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BY CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 22. ,T,.mr, i ^...?.i TWe. __ Ar-irv Fpfirs. ii 13-veiir-old netrro s . 9 . THAT you would have to pay a certain part of all losses 'by bad debts if you traded at Credit Stores. You would laugh at the idea. Now, wouldn't you ? "Well, that's what you will have to do if you trade at Credit Stores and pay your bills. It isn't the intention of the Credit Stores to bear these losses by bad debts. They figure eaeh year how much they will lose, and of course somebody has it to pay. The way it's done is this : Everybody is made to pay much more than we ask for the same Goods to make up these losses, and you pay your part if you pay youi bills. Some Credit Stores tell you they will sell you Clothes and charge them to you at their Cash prices, and then they actually ask you for Cash trade. If you spend your Cash with them, how about those losses by bad debts ? .We sell for strictly SPOT CASH. WE HAVE NO LUSSES. Don't you think it's a duty you owe to your income to buy your CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHINGS FROM US. We think so. Remember ?lill MET MCI IF ?09 W IT I A Snit for $6.00 see ours for S 5.00 A Suit for 7.50 see ours for 6.00 A Suit for 9.00 see ours for 7.50 A Suit for 10.00 see ours for 8.50 A Suit for 12.50 see ours for 10.00 A Suit for 15.00 see ours for 12.50 THE WHY AND THE WHEREFORE: The comparative figures above do uot lie. They repre sent actual facts. If you doubt, give us the bent fit of the doubt-only to the extent of coming in to investi gate. We've got everything in Clothing that any other Store has, except trash, which we most positively will not hardie. We carry no Suit cheaper than 84.00 for Men, and none cheaper than SI 00 for Boys, because any to retail for less is "simply rotten." It's a pleasure to show you how CHEAP we sell good Clothing, and you will find us mighty reliable people to do business with. B. 0. Evans & Co. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT A Killing in Pickeus Ounty. Dr. Thos. F. James, of this city, was killed in tho Six Mile section of Pick ens County on Wednesday night. His son, Hamp James, "was desperately wounded at the same time. There is an element of mystery about the affair, and the reports reaching this city have been very meagre, the Six Mile section being somewhat remote from railroad stations and telephones. The killing was done by Sam Lanier, a young white man, who has surrender ed to the sheriff of Pickens County. Lanier's wife seems to have been pri marily the cause of tho trouble. The resence of the young man with Dr. ames is against the theory that there was undue intimacy between Mrs. La nier and the senior James. The pro bable explanation is that whiskey was the first element of the trouble, that section being reported to be infested by blockade liquor, and Dr. James seems to have rested under the impu tation in that section of being an in former, as he was formerly connected with the revenue service. Dr. James, as he was commonly called, was well known in this city, having resided here at two or three different periods and coming here fre quently when living in Anderson County. He was about fifty-five years of age and was a native ot Anderson County. He practiced extensively in Anderson and Pickens Counties. Late ly he moved his family to this city, but spent most of his time in Pickens, on a farm near Six Mile mountain. He leaves a wife and eight children. Bob James, a son of the deceased, re turned yesterday from the scene of the tragedy. He heard part of the testi mony at the inquest and talked with his wounded brother. His story re moves some of the worst features of the case as regards Dr. James. The story he got is that Dr. James and Hamp went to the home of Sam Lanier, who is a tenant on their place, to spend the night. Lanier and his wife, who is a mere girl, had a quarrel, and Hamp in attempting tc stop it, got into a difficulty with Lanier. Hnmp -was ??tabbed three times, once in the left arm and twice in the side. The phy sicians think the knife penetrated the lungs. The woman insisted that she was going to leave the place aud go to her father's, and disregarded alt re monstrances. She went out and hitch ed up Dr. James' horse. Hamp was getting weak and Dr. James took him to the buggy, and the two men, with the woman, went to the home of Tyler Eades, Mrs. Lanier's father, one mile distant. Arriving at the house the woman got out first and started to the house. As she got clear of the horse and buggy two shots were fired from behind a pile of laths, a few feet away. Hamp was hit in the head and face by several shot and could not tell accurately about the shooting. He did not hear his father groan or make any noise whatever. When Tyler Eades reached the bug gy he found Dr. James dead on the seat, having simply fallen back, his head hanging over the rear of the bug ?y. Two loads of No. 3 shot 6truck im in the breast and in the face. The breast was horribly torn up and the eyes were shot entirely out. Lanier told Eades what he had done. Hamp James' condition is desperate and his brother thinks his chanees for life are very slight. The stabs are his worst wounds. The woman testified that Dr. James stabbed Hamp and that she was dragged by the James into the buggy, but got out before reaching her father's. Little is known of Lanier, as he came into that community only a year ago. He and his wife have not lived happily during their short mar ried Wie.-'(greenville Mountaineer, ISth inst. Squarely for Expansion. NASHVILLE, TENN., Nov. l?.^A special to The Banner from Florence, Ala., says that General Joe Wheeler, ina letter to Hon. W. J. Wood, of Florence, stating his views on the Philippine question, says: "I am delighted with the Philippine islands. I have no doubt that a little push and energy this fall will crush out the Aguinaldo insurrection. Out of 9,000,000 of people in these islands, I do not think he has more than 20,009 soldiers, and in a square fight 5,000 Americans would tear them to pieces. All that is necessary to crush them out nt once is for the army to get at them and keep at them until the work is done. "The evil features of these islands have been exaggerated to our people. Their extent is so great from north to south and the variation of the altitude is such that there is a great variety of climate and variety of productions. Americans will find this au excellent field for their energies and the wealth Sroducing powers of these islands lin er American influence will be very great. The action of some people in the United States in asserting that the people of the Philippines ought to have independence docs a great deal of harm and assists Aguinaldo in main taining the insurrection, ashli publish es all assertions by Americans of that character, and he tells his supporters that it'tiley hold out until winter in dependence will be given them. It ?li so has a bad effect in this-that people who are disposed to lie favorable to us and who desiri; us to govern the islands tear to assert themselves before elec tion, because they know that if they should do so and the Americans should abandon them, they would be in great danger ot' their lives, and in all proba bility their property would be confisca ted.' "On the 9th of September I had a little light with the enemy at this point, but it did not amount to much, although as important as somo other engagements which have been digni fied iii the papers as fights. I am sorry to say that much which appears in the papers of the United States is gross exaggeration. I expect to: be on hand for congress. With high regards, truly your friend, JOE WHEELER." How's This. We oller One Hundred Dollars reward for any case rf Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. We, the undersigned have known V... . Cheney for the la; t 15 years, and bcllovo him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and finan cially able to carry out any obligations wade by their firm. WBST * TBUAI, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. WxtDrva. KIS'NAN db MARVIN, Wliolesalo Drug- : gists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure ls taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Teatimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle Sold hv all druggist*, j Hall's Family Pills are tho best. ? Cotton Crop or y, 700,000 Hales. On thc heels of the government esti mate of a 9,000,000-balc cotton crop The State has received from Latham, Alexander <fc Co. of New York a circu lar letter, bearing date November 15, which indicates a crop of 8,709,090 bales. This firm is one of the oldest and most responsible in the cotton trade and its annual statistical review is a standard book of reference. In its circular it says that having received many letters of inquiry as to the pro bable total cotton crop of the United States it mailed 4,200 letters to selec ted and reliable correspondents cover ing every cotton-growing country in the South-banks, bankers, cotton commission merchants, brokers, pro prietors of public gins, railroad officials and planters-and received 2,800 re plies of average date November 7. These Latham, Alexander 6? Co. con sider "as reliable as any information that can be obtained." Tabulated they show the following results: The average of 297 letters makes the decrease in Alabama 17 per cent., indi cating a crop of 961,970 bales as com pared with 1,159,000 bales for the last crop year. Arkansas, 240 letters; average esti mated decrease 30 per cent., or a crop of 583,800 bales. Last year, S34,000 bales. Florida, 23 letters; average estimated decrease 10 per cent., or a crop of 03,000 bales. Last year, 70,000 bales. Georgia, 5G(i letters; average estima ted decrease 19 per cent., or a crop of 1,244,1(50 bales. Last year, 1,530,000 bales. Louisiana, 110 letters; average esti mated decrease 14 per cent., or a crop of 507,400 bales. Last year, 590,000 bales. Mississippi, 299 letters; average esti mated decrease 12 per cent., or a crop or 1,339,300.bales. Last year, 1,522,000 bales. North Carolina, 233 letters; average estimated decrease 23 per cont., or a crop of 448,910 bales. Last year, 583, 000 bales. South Carolina, 208 letters; average estimated decrease 22 per cent., or a crop of 789,300 bales. Last year, 1,102, 000 bales. Tennessee, 135 letters: average esti mated decrease 23 per cent., or a crop of 31S,Tt>0 bales. Last year, 414,000 bales. Texas, etc., G23 letters; average esti mated decrease 31 per cent., or a crop of 2,452,950 bales. Last year, 3,555,000 bales. The sum of these averages for tho whole South indicates a crop of 8,709, 090 bales against 11,275,000 for the last crop year. Latham, Alexander & Co. add that 2,140 of the 2,800 correspondents report that the crop has been more rapidly marketed, or shipped to market as quickly as in farmer years, and 442 cor respondents report that from 5 to 15 per cent, more than last year has been held on plantations, towns and cities for higher prices. "Our special agents," they say, "who have been traveling through the South for the past month to ascertain the true condition of thc cotton crop fully confirm the foregoing estimates. If the replies from other States aver age as conservatively as those from South Carolina we think the crop in the South as a whole will be below rather than above the estimate of 8,700,000 bales, for our own guess at the crop of this State would be between 700,000and 750,000 bales. It is only a matter of time when Eu rope will begin to buy eagerly and heavily at advancing prices. For those who can hold cotton it is still the best thing to hold.-Hie State. One Big Meteor Anyhow, CRESENT CITY, III., November IC By the falling of an aerolite, seven miles south pf Cresent City, the resi dence of John Meyers was partially wrecked and the neighborhood was panic stricken. The meteor came from a point in the sky a little east of south and struck the north end of the house, tearing away a part of tho upper story. The aerolite buried itself in the ground about three feet from the foundation of the house. LONDON, November 10.-In Russia the Leonid displays caused a panic in many places. It was believed that the end of the world had come. Churches were opeu all night long and hundreds of thousands spent three nights in thc open air, fearing earthquakes and a general cataclysm. There are rumors that in some villages Russian parents murdered their children to relieve them from an expected worse fate, There was rather ;i brilliant meteoric display between 2 and 5 o'clock Thurs day morning at Berlin. The Belated Star Shower. BIRMINGHAM. ALA, November 19. Strange phenomena, supposed to bc part of thc tri-centcnary meteoric dis turbance, was observed here to-night between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock, The fiery messengers made their ap pearance directly overhead. As many as ten meteors were seen, all of whirl] worein thc nebulae form resembling comets. They first appcarediis patches ot* light and at times would glow ii fiery red and then lade away, repeat ing this a number of times before they finally-disappeared. During the. lurid period thc central body could bc. easily seen, tho light radiating throughout the entire mass, which appeared to lu about three feet long and six inches wide. It; was also observed while tin glow wa-, on that (hese strange bodies appeared to bc moving, tho agitation being easily distinguishable with thc naked eye. The entire zenith was overcast, although outside the area thc sky was clear. Great crowds gathered at the strcel corners and many were appalled at thc strange sight. A number of negroes resorted to prayer asa means of pro tection from tho stars, which they fear ed would reach thc earth. - The assistant to the sheriff of Sall Lake City for the pase two years is ? woman, Miss Clairo Helena Ferguson. She is refined and beautiful, but bravo and unflinching in the performance ol her duties, and has carried no less thai 101) lunatics to the asylum, a distance of fifty miles, and has had some nar row escapes from death with them. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 00 cents a Page-Gooc Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery Minutes cheaper than at any othe: house. Catalogues in tho best style If you have printing to dc, it will bo tc your interest to write to tho Press .mc Banner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. - It is rumored that ex-Governor John Gary Evans will make Spartan burg his future home. - The S tate Conference of the Meth odist Church, South, will bc held this year at Orangeburg, beginning Dec. O'. - II. W. Mitaham, Waterloo, is making efforts to organize a company to build a $200,000 cotton mill in the town. - In the Democratic primary in Charleston last week Mayor Smyth was renominated by a handsome majority. - The handsome residence of Gen. J. Walter Gray in Greenville was de stroyed by ?re last Monday afternoon. Partly covered by insurance. - Magistrate J. W. Peterson, of Laurens, was found dead in his chair. He had been in good health, and death is said to have been caused by apo plexy. - The new organization known as the Woman's Christian Temperance Workers (an offshoot of the W. CT. U.) held its first annual State conven tion in Columbia, S. C., Nov. 9 and 10. - William Walker, a colored boy about twenty years old, fell from his bicycle at Etta Jane while riding at a rapid rate, and broke his neck. Death was instantaneous. - The Clemson foot ball team will play the Georgia Technological Institute at Greenville, S. C., on November SGoh. Both teams are in tine shape and an interesting game is anticipated. - Ibzan Bell, of Due West, died from the effects of an over-dose of mor phine. He was a middle aged man, son of Mr. Marion Bell, and leaves a widow and several children. - The new Presbyterian Church at Greenwood was dedicated at Green wood last Sunday. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Kev. W. W. Moore, D. D., of Richmond, Va. The building cost $1^,000. - Two negroes will be hanged in Darlington county this week for rape. The horrible crime committed a month or so ago near Dillon will be recalled. This will be the iirst legal hanging for that crime that has probably ever oc curred in this State. - It is expected that Admiral Dewey and bride will spend a part of the winter in Aiken as guests of Hon. W. C. Whitney. Mr. Whitney is having eight, rooms added to his residence aud every tiling put into shape for his occupancy. - W. P. Powell, of Oconce county, who was convicted of a violation of the dispensary law, will be pardoned as soon as the proper papers can reach Governor McSweeney. Bad health is the reason for the pardon. - There are over three and a half millions of acres of swamp land in the lower part of South Carolina, and some enterprising speculator should organize a company and drain these swamps. Then South Carolina would become the great corn State of the South. - Gov. McSweeney has received a commission from President McKinley appointing him a member of the com mittee on "the national celebration of the establishment of the seat of gov ernment in the District of Columbia. The first meeting of the committee will be held in Washington on Dec. 21st next. - At Rock Hill last Friday an aged negro woman was heard calling for help from her cabin. Persons on going into the house found the woman sit ting on the fire in the chimney. She had. got out of bed to get some" water and had fallen into thc fire and was unable to extricate herself. The doc tors say the burns will be fatal. - The milking contest at the State fair was quite interesting. Mr. J. H. Wharton won the first prize with one of his Jersey cows, which milked 31 pounds of milk in a day. The second prize was won by Mr A. P. Haskell, whose cow milked 29 3-4 pounds. It may be noted that eight pounds is allowed to the gallon of milk. - Governor McSweeney has received a letter from a farmer at Gad dy sug gesting that he recommend to the Legislature to establish a State Keeley institute for drunkards. He is a great believer in the treatment and thinks if such an institution is conducted something like the asylum great good would bc accomplished. - Nelson Rogers, a bad negro, and one who has made anumberof enemies, was found in a dying condition on Main street at Bennettsville. Ile had been clubbed into insensibility and his skull fractured in several places, Tlie assault was made shortly aftei dark in front of the Adams house, where people an; always stirring. Thc affair is a mystery. - J. J. Tinsley,ex-clerk to the board of county commissioners of Spartan burg county, wiio was arrested in Charleston last week, was brought to Spartauburg and taken before the special committee of the grand.jury, before whom he made a clean breast of everything. He was locked up in the county jail. The committee is very reticent as to i he number of irregular ities or the amount involved. - Thc farcical enforcement of the in come tax law is being emphasized every day by thc returns that arc coming in from the. seit lenients that arc being made. The Xcivs* ami Cou rier has boen looking into tue matter and linds that there is no record of thc money received from the income tax ot her than that from the settlement sheels and from that source thc follow ing figures have been derived: Abbe ville, nothing; Aiken, SUS; Anderson, $224,79: Cherokee, $74,17: Chester, $43, 2(?; Darlington, $98,05; Ilorry, nothing; Kershaw, nothing; Lancaster, S*2:?,T^: Laurens, nothing; Lexington, noth ing; Marlboro, $32; Newberry, $24; Oconce, nothing; Orangeburg, $30,0(1: Pickens, nothing; Sumter, $79.26 Union, $70; Williamsburg, $10; York $180. - The committee that was appoin ted at t ho Chester convention of Con federate veterans last summer to sug gest changes and amendments in the pension laws of South Carolina met ir Columbia last week. This committee agreed to recommend to the legislature aa follows: The abolition of the town ship boards and placing tho authority to grant pensions exclusively iu thc hands of county boards elected by ii convention of delegates from ead township, delegates to be chosen by Confederate survivors residing in thc respective townships. In the main, this committee considered thc present pension law just and proper. These recommendations will be formulated and submitted to the legislature ir January. - Fifty-eight national hanks have been organized in the United States this year. - In the past iiscal year 14,004 post masters were appointed, 2,035 postof iices were established and 1,505 dis continued. - It is reported that the adminis tration is preparing to enter au im perial partnership with Great Britain to control the Samoan Islands. - Melbourne, Australia, recently experienced the first fall of snow in its history. It came late in the Austra lian winter and was heavy enough for the children to make snowballs. - Oklahoma has an anti-horse thief association, with 115 lodges. They succeeded in capturing 155 horse thieves in the past two years, but it is not stated how many they lynched. - This government last year had printed and sold^.?OOjOOO.OOO two-cent stamps, enough when placed end to end to girdle the earth at the equator and go over half-way around again. - Ic is said the Administration for political reasons, will not ask congress to enact legislation at the coming ses sion for thc permanent increase of the army. Secretary Roots's report, it is believed, will contain no recommenda tion for an increase. - The United Daughters of the Con federacy will undertake the erection of a splendid monument to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Va. This memor ial will doubtless cost $150,000, and about three-fifths of this amount is in hand or subscribed. - Americus, Ga., is much wrought up over the refusal of the Christian scien tists to submit to vaccination, and the mayor has sentenced oue of the most estimable ladies of the city to thirty j days in jail. The outcome will be watched with interest. cirl, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the superior court, at Lagrange, Ga. She killed her sweet heart, Son Chapped, at West Point, Ga., Saturday night. She will be sent to the State prison farm. - The latest information from Ma nila states that the Americans are now moving against the Filipinos rapidly. A great campaign is being waged in the northern part of Luzon, and it is thought that Aguinaldo is now sur rounded by our troops. - H. C. McDonald, vice president of the Standard Oil Company, has the distinction of being the highest paid hireling in the United States, and probably in the world. His salary is $200,000 per annum, $16,GG6,00 per month, $584 for every day in the year, Sundays included. - The oldest woman in the world, according to official census reports, lives in Hawaii, and is 124 years of age. Her name is Kepoeplele Apau, and her claim to advanced age has been thor oughly investigated bv Hon. Alatau T. Atkinson, the general superintendent of the Hawaiian census. - The largest locomotive ever built has just been completed for the Mich igan Central Railroad. It is of the twelve driving wheel type and can haul 2,000 tons. The boiler measures seven feet one inch in diameter over the jacket and its centre line is nine feet eight inches above the rails. - Voltaire said nearly one hundred years ago in a boastful tone, "before the beginning of the nineteenth cen tury Christianity will have disappeared from the earth." 'The Boston Tran script calls attention to the fact that since he uttered those words over two hundred million have been added to the Christian church, and the same room in which Voltaire uttered those words is now a depository of Bibles. THE STUCKE WOOD IUD STEEL BEAM PLOWS. Guaranteed fco give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. GET ONE AND TRY IT, and if you are not pleased with it bring it babk to us and we will cheerrully REFUND YOUR MONEY. They turn the land where others have failed. See the work of our TORRENT CUTAWAY HARROW. It turns the laud like Turn Plows, and is the best Harrow for the farm that has ever been placed before the American people as a labor and time-saver. Come in and we will be glad to show it to you, and show you the work it doe3. If you contemplate buying a Cutaway Harrow don't fail to see this one before you buy. lt is only about two-thirds as heavy to pull as the eommon Cutaway Harrow. We have a full and complete line of all kinds of Agricultural Implements, Hardware, Machinery Fittings, And everything Usually kept in a first-class Hardware Store, and our prices are right. We have a large stock of SHOT GUNS, SHOT, POWDER, CAPS empty and loaded SHELLS, and everything connected with the Sportman'^ equipment Remember to come in and see y? when in. the city, _BBOCK BROS. WHY YOU SHOULD USE . . . PUNTS ! BECAUSE They Beautify, Protect and Preserve your property. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Adhere to wool, tin, iron, galvanized iron, stous or tile. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Are guaranteed not to orack, chalk, peel, rub off nor blister. BECAUSE A.rc not affected by salt water or sea breezes. BECAUSE PAR?AN PAINTS Are not affected by ammonia, carbonic, sulphurous or other gases. BECAUSE PAR?AN PAINTS Produce a high gloss, cover perfectly, are the handsomest and most durable Paints ever placed upcn*_'the market. Every gallon guaranteed. Sold only by F. B. GRAYTON & CO. THE PLACE FOR BICYCLES. SUNDRIES, ETC. Have your repairs done by them. They do first-class work, and guarantee it. 25 THOMSON CYCLE WORKS, . THE BICYCLE PEOPLE!