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"BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER iii. 18!)!). VOLUME XXXV-NO. 17. "YOU had a story to tell, one that you knew was true, one you wanted believed. ?ow would you tell it ? Uso big ad jectives, high sounding phrases, or tell it quietly? You would tell it quietly, wouldn't you ? We will, at least. Our 25 per Ct. Discount Sale Is still going on and the people are taking advantage of it, too. Lots of people have bought from us during this sale, but we still have too much Clothing, too many odd Pants and too many Overcoats. During this sale you save 25c. on every Dollar you spend with us. That's just what it means. One quarter off, mind you. 'You get our $4.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for $3.00. 5.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 3.75. 7.50 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 5.63. 10.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 7.50. 12.50 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 9.38. 15.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 11.25. Remember, we include in this sale every Suit, Overcoat or odd pair of Pants in our entire stock. Suppose you come in and investigate. B. 0. Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. On@ moment of your time, please : WE propose doing a heavy business this year on the smallest possible expense. Every shrewd buyer knows what that means for him. We are carrying a splendid line Dry Goods and Shoes, With special atteution to HEAVY GROCERIES aud FARM JUPPL?E8. We believe wo carry the best lino of FLOUR, COFFEE, TOBACCO and MOLASSES to bo anywhere-tbe kind that will please you aud satisfy your bands. Be sure to see us on tbat Spring bill. You's for inore business, VANDIVER BROS. P. S.-We can accommodate a lew gilt-edge, prompt-paying time customers. THE HUSTLING CITY OF ANDERSON Is still Booming, and KING BROS. BARGAIN STORE is Booming with Bargains. WE bave never before bari so much to offer our customers and friends as we bave now. You will remember the way we sold JEANS last FalJ. Wo bave bougbt another lot ac old price and are Belling right and lea. School Boy Jeans 12?c. yard. We nave bougbt tbe Bee Hive Stock of Goods at prices that tickle us to think about. Now, if you want tbe best Over and Undershirts you ever bougbt for tba money get ooe ot ours. Our 10c. Suspenders are going off by the dozen. Come be fore they are all gone. Bocks, bocks, Socks ! That's enough ! Come and see the rest. We want you to see our 5c. Comb ir yon ever expect to buy-it's a dandy. A few more Spittoons to go at 5;-. JOaat Pan So. Patty Pans 5o. a dozen. Never forget un when you need CROCKERY? GLASSWARE and TINWARE. For Spice, Soap and Staroh we are the people. Yours very truly, KING BROS., BARGAIN STORE. Two Doors from Post Office. ?sir- P. 8.-If not sold at private sale before we will sell to highest bidder Sale day in February ono Lot containing one-bant acre, situated on Franklin Street, ad ?oining lots of Mrs. H. H. Edwards and John T. B?rrigs. E G. EVANS, Jr R. B. DAY, M. D. PENDLETON, 8. C. IDIR/TTGI-S and MBDICIIsTES, Perfumery. Toilet Articles, Fancy Soaps, Sponges, Combs, Hair and Tooth Brashes, Rubber Gooda and Druggist Notions, Paints, Olia, Varnishes, Dyes, Buists* Garden Seeds, \ HHfMBj wood's Seeds T Efw/iTll ? EvkWl S^?rVl and have achieved thohighestreputation ty RV fl M M Jh*m!\A ^ M P 1*1 -for quality, productiveness and adapta \ ftPJteffl ?fo#?J bmty to our Southern coil cud climate. \ 1BHBK3 ??I TH!" HEW CleUDRV I88QE OF WOOD'S ? Bf DESCRIPTIVE C?TM?QUS Is folly abreast A * RB of the times, and gives tho fullest infor \ B KflSHBBnS B matlon about all 1 I ? Seeds Fdr Southern Planting. A ? ll It should bo in the hands of all who \ IjBffjtfe^R^fflf? flMffliWfflllflffll plant seeds, and we.w?ll mail it free upon F 8ft?l SB af|jfi gfSa f ftfiSRffl receipt of postal request. i ffiTO^ffifo"T T. W. WOOD & SOBS, Saeteen, 4 RIRRM0R?, - VIRGINIA. PROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. from Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 22, 1900. Tho Appalachian National I'uris As sociation has petitioned Congress to acquire land lor a park along t lie South Carolina and Tennessee borders, where, it is said, is lound not only tho culmi nation ol' tho Appalachian system, hut the most benut il ul^is well as the high est, mountains east ol' the lotty Wes- , tern ranges. Forty-three mountains i of 0.000 feet and upward in altitude, as : well as a great number ol' inferior height, all clothed with virgin forests ? and intersected by deep valleys ! abounding in brooks, rivers, and water- j falls, combine to make this a region ot' unsurpassed attractiveness. It will include, portions ot' thc great Smoky Mountains, the Balsam Mountains and the Black and Craggy Mountains. Tho ollicial export statement issued for tho year 18!>9 shows a most peculiar state ol! affairs, illustrating thc meth ods of the Republican party in persuad ing the farmer that ho is tremendously prosperous, when, ?s a matter of fact, he is getting less for everything that lie sells and paying moro for everything that he buys than lins been the case for years. Tho head of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics is a newspaper man who did excellent campaign work for McKinley in the. last election, and was given this lino position as a reward. Twice a week he scuds out typewritten articles to all thc correspondents in Washington, glorifying the administra tion for the boundless prosperity i thus evoked. For tho last six months these letters have been songs of triumph over tho alleged wonderful gain in our exports and jubilation over the im mense profits to the farmers that are said to have resulted therefrom. Fi nally, however, the Minoan has been forced to issue tho actual ligures of agricultural exports during thu year a subject, on which it has studiously refrained from commenting in its bi weekly letters. This statement shows that the exports of breads tu ifs, provis ions, cotton and mineral oils have de clined. Breadstuff's have declined 850,000,001), cotton 840,000,000 while cattle, and hogs have declined one fourth since 18!)7. Comment on these ligures is superfluous. They puncture thc bag of Republican assurance that tho year 1809 was a good year for farm ers.* No class is prosperous when thc prices of all its needs is rising and thc market for its products is steadily de clining. lt has been n long time since Wash ington has been as much amused by anything in tho political line as it has been by Senator Hanna's recent plea for a big campaign fund in order to keep the wicked Democrats from cap turing the close Western States by means of "hired labor agitators." Thc plea of poverty on tho part of the Na tional Committee is about as rich a morsel us has been contribu? ed recent ly to the political gossip of the country. The city of Philadelphia got the na tional convention by exhibiting a cer tified check for a cool $100,000, which w as to be contributed to the campaign fund if the committee took the con vention there. Pittsburg has prom ised to contribute twice that amount to the campaign fund if President McKin ley will oe present nt their big meeting this spring and make a speech there. Besides, tho surplus from the huge campaign fund of 1890 has never been spent and is available at any time that Mr. Hanna chooses to draw upon it. In view of these facts, to say nothing of the further fact that all tho trusts are toeing thc mark in great shape for fu ture protection, and that the ship own ers have agreed to raise an immense fund if thc ship subsidy bill goes through, there is some excuse for Democratic laughter. But nothing is moro certain than that Mr. Hanna is not joking. He is not in a joking mood. What ho is doing is serving notice ou all the big contributors that they must get ready to duplicate tho immense lund of 1800. If it does not mean that, it means that the Republicans arc moro frightened at the political pros pect than they arc disposed to ad mit. Thc speech of Senator Wolcott, cf Colorado, on the Philippine question in tho Senate last Monday has curried consternation iuto tho camp of thc imperialists. It shows conclusively that there is a largo section of the Re publican party which will declino to follow tho administration in its ideas of imperial dominion. Mr. Wolcott begnn by an attack of Senator Petti grew and Senator Hoar for (so ho alleg ed) lending aid and comfort to the rebels, but ended by denouncing Sena tor Beveridge for his platitudinous re ferences to the United States as having been selected by God as a chosen peo ple to aid in tho regeneration of the world and for his highwayman's plea that we should retain tho Philippines because they are rich and valuable to us. Senator Wolcott believes in end ing the war, and he is unable to see that any other solution than our taking the Philippines was possible in justice to the inhabitants ot the islands them selves. But he views with grave anxie ty the inevitable widespread corruption that will be produced by carpet bag rule there, and fears its rcactiou on our own character. Mr. Wolcott did not say so in so many words, but it isa fair inference that, while he considers that we must keep the islands, ho bit terly deplores the actions of the ad ministration in getting us into a situa tion whence he considers it impossible for us to retreat. It is asserted by Republicans here that Mr. Bryan has received letters from a number of Democrats asking him to retire from his candidacy for the Presidency this Fall, permitting the nomination of some other man who is pot so strongly committed to the cause of silver. With Mr. Bryan asa nominee, the party, the letters are said to have urged, cannot secure the ann nora that it ecald i? he were to with draw. At the same time, there is no donbt that any attempt to defeat him in the convention would only result in * split which would ruin the party's chancea. Itt? moat probable, how ever, that the alleged "Democrats" .who offered thia unasked advice to Mr. Bryan were of the gold variety vhich did ita worse in the last election. The D?mocratie party ia for Mr. Bryan far more strongly than for any other man. It now seems that the British reply in regard to those flour siezures was nothing like so satisfactory as was stated. Mr. Choate, with his strong pro-British sympathies, was carried away by the urbanity of Lord Salisbury and cabled enthusiastic reports of his marvelous success. But the latter offi cial reporta show that Great Britain haB made little or no concession. ut i: COLUMBIA LKT?EU, Coi.t Mni.\, Jan. 15. 11 each new session ol' tilt' lionera I Issoinbly were not ?ii sonic, respect a 'record breaker" wo would now think ha: South Carolina's representative (ody was drifting into innocuous de uctude. The present assembly has iroken the record in the matter ?d' the lispatch ot business, bei nj: the ti ist hat has made a law, all duly signet! ind scaled within the first week of the lession. In every respect this ussciu dy seems determined to dispatch busi ?ess without delay. The incidents cf the first week have leen bills below noted and comments m the governor's message, which teems to give general satisfaction. The main feature of this was, ?d' ?ourse, the suggestions as to the itittli igcmcut of the dispensary. It is gen Tally cousitered a good paper. Coll ier vati ve men think that tho governor ms done well in placing the burden of lolving thc problem on the legislativo jody. In l'aet his .suggestions in this natter have served to tighten up the icrews all round on tho machinery of his body. Senator timber's county court bill is n a fairway to become a law, haring Missed its third reading in tho House. This bill seems to be childly demanded >y the lawyers, but provision is made or an election by the people before ir s saddled on any county. Mr,. Winkler has introduced his dis icnsary bill, which tinkers at tho pres .nt law in a number of sections, but mikes no radical change that is appar ut except in the provision fur buying liquor by sealed bids, and then it adds i provis, that utilities that clause. , The Virginia-Carolina Chemical .ouipany will be investigated to seo it t is a trust, and by the way there is a drong sentiment supporting tho salid Democratic plank of anti trust. lt is more than probable that the completion ot the State House will be uithorizcd by the present assembly. I'ho Senate has the matter in charge. There is also very much talk of build ing a'new Court House for tho Su [ireiue Court, tho State having otit urowii its Stato House, and of selling The old governor's uiiiusion uud grounds and budding another one. Among other incident? of interest in tho week were tho following. Tho rc-iutroductiou of Senator Brown's compulsory education bill, the killing of \\ inklers bill making rail roads haul passengers on a round trip for ono fare, au interesting light over the use of the State House for tho State balls, in which the dancers won by three votes. The passage of tho Manning health bill, which completes the system of the State by providing au orhcer in each township who shall record all deaths, births and marriages, and report, them to the State Board through tho county supervisor. This gives South Caro lina one of the most perfect and effect ive health boards in this country. Th9 Rogers bill providing for mar riage licenses, and Senator I Merton's to prevent hunting or trapping par tridges on the lauds of another with out permission. It is not unlikely that there will be a fight over the appropriations for tho State Colleges this year with moro force than has been seen in this light tor several years. Ono of the most gratifying incidents :>f the week was tho election by the Senate of ex-Governor Sheppard to be president pro tem. This is a strong indication of the revival of good feel ing and the absence of any tiling like partizanship, which has been thc bane if tho State for so long. This fac tionalism has been gradually dying out iver since tho constitutional conven tion, and it may now bo considered as buried for tho good of tho State. During the past week the tires have been kindled under the polical pot in ?ood earnest. There have been no md of caucuses and pow-wows iu tho merest of various candidates and political sentiments at the capital, lt is very evident from tho activity in thc prohibition camp that the cold water idvocates will have a ticket in thc ield this summer, lt is suggested that the standard bearer may bo Senator Mower, who is probably tho strongest nan in the camp, and a mans of great lercounl purity and integrity, but he is ,iot much of u campaigner. A. How ard Patterson has been in tho city ?ursing his boomlet. His friends seem to be u little disconcerted that Mc sweeney did not come out as an ad vocate of revolution in tho dispensary, that Patterson might have his dispen sary platform to himself. They will, However, make the best of tho situa tion. Col. Wylie Jones is being groomed for the race by a number of Iiis friends and it is thought that ho will bo a strong horse. Col. Knox Livingstone, called "tho Little Giant yt the Pee Doe," is also spoken of very frequently as a candidate, and there is no evidence that tho topic is distaste tul to this active legislator. Thc coming week promises to bc tx pery interesting ono in tho matter of legislation. This Legislature docs not seem inclined to put off important matters and they will go into severa! things thal wiii oe hot this week. THE 8ECOND WEEK. COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 22. The legislative mill has not been very ictively at work during the past week, [n fact the latter part of the week was ill recess, commencing with the memo rial service in honor of tho late Gov, ?Y. fl.E??erbe; following thia was Lee's birthday, then Saturday and Sunday, io many members of the legislature vent home, and the capital has been a rory dall place. But for a few hard retiring committees the upper floors prould have been almost deserted. Among, the matters that have been >ccopying the attention of the working winmlttees daring this recess was the meation of the drainage of the low ands of this State. It ia surprising to earn the extent and the degree of in terest that the proposal to drain these ands has developed in tho State. The reports of the engineers who have itadied the plan say that it is perfectly Feasible, it looks os if the people of the itate are going to demand it: and the mly question left unsettled is how to ?et the necessary cash to do the work, 'o get this it will ho necessary to have two amendments to the Constitution, >no allowing tho condemnation of property |*or such purposes, anti tho nt lier to levy un assessment on those who will hf directly hcnclitcd bj ihe contemplated \\01k. I i If this plan is ever earrie?! ont the ? available lands ot tin- lou rountry will h" aboul doubled, and tho pro I du<'tivciicss considerably more than doubled, while tht< rivers will come to ( tin' tor?' ns highways ol eouuneree ?ind i white men will timi i; possible to live : and (loutish where they eannot go now. j Among the matters p ssed dnriinr tin1 tor?' part of th?' week wore the M a ii him t ire bill, which has been in ihe L?gislature in one Corni or another for several years, but was always side tracked. lt has now been passed and is more than likely lo become a law. The assembly is waking to the real ization of the incl that tho people of South Carolina intend to have good roads, and experience has shown that wide tired wagons ar?' necessary if the roads ar? to b?' maintained. Another matter was tlc- passage ?d' a resolution to submit to the people the question of biennial sessions of tlie Legislature. The demand tor this scents to have been growing vorv rapidly in tho Stat?', lt isa question of whether tho annual [meetings ?d' th?' Legislature and the exchange of ideas I of representative men is not worth ' what tho sessions cost. If the/.calons < legislators who want to linkerat sume- I thing every lime they get a chance, could bo clinked oil", there would not bc st? much objection to ihe annual sessions.'?ut as it is tim zealous legis lator does not give th?* ?uk with which I the laws are printed a chance lo get dry on the statute book before it is changed. These things have been con fusing to tiie magistrates and lim I country boards, particularly. Thc Legislature is in the position ol a man whose /eal hus worked him oui ot a joh. lt is mil unlikely thal Ibo redistrict ing hill will ?.om?' in fora considerable ! share td* attention this session, li isl urged that ono of tin* best arguments j in favor of changing thedistricts is t ho li^lit at present being waged between Charleston and Port Loyal, lt is con tended thal the besi interests of the State will bc served by having each of our seaports ina different dist rici, each with II congressman ol' its own. Un the other hand the recent railroad developments in th?' State have so changed the status ?pto of the coun ties, that they are now satisfied when' they are and will not therefore be such I warm advocates of the redistricting as th rv used tobe. It is said that the ! author of tho bill, Mr. Patton, has rather lost interest III tho measure. Tl)is session is the most quiet and the most devoid of dramatic interest that has been held in a good many years. Even tho dispensary matter fails to rouse any great degree of inter est. During the week the bill was pre sented which will probably bo the new law, it is tho Graydon bill, and it fol lows tho line of tue governor's message very closely. The governor's recom mendations on this lino have been frrowing in favor and are very general y regarded ns tho most practical solu tion of the problem. Great dilficul ties seem to rise in any other plan that is proposed as s?")on' as it is entered into in detail. To the consumer there will be no apparent change in the law ns now in force, but the oppor tunities for the creeping in of corrup tion are very much lessened. Thc .purchase of liquors will be by bids and tho county and State boards of control will bo abolished. Sonic little interest is beginning to be shown in tho approaching elections in the gift of the legislature. HARTWELL M. Av LU. Phpt rnlu Atti nipt to Escape. ATLANTA, Ga., .January SO-Edward Flanagan, tho triple murderer, led eight desperate prisoners this evening in an attempt t?> escape from jail nt Decatur, live miles from Atlanta. Flan . agaa felled the Jailer to the boor with a blow from a heavy piece of iron, but the injured man was gunn;, and draw ing his pistol tired into thu gang of prisoners. Flanagan was shot through the thigh and fell. Tho other prison ers, cowed by tho fate of their leader, hesitated. The shots attracted the at tention of the jailer's family and, sum moning assistance, they managed to over-come tho prisiouexs and all were locked up. Flanagan's wound is not dangerous. Among the prisoners were Hiram Sharpe, the Lithonia wife murderer; Ilankcston and Pedley, accused of complicity in the murder of Policeman Ponder, nnd others confined for petty crimes. Jailer Talley would have been severely dealt with had it not been for the aid given him by his negro janitor, Smith, who fought valiantly. The lock on tho ono cell in which the prisoners were con lined bad been saw ed oil" and this was used by ono of the jail birds in tho light with Talley. During the afternoon murderer Sharpe handed over to Sherill'Talley a long bar of iron, remarking that ho wanted to get rid of itbeforo it "got the whole crowd into trouble." Several of tho prisoners wero armed with knives. Flanagan, who came originally from Raymond, Tenn, mur dered Ruth Slack and her uncle. Mr. Allen, and wounded two or three others, in December, 1800. Ho has been convicted of murder three times, and was recently brought before Judge Candler to havo his mental con dition examined into, bnt the proceed ings were postponed. This ia the second titne in two months that Flan agan has attempted to get away. Thor* ls more Catarrh In this section of tb? country than all other diseases put together, and until tho last hm years ?as supposed to bo Incur able. For a groat many years doctora pronounced lt a local dise?e, ami proscribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treat ment, pronounced lt Incurable. Science baa prov en catarrh to bo . constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Care, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co. Toledo, Ohio, ls the only constitutional cute on tbs market. It ls taken Internally In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acta directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case lt fails to caro. Send for circulars end testimonial. Ad dress. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. fraJBold by Druggists, 73c Hall's Fatally Pills sro the beat. STATE NEWS. - Charleston's business men have tear lily endorsed thc plan lor a bighill ? x posit ioii in i bat ? it \. - Still I li Carolina is being congi at a , atctl upon having no lynching or mob . iolcncc iliti'iug il?e year IS.m. -- Thc explosion ni -as ia a hall in , 'liarlcstoti where Mis, iittnlciigiti was caching ;i class ol' lillie girls created i palin- bat nobody w ;iv burt. - In drawing water from a well in I turk Hill recently :i negm girl thew ip a sack containing a deatl baby,!. Vilich bat? been in i he well some unie, j ' - A burglar with a Winchester iii! . I ai tered t be room of I lev. VY. II. Wliar- ' . on. Methotlist preacher al Donalds, ! ? md robbed him of his pocket hool? ?inti ivatch. j i - lt is rumored thai a Michigan syn lieate has gained possession nf thc'nhl | ' Dorn minent McCormick, und will ex pend a large sum of money in develop ; mg same. - < in .lau. 17th a negro boy, named lal. Lockhart, tried lo cross iii front of Ihe passenger train at < hi lin cy, and was struck by the train and died that night d' the injuries received. - The President has sent (otho Sen lite thc nomination ol Catlwalder .1. Pride to be postmaster at Kock Hill. H. t'. T.'.o miine ol' this office has recent ly been changed from Hock Hill to Hnekhill. - The nev. railroad station building and two passenger coaches were de stroyed by Ure ?it (h'orgetowti, S. C. The burnell building had just been erected to replace thc station binned about six nioiiiiis ?:g .. - Mr. .lee Da\ i>. tin-man on a local frieght train .'untiing bet ween ( ? reed ville and Toeena, was Killed at West minster on the morning ol .lan. 1 Tl ii. ? Ile was watching au oiiigoing freight ; t rain, when a mu her train back? il down '?? un him. killing him instantly. - Eugene Watson, a icu-ycnt-uld ? colored boy. c. .is nin Over anti Nilled 1 by a I rai ii on the Souiln ru railroad 1 one mile nun Abbeville lasl week. I lie ami :: friend were cnughi <>n ;i Ires ' tlc. 11 is fi ic nd jumped ami saved him- j self bm Watson was 'knocked olV?nd j killed. - All iitleiupl wa* ruido lasl week by so 1111 . nf I he prisoners in the Ed ire field jail to. burn it. The lire was dis covered io time to provient any dam age. The prisoners Inn! put paper and tither light material between the brick wall and Homing of the jail andsel lire toit. A few buckets of ? nter put the lire out. - Though the gamo of golf has just been introduced in this State, it ap pears that those who take it up "'ill stum be able to play with native man ufactured sticks. 1 twill doubtless sur prise many to know that South Caro lina's supply of persimmon trees hus resulted in tho establishment of a golf stick factory, lt will be located at Sumter. - Congressman Stokes has introduc ed a bill to extend tho free mail de livery to all towns of three thousand inhabitants or whoso gross receipts amount to $.1,000. This would include Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson. Bonnetts ville. Camden, ('hester. Darlington, Florence, Georgetown, Greenwood, Laurens, Newberry, Orangeburg, Bock Hill. Summerville, Sumter, Union ami Yorkville. - This is a mighty good time to start a new "farmers movement"-nota clan trap concern like Hen Tillman's with loose talk of "reform" which means nothing except jobs for a few hum bugs, but a movement with specific, declared, plain purposes. Sessions of the Legislature once in two years anti the use of the penitentiary convicts in building a good system of public roads would be two good things to start with. If we could* get one or two Legislatures elected pledged tn some definite ob it -ls like these, our State would soon make a wonderful ad vance. -drecnrille S'cirs, - Secretary Wilson, of the Agricul tural Department, it is announced, bas written te Clemson College, concerning the experiments mude by the depart ment in thc .hybridization td' oranges. It is stated at the departmotit that some sixty different species have been budded, ?ind two of each kind will he sent to Clemson College for testing purposes. It is the belief of Secretary Wilson, and the department officials, who have, given much attention to these interesting experiments, that the experiments tobe made will be of great benefit to Stint h Carolina. - The jury commissioners ol' Green ville have got thc ministers and editors of that city in rather close quarters. Considerable has been said of late about the failure of juries to find true verdicts and thc fault has been charg ed part ly to the fact that the best men are not drawn for jury service, and when good men are drawn they fail to serve, getting excused on one plea or another. In the list just drawn for tho second week of the approaching court of sessions for Greenville appear the names of three well-known ministers of the. gospel-Di s. S. ll. Preston, W. J. Langston anti S. W. Kev. The matter has created surprise and com ment. The jury commissioners say they wish to get. tin; best menin the country, and they also desire ministers and editors to put their theories into practice. While they know they aro exemptj they hopo they will not claim exemption, for tho supremo court has decided that being exempt from ser vice does not disqualify, for it is a mat ter of personal privilege. .- mm m mm ? ? ? Black Dlamoml Railway. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., January 20. The stockholders of the Ohio, Tenn essee and Carolina railway met in this city to-day. This is the William Kirk by faction of the Boone's Black Dia mond railway enterprise. In Decem ber the two factions, Boone and Kirkby, met here and agreed to disagree, al though both claim the rights of way and franchises granted the Black Dia mond road in Tennessee. Colonel Kirk by incorporated his faction under the above name. The Stockholders elect ed the following directors: K. W. Aus tin, S. P Condon, Colonel L. Maloney, J. C. J. Williams and W. B. Cren Bhaw, of Knoxville; Edward Watson. Nincenne, Ind.; J. L. Tribble, Ander son, S. C.; E. T Kirker, Ripley, O.; Henry Sacke, Ripley, G.; J. T. Sim ons, Cynthiana, Ky.; William Craw ford, Columbus, O.j William Kirkby, Toledo, O. They will meot in this city January 27th.- Sjiccial Dispatch to Atlanta Constitution. (.''liern] Nous item-. Vim lien lin's !,<i| ;.f!i Hebrews; S i".Y ^ pt iv lOO.ptin, Tin? limit votif in t lu-Mumu-on (hu ?urroncv hill w ill lu- taken l'Yliniarv 5th. - Til?' small pos situation iu North 'aiidina i- beginning ip lip vms 'huts. M i s. Janies A. ' >.ii t'nlil. widow di l.i- pK'siih'iil; l?ci'ivcs a pension ol' -Ci.OOO ;| \ i-.i 1 . - his >:i H I hv 11 ra dst reel il?;ii the ?auk clearings nt' last year were i Iou hie hose ol isa.. - Tho tamil.'* ol'thelaie I ? w i LT 111 !.. Moody announce thal In-; cider son .\ ill write t he hio^raphv <>! th?-evan gelist. Only by au expenditure nt ' nun in combating grasshoppers was it possible last vear to save the cmos in Algiers. - li is said thal the Kuglish are gi lling tired ol' the war in South Africa ami arc ready to be U| preached in making peace.' - The Southern l.ailway is having ll loeoiue.ivi s built in Ih'climoud. and each is to he equipped w ith an electric headlight. - Cornelius Vanderbilt has just o\ - pended i**.'.*?,?HM) in dogs. Twenty-five thousand lit lc children go to school without ans breakfast in that same city. - Not having been given a chance to distinguish himself as a soldier in the Philippines, i i encrai Wheeler has re signed and will resume his place in Congress. - Lieutenant Gilmore, who was a prisoner of the f ilipinos for about ?.igln months, expresses the opinion t li n t he v. ar will continue ns long as ? hen are any Tagalos lei :. - Janesville. W i-., isthe most im portant tobacco market in the North west, lhere arc twenty two wale houses in Ihe eily, and they pack and handle thousands ol cases annually. The Michigan Supr?me Court has decided thal jury has the right lo re use tu follow tho direction of atrial judge and to lind a verdict of acquittal when a verdict ol' guilty has been di lcried. --Kentucky politicsare mixed, lt is believed thal the D?mocratie Legis latur?; will d?clare Ihe Goobel ticket elected and that the lienublieans will resist their being installed. Trouble is apprehended. - William Jennings Bryan's great grand mother, Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb, is living near Kokomo, at the age of OS. lier tl rsl husband. Louis IL Bryan, was a soldier in the war of 1H1> ?lld in the Mexican war. - There are f?.OOO persons in .tho employ of tim various departments of the city of New York. Of these, the department of street deaning employs '8,000, just twice as many as the depart ment of public charities. - The highest ranking officer of the United States navy to bo retired from active service during 10(H) because of the a?Q 1' iit will be Capt. W. C. Gib son. Canally from one to four rear admirals are retired annually. j - Tho annual report of the Dead Letter ( lillee at Washington shows the I receipt of 0,855,1)8:1 pieces of misdirect ed mail matter, in one year. Money, drafts, cheeks, etc., footing up a face value of .* 1,108,000, were contained in the letters. - Near Deer Gulch, Wash., the lead er of 7,000 sheep jumped over a pr?> cipice and the remainder followed. Tho narrator says that after 800 were killed they made a pile high enough forth?' others to walk over them and down the incline of carcasses. The dead were burned. -- K. W. Agnew, former president ol' the National Hank of < ?? ala, Pla., who was convicted in thc spring of 1807 for misappropriating the finnis of thc bank mid sentenced to live years in the Cuitcd States prison at Columbus, o., has had his sentence coinmuled by th?' president, and will be set at liberty on the Nth tit' Mnrch next. - During tho year 1801) California mines yielded seventeen and a half millions of dollars of the'precious met als, gold ami silver-so states United States mint officials. Prom tho same source we glean that Alaska yielded a larger sum than this-the first time in its history winn her output was as larg?; as that of the golden State. - A Huston woman jumped from a moving train and had lior foot crush ed, hut refused medical attention until sim had consulted a Christian Scientist. Thc latter at once advised removal to I a regular hospital. This clears the atmosphere, somewhat concerning the limitations of that cult. If you lose a limb, do not expect Christian Science to supply you with a new one. ! - Latham, Alexander ?fc Co., cotton brokers of New York, have submitted ii report on tho cotton crop showing that the price is higher than it has been in several years. Tiny incline to the opinion that spinners have been de ceived as to the crop and that the I prospects for an increased consumption ?luring the year are very nattering. - Director of tho Census Merriam suggests to the agriculturists of tho country that they ?seseme of their sparc ?inie in thoroughly preparing themselves to answer promptly and accurately the questions relativo to acreage and all items of the farm for the calendar year 1800 which tho cen sus enumerators are by law compelled to ascertain. This, he says, will result iu ft full and accurate census, - A new "religion* has been invent p?! in Rockmnrt, Ga., by a Mrs. Rob erts, one of tho tenents of which con sists in offering animal sacrifices. Mrs. Roberts is high priestess and she now has eighteen followers. She was for merly a member of the Baptist Church for thirty years. Converts to the now faith are made "by force and fear," and the community is being terrorized. One of the beliefs of the faithful is that all who ride bicycles will be damn ed. - Here are some of the terrible things which, according to a country exchange, are likely to befall a delin quent: Last week a delinquent sub scriber said that he would nay up Sat urday if he lived. He's dead. Another, "PH see you to-morrow. Ho's blind. Still another ono said : "I hope to pay ?ou this week or go to the devil.' le's gone. There aro hundreds who ought to take warning by theso pro crastinations and pay up their subscrip tions now. -The man with a pull is mightier than the man who gets pulled