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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 189S). VOLUME XXXV~.NO Suooose You s IUI t . THAT you would have to pay a certain part of all losses'by bad debta 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 each year how much they will lose, and of course somebody has it to pay. Tho 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 LOSSES. Don't you think it's a duty iou owe to your income to buy your CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHINGS FROM US. We think so. Remember TOUR MET BICK If TOO HOT IT I Before you Buy A Snit for $6.00 see ours for $ 5.00 ? Suit for 7.50 see our? for 6.00 A Suit for 9.00 see ours for 7.50 ? 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 not lie. They repre sent actual facts. If you doubt, give us the benefit 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 cairy no Suit cheaper than 84.00 for Men, and none cheaper than 81 00 for Boys, became any to retail for less is "simply rotten." It's a pleasure to show you how CHEAP we sell good Clothing, and you wiU find us mighty reliable people to do business with, ivans & Co 9 THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. A Killing lu Pickeus County. Dr. Thus. F. James, of this city, was killed iu tho Six Mile section of Pick ens County on Wednesday night. His son, Hamp James, was desperately wounded at the same time. There is au element of mystery about tho adair, 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 mau, who has surrender ed to the sheriff of Pickens County. Lanicr's wife seems to have been pri marily the cause of tho trouble. The presence of the young man with Dr. James is against tim theory that there was undue intimacy between Mrs. La nier and the senior James. The pro bable explanation is that w hiskey was the lirst element of the trouble, that section being reported to be infested hy 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 ho was commonly called, was well known in this city, having resided here at two or three different periods and coming hero fre quently when living in Anderson County. He was about fifty-five years of age and was a native of Anderson County. He practiced extensively in Anderson and Pickens Counties. Late ly ho moved his familv to this city, but spent most of his time in Pickens, o;. a farm "cnr Six Mile mountain. He lea*;es n wife aud eight children. Bob James, a son ?.f the deceased, re turned yesterday from the scene of the tragedy. Ho heard part of tho 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 ho got is that Dr. James and Hamp went to tho home of Sam Lanier, who is a tenant on their place, to spend the night. Lanier and Iiis wife, who is a mere girl, had a quarrel, and Hamp in attempting to stop it, got into n dilliculty with Lanier. Hamp was stabbed three times, once in the left arm and twice in thc side. The phy sicians think the knife penetrated the lungs. Tho woman insisted that she was going to leave the place and go to her father's, and disregarded all re monstrances. She went out and hitch ed up Dr. James1 horse. Hamp was getting weak and Dr. James took him to the buggy, and the two men, with tho woman, went to the home of Tyler Endes, 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 thc horse and buggy two shots were fired from behind a pile of laths, a few feet away. Hamp was hit in tho head and lace hy several shot and could not tell accurately about the shooting. He did not hear bia 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 struck nu in tho breast and in the face. The breast WOB horribly torn up and the eyes were shot entirely out. Lanier told Eadea what he had done. Hamp James1 condition is desperate and his brother thinks his chances for life are very slight. The stabs aro 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 carno into that community only a year ago. He and his wife have not lived happily during their short mar ried life.-Greenville Mountaineer, lSth inst. Squarely for Expansion. NASHVILLE, TENN., Nov. I?.-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 cn 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 20,000 soldiers, and in a square fight 5,000 Americans would tear them to pieces. AU that is necessary to crush them out at 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 la-en exaggerated io 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 an excellent field for their energies and tire wealth producing; powers of these islands un der American influence will be very ?reat. The action of some people in the United States in asserting that the people of thc Philippines ought to ?ave independence does a great deal of harm and assists Aguinaldo in main taining the insurrection, ns he publish es all assertions hy Americans of that character, and he tells his supporters that if they hold out until winter in iependenco will ho given them. It al so nas a had effect in this-that people who are disposed to be favorable to us und who desire us to govern the islands fear to assert themselves before elec tion, 'tecauso they know that if .they mourn do so and the Americans should Abandon them, they would be in great ?langer of their lives, and in all proba bility their property would he confisca ted. , "On the 9th of September I had a little fight with the enemy at this point, hut it did not' amount to much, although as important as some other angagements which have been digni fied in the papers as fights. I am sorry to say that much which appears in the papers of the United States is KTOSS exaggeration. I expect to- be on hand for congress. With high regards, truly your friend, ? JOE WnEELER." How's Tfclt. We offer Oee Hundred Dollar? reward for any MM rf Catarrh that cannot be eared by ilaire retarTh Car*. Wo, the undersigned hara known . Cheney 'or the teat 16 Teen, nod believe him perfttUy lonerable in eil boalnete transactions and flnan itally ebie to carry ou? ?ny ebligationa made by heir firm. Vf EST ft Tenax, Wholesale D rn grists, Toledo, O. rr aurora. Kmui ft Kaarru, wholesale Drag* [lita, Toledo, O. HaU'a Catarrh Care li taken Internally, acting tiredly apon the blood and macona mrfacee of ha eyatem. Testimonial* eent free. Pri?e 76 o ?or bott!* Sold be alt draegtata. Ban's FaesUy Pills are the ben. Cotton Crop of s, 700,000 Hale?. On the licola of tho government esti mate ot a 9,000,000-bale potten crop The State has received from Latham, Alexander ?fc Co. of New York a circu lar letter, bearing ?late November 15, which indicates a crop of 8,709,000 bales. This linn is one ol' the oldest and most responsible in the cotton trade and its annual statistical review is a standard book of r?f?rence. In its circular it says that having received many letters of inquiry as to the pro bable total cotton crop of thc United States it mailed 4,200 letters to selec ted and reliable correspondents cover ing every cotton-growing country in tho South-banks, bankers, cotton commission merchants, brokers, pro prietors of public gins, railroad ollie in! s and plauters-and received 2,800 rc plies of average dato November 7. These Latham, Alexnuder &? Co. con sider "as reliable ns any information that can bo obtained." Tabulated tiley show the following results: The average of 297 letters makes tho decrease iu Alabama 17 per cent., indi cating a crop of 061,070 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 588,800 bales. Last year, 834,000 bales. Florida. 23 letters; average estimated decrease 10 per cent., or a crop of 03,000 bales. Last year, 70.000 bales. Georgia, 500 letters; average estima ted decrease 19 per cent., or a crop of 1,244,100 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 ncr cent., or a crop of 448,910 bales. Last year, 588, 000 bales. South Carolina, 208 letters; average estimated decrease 22 per cent., or a crop of 709,300 bales. Last year, 1,102. 000 bales. Tennessee, 135 letters: average, esti mated decrease 23 per cent., or a crop of 318,780 bales. Last year, 414,000 bales. Texas, etc., 023 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 the whole South indicates a crop of 8,709, 090 bales against 11,275,000 roi* the last crop year. Latham, Alexander & Co. add that 2,140 of the 2,800 correspondents report that tho crop has been more rapidly marketed, or shipped to market as quickly ns in former years, and 442 cor respondents report that from 5 to 15 f)er cent, moro than last year has boen icld on plantations, towns and cities for higher prices. "Our special agents," they say, "who have been traveling through the South for tho post month to ascertain the true condition of tho cotton crop fully contirmthe foregoing estimates." If the replies from other States aver age as conservatively os those from South Carolina we think the crop in the South aa a whole will bo below rather than above tho estimate of 8,700,000 bales, for our own guess nt tho crop of this State would be between 700,000 and 750,000 bales. It is only a matter of time when Eu rope will begin to buy eagerly and heavily at advancingprices. For those who can hold cotton it is still the best thing to hold.-Thc State. One Big Meteor Anyhow. CRESENT CITY, III., November lo. 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 panie 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 cf the 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 panie in many places. It waa believed that the end of the world had come. Churches were open all night long and hundreds of thousands spent three nights in tho open air, fearing earthquakes and a general cataclysm. There are rumors that in some villages Russian parents murdered their children to relievo them from an expected worse fate. There was rather a brilliant meteoric display between 2 and 5 o'clock Thurs day morning at Berlin. Tho Belated Star Shower. BIRMINGHAM, ALA, November 19. Strange phenomena, supposed to be part of tue tri-centenary meteoric dis turbance, was observed here to-night between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock. Tho ilery messengers made their ap pearance directly overhead. As manv as ten meteors were seen, nil of which were in the nebulae form resembling comets. They iirst appeared as patches of light and at times would glow a bery red and then fade away, repeat ing this a number of times before they finally disappeared. During the lurid period the central body could be easily seen, tho light, radiating throughout tho entire mass, which appeared to bc about three feet, long and six inches wide. It was also observed while the glow was on that theso strange bodies appeared to be moving, tho agitation -being easily distinguishable with the naked eye. Tho entire zenith was overcast, although outside tho area the sky was clear. Great crowds gut herod at tho street corners and many were appalled nt tho strange sight. A number of negroes resorted to prayer ns a means of pro tection from tho stars, which they fear ed would reach tho earth. - The assistant to the sheriff of Salt Lake City for the pose two years is a woman; Miss Clairo Helena Ferguson? She is refined and beautiful, but Dravo and unflinching in tho performance of her duties, and has carried no less than 100 lunatics to the asylum, a distance of fifty miles, and has fand some nar row escapes from death with them. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 60 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style If you have printing to do. it will be to Jour interest to write to tho Press and (aimer, Abbeville, S. C. tf. STATE Ni:WS. - It is rumored tlmt ex-Governor John Gary Kvaiis will make Spartan burg bis futniv home. - Tho StateConferenceof tho Meth odist Church, South, will bc hohl this year at Orangeburg, beginning Dee. <?. - 1?. W. Mitn?iam, Waterloo, is making efforts to organize a company to build n $200,000 cotton mill in thu town. - In lim Democratic primary in Charleston last week Mayor Smyth was renominated by a* handsome majority. - Tho handsome residence of Gen. J. Walter dray in Greenville was de stroyed by Uro last Monday afternoon. Partly covered by insurance. - Magistrate J. W. Peterson, of Laurens, was found dead in Iiis chair. He had been in good health, and death is said to have been caused by apo plexy. - TJio new organization known as tile Woman's Christian Temperance Workers (an offshoot of t lie W. CT. C.) hold its first annual State conven tion in Columbia, 3. C., Nov. 0 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. De nth was instantaneous. - Tlie Clemson football team will phiytheGeorght Technological Institute at Greenville, S. C., on November 80th. Hot h teams are in line shape and au interesting game is anticipated. - Ibznn llell, of Due West, died from the ellects of an over-dose of mor phine. He was a middle aged man, son of Mr. Marion llell. and leaves a widow and several children. - The new Presbyterian Church ut Greenwood was dedicated at Green wood Inst Sunday. The dedicatory sermon was preached hy Kev. W. \V. Moore, D. I)., of Richmond, Ya. The building cost 818,000. - Two negroes will bo banged in Darlington county this week for rape. The horrible crime committed a month or so ago near Dillon will be recalled. This will be tho lirst legal banging for that ct i tn? that has probably ever oc curred in this State. - It is expected that Admiral Dewey and bride will spend a part of th? winter in Aiken as guests of Hon. W. ' C. Whitney. Mr. Whitney is having eight rooms added to lils residence and everything put into shape for his occupancy. - W. P. Powell, ol' Oconce county, who was convicted of a violation ot tho dispensary law, will be pardoned as soon ns the proper papers can reach Governor Mcsweeney, lind health is tlie reason for the pardon. - There are over three and a half millions of ncres of swamp land in the lower part of South Carolina, and some enterprising speculator should organize a compnny 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 tho cent of gov ernmeut in the District of Columbia. The lirst meeting of tho committee will bu held in Washington on Dec. 21st next. - At Kock 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 m tho chimney. She had got out of bed to get somo water and had fallen into the fire and was unable to extricate hornett*. The doc tors say thc burns will bo fatal. - The milking contest at the State fair was nuite interesting. Mr. J. H. Wharton'won tho first prize with one of his Jersey cows, which milked 81 pounds of milk in a day. The second prize Tras won by Mr A. P. Haskell, whose cow milked 20 8-4 pounds. It nn.y he noted that eight pounds is allowed to the gallon of milk. - Governor Mcsweeney has received a letter from a farmer at Guddy sug gestincr thnt he recommend to the Legislature to establish a State Keeley institute for drunkards. He is a great believer in tho treatment and thinks if such an institution is conducted something Uko the asylum great good would bo accomplished - Nelson Rogers, a bad negro, and one who has made a number of enemies, was found in a dying condition on Main street at Bennettsville. Ho had been clubbed into insensibility and his skull fractured in several places. Tho assault was made shortly after dark in front of tho Adams house, where people aro always stirring. The affair is a mystery. - J.J. Tinsley, ex-clerk to the hoard of county commissioners of Spartan burg county, who was arrested in Charleston last week, was brought to Spartauburg and taken before Hie special committee of tho grand jury, before whom he made a clean breast of everything. He was locked up in thu county jail. The committee is very reticent as to th? number of irregular ities or tho amount involved. - The farcical enforcement of tito in come tax law is being emphasized every day by tito returns that are coming in from tho settlements that aro being made. Tho A'CIM* and Cou rier has been looking into tue matter and linds that there is no record of the money received from the income tax other than that from the settlement sheets and from that source the follow ing fl?ures have been derived: Abbe ville, nothing; Aiken, $118: Anderson, $224,71?; Cherokee, 874,17: Chester, $48, 2(1; Darlington. $98,0J?; Horry, nothing; Kershaw, nothing; Lancnster, $28.72; Laurens, nothing; Lexington, noth ing; Marlboro, $82; Newberry. $24; Oconee, nothing; Orangeburg, $80,00; Pickens.- nothing; Sumter, $79.20; Union, $70; Williamsburg, $10; York, $186. - The committee that was appoin ted at tho Chester convention or Con federate veterans last summer to sug gest changes aud amendments in the ?tension laws of South Carolina met in Columbia last week. This committee agreed to recommend to the legislature as follows: The abolition of the town ship boards and placing the authority to grant pensions exclusively in tho hands of county hoards elected by a convention of delegates from each township, delegates to be chosen hy Confederate survivors residing in tho respective townships. In the main, this committee considered the present pension law just and proper. These recommendations will DO formulated and submitted to the legislature in January. Oueral Sews I U rns. - I'ifty-eight nat ional hunk> have 1 boen organized in tho United staten this \car. - In tho past fiscal year 14,001 post masters wer?* appointed, 2,W8i> jui>iui llees wore established and 1,500 dis continued. - ll is reported that thc adminis tr?t inn is preparing tu enter un im perial partnership with Great Britain tu control the Samoan Islands. - Melbourne, Australia, recently experienced the Hrs! fall of snow in its history, lt 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 ll."? lodges. They succeeded in capturing 155 horse thieves in tim past two years, but it is not stated how many they lynched. - This government last year had printed and sohR\r>u<i,0<MUXH) two-cent stamps, enough when placed end to end to girdle the earth at the equator and go over half-way around again. - It is said thc Administration for political reasons, will not ask congress to enact legislation at the coming sos i sion for the permanent increase of the ! army. Secretary Koot s'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, Ya. This memor ial will doubtless cost $100,000, and about three-tilths of tins amount is in hand or subscribed. - Amoricus, Ga., is much wrought up over the refusal ol' the Christian scien tists lo submit to vaccination, and the mayor has sentenced one ol'the most estimable ladies nf tim city to thirty days in jail. The outcome will be watched willi interest. - Mary Koa rs, a i:i-yoar-old negro cirl, "as l'ound guilty ol' voluntary manslaughter in the superior court iii Lagrange, tia. She killed her sweet heart. Sou L'happel, at West l'oint, ?'?a.. Saturday night. Sh?' will bi son! to thc Stilt?' prison farm. The latest information from Ma nila states thal the Americans are non moving against the Filipinos rapidly. A gn at campaign is hoing waged in t he non horn part nf Luzon, and it is thought that Aguinaldo is now sur rounded by our troops. ll. C. McDonald, vice president of the Standard Oil Company, has the distinction ol'hoing the highest paid hireling in the United States, and probably in the world. His salary is $2C-.0lKJ per annum, $<Ul,<?i?0,!HJ per month. ?.rtsi for every day in tho year, Sundays included. - The oldest woman in the world, according to otlicial census reports, lives in Hawaii, and is 124 years of age. Her name is Kepoeplele Apau, and her clnim to advanced age has been thor oughly investigated by Hon. Abitan T. Atkinson, tho general superintendent of tho Hawaiian census. - The largest locomotive ever built has just been completed for the Mich igan' Central Railroad, lt is of the twelve driving wheel type and can haul 2.(MM) 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 fruin the eui th." 'The Boston Tran script calls attention to tho fact that since he uttered those words over two hundred million have been added to the Chris!ian church, and the same room in which Voltaire uttered those words is now a depository of Bibles. THE SYRACUSE WOOD AND STEEL BEAM PLOWS. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. GET ONE AND TRY IT, arid if you are not pleased with it bring it back to us and we will cheerfully REFUND YOUR MONEY. They turn the land where others have failed. Seo the work of our TORRENT CUTAWAY HARROW. It turns the land like Turn Plows, and is the best Harrow for the farm that has ever been placed before tha American people ns a labor and time-saver. Come in and we will be glad to sho-. it to you, and ?how you the work it does. 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 common Cutaway Harrow. We have a full and completo 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 Sportmaq's equipment Remember io come in and see u? when in the city, _BROCK BROS. WHY YOU SHOULD U8E . . . PARIAN PAINTS ! BECAUSE They Beautify, Protect and Preserve your property. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Adhere to wooJ, tin, iron, galvanized iron, stone or tile. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Are guaranteed not to orack, chalk, peel, rub off nor blister. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Are not affected by salt water or 9ca breezes. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Are not affected by ammonia, carbmic, sulphurous or other gases. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Produce a high glo*3, cover perfectly, are the handsomest and most durable Paints ever placed upen^the market. Every gallon guaranteed. Sold only by F. B. GRAYTON & CO. THE PLACE FOR BICYCLES. SUNDRIES, ETC. Eave your repairs done by them. They do first-class work, and guarantee it. " THOMSON CYCLE WORKS, .. . THE BICYCLE PEOPLE!