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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. i We are I j Doing the | < Business I I in the J I Clothing I I Line I I IF you want to trade -where your friends do just come to us and get your New Suit. 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 us and ISave from $1.00 to $2.50 On a Suit of Clothes. But they have to pay Spot Cash. Well, we couldn't beat the other fellows on prices if we sold the way they do. They sell 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 Clothing, j Hats and Furnishings, 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 YOUR MONEY BICK IF (00 WIST IT I Hens Suits from $5.00 to $2000, I 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 Hats from 25c to $4.50 Men's Shoes at $3.50. Men's Furnishings to beat the baud. . ? ? . B. 0. Evans & Co, TEW SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. 1 ?'nun Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. aa, 189?. Tile hold the New York stock specu lators have upon this administration is demonstrated anew almost daily. Not long since the Treasury Department made an oiler to buy $25,000,000 of gov ernment bonds, ut present market prices, a large premium, in order to lower the rates ol' 11101103- on call in Wall street. The war news in Europe, as some authorities assert, or the pas sage of the gold standard bill in the House, as others maintain, e used an other panic in Wall street; and as i might bo expected, Secretary Gage dropped all other business to study a , scheme of further helping his friends on tho wrong side of Hie market. An order was issued permitting the na tional banks to receive and hohl tem porarily all the government receipts for internal revenue, which amount to $1,000,000 a day, under tho present war I schedules. The concern of this administration thnt 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 tho large business cen ters since this administration came in, has been tho nominal increase in the value of stocks of industrial enterpris es. They have been ?ploted in the j stock-lists from a third to a half high- j er than their prices during the depres sion of 1890. But, following tho de cision of the Supreme Court iu the Addyston Pipe Trust case, which found that combination illegal, being in re straint of trade, tho banks havc*callcd back their loans on many of the largely watered stocks of tho so-called "ii? - dustrials" requiring thc borrowers cith er to pay off their loans at once, or to substitute railroad or other shares fin collateral. The victories of the Hoers at the same time caused rapid selling j of American railroad shares abroad, j and tho consequent export of gold to 1 pay for them. Such a combination has | shrunk the aggregate values of the stocks listed in New York fully ?100, 000,000 during the past three weeks. With money on Wall street loaning on call at 50 to 125 per cent., in cn RCS as high as one-half per cent, a day for largo amounts, little less than demor alization is in sight. Bankers under such conditions refuse loans to legiti mate merchants, preferring the high rate for short loans; and with a little more of these untoward conditions, all the evils of 1890 would return, and all he chargeable to the administration in power. With an election just ahead, it is not surprising that Secretary Gage is giving all his attention to throwing the aid of the government to the stock brokers, it is not tho business of the government to take ?1 hand in stock deals, but the Republican party prides itself on indifference tn the Constitu tion when it stands between friends. The present Wall street situation is likely to playa strong part in the out come of the next national campaign. The passage of tho currency, or gold bill, certainly did nothing to restore confidence. Five minutes after it went through the House, there was the big gest panic in AVall street that lias been there in hf teen years. Scarcely less important in its effects upon the coming national election here, will be the outcome of thc war in the Transvaal. It is coming to bo 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 ?ptito as bind ing as a treaty, to give whatever moral influence and aid it can to the British, j That is one of the embarrassments of I the entangling alliances already half cemented with the Britons, by which English speaking people are to stand shoulder to shoulder in tho "onward inarch of Christianity and civilization." This country is to shoot civilization into tho Filipinos, tho English approv ing; and tho Britons are, with this gov ernment's approval, and at least moral aid, to force civilization upon the Boers with Lyddite shells; this is, of course, providing thc "savages" oiler no successful opposition. But the Boers just now seem to have even more friends in the United States than tho Filipinos have. This is but natural, because their conduct upon the field is much more deserving of sympathy and O'.1 miratiou. Thelliber- ! nian societies in ..ll the States have j organized a movement to assist the ? struggling patriots in the Transvaal; i and they will hold to account at thc j proper time thc administration which even remotely connives at tho aggres sions of the Britons. Tho current of events in the past week have done more to alarm the shrewd Republicans for the outcome of the Presidential election than anything which has occurred since tho breaking out of the Spanish war. If stocks go to pieces, as they promise now to do, the business demoralization and finan cial disturbances in the large centres just prior to the campaign will destroy utterly the plausibility of the claims' made hy thia administration that prices j are up as a result of its work; and if j tho Boers arc even.partially successful : in the end, as now seems assured, it will stand in the impotent and con temptible position of having wanted their enslavement by n powerful gov ernment, ami lu- deprived ?d' tin- good i luck of even standing with tlc victor. I There is in? ? i ii it-istn (d' the formal j announcement ol' neutrality by this i government. Thai was compulsory. Hut. precisely as Un at Britain headed ' the delegation ol loreign powers which j prayed the (Jutted 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 Great Britain to stay itH hands hi the Transvaal. Mr. Tolbert, ?d'South Carolina, who is contesting tie-seat ol' Congressman Latimor, af Sont ll 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 lixed the date for the hearing and will not do bO until after the Christmas holidays. Mr. Tolbert will push his contest, it is said, and hopes to get sullicicnt support among the Republi cans in the House to get the seat in place of Mr. l.atimer. . mt . tm' Kio ven Girls Humed In Heath. QuiN'CV, 111, December 23.-While tho school children of St. Francis Parochial School, 17th aud Vive streets, were rehearsing this afternoon foran entertainment to be given next Tues day evening one of their ?liesses caught tiro from a gas jet ami teu miuutes later four of them were burnell to death, two died an hour later and live others died before midnight. Half a dozen others were burned more or less severe ly. The lire started ina little ?Iressinj; room. Three or four little girls were dressing tor the rehearsal and laugh ing gaily among themselves. Ado/en others were grouped in the wings of thc stage, near the foot of thc stairs descending from the dressing room. The tfirls in the dressing room had nearly completed their costumes when one of them brushed against the gas jet. A touch ot the name was sutlicient and in an instant her dress of eotton and light cloth was in a blaze. She screamed and ran out ot the room communicating the hinze to tin; others ns she run. One ol'tho girls, with her dress in a blaze, .jumped ont ot' a small window into tin- stairs leading to the stage and then down the stairs. A Mailling torch sin- was, as she almost tell down tin; stairs and rushed into tho groups of children standing in the wings. They were all cuni like her in tin' fancy' costumes of cotton, lace aud silk and the tire spread with in credible rapidity from OIK; to thc other. There were fourteen children in tin; east of the Christinas entertainment and only a few escaped, lt was over in ten minutes, and in that time four perished, seven were fataliy burned and others more or less severely in jured. - BM* ? Prohibition Still Plnvs a Tart. To the Editor of The State: The Prohibitionists of the State at a \ conference held in Columbia November \ Ot li, decided that in view of the recent ' developments in connection with tho State dispensary and in anticipation ot' . sonic legislation on the subject at the , coming session of the general assembly, I that it would be well to find out tho sentiment of the Prohibitionists at the present time, and in order to cany out ! this purpose they authorized the ap pointment of a committee ol" live who . should meet and adopt resolutions ex pressing fully the position ol' the Pro- i hibitionists of the State, as the com-j mitteo understood that position to be, i and then to forward a copy of the re- j solutions adopted by them to thc mem bers of the State Prohibition Executive committee of each county with tin; re- ! quest that they confer with the Pro hibition county chairman and represen- ? tative Prohibitionists of their county, and after getting a full and free ex pression of opinion, to either approve; ?ir disapprove, the resolutions ami re turn to the chairman of tho Stat?; exe cutive committee, it being understood that their action represented the posi tion of the Prohibitionists of their county on the liquor question. Th?; following special committee was ap-i pointed to prepare and adopt *ho reso lutions above referred to: A. C. Join's, Newberry; Jas. A. Hoyt, Greenville; Kev. J. O. Willson, 1). 1)., Richland; T. X. Reny, Darlington: J. \V. Hamel, Lancaster. Thc committee met in Columbia the 27thult., and adopted th?; following resolutions: "Tho committee appointed to con sider and suggest the present position of the Prohibitionists of South Cand? na met and car? fully considered the matter. The committee reached the conclusion that the Prohibitionists must continue to stand on the platform of 18!|8, to-wit: General prohibition of thc manufacture and sal?; of liquor throughout the Stat?', with only th?; exception for medicinal, mechanical, scientific and sacramental use. The committee recommends that Prohibi tionists in the Legislature should act in accordance with this principle and certainly should not entangle their const tiiency by embarrassing compro mises." The members ?d' HM; Prohibition State Executive committee have ap proved these resolutions and I am au thorized to give them to the press. A. C. JONI-. Chairman State Prohibition Executive Committee. Newberry, S. C., Dec. 7, 18?M?. Deafness Cannot be Cured hy Jf.cil applications, as they cannot r?'.'icli thc tlisfa^cil portion of th?- ?ar. There is only ono way lo euro Deafness, ami thal M liv coo.sO.tu I ional roui eil ea. Deafness is caused by an inflam ed condition of tho mucous lining nf tho KoMacb lao Tulif. When this tuba gets milan.<d you have ii rumbling MU? nd or inim-rloct hearing, and when II i? cntlrdy cosrd deaf OOM is the result, ami UllleSS i i i o i ii tl am at i.ui can I'.; taken out and this lube recored to its normal condition, hearing will ba destroyed forever : nine cases out of len aie caused hy ealarrah. which is nothing but au in flamed condition ot the rr ?i cous aurfaaes. W?< will give Ono Mun Ired Do.lars tor any rase of Deafness (caused by catarrh> that cannot bo cured by Hall's ?'a!?rrli <"nr.? Send for circulars, free. F. J. CM KN KY A CO., Toledo, ll. 43-Snld by DrugclOs, "Ac Hair? Kau Hy Tills nr.- Ihe hrs!. ?- immt . mm Cheap Printing. Law Rriefs at ??0 cents a Pnjr?'-Good Work, Gooil Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catabigues in the best style If you havo printing to do, it will bo to ?'our interest to wnto t?> tho Pn-ss and tanner. Abbeville, S. C. tf. STAU: NEWS. I ! - There ar?1 sonni 0,000 notaries in ! thia State j - failure to pay poll tax is now a misdemeanor amt punishable hy law. - Greenville county has an unusu ally large numher ot murder eases to lie tried at the next term ol'conn. - The Sunny South Tobacco Manu facturing Company, of Hamberg, is j putting up smoking and chewing to- ? bacon. - A terrible conllagation visited Florence one night last week and many of its finest buildings were lie st roved. - Wm. H. Kennedy was killed in Florence County by a falling tree. Ile and others were cutting down trees to stop a forest lire. - Smallpox has appeared tit sixteen placea in this State and in eight counties. The State Hoard ol'Health has handled i:?00 eases this year. - The governor has received a lotter from Santuc, Union county, saying that small pox had occurred in that town and a neighboring township. - Senator Irby told a Host reporter in Charleston last week that he "had as many gray hairs from political anxiety as he wanted" and that all he wanted now is peace. - The colored farmers of the State are preparing to organize. A conven 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 ti yarn mill, the former to be built by Mr. Caps, ol' Toccoa, Ga., the other bj' L. A. Edwards and brothers. - Compulsory vaccination will be enforced in the Columbia public schools. Each pupil must have been vaccinated before he or she can en ter the schools which open on January 2nd. - Governor Mcsweeney has mailed letters to all of the Congressmen ami Senators, asking their co-operation in the passage ?if tho Act to secure the payment of the cotton claim from the South. - A company of Northern capitalists have been making a tour of this State recently. It is believed that, as a re sult of their visit, more mills will be built ami large sums ol' money will be invested. - Olilcials ol' the dispensary, it is said, estimate, from data available to date, that the institution will turu in a ?dear pro Ut to State, counties and towns for the year, $300,000 in round numbers. - There will be a melding of the. county superintendents of education in Columbia during the session ol' the legislature to discuss and pass upon teachers'' certificates, diplomas, text books, \ c. - S.H. Kzcll, president of the for mer board ol* trustees of Connie Max well orphanage located at Greenwood, reports 142 children handed in in that institution to he cared for within the last twelve months. -?hi account of the paper trust many of the weekly newspapers of the State have raised their subscription price. Already ali kinds ol paper have gone nj) more than ?O per cen)., .anti it keeps on going. - There are ?Iii military companies in the State. Thc fund this year to be divided between them, after deducting expenses tor the recent New York trip, will be ??1st) for each company, being $70 more than they got last year. - Curtis M. Taylor, superintendent, of machinery of tho hosiery mill in the South Carolina penitentiary, was caught in the ladling anti whirled to death. He had just arrived from Man chester, N. H., a few days before his death. - The Cagle machine shops in (j reen ville have been sohl to the Mallard 1.umber Co. td' Williamsburg county, and the report is that a plant for tia- manufacture of cotton mill machinery may he operated t berti by the new owners. - On the more important commit tees of the lower house of Congress, Congressman Elliott is a member ol the judiciary committee, Congressman Talbert of tile banking anti currency, and Congressman Norton of the imbin buildings and grounds. - Efforts are being made to build a gymnasium at Fttrman University, Thc students have gotten iip$l??0nn?l subscription lists are in circulation among the citizens anti alumni to try t?i raise the balance. When completed the gymnasium will cost about$000. - The. directors of the I'acole t Mfg. Co. held a meeting last week anti de clared a ? per cent, semi-annual divi dend. The mills are in line condition The question of increasing their ca pacity came up, but was voted down. 'The. directora of this concern tire a majority of the stockholders. - Governor Mcsweeney is receiving a great many letters relative to the cot ton claims he has writ ten about, to tilt various Southern Governors. Gov ernor Mcsweeney has taken up th? matter with Senator Tillman ami others ami thinks the matter, which b a very large one. is getting along verv well. - At the nu t ling of the conventioi ot Judges held in Columbia last Wed nesday, Huies of Circuit Court rules was amended so as to read as follows: "'The habit of the gentlemen of tin bar anti all ollieersof the court, except constables, shall he black coats, ami nt gentleman ol'the bar shall be heart) il otherwise habited; and it shall bu thc duly of the sheriff to attend to the ex cent ion of this rule." - Mr. W. V. Smoak, a prosperous farmer living near l?ranch ville, decid ed about two weeks ago that (?od hat called him to go to Utah and prend against Mormonism. He. accordingly drew all the cash money he had oi hand from the bank at Branchville bade his family good-bye and left. 1 is said that some citizens endcavorci to get the family to prevent his going but they all, including his wife, seenict perfectly willing for him to go. - The negroes in Charleston have; superstitious notion that the end o the world will come with the endo the present year, ami the preacher are using this as an argument to scar their hearers into the church. The, tell their congr?gation that their tim on cart h is short anti that a great se of tire will sweep down ami eonstim them. Theil* is much excitomeii among the ignorant, negroes and man of them look forward with fear an trembling to the end of 180?. LowndesvUlo Lucais. Kr. T. U. Kirkpatrick was here tm business Monday, making s??uie*uoees- j sa ry arrangements prior to locating here in January for tho practice ul his profession, lu. Kirkpatrick '.<>;- ! nieily principal ol thc school here, ai il su is no stranger to us. With his coi i in;r Lowndesville will have four ?hu luis- iuil\ a bail omen for any tow i ol' thissi/.e. All ol'our three teachers have gone to their respect iv?? homes Miss Hertha While to Abbeville. Miss Messie .loues j to Killie Springs, and Mr. J. I*. Allen j to Anderson. Mr. (?corgc Larker, ol' Augusta, is visiting Mr. IL I lol i ii Allen. .lames T.. jr., thc youngest son ol' Mr. J. T. Lalituer, is in Augusta spend ing Christ mas with relal iv??s. Miss Cavin. of Mount Carmel, came up Saturday, and after spending a lew days with Miss Lilly Huckabee, h il lo visit Mr. Haddon, about eighl mill's from Due West. Mr. J. I*'. Haines has come from Spartanbttrg to spend the holidays with his brother, Mr. D. L. Harnes. Mel>.\VID Hoi: ION. (.'oilier H?>1s. Much has elapsed since our last writing, and 11111113 improvements ' have been made in the way ol' 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. Jlowic and .Ino. li. Sea wriglit hav<' opened up a lirst-class blacksmith shop near Mr. Howie's store, at which place they will be glad ; to have any ol' l heir friends call around to see t hem, ami to do any and all kinds 1 of w ork for I hem that is usually ?lone I in a lirst-class, up-to-date blacksmith .diop. Wi* ar?', indeed, very sorry lo report the illness ot' our neighbor, Mr. \Y. ll. Steward, l'or some two w?'?-ks he has been very sick of typhoid lever. At th?' present he. is very si?-k, but we sin- ( cerely trust he. ina)- soon be rest omi to his wonted health. Th?' schools of the commuuity are In flourishing condition. Miss VMYM Thomson, of Abbeville, is teaching tho ! High I'oint school, near Conti Hope 1 Church, ami is doing splendid work. The patrons were very fortunato in se- ' curing the services of one so well qual- , ilh'd for th?' position. The schind at ? Poplar Springs, under th?', supervision of Miss McNineh, of (? corgi a, is in a flourishing condition. Also the. om* at j Generostoe, under the management of ! Miss Fannie Abel, ol' Lowry villi*, j While the one at Iva, nuder the able ?.?mtml ol' Prof. J. F. Harper, is up t?> th?* same high standard that has char acterized it lor years. Th?' Comer should be proud ol' her gootl schools, for they ?'.III nul ho heal ?u the County, nor the teachers, either, tot wc venture lt> say thal their superiors cannot he lound any w ?u re. M iss Sallie Sherard SJMMII several day ? in Anderson lasi wi t h visiting friends ami relatives, Messrs. W. N. I'lionisou and C. IC Sayn- spent Saturday night with ft tends in 1 va. Mr. M. I'. May, ol (?corgiii, au expe rienced w ooil workman, has accepted a position with Howie ?\ Seawright in I heil new shop. Mr. lia Hamilton is now clerking for Sherard llios. Dl{.\< i?. General News Hems. - Congie.-, will adjourn for the holidays from December Slat to Jatill ary drd. - Corporations with capital aggre gating ?oo.tinu.i.i o ?ne preparing to move t heir headquarters fi om t he State of Illinois. l-'or the past four weeks Stephen l>rcw. ol' Danbury, Conn., has been steadily hiccoughing, and the doctors fear he will soon die. -- The people of the country are gratified at the report. 1 hat President McKinley intends to ma'.e Kit/.hugh Lee anti .loe Wheeler generals in the regular anny. 1 -The Constitution anti laws ol' Venezuela are hosed upon those of the United States. The twelve provinces are represented hy Senators and there is a Repr?sent?t ive for every ?15,000 people. j - The largest cargo of tea ever brought to America was landed recent ly in New York harbor on the new : steel ship Ping Sney, of the China Navigation Couipanv. The cargo con ? tained 1,500,000 pounds of tea. - The single working girls of Heston I are organizing against married women ! who work in restaurants and big stores ! for pin money. The girls think that Winnen win? have husbands to support them ought to stay at home and not interfere wit h ot hms w ho are, compelled to work for their living. - Senator Mason, of Illinois, has in troduced into the United States Sen ate a resolution of sympathy with the South African republics in their strug gle against cruelly ami oppression and offering them "our best hopes for the full success of their determined con test for liberty." - Dealing ?ii washed internal reve nue stamps is a form of illegal industry that led to the arrest of Davit! H. Ibid em, u dealer in stumps in New York City, by K. C. Thompson, an agent of the Treasury Department, nadean was hehl by Commissioner Shields in $5,000 bail for examination. Thomp son says 15adean has made at least $?50, 000 by dealing in these washed stamps ami that the Government has been de frauded out of twice that amount. Joseph Jenson, a clock maker of Itichfletd, Utah, has just completed a remarkable clock, which, in addition to striking the hours, halves and quarters ami showing tho phases of the moon, tells just what time it is in every city in the world. This, is done by means of a globe which revolves iusidea trans parent globular glass, (in this glass is marked a line which represents Iii o'clock noon. As the globe revolves this line is always over t hat part of the world in which it is noon at that time, t qher lines represent the hours, and in this way it is easy to get the exact tillie in any given place. AHE moving right along, and i'' yon want to get Toys Iv. fore they ure gone yo? luul helter tome now. We have a few inore pretty Dolls and Doll Car riage? ami (io Carls. We also have some ot' the prettiest pieces ol' CHINA that you have ever lo >ked at-such ns Salad Dishc-*, Chocolate Pot?, Creams and Sugars We have a big ltd <>f Iron Toys-Trains, Ice Wagons, Coal Wagons, and even thing in tho way <-t' Iron Toys. This isPyour lat! importunity to buy your Santa Claus between n >w aud Christmas. 11 >j?i11LT to see you all between now and Christmas Jive, Yours truly, ' OSBORNK & OSBORNE, The Biggest Stove Hollie in Town. - ON - Blankets, Capes, Jackets. SPECIAL LOW PRICE ON . . . They must go, and you can't afford to miss these BAR GAINS. MOORE, ACKER & CO., HAST SIDE PUBLIC SQCARE-CORNER STORE, Way Free City Delivery.