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? VOLUME XXXV?NO. 8. e didn't iave the ucky Key ? THE fellow who broke our plate glass show window with a brick last Wednes day night didn't have the lucky key, else you people who now hold keys wouldn't have a chance to try them on September % 1899. The box is somewhat disfigured, but the money is all 0. K, and if you want to win? i?e or more Dollars ! BETTER DO 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? 6fc WE SELL IT FOR LESS." . 0. Evans & Co THE- SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. UTE FRONT. OUR uggy and Wagon Trade is on the increase, but we want it to increase more. THOUSANDS of Farmers can testify that "Old Hickory," "Tennessee," debaker" and "Miibura" Wagons are the lightest running and will wear er than other makes on the market. You may find in this County these ~nt that have been in constant use for the past twenty yean. We also have on hand a large and varied assortment of BUGGIES and RIAGES, and among them the celebrated "Babcock'a," "Columbias," son & Jones," "Columbus," and many other brands. Our record for selling ? r?t* class Goods is evident by the biands men fed above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young MenV Boggy has no equal. Have also a large and select line of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRI [ES, &c., and have recently secured exclusive control and sale of the oele- i "Matthew Heldman" Harness, which is well known iu this County, j needs no "talking'up." | The Wagon and Buggy manufacturers are advancing prices on all their ' ?a on account of the advance in price of all the material, and ' in conse 3C6 we will have to advance our prices from $5.00 to $10.00 a job ; but wish to give you a chance to buy before the rise, e? you had better join ie procession and buy one of our Buggies or Wagons at once, for on and September 1st next our prices will be at least $5.00 higher than at eat. We regret having toxlo this, but cannot gei aronnd it. Buy now and save this advance. JOS J. FRETWELL. Will still sell you a firot-class Buggy for $30.00. ;e $85.00. Car FRESH LOT OF BUIST'S TURNIP SEED. EVANS PHARMACY. HEELMEN, ATTENTION ! XJP YOU WANT ICY?LES and SUNDRIES FOR COST, j Bring the CASH and call on? THOMSON BICYCLE WORKS, the bicycle people. BILL ARP'S LETTER. BUI Has Something to Say About the Mormons. Atlanta Constitution. These Mormons ave n mystery to me ?8,000 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 aro they religious tramps who find this an easy way to live. They compass sea and laud 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 of all countries who had not heard of Jesus* 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 pence of the family. No wonder that tho good people of the commu nities drive them out and maltreat them. 1 have no respect for prose lyters in a Christian laud who would seek to draw their converts from ono Christian church to another aud sow discord in a family. I was ruminating about this Mormon - ism, which is another child born of New England fanaticism, where all tho 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 I he marries he finds her afterwards, and they keep on swapping around. Joe Smith came from there and one I day pretended to find a Bible under a big stone. It was placed there by an 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 augel rebuked 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 teles and a Urim and Thummin, and t tiked 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 devU out of a roan named Knight. But Palmyra got too hot for them and they moved to Kirtland, Ohio, be cause the angel said so. Bnt Rirt?an? got too warm for them and thoy moved to Missouri and founded the city of Zion. Not long after he went back to Kirtland on a visit and they tarred and feathered him, but 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 escape from jaii and leave Kirtland with their families. From thero they went to Illinois, guided by an angel, and fonnded the city of Nauvoo. There they built another church and sent missionaries to England to make con verts, and they made them. Nauvoo grew up rapidly and the Saints soon numbered 1,600 men and elected Smith mayor and lieutenant general. In 184*2 he was at the very height of 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 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 mau, Rigdon, with impurity and immorality. Smith then destroyed the press and Foster and Law had to fly for their lives. They appealed to tho courts and had warrants issued for him and Bigdon and seventeen others. They were arrested and put in jail. The 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 the jail* and broke down tho doors and shot Smith and fair 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. , Bnt Smith's wife and his son Joe never did accept the revelation as to spiritual wives, and the son reorganized Mormonism at Piano, 111., where he publishes The True Saints' Herald, and is in all that region the acknowledged head of the Saints of the trae Mormon church. The polygamists were all ex pelled, after suffering by shipping and house burning and other penalties by I mob violence. They moved in scat tered bands to Utah and chose Brigham Young as their leader. He was a zeal ous advocate of polygamy and showed his faith by his works, for when he died in 1877 he left seventeen wive*, sixteen sons and twenty-eight daugh ters that lie acknowledged*?besides a number of others who acknowledged him. But tbeso Mormons who are .sojourn ing in our laud declare that polygamy is now abolished and that they are not proselyting to that faith, though it was the faith of Abraham anil Jacob and David and Solomon. Well, our people don't want nuch men fooling around their families and demoralizing weak men and weaker women in every com munity. A moderate chastisement would bave a snnitnry influence on nil such tramps. Fanatics and tramps have their nur sery in New Englnud. We see that tho bones of the seven lieutenants of old John Brown have recently been removed to North Elba and arc to be rcburied with honors, and that Mc Kinley was invited. That shows the auimusof that people. They still make a demigod of that old fool John Brown, whom Giddiugs and Beeeher and Gar rison made a cat's-paw of to incite the slaves of Virginia to insurrection and to provoko them to murder and arson nud rape. They furnished him with $500 iu gold and all the rifles aud am munition bo wanted, and so he took up bis residence near Harpers 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 the old fanatic believed the Lord was with him and wouldn't wait any longer, and so one dark night ho and bis little band of twenty-two deluded followers surprised and over powered tho guards and took the 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 /?nd would not join the traitors. Tbey soon came to grief. John Brown was wonnded, his son was killed and most of his followers. For forty long years the graves of seven ol* thei.u 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 the dark and bloody days and there he aud his followers, among other outrages, called five leading southerners from their beds one durk 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 the south, until every slave-holder was murdered. And this is what the north made a martyr and a demigod of him for. Our own Robert K. 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 the invasion and declared it of no significance except as showing the animns of the 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 man has written his history. Three have been written from a northern standpoint by enemies of the south. The fairest account wi?, be found in "Appleton's Biographical Encyclope dia," but even this one, which was written by. Higginson, is tainted with 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 onght 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 soven were negroes, I reckon he will go. Maybe the devil has got them keeping postoffice somewhere in Hades. Bn.i. Am*. ' Negroes Want to go Home. BlRMIKpiIAM, Al.A., AugUSt !J.?A sensation was created in the session of the African Methodist Episcopal Pre siding Elders' Council, of Georgia and Alabama to-night when the committee on tho state of the country presented a resolution recomending that n commit teo 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 tho 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 take them direct and at reasonable cost. He said European immigrants are landed in this coontry at from $10 to $15 each. "But," said he, "in going to Africa one must go via England, thus crossing the ocean twice, at a coat of 8100." ' Tho resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote. Cheap Printing. Law Briofs at 60 cents a Page?Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best stylo If yon have printing to do. it will be to yonr interest to write to tho Press and Banner, Abbeville, S? C. tf. The Heunion at the t'arswell Institute. Last Wednesday the reunion uf the survivors of Company F, Stfth .South Carolina regiment, in connection with the reunion of the old students of Cars well Institute, situated in Hall Town ship, thirteen miles Mouth of Anderson, furnished the occasion for a gathering of twcuty-ilvc hundred people. Com pany F, '24th Sont h Carolina Volunteer-, numbers on its roll of members one hundred and sixty names, of whom there are lifty-eight survivors, and out of this number thirty wore present. The members of the company have met at tins point every year since the war. and on July 35, ISN*, wen? formally or ganized, and us an Organization since that time have regularly count together to go over the past and relate the mem ories and incidents which it experi enced in the stirring times from *<!0 to iKi. At It.HO o'clock rilie Association was called to order by the Ihm. Ii. T. ClinkscalcH and after prayer by the I IJev. Mr. Abncy. of Starr, the lurgo audience was addressed by Prof. IL I*. Clinkscnles, Jr.. his subject being th? j "Civil War and the l.cssom it Teaches j This (icueration." His speech dealt with the principles which caused the Avar, and the heroic conduct of Hie Confederate soldier in maintaining those principles?laciug terrible odds and leaving to their sons an example of unequalled patriotism, and a heri tage of glory for valor and duty well done unsurpassed in the annals of the world. After music the chairman in troduced (Jen. M. !.. Honhain, who made au eloquent speech, suitable to the occasion, in which he incidentally sought to give due credit to the great Army of the West for the invaluable services rendered the Southern cause by it. The venerable Martin Hall, i\ survivor of Company F, 24th South Carolina, has given a lot to the sur vivors of the company for their annual meetings, and through the suggestion and efforts of Gen. Ilunham a pavillion will be erected on the spot before the occasion of tltojiext reunion. Dr. M. A. Thompson, representing the man in grey, was next introduced, and recited an extract. "The Faded Jacket of (Jrey." The recitation was made more impressive and realistic by the presence of a young lady, Miss Lucy Leverett, who stood by the speaker holding up to the ?uze of the audience a faded Con federate coat. Dr. Thompson was followed by K. M. H?cker, who made a telling speech, lauding the mtulities of the 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 the valor and courage of the Confede rate soldier. The exercise!* at this juncture were varied by music, after which W. C. Latimer, of Helton, 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 oi an hour, during which an excellent dinner was enjoyed, tho audience reassembled at the stand and the Hon. A. C. Latimer was intro duced, and* paid his respects to the opposera of* thn 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 be free. He took occa sion in this connection to score Mc Laurin for his voting with the expan sionists, charging that by his vote he saddled an infamous debt on the peo ple. Senator Tillmnn wus 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 his brother had served in the war and was captain of Company I, 34th South Car olina regiment, and he was attached to all his comrades. The action of tho Hcpublican party in regard to Hawaii and now refusing to grant liberty to tho Filipinos was the occasion of the thought that the Confederate soldier enjoyed the proud distinction of mak ing the last stand for constitutional liberty. We should be. opposed to tho 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. The article of C. C. Feather stone in the Columbia State of the 8th inst. was tho occasion of some discus sion of the liquor question. He read the article and said that he did not say what the article makes him say, "that the Prohibitionists were a set of hypo crites and cowards." What he did say at Sumtcr was "that if we had prohi bition it would make our people liars and hypocrites." He then proceeded to score Mr. Featherstone, saying that Mr. Featherstono was locking in gen - tlomanly feeling or ho would have as certained the truth of a statement be fore attacking him in a newspaper ar ticle.' He discussed tho liquor question at some length, warned the people to keep posted in reference to political affairs. "Eternal vigilance is tho price of liberty." Senator Tillmnn made tho closing speech of tho day. A resolution was passed by tho sur vivors thanking the speakers for their presence on the occasion. J. M. P. /z 1 6 A Good Idea. I lulitor* Intelligencer: Kindly give me space in your paper to say a little con cerning the negro vagrants of this eity. The 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 tin side walk 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 Indies walk out into the street, and then after j passing, get hack on the sidewalk, ; rather than pass through such a mob of j negroes. We think it the city officers would i put the chain and hall ou a few of them and let them work our streets for some time, that the city sidewalks would be a much more desirable place for the ladies to walk on than the streets. We suppose ii will lie next winter ! like it was last winter, the white poo- , pie will have to feed and furnish wood for a lot of negro women, who will be i too poor to provide for themselves. Yet the trilling set con he found doco- ' rating the sidewalks with their "beau-1 t if ni ligures" any time through the | day. But the majority of that same set will have to be cared for during the j seven? part of next winter. A sung ot negroes can be found on most any of the vacant lots or ball: grounds playing ball at any time. They are too lazy and trilling to work. We have seen negroes refuse work when they were ottered work, saying that they did not have to work to live. Hut 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 wen* vagrants. If they had been at work and hnd their mind employed, they would perhaps all been living to day. When their mind is not employ ed in work of some kind, it is then when they try some "scheme," which causes them to be "swung up." Citizkn. Feuilleton Items. Mr. and Mrs. Randall McHridc, of Chattanooga. Tenn.. are visiting friends nnd relatives. Mr. John Richey, of Fork township, was killed Tuesday, a week ago, by a man named Powers. The cause was an old grudge, particulars of which the correspondent doesn't know. The corpse passed through hero en route to the family burying ground. The de ceased was a brother of the ex-sheriff of Pickens County. Messrs. A. W., J.S. und G. A. Martin, from near Hopeweil, 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 inteieating. Miss Mattie Kskew is visiting her brother, Mr. S. L. Kskew, attending the meeting. Miss Pearl Norris is visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. M. Gibson. Mr. Prue Norris made a pop call to some of ihr Pend?etos folks Monday morning. Tell Talk. Singing ConTentleu. The Abbeville County Singing Con vention will convene with the Buffalo Baptist Church, near Troy, on Satur day and Sunday, Aug. 2<J and27. Sing ers from all sections are invited to at tend. Each Church in the County is enti tled to a delegation of two, with alter nates. T. F.aui.k Ei.uiN, Secretary. ? The shortest honeymoon and the quickest application for divorce on record are reported in the Winfield (Kan.) Courier. On Monday of last week a resident of Pawnee, (>. T., was married to a young woman of Winfield. It was noticed that the bridegroom was somewhat under the inilucncc of liquor during the ceremony, and when he retired to the 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 the 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. The readers of thta paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to euro in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only posi tive cure now Known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease req tires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying tbo foundation of the di ease, and giving the pa tient strength by bulldiog up the constitu tion and assisting nature in doing Its work Tho proprietors have ?o murk frith iu its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred dollars for any cas# that it falls to cure. Send for list of tes timonials Hall's Family Tills are the best. STATE NEWS. The fariner? in the Kastern part >f the State are realizing a good price tor their tobacco crop. The Wheat G rowers' Convention at Greenwood yesterday was a most interesting and profitable mooting. ? lleports fr ?tn Charleston say that the fertilizer trust is about to get hold of all the large plants in that section. ? Array worms have appeared iu Cherokee County. They are numer ous and eating up everything green iu their path. There are now 1,015 inmates in the State Hospital for the Insane in Columbia, the largest in the history of the institution. An 8-ycar-old son of Jas. Vaughn, a well known Greenville County farm er, was kicked to death by a horse at his home last Saturday. ? Capt. K. M. Lipseomb and lii> two sons, Durrctt aud Lewis, of Ninety Six, were poisoned from eat ing beef, it is supposed. Or. J. C. Maxwell, the founder of the Connio Maxwell Orphanage, died at his homo in Greenwood last Saturday night, aged 62 years. Miss iiiliie Clardy, a handsome young woman of l'ickcns County, was accidentally shot and killed with a~ pistol in the hands of her brother. ? President Johnson, of Winthrop Collefte, says he has received 600 op plications for entrance, but at leaBt 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 Couneil has stirred up a lawsuit by fining tho 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 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 Piokens, widow of Governor Francis \V. Piokens, died at her home in Edgefield Tuesday morn ing, 8th inst. When young she was i said to be the most beautiful woman i in the South. She was a great favor ite wherever known. ; ? Claude, the ten year old son of S. P. Rush, master meohanio in the machine shop at Enoree, S. C, Cotton I Mille, last week, in some careless way happened to let his hand come in con tact with a little oiroular saw that wss running, and his hand was cat off. ? There are fourteen eases of small pG* reported in Union County. Dr. James Evans, of the State Board of Health, recommended that Dr. C. Torrenee be appointed medioal inspec tor to suppress the disease, and the Governor made the appointment. ? When it cornea to a prolific breeder in the way of a cow, Mr. J. L. Cooksoy, who lives near Clifton, is the possessor of a Durham eow five or six years old, which, perhaps, has sn 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 be just beyond 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 arc busy each day looking into the investigation. It is very volumin? ous and it was stated to-day that no decision had yet been reached as to what course of proceedure is to be taken. So far as has been learned Colonel Neal has not yet paid up the amount he acknowledges himself to be short.?Columbia Record, 14th. The Railroad Commission has promulgated the new local tariff on 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 the South. The Commission and the railroad offioials havahad this matter under consid?ra* tion for a year, but it remains to be seen what the railroads will s&y about it. The Commission gives tho roads until August 25 to present their ob? jections. Unless otherwise ordered the new tariff will go into effect at that date.