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CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, KEB UT A RY 22. 185M. YOI j I'M E XXXIY-NO. 85. EOPLE THEY could pay Cash as well as not, but it is so conven t to just step into a store and get what is wanted and tell L storekeeper to charge it. Yes, it's convenient, but s see how much you have to pay for your so-called con vence. You buy a Suit at a cr?dit store for say $10.00, 1 it's charged to you. You could come to us and buy the ae Suit for $8.50, but you would have to pay spot cash, netimes we can save you even more on $10.00. No one undertakes nowadays to claim to sell better goods m we do, or to sell good goods as cheap as we do, but our upetitors rely upon giving credit as an inducement for mghtless people to pay them much more than we ask for ?same goods. We sell good, honest Clothing, and if you me dissatisfied with any purchase you make here we give you YOUR MONEY BICK IF 101 HIT IT I fans luaranteed hoes Sell for ?3.50 because they are i 83.50. They are made by one he beat Manufacturers in the j If these Shoes had the Marni - tier's name on them they would at least ?1.00 more, because their stands for high-priced ShoeB. [Shoe is made so that it doesn't lak" when you walk. Most new ts do, you know, and some 85.00 at that. That's -one point that they are made right, doesn't it? lave"them in all styles and qual One price, and that is $3.50. ?tter try a pair. chool luits Come io and try on tome 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 iu town. We have the ooods and Price3 to merit your trade this season. Wheth er you are ready to buy cr not we waut to see you in our Store, and want to show you Clothing. Men's Suits.at S4 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 Men's Suits.at 15 00 Men's Suits.?.at 20 00 jike School Suits ought to be ! lave them, and lots of them perhap?, than any House in j rson. We have seen to it that Suit was specially lined and li tc h ed. Those intended for |st service have double Beats and , besides being double seamed. ' 1 Suits..,. .v .- * -at 81 00 1 Suits..at 1 60 Bi Suits.at S 00 1 Suits. ... .at 2 50 1 Suits.....?-at 3 00 Suite.. ".at 3 50 Suits.at 4 00 Suits_.at 4 60 Suits../. ..at 5 00 Pants...at 2,5c Panta..at 50c Pants.at. 75c Pants..........at 1 00 Ind in every Snit lhere ia ?S \VING that is worth our consideration. It is more important that good taste should be exhibited in the selection I of a Hat than any other article of wearing apparel. A man may be richly dressed, but no one but himself will appreciate the fact unless he is attired in a^tylish and becoming Hat. Our Hats begin at 25c, but our Dress Hats aro priced. $1.00, 81.60, $2.00, $2 50 and $3.00. SPECIAL. Twenty-fiv'? dozen Broad Brim PLANTERS' HATS. The regular 81.00 kind at credit stores. Evans' price 7?c. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. SITE PROMT. South Carolina Dispensary Takes a j Sensational Turn. COLUMBIA, S. C., October 8.-A bomb could not have caused more of a sensa tion, lind it dropped in the dispensary ; hoard ot* control meeting to-day, than did thc report ot* the special committee of that board appointed a month ago to investigate the management of the in stitution, which is under the direct charge of Commissioner J. ll. Douthit. air. Douthit was elected by thc legisla ture to he a member of thc board of control and Mas then elected State liquor commissioner. Ten days ago the chairman of thc board, on verbal reports made to him by the investigating committee, re moved bookkeeper Oittse. To-day the board did not hesitate live minutes in removing Commissioner Douthit. No action has yet been taken as to prose cution. The commissioner was lound short $1,155 in thc contraband depart ment-that is goods to that amount have been disposed ot* by him on his own account, lint the sensational fea ture is what thc committee describes as the perpetration of "r* fraud on the people ol' South Carolina." liy order of the commissioner, whis ky of the common "one X" brand was bottled oil' by the thousand of gallons and labeled "three X'1 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 linn of national reputation. This was done in the case of several linns that supplied "case goods" to the dispensary, the dispensary doing thc bottling. There was tl vast, quantity of evidence and affidavits. COLUMBIA, S. C-., Oct. 4.-Yesterday's revelations in the dispensary board of control continue to bo thc 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 {trepare his case. Ile complains that te was expected to refute iu fifteen minutes the statements and charges of thc examining committee, when they had been preparing their report for three weeks. Two members of the hoard of control, Williams and Hoy kin, support Douthit in his claim that he should have had a hearing and been given time to prepare evidence. Mr. Williams sirys he is disheartened; that he has worked hard to manage the dispensary decently and without refer ence to politics or faction, anti 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 tho practice of putting fraudulent labels on the liquor has been going on, but it has certainly been in practico for months, and in that time toe whiskey drinkers have paid fora good,deal of quality that tliey have not got. Liquor that was worth $1 a gallon has been selling for $2 aud $2.50, and other grades iu the same ratio. The brands of a famous Baltimore house, where case goods sell for $18 a dozen, have been used on liquor worth $10. Just what action the linn will take is not known. A member of the cxaminiug commit tee says: "We deemed it our duty to report the facts to tho board as they really appear, but tho conclusion cannot be escaped that this scheme of changing tho labels on whisky shipped out could have been for no other purpose than to create a way for collecting moro money for the goods sent out to local dispen saries than the same were invoiced for 1 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 mado 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 thc order of a certain brand fixed on, and to order more of that brand, as that whisky was becoming very popular anti it was hard to keep it in stock. Now, thc evidence submitted shows that the whisky the commission asked for in large quantities was the low grade brand lie was sending out with high-grade labels. ?The inference of the committee's statement isthat the commissioner had a double object-one to collect .nuire money from the local dispensers than he. was accountable for to thu State, and thc other that 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 ou its man agement and when revelations are made, by reformers themselves, it ?weakens the system throughout tho State. George Johnston and George E. Prince, from Newberry and Anderson respectively, arrived is tho city to-day. They aro able lawyers and came down at the request of exC'ommissioner Dou thit to attempt to get'.the board to give him 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 it the majority can bo per suaded to say that he did not contem plate fraud. COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 5.-Tito attor neys for State Liquor Commissioner J. B. Douthit, who was removed from office by tho board of control to-dny, notified the board that Douthit would refuse' to give up the office till the courts had passed on his case. Dou thit was dismissed af ter being given fifteen minutes to defend himself from the charges of "perpetrating a gross frand on the people of South Carolina," by selling the commonest grade of liquor with the high-grade stamp and at high grade prices, also with being short over $1,100. Douthit does not expect to be able to keep the office, 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 tho nttorney general for prosecution. Catarrh Cannot be Cored with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as thor cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh it* blood or constitutional disease, and in order to euro it you must tako internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, and act* directly on the blood and raucous surfaces. Halla. Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicino. It was preacribed by ono of the best physicians in tbU country for years, and is a r.-.-ular prescription. It is com posed of .tb? best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on tl o mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tho two ingredients ls what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Bend for testimonials free ??-Sold hy Druggists, 75c Hall's Family Pills are the beat. Governor aud the Sew York Newsboy*. A good story about Gov. McSwoon <-y's visit to Now York recently which luis BO tar escaped the newspapers lias leaked out in the last tow days aud it serves to show tile manner of man South Carolina's Binall-stuturcd gover nor is. The incident occurred eu Hie day before tho naval na?ade. The govern or aecompaiucd by Iiis little sun and Cols. VVii ?on, Folk, Uedding, Mnuldiu* and Watson of his stall" luid just let t the eottou exchange and had reached "newspaper row," bound for tho bridge togo over to tho navy yard, when just at the Pulitzer building corner they came across a great crowd of newsboys of the "eent-a-Wnrld" variety, getting their supplies of the big afternoon edition just issued. The govenor saw the erowd of urch ins. He exclaimed, "Ah. that is what I was once. Just look at thom, Miles; eoino hero son, I want to show you what your father was when ho was your Ki/.e." Reaching hack and catch ing his boy's hand, it was only a second or two before the governor had forced his way into the heart ol' the erowd of yelling, seullling newsboys. Ile talked witli them and when they found out who ho was und that he had once been | of tlie "elan," they rallied round him and the governor's face was all smiles. Ho bought as many papers as he could carry ami Col. Folk, who got down into the erowd, did likewise. The. boys gave the governor an ovation i ii their own demonstrative way and before bo could bo extricated from his admiring host of newsboy enthusiasts the police had to go to his aid and clear a way out of it for him. There was no incident of Iiis trip to the metropolis that Gov. Mcsweeney enjoyed more thoroughly than this, lt recalled to his mind many memories of the paBt and when in the crowd he really seemed to be a newsboy again himself.- The State. The Uncle and Croom Murdered nt Supper. ST. LOUIS, OCT. 4.-A special to tho Post-Dispatch from Montgomery, Mo., says: Frank Walker and his bride were murdered to-day by Charles Kan kin, a disappointed lover, who then killed himself. A child was seriously wounded by the shots that killed the couple. All concerned in tho tragedy were prominent residents of Montgom ery county. The murder occurred at the home of Janies Cook, niue miles east, of here, where the couple and their friends had gone to eat their wedding ?upper. Walker, who had no relatives, Work ed around tho farra. Tuesday after noon he and Miss Maud Goshorn drove to Montgomery and were married. They then drove out to thc Cook home, where a supper was prepared. A com {lany of well wishers gathered. Thc iride and groom sat side by side at the head of the table in front of an un curtained window, when Kan kin shot the couple, firiug with a shot {run 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 unknown until his ?lead body waa stumbled over outside the house. / A letter left by Kankin revealed tho fact that ho was a rejected suitor of 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 tits within the past month, and the people who stand in the shadow or the street to peep into his shop see strange and weird sights. Just at the rear of the man's laundry there is a "church" built in a closet, and on a shelf in t his is a wooden god. The Chinaman has not accepted anr uft ho religion of this country and he is following the customs of his own church. It was near 2 o'clock the other morn ing when a Reporter, coining in from a late assignment, passed tho laundry. From the place there drifted the smell of burning stutts and a policeman across the street sniffed the air and 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 the window indicated that the temperature inside was steaming. Several Chinese lanterns were swinging about and on a table in the closet thc strange god sat quietly, while, half a dozen candles cast a pile light on his stolid counten ance. The Chinaman was on his knees before the god, chanting and singing and praying and saying things which could not bo understood. Now and then ho would let a chain fall and then he would flop down and up again and sing and chant all the louder. Oueohe left the closet and came danc ing about the room and glanced quick ly to the glass windows at the front to see if ho, was being observed. Then 1 he danced back to the eloset 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 the Chinama.i ? continued his worship. Yesterday the door to the closet was shut, but the almond-eyed man said that for the small sum of twenty-five cents tho god would tell a fortune, tho like of which had never been heard before.-Neicu and Courier. Eaten by Savages. VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 0.-A story of cannibalism was brought to Sydney, Australia, just before the sailing of the steamer Aorangi to thin port, by a French steamer. The victim of tho display of savagery was a nativo of Hawaii, named Amaru, who acted as orderly to the immigration department nt Noumin, in tho New Hebrides. About six months ago Amaru mar ried a nativo woman of Aoba, in the New Hebrides group, and on passing that island later on, decided to visit his wife'? tribe. Accordingly the couple wtro put off in a boat. A tow weens ago when the steamer called for them it was learned that Amaru fell into the hands of a savage tribe of na tives, who after torturing him tore him to pieces and then roasted him with two sheep. The matter has been reported to a British man-of-war. - Tho latest enterprise to bc started in Greenville is a collin factory. STATE NEWS. - Percy Ellis, about twenty years of ? ago. was drowned in a creek near ("neville last Monday. - The City ('outiril of Greenville lins adopted an ordinance to prevent spitting on the sidewalks. -- A negro, who stole several hun dred chickens in the city ?d' Greenville and suburbs,'was arrested there Mon day. - Charleston is preparing to enter tain the executive committee of the Na tion! Educational Association in roval style. - Dr. Lewis ti ri Hin. who was sur geon of the Sud South Carolina in ('nba, will be appointed surgeon in new Phillipiue regiment. - Secretary of State Cooper has granted the Charleston Air Line rail- ! rond, which is to connect Charleston and Augusta, a charter. - An unknown whit?'man commit ted RuicidO by shooting himself through the head with a pistol at the depot at Denmark last Thursday. - Charleston has now three calidi dades for mayor-.1. Adger Smyth and .linties M. Soignons, democrat si and T. Harker .loni's, republican. - The Rosemary knitting mills at Barnwell are now- turning out about I 1,01)0 pairs of half hose w eekly and be hind with their orders, too. - The South Carolina delegation to the Dewey celebration had a roval time in New York, being accorded marked distinction ut many points. - Master .lohn Dover, the 14-year old son ol Mr. .lack Dovecot York county, was accidentally killed a lew days ago hy having his head crushed in a molasses mill. - Dr. A. 1*. Pike, of Eimroc, Spar ta nhurg county, has written the gov ernor that thero is a suspicious bodily eruption prevalent in the community ?md he thinks it is smallpox. - Thc number and va'uo of the premiums unbred Jby the State Fair surpass tluise of previous years, as the success of tlui Fair of 't)!l promises to surpass all previous records. - At Chester the store of 1). E. Calvin ?: Co. was broken into, the safe successfully drilled ami blown open. The burglars got about $200 in cash. Nothing else was taken from tin- store. There is no clue. - Au 18-months-old child of Mr. Joe Wright, in Abbeville County, was drowned in a spring. A nurrel is sunk around the spring and it is supposed the little chilli leaned over to drink and tumbled into the barrel. - Last , Friday night, John Green shot and instantly killed Hud Larke, both colored, at Mr. Cox's place about two miles from- Woodruff. This is thc third negro tobe killed in that com munity within the last six weeks. - Congressman Latinice hus sent a check for $13 for payment for the bookcase he got from the penitentiary. Ho said he never had been able to get a bill. Tho money will bc divided among the bondsmen who had paid it. - The farmers of South Carolina seem to be more interested in tobacco planting than those in any adjacent State and the annual output this year will bo over25,000,000 pounds: Florence and vicinity ahme contributed !1,000,00() pounds. - The Southern railway has tinnily determined to build its new pussonger depot at the foot of Main and Assembly streets in Columbia and will invest about $100,000 there in erecting a inug nificent depot, facing on a nark: about 500 feet square. - Gen. Wade Hampton paid ti 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 Hryan will be renominated and that the Southern States will all send solid M ry nu del egations to the next national" conven- ? boh. - A horrible crime was committed in Darlington County last Sunday afternoon, in which a young lady was fearfully/ mangled hy three black brutes. Two of the assailants were caught and alter au all night ami des- : penile Hight the officers tinnily landed : the negroes in jail. There may bea lynching. - We an; informed thai Senator Till man has been urged, in order to "save the dispensary," to resign the senator- 1 ship next year, get himself elected . governor, straighten out tin; > angled skein of thc great moral institution and at the close of his tenn return toi the sennte in McLaurin's place.-Co-I lumbia State. - The citizens of Easley and of the j surrounding county are wild with joy over tho assured fnct that they are soon to have ? $20p,o0() cotton factory, The people there feel under many ob ligations to Mr. John M. Geer and other spirited gentlemen of the town ? for their untiring efforts in securing i this enterprise. - Mr. Walter Hudgens, manager of a ginnery ten miles from Laurens, was caught in the shafting and jerked and mangled in a horrible mannet before the machinery could be ?topped. Ile lingered in great agony for several hours. Mr. Hudgens 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 Rince thc season opened a few weeks ago. j - Superintendent Griffith, of tin* penitentiary, states that the State prison is a little short on convicts at j present, Thc prisoners arc not coming m very rapide j list now and thc ?lis charges outnumber tho receipts. This does not indicate any increase in mo rality and decrease in crime, but the principal cause is the sending of so many convicts to thc chaingangs in the various counties. - A terrible tragedy occurred at Lydia, Darlington County, last Thurs day. Dr. Lacy Let?, ti prominent phy sician, thirty years old, shot and fatal ly wounded his own father, Dr. IL J. Leo. The shooting Rooms to ha vi* been tho result of the father rebuking tho son for some angry words spoken to the housekeeper. The two doctors live and practice together. The young er was in Darlington Wednesday drink ing and that may account for thc trag edy. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 00 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in tho best style If you have printing to do, it will bo to your interest to wnto to the Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. FAKMKKS, we us>k yum- kimi intention for a few minutes. You are point; to turu your html this Fall uti?! Whiter are you not ? Well, it' you are you must hf sine ano! try one oi' the SYRACUSE CHILLKP PLOWS. They j are tho lightest draft Plows and do the best work of any I'low in this country. They are no ex p?riment, as we have bren selling them here for the last live year.-, and we are sure we would not keep them on sale if they would not ! do tho work we claim for them. We ask only what i- fair. If, after you nive them a fair trial, they do ? not do the work satisfactory, you eau bring th?' Plow back to ourStore and get ; your money back. What could he more fair 7 We are still selling them al old prive-, ou account of having contracted j before thc recent advances on goods in our line. Of course there are some ; few things that we cannot sell at ?dd price-, neither cnn any one else, but as long as we have any goods bought at old prices you eau rest assured that you j will get them that way. We have a full line <rd' the best Aurionhural Implements that is manufac tured, viz: Tin; AV KUY DISC PLOW. THOMAS HAY lt AK HS and CUTAWAY HAHliOWS nf all nisse*. He sure and see our TOIUIKNT I II Al! HOW, which doc-, the work of three Turn Plows at one tim?. \\*ill he pleased to see von at anv time, so don t forget us when in thc icily. BROCK BROS. Is so effective or good as a Pleased Customer. WE luke our cue fruin this, and in everything ?mr purpose is first, his ami all the time to sell only reliable Merchandise over our counters, thus in suring satisfaction to tin? purchaser. While we have pleased customers in every department of mir business, still it is undeniable that we have pleased then, best in the - i We have made a special study of this line, aud always exercise care in buy ing, so that we can idler nothing but what we kuow 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 which we excel. We Keep Everything in General Merchandise, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS, HEAVY OUTINGS, FLANNELS. SHEETING, ?u?l the bent line of .JEANS ON THE MARKET. See our 9-onnee Wool Jeans for 25c. It is a beauty, and worth more money than we are asking. D, bill Itllilu in i UEJ wllUvlulf \ Li Iv* JU*. Two big bars Soap 10c, Ten lbs. best Soda 25c, Ten lbs. Coffee, finest on earth, 81.00. for" See us before you sell Cotton, and let us price you our Goods before j you buy. McCULLY BROS Attention, Ladies ! ' Ve have added iu nur Stock a New and Complete li ie of FANCY DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS, MILLINERY, A General Line of HOUSE FURNISHINGS, And Everything it takqs to m?ke a First Cl ?63 Store. Our Buyeis selected the latest and best styles in everything in th* North em markets, and we can, beyond a doubt, please you. You are especially invited to examine, our whole Stock, which we will take pleasure in showing, whether you buy or not. MRS. D. M. WILSON, who spent several weeks in New York, will have charge ol' our MILLINERY DEPARTMENT, which is supplied with the lat'tst styles and .Novelties, and with her experience in this line we know she can interest you. MISS OLA MOORE will bc glad to show you Dress Goods, etc. Sh? also bas experience in thia line, and will do all she cw to please you. We have a big Stock of SHOE*), and aro offering som * birg tim which j yui can't a flo rd to pass over. Also, we handle GROCERIES of all kinds, and will give you spacial prices on FLOUR, MOL*ASSE3 and TOBACCO. Special values in every department. Come, and we will convince you. Big lot of TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS on hand. Youri truly, MOORE, AOKER & CO., EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER 8TORE. SST Free City Delivery._ j M. L CARLISLE. L. IL CARLISLE CARLISLE BROS. BEG to announce to their friends aud customers that they are now in their NEW PLACE of business On Peoples' Corner. If you want a Mowing Machine como to see us. We handle the Cham pion Draw Out Mowers with llorso Dump Rake. We are agents tor the Lynchburg Chill Plow, one of the best furn Plows on the market. We keep on hand a fresh supply of Groceries of all kinds. When you waut Hard ' ware we will be glad to (?note von price*. Remember the LYNCHBURG CHILLED PLOW. CARLISLE BROS., Anderson, S.C.