Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. _" ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IL 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 16. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^j^ l^j^ ^^^^^^ ^^BB ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^5 l^^^^l |^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ THEY could pay Cash as well as not, but it is sc conven ient to just step into a store and get what is wanted and tell the storekeeper to charge it. Yes, it's convenient, but let's see how ranch you have to pay for your so-called con venience. You buy a Suit at a cr?dit store for say $10.00, and it's charged to you. You could come to us and buy the same Suit for $8.50, but you would have to pay spot cash. Sometimes we can save you even more on $10.00. /y No one undertakes nowadays to claim to sell better goods than we do, or to. sell good goods as cheap as we do, but our competitors rely upon giving credit as an inducement for thoughtless people to pay them much more than we ask for ) the same goods. We sell good, honest Clothing, and if you become dissatisfied with any purchase you make here we viii give you YOUR MOKE! BICK If TOO WART IT I i \ Evans' Guaranteed Shoes Sell for S3.50 because they are worth S3.50. They are made by one ?of the best Manufacturers in the East. If these Shoes had the Manu facturer's name on them they would <jost at least $1.00 more, because their name stands for high-priced Shoes. This Shoe is made so that it doesn't ""screak" when you walk. Most new Shoes do, you know, and some 35.00 ones, at that. That's 'one point that ?hows they are made right, doesn't it ? We have"them in all styles and qual ity. One price, and that is S3.50. Better try a pair. School Snits ? Like School Suits ought to be ! We have them, and lots of them more, perhaps, than any House in Anderson. We have seen to it that every Suit was specially lined and extra stitched. Those intended for hardest service have double seats and knees, besides being double seamed. School Suits.<. .at$l 00 School Suit.s.at 1 50 School Suits.at 2 00 School Suits.at 2 50 School Suits. .at 3 00 Dress Suits.at 3 50 Dress Suits.at 4 00 Dress Suits.at 4 50 Dress Suits.at 5 00 Knee Pants.at 25c Knee Pants.at 50c Knee Paots.at 75c Knee Pants.at 1 00 And in every Snit there is a 8 WING that H worth your consideration. Come in and try on tonie of the New Style?, if you want the most graceful, becoming Suit you ever wore. Evans' Suits are easily the neatest fitting, the finest-looking and the best wearing Clothes in town. We have the ?oods and Price3 to .merit your trade this season. Wheth er you are ready to buy cr not we want to see you in our Store, and uant to show you Clothing. Men's Suits.at $4 00 Men's Suits. '..at 5 00 Men's Suits.at 7 50 Men's Suits.at 8 50 Men's Suits.at 10 00 Men's Suits.at 12 50 Mea's Suits.at 15 00 Men's Suits.?.at 20 00 It is more important that good taste ; should be exhibited in the selection 'of a Hat than any other article of j wearing apparel. A man may be richly dressed, but no one but himself will appreciate the fact unless he is attired in a stylish and becoming Hat. Our Hats hegiu at 25c, but our Dress Hats are priced 81.00, S1.50, $2.00, $2 50 and S3.00. SPECIAL. Twenty-live dozen Broad Brim PLANTERS' HATS. The regular S1.00 kind at credit stores, price 75c. Evan.-,' THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. South Carolina Dispensary Takes a Sensational Turn. COLUMBIA, S. C., October ?>.-A bomb could not have caused more of a sensa tion, had it dropped in the dispensary board of control meeting to-day, than did the report of the special committee of that board appointed a month ago to investigate thc management, of thc in stitution, which is under the direct charge of Commissioner J. B. Douthit. Mr. Douthit was elected by the legisla ture to be a member of the board of control and was then elected State liquor commissioner. Ten days ago thc chairman of the board, on verbal reports made to him by the investigating committee, re moved bookkeeper Ourse. To-day thc board did not hesitate live minutes in removing Commissioner Douthit. No action has yet been taken as to prose cution. The commissioner was found short 81,153 in the contraband depart ment-that is goods to that amount have been disposed of by him on his own account. But the sensational fea ture is what the committee describes as the perpetration of "a fraud on the people of South Carolina.'* By order of the commissioner, whis ky of the common "one X" brand was bottled oil' by the thousand of gallons and labeled "three X" and "four X," the charges on the consumer being correspondingly increased. Also case goods of the manufacture of one house and inferior, were labeled with the name and guarantee of another firm of national reputation. This was done in the case of several firms that supplied "case goods" to thc dispensary, the dispensary doing the bottling. There was a vast quantity of evidence and alli davits. COLUMBIA, S. Ch, Oct. 4.-Yesterday's revelations in thc dispensary board of control continue to be the subject of much interest. Commissioner Douthit, who was so summarily removed from office, asks the public to suspend judg ment until he has an opportunity to prepare his case. He complains that he was expected to refute in fifteen minutes the statements and charges of the examining committee, when they had been preparing their report for three weeks. Two members of the board of control, Williams and Boy kin, support Douthit ic his claim that he should have had a hearing and been given time to prepare evidence. Mr. Williams says he is disheartened; that he has worked hard to manage the dispensary decently and without refer ence to politics or faction, and he feels now like giving up hoping to make it the success they had expected. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." It is not known how long thc practice of putting fraudulent labels on the liquor has been going on, but it has certainly been in practice for months, and in that time the whiskey drinkers have paid fora good deal of quality that they have not got. Liquor that was worth 81 a gallon has been selling for $2 and $2.50, and other grades in the same ratio. The brands of a famous Baltimore house, where case goods sell for $18 a dozen, have been used on liquor worth 810. Just what action the firm will take is not known. A member of the examining commit tee says: "We deemed it our duty to report the facts to the board as they really appear, but the conclusion cannot be escaped that this scheme of changing the labels on whisky shipped out could have been for no other purpose than to create a way for collecting more money for the goods sent, out to local dispen saries than the same were invoiced for to the commissioner; and further, to create the impression on the members of the board that certain brands were becoming popular." Then a reference was made by the committeeman to the proceedings of the board last month. At that meet ing Commissioner Douthit asked thc board to change the amount of the order of a certain brand fixed on, and to order more of that brand, as that whisky was becoming very popular and it was hard to keep it in stock. Now. the evidence submitted shows that the whisky the commission asked for in large quantities was the low grado brand he was sending out with Jiigh-grade labels. ?The inference of thc commit lee's statement is t hat thc commissioner had a double object-one to collect "more money from 1 he local dispensers than he was accountable for to the State, and the other thal he was interested in heavy sales of a certain low-grade whisky. Friends of thc dispensary look on these revelations as. very opportune. Suspicion has ever rested on its man agement and when revelations are made by reformers themselves, it weakens the system throughout the State. George Johnston and George E. Prince, from Newberry and Anderson respectively, arrived in the city to-day. They are able lawyers and came down at the request of exGommissioncr Dou thit to attempt to get/the board to give liim a certificate of character. The board has been wrangling all day, the two friends of Douthit having fought for a reconsideration in vain. They have gi ved up hoping for that and will be satisfied if the majority can be per suaded to say that he did not contem plate fraud. * COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. a.-Thc -.attor neys for Slate Liquor Commissioner J. B. Douthit, who was removed from ollice hythe board ol' control to-day, notified the board that Douthil would refuse to give up the office lill the courts had passed on his case. Dou thit was dismissed af ter being given fifteen minutes to defend himself from the charges ol" "perpetrating a gross fraud on the people ot South Carolina," by selling the commonest grade of liquor 'with the high-grade stamp and tit high grade prices, also with being short over 81,100. Douthit does not expect to be able to keep the ellice, but wishes his charac ter vindicated from intentional crimi nality. While he is going to court for vindication, members of the board are contemplating referring his case to the attorney general for prosecution. Catarrh Cannot be Cured wiiii LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot roach Iii? : eal <>f Iii? disease. ''atarrh isa liln.nl or constitutional disease, ami in order to cure it, you musttake internal remedies. Hall's Cat Ar rh tare is taken internally, ami :o-is directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure is un! a quack medicine li was prescribed hy one of the !?'>t physicians in Ibis country for years, and is a regular prescription, li is com posed of il?? l?csl tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on Ile mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials freo 49>S?ld by Druggists, T.*>c. | Hall's Family Pills arc the best Governor and the >'ew York Newsboys. A -rood story about Gov. McSwecn ey's visit to New York recent]}' which lins so far escaped the newspapers has leaked out in thc last few days and it serves to sliQwthe manner of man South Carolina's small-statured gover nor is. The incident occurred on the day before thc naval parade. The govern or accompanied hy his little son and Cols. Wilson, Folk, Bedding, Mauldiif and Watson of his staff had just left the cotton exchange and had' reached "newspaper row," bound for the bridge to go over to thc navy yard, when just at the Pulitzer building corner they came across a great crowd of newsboys of the "cent-a-World" variety; getting their supplies of the big afternoon edition just issued. The govenor saw the crowd of urch ins. Ile exclaimed, "Ah, that is what I was once. Just look at them, Miles; come here son, I want to show you what your father was when he was your size." Reaching back and catch ing his boy's hand,, it was only a second or two before the governor had forced his way into the heart of the crowd ot' yelling, scuttling newsboys. He talked with them and when they found out who lie was and that he had once been of the "clan/' they rallied round him and the governor's face was all smiles. He bought as many papers as he could carry and Col. Folk, who got down into thc crowd, did likewise. The boys gave the governor an ovation in their own demonstrative way and before he could be extricated from his admiring host ot" newsboy enthusiasts the police had to go to his aid and clear a way out of it for him. There was no incident of his trip to the metropolis that Gov. McSweency enjoyed moni thoroughly than this, l t recalled to his mind many memories of the past and when in the crowd he really seemed toben newsboy again himself.-Thc Stale. The Bride and Groom Murdered at Supper. ST. Loins, OCT. 4.-A special to the Post-Dispatch from Montgomery, Mo. says: Frank Walker and his bride were murdered to-day by Charles Ban kin, a disappointed lover, who then killed himself. A child was seriously wounded by the shots that killed the couple. All concerned in the tragedy were prominent residents of Montgom ery county. The murder occurred at the home of James Cook, nine miles cast, of here, where the couple and their friends had gone to cat their wedding supper. Walker, who had no relatives, Work ed around the farm. Tuesday after noon he and Miss Maud Goshorn drove to Montgomery and were married. They then drove out to the Cook home, where a supper was prepared. A com pany of well wishers gathered. The bride and groom sat side by side at the head of the table in front of an un curtained window, when Bankin shot the couple, tiring with a shotgun through the window. Both were in stantly killed, their heads being rid dled with shot. A child, a member of the Cook family, was badly wounded. No one saw the murderer and his identity was unknowu until his dead body was stumbled over outside the house. A letter left by Bankin revealed the fact that he was a rejected suitor ot' Miss Goshorn's and that he committed tho murder because she married an other. This is a Free Country. There is a little Chinaman on King street who has been throwing a series of dinky lits within the past month, and the people who stand in the shadow of the street to peep into his shop see strange and weird sights, dust at the rear of thc man's laundry there is a "church" built in a closet, and on a shelf in this is a wooden god. The Chinaman has not accepted any of the religion ol' this.country and he is following thc customs of his own church. It was neal- 2 o'clock thc other morn ing when a Reporter, coming in from a late assignment, passed the laundry From the placo there drifted the smell of burning stu ti's and a policeman across t he street sniffed the airand went away. The Reporter got by thc window and saw the Chinaman do his religious stunts. In all. parts of the room in cense was burning, and the hot air which poured from a crack in thc window indicated that thc temperature inside was steaming. Several Chinese lanterns were swinging about and on a table iii the closet the strange god sat quietly, while half a dozen caudles cast a pale light on his stolid counten ance. The Chinaman M as on his knees before the god, chanting and singing and praying and saying things which could not be understood. Now and then he would let a chain fall and then he would (lop down and up again and sing and chant all the louder. ( Mice he left the closet and came danc ing about thc room and glanced quick ly to the glass windows at the front to see if he, was being observed. Then he danced back to the closet and fell on his knees and made funny signs at thc little god on the shelf. A blinding rain which came up suddenly drove the Reporter home, but thc Chin unan cont inned his worship. Yesterday the door to the closet was shut, but thc almond-eyed man said that for the small sum of twenty-live cents the god would tell a fortune, the like ot which had never been heard before.-Weirs and fourier. Kaien hy Savages. VAN'COUVKR, ll. C., Oct. (!.-A story of cannibalism was brought to Sydney, Australia, just before thc sailing of the steamer Aorangi to this port, by a French steamer. The victim of the display of savagery was a native of Hawaii, named Amaru, who acted as orderly to t he immigr?t iou department at Noiimia, in the New Hebrides. About six months ago Amaru mar ried, a native woman of Aoba, in the New Hebrides'group, ami on passing thal island later on. decided to visit his wil'e's tribe. Accordingly the couple were put oil' ?ll a boat. A low weeks ago when the steamer ? ailed for them it was learned thal Amain fell into the hands of a savage tribe of na tives, who al ler toi l m ing him tore him to pieces and then roasted him with t Wo sheep. The matter has been reported toa British man-of-war. - The latest enterprise to be started, in Greenville isa collin factorv. STATE SEWS. - Percy Ellis, about twenty years of age, was drowned in a creek near Grceville last Monday. - Thc City Council of Greenville lias adopted an ordinance to prevent spitting on the sidewalks. - A negro, who stole several hun dred chickens in the cit}- of Greenville and suburbs, was crested there Mon day. - Charleston is preparing to enter tain the executive committee of the Na tionl Educational Association in royal style. - Pr. Lewis Griffin, who was sur geon of the 2nd South Carolina in Cuba, will be appointed surgeon in new Philiipiue regiment. - Secretary of State Cooper has granted the Charleston Air Linc rail road, which is to connect Charleston and Augusta, a charter. - An unknown white man commit ted suici de by shootingiiiniself through the head with a pistol at the depot at Denmark last Thursday. - Charleston has now three candi dates for mayor-J. Adger Smyth and James M. Soignons, democrats, and T. Barker Jones, republican. - The Rosemary knitting1 mills at Barnwell arc now turning out about 1,000 pairs of half hose weekly and be hind with their orders, too; - The South Carolina delegation to the Dewey celebration had a royal time in >>ew York, being accorded marked distinction at many points. - Master John Dover, the 14-year old son of Mr. Jack Dover, ot' York county, was accidentally killed a few days ago by having his head crushed in a molasses mill. - Dr. A. P. Kike, of Eimroc, Spar- J tanburg county, has written the gov ernor that there is a suspicious bodily eruption prevalent in the community and he thinks it is smallpox. - The number and va'ue of the premiums offered Jby thc State Fair surpass those of previous years, as thc success of the Fair of ?!)?i promises to ? surpass all previous records. - At Chester the store of D. E. Calvin & Co. was broken into, thc safe successfully drilled and blown open. The burglars got about 8200 in cash. Xothinjr else was taken from the store. There is no clue. - An 18-morths-old child ol' Mr. Joe Wright, in Abbeville County, was drowned in a spring. A barrel is sunk around the spring and it is supposed the little child leaned over to drink j and tumbled into the barrel. - Last, Friday night. John Green shot and instantly killed Bud Lftrke, both colored, at Mr. Cox's place about two miles from Woodruff. This is the third negro to be killed in that com munity within the last six weeks. - Congressman Latimer has sent a j check for 812 for payment for the ; bookcase he got from the penitentiary. He said he never had been able to get a bill. The money will be divided among the bondsmen who had paid it. - Thc farmers of South Carolina seem to be more interested in tobacco planting than those in any adjacent State and the annual outuut this year will be over2."),000,000 pounds: Florence and vicinity alone contributed3,000,000 pounds. - The Southern railway has tinnily ! determined to build its new passenger depot at thc foot of Main and Assembly streets in Columbia and will invest j about $100,000 then; in erecting a mag- ! niftcent depot, facing on a park about ?00 feet square. - Gen, Wade Hampton paid a busi- , ness trip to Washington last week. He says that the democratic party will win in the great national contest next year. He believes that Bryan will be renominated and that the Southern States will all send solid Bryan del egations to the next national conven tion. - A horrible crime was committed in Darlington County last Sunday afternoon, in which a young lady was fearfully J mangled by three black brutes. Two of the assailants were caught ami alteran all night ami des perate Hight the cdlicers tinaliy "lauded the negroes in jail. There may bea lynching. - We are informed I hal Senator Till man has been urged, in order to "save the dispensary," to resign the senator ship next year, get himself elected governor, straighten out the tangled skein of the great moral institution and at the close of his term return to the senate in McLaurin's place.-Co lumbia Stiile. - The citizens ol' Easley and of the surrounding county are wild with joy over thc assured fact that they are soon to have a 8200,000 cotton factory, The people there feel under many ob- j ligations to Mr. John M. (Jeer and oilier spirited gentlemen of thc town ! for their untiring efforts in securing j this enterprise. - Mr. Walter lludgens, manager ol' a ginnery ten miles from Laurens, was : caught in the shafting and jerked ami | mangled in a horrible manner liefere ! the machinery could be stopped. Mel lingered in great agony for several hours. Mr. lludgens was twenty-eight years old and leaves a widow and three children. This is the fourth fatal ac cident in cotton gins in this State since the season opt ned a few weeks ago. - Superintendent Griffith, ol' the penitentiary, slates that the State prison is a little short on convicts at present, The prisoners are not coming in very rapidly just now and the dis charges outnumber the receipts. This does nol indicate any increase in mo- ! ral i ty and decrease in crime, but the ! principal cause is the sending of so many convicts to the chaingangs in the various counties. j .- A terrible tragedy occurred at! Lydia, Darlington County, last Thurs day. Dr. Lacy Lee. a prominent phy sician, thirty years old, shot and fatal ly wounded his own father, Dr. ll. J. j Lee. Thc shooting seems to haye been (lie result of the father rebuking the son for some angry words spoken to ll:e housekeeper. The I wo doctors j live ?un? praet ice toge! her. The young er wasin Darlington Wednesday drink? ?ngami thal may account for the irag Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at (il) cents a l'agi-Good Work. Com! Paper, Prompt Delivery. .Minutes cheaper than al any other house. Catalogues in i he best style If you have printing lo do. it will be lo your interest to write to thc Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. if. Sf r ace C^ied^ws. FARMERS, we ask your kind attention for a fow minutes. You are srointr to turu your land this Fall aud Winter are you not ? Well, if you are you must be sure aud try oue of the SYRACUSE CHILLED PLOWS. They I are the lightest draft Plows and do the best work of aDy Plow io this country. They are no experiment, as we have been selling them here for the last five years, and wo are sure we would not keep them on sale if they would no* ' do the work we claim for them. We ask only what is fair. If. after you give them a fair trial, they do not do the work satisfactory, you can bring the Plow back to our Store and get your money back. What could be more fair ? We are still selling them at old prices, on account of having contracted before the recent advances ou goods in our line. Of course there are some few things that we cannot sell at old prices, neither can any one else, but as long as wc have any goods bought at old prices you can rest assured that you will get them that way. We have a full linc of tli^ best Agricultural Implements that is manufac tured, viz : Thc AVERY DISC PLOW. THOMAS HAY RAKES and CUTAWAY HARROWS of all sizes. Be sure and see our TORRENT HARROW, which does thc work of three Turu Plows atone time. Will be pleased to see you at any time, so dou't forget us wheu in the I city. !_BROCK BEOS. JD ADVERTISEMENT I Is so effective or good as a Pleased Customer. WE lake our cue from this, and in everything our purpose is first, las and all the time to sell only reliable Merchandise over our counters, thus in suring satisfaction to the purchaser. "While we have pleased customers in every department of our business, still it is undeniable that we have pleased them best in the SHOE LINE. We have made a special study of thia line, and always exercise care in buy : ing, so that we can oiler nothing but what we know to be first-class Shoes in ? every particular. To outdo in this line has ever been a hobby with us, and style, quality and price are points in uhich we excel. We Keep Everything in General Merchandise, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS, HEAVY OUTINGS, FLANNELS, S HEETING, aud the hast line of JEANS ON THE MARKET. See our 9-ouuce Wool Jeans for 25c. It is a beauty, and worth more money than we are a->kiug. EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE. Two big bars Soap 10c, Ten lbs. best Soda 25c, Ten Tbs. Coffee, finest on earth, SI.00. nar See us before you sell Cotton, aud let us price you our Goods before McCULLY BROS Wo have added to nur Stock a New and Complete line of FANCY DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS, MILLINERY, And Everything it tak^s to make a First Class Store. Our Buyers selected the latest and best styles iu everything hi th-? North ern markets, aud we can, beyond a dnibt. please you. You are especially invited to examine our whole Stx?k, which we will take pleasure iu showing, whether you buy or not. MRS. I). M. WILSON, who spent several weeks in New York, will have charge of our MILLINERY DEPARTMENT, which is supplied with the latest styles ami .Novelties, and with her experience in this Hue we know she can interest you. MISS OLA MOORE will bc glad to show you Dress Goods, etc. She also has experience in this linc, ami will tit.) all she ein to please you. Wc have a big Stock ot' SHOE"?, and are offering so:u3 bargains which yeti can't alford to pass over. Also, wc handle GROCERIES of all kinds, and will give you spacial prices on FLOUR, MOLASSES and TOBACCO. Special values in every department. Come, aud we will coavioce you. Big lot of TEX AS RED RUST TROOF OATS on baud. Yours truly, MOORE, ACKER & CO., HAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE. ?ta>~ Free City Delivery. ! M L CARLISLE. L. H. CARLISLE CARLISLE BROS. BEG Lo announce to their friends und customers that they aro now iu their NEW PLACE of business Oil Peoples' Corner, !f you want a Mowing Mac ni ne come to see us. We handle the Cham pion Draw Cut .Mowers with Horse Dump Rake. We are agents for the : Lynchburg Chill Plow, one of the best furn Plows ou the market. We keep on baud a fresh supply of Groceries of all kinds. When you want Hard ware we will he glad to quote vou prices. Remember the LYNCHBURG CHILLED PLOW. I CA3MSLE BROS., Anderson, S. C.