Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- ?W? - jg tiie subject of our story, aud we shall not weary you with 'urch reading. . It isn't necessary. Condensed it this : m HAVE JUST RECEIVED OF FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED YARDS 4S0G 4500 YDS. CAMBRIC, SWISS and NAINSOOK EMMS AND Roods that we bought late in <tthe season far below market paine, andthat we are ^Sering to ifee public on the same 3Rsis. PRETTY, NEW aKot back numbers, old and shelf-worn, but the latest and newest designs and patterns, pretty and dainty. Fresh, Just opened and put on sale last friday. This is an opportunity that yon cannot afford to ??BB, even if you do not meed t&emfer Isuuediate use. It frill pay you to buy them now and lay them away for future ise --r OUR STOCK OF -- es? m ?B large and thoroughly up-to-date, Dont do yourself the njustice not to COME km SEE -OUR - LACES AND EMBROIDERIES, 09 W&ITE mu SAMPLES. Sfiail orders attended to promptly. Yours truly, me & Co. Wholesale ar.d Retail Sealers in ^T'?LI M<^r*e~h.aiicLise. 'AXt>KKM>N,>|? O Local News. WKDNK8DAY, ??JNK ?\t "l??>9. Miss Nia? lluniHK in in Button visit ing friends. Miss Kotta Breawudo, of Belton, was in tho city yesterday. Mn?. John W. Dillinghani is in At lanta visiting relatives. Miss Annie Shnnklin hua returned after a visit in Pendleton. According to tho almanacs, Mic sum mer season begins to-day. Mr.lt. M. Wilson and Mr. L. Oels berg an* visiting friends in Atlanta. Prof. .lohn G. Cliuksealcs, ot Clem son College, was in the city Monday. Anderson beat Clemson playing ten nis yesterday. The score stood '\ to I. Anderson was well represented ut the commencements in Greenville last week. The oublie schools of Pel/.er will close on the ?tOtli inst, for the summer vacation. Mr. Mad-.Seaborn and Mr. lt.'(J. Mer rick, of Walhalla, wen* in the city yesterday. Mrs..!. J. Baker has gone to I'ieh niond. Va., to visit her.daughter, Mrs. Gwathnicy. lt. O. Kvans & Co. announce a big supply of hot weather clothing. Sec advertisement. Miss Carrie Carr has returned to her home in Decatur. Cn., after a pleasant visit in the city. As usual this section is well repre sented at the commencement in Hue West this week. Mr. F. T. Wilhite attended a meeting of the Knights Templar in Asheville, N. C., last week. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Pic ken s ?md chil dren, of Elberton, Ca., are in the city visiting relatives. Read about Brown. Osborne & Cu's, remarkable sale of embroideries and laces in this issue. Miss Eleanor Knight, of this city, has gone to Fair Play, when- she is teach ing a blass ia music. If you need a gin, read the advertise ment of F. E. Watkins, agent for the oki reliable Pratt gin. The closing exercises of the Williain I ston Female College will take piare i to-day and to-morrow. C. F. Jones 6c Co.'s new advertise ment tells of their summer closing out i sale in every department. ! Miss Glenola Cummings, who has been attending college at Mdt mont, X. Ci has returned home. Mrs. J. C. Harris and children are oft* on a Visit to relatives and friends in Williamston ami Creen ville. The first watermelons of the season were in the market last week. They came from southwest Georgia. Mrs. li. E. Cochran, of Seneca, has been spending a few days in the city with her daughter, Mrs. Keose. Mr. Clarence Voting, who has been buying cotton in Mississippi, has re turned home to spend the summer. The Court of G encrai Sessions con venes next Monday. Witnesses and Aurore slionld be on hand, promptly. The Anderson roller mills have com menced work on the new crop of wheat and are tnrninjr out a pretty sample of flour. Mr. Jas. Tiller and family, of Atlan ta, ore nn Anderson visiting Mrs. Tiller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Arnold. Messrs J. J. Norris ami Wi!! Bryson, left thoa ?morning for Horse Cove, ?. C., where they wilS spend a few davs vacation. The exe urti io n run by E. P. Smith & Co. to Atlanta last week was well put ronized and tho excursionists import ? most pleasant trip. The l^lz?r Athletic Club with a cupi tal ?tock of $500 asks for a charter, J. S. Blair, J. A. Smythe, Jr., and E. F. Woodson are corporators. Our townsman, Mr. J. C. 'Cunning ham, after a long illness, is now rapidly regaining Iris health. His many-friends will be delighted te '.lear thia. John T. P? II rrj ss luis a few good second-hand gins und a lot of other things that i\e is offering at bargain prices. Head his advertisement. Mr. John A. Stewaunu, a popular ?oung gentleman ?from Lancaster, S. J.', who has been visiting the home of Mr. W. S. Lee, bus returned home. The examination of teachers for the public schools took place last Satur day. There were 2? white and 27 colored applicants before the Board. Messrs. W. O. Jones and L. M. Heard, ?rominent citizens of Elberton, Ga., ave been spending a few days in the city as the guests ot Maj. J. A. Brock, Those of our citizens who were so fortunate as to hear the lecture of Dr. Evans, of Columbia, lost Wednesday aright enjoyed a rare intellectual treat. Dr. 15. A. Henry, who has recently located in Anderson, has purchased a Hot on McDnffie street and will soon erect a handsome dwelling house .thereon. The Oconee County Alliance will have a barbecue at Seneca on July 4th. Among the invited speakers are Sena tor Tillman, Congressman Larimer and Tosa. Watson. Mr. D. C. Brown has let the contract to the Anderson Lumber Co. for the erection of a handsome 0-rooin cottage, .on North Main street. The. work will commence at once. A meeting will bc held at Eureka next Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock for the purpose of electing trustees for school diet-iet No. 25. All who are in terested arc m gr M\ to attend. Tko qualified votar? of School Dis trict No. uy (Centervillo Township) will meet at Hunter's Soring next Saturday, 24th inst., at 2 o'clock p. m., for tho purpose of electing tho school trustees of that District. This section was visited by a good ?lin last Saturday, and it seems to have been general throughout the country. Tho mercury took a big tum ble and. tires and overcoats felt com fortable Saturday evening. Mr. J. J. Fretwcll luis just returned from a trio to western cities, where he purchased two hundred and fifty bug gies and wagons from the manufactur ers. Look out for his advertisement next wcek,;but in tho meantime if von want a vehicle give him a call. The t? untie, of Woffotd(,V??leif? itftvt ulceUtd I'rof. john I linkvab*. now m clemson College, Ut Mis r.tmU of mathematics. Woflbid hu* tVm? nutt* that! WOll in HCCIiring 'di wriUwii, Un he iseminently lilted for th? work,. The laving ol uow, heavy Nteel rail* on tho Blue Ridge Railroad iMprogf?** iug rapidly and will MK>II he completed* Receiver Beattie should again give UM two trains a day each way over UKI Road, especially between Anderson and Seneca. L. E., iufaut daughter ol' Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kay, died in Belton on Fri day, Otb inst., after a brief illness, aged eleven months. The remains were buried in the cemetery nt Belton, Kev. P. P. Kilgore conducting thc funeral services. Dr. Ralph W. BIXJWU, accompanied by his little son, of Roanoke, Va., is ?spending a few days in theeity visiting his motlier and other relatives. Dr. Brown is a most worthy young man andie succeeding well in his profes sion in his adopted home. Mr. Fred G. Brown left for Asheville, X. C., last Wednesday to attend the conclave of the Knights Templar and Mystic Schrine. He was accompanied by Mrs. Brown. Miss Mamie Brown, of this city, and Miss Janie Gantt, cf Fen ton, and spent several days there. Tho Board of Trustees ol' Newberry Col?ege have conferred the honorary degree ol' doctor of divinity upon Kev. W. W. Daniel, pastor of the First Methodist Church in this city, and Kev. J. W. Daniel, of Abbeville, both of whom are alumni of the college in th?' class of lsT'.i. Julian Wilton, the little three-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Banister, of Vanuines Township, died of diabetes last Thursday at 10 o'clock. Friday morning tho remains were laid to rest in tho V?rennos Churchyard. The bereaved family have the sympathy cd' t he entire community. Married, on Tuesday morning, June '20, 1890. at 0:90 o'clock, at the home ol' the bride's parents in this city, by Kev. W. W. Daniel, Mr. J. W. Robinson, of Abbeville, S. C., and Miss Lucy Bowie, daughter of Mr. J. A. Bowie. The couple left on the southbound South ern train for the home of the groom. Married, on Thursday, June lp, 18IM?, at the homo of thc otliciating minister. Rev. W. B. Hawkins, Mr. W. C. Pcar man and Miss Lulu McGregor, both of Anderson County. Wc join the friends of the bride and groom in extending congratulations and wishing them a happy and prosperous joiimev through life. Mr. Kurnwill Keys, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. W. W. Keys, of Greenville, spent a few days in tho city, last week visiting relatives and friends. Furmau is a fine looking young man now, and holds a responsi ble position with one of the largest wholesale drv goods linns in thc city of New York. Last Sunday night a burglar entered the otlice of the Anderson Ice Factory and made an effort to break into thc safo by trying to knock oft' thc hinges of the door, ile failed to &ct into thc safe, but greatly damaged it. The drawers of tho bookkeeper's desk were, broken into, but nothing of any value was secured. Thc Elberton (Ga.) Tribune, says: "Mr. John L. Nance settled his suit against the Southern Railway for $2,500 last week. He was hurt in a shake up on the Elberton branch in November, 1895, at Toccoa. Mr. Nance was fonnerly a citizen of Bowman, this County." Mr. Nance is a brotber of Judge Nance, of this city, and for merly resided in this County. Bertha, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Pink Recd, died at their jiome in this city last Wednesday afternoon, aged six months. The little one was iib only a few hours witb cholera in fantum. On Thursday morning Kev. O. L. Martin conducted the funeral services at tho home of the bereaved parents, after which thc remains were interred in the Baptist Churchyard. The Atlanta Journal of the 14th inst, says: "Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Harris bave issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Etta, to Mr. J. W. Dodd, which will be solemnized Wed nesday evening, June 21st, at 8 o'clock, at the Central-Baptist Church."' Mr. Dodd is the third son of Mr. J. J. Dodd, of Anderson, and is now connected with thc, police department of Atlanta. The competitive examination for the cadctship at the United States Naval Academy from the Third Congressional District was held in this city last Thursday. There were only geven ap plicants. James F. Maxwell, third son of our townsman, Col. J. D. Maxwell, won thc prize, with 8. D. Penman, of this County, alternate. Both these young gentlemen have been attending Clemson College. Mr. T. A. Ratlifte, Jr., of Anderson, ?. C., is smiling upon his Rockingham friends for a week or so. We regret to know that he is a little thin, caused by overwork during thc past several months. Tom is one of the successful young men who have gone out from Rockingham to inhabit other commun ities and to say the least of it he is one of the kind we are all proud to own. Jtcidvillc (N. C.) Review. Mr. J. E. Horton, of Belton, S. C., who owns the desirable corner lot on the north side of the public square, op posite Cason, Johnson & Co's, livery atables, was in town recently, und we learn that he will begin the erection in August of a large and handsome two or three story brick building on said lot. This will be a decided improve pro vernen t upon the appearance of that part of our beautiful Square.-Ifnrt icell (t?a.) Sun. Thc Southern Railway now selb week end tickets Saturdays and Sun days from Columbia to Asheville, Hen dersonvillc, Flat Rock and Saluda al the rate of 8a, and to Spnrtauburg and Greenville at the rate of$2.r>0. These tickets arc good returning Monday fol lowing date of. sale. If this privilege is extended to Spnrtauburg and Green* ville, why can't Anderson secure it! We suggest that tho Young Men's Bus iness League take upi he matter ami have Anderson put on the list. Tho Columbia correspondent of tin News and ' Courier, under dato of tht 17th inst., says: "Bryant and Smith, two white mon in Anderson County aro under sentence for larceny. Thcj aro charged with having used fraudu lent means in getting money for cotton ?They have been in Jai I for about foin months, and now ask for a pardon The presiding Judge and Solicitor asl, for the pardon, nud Bryan and Smith in their application for pardon, say thoj were 'seduced by the instigations of tin devil to do this act.1 " Prof. G. Marshall Moore runic ni from l Ja m berg yesterday. Readers ol thc Index will remember thnt, lie hoi his leg broken in a game of base bal some time ago. sind lui* boen confined ever since. His father. Postmaster L M. Moore, went down and brought bin back. Mr. Sanders, of Hamberg, alst accompanied Mr. Mooni. Prof. Moon has been teaching in the Carlisle Fit ting School at Hamberg for the past r*-*r, but. han resigned hi* position lhere and baaaccepted %b(i pnncipaFs , place in the Anderson braded Schools. (?rffn*f(nnl ftwits. Mr. J. Mutuo?- White, of Vint. Worth, 'J ex&s, accompanied by fiHistor, Mix-i tU&tifUift Greenville, spent last Friday ?nd Saturday tn the city visiting re?a five? nod friends. Mr. White i? i native of Anderson County, where his parents formerly resided, but for the pant nine years has been traveling t'oxas sud the. Indian Territory as a salesman Cor Messrs. Teaslee, ( Jaulbert A Co., one of the large?t wholesale hohlen in louisville, Ky. Munroe is a model, energetic young man, and his visit to his old home was a source of much pleasure to his many obi boyhood companions. Hon. T. C. Dickinson. Huronean At torney and Financier of the Black Dia mond Railway, arrived in New York from Loudon last Saturday, and will be in Anderson in a few days. He comes at the suggestion of the capital ists to perfect some necessary papers, anti to assist in pushing thc surveys now being made in South Carolina. There are now three corps of surveyors at work in this State, and they ha vi' been instructed to make the survey a permanent one, having been furnished with the necessary blanks to secure all the rights of way.' It will take at least two mouths more to complete the sur vey. Last Monday morning thc Pioneer Peel Team left for Columbia to par ticipate in tho Firemen's Tournament now in progress in that city. The party was composed of thc following gentlemen: W. h. Brissev, Assistant Chief, W. S. Divver, Captain ol' the Team. Kniest Leveret, Wrenchman, W. I'. Nicholson, Nozzleinan, V.. P. Smith. P. C. Fant, W. W. Norwood. W. II. Murphy, Tom. Davis, Cliff. (?reen, /.imuneSharpe, doe McKinney, H. W. Caldwell, Hiller Ledford, W. R. Tribble. F. M. Maiigleburg, Jr., li. N. Lacy, W. A. King, W. IL King and T. M. Norwood. Policeman King chape roned the boys, and Dan. Burt accom panied them as porter. It was a tine looking body of young men. Jim Johnson and Jim Benson, two young negroes, are in trouble, and they arc likely to do service in the chain gang for a long term. Johnson lins beeu in charge of tho delivery wagon of Ligon &. Ledbetter for several years, and while delivering goods to persons who had bought them, he would also deliver some goods that had not been bought from the members of the firm or their salesmen. Benson is the man ager of the "colored enterprise store" on West Market street, and there Johnson would deliver goods that had not been bought from his employers. The police had worked the case up, and when they entered the "enterprise store" they found a barrel of sugar, boxes of tobacco and other things that had the private mark of Ligon cc Led better on them, lt is diilicnlt to esti mate how much goods Johnson has stolen. He was carried into the Mayor's Court under six charges of petit larceny and he plead guilty in all of them. Mayor Hood sentenced him to a tine of $15 or thirty days on the public works in each case. Benson had a prelimi nary hearing in a Magistrate's Court anti his case was sent to the Court of Sessions, where Johnson will also be tried when he finishes his tenn in the city chain gang. - A Missippi river steamboat stop ped two hours the other day while a farmer's wife hunted up a cow and milked her for the benefit of a Bick passenger. "Of course this happened down South," says the Chicago News, "where people have not as yet becomt so pressed tor time as to be unable tc stop even for the purpose of saving human life. Imagine, if you please the experience a sick passenger on f Chicago street car would be subjected to iu trying to have a train held whil< somebody rushed into a drug ?ton for the purpose of getting a savin I draught." - "Let a man die," says the Fireside Guard, "and he is suddenly full o good qualities, his faults are all for/ot ten and only the good is remembered Why not speak good of the living f Upon whicn the Monroe (N. C.) En quirer comments : "Just for this rea son, geutle reader. If you take you pen in your hand and write a whole lo of praise of some living man, you will in all probability live to be given th lie by that man's actions, for weal play the fool at some time while w are on the stage of action. And theo if you nraise a man who cannot bea praise, and some men are so constitu ted that a little praise makes most dis gusting .fool s of them, you have don a great deal moro harm than if yo kept your . mouth shut. With thee facts before us we continue to wai until men die before spreading dow ci on their graves." The undersigned will have a car load < Georgia Watermelons in the city nn Fr! nay. - .? . JAS. F. FAST. Brook Bro?, sell tho best Mower o earth. The Deering Ideal Ball Bearin Mower is the easiest and lightest runnin In the world. ^ ; Bioyoie economy. The money you pa forans.* Wheel la sometimes only pat of the pri?e. The bicycle mender get the - rent. -Butif you "buy a Viking or CreacemviSuuycloto begin with, from Su li van Hardware Ck)., you need have onl a bowing acquaintance with the whet tinker , Iron King Stoves are considered tl beet. Buy one. Osborne A Osbort Sole Agents. You need not atop tho horses or tl knife or throw the machine out of gear you haye a Champion Mutta, ?old fa Sullivan Hardware Co. If your Piano or Organ needs tu mug < repairs, it will pav you to see Mr. Jas. i Ruddock of The C. A. Reed Music HOUB who will guarantee perfect satisfaotic to all. , Iron King Stoves are fold in ?nderst only by Osborne ?fe Osborne. Champion Mowers make less noie waste lesa power and require fewer r laira -than any Mower on the mark? Sullivan Hard ware Co. can easily do ai ot strate the truth of these statement?. Have you ever seen a pitman on Mower that did not give tr able? Cnaa pion Haymaker Mowers have no pitma but. a short driving link that takes tl pince of a pitman, and ba* no revolvic motion ateituer end. Sullivan ll ard wa co. will take pleasure tn snowing ye how tbis and other improved foatur combine to make the Champion the mo durable and least expensive Mower < the market. Sullivan Hardware Co. are Morgan Wright's regularly appointed distribu?t agent*. They can alway* furnish the well known Tiren and Inner Tubes lowest prices. Cut Kio wem. Pot Plants and Palma f isle. Mus. J. F. Cr.ixnscAr.E-s, 242 Main St. Von RKNT O.K.SAM-:-7-rooin residen on i al houri Street. Ample grounds, w ter and other facilities?. Apply to W. I FrlersoD. Twenty-five Dollarn will buy H fair zood nq liare practico Piano at the C.. Reed Music House. They are intrim .'ally worth double that amount. Roofing, tin work, galvanized ir< work and plumbing d/me on short not! by Osborne ?fe Osborne. Have hot water pipes run from yo Move to bath room. Try Osborne ?,b>rne. Glothin Sale. We have succeeded in accomplishing one ot* the principal secrets of the Clothing business-that is getting the trading people to believe what we advertise. We can say, and say it truthfully, that we have the best and most complete line of Clothing in Anderson. This expression comes from every one that has examined the Clothing of the city. Imagine what a pleasure it is to hear on all sides, "Hall & Milford has the best line of Clothing in Anderson." You know the rea son-our prices are the lowest, our Goods of the best quality. This week we will place on the counters a lot of Pat terns. Some All Wool, some Mixtures, but all worth $7.50 a Suit. As f; Special for this week we will mark them $5.00 a Suit ! Any one purchasing and not satisfied with the value of these Goods we will refund his money. We not only show $5.00 Suits for this week, but our Pat terns, in all other prices, ranging rrom $8.50, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00 are exclusive, and are confined tc us alone. Per fect in fit, correct in style, above question in quality. Joseph Fowler's Negligee Shirts 75c. Scrivan's Drawers 65c. Straw Hats, Shoes and Furnishings up to the standard. Clothiers and Furnlshiers. i_. ? . . - - . 1 To the Ladies. Have you seen our last shipment of Ladies' Evening Slip pers in Patent Leathers, White Kid, &c. They are beauties, To Gents. Have you seen those $3.00 up-to-date Shoes we are soH ing the boys. If not, call and inspect for yourself. All the latest colors and shapes. Don't forget to call for Trading Stamps. We've got them. Yours for Reliable Shoes, COBB & CEAYTON, The Shoe People. STJHDBIES, DuBSE P?RT8, , LEASING FITTINGS. BICES. Everything needed for a BICYCLE at Lowest Prices. The largest stock of such Goods carried by any House In the State. We are in a position to supply reliable Goods at LOWER PRICES than any one. General Distributing Agents for Morgan & Wright's TIRES and INNER TUBES. ardware Co W. W. SULLIVAN. Manager Bicycle Department.