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Dv nr/rwirsnAOls * T, A TOSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29, 1899. : ~m?ME XXXV-NO. 28. mi in We wish thee well! ta Thanks That you are living, That you are prospering, That you are blessed Beyond the majority! And that you are enjoying privileges and benefits in the United States that can be enjoyed in no other country ! Wish for happiness, Wish for health, Wish for honor, Wish for wealth, BUT BE SURE TO WISH FOR THE CONTINUED PROSPERITY OF THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. For thc Jefferson Davis Monument. The following has been sent out from Charleston to thc various chap ters of the Daughters of thc Confeder acy in hjouth Carolina: CHARLESTON, NOV. 20,1S00. To thc Officers and Members of South Carolina Division, Daughters of tho Confederacy. Ladies: At thc late convention of the. Daughters of the Confederacy held in Kichniond, it was dcteimincdto accede to the request of thc veterans and as sume the responsibility of erecting the long delayed monument to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States. This decision -was not reached without careful thought and discussion; all the delegates present recognized the weight thus laid upon the associa tion, but they also realized that upon the acceptance of this burden of re sponsibility rested the hope of an carly accomplishment of the work proposed. The Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, mayor of Kichmond, Va., and president of thc Jefferson Davis Monument association, came before the convention and by his explanation removed any impression that indifference or inertness on the part of the men had occasioned the proposal to transfer this work to other hands. Difficulties arising from earlier and very expensive plans were such that this change had become urgently ad visable. The following letter from Mr. Elly son gives a full report of the present condition of the Jefferson Davis Monu ment association: JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT ASSOCIA TION. KICHMOND, VA., Nov. 13, 1899. Mrs. S. T. McCullough, Chairman Jef ferson Davis Monument Committee, U. D. C. Dear Madam: The Jefferson Davis Monument association was organized in 1800, aud chartered by thc general assembly of Virginia. At the meeting of the United Confederate Veterans in Charleston, S. C., in May, 1899, a reso lution was adopted requesting the United Daughters of the Confederacy to assume the responsibility of the completion of this monument, and au thorizing the Jefferson Davis Monu ment association to turn over any funds in their possession to the Uni ted Daughters whenever they should comply with thc request of the United Confederate Veterans. 1 had the hon or Friday of submitting the question for the consideration of the convention of the United Daughters of the Con federacy, then in session in this city, and they adopted a resolution by which they consented to comply with the request of the veterans and endeav or to raise a sum sufficient to erect a suitable monument to the president of the Confederate States. It is my pleasure to be able to report to you that we have in our treasury the sum of $20,405.31, which we will turn over to your treasurer whenever requested by you to do so. Our association has no debts of any sort, and you will take np the work without any embarrass ments on account of any action pre viously taken by us. The idea of the United Confederate Veterans was that we should turn over to you the funds we have, and thnt you would take up the work as though it had never been begun. Yon were to be at liberty to select such design as you might think proper, choose such a site in or near the city of Kichmond as you might prefer, and erect a monument at such time and at such cost as the United Daughters may deem best. I beg leave to renew the assurance heretofore extended that any assistance that the members of the Jefferson Davis Monument association may be able to render to the ladies will be most cheerfully given. Wo believe that under your energetic and loving direction the task of building a monu ment to Jefferson Davis will soon be completed. Yours respectfully, J. TAYLOR ELLYSOX, President. W. D. Chesterman, Secretary. By vote of the convention, an execu tive committee was formed, called thc Jefferson Davis Monument committee of the United Daughters ot the Con federacy, consisting of a member from each State. This committee organized immediately by the election of Airs. S. T. McCullough, president of the Grand Division of Virginia, Uni ted Daughters of the Confederacy, ns its chairman, and Mr."J. S. Eliott, ol' Richmond, thu bonded treasurer of the Jefferson Davis Monument association, as treasurer. With this committee is associated an advisory board ot ti vc gent leinen, mem bers of the Jefferson Davis Monument association, the Hon. J. Taylor Kllyson, chairman. The South Carolina dele gation selected nie lo represent Hut State on thc executive committee, sub ject to thc approval of the State divis ion, which was given at its convention in Greenville. As your representative on that com mittee, it is my duty to beg your chap ter will, as soon as possible, take steps toward the accomplishment ol' the ob ject set before us by the association - that nf erecting a monument to Jeffer son Davis, president of tho Confeder ate States. All other appeals seem weak when compared to this, and I entrent that all other plans for work may be temporar ily set aside until this duty be ful filled. In honoring the memory of President Davis, we build n monument lo thc principles of the government he repre sented-principles which are now be ing acknowledged as light, even by many win? fought against them. The task before us is no! unduly heavy. Authorities say that ;i suitable monument can be pul up foi' ??(MKHI. With strong, concerted action on the part of Southern women, success will he sure, and the I laughters of t he Con federacy may well feel that their or ganization luis not been i-1 vain, ?I it can bc made the means ol" bringing about a consummation so heartily wished for by ?ill who revere the mem ory of the "Lost Cause." Tho committee will be very glad lo hear of any ellbrl on the pan ol' your chapter to raise funds for this moiiu i.ient, and if any further information or suggest iou in my pow er is desired, please cull upon nie. Mi:-. AI CI STINE T. SMYTHE, Member of So. Ca. of Jefferson Davis Mon. Com., I\ D. C. Cheap Printing. Law Uriel's at 00 cents a I'ago-Good Work, Good Paper, I'rompl Delivery Minnies cheaper than ut any othoi house: Catalogues in tho best style 11' you have printing lo do. it will bc t< your interest lo write lo the Press and Bonner, Abbeville, S. C. ti. General News ?tems. - The yellow fever epidemic has j about run its course at Tampa, Fla. i I - in Western North Carolina walnut j trees arc selling for$100 apiece as they ; stand in the woods. - The apple crop of lour counties in Virginia thia year brought in $280,000, and left enough for pies at home. - It is charged that thc newly elect ed millionaire senator of Montana, Mr. Clarke, paid $400,000 for his seat in the senate. - It is said that the number of de positors in banks of thc United States lias increased in 1S00 to 13,153,874 from 0,708,071, in 1898. - Vice-Pr?sident Hobart leaves a fortune of one to two million dollars. Iiis life was insured to the amount of three hundred and fifty thousand dol lars. - A church in Newark, N. Y., has appointed youug ladies as ushers, and the papers say the congregation is growing rapidly. The ushers are changed every few weeks. - At the Masonic observance on De cember 14th, the one hundredth anni versary of Washington's death, Presi dent McKinley has promised to deliver an address at Mt. Vernon-thc tomb of Washington. - The leather market is advancing and the national convention of shoe manufacturers recently recommended an advance of 25 cent, per pair on shoes. This is an advance of 50 cents per pair since August 8th. - Congressman Benton, of Missouri, predicts that Col. Bryan will carry the entire South, nearly every State west of the - Missouri River, and probably New York and Indiana, and will, of course, be elected President. - It is reported that a messenger on the Norfolk and Carolina road has disappeared with an express package containing $55,000. His said that lie. stepped from the train with the pack age and neither of them have been heard of since. - The Supreme Court of Ohio has de cided that a will bequeathing a sum of money to a Methodist missionary society is invalid because the wit nesses, who acknowledged their sig natures, did not know that they were witnessing a will when they signed it. - Congress convenes on Dec. 4th. Since tho 4th of March McKinley has carried tho fortunes of the country in his vest pocket. The Congress will not change his policy, as Senate and House are overwhelmingly Republican -with a sprinkling of anti-expansion ists. - At Wilmington, Del., eighty-seven sewing needles have beeii removed from the body of a young giri who came to this country about two months ago. It is supposed she swallowed these when a child and thattheir pres ence in her stomach retarded her growth. - T. W. Davis, of Peoria, III., now 72 years old, a noted bicyclist, who has won several medals for riding long dis tances, and has ridden 60,000 miles since his ?lst birthday, is erecting for himself in a cemetery at Peoria a mon ument, the shaft of which bears a carved representrtion of a bicycle. - A mashed mob of 75 men attacked the jail at Covington, Ga., with the view of lynching a white man charged with attempted assault upon a white woman. '1 he sheriff with bis deputies were guarding the jail and fired upon the mob who retreated, carrying away some of their wounded'companions. - Col. A. E. Boone, projector of the Black Diamond dream, is in trouble. The other promoters have turned hun out in tho cold, and he is kicking lus tily. His enemies have had him put under bond for trial on a charge of fe loniously breaking and entering the Black Diamond office in Dover, Ky., and taking therefrom letters and pa pers belonging to other persons. - Ex-Senator John H. Reagan, thc sole survivor of Jefferson Davis' cabi net, and the orator at the recent, un veiling of the Davis statute at Rich mond, is 81 years old, but is still in good health and active in politics. Ile is at the head of the Texas State rail way commission, He was born in Tennessee, and, as a mere lad, walked all tim way to his pr?sent home. - The Kev. Dr. Robert Lowery, a prominent Baptist minister and author (d'many religious hymns, died at his home in Plainfield, N.J. He was 7! years old. Dr. Lowery was the com poser of the well known hymn "Shall We Meei Beyond the River" and many others equally popular. During his career as a clergyman he had been pastor of the Biooiuingdulc Baptist church, in Xew York, ami of Hie Han son Place Baptist church, in Brooklyn. - William Xyce, a larmer, near Portland, O.. discovered an eagle and a hen hawk in M tierce battle and took a hand in the light. The eagle clawed him through Hie hand, ami he was itt the mercy of the bird until some nf his family came lo his aid and captured the two leathered combatants. The euglo measured ''our feet two inclu s from tip to ii]> ol' wing, and Ihr hawk measured three feet. EZRI Wilkinson, an eccentric resident ol'Sharon, Mo., hasjusl completed the construction of a lour story brick dwelling for himself under ground. Tlie roof of Hie house is on a level with t he street, and the whole struc ture stands in an excavation 4.0 feel deep, lined with slononnd cement--the house walls being separated from those of (ho pit by a four feel area way. Wilkinson lives in constan! dread of cyclones, and he designed his novel dwelling with a view io making ii wind proof. I tis said ?o have cos? I'.im $20,000. Deportment Roil of Whitefield School for November. 1st Crude.-Dorn Kay.OS; Lillie Kay, OS: Nettie Campbell, 08: Cuy Jtowluii; i > 7 A ; Lucy Kay, ?7?; liobcrt Kay. ?fU; Grady Variailorc, ?UV; I la: mon I ?unlap, 00: Bay mond King. yo. 2nd (Hade.-Lura Burge??;, 08; Klhel Bowhill, !>7; Bennie Kay, SM; I lennon <>pl. Ol'. 3rd Crade.-Julian l'urjjess,9?i; Ger trude Kay, '.)?: Blanche kay, 1M??; Elva Burgess, 00*: Mella Burgess. OM: Olio Wcriiicke, ?OM; .Miltie El rod. I Jellie Kl rod, ?I; l?u?iv King. 'UM (?lade. Edgar Cambell, ?5; Allic Op|,?:?; Eva Burgess, 01; Oda Burgess, ?0; Albert Bingo-. s??i; Ina Burgess, sri; Tea Kay, 85; Ered llowlaii. 5th Grade.-Henry Wyan. ?51; Lula Belle Bobin, .Marimi Hand. Claude Rodgers, 87: Kalie opi, SO; Willie Bowhill, 8!?. A. X. Coi i'nu 1.1., Principal. " STATE SEWS. - Mr. I). A. G. Onzts, of dispensary fame has locatedin Greenwood to prac tice law. - There is sonic talk-of. Co!. Knox Livingston, of Marlboro, making thc race for Governor. - A commission for a charter has been issued to the Seneca Cotton Mills with a capital of 8200,000, - Spartanburg is to have a big show by the Poultry Association of that city thc last week in December. - The capital stock of the Walhalla Cotton Mills has been increased to 8100,000 and a reorganization effected. - A murder believed to have been committed in Greenville ten years ago is thought to be coming to light. It was a case of a woman killing her husband. - The recent State Pair not only made enough money to pay all expenses, but after all claims have been paid it is said there will bc a neat balance in the treasury. - Thc work of organizing Tim rod Memoria! Societies throughout the State has been started and in many instances is meeting with deserving success. The colleges arc the main movers. - Mr. S. S. Littlejohn, of Spartanburg County, has a pumpkin vine in his garden which covers a large amount of ground and has44pumpkins which have ??n aggregate weight of 759 pounds. Who can beat this? - During the past week there was great activity among the cotton mill men, and nearly a million of dollars more was pledged to go into cotton mills in South Carolina. - Mr. John K. Cater, who left Abbe ville C. H. in 180?, and who had not been heard from in twenty-three years, returned to that town last week on a visit to relatives and old friends. He now li vi's at Sheffield, Ala. - Governor McSweency has, at the instance of W. S. Monteith, written to southern governors asking their co operation in getting through claims for cotton seized after the war and sold by the government. - At a meeting of the stockholders of the Richland Mill, iu Columbia, the capital stock was increased from 8150, 000 to 8300,000. The American Spin ning company, of Greenville, has also made an increase of capital stock from 8125,000 to 8350,000. - The barn and stables, in Seneca, belongiug to Mr. H. J. Gignilliat, were burned last Wednesday night about eight o'clock. Two good mules, a yearling and all the contents of the building were burned. The origin of the tire is unknown. - Last Friday evening while work ing in a deep cut on the Southern rail way, near Columbia, several tons of redclay fell, burying Reuben Wil liams, a negro, several feet. It was twenty minutes before they could dig him out. Both legs were broken. - Allen James, of Columbia, W. F. Roof, of Lexington and a New York firm, represented by a Mr. Dre wry. of Batesburg, S. C., cotton mill and after more than a year of idleness, the mill will in a short while again be put in operation. - If a first class detective or two were sent unheralded, without even a grape-vine warning, into this territory there would, in a short time, bc sonic first-class revelations and SOUK; sensa tions that would lay the Ouzts-Has elden-Sellers racker in obscurity for awhile.- Yorkville Yeoman. - William .1. Scott, running thc elevator in a cotton mill ar Greenville, while milking a trip upward leaned out over the side to speak to a workman below. His head was caught on the second door and almost mashed oil'. Scott was fifty-four years old, and leaves a wife and three children. - William Cramer, a preacher and carpenter, eloped with thc wife of L. W. Cambell, an operative in tin; Poe mill at Greenville. The wife is mother of nine children and carried away her 3-nionths-old girl baby and a 2-years old boy, and Cramer carried along two of his children. - A little four year obi girl of Mr. and Mrs. Will Angland was burned to (lentil hist week on "Conneross Farm." The child was most horribly burned and lived only a few hours. The great wonder is that there ure not more Mich accidents, when children are so often left alone willi no one to keep watch over them. The little one was buried at Ueturn.-Oeune'e Xavs. - Tom Collins, colored, guarding the premises ol' Dr. M. T. Smith, of Union, in his absence, detected ;i bur glar attempting to enter the residence during the night und commanded him to surrender. The unin ran and Collins tired three bullets, which took ei?eer, and the buglar fell und he since died. Ile proved to be Toni Hunter, ;i negro just oil' the chaingang. - Lust Thursday nighl A. WI. Ken nedy, white, was killed nt a negro liol supper ?ii A. \V. Smith's plantation, four miles from Abbeville, by Henry l?uriio. TIK-V were gambling; Ken nedy won (he negro's money and the negro shot bim through lin* heart. Kennedy CHUM S from ;i good family who live near Tiny, bul was u disso lute, dangerous character. - ( 'apl. Wade K. ' 'ot luau died u! his home in Greenwood al the age ot' sixty-three years. Ile graduated al the Citadel iii 1*31 and in the War bel ween i lie Stales commanded Co. C Tili S. C. V. Ile was ;i gallan) ami j put i in) ie soldier, un Inmola hie man and u use ful citizen. Since IN97 he held the ellice of Probate Judge of Green wood. - A I. a corn sh licking al Mr. Joe Kerr's, wini lives about t wo miles above Walhalla, two dogs, one belonging to Jue McCall the oilier to Klbert Morion, gol in n light, ll is reported thal Mc Call tried lo kill Morton's dog. Then tlie owners became involved in ;i row over the dogs. Morion cul McCall's throat from ear to ear, liol deep enough, however, lo cause death. At last reports McCall was getting ulong us well us cou ld be expected. - Miss Nunnie Miller near Monta gue postolliee, Drcciivillc, S. C., would make u goo?! protector for -onie man. lieeelll ly I here lind been -onie robbo ; ?es in I ile neigllbol hood. .\ f< w nights ugo she saw a negro making tor thc house. She opened I lie door a lld asked whal he wauled. I le made ?io reidy bur pushed on as (hough lie intended lo loree his way into lie house. She wen! in und seen red her pistol und bred, whereupon the mau left and did md stund on the order of his going. Heidi ;i bloody trail behind him. but he had not been found at last reports. Antun's Items. Winter is here in thc lorin ol' cold rains, and as we sir and look our on the dreary weather outside, wethink ol'the beautiful days of June, when thc birds and busy bees were flitting delightfully among the beautiful and exquisite veg etation of the field and wood. But when June time was here perhaps we moved out in great reluctance under the vertical rays, and only longed for one cool, refreshing draught of Win ter. The fact is, that whatever we have or wherever we rest, we onl}' want just something else. Daniel Grier, colored, died at his home near Span mail box last Thursday morning. Mr. J. II. Stevenson will sell to-day (Monday) at auction, his household fur niture and fanning implements, after which he will start for his new home, near the southern boundary of Georgia. We are extremely sorry tolose Mr. .Ste venson from our community. But since he cannot be with us, we'extend bur sincerest wishes for his success. Bon AMATEUR. I?I Memory of Bora McLces, Reduced Rates via C. & W. C Ry. The Charleston and Western Caro lina Railway beg to announce reduced rate tickets will be on sale from all sta tions on accountof theoccasions named below: Annual Cenference M. E. Church, South, Orangeburg: Round trip tickets at reduced rates will be on sale i'rom all stations December 4th to 9th inclu sive, with final return limit December 13th. Annual Conference M. E. Church, Greenville, S. C.: Round trip tickets will be on sale from all stations to Greenville on December 4th, otb, Otb and 7th, with final return limit Decem ber 13th. For further information as to rates, etc.. call on agents or address W. J. Craig, General Passenger Agent, Au gusta, Ga. ? mm . mt' - How's This. We ofler One Hundred Dollars reward for any caso '-f Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cure. We. the undersized have known f... . Cheney for the iast 15 years, aod believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan cia! ly able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST 4 TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. WALDISO." KIKNAN A MARVIN, whokiale Drug gists, Toledo, 0. Ha1 I's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ol tho system. T^jtinionials sent free Price "5c porhriitio Sold hv all driiiisists Hall's Family Pills are the best. Thc angel of death has visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. .J. I. McLees, and taken away their second daughter. Dora, aged sixteen years. She was seized with that fatal disease, appendi citis. All was done that tender, loving hands could do to stay the hand of the destroyer, but to no avail. She breath ed her last November 2nd, at 4:30 o'clock. Her sickness only lasted five days. She joined the New Prospect Church in her fifteenth year. She lived a consistent Christian fife until thc day of her death. She said she was going to Glory. She was buried at Roberts Church thc following evening at 4 o'clock, Rev. Hugh McLees conducting the funeral exercises. She leaves a father, mother, three brothers and two sisters to mourn her departure, .'lt seems so strange, That the L->rd does break the chain And take ou: one precious link, And there remains a blank. ? blank it neettiH now, but her life was bright. Our heart? ought not to be burdened, but light. 'Tis so strange for us to se? One in blooming youth to flee, One bo useful at home and abroad, To leave this wicked world and dwell with the Lod She's free from trials, pains and cares, She's wbere there's neither thorns nor ?nares. Ged bles- tbrse ladies who for her so ten derly cared. And she ? friend, for her they bitterly wept. ''Oil help ns to live right, and not weep, But strive to go where we'll all meet Where sorrow, sighing and death never comes. But will all dwell safelv at home. CARRIE. - By a boiler explosion at the dis tillery of Robert J. Keeler about ten miles from Greenville, Nitt Williams, a negro, was instantly killed, and Matt Keeler, a brother of the owner of the distillery, was seriously injured. The body of the negro was tembly man gled. His face is almost unrecogniz able. His right arm was blown off, his left foot Butlered the same fate and has not as yet been found. His shoes were found fully two hundred yards apart. Matt Keeler was scalded by the explosion of the boiler and is in great pain. There is still a chance for saving his life, it is thought, although he is in a dangerous condition. - Reports from Manilla say that the American forces are getting very active and are scouring the country. THE SYRACUSE WOOD IND STEEL BEIM PLOWS. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. GET ONE AND TRY IT, and if you are not pleased with it bring it back to us and we will cheerrulfy REFUND YOUR MONEY. They turn the laud where other* have failed. See 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 the American people a* a labor and time-saver. Come in aud we will be glad to show it to you, and trow you the work it doe3. If you contemplate buying a Cutaway Harrow don't fail to see this one before yon buy. lt is only about two-thirds as heavy to pull as the common 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 steck of SHOT GUNS, SHOT, POWDER, CAPS empty and loaded SHELLS, and everything connected with the Sport m aus, equipment. Remember to come in and see us when in the city. BROCK BBOS. *iM*fTs* ff* sanpsaanmaBBsa am xs WHY YOU SHOULD USE . . BECAUSE They Beautify, Prated and Preserve your property. BECAUSE ' PARIAN PAINTS Adhere to w i > ?, tia, ?rou, galvanizar! iron, st)iie or tile. BECAUSE PARIAN P?ShUTS Arc guarantee I no! to crack, chalk, peel, rub off nor blister, BECAUSE Bl uv not affected by salt water or sea breezes. BECAUSE Are no: affected by a utnoaia, carb raie, sulphurous or other gases. BECAUSE PARSAU P?lNTS I'D lu,'.'a high g?oss, coyer perfectly, are the handsomest and most durable faints ever placed upcn the market. Every gallon guaranteed. Sold only by F. B. GR AYTON) & CO.