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BY CLI MoCA. I /ES^^ANGSTON " Avnvtt^iT'TT^ ^ ----^ _ _--?--A M DijjRSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. O??TOI?KI? ia iuor V - : A so-called advantage in buying from other Clothing Stores in Anderson is credit-long credit, six months or a year. They have to give something in return for the large prices demanded, if that s what you want you can't buy our Clothes, but we givt you everything else they do and more ; nit tm MCI IF rai wi IT I Every Cash Dollar you spend with us will purchase more than a Promise-to-Pay Dollar will buy any where. Don't that sound reasonable ? When we say we can save you money on your CLOTH ING, HATS and FURNISHINGS, we mean every word of it, and can easily prove it. Every word, mind you. AU we want is a chance to show you our Goods and to quote the low prices on them. Then you can decide for yourself if what we have said in this "ad" is true. Our assortment of SPRING CLOTHING, HATS, FURNISHINGS and EVANS* $3.60 SHOES, Is complete and ready for your inspection. To-day is the right day to show you our Goods. THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. SPRING SEASON. We are read? with the NEWEST GOODS to supply your wants, ' The Prettiest ?ress ?OO?S, The Prettiest Trimmings, The Prettiest - Millinery ? Eveiry thing Up-to-Date. Special attention to our Millinery Department Big line of Groceries at very-low prices. Yours truly, MOORE, AOKER & CO, Wholera'ie and Retail Merchants. IS THE T!SSE FOR I STRONG BOOTS end SSOE3 have taken the place of lighter goods Son't believe there is a better Stock of Footwear in Town, aad we aro positive that our PRICES ARE LOWER ? *...?. \ .7 *;.?;r>i^.t i-f-.-' . ' ; Than stich goods are worth. Any shape of foot can be fitted here. There ?s lio nitsroatiog hereof your feet. The goods are not made to fool those who buy hurriedly, but to those who demand a good quality at reasonable prices. Examine our'Use of In Patent and Box Calf, Black zn? Colored Viet, and genuine Cordovans at 83.00, worth f8 60 and 84.00. Men's Harjcl-is?i*?^ Shoes f?t S2.00. Vdu have been paying more. AH grades of GOTTEN and WOOLEN UNDERWEAR Have advanced in prices. Oar line ia complete, and you get the same gooda at the old pri?es, Oar ifcock of Embrace all the good things for the. inner man. Every grade of FLOUR and the best of each grade. ?A&SO^ LIA at 64.00 per barro!.noa no equal. MeC?LLf BEOS. Chattanooga Chilled Plow, the best, Plow on tho jaarket. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our (Jim Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 31,1900. There is some chance for the preser vation of Porto Rico from being looted by the franchise grabbers who aro swarming in this city and who will soon be swarming around the carpet-bag executive council of the islands, to which the original tariff bill allots the duty of dealing out the pie. This chance comes through tho desire of the President for more time in which to select the officers of the new govern ment and his consequent appeal to Congress to permit the military office holders to retain their posts until Au gust next. In reply to this appeal, the Senate promptly agreed to a resolution granting the necessary authority. The House, however, dissatisfied with hay ing the franchise provisions of the tariff bill crammed down its throat took advantage of 'this opportunity to have something to say about franchises and tacked to the Senate resolution an amendment limiting the granting of franchises. The Senate, aa represented by Mark Hanna and other friends of the trusts who propose to loot the island, seriously objecta to this, and says that the bill shall never pass with any amendment lessening the powers of the council. But the HOUBO, too, insists on its point. As only a week is left for reaching an agreement, there is little doubt that the House will have its way. Even if no agreement is reached and the bill fails, the Demo crats will have won, as in that case, the civilian officers will have to be ap pointed at once and will be confirmed by the Senate which will have adjourn ed by August. The trusts will not dare to run the risk of having their men nominated and rejected and the President will be forced to seleot far better men than he woidd have done had they been able to take office with out being confirmed. - Democrats in this city are amused by the almost frantic search of the Re publicans for a candidate for the Vico Presidency who will add strength to their ticket this fall. It is conceded that Roosevelt would do this, but Roosevelt declines to be impressed, and the Republicans really have no other man who can be relied upon to make np for McKinley's tremendous loss of popularity on account of his dodging attitude on the Porto Rican oiii. Before this blunder was made by the Republicans in Congress there was no thought of the party being con strained by the consideration of local expediency in the selection of a candi date for Vice President en the ticket with McKinley, it w*is not thought to be necessary fe? the candidate for the second placo to add strength to the ticket. It was enough that he should not be a source of weakness. Nor was it formerly felt that there was any sec tion of the country that had to be par ticularly considered. But now, in con sequence of the universal disapproval of the Porto Rican tariff it is felt to be necessary to be guided in the selection of a candidate by consideration of the weak spots in the West. More than this, the argument is be ing seriously advanced by mon of high standing in Congress that the platform adopted at Philadelphia must not fully commit the party as to the permanency cf the insular policy, the idea cuing that the course adopted toward Porto* Rico may be excused cn. the ground that conditions do not warrant our con cluding definitely, aa yet, what dispo sition we are to make of our new pos sessions, and that as soo? as that has been settled; policy will oe adjusted to snit tu6 Couuivimiiii While one dislikes te believe that the present flurry in Turkish affairs has been gotten up morely for home con sumption, and with a view to the con vention and election, it cannot be denied that there is something very curious, in the fact that it has been saved np until, now, although tho out rages complained of took place years and years ago, and although tho mis sionaries have been clamoring for rep aration ever since. Long before the Spanish war, V public meetings were held in various parts of the country demanding - redress at the cannon's mouth; meetings, hy the way, which were ignored entirely by the adminis tration. But now that a closer and bitterer straggle than that of '96 is ap proaching, and now that the church people all over the country are passing resolutions condemning tho President for sustaining his At torn ey-Gen ef al in defiantly violating th?* plain intros and purpose of Congress by maintaining the canteen, it is, to say the least, mest lucky for McKinley thafj bs sho?l? asva a chonce to stand out ns a "De fender of the Faith" by j umping on tho Sultan. Having fought one war with? cht the authority of Congres? by call ing it "suppressing an insurrection," while at the same time holding that the Constitution and laws of tho United States did not extend to tho country in whiek the "insurrection" wa? in pro gres?, it will not be difficult for the President to win the approbation of the missionary societies by waging war on Turkey under the euphemistic title ox "collecting an indemnity." Long Live Imperialism! Mr. Quay has been denied'a seat in the Senate by tba narrow majority, of one vote, and the line of precedents of the-Senate in. similar cases for haifa century has not been reversed, even by Mr. Quay'? charming "personality." It is now probable that never again will it be in such serious danger SB on this occasion. Quay, it will bo remem bered, had been appointed Senator by Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, when tlie legislature adjourned after a iong but fruitless effort to elect. Most of the Senators have held that in such cases the Governor has no right to ap point, as the recognition of such right would encourage personal favorites of tho executives to strive to deadlock the legislatures, with the idea that they could be nominated by him after it had adjourned. As a matter of fact, this has happened more than once in tho past, and any general attempt at thia would mean tho selection of Senators by the governors of tho States and not by the legislatures, as provided by the Constitution. Probably there will not be so immy deadlocks hereafter. Secretary Hay has been acting as ti peace-maker in Central America, and but for his somewhat high-handed methods, there is little doubt that thc States there would not bo at war with each other. The active interest whick the Government has taken in Central American affairs has aroused considers' ble talk in Pan-American diplomat it circles, and while the diplomats arc willing to praise the United States fe; its efforts to preserve peace, the praise is coupled with a feeling that thc Isthmian countries should be allowed to work out their own salvation. An Atlanta Sensation. Atlanta, Ga., April 29.-Tho "maim ed veterans battalion," a Confederate Veteran organization, is being formed in this State for the purpose of attend ing the reunion of the United Confed erate Veterans at Louisville. One of thc qualifications for membership is thal the applicant for enlistment must have loat either an arm, a leg, a hand or au eye in the Confederate service. The battalion will be composed of 105 Vet erans, and all expenses will be defray ed by a fund which is now being raised by publio subscription. The members of the battalion will each carry one of the old Springfield rifles used by the privates in the South ern army during active hostilities, They will also be uniformed according to tho regulations governing the dress of the Confederate soldier. The bat talion will be under the command, ol Major W. P. Dearing, of this city, Whc was assistant adjutant general of S to vall's brigade during che civil war, and who led the famous ?barge on thc Federal troops at the battle of Atlanta, With the assistance of Brig Gen. A. J, Wert, of Atlanta, commander of thc North Georgia brigade, to which the maimed battalion wiii be attacked, Major Dearing: }s recruiting tue mem bers of this unique organization. Bf any Of the most prominent men of thc State will go as privates in the com mand. Among them will probably bc Governor Allen D. Candler, who lost an eye; Comptroller General Wright, of Georgia; Judge William T. New man, of the United States District Court; Richard Hobbs, president of thc Bank of Albany, Dr. J. S. Todd, ol Atlanta, and many others. Many of the members of the organi zation will be disabled Veterans who are too poor to bear their own expen ses, and these will bo defrayed ont ol the public fand now being raised prin cipally through the efforts of thc Daughters of the Confederacy. The presence of the battalion in thc grand parade of the Veterans during the. Bennion, promises to be one of thc most pathetically ? unique of all thc features of the big; celebration. The battalion will go from Atlanta in a special train. The ?emocrai?c Outlook. Kansas City, April 33.-The Hon. William L. Wilson, author of the Wil son tariff Bill, while in the city ea route from Hot Springs to Nebraska City,' Nebi/Where he is to be tho guest of J. Sterling Morton, his associate in Cleveland's Cabinet, said: "It is to be McKinley and Bryan. Mr. Cleveland will not allow his name to bo men tioned, and Dewey will not get an op portunity to eeo himself voted down. "Bryan will be nominated, but con ditions are so changed that the cam paign, will be On hew lines. Both side? have so many new conditions to con front that the old tactics will not do, I think th* Democrats will win. Wc shall go imo tho fight solid." Mr. Wilson gave expression to lue views regarding th? candidacy o? Ad miral Dewey. "He is innocent of thc game of pol?tica/' he said, "and hie blundered in his 'Mnwtsess- as bb::;! people often do. He will blunder out of it again-as suddenly as he came in. Dewey does things suddenly. He gen erally anticipates, and when the row is at ita height he will surprise every body by sailing away, or I am mistaken in tho man." . r- " - o----, 8?&VE os Cinto, TOLSBOJ^ . FKAXK J. Cittxmr makes oath tbat ho is thc soDlM-partnerof tho Arm of P. J. Csnsrrr *Co, doing bottom la th? City of Toledo, County and 8Uta ?for?e*M. and that ttld Arin will pay tnt ?otaof ONE HUNDRED DOLL IBS fo*eich und ?wy CABO of CATABRU thai cannot b<3 cured by them?ofBLau/aHATAUMUCP?? ., y. V * V. ' FBAlftC J. C?IENEY. 6 worn to before me and enboerlbed lo my PR? ?eeo, ibis cth <9t> of December, A. D. ISM. ft***]; ?J W.GLEASON. Notary PuWe. . Hal l'a Catarrh Cote i<t taken Internally and act: I dlreeUy on tba blood and raucous ourfaoe*of thc system. Send for teetlmoolela. free. ?JJ^^-^E??*^T^ ft. Hall's Family Pill/* ere the beet. The Prohibition Conference. A State Prohibition conference will be held in the city of Columbia, S. C., on Wednesday, 23rd day of May, 1000, for the purpose of considering tho propriety of suggestiug candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor to represent the Prohibitionists of South Carolina in the Democratic primary, and also to announce the principles aud purposes of the Prohibitionists in seek? ing to obtain control through tho Democratic organizntiou of the execu tive and legislative departments of the State government, for tho enactment and enforcement of measures which are in best accord with the highest in terests of tho people, and which will take the State out ot the liquor busi ness. For tho purpose of abtaiuing a full and free expression of the Prohibition ists in regard to these matters, a call is heroby issued for them to assemble in their respective counties at tho Court House on Saturday, 12th day of May, 1900, to elect three representatives, with alternates, to attend tho State conference on tho 28rd of May, with or without instructions, and to choose a county chairman for the ensuing cam paign. JOEL E. BRUNSON, Chtu'n, WADDY C. THOMSON, J. S. MOFFATT, JAMES A. HOYT, JEREMIAH SMITH, C. D. STANLEY, E. D. SMITH, Committee. -- \ As chairman of the Prohibition State executive committee, I approve of. the foregoing. \ A. C. JONES. Newberry, April 23,1900. FROM CHAIRMAN JONES. The following address has also been issued: To the Democrats of the State: The reorganization of the Democratic clubs will mark thc beginning of the active work of the candidates for office and the politicians will at au early day declare themselves on tho issues of the coming campaign. There is very little doubt but what the liquor question and the dispensary will be tho chief State issues. It will be tho old fight of 1898 over again, with this difference (unless I have been mis taken in the impressions that have been ??adc upon me in visiting the different sections of the State) that the lines will he closely drawn, and the candidates will have to take their choice of the homo or the dispensary; this is the tight, and tho interests of the two are as different as the day is different to the night. The Christian home is the hope and stay of tho State; it is hallowed by every sacred tie and is the brightest and happiest spot on earth. The dispensary is the greatest enemy of tho home and the most dan gerous place in every community, and ?B working daily and hourly to rob tho home of all of its attractions. It en a tclies from its influence tho most promising of its sons and takes to a drunkard's home (in name only) the fairest and loveliest of its daughters, and this, too, with the authority and sanction bf the State, because the poli ticians . who now control tho Demo cratic party say it must go on. Where do you stand in 1900? For the home or for the dispensary? Are you a defender of the homo, or are you its enemy? I beliovo you will have tho manhood to shake off the shackles of the dispensary ring an?31 the whiskey truste and sfcr.nd up for tho good name of your home and State. The candidate is to bo pitied who is a member of the church and pretends to claim that he regards "the dispensary law the best solution of tho whiskey question," because he thinks ho can secure office through the dispensary machine, thus selling him self, his home and playing' the hypo crite in order to do it. The Prohibi tionists may or may not ha"", candi dates for all the offices to be voted for, but if the Christian men and women will do their duty from this day for ward we will win ft great victory this ? year. Draw tho line closely and let ? every candidate understand that ho - must take one side or tho other, aud that no prohibition Democrat will vote for a man who takes the side of tho dispensary. A, C. JONES. Newberry, S. C., April 21, 1900. Bombarded With Ice .Balls. --- , i Selma, Ala., April 80.-A terrifie cyclone and hailstorm visited Orrville i yesterday. Tho forms cf Leola John son, Macon Ellis and the Swarm place > were. literally denuded of vegetation. > Corn and cotton were killed and will ; have w be planted over. The trees ; were stripped of foliage. Hail stones of enormous size fell and several dead ' cows and hogs were found after the * Storm had passed. Fences and out ' houses were swept away and an enor ? mous amount of damage was done, i Tho storm was followed by a heavy rain. _ Whipping Pest Io Delaware. . Dover, Del., April 28.-Fully a thou? , sand people were present at the county [ jail here to-day to witness the whip ping of nine culprits, all colored, who . had been sentenced for petit larceny. Four of the nine received 20 lashes. Tho lash was well.laid on by Sheriff j Wharton. Samuel Granger, an old offender, in addition to his lashes, was compelled to stand in the pillory for one hour. STATE NEWS. - Thc State Fireman's Association 1 will meet in Greenville on May 15th. - The Gates Desk factory of Green ville will be turned into a yarn mill | with a capital of $50,000. - The Sumter Baptist church has ' declared that no man can bo a member of that body and indulge in gambling in cotton futures. - The citizens of lMckens C. ll. have decided to build a cotton mill. Tho company has been organized with a capital of $250,000. - It is said the best golf sticks are made from the persimmon, and a fac tory has been established at Sumter for their manufacture. - Mr. J. II. Anderson, section mas- ' ter on tho S. A. L., was knocked down with a sand bag at Abbeville and rob bed of his watch and $43. - A Greouvillo boy named Gower saved a child from drowning a few days ago, and proved himself a brave, manly fellow for doing so. - Subscriptions for tho Charleston Exposition are coining in very satisfac torily. Everything indicates that this is going to bc a grand success. - Mike Brown, of Barnwell county, has a contract for furnishing 450,000 cross ties to the Erie, N. Y., Railway. Ho gets 35 cents each for them deliver ed. - Lieut. Governor Scarborough has announced that he will not bo a can didate for re-election as his business engagements will not permit his mak ing a campaign of tho State. - The o 111 ce of attorney genoral in South Carolina used to be a sinecure, butnow is the hardest worked of all the State offices. From attorney goncral he has come to bo general attorney. - J. W. Napier, of Georgia, wascon victed in Bennettsvill? last week under the law forbidding tho business of acting as immigrant agent in this State without a license, and was fined $500. - Mrs. Oliver of Columbia, who was thrown out of a car on the Columbia, Newborry and Laurens road while on her way to the Atlanta exposition, has just secured a verdict for $7,000. She sued for $10,000. 5 - George Washington, a negro, who was sent to the Penitentiary for life from Charleston in 1870 and who- es caped a year later, was captured in Augusta last week and sunt back to prison. He enjoyed twenty-three years of freedom. - An industrial agent of the Sea board Air Line agrees to hold a car nival at Greonwood on August 1st and 2nd at the time appointed for the State Confederate re-union, provided the citizens of Greenwood will subscribe $300 to the expense. - Clemson College has issued a bulletin on Tuberculosis in cattle, The tests showed that more than half of a largo dairy herd in Charleston were diseased, while those at Clemson College and other places in the up country were freo from it. - A colored girl, twelve years old, was killed by lightning during a thun derstorm while sitting before the tire place by the side of another child in a tenant house on Preston Dominick's place in Newberry county. It is re markable to relate that the other caild was not injured. - A cyclone struck Ross's quarry, in Lexington county, a few daye ago. It tore down buildings and destroyed derricks. ' Sis men who had taken ref uge in the small office building had a narrow escape from death. The wind uprooted a veiy largo tree and threw it upon the building, which was de molished, but they escaped unharmed. - Gov. Mcsweeney has appointed Mrs. T. C. Robertson lady commission er to the Pans Exposition from thia State. Mrs. Robertson is the wife of Dr. T. C. Robertson, who is the Co lumbia manager of the Virginia-Caro lina Company's plant. She will go to Paris at her own expense, the State having no allowance for exhibits or work at the exposition. - Thero is $100,000 in tho State treasuiy to tho credit of the school fund which tho Comptroller General ia anxious to distribute among the coun ties entitled to it. Notwithstanding several notices sent out to county superintendents, twelve or fiftcon of them have not answered; Until all make reports it will be impossible to distribute tho money and there is no doubt about tho schools in the State needing its benefit. - A serious shooting affray occurred near Trndeavil?c, S. C., a few days ago. Braskie Moore went to the home of Sebe Stack. They had some words over the settlement for a mule, stack told Moro that ho was going to kill him. Moore got ont of his house, got to bis buggy and got behind it by the time Stack began shooting at him. Moore returned tho tire, with the result that Stack was dangerously wounded. Moore got off wi thou t being hit. Both men were drinking. - The Supreme Court of the State has decided the Neblett will case in favor of the amit, Mrs. Turnipseed. Mrs. Neblett gave her property for the estabUshmcnt of a free library in Greenville. Mrs. Turnipseed claimed the property under a special contract made by her and the testator. About $15,000 to $20,000 is involved. The circuit court decided in . favor of the will and the library bas been establish ed. This decision of the court will cripple it, if it does not kill the enter prise. (?eucral Nen? Items. -- It is estimated that the Hoods have damaged property in tho State of Mis sissippi $:J,OOO,OOO. - TheTennesHcoKepabliean conven tion split and two sets ot del? ?ateswill go to Philadelphia. - Although tho Hritish have about 230,000 soldiers in Smith Africa, tho cry is still "more men." - Burglars wrecked a bank at Stras burg, Va., by using nitro-glycerine on the safe, and got $0,00n. - Tho postal receipts of tho country have grown from about $30,000,000 ia 1880 to over $100,000,000 in 1000. - Seven negroes Were drowned near I Jackson, M?SB., in the high water re sulting from tho recent heavy rains. - A volcano in eruption iu tho Phil ippines has been famishing some diversion for our army officers and men. - It is reported that the Southern telegraphers are trying to .got up a sympathetic strike on other'jfre?t sys tems of railroads. - Deaths from tho plague* through out India last week numbered nearly 4,000. The disease has appeared at several ports on the Ked Sea. - A Georgi? man has retired from public life because he thinks that too ninny of his relatives havo offices. Ho has a right to a place among the won ders of t* " world. - Abu has been introduced in the United States senate to grant a pen sion of $00 per month to Gen. Long street, for service as Major in the Eighth U. S. Infantry during tho Mex ican war. - Tholadiesof a Presbyterian church in Cleveland, Ohio, resolved to do without Easter hats and new dresses until a mortgage over the building was paid up. It took only ono Sunday to raise the $1,600 required. - The secretary of the board of Philippine commissioners will receive $8,000 a year and expenses-double tho salary of a congressman or senator. The members of the board will doubt less be paid princely salaries. - Gen. H. V. Boynton has accepted an invitation to attend the annual Fourth of July celebration at tho Guil ford battlefield, Guilford Court House, N. C., and to deliver the address on the occasion. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has niuo been invited and is expected to attend. - Alabama is coming to the front. Wkiie she is a great producer of pig iron she lays claim to the largest hog in America, ten feet two and a half inches long, four and a half feet high and weighing 2,542 pounds. He is a three year old, half native and half Berkshire, - Tho efforts of the populist and re publican leaders of North Carolina to agree upon terms of fusion have failed, and according to the announcement made by Senator Pritchard, represent ing the Republicans and Senator But ler, representing the populists, there are to be tickets represented by each party in the North Carolina campaign. - Tho division of botany of the de partment of agriculture has issued cir culars to stimulate interest iu artichoke raising. Artichokes are now raised in comparatively small quantities in Florida and Louisiana, and the early varieties, which appear in February, bring about $2 a dozen in the Now Orleans markets. In April they sell for 10 or 20 cents a dozen in the southern cities, but always command much higher prices in northern mar kets. - North Carolina will be finely re presented nc the Confederate reunion at Louisville. Colonel Julian S. Carr, the millionaire manufacturer of Dur ham, will tako a large delegation. Ho will have them handsomely uniformed, will take them on a special train and will pay all their expenses from the time they leave home until they get back. A famous North Carolina com mand will take its famous legend, "First at Big Bethel; Farthest . at Gettysburg, and Last at Appomattox." - The current delusion that the Chinese eat rats rests upon tho fact that a small animal which infests lice fields, known as the tsuichow, is con sidered in China a great delicacy. This little animal-about tho size of an or dinary rat, with a head shaped like that of a ferret-feeds ou rico. It is a very prolific creature and is sold wide ly in the marketa of Chinese cities. Usually there aro twenty or thirty of these animnls.. nestly cleaned and skewered apart, strung on bamboo reeds. - Gen. Jubal Early has never been ranked as r. great strategist, but it appears at last that he was. Tho New York Press man', who runs the "Per sonal" column of that paper, tells the story as he heard it from an ex-Con* federate private, as follows: "Wo came in close contact with Gen. Jubal Early and heard the old man say he'd like mighty well to have a drop of brandy. . One of the boys spoke up and said: "General, I have some right here; the best you ever tasted.1 He took a gond, long pull ut ir, too, every one of us watchingghim.^After he smacked hislips'a few times he took another pull, if any thiner, longer than the first. Then he looked hard at the j owner of the canteen and said: 'Whali command do you belong to /' The utan told him. 'Report to headquarters "al once, sir,'he ordered. The man*dis* . appeared ia a jifly, scared half todeatb, and Early kept the canteen." <