Pills aro the beet. - inM I rn** Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 60 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues tn the best ??style If you have printing to do. it will be to Sour interest to write to the Press and launer, Abbeville, S. C. tf. STATE SEWS. - A little colored boy while swim ming in Broad river w?s caught by a shark last week. - Col. J. H. Wborton. of Waterloo, lost his barn and stable by fire caused by lightning last week. - Near Hagood a few days ago two negro women, while in their cabin at work, were killed by lightning. - The Seaboard Air Line is doing some surveying in the vicinity of Co lumbia, with a view of entering that city. - There have been four deaths from meningitis in the State penitentiary during the past week. The disease is epidemic. - The indications are now that there will be six candidates for the United States Senate in South Caro lina next year. - It is Judge Benet's intention, as soon as he winds up his tour of the courts, to go to Scotland, his native home, ou a visit. - President Martin, of both the Newberry cotton mill and Newberry bank, died at his; jome in Newberry on Wednesday. - Seven cases of smallpox are re ported among negroes in thc St. Phil ip's section, Newberry county. The disease is of a mild type. - Rev. J. G. Dale has resigned as pastor of thc A. R. Presbyterian Church in Columbia for the purpose of going to China a%a missionary. . - The Southern is ready to build a union depot in both Columbia and Charleston, and the oflicials say that they will both be handsome buildings. - The Oconee County Alliance will hold its annual pic nie at Seneca on July 4th. Speakers : Senator B. R. Tillman, Hon. A. C. Latimer, J. C. Wilburn, J. LL Blake. - Nearly every town in thc State of any importance is doing something to keep themselves in touch with the great industrial movement that is moving over the South. - A negro woman near Creston poisoned or killed her child last week by forcing it to swallow concentrated lye. The woman is in jail. She says "a voice" told her to do the awful deed. - The proposed home for Wade Hampton will be built. People all over the State are moving in that di rection ; but even if the rest of the State did not feel inclined to take part, Charleston would complete the work alone. - The barn aud stables of Dr. D. B. McLaurin at Wedgefield, were struck by lightning, set on fire and completely destroyed. Thc mules, horses and vehicles were saved, but everything else that the barn contain ed was lost. - Capt. Lawton, of the Charleston recruiting office, has received orders to enlist recruits for service in the Philippine islands. Only white men are wanted. The reason for the war department's discrimination against the brethren in black is not given. -Tl WASHWOMA OUR Lt RELIEVES you of this care, and by do not have can do your Laundry bett have it done at home. COLLARS, C WHITE DRESSES, and ali Fine W? Cost is moderate. ANDERSON STOVES, CROC ALARGE LINE, carefully selected tc Elmo and Garland Stoves and Ran? Cottage and Michigan Cook Stoves, rangii guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, if : make us a call before buying a Cook Stov< to please you. We will take your old Sto Our TINWARE is the best on the mar We carry a well-selected Stock of CH Chamber Sets. We also carry a full line of PORCEL Also, a nice line of GLASSWARE. We do all kinds of ROOFING-Tin R We will be pleased to have you give u 0 y. B.-All Accounts due Osborne &. C Over Post Office. .M. MAT LIFE, FIRE, ACCIDENT!! Call for nice Calendar. - On Tuesday, the 30th of May. I>eputy Collector A. C. Merrick, ic company with Deputy Marshals Corbin aud McKinney, raided a blockade dis tillery near Hazel, Pickens county, and destroyed a quantity of beer and the distillery and captured J. M. and R. T. Chapman at the distillery. - A few days ago at Walhalla Drs. Bell, Derby and Stoddard amputated the right arm above the elbow of Har vey Randolph, a Confederate veteran. Mr. Randolph had a cancer on his hand which came from a wound in flicted hy a bali in thc sixties. At times since then this wouud would become an irritable sore which two years ago developed into a cancer. - The State sinking fund commis sion has concluded itu work and ad jouned until the fourth Tuesday in June, at which time it will take up thc Columbia canal matter, the ques tion of exemption of cotton factories from taxation and several other mat- ' ters of great public interest. It is not thought likely that the State will take advantage of the defect in thc law that makes these enterprises liable for back taxes. - Kate Johnson, the mother of , four children, deserted by her hus band, was murdered in the presence of her children by Bud White, a cripple, on the outskirts of Columbia, last Saturday. White had been a boarder at the house, but had gone away a week ago. It is supposed he was in love with the woman, who evidently feared him. The man was seen by the children lying in a ditch near the house. When discovered, he approach ed the house. Mrs. Johnson ran, when White drew a revolver and shot her through the brain. He then fired a bullet through her breast as she lay on the floor and walked away. He ' was arrested. Dr. Brooks Talks Sense. - NEW YORK, June 4.-Sermons touch ing upon the recent lynchings in the South were preached by a number of the colored pastors in the city to-day. In St. Mark's Church the Rev. Dr. Brooks in his sermon on lynching says: "The trouble is at the doors of God's churches. If they would arouse them selves, in less than five years there would be no more lynchings. But the negro must take the advice of his friends. Self-defence and not revenge must be his reward. Sin must be stop ped and then the crime which grows out of it will stop, and I say this a? one of the race. The negro must have and show more respect for all woman 1 hood-white as well as black. He does j not respect the women of his own color j enough." Cyclone Strikes a Train. TEURE HAUTE, IND., June 3.-Word has jusi. reached this city that a freight train on the Chicago and Illinois Rail road, near Watseka, 111., was struck by a cyclone, while running at a good rate of speed, and the wind carried five cars out of the train and blew out two tracks for a distance of sixty feet, to gether with a good portion of the road bed. WS BURDEN. GUNDRY . the use of special facilities which you er and more satisfactnrilv than you can UFFS, SHIRTS, SKIRTS, WAISTS, ark, we make look nicer than you can. V STEAM LAUNDRY, 202 EAST BOUNDARY STREET. TINWARE, KERY. i suit the public. We sell the Iron King. ;es, aud the Times and Good Times, Ruth, ?g in price from $7.00 to ?35.00. All are Dot money will be refunded. Be sure you 3. We are bound to sell you and are sure ve in part payment for a new one. .ket. INA, such as Dinner Sets, Tea Sets and ?.IN GOODS. ;oofing, Slate Roofing-and Repair work, s a call before buying. iSBORNE & OSBORNE. linkscales mu*t be settlpd. Thone No. 115.1 TISON Office always open,