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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 8. He didn't have the Lucky Key ! THE fellow who broke our plate glass show window with a brick last Wednes day night didn't have the lucky key, else s you people who now hold keys wouldn't have a chance to try them on September % 1899. The box is somewhat disfigured, I but the money is all O. K, and if you want to win %e or more Dollars BETTER YOUR TRADING WITH US ! We give a key with each dollar's worth you trade, and then we give you more for your dollars than any credit Store can - possibly give. Remember WE SELL IT FOR LESS." . Evans & Co, THE? SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. OUR Buggy and Wagon Trade is on the increase, but we want it to increase more. THOUSANDS of Farmers can testify that "Old Hickory," "Tennessee," "Studebaker ' and "Kilburn" Wagons are the lightest running and will wear k'Dger than other makes on the market. You may find in this County these Wagons that have been ia constant use for the past twenty years. We also have on hand a large and varied assortment of BUGGIES and CARRIAGES, and among them the celebrated "Babcock's," "Columbias," 'Tyson ?fe Jones," "Columbus," and many other brands. Our record for selling first-class Goods is evident by the blands men t? caed above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young Men's" Buggy has no equal. Have also a large and select line of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRI DLES, &c., and have recently secured exclusive control and sale of the cele brated "Matthew Heldraan" Harness, which is well known in this County, *?>d needs no "talking up." The Wagon and Buggy manufacturers are advancing prices on all their ^oods on account of the ad vaDce in price of all the material, and in conse? ?pence we will have to advance our prices from $5.00 to $10.00 a job ; b?'t we wish to give you a chance to buy before the rise, so you had better join :B the procession and buy one of our Buggies or Wagons at once, for on and after September 1st next our prices will be at least S5.00 higher thau at present. We regret having tc?do this, but cannot ge: around it. Buy now and save this advance. JOS. J. FRETWELL. Will still sell you a first-class Buggy for $30.00. Car riage $85.00. FRESH LOT OF BUIST'S TURNIP SEED. EVANS PHARMACY. WHEELMEN, ATTENTION ! IF YOU WANT BICYCLES ANI, SUNDRIES FOR COST, Bring the CASH and call on THOMSON BICYCLE WORKS, THE BICYCLE PEOPLE. BILL ARFS LETTER. Bill Has Something to Say About the Mormons. Atlanta Constitution. These Mormons are a mystery to me -3,000 miles away from home they are raising a commotion among our people and I don't understand what they are after. Are they really missionaries sent out from Utah to propagate their religion, or are they religious tramps who find this an easy way to live. They compass sea and land to make a single proselyte and remind us of the far reaching zeal of the Jesuits of tho six teenth century. The Jesuits went to the heathen/)f all countries who had not heard of/ lesus, but these Mormons go to the Protestants in enlightened Christendom and seek covertly to undermine their faith. They work upon the weak minded and fanatical and only make converts by destroying the peace of the family. No wonder that the good people of the commu nities drive them out and maltreat them. 1 have no respect for prose lytes in a Christian land who would seek to draw their converts from one Christian church to another and sow discord in a family. I was ruminating about this Mormon ism, which is another child born of New England fanaticism, where all the devilish things originate. It is close akin to the doctrine of free love, that originated there half a century ago, and is now pretty generally accepted. If a man doesn't find his affinity when he marries he finds her afterwards, and they keep on swapping around. Joe Smith came from there and one day pretended to find a Bible under a big stone. It was placed there by au angel and had golden leaves, and he was told to read it, for it was the last will of God and he must preach it to the people. He copied the writing and was going to sell the gold, but the angel rebeked him and took the golden leaves away. Well, that man found fools enough to start a new departure in religion, and because the good peo ple at home made fun of him, he and his followers moved to Pennsylvania, where he had more visions and the angel gave him a pair of magic spec t ides and a Urim and Thummin, and tliked to him behind a curtain, and : John the Baptist visited him and gave him the Holy Ghost and the gift of prophecy and supernatural powers. From there he and his followers went to Palmyra, N. Y., and had the "Book of Mormon'' printed, and organized a church with thirty members, and Smith cast a devil out of a man named Knight. But Palmyra got too hot for them and they moved to Kirtland, Ohio, be cause the angel said so. But Kirtland got too warm for them and they moved j to Missouri and founded the city of i Zion. Not long after he went hack to I Kirtland on a visit and they tarred and ; feathered him, bot his persecution gave him strength and followers and they built a church there and called themselves the Latter Day Saints, and started a bank and flooded the country ? with wildcat money in the name of the ! Lord. The leaders were arrested and indicted for murder, treason, burglary, arson and larceny, but were allowed to j escape from jail and leave Kirtland with their families. From there they went to Illinois, guided by an angel, and founded the city of Nauvoo. There they bailt another church and sent missionaries to England to make con : verts, and they made them. Nauvoo grew up rapidly and thc Saints soon numbered 1,500 men and elected Smith . mayor and lieutenant general. In 18-1*2 he was at the very height ol' his pros perity and took a hand in politics. In 1843 ho. had another revelation from the angel and was advised to take some spiritual wives. Accordingly he took i two married women, the wives of Dr. Foster and William Law. two of his chief supporters. Of course, this raised a rumpus and Foster and Law started a newspaper against him and published the affidavits of sixteen women, who charged Smith and his head man, Rigdon, with impurity and immorality. ! Smith then destroyed the press and j Foster and Law had to fly r their I lives. They appealed to thc courts ! and had warrants issued for him and ! Rigdon and seventeen others. They were arrested and put in jail. Thc governor visited them and promised protection to them, if they and their families would leave the country, but the people were so exasperated with them they went that night to thc jail' and broke aown thc doors and shot Smith and his brother to death. What kind of a story is that to found the Mormon religion upon and yet these Mormon elders have the cheek to travel through this southern land to propagate their spurious faith among our people. But Smiths wife and his son Joe never did accept the revelation as to spiritual wives, and the son reorganized Mormonism at Plano, 111., where he publishes Thc True Saints* Herald, and is in all that region tho acknowledged head of the Saints of the true Mormon church. The polygamists were all cx : pelled, after suffering by whipping and I house burning and other penalties by I mob violence. They moved in nent j tcred bauds to Utah and chose Brigham j Young as their leader. Ho was a zeal j ous advocate of polygamy and showed . his faith by his work*, for when he (lied in 1877 he lett seventeen wives sixteen sons and twenty-eight (laugh ters that he acknowledged-besides a number of ot hers who acknowledge him. But these Mormons who are sojourn ing in our land declare that polygamy is now abolished and that they ave not proselyting to that faith, though it was the faith of Abraham and Jacob and David and Solomon. Well, our people don't want such men fooling around their families and demoralizing weak men and weaker women in every com munity. A moderate chastisement would have a sanitary influence on all such tramps. Fanatics and tramps have their nur sery in New England. Wc sec that the bones of thc seven lieutenants of old John Brown have recently been removed to North Elba and are to be reburied with honors, and that Mc Kinley was invited. That shows thc animus of that people. They still make a demigod of that old fool John Brown, whom Giddings and Beecher and Gar rison made a cat's-paw of to incite the slaves of Virginia to insurrection and to provoke them to murder and arson and rape. They furnished him with $500 in gold and all the rifles aud am munition he wanted, and so he took up his residence near Harper's Ferry and for two years lived there and planned his bloody and treasonable scheme. Fred Douglas visited him there and advised him to wait, for the fruit was not ripe. But thc old fanatic believed the Lord was witli him and wouldn't wait any longer, and so one dark night he and his little band of twenty-two deluded followers surprised and over powered the guards and took thc arse nal and then calmly awaited the up-' rising of the negroes. But the negroes would not rise. Most of them were at tached to their masters and their fami lies and would not join thc traitors. They soon came to grief. John Brown was wounded, his son was killed and most of his followers. For forty long years the graves of seven of them have been unmolested, but John Brown's soul, they say, keeps marching on and so it docs seem to, with the second and third generations of thoso who have hated us so long and so bitterly. They sent Brown to Kansas during thc dark and bloody days and there he and his followers, among other outrages, called five leading southerners from their beds one dark night and assassinated them. Brown said it was God's will. For twelve years he never lost sight of his chief aim, which was to start an insurrection in Virginia and let it spread all over thc south, until every slave-holder was murdered. And this is what the north made a martyr and a demigod of him tor. Our own Robert E. Lee, a United States army officer, officiated at his trial. Jefferson Davis and John M. Mason, of the United States Senate, were appointed a committee to make a report upon tho invasion and declared it of no significance except as showing the animus of thc north toward the south. *A friend writes me who wishes to know where he can get a true history of John Brown and his Virginia raid and execution. Nowhere! No southern j man has written his history. Three j have been written from a northern standpoint by enemies of thc south, i The fairest account will be found in "Appleton's Biographical Encyclope dia," but even this one, which was written by Higginson, is tainted with J the same old animus that justifies everything an abolitionist ever did against the south. It does look like that forty years of time and the freedom of the negroes ought to have molified our enemies and retired old John Brown and his followers into oblivion, but it has not, and now they arc trans ferring their bones to a more congenial soil and will have grand ceremonies over their burial. McKinley has been invited, and as two of the seven Avero negroes, I reckon he will go. Maybe the devil has got them keeping postoffice somewhere in Hades. Bu.t. Am*. Negroes Want to go Home. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., August '?>.-A sensation was created iu thc session of tile African Methodist Episcopal Pre siding Elders' Council, of Georgia and Alabama to-night when tile committee on the state of thc country presented a resolution recomending that a commit tee be appointed by the council to set before the United States Congress the deplorable condition of the^negro pop ulation in several of the States, and to petition Congress for an appropriation of $100,000,000 to start a line of steam ships between the United States and Africa in order to enable all negroes who may desire to do so to emigrate to Africa. Bishop Turner, of Atlanta, who pre sided, explained that he did not desire, the government to carry emigrants free to Africa, but tako them direct and at reasonable cost. He said European immigrants are landed in this country j at from $10 to $15 each. "But," said I he, "im going to Africa ono must go : via England, thus crossing thc ocean I twice, at a cost of $100." I Tho resolution was adopted by a I unanimous vote. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at CO cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in thc best style If you have printing to do. it will bo to your interest to write to the Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. ff. The Kennion at thc Carswell Institute. hast Wednesday the reunion of the survivors of Company F, 24th South Carolina regiment, m connection with thc reunion of the old students of Cars well Institute, situated in Hall Town ship, thirteen miles south of Anderson, furnished the occasion for a gathering of twenty-five hundred people. Com pany F, 24th South Carolina Volunteers, numbers on its roll of members one hundred and sixty names, of whom there are fifty-eight survivors, and out of this number thirty were present. The members of the company have met at this point every year sincc*thc war, and on July 25,1888. were formally or ganized, and as an organization since that time have regularly come together to go over the past and relate the mem ories and incidents which it experi enced in the stirring times from "(?0 to li?. At 11.30 o'clock the Association was called to order hythe Hon. U.V. Clinkscales and after prayer by thc Kev. Mr. Abney, of Starr, the large audience was addressed by Prof. ll. P. Clinkscales. .Ir., his subject being the "Civil War and thc Lessons it Teaches This Generation."' His speech dealt with thc principles which caused tin war, and thc heroic conduct of thc Confederate soldier in maintaining those principles-facing terribie odds and leaving to their sons an example of unequalled patriotism, anda heri tage of glory for valor and duty well done unsurpassed in the aun?is of thc world. After music thc chairman in troduced Gen. M. !.. Bonham, who made au eloquent speech, suitable to the occasion, in which he incidentally sought to give due credit to thc great Army of the West for the invaluable services rendered the Southern cause by it. The venerable Martin Hall, a survivor of Company F, 24th South Carolina, Jins given a lot to the sur vivors of the company for their annual meetings, and through thc suggestion and efforts of Gen. Bonham a pavillion will he erected on thc spot before thc occasion of the jiext reunion. Dr. M. A. Thompson, representing the man in grey, was next introduced, and recited an extract. "Thc Faded Jacket of ('icy." The recitation was made more impressive and realistic by thr presence of a young lady. Miss Lucy Lcverett, who stood by the speaker holding up to the gaze of the audience a faded Con federate coat. Hr. Thompson was followed by E. M. Bucker, who made a telling speech, lauding thc qualities of thc Confederate soldier and showing ?that in every crisis of the nation's history, from its incipiency to the present time, South ern men have been the power that guided affairs. He regards the pension building at Washington a monument to thc valor and courage of thc Confede rate soldier. The exercises at this juncture were varied by music, after which W. C. Latimer, of Belton, son of the Hon. A. C. Latimer, was introduced and deliv ered a well prepared speech on the Philippine war. He is an anti-expan sionist. After a recess of an hour, during which an excellent dinner was enjoyed, thc audience reassembled at the stand and the Hon. A. C. Latimer was intro duced, and paid his respects to the opposers ol* the Alliance. The people should keep well informed on political subjects. Politics should be discussed on all occasions. He branched off on the Philippine war and criticised the Administration for spending $1,000,000 per day in trying to subjugate a people who ought to bc free. He took occa sion in this connection to score Me Lnurin for his voting with the expan sionists', charging that by his vote he saddled an infamous debt on Hie peo pie. Senator Tillman was then introduced and after some introductory remarks appropriate to the occasion .said his interest in the meeting centered in the fact of the old soldiers. That Iiis brother had served in thc war and was captain of Company I, 24th South Car olina regiment, and he was attached to all his comrades. The action of tho Republican party in regard to Hawaii and now refusing to grant liberty to the Filipinos was thc occasion of thc thought that thc Confederate soldier enjoyed thc proud distinction of mak ing the last stand for constitutional liberty. Wc should be opposed to thc expansionist idea from a monetary standpoint, if not on any other or broader grounds, secondly, because they were alien in race and different in religion. Thc article of C. C. Feather stone in the Columbia State of the 8th inst, was thc occasion of some discus sion of thc liquor question. He. read thc ar ticle and said that he did not say what the article makes him say, "that the Prohibitionists were a set of hypo crites and cowards.'1 What he did say at Sumter was "that if wc had prohi bition it would make our people liars and hypocrites.'' He then proceeded to score Mr. Featherstone, saying that Mr. Featherstone was lacking in gen tlemanly feeling or he would have as certained the truth of a statement be fore attacking him in a newspaper ar ticle, ile discussed the liquor question at some length, warned the people to keep posted in reference to political affairs. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'' Senator Tillman made thc closing speech of tho day. A resolution was passed by thc sur vivors thanking the speakers for their presence on thc occasion. J. M. P. i A Good idea. Editora Intelligencer: Kindly give we space in your paper to say a little con cerning the negro vagrants of this city. Thc streets of this city are pretty well filled with them all the time, ne groes of all sizes, too lazy and trilling to work. Occasionally they block the sidewalk so bad that it is impossible to pass. There is a place on South Main street where negroes congregate so thick that we have seen ladies walk out into the street, and then after passing, get back on the sidewalk, rather than pass through such a mob of negroes. Wc think if the city olliccrs wonld put thc chain and ball on a few of them and let them work our streets for some time, that the city sidewalks would be a much mere desirable place for tlie ladies to walk on than the streets. Wc suppose it will be next winter like it was last winter, the white peo ple will have to feed and furnish wood for a lot of negro women, who will be too poor to provide for themselves, j Yet thc trilling set i:nu be found deco rating tlie sidewalks with their "beau tiful ligures" any time through thc day. But thc majority of that same set will have to be cared for during thc severe part of next winter. . A gang of negroes can be found on luost auy of the vacant lots or ball grounds playing ball at any time. They are too lazy and trifling to work. We have seen negroes refuse work when they were offered work, saying that they did not have to work to live. But some white man's chicken house would be relieved of a nice frying chicken on account of that negro who didn't have to work for a living or perhaps his woodpile relieved of a big armfull. The most of the negroes who have been lynched in the Southern States were vagrants. If they had been at work and had their mind employed, they would perhaps all been living to day. When their miud is not employ ed in Avork of some kind, it is then when they try some "scheme," which causes them to be "swung np." CITIZEN. Pendleton Items. Mr. and Mrs. Randall McBride, ol' Chattanooga. Tenn., are visiting friends and relatives. Mr. John Richey, of Fork township, was killed Tuesday, a week ago, by a man named Powers. Thc cause was an old grudge, particulars of which the correspondent doesn't know. Thc corpse passed through here en route to the family burying ground. Thc de ceased was a brother of the ex-sheriff of Pickens County. Messrs. A. W., J. S. and G. A. Martin, from near Hopewell, have opened up a mercantile business in Rochester building. Rev. J. F. Singleton is conducting a series of meetings in the Baptist Church this week, which are very intciesting. Miss Mattie Eskcw is visiting her brother, Mr. S. L. Eskew, attending the meeting. Miss Pearl Norris is visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. M. Gibson. Mr. Prue Norris made a pop call to some of the Pendleton folks Monday morning. TELL TALK. -- ? ? Singing Cftttventisti. The Abbeville County Singing Con vention will convene with the Buffalo Baptist Church, near Troy, on Satur day and Sunday, Aug. 20 and27. Sing ers from all sections are invited to at tend. Each Church in the County is enti tled to a delegation ot two, with alter nates. T. EARLE ELGIN, Secretary. - The shortest honeymoon and the quickest application for divorce on record are reported in thc Winfield (Ran.) Courier. On Monday of last week a resident of Pawnee, 0. T., was married to a young woman of Winfield. It was noticed that the bridegroom waa somewhat under the influence of liquor during the ceremony, and when he retired to t!ic room of the bride he sat down in a chair and at once went to sleep. When he awakened two hours later his bride was still with him, but she had been transformed from an affectionate girl into an angry and disgusted woman. She turned a deaf car to all his apologies and entreaties, and walked out of the room and straight to a lawyer's office, where she com menced action for divorce. A story comes from Georgetown County of the eating alive of a young negro child by a wild hog, which ven tured out of a swamp and seized upon its prey. The mother of the child came upon the scene just in time to save a few fragments of thc child's body, upon which the animal was still munching. The swamps in that sec tion were at one time filled with wild boars and animals of that class. $100 Reward. $100. I ho readers of thia paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been Mr to cure in all Its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive euro now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease req tires a constitutional troutraeut. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly u]\on the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system, thereby de stroying tho foundation of the di ea.se, ?nd giving ibo pa tient strength by building un the constitu tion and assisting nature in doing Its work Tho proprietors have m much frith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred l ollara for any ca** that it tails to cure. Send for Hst of tes timonial! Hall's Famllv rills are the best. STATE NEWS. - The farmers in the Eastern part of the State are realizing a good price for their tobacco crop. - The Wheat G rowers' Convention at Greenwood yesterday was a most interesting and profitable meeting. - Reports fr >m Charleston say thai j the fertilizer trust is about to get hold I of all the large plants in that section. I - Army worms have appeared in j Cherokee County. They are nuuj3r I ous and eating up everything greer: [ in their path. - There arc now 1,015 inmates in the State Hospital for the Insane in Columbia, the largest in the history of the institution. An S-year-old son of Jas. Vaughn, a well known Greenville "County farm ; cr, was kicked to death by a horse at j his home last Saturday. I - Capt. E. M. Lipscomb and his j two sons, Durrett and Lewis, of j Ninety Six, were poisoned from cat I ing beef, it is supposed. ~ Dr. J. C. Maxwell, the founder I of the Connie Maxwell Orphanage, j died at his home in Greenwood last j Saturday night, aged 62 years. - Miss Lillie Clardy, a handsome young woman of Pickens County, was accidentally shot and killed with a pistol in the hands of her brother. - President Johnson, of Winthrop College, says he has received 600 ap plications for entrance, but at least 200 of them cannot be accommodated. - John Short, a white man on the chain gang in Columbia, was shot twice with a shot gun last week as he was attempting to escape from the guard. - The Orangeburg City Council has stirred up a lawsuit by fining the en gineers for making unnecessary noise in blowing whistles. The engineers paid the fines under protest. - At a recent meeting of the trus tees of Clemson College P. T. Brodie 1 was elected professor of mathematics, C. B. Waller assistant, and John Simpson instructor of mathematics. - Columbia is going to build the largest cotton mill in the South. W. B. S. Whaley is president and they start out with a million and a half dollars stock. That ought to give them 100,000 spindles. - Mrs. Lucy Pickens, widow of Governor Francis W. Pickens, died at her home in Edgefield Tuesday morn ing, 8th inst. When young she was said to be the most beautiful woman in the South. She was a great favor ite wherever known. - Claude, the ten year old son of S. P. Rush, master mechanic in the machine shop at Enoree, S. C., Cotton Mills, last week, in some careless way happened to let his hand come in con tact with a little circular saw that was running, and his hand was cut off. - There are fourteen cases of small pox reported in Union County. Dr. James Evans, of the State Board of Health, recommended that Dr. C. Torrence be appointed medical inspec tor to suppress the disease, and the Governor made thc appointment. - When it comes to a prolific breeder in .?he way of a cow, Mr. J. L. Cooksey, who li/es near Clifton, is the possessor of a Durham cow five or six years old, which, perhaps, has an unsurpassed record. This animal has given birth to five calves within the last three years, twice bearing twins. All these calves are living. - W. G. Perry, formerly with the Piedmont, S. C., Cotton Mills, but now with the Enoree, S. C., Cotton Mills, has projected a new cotton mill, the site to bc just boyond Seneca, S. C., on the Southern Railway. There is said to be little doubt that his en terprise will be fully realized. - The governor and the attorney general are busy each day looking into the investigation. It is very volumia? ous and it was stated to-day that no decision had yet been reached as to what course of proccednre is to be taken. So far as has been learned Colonel Neal has not yet paid up thc amount he acknowledges himself to be short.-Columbia Record, 14th. The Railroad Commission has promulgated the now local tariff or. cotton, which is of great importance not only to railroads but cotton ship pers and growers as well. The rates are a reduction of from 25 to 30 per cent on rates formerly existing in this State, and are said to be lo>ver than those of any State in thc South. The Commission and thc railroad official;? have had this matter under considera tion for a year, but it remains \o be seen what the railroads will say about it. The Commission gives the roads until August 25 to present their ob jections. Unless otherwise ordered the new tariff will go into effect at that date.