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?1Ht I sp i i i 11 ..iv i i ? ? ar t* VOLUME XXXV-NO. 27. e We are Doing the Business in the Clothing Line ! ? IP yon want to trade where yonr friends do just come to ns and get yonr New Snit. Our trade has steadily increased since we began our Spot Cash feature, which proves that the people know the value of Goods. They are finding out that they can come to ns and Save from $1.00 to $2.50 On a Snit of Clothes. But they have to pay Spot Cash. WeU, we couldn't beat the other fellows on prices if we sold the way they do. They seU as cheap as they can, but those losses by bad debts have to be made up somehow, and who else is to help them make it up except the people who spend their cash with them. We have no bad debts. We have no losses. That's the reason the other fellow can't meet our prices. We have told you before that we would save you money on your Clothin Hats and Furnishin s, And we tell you so again-meaning every word of [it, too, mind you-every word. You had best come here for your New Suit and see if what we say isn't true. It won't cost you anything to in vestigate, and remember T68R MONEY BICK If IOU WANT IT I Hen's Snits from $5.00 to $20.00, And at every price between. B o Long Pant Suits from $3.00 to $15.00. Boys' Knee Pants Suits from $100 to $5.00. Men's Eats from 25c. to $4.50 Men's Shoes at $3.50. Men's Furnishings to beat the band. TEE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRORST. FKOM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Corresponden?. _ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2:J, 1800. The hold the New York stock specu lators have upon this administration is demonstrated auew almost daily. Not long since the Treasury Department made an offer to buy $25,000,000 of gov ernment bonds, at present market prices, a large premium, in order to lower the rates of money on call in Wall street. The war news in Europe, as some authorities assert, or the pas sage of the gold standard bill in thc House, as others maintain, caused an other panic in Wall street; and as might be expected, Secretary Gage dropped all other business to study a scheme of further helping his friends on the wrong side of the market. An order was issued permitting the na tional banks to receive and hold tem porarily all the government receipts for internal revenue, which amount to $1,000,000 a day, under the present war schedules. The concern of this administration that the bears should not succeed in their further campaign for depressing stocks, is easily to be understood. Nine-tenths of the so-called "prosperi ty" enjoyed in the large business cen ters since this administration came in, has been the nominal increase in the value of stocks of industrial enterpris es. They have been quoted in the stock-lists from a third to a half high er than their prices during the depres sion of 1896. But, following tho de cision of the Supreme Court in the Addyston Pipe Trust case, which found that combination illegal, being in re- ! straint of trade, the banks have'called back their loans on many of the largely watered stocks of the so-called "in dustrials" requiring the borrowers eith er to pay off their loans at once, or to substitute railroad or other shares for collateral. Thc victories of the Boers at the same time caused rapid selling of American railroad shares abroad, and the consequent export of gold to pay for them. Such a combination has shrunk the aggregate values of thc stocks listed in New York fully $100, 000,000 during thc past three weeks. With money on Wall street loaning on call at 50 to 125 per cent., in cases as high as one-half per cent, a day for large amounts, little less than demor alization is in sight. Bankers under such conditions refuse loans to legiti mate merchants, preferring the high vate for short loans; and with a little more of these untoward conditions, all the evils of 189G would return, and all be chargeable to the administration in power. With an election just ahead, it is not surprising that Secretary Gage is giving all hip attention to throwing tho aid of the government to the stock brokers. It is not thc business of thc government to take a hand in stock deals, but the Republican party prides itself on indifference to thc Constitu tion when it stands between friends. The present Wall street situation is likely to play a strong part in the out come of the next national campaign. The passage of the currency, or gold bill, certainly did nothing to restore contideuce. Five minutes after it went through the House, there was the big gest pauic in Wall street that has been there in fifteen years. Scarcely less important in its effects upon thc coming nat ional election here, will be the outcome ol'the war in the Transvaal. It is coming to be believed by military experts in Washington that the Boers probably will win. There is no question that the majority of the American people wish for this end. There is still less doubt that the McKinley administration is bound by a diplomatic agreement quite as bind ing as a treaty, to give whatever moral influence and aid it can to the British. That is one of the embarrassments of the entangling alliances already half cemented with the Britons, by which English speaking people are to stand shoulder to shoulder in the "onward march of Christianity and civilization." This country is to shoot civilization into the Filipinos, the English approv ing; and the Britons are. with this gov ernment's approval, and at least moral aid, to force civilization upon (he Boers with Lyddite shells; this is, of course, providing the "savages" oller ? no successful opposition. lin! thc Boers just now seem to have even more friends in thc United States ? than the Filipinos have. This is but natural, because their conduct upon the field is much more deserving of sympathy and admiration. Thc Hiber nian societies in all the States have organized a movement to assist the j struggling patriots in thc Transvaal; and they will hold to account af the proper time thc administration which; even remotely connives at the aggrcs- ! sions of the Hiltons. The current of events in the past ;' week have done nutre to alarm the j shrewd liepnblioans for tho outcome of t he Presidential elect ion than anything i which has occurred since the breaking mil of the Spanish war. If stocks go ! to pieces, as they promise uaw to do, the business demoralization and lilian rial disturbances in I he large centres just prier ia the campaign will destroy utterly the plausibility ol' the claims made by this administration i hat prices art-up as a result ot its work; and if the Huers are even partially successful in the end, as now seems assured, il will stand in the impotent and con temptible position ol' having wanted their enslavement by a powerful gov ernment, and be deprived of the good luck of even standing with the victor. There is no criticism of the formal announcement of neutrality by this government. That was compulsory. But, precisely as Great Britain headed thc delegation of foreign powers which prayed the United States to avoid war with Spain, this government could have interceded when McKinley was peti tioned by thousands of leading citi zens to do so, and asked Gr^at Britain to stay its hands in the Transvaal. Mr. Tolbert, of South Carolina, who is contesting the seat of Congressman Latimer. of South Carolina, has been in the city during the past week. The committee on elections No. 1, to which this case has been referred has not fixed the date for thc hearing and will not do ho until after the Christmas holidays. Mr. Tolbert will push his contest, it is said, and hopes to get sufficient support among the Republi cans in thc House to get the seat in place of Mr. Latimer. Eleven Girls Burned to Death. QUINCY, 111, December 22.-While the school children of St. Francis Parochial School, 17thand Vive streets, were rehearsing this afternoon for an entertainment to be given next Tues day evening one of their dresses caught fire from a gas jet and ten minutes later four of them were burned to death, two died an hour later and five others died before midnight. Half a dozen others were burned more or less severe ly. The fire started in a little dressing room. Three or four little girls were dressing for the rehearsal and laugh ing gaily among themselves. A dozen others were grouped in the wings of the stage, near the foot of the stairs descending from the dressing room. The girls in the dressing room had I nearly completed their costumes when one of them brushed against the ] gas jet. A touch of the finnie was ? sufficient and in an instant her dress of ! cotton and light cloth was in a blaze. : She screamed and ran out oE the room ; communicating thc blaze to the ot^rs ; as she ran. One of the girls, witL a.er i dress in a blaze, jumped out of a small wiudow into the stairs leading to the ; stage and then down the stairs. A : flaming torch she was, as she almost fell down the stairs and rushed into thc groups of children standing in the wings. They were all clad like her in the fancy costumes of cotton, lace '? and silk and the fire spread with in- 1 credible rapidity from one to the other. ! There were fourteen children in the j cast of the Christmas entertainment and only a few escaped. It was over ! in ten minutes, and in that time four ? perished, seven were fatally burned \ and others more or less severely in- ' jared. j Prohibition Still Plays a Part. To the Editor of The State: The Prohibitionists of the State at a j conference held in Columbia November 9th, decided that in view of the recent ! developments in connection with the ? State dispensary und in anticipation of some legislation on the subject at the j coming session of the general assembly, ' that it would be well to find out thc sentiment of thc Prohibitionists at thc j present time, and in order to carry out ! this purpose they authorized the ap- ? pointment of a committee of five who I should meet and adopt resolutions ex pressing fully the position of the Pro hibitionists of the State, as the com mittee understood that position to be, and then to forward a copy of the re solutions adopted by them to the mem bers of the State Prohibition Executive committee of each county with the re quest that they confer with thc Pro hibition county chairman and represen- I tative Prohibitionists of their county, and after getting a full and free ex pression of opinion, to either approve or disapprove the resolutions and re-! turn to the chairman of tho State exe cutive committee, it being understood that their action represented thc posi tion of the Prohibitionists of their county on the liquor question. The following special committee was ap- j pointed to prepare and adopt the reso lutions above referred to: A. C. Jones, Newberry; .las. A. Hoyt, Greenville; Kev. J. (j. Willson, D. D., Richland; T. N. Bony, Darlington: J. VY. Hamel, Lancaster. The committee met in Columbia the 27th ult., and adopted the following j resolutions: \ "The committee appointed to con sider and suggest the present position of the Prohibitionists of South Caroli na niet and carefully considered the matter. The committee reached the j conclusion that the Prohibitionists must continue to stand on the platform of lSSjtf, to-wit: General prohibition of j tlie manufacture and sah; of liquor throughout the State, with only the exception for medicinal, mechanical, scientific and sacramental usc. The committee recommends that Prohibi tionists in the Legislature should act' in accordance with this principle and certainly should not entangle their constituency by embarrassing compro mises/' The members ?d' the Prohibition Stale Executive committee have ap proved these r?solu!ions and I am au thorized to give them to the press. A. C. JON KS, Chairman State Prohibition Executive Committee. Newberry. S. C.. I >cc. ., 18011. Deafness Cannot be Cur? d hy local applications, as i hey ^ un riot reach lite diseased ixirlion of lin- mr. Tieri- is only ono \v;\y lo ctirti Deafness, mut I hat, is liv f.ttis'itu t ional re ot o ii c.s. Deafness is cfliiscil liv* cn iiill.im ..(1 condition of th? mucous litiinirol lim KUM Holl ian Tillie. When this tube i;ets inltatued yon have a ruiuMiug . <?nt:ii or imperfect hearing, and when ii is entirely cusid deafness is the result, and IIIII>'-- ihc itiflamation iran lie taken uni ?ind I Iiis i tube restore?! i . ?is normal condition, hearing will tili destroyed I'orovei : niue cases out of len atc caused hy eatarrah, winch is nothing bm an ln llamcd condition of the ir.ui'ous surfaacs. We will Hire One Hiiii lr?>d Pollars lor any case cif Deafness (caused byc.itarrut thal cammi lu; cured by Hall's i?a!*rrli '"IIr?? Semi for circulars, free. taiKNKV * CO., Title lo. O. 4? -Sold I.- Druj: i-'-. 7ie llnll'ii l'an tty I'ills nr.- ?i;- bril. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs al ii" cents n Page-Good Work. Good-Paper. Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than al any other house. Catalogues in the bes! ."-lyle If. you have printing to do, it will bete your interest lo write to t he Press ami Banner, Abbeville, S. C. ff. STATE NEWS. - There arc sonic fi,000 notaries in this State - Failure to pay poll tax is now a misdemeanor and punishable by law. - Greenville county has an unusu ally large number of murder cases to bc tried at the next term of court. - Thc Sunny South Tobacco Manu facturing Company, of Bamberg, is putting up smoking and chewing to bacco. -- A terrible conflagation visited Florence one night last week and many of its finest buildings were de stroyed. - Wm. R. Kennedy was killed in Florence County by a falling tree. He and others were cutting down trees to slop a forest fire. - Smallpox has appeared at- sixteen places in this State and in eight counties. The State Board of Health has handled liJOO cases this year. - The governor has received a letter 1 from Santuc, Union county, saying j that small pox had occurred in that town and a neighboring township. I - Senator Irby told a Post reporter j in Charleston last week that he "had \ as many gray hairs from political i anxiety as he wanted" and that all he , wanted now is r^eacc. - The colored farmers of the State ! arc preparing to organize. A conven j tion of the colored farmers is called to : meet in Columbia on January 1st, to ! perfect the organization. ; - It is reported that Westminister is , to have another cotton mill and a yarn : mill, the former to be built by Mr. I Caps, of Toccoa, Ga., the other by L. A. Edwards and brothers. j - Compulsory vaccination will be ! enforced in the Columbia public j schools. Each pupil must have been ; vaccinated before he or she can en 1 ter the schools which open on January j 2nd. ! - Governor McSwceney has mailed I letters to all of the Congressmen and ! Senators, asking their co-operation in ! the passage of the Act to secure thc payment of the cotton claim from the South. - A company of Northern capitalists have been making a tour of this State recently, lt is believed that, as a re sult of their visit, more mills will bc built and large sums of money will bc invested. - Officials of thc dispensary, it is said, estimate, from data available to date, that the institution will turn in a clear profit to State, counties and towns for the year, ?300,000 in round numbers. - There will be a meeting'of the county superintendents of education in Columbia during the session of the legislature to discuss and pass upon teachers' certificates, diplomas, text books, Sec. - S. B. Ezell, president of the for mer board of trustees of Connie Max well orphanage located at Greenwood, reports 142 children handed in in that institution to bo cared for within the last twelve months. - On account of thc paper trust many of thc weekly newspapers of thc State have raised their subscription price. Already all kinds of paper nave gone up more than ~>0 per cent., and it keeps on going. - There are in military companies in the State. Thc fund this year to bc divided between them, after deducting expenses for the recent New York trip, will be $LS() for each company, being 670 more than they got last year. - Curt?s M. Taylor, superintendent j of machinery of thc hosiery mill in the South Carolina penitentiary, was ' caught; in the belting and whirled to ! death. Ile had just arrived from Man chester, X. H., a few days before his death. - The Cagle machine shops in Greenville have been sold to the Mallard Lumber Co. of Williamsburg county, and the report is that a plant for the manufacture of cotton mill machinery may bo operated there by the new owners. - On the more important commit tees of the lower house of Congress, Congressman Elliott; is a member of the judiciary committee, Congressman Talbert of the banking and currency, and Congressman Norton of the public buildings and grounds. - Efforts are being made to build a gymnasium at Furman University. Thc students have gotten nj) Sl?O and subscription lists arc in circulation among thc citizens and alumni to try to raise thc balance. When completed thc gymnasium will cost about $000. - The. directors of the Pacolet Mfg. Co. held a meeting last week and de clared a ~) per cent, semi-annual divi dend. The mills arc in hue condition. The question of increasing their ca pacity came up, but was voted down. The directors of this concern are a majority of the stockholders. - Governor McSwceney is receiving a great many letters relative to thc cot ton claims ho has written about to the various Southern Governors. Gov ernor Mcsweeney has taken up the matter with Senator Tillman and others and thinks the matter, which is a very large one. is getting along very well." - At the meeting of the convention of Judges held in Columbia last Wed nesday, Knie N of Circuit Court rules was amended so as toreadas follows: "The habit (d' the gentlemen ol' thc bar and all ollicersof t lu-court, except constables, shall be black coats, and no gentleman ol'the bar shall be heard il' otherwise habited; and it shall be thc duty ol' the sherill' to attend lo the ex ecution ol' this rule." - Mr. W. Y. Smoak, a prosperous fanner living near Branchville, decid ed about two weeks ago that Cod had called him to go to Utah and preach against Mormonism. Ile accordingly drew all thc cash money he had on hand from the bank at IJrnnehville. baile his family good-bye and left, lt is said thal some citizens endeavored to gel the family to prevent Iiis going, bm they all. including his wile, seemed perfectly willing l'or him to go. - Thc negroes in Charleston have a superstitious notion that the end of t he world will come \\ it h t he end of th? presen I year, ami the preachers are using this as au argument (oseare their hearers into the church. They tell their congregation Ilia! theil lime ou earth is shori ami thal agr?ai sea ol' tire will sweep down and consume them. There is much excitement among the ignorant negroes and many ol'them look forward with lear ami trembling to the end ol; !*!.!). Lovmdesville Locals. Dr. T. 0. Kirkpatrick was here on business Monday, making some'neces sary arrangements prior to locating here in January for the practice of his profession. Dr. Kirkpatrick was for merly principal of the school here, and ! so is no stranger to us. With his com- | ing Lowndesville will have four doc tors-truly a bad omen for any town of this size. All of our three teachers have gone to their respective homes-Miss Bertha White to Abbeville, Miss Bessie Jones to Ridge Springs, and Mr. J. C. Allen to Anderson. Mr. George Parker, of Augusta, is visiting Mr. B. Bolin Allen. James T., jr., the youngest sou of Mr. J. T. Latimer, is in Augusta spend ing Christmas with relatives. Miss Cavin, of Mount Carmel, came up Saturday, and after spending a few days with Miss Lilly Huckabee, left to visit Mr. Haddon, about eight miles from Due West. Mr. J. F. Barnes has come from Spartanburg to spend the holidays with his brother, Mr. D. L. Barnes. MCD.WID HORTON. I Corner Dots. Much has elapsed since our last writing, and many new improvements have been made in the way of new dwellings, enterprises and the like. Mr. Richard Townsend, who has been living in Anderson the past year, has again moved back to this part of the country, and will in the future make his home at Iva. His many friends gladly welcome his return. Messrs. A. S. Bowie and Jno. R. Sea wright have opened up a first-class blacksmith shop near Mr. Bowie's store, at which place they will be glad to have any of their friends call around to see them, and to do any and all kinds of work for them that is usually done in a first-class, up-to-date blacksmith shop. We are, indeed, very sorry to report the illness of our neighbor, Mr. W. B. Steward. For some two weeks he has been very sick of typhoid fever. At the present he is very sick, but wc sin cerely trust he run}' soon be restored to his wonted health. The schools of the community are in flourishing condition. Miss Eliza Thomson, of Abbeville, is teaching the High Point school, near Good Hope Church, and is doing splendid work. The patrons were very fortunate in se curing the services of one so well quai- ( iticd for the position. The school at Poplar Springs, under the supervision of Miss McXinch, of Georgia, is in a flourishing condition. Also the one at Generostee, under the management of Miss Fannie Abel, of Lowryville. While the one at Iva, under the able control of Prof. J. F. Harper, is up to the same high standard that has char acterized it for years. The Corner should be proud of her good schools, ; . for they can not be beat in the County, ; nor the teachers, either, for we venture j to say that their superiors cannot be found'any where. Miss Sallie Sherard spent several days in Anderson last week visiting friends and relatives. Messrs. W. N. Thomson and C. G. ? Sayre spent Saturday night with friends ; in Iva. j Mr. M. F. May, of Georgia, an expe ? rienced wood workman, has accepted a j position with Bowie Sc Seawright in j their new shop. ^ Mr. Ira Hamilton is now clerking for I Sherard Bros. DRACO. General News Items. - Congress will adjourn for the j holidays from December 21st to Janu j ary 3rd. j - Corp orations with capital aggre gating $500,000,000 are preparing to I move their headquarters from the State ! of Illinois. j - For the past four weeks Stephen Drew, of Danbury, Conn., has been steadily hiccoughing, and the doctors fear he will soon die. - The people of the country are gratified at the report that President j McKinley intends to make Firzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler generals in the regular army. - The Constitution and laws of Venezuela are based upon those of the ! United States. The twelve provinces I are represented by Senators and there ! is a Representative for every 05,000 people. - The largest cargo of tea ever brought to America was landedrecent !y in New York harbor on the new steel ship Ping S ney, of the China I Navigation Company. The cargo con tained 1,500,000 pounds of tea. - The single working girls of Boston are organizing against married women who work iu restaurants and big stores for pin money. The girls think that . women who have husbands to support I them ought to stay at home and not interfere with others who are compelled I to work for their living. j - Senator Mason, of Illinois, has in I troduced into the United States Seu I ate a resolution of sympathy with the i South African republics in their strng j gie against cruelty and oppression and i offering them "our best hopes for the i full success of their determined con ; test for liberty." I - Dealing in washed internal reve j nue stamps is a form of illegal industry ! that led to the arrest of Da vid B. Bad ! eau, a dealer in stamps in New York j City, by E. C. Thompson, an agen t of 1 the Treasury Department. Badeau was held by Commissioner Shields in $5,000 bail Tor examination. Thomp son says Badeau has made at least $30, 000 by dealing in these washed stamps and that the Government has been de frauded out of twice that amount. Joseph Jenson, a clock maker of Richfield, Utah, has just completed a remarkable clock, which, in addition to striking the hours, halves and quarters and showing the phases of tho moon, tells just what time it is in every city in the world. This is done by means of a globe which revolves inside a trans parent globular glass. On this glass is marked a line which represents 12 o'clock noon. As the globe revolves this line is always over that part of the world in which it is noon at that time. Other lines represent the hours, and in this way it is easy to get the exact time in any given place. OSBORNE & OSBORNE'S ARE moving right along, and if you want to get Toys before they are gone yon had better come now. We have a few more pretty Dolls and Doll Car riages and Go Carts. We also have some of the prettiest pieces of CHINA that you have ever looked at-such as Salad Disbe3, Chocolate Pot?, Creams and Sugars We have a big lot of Iron Toys-Trains, Ice Wagons, Coal Wagons, and eventhing ia the way of Iron Toys. This isnyour last opportunity to buy your Santa Claus between now and Christmas. Hoping to see you all between now aud Christmas Eve, Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE, The Biofgc't Stove House in Town. FOE, THIS WEEK FROM . . . Blankets, Gapes, Jackets. SPECIAL LOW PRICE ON . . . Dry Cools and Shoes. .J They must go, and you can't afford to miss thcso BAR GAINS. MOORE, ACKER & CO., EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE* Free City Deliver)'.