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CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, KEB UT A RY 22. 185M. YOI j I'M E XXXIY-NO. 85. GIVEN AWAY - BY Bo O. Evans & Co., ANDERSON, S. C. THE GRAND KEY AND TAG SALE ! We have placed in our Store a handsome Oak Money-Bps containing Silver Dollars. We have had made for us a number of Keys, some of which will unlock the BOX. With every CASE purchase of ?1.00 will lie given a KEY attached to a tag. Keys can he tried le First Satorilay ii ead ii after Sent, lsi, And holders of Keys that unlock the box will be given Five I Dollars as a present. This is a new and novel way we have of advertising and giving to our trade in Cash what we have heretofore paid for advertisng, with the hope the greater number will be benefited. 0. Evans & Co, THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. Over Two Hundred and Fifty To Arrive in next few Days. I am sole Agent and control this territory for Old Hickory and Tennessee and othar Wagons. Babcock, Tyson & Jones, Columbia and Columbus, and many other ms ikes. These Wagons and Buggies ?r?j weU known to you all, io don't buy a ""pig in the poke" by buying something that is represented as being "just as good." Wagons have advanced $2.50 each, but to reduct? ay stock I will continu? to sell for thirty days at same old price. A first-class 23 1-4 Wagon for?$45.00. The Celebrated "Columbia" Buggy, with Grade Wheels and Dust Proof Axles for $50.00, worth $65.00. When they arrive I wiU seU you a first-class Piano-Body "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. Worth a good deal more, but must be" sold. While in the West a few days ago I secured a line of Car nages at a price that will surprise you. I am in the Buggy and Wagon' business to stay, and no one in the business can seU you cheaper than I eau. I pay ?pot cash for my goods and get benefit cf all discounts. Let every one that wants a vehicle caU on me- and I will SURE DO YOU GOOD. JOS. J. FRET WELL FRESH LOT OF BUIST'S TURNIP SEED EVANS PHARMACY. WHEELMEN* ATTENTION f HF YOU WANT BICYCLES ANI> SUNDRIES XTOJBK cost? Bring the CASH and eal* on THOMAR BICYCLE! WORKS, THU BICVCJUE TOOPLB; BILL ARPS LETTER. Bill Tells About HU Wife's Departure from Home? Atlanta Constitution. . My wife, Mrs. A rp, hadn't been away I from home for two years. It is said that a setting hen never get? fat, but these human hens do, and so the girls thought their motlier ought to rouse up and go somewhere and take a rest. It was a great undertaking to get her oft'. It took a whole week to get her apparel in iirst-clnss condition for she wasn't raised on common clothes and won't wear them now especially when she goes abroad or to church. We tinni ly got her oil', though the train liked to have left her while she was saying good-bye and kissing all the little g. ndchildren. One ol' the girls went w?ta her, but I was to scatter around at home. Two weeks was the time she gave herself, for she says that is UB long as anybody ought to Btay any where on a visit, for sometimes folks wear out their welcome and don't know it. In fact ono week is thc safest. She went to Rome, where our oldest boy and his family live and where she lived for twenty-seven years. Some of her early friends are still there and they came to see her, of course, and talked about the dear old times until their eyes got teary and they drew their chairs a little closer and were merry and sad by Ivans ns they talked of the. living and the dead. On Sunday she went to our same old church and sat iu thc same old pew and drank in music from the same old organ, but the preacher and tho choir were changed. After service she was forced to hold a reception in the vestibule, where old friends and their children and grand children gathered around her, the friends to greet her and their children to look upon the matron ol* the olden time of whom they hod henrd. Yes, this wonderful woman who so gently dominated her lord and master and kept him so sweetly subdued that he liked the subjugation. She spent a delightful week and the programme for another was already arranged when on Saturday some bird of the air told her that I was sick and she could hardly wait for the evening train. I had been sick, but the crisis had passed and for fear she might hear it and cut short her stay I wrote her that I was getting well and to ilnish her rest. She is not that kind of a woman or wife, and sure enough about (?p.m. I happened to look out of the window and saw her coming up the lawn like she feared I would die before she got here. Then I had to tell her as how I was taken down on Wednes day for my sume o?? kidneys got belligerent again and wrestled with me and threw me and 1 had vertigo and lnmbago and embargo and my eye balls ached and how the doctor treated me heroically and scandalously and dosed me with something every two hour?-all different-and nobody can tell what cured rae. But all's well that ends well, amt now I am in for another lease. Of course an old wagon wilt break down ever and anon and has to be patched up and kept greased, or it can't go. By and by it will all collapse and tnrn to dust like the one-boss shay. And now here cornea the Philadel phia Record just to disturb my tran quility and aggravate ure into using more language on those yankee editors. I have already used np all my adjectives on Boston and never dreamed I would need any for the Quater Citv. The Record pretends to bo a democratic paper, bnt it han gota whole column' about the Anderson ville prison and its horrors, which it says have created a sentiment that will Inst as long ns time, and how the poor creatures were shot down like dogs and starved, and' had to dig wella twenty-five feet deep with' their hands and scraps of ?hells itt a vain effort to-gefc water to1 drink, etc. Well, it is awful' to rend, but I would' like to'kuow where those shells came from*-must have fed the boys on? oysters; , Yes, Blaine charged nil those horrors upon us itt a terrible speech, and Ben Hill replied to him in one of the great est speeches- of his life and refuted every charge and did it from the war record? and'* proved1 to tho world that Grant and Stanton and Lincoln were responsible for every death and nil the distress that occurred nt Anderson ville. They utterly ref used to exchnu ge prisoners with ns when importuned to do so for the sake of humanity, for Grant said that our men in northern prisons wonld'go back to fighting again. We begged them td send ns rations and medicine for their men and told "them that both inight be distributed by their own officers and surgeons. They re fused this and, of ?nnrge, their men died litte sheep, for we had no medi cines and our own rations were corn meal and salt pork. Bnt those prison - ers had just what their guards had. Ask the guards who still live. Ask Captain Hudson, of Marietta, one of the best of men, and he will tell you that the prisoners had everything that ho did and there was no inhumanity, but pity and sorrow for them and in dignation at the heartlessness of their government. Read Percy Gregg's chap ter on this Andersonville abd you will wonder t hat such indifference to the misery oftb/rir own soldiers could be found in any government upon earth. Mr. Gregg declares that if the great powcrs of Europe had have known it tliey would have been horror struck that the authorities at Washington were really the murderers of their own soldiers and they had to appease tho kindred of these soldiers by making a scape goat of poor Wirt and hanging him after a mock trial. And yet a man who signs himself au Atlanta Yankee writes me an insulting letter and tells me to hold up awhile and let the yankees alone, for the war is over. Well, then, let him call oft' his own dogs and write to his people to stop their lies about Anderson ville, and about the negro, and let us alone. I will quit wheu they quit, and until they repent and apologize I will cry aloud and spare not. Solomon says that a slanderer is a coward and I wouldn't reply to their slanders if it was not a maxim of the law, that silence under accusation is a partial'confession of guilt. And let me tell you, my brethren, that thc fire still burns in thc bosoms of the Confederate veterans and their children, and if disaster and conflict comes again to the people of the south it will not be saved by the politicians or the mongrel money-loving people of the cities, but by the common people the honest, fearless yeomanry who make up our rural population. Dr. Andrews, that gifted and noble north ern man, told the people of Chicago and again at New Orleans that the supreme court of thc nation had decided that every principle we fought for was just and legal and .just i tied by the con stitution, and Percy Gregg says they didn't dnre to try Mr. Davis for treason, for they knew that no court would con vict him. Hut enough of this for this time. I sec advertised a medicine that is war ranted to remove that tired feeling which sometimes overcomes n man, and I'm goiug to buy a bottle and try it, for these northern slanders make me tired half my time. And as I read them 1 unconsciously' whisper that's a lie. that's another lie and another. David says: "And I said in mine haste that nil men were liars." He might have said it at his leisure if he had lived up north till now and rend the northern daily papers. And we sec that McKinlay has ap pointed another negro postmaster in Alabama. Tried to shove it on him, but the negro wouldent accept it. That's the man our bootlickers were slobbering on while he was inarching through Georgia. May the Lord have mercy on us and protect us from our own politicians. HIM. ART. White Men in the Ti-opteft. The evil effects of hot climates upon the white race arc being rapidly con quered by science. Indeed, even with our present imperfect knowledge, a colony of our own planted upon thc Isthmus of Darien to-day would not be annihilated by climate ns waB the Scotch colony placed lhere in 1698, and, with the rapid advance of sanitary sci ence, it is probable that twenty-five years hence an American farmer will be able to cultivate land in the tropics with less danger to his health than was encountered by his father in ploughing the valley of the Wabash or the semi tropical valleys of California a quarter j of a century ago. An expert points out that the tem perate zones are being filled up by the white race, ami that the richest and Most productive part of this prunet is ra the tropics. Our conclusion from these statements is that the necessary trend of the white race, in its geogra phical extension and distribution will be toward the tropics, and' with the necessity will come the means. The anBwer to Mr. Kidd's claim that India has been made habitable only for an official doss, is-that as yet there has never been any necessity to make it so for any other class. The Chinese, driven forth by thc pressure of their dense population, have succeeded in living and prospering iu great numbers in all climates, from- those of Arctic severity on the borders of Siberia to the torrid' rice swamps of .Iii va and Sumatra. Is it not probable that, with Science at our command, wo shall be able to* solve the same problem of life cven'ihore successfully? Thc human' species took'its rise in the tropics. The spell of longing for southern climes, so common to most of us', tlic pleasures we nil d?rive front tropical landscapes, and the survival in us of many other such ancestral traits; show that we have not yet ber come eutirely unadapted' to them. In' our wanderings in thc temperate /.one we have found the mine of modern science, and with the vast, accumula tions we have made from it we can now return to and rehabilitate the old home.-Thc Forum. Tbere is more Cat ?rrh ia this section of the country thu all other diseases put together, and Until toe last few years wat supposed to be incur able For a great many years doctora pronounced lt a local disease, and prescribed local rem?dies, and by constantly fading to cure with local t r?ar ment, pronounced lt incurable. Selene* has prov, en catarrh lo be ? constitutional disease, and therefor? requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A. Co. Toledo, Ohio, ia the only consiltuttonal euro on tho market. It ia taken Internally in do*cs from 10 drona to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the oy stem. They Offer one hundred dollars for any case it fail? to core. Send tor circulars and testimonial. Ad? drei*. F. J.CHENEY ?CO..Toledo, O. **_Sold by I>rugglats. 7?c Hall'a Family Pills are the best. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 00 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style If you have print inp to do. it will bo, to four interest to write to the Press and tanner. Abbeville, S. C. tf. AU Checks Must ho Stamped. WASHINGTON, July 14.-Couituissiou er Wilson, ot tho internal revenue, has issued u circular absolutely prohibiting banks from affixing (stamps to check? unstamped when presented, and re quiring them to return the same to tho drawers. In his circular to collectors the commissioner says: "You are directed to notify the banks that ave guilty of stamping unstamped checks that if the practice is not imme diately discontinued they will be re ported to the I'nited States district at torney tor prosecution. "The. instructions contained in treas ury decision No. 10,000, under date of June 20, 1808, to the effect that there was no objection to thc affixing by the bank of the requisite stamps to au un stamped check presented for payment, is hereby revoked. "Then instruction was given to meet au emergency immediately preceding the taking effect of the Stainpt Act of July t. 1808, in order to obviate the ne cessity of returning by the banks of thousands of unstamped checks issued by drawers in ignorance of the law. The law being now generally under stood, there is no further need of such permission." This action was taken upon infor mation that curtain banks had adopted thc practice of not requiring stamps, as an advertisement to secure patronage, as against rival bank*. Bars in Havana. 1? J b P P 1< ti h V ti I il v o a ti 8 < I 1 1 t S I i ll f i a "Speaking <?f hot times in Havana," said auother resident who lately re turned from thc island Capital, "I was very much impressed by a statement which was made to me by the propri etor of a baraml rafe near the Hotel Gran Pasaje. In Havana, you know, or perhaps you don't know, all the bars are supplied with small tables and chairs, where their patrons can ail down and drink and talk at leisure. The 'vertical driuking* generally indulged in here is uhuost unknown Well, I fell in with rather a jolly crowd one evening, and we made the rounds of a number of bars, all georgeously fur nished and all apparently doing a land office business, lt was a hard thing to hud a table unoccupied, and the place near the Gran Pasaje was particularly crowded. We were introdueed to thc proprietor, who proved tobe a pleasant fellow, and incidentally 1 congratulated him upon his good fortune. ' He shrug ged his shoulders. "'It is fair, seuor,' he admitted, 'but nothing to what it was when the Span iards were here.' I was surprised, and he volunteered some particulars. 'Since the Americans came,' he said, "we have been forbidden to sell liquors to private soldiers, and when the Spaniards wi?re here the private soldiers had no money to buy. Consequently the most of my trade has always been among the offi cers, and I have had a good chance to compare tbe two nationalities. During the time of Weylcr and Bianco this place war. a mint. You could not be lieve the business I did. It was mar vellous. Every table was crowded day and night, and nothing was too fino or expensive for ray customers. You could sail a warship in the champagne they drank, aud, as I say, tho thing never stopped a minute, but wen t right on from night till morning and from morning till night. " 'Folks claim that the Spanish sol diers were paid beggars'" wages. That may "be so, but the Spanish officers cer isarnly had money, and plenty of it. How did they get it! Quien sabe? Now tliat my customers are Americans, bus iness has fallen off75 percent. The crowds seem large, but they spend lit tle. A party of officers come in; they buy a fVw glasses of beer, and fallt for an hour. Those were good'times-when thc Spaniards were fighting the Cubans. Everybody knows that Weyler's.army could have ended* the war in a week, but nobody wanted it done. It was too profitable. They did just enough fighting to keep up the farce--that is to say, about one skirmish every, ten days, which the correspondents kindly mnde into at least twelve battles. Meanwhile the officers and their friends drank wine. They were good times." .Vn'r Orlranx Ti nu-*-Democrat. -mtT ?. t?l ---? Steam Still King. Several years ugo when the first suc cessful1 experiments were made with electricity as a motive power quite a number or scientific men predicted that it would supercedc steam ns the king of motors before the end of the cen tury. It was asserted with much con fidence that electricity would be em ployed to move ears over ali lines of railway and the steam locomotives would become as obsolete as the old fashioned stage coaches. It will be remembered that lines of electric rail way were projected to connect New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washing ton and Baltimore, and there was much talk about the lightning-like rapidity with which trains would transom t pas sengers from one city to another. It was said at the time that an electric train would run 100 milos an hour with perfect ease, and could be made to ex coed that speed. Experimental tracks were laid at various localities where j electricians endeavored to explain thc I correctness of their theories, but the tracks have disappeared and the power houses have been dismantled. - For disobedience tho small boy I frequency takes the palm. Mic. Komm: Allow mc. il you leane, H word concerning I lie (J ra nd my's report on the condition of thc (M?ks in the ofliec of the County Su erintendent of Kducntion. First. The present incumbent rc ortcd that I. being the predecessor, ?ft the booka in mi unfinished eondi ion. This is true. Ile did not report, owever, that I left $13.80 in tho Sn ervisor's ellice for him as compensa - iou for the work left for him to do. feel sure that au energetic mnn could 0 that work in two days, three nuy ray. Mr. Nicholson availed himself 1 this money Feb. 2ttrd, and tells me ow he is satisfied with the compensa? ion. I. therefore, fail to see why 1 houldbe putin this light before thc ! rand Jury. j Now, my reasons for mu having the tooks posted up to date of transfer, .'he best of men make clerical errors, found it more convenient to write up he bunks after the rushing season of choolbusiness. Moreover, I could the tetter correct any clerical errors ninde n the haste ol' a busy day with the aiblic. My predecessor, a good, faith til officer, turned over the books to MIC II the same unfinished condition. 1 vrote them up without compensation md without complaint to the (irand lory. 1 supjiosc he had the same good easons. He and 1 both were very msy men during the school term. Second. The day 1 turned over thc looks to my successor. I called his ittention to the discrepancies eom ilained of. I said to him : "1 will he msy now, and yon are not yet familiar vith the books. When you get ready 0 take up the mutter drop me a card ind I will come over and give you the icnelit of my knowledge of entries." have not yet heard from Mr. Nichol on bearing on this subject. I do not inderstand why lie should lend thc 3rand Jury to believe tin* discrepancies 1 serious matter, when he did not istcein it serious enough to ask light if those who lind information by which ?very item might, be verified. lt will ill come right when the ex-Treasurer | lompletes thc transfer of his books to lis successor. Hail Mr. Nicholson mown more nbout the books he would lave seen the matter in quite a differ ent light. He is excusable. Third. The report anya, "Apparently he County Superintendent would Iraw a warrant against a certain dis rict when he intended to draw it igainst another." Further on its eon - .lunion is that "perhaps some districts lave lost by reason thereof." Let na euienjber that a County Superinten lent never issues a warrant. T never lid. Trustees issue warrants. After marching the whole year's work Mr. Nicholson found one claim for $i0 or M2 hem ing the wrong number. Whoso ?rrorwasit? If you look on my book roxi will find thc correct number. The mateo mistook his own number, and I ailed to notice that he had placed ipon the warrant the wrong number. )ne warrant, this out of moro than a housaud, and yet it is magnified until he Grand Jury is led to fear that 'perhaps some districts have lort by eason thereof.'' I would not notice hie), but some may fear their funds lave disappeared. Mr. Nicholson, with ill his bright, quick ways, failed to see hat there was absolute protection in he correct figure which stands on my took. Verily, some of the fearful and unbelieving may be alarmed. Finally, let mc assure the people of Lnderson County that their school ands are not in jeopardy. I will take ileasure in showing this to thc Grand fury's committee, and they must see it ?ofore the next term of Court. Respectfully, A. W. ATTA ww. Hu Dian Being or Monkey .' Cnn Ado, July 10.-A special to the tribune from Honesteel, S. I)., says: 'non thc question whether his victim rna brute or human depends Archie I. Hrowei's- guilt or innocence of the rime of murder. Hrower was one of he owners of-a small tent show, which ame here forexhibition. Among other ttractions w as a creature of seemingly higher form of animal life than a lOnkey, and HrOtver and Thorndyke ulled the animal the "Missing Link," nd laid great' stress on the alleged fict that, noone was abb; to sa3' whether (belonged to the human or tho brute rent ion. Hrower now avers thal the renk was a monkey. In a scuffle the showman oceanic ngry and ' seizing a heavy club dealt is antagonist u hard blow over the ar, from the effects of which he died ii a few hours. Thc local authorities immediately laced Hrower under arrest on a charge f murder. At the preliminary hearing is lawyers set up thc defence that heir client did not take the life of a muan being, but the magistrate bound im over to the Grand Jury. - An all-around writer ought to be blc to get up a good circular. - Hunger is a terrible thing, but [>mc men oonsidcr thirst more so. - The silent watches of the night aug in front of jewelry stores. - Only a strong-minded woman can cep her calendar torn oft up to date. - The good may die young, but th ad nearly always outlive their uae iiloess. - The man who goes through life lone generally has poor company. STATE NEWS. Thc State Alliance meets io Co httnbia next Wednesday, 2<?th inst - Judge Charles II. Simonton hun returned from his Kuropcan trip much improved in health. - Mr. Noah Y. Wilson, of Lexing ton, was accidentally killed by a rail road train at Wiunsboro, S. C. - Work has been be^un on the oil j mill at Hcnnettsvillc and its size and capacity will be the second in tho State. j - The State Hoard of Control ha? set apart twenty-five thousand dol?an of the Dispensary profits for school purposes. - An old Confederate soldier at Gaffney has a piece of shinbone cut from a yankee that he killed while oa the picket line. - Ninety six car loads of melons were shipped from Columbia to thc North over tho Southern Hallway oa Saturday morning. - Thc Baptist college of Orango burg has received a gift of $10,(MW from a weli-known citizen who does not give his name. - James F. Thompson has bee? lodged in the Spartauburg jail, ch arg cd with beating his little six-year-old step daughter to death. - The postoflicc at Mosley waa broken into Thursday night. Seven dollars in money was taken from Post master I'olger's desk. No trace of the robbers has been found. - The domestic shipments of phos phate rock from the port of Charleston since September 1st, 'M8, to Juno 30, 'UH, aggregated 811,077, an in?rense of H,li)7 tons over tho corresponding period last year. - Jesse Kohn, a negro, shot and killed his wife at Timmonsville. Kobo is a consumptive and was in bed at thc time of thc shooting unable to take care of himself. It is said he was crazed with jealousy. -*? J. T. Cunningham, a Hell tele phone linemau, met with an awful death in Columbia last Saturday by tallinn; from a high polo on which he was stringiug telephone wires. Ho broke his neck, and death was instan taneous. j - During a storm in the Harris, j Creek section, ridgefield county, on I Mr. Samuel Miller's place, Lucy Kop Jr was killed by lightning. Sho lived alone and was in the act of cooking her evening meal when 'struck by lightning. - Gov. MoSweeney has refused to pardon Jones, the murderer of the Prsssley family in ridgefield. Every governor in recent years has been im portuned to pardon Jones and all of them have aoted just as Governor Mc sweeney did. Some of thc petitions have boen strongly backed. - The Southern Railway has let. the contract for building three larg? warehouses at their water terminus in Charleston. The floor room will cover nearly two acres, and will be large enough for present needs. When completed the road will be able to haudle big shipments for foreign ports. - An artesian well in Marion, S. C., has been giving people fever. The town authorities sent on samples of water from their shallow wells and from the cacp well to a New York chemist, lie pronounced the shallow wells all right, but said that thc dead ly microbe had polluted the water from the deep well. - Mr. Thomas Marrett and wife, living in the South Union neighbor hood, were badly burned on Sunday night, July 'ind, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The flames enveloped Mr. Marrett's head, shoulders and arms, burning his beard and thc hair of his head off, while his arms and hands suffered terribly. His wife, too, was badly burned on her arms and hands. The timely assistance of Mr. S. M. Crawford, who was near at hand, prevented what otherwise might have proved a fatal accident to both parties. -> Colonel George McDuttie Miller died at his home near Ninety-Six last Wednesday night and was buried on Thursday afternoon. He had been sick for several weeks. He succeeded J. Foster Marshall as colonel of Orr's Hilles, and served throughout the war and was wounded four Limes, twice severely. He was in some twelve severe battles and was captured after the fall of Petersburg and imprisoned at Johnson's Island along with Colonel Joseph Brown, of Anderson, and ex Governor McDaniel, of Georgia. He was an efficient officer and brave and gallant soldier. He was an elder ia thc Presbyterian Church. He leaves a wife and a large family of children. -mm 9 mm> - The crooked horse race is the re sult of a laok of straightness in th J human race.