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BY CL?NKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2,1899. * VOLUME XXXV-NO. 6. O. Evans & Co., ANDERSON, S. C. THE GRAND KEY AND TAG SALE ! t > We have placed in our Store a handsome Oak Money-Box containing Silver Dollars. We have had made for us a number of Keys, some of which will unlock the BOX. With every CASH purchase of 11.00 will be given a KEY attached to a tag. Keys can be , tried le Brm May i ml ii aller Sept. 1st, And 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 Ct sh what we have heretofore paid for advertisng, with the hope the greater number will be ?benefited.. . Evans & Co, THE= SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. I" -----^ Over Two Hundred and Fifty 3UGGIES To Arrive in next few Days. I am sole Agent and control this territory for Old Hickory and Tennessee and other Wagons. Babcock, Tyson & Jones, Columbia and Columbus, and many other makes. These Wagons and Buggies arej well known to you all, so 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 reduce my stock I will continue 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 will sell you a first-class Piano-Body "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. Worth a good deal more, but mvist be sold. While in the West a few days ago I secured a line of Car riages at a price that will surprise you. I am in the Buggy and Wagon* business to stay, and no one in the business can sell you cheaper than I can. I pay spot cash for my goods and get benefit of all discounts. Let every one that wants a vehicle call on me and I will SURE DO YOU GOOD. JOS. J. FRETWELL. FRESH LOT OF BUIST S TURNIP SEED. EVANS PHARMACY. WHEELMEN, ATTENTION ! IF YOU WANT BICYCLES AND SUNDRIES FOR COST, Bring the CASH and call on THOMSON BICYCLE WORKS, THE BICYCLE PEOPLE. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp Answers Some Inquiries About t?e Present Season. A Ila il la ConslH H lian. lt seems to mc that I had better an swer some of these interesting ques tions through the far-reaching medium of the press. Here are three inquiries from among your readers who wish to know something definite about these so-called dog days. Of course, T know only what I get from books, but a vast multitude have not the books nor ac cessio them. Whether the advent and the influence of dog days be a .super stition or a fact, all thar is known should bc disseminated. Pliny and Herodotus both wrote about dog days 400 years before Christ. Ancient astronomers and modern ones agree in ascribing to Sirius a very malignant influence when it arises in conjunction with the sun, for it is thc brightest star in the heavens and its great heat added to tho heat of thc sun increases and intensifies the tem perature as long as this conjunction continues. But this rising with the sun is not a fixed day. It varies from the yd of July to the 15th of August and hence the almanac makers take an average day and set down July 20th as the first dog day. Some date it July 24th, but these dates may miss it two or three weeks. It is generally be lieved that these dog days continue for forty days, but in fact that is an indefinite period, for the conjunction of Sirius with the sun sometimes lasts for fifty-four days. The sum of the whole matter is that about this time of the year we may look for very hot weather ?and showers almost every day, and to call it fodder pulling weather would be as good a name as any. Whether Sirius has anything to do with it or not we can only surmise, but Sirius is the dog star and gave the name. Sirius is the very brightest star in the heavens, and is in the mouth of a big dog-a constellation that the ancient astronomers named canis major. The ancient Egyptians mapped off the starry heavens with imaginary animals and men, such as dogs, bears, dragons, bulls, Hercules, Orion, etc., and the names they gave to groups of stars have never been changed. There is a big dog and a little dog, a big bear and a little bear, a big dipper and a little dipper. Right in the tip of the tail of the little bear is' a very notable star called the Pole star, or North star, that navigators used to sail by and they called it Cynoskuros, which in Greek means a dogtail. From this name we have the word cynosure and so when we say of a beautiful woman in an as sembly that she was the cynosure of all eyes it is equivalent to saying that she was the dog tail of the concern. Just how the sailors got to calling this star the dogtail is not known, for it is really in ursa minor, the little bear's tail. The ancients gave many names to the stars to fit the things in nature that they resembled. The word comet comes from cometus, which means a mare's tail. The word lunatic comes from luna, the moon, for the ancients believed that the mind was affected by changes in the moon. Those old Egyptians were very imaginative and superstitious, but they were very learned. How they got so far ahead of the Hebrews, God's favorite people, we do not know. Their astronomy, math ematics and architecture have never been improved. The scriptures tell us that Moses was learned in all the wis dom of the Egyptians. Job asks: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion".'" Amos calls them the seven stars and mythology names them the seven sis ters^but modern astronomers say there never were but six and there are only six now. Hence the superstition about the lost Pleiad. Their "sweet in fluences'' are said to come from the fact that whenever seen in thc heav ens it is a sign of good weather and a safe time for vessels to sail, for pleian means a sail. 11 is like the pretty word halcyon that literally means duck egg time, for the eider duck never builds its neston thc cliffs hythe sea until pleasant weather conies to stay for tin season. Hence the word als thc sea and eon an egg. But I reckon this is enough about dog days. It isa relief in these troubled times to have something to write about besides the Philippines and war scan dals aud mobs up north and lnnchings down south and Kentucky politics. There are good people everywhere who would love to live in peace with their neighbors and the rest ol* mankind, but some folks are possessed with a devil nowadays, just like they used to be and there is nobody to east him out. The people feed upon excitement more than they used to do. Communities want sensations and politicians and preachers can be found who get them np. Governor Northen had hardly got the Ilostonians soothed down before that Miss Jewett gets up a counter irritant and wants to raise; a thousand dollars to come to Charleston ami move the Baker family to Boston. Why. it won't take more than a hun dred. They can be sent without lier coming if they ure willing to go. There's a nigger in that woodpile, sure. She either wants to marry one or put $000 of that money in her pocket. Wonder if she wouldn't like to conic to Early county and take away a few more or phans. The way they do things down in Karly sui's our people generally. Suppose lyn? ?ling does not stop these outrages, lt* a rattlesnake bites a man we kill thc snake. I f a tiger carries off a child to tho jungle thc brute is pur sued and killed. These negro brutes are infinitely worse than snakes or tigers and have more sense. Suppose, they arc not i den tilted according to law, no good negro is in danger and the bn J ones are of no consequence, The devil gets them a little sooner, that's all. Let the north howl. They have howled before. Let Thurber issue Iiis ipse dixit. Ne has made mil lions out of the south andi hope our people will boycott him. The impu dent, impertinent, conceited swell. Sucii utterances of his don't jostle the wagon. Thesoutli is just rolling along as usual. The north is having their bloody strikes and rows and riots and we have a lynching for every outrage, so let the procession proceed. The difference is that, with us no good citi zen, white or black, is in danger, but up north everybody is in danger. 'Life and property at Cleveland have been wantonly destroyed and the innocent have suffered more than the. guilty. What dres Thurber care so he can keep his government contracts to*furnish the anny with canned goods? Inger soll never painted a more pitiful pic ture than thc iniquity, the horrors and the tears of that Philippine war. It was enough to convince even him that there is obliged to be another world, a judgment to even up things. Of course, thc professional military men are for war. Blood and tears are nothing with them. Victory? fame and promotion are their sole ambition, and like Satan in "Paradise Lost,'1 they exclaim, "My voice is still for war." We are long suffering people. An other London paper has been sent to me called The Christian. Almost all of it is good orthodox reading, but an American correspondent gives a long catalogue of our recent horrible lynch ings in the south and among them is a negro man from G ri Min for asking for a drink of soda water and a white gir eight years old lynched at Hampton, Ga., for no known cause. An English man traveled from Atlanta with one of our townsmen and said: "Why, these negur-ros seem to be quite happy and very well clad. I hear them laughing merrily around the dapos. I had sup posed they were very miserable indeed. Did you ever kill a negur-ro.'" No, sir; no, sir. Why do you ask me that question?'' "Well, I had supposed that almost every man in the south killed one or more negur-ros every day or two." Now there it is. The man was in earnest. Ida Wells and her sort made them believe those lies and this man Thurber is backing them up. The very paper that published his speech and had in big head lines, "The Inse curity of Life and Property at the South," had in the next column 'More Troops for Cleveland," and the Catholic bishop says "Anarchy reigns. Riot prevails! Visitors fear to enter our portals. Our citizens are in danger of their lives," etc. Thurber can't see that. Never mind, we will give them Early county now for chewing gum. BILI. Aur. The Latter Day Saints. ATLANTA, GA., July 2b.-A special to the Journal from Jackson, Ga., says: The three Mormon elders who were taken away from the home of William Cunnard, at Newton Factory, in Jasper County, on Wednesday night escaped from the mob while crossing a creek in that county and an; now safe near Jackson. They are suffering from many bruises and injuries sustained in a tight with their captors. They swam down the creek, hotly pursued by the mob, finally escaping, making their way through the country to the home of friends. From there they sent for some clothes. They tell a thrilling story of their experience, lt is not thought here that the mob intended to lynch the Mormons, but was bent on escorting them out ot the country. Mrs. Cunnard, a portion of whose jaw was shot away in the tight with the mob and her husband, is badly wounded. The World's Financial Centre. The United States is already the largest of the Christian nations of the world in point of population except Russia, lt is far ahead of Russia and every other country, including Eng land, in wealth, lt is growing faster than Russia in population, and will soon overtake that country. In manu facturing, it has led England, ?Vilich previously held the world's primacy in this important respect, for the past twenty years, ?ts material resources are greater than are those of any other country. The money market of New York has been more abundantly sup plied than that of London in the past six months, notwithstanding the im mense expansion which has taken place in this country in general business in that time. Rates for money have re mained steadier in New York than in London. These arc a few ol" the rea sons why some of the great monetary transactions which formerly would have been negotiated in London now take place in this country. The star of empire, which has already carried the centre of the world's wealth and moral influence to this side ot the Atlantic, is swinging thc centre of the world's tiuancial gravity also to the American Republic-St. fioui* tUohr fMnion'fit. Antun Items. The languid looks ot! thc people were somewhat relieved last week by the timely visit ol' a good rain. Crops are looking line and promising in this community. The revival services at Sandy Springs, owing to the ill health of the pastor, will not begin until Thursday morning at ll o'clock. Thc patrons of the Sandy Springs school arc requested to meet at the Sandy Springs school house on Satur day, the 12th of August, to make ar rangements for the building of a new school house at that place. Please attend, and let's work together in order that wc may secure the best results. The Sandy Springs Literary Socioty will meet on the next 3rd Saturday evening at.s o'clock. The subject for discussion is, "The great need of thc day." The public is cordially invited to attend. Miss Minnie Blackman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Blackman, is still very ill. May the farmers still continue to re ceive part of their blessings in the | shape of rain. Bon AMATKUK. I Dean's Brevities. The blessed and long-waited for rain has come at last and revive the crops. The health of this vicinity is very good. "No sickness so far as I am aware of, with the exception of "heart disease," caused by the wounds of Cupid's darts. Mr. Wilton C. Dean met with a pain ful accident by getting his knee hurt, but is able, with the aid of crutches, to be out again after several weeks con finement to his bed. Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Barnes, of Lown desville, S. C, came up last Saturday evening to spend a few days with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Dean. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Traylor, of Au gusta, (ia., and Mrs. John Hopkins, of Piercctown, S. C., are on a visit with their parents. Mr. Berry Holland, of Lavonia, Ga., was in our vicinity visiting friends. Rev. ll. C. Ligoii and son were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Dean re cently. Miss Valeria Cliukscales was the guest of Miss Pearl Dean last Sunday. Mrs. U. E. Seybt, of your cit}-, is vis iting Mrs. Annie E. Beaty. Miss Eva Lewis, of Anderson, is vis iting Miss Ida Beaty. Misses Florence Cliukscales and Louise Ligon were the guests of Miss Lula Dean recently. Mr. Ira Hamilton, of I va, S. C., made a dashing trip up here lately. Miss Lucy Dean is off on a visit to Mrs. Bowman at Iva for a few days. Mr. DeWitt Dean is erecting a nice dwelling house near Dean's. Mr. Charles Porter, of Iva, made a flying trip here lately. Miss Nancy Terry and Mr. C. B. Allen, of Anderson, were the guests of Mr. and MTS. J. \V. Mattison last Sun day. Rev. Kinard has commenced the holi ness meeting at Starr, and will continue for several days. . With best wishes for the INTELLI GENCER and its readers. NEA i). -mm m m* Denver Dots. Again death has entered in a happy home circle and carried away the pride ?Mid joy of the household.? Little Sal lie, aged 14 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hammond, died on the 27th ult., after an illness of three weeks with cholera infantum. The family has the sympathy of our com munity in this sad bereavement. Mrs. Hammond is better, though far from well yet, and Mr. Hammond is not in f*ood health. We hope they may soon )e restored to health. Mr. Wm. Elrod has been quite sick, but we are glad to sec him able to be out again. Mr. H. A. Buchanan and sister, Miss Leila, Mr. Sylvester Elrod and Mr. ami Mrs. Albert Farmer, an* having a pleasant outing over in Northeast Georgia, visiting Toccoa and Tallulah Falls and other places of inter?s);,. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison have just re turned from a pleasant visit to rela tives in Greenville County. Miss and Mr. Simpson, of Greenville, have been visiting friends and rela tives in our community. Air. Sam Harris, of Belton, was seen in Denver Sunday-. He finds great attraction about herc. We rather think he enjoyed waiting fort?n; train that never pulled in-at least, not till too late. Mr. Kniest Browne accompanied his aunt, Mrs. Paxton on a visit to rela tives in Georgia last week. Protrattted meetings will commence at Welcome and Sandy Springs next Sunday. Wc hope they will be well attended ami much good be done. Kev. Mr. Daniel gave a splendid educational address at Sandy Springs last Sabbath. IXCOOXITA. mm t mm ? ? ? Pisgah Items. Going to pic-nics and protracted meetings is the order of the day. Misses Ella and Bessie Webb, from near Flat Kock, visited the family of Air. J. M. Webb recently. On the evening of the 22nd ult. death entered our midst and bore away the spirit ofour oldest citizen, Mr, John nie Smith. He was sick only a few weeks and death came to his relief. He was a devoted member nf the Beulah Met hodist church, a concecrated Christian, a kind husband and affec tionate lather. The bereaved family have our sympathy. Miss Rosa Davis has been visiting her grandmother. Misses Emmie ami Minnie Webb vis ited their friend. Miss Maggie Algood. last Sunday night. We have been having some line weather on the farms in this commu nity. Several of our men are getting ready for a mountain trip to Asheville. A protracted meeting will begin at this place tile second Sunday in Au gust. Miss Nollie Walters, of Greenville; is visiting the family of Mr. W. C. Scott. ?lfjtt'*1!?81 Mr. W. 0. Callahan), of Piedmont, is visiting his parent. Mr. M. W. Calla ham. Fruit ami vegetables are very scarce in this community. Miss Maggie Davis is visiting rela tives in and around Belton this week We wish her a pleasant tri]). COCNTUV CKACKKR. - ? mt - This is Bad Neus. NEWPORT NI:W>. YA.. July 30. There are thirty cases of what is be lieved to be genuine yellow fever at the National Soldiers' Home, near Hampton, and three deaths from thc disease were reported tc-day. There ? were several other deaths at the insti tution yesterday, but it cannot be stated to-night that all of them were caused by yellow fever. Newport News ami Hampton will quarantine against (lie Soldiers' Home. Thc Gov ernment authorities at Old I'oint have already adopted this step, and no street cars are allowed to enter the reserva tion. Quarantine Officer Hobson, of this port, went to the Soldiers' Home to-night and verified the statement that there-are now thirty cases of the diseaseat thellome, andthattherewere three deaths from the malady to-day. while no one outside of the Soldiers' Home knew anything about the exis tence of the yellow fever until to-day, it is said that the disease made its ap pearance three days ago. The most rigid quarantine regulations will be enforced to prevent the spread of the malady. The news has created great excite ment, in Newport News, Old Point and Hampton, and the most vigorous measures were resorted to pr?ventifs spread. There are 4,000 veterans at Home, and several large excursion parties went through it last week. A Traitor's Awful Death. KANSAS ?ITY, Mo., July 27.-The tragic scene which attended the death of Corporal Leonard F. Hayes, Amer ica's only traitor in the Philippines, was witnessed by Sergeant George A. Lamarsh, of Co. li, Twentieth Kansas volunteers, now in this city. Corporal Hayes, he says, became enamored of a Filipino beauty and de serting his comrades, was placed in charge of a Filipino battery with the rank of lieutenant. He met his death almost in the first engagement in which he fought against his country. Speak ing of this battle, Sergeant Lamarsh said: "We had charged the Filipinos, driving them back and killing and wounding many. Among the wounded left on the field we found Hayes. He was recognized by several of the boys. One of the soldiers of the Second Ore gon drove his bayonet through the body of the wounded traitor and lifted him above his head and held him there while the soldiers shot him. The body was thrown into a trench and buried with several dead Filipinos. We would have treated him worse if we had known how." Hayes was a corporal in Co. I, First Colorado volunteers. An Enterprising Partridge. A report of a peculiar occurrence in bird life reaches the city through reli able parties. Mr. Ralph Wise lives seven miles from Walker's, his post office, being. Money, S. C. It was on hi8place that the occurrence is reported. Several weeks ago one of his hens made a nest back of the barn and laid several eggs therein. The nest was discovered by paitridges, which proceeded to lay a number of eggs in the same place. A cur on the place also found the nest and sucked all the eggs. Upon dis covering her loss thy hen moved her nest some distance and laid two more eggs, and then began to set upon them. The old partridge also decided to set and proceeded to drive the hen away. Thc feud between the feathered crea tures continued for a number of days, but finally ended by the plucky little game bird winning out and obtaining sole possession of the nest. Days liaised'and af ter the required number had passed two little chickens hatched out. The partridge immediately car ried them to the woods, but not far from the house. Ever since their ad vent into the world the partridge has continued to care for the chickens, aud now, although thc chicks are nearly as large as she is, can be seen constantly with them. Upon the approach of a stranger partridge and chicks dodge away in tin' underbrush, but anyone wishing to the see strange sight has little trouble in finding the trio.-ATW? ami Courier. $100 Reward. $100. Hie readers of this paper will be pleaded to learn that tin-re is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to cure in all its stages, and that ts Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires "a. constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the di-ease, and giving ihe pa'tient strength by building up the constitu tion and assisting i.ature in doing its work. The proprietors have no much frith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Lollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes timonials Hall's Family Pills are the best. mt t m Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 00 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at tiny other house. Catalogues in the best style If yon have printing to do, it will bc to your interest to write to the Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. -Tous ol! wool are gathered by In dians in Oregon from the bodies of slice]) that have (lied in the winter. - Artificial ivory is made from borax and skimmed milk. STATE .NEWS. - Two negro murderers will be exe cuted in Charleston next Friday. -The dispensary profits for the past quarter aggregate a total of $(>4.00G. Burglars are operating in most of the railway towns in the upper part of the State. - There are four flourishing roller flour mills in the small county of Newberry. - An effort is started again to erect a monument to the memory of Gen. M. W. Gary. - The annual excursion from Charleston to the up-ccnntry takes place on the ll'th inst. - The kissing bug has arrived iu Greenville. Sheriff Gilrcath has cap tured one and put him in a bottle. - It is reported in Columbia that a new syndicate has bought the Colum bia canal, paying something like $300,000 for it. - Officia^ announcement has been made that on Oct. 1st, 1899, work will be begun on opening Congaree river fer steamboat navigation up to Co lumbia, S. C. - The Lowndesville Oil Company with a capital stock of $12,000 has been chartered. A. L. Latimer is president and treasurer, and A. W. Barnes is secretary and manager. - The Fall meeting of the South Carolina Holiness Association will be held at Leesville, S. C., beginning Monday night, September 4, 1899, and continuing through the following Sun day. -Gen. Wade -Hampton, who has been spending some time at Wrights ville Sound, near Wilmington, N". C., is reported to have been much invigo rated by his sojourn on the coast. The grand f5ld hero is now at Dagger's Springs, in Virginia, where he has gone to join his son and daughter. - - Mr. W. T. Walters, of the South Union neighborhood, has a sow that has given birth to three litters of pigs within one year as follows : July 22. 1898, fifteen pigs ; February 22, 1899, eleven pigs ; July 14, 1899. fourteen . pigs-total forty pigs. The sow is about four years old. ? - The citizens of Easley have de cided to erect a cotton mill. The cap ital stock will be $200,000. The fol lowing are the corporators : S. F. Bradley, W. M. Hagood, Dr. R. F Smith. J. M. Geer, W. H. Pickens, Col. J. L. Orr and Col. J. E. Hagood. Mr. John M. Geer has been elected president of the mill." - That was a piece of agricultural enterprise on the part of Mr. Blalock, of Laurens county, who hauled water tc the field and had fifty hands plant ing and watering corn. He is a large pknter and plants for a crop of 1,000 or 1,500 bales of cotton as a rule, but fears his crop will be a sad failure. - The tobacco farmers of?Orange burg are busy curing their crops, but it will be several weeks before their tobacco will be put on the market. It is desired to have a quantity accumu late at the warehouse in Orangeburg, and that there will be an inducement for a number of buyers to attend the sale from different parts of the State. . - The automibile and bicycle show which will be held iu Charleston from ? N Nov. 21 to 24th, promises to be well attended and will attract immense crowds from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and other Southern States, as all of the rail roads will give reduced rates over a wide territory. - Since the 1st of January, 1899, charters have been issued concerns in South Carolina representing an aggre gate capitalization of nearly $5,000,000. Of this amount $2,228,790 represents new concerns, and $2,1)13,000 the cap ital of organizado is increasing their capital stock : a total of $4,839,700, being a gain of $337,000 compared with the oame months last year. Maggie Brown, a negro, commit ted suicide in Greenville by satura ting herself with kerosene oil and set ting herself on fire. The fire occurred at 3 o'clock a. m., and every thread of clothing was burned from her body. She died in terrible agony at eleven o'clock. She was able to talk after a physician reached her. and to him she admitted her act, saying that Babe Walker, her lover, had deserted her for another woman, and not caring to live any longer she soaked herself in kerosene and set herself on fire. Ned Murphy, colored, died ic this city Monday. Ile was about 65 years old. He was born at Due West aud belonged to Dr. R. A. Archer, and afterwards to Miss Murphy. He was the last of eleven brothers. AH were fiddlers and Ned was ODe of the best, and said he wanted to take his fiddle with him. After emancipation he erected a monument to his old mis tress because of her kindness to him. Perhaps he was the only slave who ever did such a thine. Abbeville Me" din m.