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"BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER iii. 18!)!). VOLUME XXXV-NO. 17. THANKSGIVING, 1899! We wish thee weill mi i nais That you are living, That you are prospering, That you are Messed 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, B BUI BE ? SURE TO WISH FOR THE CONTINUED PROSPERITY OP - ^ ? S" ^ ?\ D.U. CY aus CCU), TH? SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. For tho Jefferson Davis .Monument. The following 1ms been sent out from Charleston to tho various chap ters ot the Daughters of tho Confeder acy in South Carolina: ClIAltl.ESTON, Nov, 20, 1891?. To tho Of lice rs and Members ot* South Cand?na Division, Daughters of the Confederacy. Ladies: At the late Convention of thu Daughters of the Confederacy held in Richmond, it was determined to accede to the request of the 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 thoughtttuddiscussion; all tiie delegates present recognized the weight thus laid upon tito associa tion, but they also realized tluit upon the acceptance of this burden ot re sponsibility rested the hope ol'an early accomplishment of the work proposed. The Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, mayor of Richmond, Va., and president of t he Jefferson Davis Monument association, came before tho 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 chango had become urgently ad visable. The following letter from Mr. Elly son gives a full report of tho present condition of tho Jefferson Davis Monu ment association: JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT ASSOCIA TION. RICHMOND, VA., Nov. 13, 1800. Mrs. S. T. McCullough, Chairman Jef ferson Davis Monument Committee, U. D. C. Dear Madam: The Jefferson Davis Monument association was organized in 1800, and chartered by the general assembly of Virginia. At the meeting of the United Confederate Veterans in Charleston, S. C., in May, 1800, 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 the request of the United Confederate Veterans. 1 had tho hon or Friday of submitting the question for the consideration of the Convention of the United Daughters of thc Con federacy, then in session in this city, and they adopted a resolution ny which they consented to comply with tho request of tho 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 bo able to report to you that we have in our treasury the sum of $20,465.81, 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 up the work without any embarrass ments on account of any action pre viously taken by us. The idea of tho United Confederate Veterans was that we should turn over to you the funds wo have, and that you would take up tho work os though it had never been begun. You were to bo at liberty to select such design as you might think proper, choose such a site m or near the city of Richmond 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 tho assurance heretofore extended that any assistance that? tho members of the Jefferson Davis Monument association may be able to render to tho ladies will be most cheerfully given. We 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. TAYLOU ELLYSON, President. W. D. Chesterman, Secretary. By vote ot thc convention, an execu tive committee was formed, called the Jefferson Davis Monument committee of tho United Daughters of tho Con federacy, consisting of a member from each State. This committee organized immediately by the election of Mrs. S. T. McCullough, president of the Grand Division of Virginia, United Daughters of the Confederacy, ns its chainnau, and Mr. J. S. Eliott, of Richmond, the bonded treasurer of the Jefferson Davis Monument association, as treasurer V.'iMi this committee is associated ntl advisory board of live gentlemen, mem bers of the Jefferson Davis Monument association, thellou. J. Taylor Ell: son, chairman. The South Carolina dele gation selected mo to represent tho Stato on the executive committee, sub ject to tho approval of tho State divis ion, which waa 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 of the ob ject set before us by the association that of erecting a monument to Jeffer son Davis, president of the Confeder ate States. All other appeals seem weak when compared to this, and I entreat that all other plans for work may be temporar ily set asido until this duty bu ful filled. In honoring the memory of President Davis, wo build a monument to tho principles of the government he repre sented-principles which are now be ing acknowledged as right, even by many who fought ngniust them. The task before us is not unduly heavy. Authorities say that a suitable monument can be put up for $.*?0,000. With strong, concerted action on the Eart of Southern women, success will o sure, and the Daughters of t he Con federacy mny well feel that their or ganization has not been in vain, if it can bo m ado the means of bringing ! about a * consummation ao 'heartily wished for by all who revere tho mern ! orv of the "Lost Cause." Tho committeo will be very glad to hear of any effort on the. part of your chapter to raise funds for this monu ment, and if any further information or suggestion in my power is desired, please call upon me. MR& AUGUSTINE T. SMYTHE, Member of So.-Ca. of Jefferson Davis Mon. Com., U. D. C. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 60 cents a Page-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes chenper than at any other house. Catalogues in tho best style If you have printing to do. it will bo to ?our interest to write to tho Press and tanner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. (.?cuera) Neus Items. - Tin' yellow fever epidemic has about nm its course' at Tampa, I'la. - In Western North Carolina walnut trees are Belling for.* 100 apiece as they staml in the woods. - The apple crop ot' four counties in : Virginia this year brought in !?280,(K>0, ' and left enough for ?des at home. - lt is charged that the newly elect ed millionaire senator of Montana. ? Mr. Clarke, paid * 100,000 for his seat in the senate. - lt is said that the number ol' de positors ill banks of the United States I has increased in lsyjJ to i:?,I.">:?.N?1 from 0,708,971, in 189S. - Vicc-Prcsidoiii Hobart leaves a fortune, of om-to tua? million dollars. His life was insured to thu amount ot three hundred and Hf ty thousand dol lars. - A church in Newark, N. V" has appointed young ladies as ushers, and the papers stiv Hie 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 lias promised to deliver an address at Mt. Vernon-the tomb ol' Washington. - Tho leather market is advancing and the national convention of shoo manufacturers recently recommended au advance ol' 25 cent, per pair on shoes. This is au advance of 00 cents per pair since August 8th. - Congressman Henton, of Missouri, predicts that Col. Hryan will carry the entire South, nearly every State "west, of the-Missouri Uiver, and probably New York and indiana, and will, of course, be elected ('resident. - lt. is reported that a messenger on the Norfolk and Carolina road has disappeared with an express package containing $55,000. 11 is said that he stepped from tho 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 tho4th of March McKinley has carried tho fortunes of tho 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 been removed from tho hedy of a youug girl who carno to t liis country about two months ago. It is supposed she swallowed these when a child and that their 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 00,000 miles since his 01st birthday, is erecting for himself in a cemetery at Peoria a mon ument, thc shall of which bears a carved representrtion of a bicycle. - A mashed mob of 75 men attacked tho jail at Covington, Ga., with tho view of lynching a white man charged with attempted assault, upon a white woman. The sheriff with Iiis deputies were guarding the jail and tired upon the mob who retreated, carrying away some of their wounded companions. - Col. A. E. Bonne, projector pf tho Black Diamond dream, is in trouble. Tho other promoters have turned lum out in tho cold, and he is kicking lus tily. His enemies have had him put under bond for trial ou a charge of fe loniously breaking and entering the Black Diamond oiticc in Dover, Ky., and taking therefrom letters and pa pers belonging to other persons. - Ex-Senator John II. Reagan, tho sole survivor ot Jefferson Davis' cabi net, and tho orator at thc recent un veiling of tho Davis statute at Rich mond, is 81 years old, but is still in good health and active in politics. Ho is at tho head of the Texas State, rail way commission. He was born in Tennessee, and, as a mero lad, walked all tho way to his presen1: home. - The Rev. Dr. Robert Lowery, a prominent Baptist minister and author of many religious hymns, died at his home in Plainfield, N.J. He was 7? years old. 1 . \ Lowery was thc com poser of tho well known hymn "Shall We Meet Beyond tho Uiver" and many others equally popular. During his career as a clergyman he had been pastor of the. Bloomingdule Baptist church, in New York, and of the Han son Place Baptist church, in Brooklyn. - William Nyeo, a farmer, near Portland, 0" discovered an eagle and a hen hawk in a fierce bat tle and took a hand in the light. The eagle clawed him through the hand, and he was at the mercy of the bird until some of his family came to his aid and captured the two feathered combatants. The eagle measured lour feet two inches from tip to tip of wing, and the. hawk measured three feet. Ezra Wilkinson, an eccentric resident of Sharon, Mo., has just completed the construction of a four story brick dwelling for himself under ground. The roof of tho Ionise is Oil a level with the street, and the whole struc ture stands in an excavation 40 feet deep, lilied with stone and cement-the house walls being separated from those of tho pit by a four feet area way. Wilkinson lives in constant dread of cyclones, and he designed his novel dwelling with a view to making it wind proof. It is said to have cost him i?^0,000. Deportment Roll of Whitefield School for Ne vern her. 1st Grade.-Dora Kay,08; Lillie Kay, 08; Mettie Campbell, !i8; Guy ?Bowlan, 07?; Lucy Kay, 974; Robert Kay, Ol?*; Grady Vnnndore, 00$; Harmon Dunlap, 90; Raymond King, Ort. 2nd Grade.-Lura Burgess. 08; Ethel Bowdan, 07; Bennie Kay, 0-1 i; Hermon Opt, 04i. ?lrd (irado.-Julian Burgess,07*; Ger trude Kay, 07: Blanche Kay, 9(??; Elva Bnrge?s, 9??; Biella Burgess, 90}; Otto Wernickc, 90}; MiltieEIrod, 95$.; Dollie Elrod, 04; Ruby King, 87. 4th Grado.-Edgar Cambell, 05; Allic Opt, Oil; Eva Burgess, 91; Oda Burgess, 90; Albert Burgess, 801; Ina Burgess, 85; Tea Kay, 8Tt; Fred Bowlan, 82. 5th Grade-Henry Wyatt, 95J: Lula Belle Bolan, 87; Marion Hand, 87; Ciando Rodgers, 87; Katie Opt, 80; Willie Bowlan, 84*. A. N. GAMPIIELL, Principal. . STAU: NI:IVS. - Mr. IV A. G. Oii/.ts. ol'dispensan fanni hus loca ti A tnt- rccmvond (?> prut lice law. - There is som?' talk of Co!. Knox Livingston, of Marlboro. making lito race for Governoi. - A commission for :i charter has been issued to tin- Seneca Cotton Mills with a capital cl $200,(100, - Spartunburg is i?t have n big show by the Poultry Association of that city the last week in December. - The capital stock of the Walhalla Cotton Mills luis been increased to $I.*M>,000 and a reorganization effected. . - A murder believed tu have bern i committed in Ureenvilh> ten years ago is thought to bo coming to light, lt ' was a case of a woman killing her husband. - Th?' recent St;ite l'air not only made enough money to pay all expenses, but after all claims have been paid it is said there will be a neat balance in the treasury. - The work of organizing Tiiurod Memorial Societies throughout thc Stat?' luis been started and in many instances is meeting willi deserving success. The colleges are thc main movers. - Mr. S. S. Littlejohn, of Spartanburg County, has a pumpkin vine in his garden which covers a large amount of ground ami has t l pumpkins which have au aggregate weight of ?V.I pounds. Who can beal this? - During the past week then- was great activity anning the cotton mill men. and nearly n million of dollars moro was pledtrcd to go into cotton mills in South Carolina. - Mr. .lohn li. Cater, who left Abbe ville C. H. in 1807, and who had not been heard from in twenty-three years, returned t<? timt town last week on a visit to relatives and old friends. Ho now lives at Sheffield, Ala. - Governor MeSweeney lins, at tho instance of W. S. Monteith, writ hui to southern governors asking their co operation in getting through claims for cotton seized after the war ami sohl by tho government. - Ata meeting of the stockholders of thc Richland Mil!, in Columbia, tho capital stock was increased from $150, r 0(H) to 8:'00,00(>. The American Spin ning company, of Greenville, has also made au increase of capital stock from $125,000 to $350,000. - The barn and stables, in Seneca, belonging to Mr. H. .1. Giguillint, were burned last Wednesday night about eight o'clock. Two good mules, a yearling and all the contents of tho building were burned. The origin ot the lire is unknown. - Last Friday evening while work ing in a deep cut on tho Southern rail way, near Columbia, several tons of redclay fell, burying Hen ben Wil liams, a negro, several feet, lt was twenty minutes before they could dig him out. Both legs were broken. - Allen Janies, of Columbia, W. F, Roof, of Lexington and a Now York linn, represented by a Mr. Drewry. ot Ratesburg, S. C., cotton mill and nftei mpre than a year of idleness, the mil! will in a short while again he put ii: operation. - If a first class detective or twi: were sent unheralded, without even : grape-vine warning, into this territory there would, in a short, time, bo sonn first-class revelations ami some sens;: lions that would hiv the Ouzts-llas ctdeu-Sellers racket in obscurity foi awhile.- Yorkville Yeoman. - William J. Scott, running tin elevator in a cot lon mill at (Greenville, while making a trip upward leaned on over tho side to speak lo a workmai below. His head was caught on th? second Moor ami almost mashed oil Scott was fifty-four years ?dd, am leaves a wife and three children. - William Cramer, a preacher ant carpenter, eloped with tue wife of L W. Cambell, an operative in the Poi mill at Greenville. The wife is mot ile: of nine children and carried away hoi H-months-old girl baby and a 2-y'ears tdd hoy, and Cramer carried along tw< of his children. - A little four year ?dd girl ?d' Mi ami Mrs. Will Angland was burned li death last week on "Comioross Parin.' Tin1 child was most horribly humee and lived only a few hours. The urea wonder is that there are md more sud accidents, when children are so nftci left alone within? onoto keep wald over timm. Tin-lillie one. was biiriei at Return.- Oeonee Seu'H. - Tum Collins, colored, guanliu the premises of Dr. M. T. Smith, o Union, in his absence, detected a bur glar attempting to enter the residouc during the nigh) and commanded hin to surrender. Th?- mau ran ami Collin fired three, bullets, which took effeel and tho buglar fell ami he since died Ho proved tobe Tom Hunter, n m-gi just ott" the chaingaiig. - Last Thursday night A. M. Ken nedy, white, was killed at a negro hu supper at A. \V. Smith's plantatim four miles from Abbeville, by Ilenr liurno. They wore gambling; Ken nedy won the negro's money and til negro shot him through I he hear Kennedy comes from a good lamil who live near Troy, but was a disse lute, dangerous character. - Capt. Wade V.. Cothran ?lied ; his homo in Greenwood al Ihe age? sixty-three years. Il?- graduated ; tlie'Citadel ill I.S:i; and in Hie Wu between tin- Stativs commanded Co. Till S. C. V. He was a gallant au patriot ie soldier, an honora Ide man an a useful citizen. Since I80? he lid the ellice of Probate .Luigi- of G reel wood. - At a corn shucking at Mr. Ju Keir's, \\ ho lives a bon I t wo miles a hov Walhalla, two dogs, one belonging I Joe McCall the other to Klherl Mo: toi got in a light, lt is reported (hut Mi Call tried to kill Morton's dog. Tia tho owners became involved in a io over the dogs. Morton cut McCall throat from oar tocar, not deepenoug however, to cause death. At lat reports McCall was getting along ? well as could be expected. - Miss Nannie Miller near Mond gue post?nico. Greenville, S. C., woul make a good protector for some mai Recently there had been some robbi rios in tin; neighborhood. A few nigh ugo she saw a negro making for tl house. She opened the door ami ask? what lie wanted. Ho made no ron but pushed on as though he intenoi to force his way into the house. SI went in and secured her pistol III fired, whereupon the man left ami d not stand on tho order of his goin He left a bloody trail behind him. b ho had not been found at last report Antun s Items Win tm is hern in the I". , j rains, ami as wc si? and lo??!, nm on tia' lira? y wi-?i tiler outside, WU IliiuU >>| Tar heaut ?lui ?lays of .lune, when jin lani-, nul husv bees were flitting delightful!) among tho beautiful and exquisite M - i tatom nf tho field ami wood. Ibu when ?hint' time was here perhaps wi moved out i:i gn at reluctance um!? : the vertical rays, and ?ody longed li-: ?mc cool, refreshing draught of Win ter. I'h?- fact is. that whatever we have or wherever we rest, w.oonly want just soinet hing else. Daniel Crier, colored, died at his IHUIU- near Span mail box last Thursday morning. Mr. J. H. Stevenson will sell to-day I Momia) I at am t iou, his household fur niture and farming implements, after which he will start for his new home, m-ar the southern houmlarv <d'C*'orgia. W?- ar?- extremely sorry tolose Mr. Ste venson from our community. Hut since he i-autmt be with u-. we e\tcnd our sincerest wishes for his success. Ibm AM \ I I I I;. Reduced Halts via C. A W. V Hy. The Charleston ami Western Caro lina Railway beg to announce reduced rate ti?-k?-ls will be on sale from all sta tions on account nfl he occasions named below : Annual l.'enfercnee M. li. Church. South. Drangeburg: Hound trip ti?-kots at reduced rates w ill be on sale from all stations December Ith to Ulli inclu sive, with linal return limit December bbb. Annual Conference M. K. Church. Greenville, S. C.: Hound trip tickets will he on sal?' from all .stations to Greenville on December-lt li, Til h. Ht li ami 7th. with linal return limit Decem ber i:?h. For further information as lo rates, etc.. call on agents or address W. .1. Craig. General Passenger Agent. Au gustn. Ca. How's This. Wc? ofter (Iio? Hiu-tlred DollaT reward lor any cano "f t'at.irrh iliAt cannot in i-urcd by Malt's ?"nt:irrh Cur?'. We, tho uudcrdiKnrd have known !?.. . t"h?'in>y for tin- awl IS >van?. ami believe htm perfectly honorable in all business t numma lons und Unan i'ial ly alilt? to carry out any obli^atioim wade by Ibeir Arm WJWT A Tni'AX, Wholenale OriiRclsts, Tolislo. O. WAIJIISH. KINNAN A MARVIN. Wbol.-tale Drug glut*, Toli-do. t). Ha'1'8 Catarrh Cure IR taken Internally, arlina directly u|Kin the blood and inueoim BI ir la ce? ol tho ny ni em. T>witmnnlale sent lr???? Prlw 7fic per holl?n Sold liv all >l r II ja ?nt ? Hall'* FttH Hy IMIIH ar? the twit : i M i* mu ry of llora Mel,rev. The angel ol' ?loath has visited ihr ii. of Mr. and Mrs; ,1. I'. MrLocs, and taken awa v I heir second duinthtcr, I'ora. aged sixteen years. She \\a> seized with that tatal disi a>i-. appindi cit i.>. At! was ihmo (hal tender, loving hands could do i<> stay tho hand of thc destr?yer, lui) to no avail. She breath cd her hist November 'Jud. at ?l;.?tl o'clock, lier sickness only lasted five days. She joined tho New Prospect t hinch in her lilt cent h.vear. Shu lived a ? oii>is|enl Christian life until I lie day id lid death. She said sim wnsgoinl: to dory. Sile was buried at Huberts Churcl the following evening ai 1 o'clock, Uev. linell Mel.ces conducting thc tun. i ii exercises. She leaves a father, mot her, l bree loot hers ami two sisters lo nu au ii lier de pal tine. "Il Mle III S . - i m :;>.. That the I. >i.I dm I ?renk tho chain Ao<l lake ou non precious link, Anil there ioniums H Mank. I A Plank lt H' ifu.H u??w, Pm her life was hrlghl I Our heart* tight no! tn Pe liurdeucil, hut light. : 'TH MD Htrunge for us lu see . ?UH in blooming yoiuli t i ila??, i Ino HO useful ut booie ami II h rend, To leave thia wick? il ? < lld and dwell with the Lo d she's freu from tria's, pains .?ml caros, She'd where thore'a neither .torus nor ?.nares. I i ;,;d hies- tin se ladles; who for ber un ten derly eared. I And she ii frican!, for ber they bitterly wept. (.od help UM tn liv? right, and tint weep, Mut strive lo go where we'll all mont- - Whore Horrow, nighing am! doutt! never comen, Itut will ail dwell safely nt home. CA ni: if.. - Hy a boiler explosion at the dis tillery of Robert J. Keeler about ten miles from Greenville, Nitt Williams, ancgro, was instantly killed, anti Matt Keeler, a brother of the owner ol' the distillery, was seriously injured. The I bod v of t he negro was terribly man gled. His face is almost unrecogniz I able. His right arm was blown off, his left foot suffered thu sanio fate and has not. ns 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. - Keports from Manilla say that the American forces are getting very active and aro scouring the country. M SYR&CUSE WOOD m STEEL um PUIS. Suaranteed to give perfect, satisfaction or money refunded. GET ONE AND THY IT, and if you are not pleased with it bring it hack lo us and we will ehuerrully UEFUND YOUR MONEY. They (urn the land where others have failed. Sec ?he work of our TORRENT CUTAWAY HARROW. 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