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JV CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26. 189?. VOLUME XXXV-NO R ilver Dollars GIVEN BY I? O In vine C^,f\" ANDERSON, S. C. THE GRAND KEY AND TAG SALE ! j We have placed in our Store a handsome Oak Money-Box staining Silver Dollars. We have had made for us a number of Keys, some of fuich will unlock the BOX. With every CASE purchase of I? .00 will be given a KEY attached to a tag. Keys can be tried Tbe 1st May in each wi isp Sent, lsi, lad holders of Keys that unlock the box will be given Five 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. ! B. 0. Evans & Co, THE? SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. Over Two Hundred and Fifty WAGONSandBUGGIES To Arrive in next few Days. I am sole Agent and control thia territory for Old Hickory and Tennessee and other Wagons. Babcock, Tyson & Jones, Columbia and Columbus, and :any other makes. j These Wagons an? Buggies are j well known to you all, o don't buy a "pig la the poko" by buying something that is ?presented as being *j?st as good." < Wagons have advances 19,50 each, but to reduce my stock will continue to sell fo? thirty ?laye at sams old price. A first-class 28 t<4 Wagon for $48.00. The Celebrated "Columbia" Buggy, with Grade Wheels nd Dust Proof Astes for $60.00, worth $65.00. When they arrive I will sell you a first-class Piano-Body Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. Worth a good deal more, but mst be sold. While in the West a xew days ago I secured a line of Car agos at a price that will surprise you. I am in the Bugjry and Wagon* business to stay, and no se in the business can sell you cheaper than I can. I pay sot cash for my goods and get benefit of all discounts. Let every one that wants a vehicle call on me and I will URE BO YOU GOOD. JOS. J. FRETWELL. FRESH LOT OF MIST'S TURNIP SEED EVANS PHARMACY. m ?i r^-"*-^--.-cf-g 11- i WHEELMEN, ATTENTION I IF YOU WANT BICYCLES AND SUNDRIES F?B COST, Bring the CASH and call on THOMSON BICYCLE WORKS, 'JCHE BICYCLE PHOEBE. BOONE'S BLACK DIAMOND. The Big Scheme ls Being Seriously Considered. AYMVJ und Cuiir?-r. In this ?lay and generation when rail road projectors, builders, manipulators and managers aid abroad in every part of the laud, the public is kept guessing at what they will do next. So many things have come to pass in the world ot' traffic that a few years ago were re garded as wild va gillies that it requires some temerity to declare that any given scheme will not amount to something sooner or later. A few years ago, when Col. Albert K. Boone was first employed to boom and promote what im? since become known as his Iliac!: Diamond project, the affair was regard ed with no little derision by the traffic men ot the country. And now, while it cannot bc said that the Black Dia mond is by any means an assured en terprise, still there seems to be far more likelihood of its coming to some thing than people would formerly have supposed was possible. Col. Boone and his fellow promoters have gone steadily forward with their booming despite the incredulity of the profes sion, and of the world in general, until they have finally won for themselves and their enterprise serious considera tion. The Black Diamond is a long way from being built, of course, bnt railroad men are beginning to realize that it is one of the possible lines of tho next decade. Tho undertaking is a gigantic one, the plans of the projectors contem plating a'double track trunk line from the Ohio Uiver to the South Atlantic Seaboard, together with a veritable network of feeders that will tap the trade centres between Knoxville and Cincinnati. A great deal of money and energy have been expended in making surveys, securing franchises, obtaining charters, and in other preliminary work. And linaUy a few months ago a representative of English capitalists was brought to this country and taken over the proposed lines, and after all had been done and said it was finally announced that tho English syndicate was satisfied with thc showing made, and would supply the money to carry thc Black Diamond through. Even then very little general attention was paid to the scheme, many people be lieving that Sir Thomas Tancred and his backers were no more than neces sary factors in the plan of promotion which Col. Boone had mapped out for himself at the beginning. For a time nothing more was heard of the Black Diamond, but after awhile the getting of charters and franchises was resumed with renewed vigor, sur veying parties were put in the field, and an activity was evinced ali along the line by t&e prcgectors which could only have been born of confidence backed by considerable cold cash. And this is the situation at tho present time. The Black Diamond people go steadily forward, spending money and perfecting their pla?o as though it were an assured fact that their road was to be built, and this course of notion has gradually had the effect of bringing the publie to the opinion that possibly the enterprise Was, after all, not so vague and visionary as it was at first believed to be. Several hundred thousand dollars must already have been spent in furthering the under ! taking, and the impression is growing j that men who have been able to get that much money to iioat their scheme will be able to get more when the time comes to lay rails and buy rolling stock. But even should the actual construc tion of the Black Diamond ever begin it will not be at all certain that the road will be built as mapped out, for to accomplish all that Col. Boone has planned would require some $40,000, 000, and that is a great deal of money even in these days of trusts and gigan tic combines. A dispatch from Barnwell printed in the Sunday News announced that En gineer N. J. Kirk was there with a sur veying party, and that he was doing his work in so thorough a manner as to leave little doubt that some one was seriously considering the matter of building on it. Engineer Kirk openly acknowledged that he represented the Black Diamond people, and he said he was workiug out of Port Royal to the mountains. Many a road is surveyed that is never built, but when practical work of this kind is being done for the Black Diamond it gives that enterprise an importance which it has not possessed heretofore in this section of the country. Among the South Carolinians who have been interested in the Black Dia mond enterprise from its inception are several well-known business men and capitalists of Alabama, They have been on the "inside" from the begin ning, and they have always maintained that there was more in it than mere bluff and boom. Tatra lt more CaUrrh in tal? .MUOQ of tbs country than all other disc?tea pr.4 together, and ! until thc tali ferr years WM ?t;proscd to be Incur able. For a e^eat many ycart doctors pronounced it ?local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by consiacHy failing to core with local treat* uient, pronounced it incurable. Belenes has pro? ea catarrh to bm a constituUonal disoase. an? therefore require* eotuUtotlaaal treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Care, manufactured by P. J. Cheney 4 Co. Toledo,Ohio, it th? only constitutional cuio on tba market. It is take? internally la doses from 10 drops to . teaspoon ful. It acia directly on th o bloo?aod muedba mrflaees of tho system. They offer ono hundred dollars for any case it fails to core. Bend fer circulars' ead testimonial. Ad dress. P. J. CHENEY ? CO., Toledo, O. ?BJBold hy Druggists, 70c HluTs Family Pill s are the bnt. important to Teachers. Tho following has betMi issued from ; the office ol ihe superintendent of edit- '. cation : To Public School Teachers . To those teachers' win? dread the I standing of examinations for teachers' ! certificates of qualifient ion, the couuty ! summer school is a great relief. The j present rule of the State board of edit- , cation is that, no second grade ecrtiti- j cate can be renewed under any cir- i cumstances and a hist grade ccrtillcffto j cannot bo renewed unless the holder attends the summer school in the ? county or shows to the State board of education some satisfactory reason for j not doing si?. This law will be strictly i enforced. The county superintendent lins no option and cannot renew cor- ; ?iiicu?'s Iv persons y.iio have ::st at . tended the summer schools. Atten dance means presence every day of thc- ! session. Enrollment and presence for ono or two days are not sufficient tn I constitute attendance. Therefore if a teacher bas ? first grade certificate and will only- attend thc summer school faithfully, the cer tificate will be renewed from time to time indefinitely. If. however, for some reason not approved by the State bonrd of education the summer school is not attended, the teacher must stund before the county bonrd a new exami nation for a certificate. Au examina tion before tlu? county bonrd, if it cov ers thc subjects that by law nie re quired to be taught in tho public schools is no easy task. These subjects aro enumerated in thc act of thc legis lature and include "thc clements of agriculture, history of the Knited States and of this State, the principles of the constitution, and the laws of the United States and of this State, morals nnd good behavior, algebra, physiology and hygiene.'' In pursuance of a recent resolution of thc State board there will be BO ex amination for teachers' ccrtiiicatcs this year except during the last week of each county school, and this examina tion will be upon questions to he sub mitted by the State superintendent of education. If these questions arc made to test one's ability to teach the sub jects above noted, (and that ia certain ly tho purpose of thc law), then it is no easy matter to prepare for and pass this examination, especially when it is considered thnt, for the first grade certificate, tho law requires that ou the examination there must be attained a general average of not less than 80 per cent. It would be not only more profi table, but less laborious to study for a month, under capable instructors in a county school than to study privately for this examination. Even persons not holding teachers* certificates but intending to win them upon an exami nation will do well to go to the sum mer school and prepare themselves thoroughly in the branches that ^ili be taught there. Certainly ?ill who hold certificates had better comply with the terras that will enable them to secure renewals withont forfeiting certificates they now hold, and trusting to winning new certificates upon new examinations. Examinations should be made harder and harder OB educa tional conditions in our State are im proved and better educational oppor tunities are afforded to the teachers. It is in direct violation of the acts of the legislature if any teacher not holding a certificate of qualification is employed to teach in a public school. The county superintendent cannot law fully approve any pny warrant issued to such a teacher. If thero has been heretofore any laxity in this matter all will hereafter be put on notice that the law must be strictly enforced. All teachers who attend a couuty summer school ore requested to bring with them the text books that are used in the public schools of their. county upon the three subjects, English, (rend ing, language, grammar,) arithmetic and geography. Stress will be laid upon physical geography. None will be admitted to the school later, than seven days after the day of opening. None will be admitted exccpl actual teachers or those with thc expectation of immediately beginning to teach. JOHN J. MCMAIIAK, State Supt. of Education. The Apostle of Infidelity Dies. NBW YO?K, July 21.-Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll died suddenly nt his country home at Dobbs Ferry, New York, shortly after 12 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Ingersoll went to his rummer homo in Dobbs Ferry two days ago apparently in good health. Shortly after his arrival thero be complained of a slight indisposition. Ho spent this morning in his room and shortly before ho was stricken, hi? wife offer ed to have his luncheon sen*, np to him so that bc would not hiv o to walk down stairs to the dining: i Min below. Ile laughingly replied that while he did nat feel quite as well aa be used to, ho guessed he was not yet an invalid, and he wonld go with tho others. As he finished speaking and was ohout to rise, be fell back into hm chair. A physician wa? immediately summoned, bot when he reached the house he found that Mr. Ingersoll had dfed almost instantly. Tho physicians did not give the cause of death, bnt the family believe it was due to appoplexy. IMr. Ingersoll's wife and two daugh ters were with him when he died. Notice Ut Veterans. As provided by law, thc surviving soldiers and sailors in Anderson Conn-1 ' ty will? were in the service of thc Con- j:l federate States or of this Statt- aw 1 hereby called to meet in their respective " townships. Sat unlay, 5th day of August, . ut 4 p. m.. at their usual voting pre- * cincts. 1 And alto organizing by electing a x chairman and secretary, sluill elect by 1 a majority vote three of their members * or reputable citizens who are not appli- * ?.ants for pensions to constitute the 1 township examining board of pensions. 1 Tho said township board shall elect . one ot their members chairman. 1 Tho chairmen of the several town- 1 ship boards aro requested to meet at 1 Anderson C. II. Monday, Aug. Mb, IWW. J1 and ui'Kalil/.u t?> electing fi oin aiiluiig I their number a chairman and secretary, | 1 and when so organized shall elect by a majority vote four of their number and a regular practicing physician, who shall constitute and be known as the "-County Examining Hoard of Pen sions/* JOHN T. (?KKF.K, Ch'm. Anderson Co. Pension lld. J. .1. Cu.M Kit, Secretary. Ifoetor (?corge Brown. The front page of The Haiiirdai/ 7?V j ieir of July 15th, published in Atlanta, contains a huge picture of our hand some and genial friend, Dr. George Brown, formerly of Helton, this Coun ty, and on another page the following sketch by the editor appears. Ur. Brown has been a resident of the "tinte City" for a number of years, and is now one of the most popular and sue cessful physicians and surgeons in that city. Wc know his many friends in Anderson County will read this sketch with interest : A Mian's soul is "thc main concern. Ami the universe were small and mean without this one symbol of divinity. I am persuaded that, after all, the soul ful tints of this life must, inevitably paint the final canvas. And so, I um over nwnrc of thu winged zephyrs that the children of men have appropriated uuto themselves; and I like to watch the undulations and curious patterns swept over the human fields of corn. These palpitant hues preside in my vision-and I nm always alert for thc aimless combinations which make up the personality of au individual. Of these we should speak more often ;-for when civilization stops long enough to take an inventory of assets it will be found that individualism is short while tim agc is overstocked with a perverted socialism. This would be my excuse, were one needed, for the liberty 1 as sume in discussing persons. Dr. Geo. Brown is a unique character. Ho reminds me of other days, as I see them thro the lenses of some of our clever writers. Ile has never lost the divine thing called enthusiasm. Un consciously as a flower takes on its own paint and pattern, Dr. Brown grew according to thc purpose of Emerson's appeal. He is absolutely himself with out apology and without pose. The impulses of abandon-of poetic unrest -within bis soul blend sweetly with patient equipoise ; u happy boyishness unites with thc austere and mature thc result is nu ineffable charm of strong character-n manliness which attracts and helps. Professionally he calls to mind some what of A mb roi so Pare to whom he is not unlike in feature and facial expres sion. And when note is made of the vast difference in conditions which ob tained early in the 'sixteenth century from those of our day thc pofcssional career of Dr. Brown is even more strik ingly akin to that of the great surgeon of Laval, I do not speak of the special lines of work followed by each : nor -would 1 attempt to find likeness in thc discovery that made Parc the father of the actual renaissance of surgery ; but in the broader view-the impression istic idealism-of treating the two char acters in relation to the times and environments, and considering the generous and public spirited traits of the men, a most pronounced similarity is obvious. And 1 like to think that in these de generate days there arc souls which still possess thc freshness of fancy that mode the world to blossom as a garden in thc dear dim olden time. A physician who ministers unto thc stricken poor without leo or price, n man who with ever ready open palm is ready to help those less fortunate than he-and a man whose pure heart and high resolve embraces tho frailties and foibles of thc weak-who lovingly for gives and like Nature, forgets-who is ever building where smaller spirits would demolish, 'is unto thc weary world as a loving prince of light. As such I apprehend the soul of Dr. George Brown. Farmer Eilled bj his Son. MACON, GA., July 23.-A special to the Telegraph from Talbotton says Mr. J. W. Jones, a prominent farmer living near this place, was shot twice Tey his seventeen-year-old son last! night. One ball entered his right1 breast, broke one rib and passed through his right lung. The other en? temi the abdomen. Tho boy had 1 pulled some watermelons contrary to his father's instructions, and when the father attempted to chastise him, the lad drew his pistol and fired twice. Notice to Teachers. ? ?nt- Nounal has been in progress'] li ree weeks, lt has been of inealcul ible benellI to those who have at ended. lt will ?lose tm Saturday. Inly-.".tili. During the week beginning il outlay. July -Uh. instruction will be riven upon subjects bearing >n exam nation. On Saturday an opportunity viii be tillered to all white teachers in he county to stand au examination for ] .ertilicates. The questions in this ex unination will be upon the work ?lone n the Nounal. No other examination viii be held in the County ?luring this rear. The ('?ninty Hoard cnn renew he eertilieate of n?> one who ?loes not it tend this Normal, so l??t all touchers (vho can possibly do so spend the \v?'?*k lt the Nounal. i WV won|?l I?' glad io hnvi' i?verv I toucher anti every trustee in the County present on Thursday, 27th. lion. .1. .1. McMahau, ??ur Stat?* Superintendent <?t ?ducation, expects t?? be here on that lay ami li?1 would be pleased to meet ill th?' teachers ami trustees. Don't forget tlie examination on the ?Mitti. l?. E. NICHOLSON, ('??. Supt. Meetiug of the Epworth League. The monthly reception of the Epworth \ League ol' the First Methodist Church was hohl at the home of Colonel J. W. Trowbridge, on Whittier St.. Inst Fri day evening. A committee of youug ladies had ar ranged a delightful programme for the accasiou, consisting of music, recita tions, and a study of American naval heroes and army officers. Prizes were itwardetl to the person having the most correct list of unswers and (booby prize) t?i the one having the most in correct list. Mr. W. li. Osborne and Miss Maggie, lludgens, respectively, won the prizes. Everybody spent a pleasant evening ami appreciated the efforts of the young ladies who worked so faithfully to make tho evening a success. Tin? Epworth League, while organ i/.od by tho Methodist Church, does not exclude members of other denom inations from becoming members of it, but wishes to gather together a band of young people, especially, for their social and Christian development. IL A (trent Crop. The seasons have never before been so favorable to the corn crop of the west ns they have this year. Conse quently mi unprecedented corn crop is expected in the States which are the greatest corn producers. The total crop will probably go far above two thousand million bushels. Ft is estimated that Kunsas and Ne braska will between tlism r**iss about 575,000,000 bushels of corn, or more than 25 per cent of the entire crop. The value of th., product is estimated at about $120,000,000. These two Status will get for their corn crop about half aa much as a 9, 000,000-bale crop of cotton would bring at present prices. With the blessings of a year of plenty Nebraska is in a very different condi tion from what it was five years ago. Then the Siuie suffered from a terrible drouth,, which cut its corn crop down to less than 00,000,000 bushels and threatened starvation to many thou sands of its people. There would have been actual starvation in Nebraska that year but for the aid of the State government and generous contribu tions from other States. Georgia started this movement, and the people of every section Af thc State contribu ted to it. Three great train loads of provisions and clothing were sent to the Nebraska sufferers from Georgia and other Southern States contributed liberally. Kansas suffered severely thc same year, but not so badly as Nebraska. As a result of this affliction many thou sands of people left Kansas and Ne braska. It is believed that the popu lation of the former State is considera bly less than it was at tho last census, and that the population of Nebraska has hardly increased at all. Seasons are very uncertain in these States. They have had abundant rains this year; next year they moy have another blighting drouth. We are glad to know that they have such a superb corn crop now ripening. Thc South still buys corn largely in the West, though then; is no reason why she should do so. We quoted a few days ago from a bulletin of thc federal agricultural de partment a statement to the effect t hat tho South could with proper effort pro duce every pound of meat and every bushel of corn it needs, ami do so at a profit. Last year the com production of tho South was increased largely. Every Southern State, except Georgia, raised millions more bushols of corn in 1808 than in 1807. Seasons in thc South have not been favorable to corn this year, and we shall have to draw on tho magnificent crop of the West. Hut let us hope that tho time is not far distant when the South will pro duce it? own bread ind meat.-Atlanta Journal. Cheap Printing. Law Hriefs 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 printing to do. it will be to Sour interest to write to tho Press and tanner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. STATE NEWS. - A negro preacher has been ;i| . pointed postmaster at Florence. Tho penitentiary investigating committee will meet in (j reen ville on August 1st. Thc Supreme Court of this State has decided that no coustablc or other peace ollicer has a right to carry a con cealed weapon. - It has iieen determined to erect a new $40,0(10 city hall building in Co lumbia. - Adjutant ticncral Floyd calls at tcntion to the fact that nearly all thc military companies are officered ty Citadel graduates, and that th'9 should have a wholesome influence. C W . M. ^.Vi!!'.-.1.".!". i> Well -nowa lawyer of Bamberg, lately practicing law at Denmark, has been disbarred by tludgc Benet's decision from forever hereafter practicing his profession it. thc courts of South Carolina. - Marshall Irby has been convicted in Laurens County of thc murder of Abe McKinney. He was sentenced by Judge Townsend to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years. Irby i< a strong, healthy man, about thirty years of age. - A white boy who remonstrated with some negroes about robbing his father's watermelon patoh in Newberry County was attacked by the negroes and beaten so that he has died from the effects of it. - Mr. Pat Bowers, a farmer, was shot and killed from ambush in the upper part of Lexington County, S. C., on July 15. He had been on bad terms with some of his neighbors for a long while, but there is no clue as to the identity of his murderers. - The plans and specifications are being prepared for the improvement of the Congaree River nuder the pro viblon of thc last river and harbor bill. Condemnation proceedings arc in pro gress, and the chief of engineers ex pects the contract for the work to be let during the coming fall. - A poor widow, who had nothing else to give, sent a gold ohain, which was a gift from her husband, to be sold for the benefit of the Epworth Orphanage. At the Rock Hill District Conference Rev. G. H. Waddell read the letter which accompanied the ehain and $442.50 was raised on con dition that the chain be returned to the donor. - The revised list of the census supervisors for this State is as follows: J. W. Wheeler, of Charleston, who wanted to be postmaster; S. A Pearce, Colombia. These two are Republicans. The Democrats are: D. H. Russell, Anderson; Capt. George W. Shell, Laurens; T. J. Cunningham, Chester, and T. J. Breeden, Ben no tts vj ll c. - Mr. W. F. Clayton, seoretary of the Survivors of tbs Confederate States Navy, an organization which was perfected st th? Charleston Re union last Maj, hap begun -to collect data for a non-partisan history of thc Confederate navy. ld?. Clayton ex pee ts to prepare a. history with, twx sides to the story, North and South. -Governor M ?S wac ney B aa rece? vee the offer of an appointment of a bene ficiary to the School of Industrial An and Technical Design for Women, ai incorporated schcol in New York city lt may be such an opportunity ai some poor woman wishes, and if an] one wishes the appointment it woul< be well to communicate with Governo McSweency. The scholarship doe; not include board or materials. - The Seaboard Air Linc railroa< has purchased rails and other ma terials for the branch line from Cherai to Columbia. Thia line will use SO pound rails and will be completed b December loth. The Seaboard Ai Line system has made surveys for a extension form Columbia to August and has uuder consideration a plan t reach Charleston. There will bc a Sunday School Mai Meeting of Starr and Iva Circuit hcl at Smith's Chapel, August 5-6. Publ invited. The following is the pri gram : 10 a. m.-Religious exercises. 10.15-Song service lcd by Prof. J. '1 Milford. 10.80-Reports from Sunday School by Superintendents. 11 a. m.-Sunday School address fi lion. A. C. Lat i mer. Intermission for dinner. 2 p. m.-Singing, conducted by Pro J. T. Milford. 2.80 p. m.-Eolation of pastor to Sui day School, by Rev. S. B. Harper. 3 p. m.-Opening of query box ai general discussion. Selection of place for next raeetin Sunday nt ll a. m., sermon to Sundi Schools by pastor, O. M. Abnoy, B. 1 Let all the teachers and officers . Snnday Schools be present. _O. M. AHXEV, P. C. -. A wifo should never conceal un thing from her husband.-except h faults.