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BY CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. 1899. VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 52. I t t t ?X2 Ea Straw Hats, Crash Hats, Negligee Shirts, Summer Underwear. Serge Suits, And Light-Weight Coats and Vests m m We have what y on want, and as to PRICES yon know WE SELL IT FOR LESS." . Evans ? Co, THE? SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. THE GREAT IS especially adapted for the very rough country. Ita peculiar^gearing and plan of construction are such that among stones, or stumps and trees and shrubbery,, and over rough ground, it has no equal. Without moving from bis seat, without checking the team, the driver can lift either end of the cutter?bar, independently, or both ends at once; or can raise the bar to a vertical position, and thus pass by or over obstacles for which other Mowers must be turned out. Ii makes no noise when at work. There is no wasted power. It has only two cog-wheels and no pitman. It has more genuine improvements than all other Mowers combined. Come and let us show you ibis wonderful Ma chine. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. OUR SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT IS now open for the inspection of the public, and 7rt know we caa suit everybody in exactly the Shoe you want. ID Men's Shoes we have cut prices, and are selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties at $1.00-former price $lr25. . Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-former price $1.25-our Dew 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 gWe you any style Toe or any width made. In Ladies' and Misses Shoes we are sure there is ao house ia the city vho can compare with us IN STYLE, FIT OB PBICE. We have everything in Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoe;. in Black? and Tans. If you want to see the most perfect-fitting, attractive and elegant fine ol -rylish.and up-to-date footwear ever shows in Anderson come ir?, to see us. We are headquarters for Shoes Very truly. D. C. BROWN & BRO. Constabulary is Reduced in Numbers. Governor McSweeney is known as a friend of the dispensary law. Ile has supported it as possibly the best solu tion of the liquor question. At the same time he has had his own views as to the manner of its enforcement. He has felt that it should be enforced as other laws are enforced. Since he has assumed the duties of governor he has been looking more carefully into the law and the manner of its enforcement. Particularly has he inquired into the constabulary fea ture of the law. He has enueavored to ascertain the cost of the constabulary and to determine if it were not possible to reduce expenses along this line. After mature deliberation and .t thorough and careful canvass of the whole situation from a business stand point he has decided to reduce the con stabulary force and yesterday after noon notified 25 of the 59 constables that their services would be dispensed with after the 17th, to-morrow. In taking this step, it was given out from the governor's office yesterday that there were no charges against the men dropped, nor did the governor mean it to be understood by his action that he considered any of the men in efficient, but carrying out his ideas of business he believed the law could and would be enforced just as efficiently with M men as it had been with 59, and he would by this reduction save $1,750 a month in this one matter of expense. In this position he has the hearty endorsement of the State Board of con trol. The constabulary has been cost ing the State from $50,000 to $60,000 a year. In May the constabulary cost $4,200 in round numbers. This one re duction will save to the State about $20,000 a year. The governor confiden tly expects and asks that every officer in South Caro lina shall assist in the enforcement of the dispensary law just as every other law, and he nopes that every county officer and every municipal officer, whether he be sheriff or mayor or magistrate or constable shall lend his aid and influence to the enforcement of the dispensary law. If this is done it may be possible to further reduce the force. Not only so, he says, but he shall expect every good and law abiding citizen to do his part. He hopes there will be no fnction or trouble in the enforcement of this law or any other law.-Thc Stale, lGth inst. Law as Well as Common Sense. COLUMBIA, June 17.-The dog, "the yellow dog," if you please, or any sort of a dog, is on top again. The S upreme Court of South Carolina is on * his side. The Supreme Court holds that a dog haB value and can be stolen and that the old common law is out of date and the modern dog is entitled to legal protection, and if you steal a dog you can be sent to prison. The case was started in Newberry, where a negro named Langford was charged with stealing a dog, dog house, c*. The Circuit Judge held, according to the common law, that a dog was not the subject of larceny and quashed the in dictment. Now the Supreme Court unanimously holds that the common law does not apply here; that it is wrong not to value a dog simply be cause he is not edible, and that it is not a whim or caprice to keep a dog. The Court defends the dog for devotion and attachment, and contends that it is entirely a punishable crime to steal a dog, and that the stealing of a dog may be punished if the facts warrant and the indictment be properly drawn. The Circuit Court is reversed on the .dog demurrer.-News and Courier. Success of Clemson College. To The Editor of Thc Xews and Cou rier : During the greater part of the .last year Clemson has been under the management of Dr. Hartzog. If ma terial results are tobe taken-as evi dence, Clemson has gotten a man at its head who is fully capable of man aging it. This is a big job, and unless there is unusual executive ability something will go lacking. The Third class has just left the Col lege to take up various lines of work. Seventy-nine alumni have gone out from Clemson-three classes having -graduated. Man> of these young men went back to the tann, many are at work in electrical works, or as draughtsmen. They seem to do well, and as to Clemson's past, there is noth ing to complain of. Let us see what the future points to. During the past year over four hun dred men have attended College, thc freshman class is larger than it has ever been, and during the year the president was forced to discourage young men from entering the College. The Textile School has been running practically all the year, about thirty students taking the course. This i's one of the most interesting features of the College, and South Carolina and Clemson can look for material results from this department. The mechanical department is doing ood work, and great interest is taken y the students in mechanics. This is evidenced by the boys spending their Saturdays doing work in the shops, and making motors, book case?, etc, for themselves. All the students who come here are loyal to the College, and there is an abundance of College spirit among the boys. The record in athletics in College or ganizations and in literary societies during the past year is very enviable. God-speed to Clemson in her field of work. If the schools of the State would for get to be envious, and work together j for the purpose of uplifting the State, how much better all would get on. I .et \ them help one another ! All have their respective fields to work in, and the only rivalry should be to vie with one another in fitting men ! for their professions along the differ ent lines, li. R. T.. Jr. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they ran not reach the i diseased portion of thc ear. There is only one | way to cure Deafness, and that, is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an intlatu ed condition of tho mucous lining of the Eustach ian Tube. When this tubo Rets intlaroed you have a ruinbliug ?oued or inipertect hearing, and when ; it is entirely c?o?ed deafness ?A the result, and unless the incarnation can be taken out and ibis tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten ate i caused by catarral), which ia nothing but an in damed condition of the trucou* surfaaes. We will gi7e One Hundred Do;iar> tor any case ! of Deafness (caused by catarrh) thal cannot be cured by Fall's Catarrh Cure Send for circulars, j free. F. J. CHF.NKY A CO , Toledo. O. 4Sy-8oId b} Druggists. 75c. Hal l'a Family Pills are the be?:. ' $50,01)0,000 for Cornstalks. Steps are being taken to form ;i corn stalk combine, with a capital of $50, 0(10,000. Its promoters say that if they are successful in carrying out their ideas, 250,000,000 tons of cornstalk that are burned or left to rot by the farmers of the United States will prove to be as valuable as coal, or about $(>per ton. W. R. Tate, representing a syndicate of St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland capitalists, is now in the city, preparing the way for a meeting of the promoters of the combine, which is to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on August lo, when the scheme of financing and the details of organization will be perfected. While he was reticent when seen yes terday, he intimated that the combine would not have for its object the stifling of competition, but simply the develop ment of the cornstalk as a commercial commodity and the creation of markets for its several products. Mr. Tate has been in communication in the last few days with several well known promoters of this city, and from one of these the purposes of the new trust, along with some interesting figures, were secured. Over 250,000,000 tons of cornstalks are grown in the United States every year, the acreage averaging 80,000,000 and the yield about three tons to the acre. Of this immense amount, two thirds* or about 160,000,COO tons, has heretofore been regarded as sheer waste and litter, les"s than one-third of the total weight of the stalks being serviceable as fodder for cattle. This waste matter has been a serious trouble to farmers for a long time, not because of an understood loss of revenue by it. but simply because of the necessity of getting rid of it, by burning or other wise, iii order to free the soil of an en cumberance. Science has demonstrated now that this so-called waste has value all its own, and reckoned at its present mar ket price it is now known that the farmers of the country have been throwing away or burning up and otherwise destroying $900,000,000 a vear for two decades at least, or $18. 000,000,000. lt is a safe estimate that twice that enormous sum has been allowed to go to waste in cornstalks in this county alone in the present cen tury. A company organized a few years ai:o by Mark W. Marsden, of Philadel ?mia, which has two factories, one in lockford, lil., and another in Owens boro, Ky., has been successfully man ufacturing six different products from cornstalks. These are cellulose, which is used for the lining of battleships, serving as an automatic leak stopper, the value of which is well known; a first-class cardboard, splendid paper, an unequalled foundation for dyna mite, a patent cattle food and a glue. Itis these products and others that tue cornstalk may in the future be capable of yielding that the proposed combine intends to handle. Whether or not the Marsden Company will enter the com bine is not known, but according to Mr. Tate the success of the scheme does not depend upon the securing ol the Marsden' patents, he intimating that the promoters of the trust control their own process. Mr. Marsden has a contract with the Government for cellulose at $400 per ton, and it is figured that he can man ufacture one ton of cellulose from li tons of stalks, or $400 worth of cellulose from $90 worth of stalks, not counting his by-products. Ground cornstalks, cooked and sweetened with molasses and pressed into brick, is regarded as one of the most nutritive cattle foods yet placed on the market. The papei and cardboard manufactured fron cornstalks are already recognized as exceptionally superior articles. It is the dust of cellulose that is used for making powder and dynamite. By reason of its powers of absorption and retention of nitro-glycerine, it is de clared to bc immensely superior to se;) island cotton, which heretofore has been the chief base for high explosi ves The glue manufactured from corn stalks finds a ready market with jewel ers and artists. 1 Mr. Tate will leave for Washington in a few days to look after severa patents for which he is negotiating As far as could be learned, the trus will erect five factories in the North west and Southern corn belts, and im mediately upon organization will begir operation.-New lork Commercial. Mayor of Atlanta Flayed in Pulpit. ATLANTA, June 18.-Ina sensations sermon to-night Dr. L. G. Broughton pastor of the Baptist tabernacle, calle? upon the city council to iinpeacl James G. Woodward, mayor of Atlan ta. Dr. Broughton said the chief ex ecutive was a "confessed gambler, ? libertine, ? sot and ai disgrace to tin city." At these words the audience of abou 2,000 people cheered. In the course o: his remarks Dr. Broughton said "When the mayor was a member of ai important committee to go to Wash ington on the matter of federal prisot site, he was drunk most of the time and there were other things that oe curred in connection with him that J hesitate to mention from the pulpit He should be impeached at once. Il the members of the city council do noi impeach1 him, I shall take steps myself No such man has a right to be mayoi of this city. The situation is indecent and disgraceful." When asked after the sermon why he moved against Mayor Woodwan Dr. Broughton said1: "I have giver this matter much consideration and 1 believe I have taken a step in the righi direction. I know what 1 am talking about. The actions ot* the preseni mayor of Atlanta since he has heh: office are a disgrace to the city and flu people this man represents." Mayor Woodward was informed oj Dr. Bt'jugliton's remarks late to-night The executive said : "I regard tin statements of Dr. Broughton as ridic ulous. I ask the public to suspend judgemnt." Would Have Women Propose. Dr. H. Law. of San Francisco, lee ttired before an audience of invitee guests, many of whom belong to wo men's clubs, at Berkeley Lyceum yes terday afternoon: His subject wai "Higher Physical Conditions, ' and hit chief references were to women. "1 hope to see the day," he said, "when a woman shall be free to ask the mai she hives to become her husband, as : man is free to ask the woman lie loves to become his wile. A woman should be able and wise to choose the fathei of her children, and it should be n< social offense for lier to seek in marring* as well as to give herself in marriage.' -New York Suv. i STATE NEWS. - Six prisoners have escaped from the Berkeley jail. - The Citadel Cadets are now in ! camp at Orangeburg. j - The capacity of the cotton mill at Greenwood is to be doubled. - The trust has bought the Bald win fertilizer works at Port Royal. - Counteifeit silver 50-cent pieces are in circulation in various sections of the State. - Major Fant, of Union, has given $1,000 to endow a scholarship in Fur man University. - The State Hospital for the In sane will now take only patients who have been vaccinated. - Gr. W. Whitman says that he is a candidate for Governor again. He is certainly hard to satisfy. - Seven colored women graduated as nurses at the Hospital and training school in Charleston last week. - The Supreme Court of this State has decided that a dog is property, and if you steal one you can be pun ished. - The epidemic of meningitis is about over in the State Penitentiary. There have been twenty-eight cases, seven of which have proved fatal. - Dr. J. W. Norwood, one of Green ville's oldest aDd most prominent citi zens, died last Thursday, after an ill ness of three weeks from Bright's dis ease. - The Mills Manufacturing Com pany of Greenville notifies the Secre tary of State that its capital stock had been increased from $100,000 to $550,000. - Gov. McSweeney has decided to have th? cannon that was captured in the Spanish-American war* placed in the State House grounds. That is the place for it. - General rains have fallen through out the Piedmont section during the past few days, and crops are very much revived. - Two negro boys convicted at Con way, Horry county, of attempting to rape two white girls, several months ago, have been sentenced to life im prisonment. - Nearly every town in the State of any importance is do'vs.g, something to keep themselves in touch with the great industrial movement that is moving over the South. - Spartanburg alumni will give $30,000 towards the Carlisle chair of mathematics in Wofford College. Sen ator Archer is the leader in the move ment there. He gives $1,000. - Tbe Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light and Power Co.. has been sold by the local owners to a Bal timore syndicate for $257,000. It is said the property will be greatly im proved and enlarged. - The Bradley Fertifizer Syndicate of Boston has purchased about 6,000 acres of land on the Ashley and Edisto rivers. This land contains high grade rock and is a majority of the unmined land left in the State. - Dozier Flynn, who lives in Dar lington County, became enraged with his mother, and threw her to the ground aud beat her severely with a waffle iron. She ran from him and he fired both barrels of his gun at her, Flynn escaped. - Gov. McSweeney has granted his" first pardon. It was to Whitfield Muriel, of Edgefield, who was sent up for life for the murder of Yonce in that County in 1889, and who was re fused pardon by Gov. Tillman. Mur rel is said to bs dying of consump tion. - Judge George Beckwith, a New York millionaire banker, merchant and jurist, has just purchased Kalmia, a beautiful suburb of Aiken. S. C.. upon which he will erect a residence which will be second in the South only to Mr. George W. Vanderbilt's palace, Biltmore, near Asheville, N. C. - The State of South Carolina, is likely, after v inding up several balls of red tape, to get the return of the supplies that were furnished to com panies of the 1st regiment. It will be remembered that fie State loaned the volunteers all the tents and supplies on hand, and that it has since that time been whistling for the return of the articles. - Deputy Sheriff B. R. Moss, of Oconee county, came over this week to restore Clara Foster, aged 2 years, to her mother, who had taken out a writ of habeas corpus. Columbus C. Foster and wif? had parted and Foster brought the child to'this place, where he is employed at the Mills mill. The deputy sheriff earned the child to its mother at Seneca. The case will be heard by Judge Gage at Anderson on the 27th.-Greenville Mountaineer. - The comptroller general has re ceived from a number of the clerks of court in various portions of the State letters asking him to furnish revenue stamps to be attached to the checks sent out for the pensioners. Mr. Der ham requests the statement made to these inquirers that checks drawn by public oflicers on public funds are not renuired by the war revenue act to have revenue stamps attached. They were sent out in accordance with the la.v. - Fourteen years ago, John W. Clinkscales who lives in the Level Land section, went into fish culture and made four ponds. One is stock ed with catfish, one with perch and two with carp. He has given the business attention and also has as many fine fish as he can use. He has caught a carp that weighed 18 pounds and in the catfish pond there are a number of fish of as heavy weight. The perch pond has been a perfect success.-Abbeville Medium. 4, Hot Blast of Summer Closin Out Prices will be in teresting to You. Following our rule of Business we are pushing off all Summer Goods. Now is the time to do this-while the peo ple need them. We never carry over Seasonable Goods when. Low Prices will sell them. Then there are always odd lot3 and short ends that go at special reductions. Summer Lawns, Organdies and Ginghams, From the cheap 2 l-2c. Lawn to the fine Imported Organdies. Only a few of the latter left, and they go at a great reduc tion. Our Stock of White Lawns, P. K's., Laces, Embroidery, and all Midsummer wears, kept right up throughout the season. New line Lace Curtains, Window Shades, Mattings, Rugs, &c, just received. Ready-made Sheets, Pillow Cases, Counterpane?, &c. Table Linens, Doilies, Napkins, &c. All will interest the Ladies. Muslin Underwear. The Department continues to grow in popularity. The line is well made and in correct styles at popular prices. The margin of profit is short. Our liq Din Is ready for you with closing-out inducements. We have a nice selection of Ready-Trimmed Hats that will go at Bar gain prices. Don't forget the fact that throughout the Sum mer we have good Trimmers in the Department who can take your order and make a Hat just as wanted at any time. Ready-Made Suits will receive a big cut. Investigate the offerings in this Department. Our Gents' Furnishing Department Has just been replenished with a good line of Midsummer Neckwear-Collars, Cuffs, Suspenders, Negligee Shirts, Socks, Gauze Underwear, &c. This is a great Department with us. We want you for a permanent customer, if you are not already one. New lot Men's Hats, of very latest styles, in Soft and Stiff Goods, in Blacks, Tans and Pearls. We can't begin to tell you of all the good things we have for you, but only ask that you come to see us. Now is our time to prepare for Fall business. We have recorded a Spring business of which we are justly proud? We don't want to be ashamed of our Summer's business. Cash always cuts an important figure with us. WE GIVE TRADING STAMPS. Yours very truly. C. F. JONES 5 CO. 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