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?V r.TiTNKSOALES & LANGSTON ANDF/RRON. S. f! WRDNESHAY JI TA MX vm ITUI* wwi T >. Some Price Concessions WE have been letting down the price bars to even up the Stock. Snits have been sold out at certain priceB, and instead of going out to buy we have dropped a higher grade down to a lower price. This is a most favorable condition ot things for buyers. Men's Blue Serge Suits, With single or double-breasted Coats, that were unmatched values at $15.00, now $12.50 a Suit. Also, two lots of Neat Gray Worsted Suits, That were amoug our best sellers at $15.00 and $16.50, now $12.50 a Suit. THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FROM' DON'T FORGET! EVERYBODY bas been celling Fruit Jara tbts season, but up to this time we have been Belling Cherry Jars; now we are ready to furnish you with THE BEST FRUIT ?TARS That has been on the market this season, and we give you nothing bat good, sound Jars-no broken ones. Our line of TABLE CUTLERY ia up-to-date in every respect. Also, the best Batcher Knives for kitchen use ; and when lt comes to Pocket Knives and SrisNors we have them of the best make, sold under a guarantee. Don't forget to call on ns when you are tn Town, as we can save you money on some line of Goode. Just received one car load of Lynchburg Chilled Tarn Plows, the best Plow on the market. Remember that we can give you Jcbbers prices on Dix ie Points and Casting?. You can get them at our Store or have them shipped direct from factory. We sell ?QROCfiBIEM as cheap as anybody. CARLISLE BROS. , Anderson. 8, C. Uk is MIGHTYfyfeix ra? I ijNDso are thousands of others who are using CHAMPION MACHINES. yrn, ve no ?<inftl for durability and simplicity in construction, the Champion Draw Cut Mower meets every requirement for grass cut K?g- ? the cutter bar meets a fixed obstacle the wheels will not lift from ^ground. On all other front cut mowers the wheels will lift from the gouod thus reducing the cutting ability and putting the driver in danger of P??og thrown off and iojuied. Should the cotter bar get out of line, by sim !?y giving the coupling bar a quarter tum, the outer ead will bo set forward 5a.?aot line with the pitman. On rio other machine <su t??; hz ?szz. ssd li, an i rn pe-*-n; fei;?? as ii saves many a pitman from being bent or broken. WearestUiselKngHALL GINS. They are the fastest, lightest run '*% most durable Gin on the market, and will give complete satisfaction. r ?*Pe?t to make record-breaking sales on Gins this year. It ia ono of the OTA / ?ftt " not ?ontoolWI by the Trust Wo now have on baud two car ^8 of aU sises, ready for delivery. r#r? i n ?n?*Ung any of the above machinery we are ia position to make Meiose priest, Yours truly, . McOXJLLY BROS/ DH. MOFFEITS S?napfirttalf^?^?igKto; ftfff?Mfr Shs oowtia, ? Strengthens the ChflcV Makes Teeth5n3 Easy. (Teething Powder?) jLJ^.TEETr??NA Rdlevei the Bowta OrauulMeeotataO.^MOFFfinrT, M. 0.f QT. LOU!?. MSB CONGRESSMAN LATIMERS RECORD. Mu. EIMTOU: Now that the campaign I is upon us it is thc fashion among sonic | people who are opposed to Hon. A. C. Latimer to ask tho question, "What has La tinier done ?" To meet and answer that question and pat his friends by way ot remem brance in fresh possession of his re cord, it is proposed herc to give a ?hort resume of his work, not in any spirit or words of fulsome adulation, but to give a simple recital of the facts in simple justice to the man aud his re cord. What has he done ? And first and foremost let it bc said that he went to Congress blacklisted by his defeated opponent, who put the stigma of pop ulism upou him and upon the Demo cratic voters of the Third District who had sent him there and who set him self up as the self-constituted repre sentative of the Third District so fur as the patronage at the disposal of the Cleveland administration was concern ed. He has outlived this and come to sec himself recognized as the only Congressman from the Third District who has brought tangible results to his constituents that can be counted in hard cash and practical benefits. O t her s had tried to secure for Newberry Col lege its just claim for damages due from the Federal Government, but it remained for Latimer to secure the money, the actual cash, and this he did by bard and persistent work with the individual members and with the committees of Congress. It will be remembered by everybody that the South Carolina Railroad had been for years in the han dB of a Receiver ap pointed by a Federal Judge and it had SersistenUy refused to pay the taxes ue the State on its property. Gov. Tillman undertook to collect this tax by having the sheriffs levy on the prop erty. They were arrested and fined by Judge Simon ton. Thereupon Lati mer introduced and succeeded in get ting passed through Congress a bill for relier requiring corporations in the hands of Receivers to pay their taxes to the State just the same as the far mer or the business man docs. The result of this act was that $208,000 of past due taxes were paid into the State Treasury by the S. C. Railroad. A snug little Bum truly. It is largely due to Latime.r1? efforts that tue system of free rural ni*il de livery was originated and engrafted upon the postal system of the govern ment and is destined to permeate in the futnre every section of the country, bringing to the denizens of the rural districts the same postal facilities en joyed by the people in the towns and cities. The matter was agitated by . him in Ins first term in Congress. Out of twenty-one routes secured for the ? entire State last year he secured ten of them for his District, thus bringing : $4,000 in ca9h into tho District, and ho 1 has aided in having appropriation for this service increased from $800,000 last year to $1,750,000 this year, and has tue promiso of a complete service in Pickens and Oconee counties south of the Southern Railway and in Ander son County. Thia menus about sixty carriers or$500 each, or $85,000, with the ten already secured. These are actual, tangible results in dollars and cents. It is the intention to increase this service in the next five years to one hundred and fifty carriers, bringing into the district $175,000 besides the benefit of the free delivery of mail to the farmers almost at their doora. He has secured an increase of the Agricultural appropriation bill for farm bulletins and xor seeds for the farmers against the nnamimous report of the committee, and he made a tight on the floor of the House for it and secured it by adding $65,000 to the bill. He has succeeded in passing the bill through the House, moving the Dry Dock from Port Royal to Charleston, and has championed the bill to build a Sol dier's Home at or near Charleston, and the editor of the JYeics and Courier openly complimented him in Washing ton by stating that if Latiiuer's aid could oe secured for the Dry Dock, tho Soldier's Home and tho Exposition theso bills could"be passed through tho House, thus showing the estimate in . which his influence is held in Congress. Among many other practical mens- j ures which ho now has on the calendar , of the House is one requiring that the ; money now used in buying seeds be given direct to' the experimental sta- , tions to be used in growing and testing , seeds for distribution among the farra-, ere, thus acclimating them and testing their value before they are sent out. He also found that the thirteen orig inal States, tho States which founded the Union, had never secured any of the public lands for pnblic school pur poses while all the new States had two sections in eaoh township (1280 acres) set apart for this purpose, and he has now pending a bill to equalize the older States in thia matter. This would give South Carolina public lands worth $1, 500,000 to be invested in Government bonds for tho benefit of her school fund. It is true this bill has not yet passed, but it is greatly to Latimers credit that he alone of all the Congress men we have had there in tho last cen tury thought of such a thing. Rut tho most stupendous undertaking he has before Congress is the one to reduce letter postage to one cent, es tablish free rural delivery all over the United States to the people, to wipe out the' deficit of $0,000,000 and leave a surplus in the Treasury. He has this measure well in hand and has ono hundred and fifty members pledged to vote for it.' This is but a small epitomo of what ha has done and is trying to do, and any man who visits Washington will bo both surprised, and gratified to And the reputation this Congressman has them *c? bard, per?lteme, and indus trious work and worn: in the interest af his constituents. It is not the man who makes fine f oren sic displays on the Soot of the House that counts ter some thing, but the man who gets practical results in benefits to his people, and roch aman is A. C. Latimer. .. CITIZEN. I. II -d-ISS?-S?-SS- ii? Hew's Tkft. Wo offer Ono Hundred Dollar? reward for ?ny !M?D? Catarrh (kat cannot ba cared by Kairo HtstxfcOa*. We. the y ndaralgnod bare known ft.... Cheney br the i/rt IB yean, sad bell ero bus perfectly konara?J? ta ?ll basins- transaction? and finan. ?laity able to carry ont any obligations mada by heir firm. Wan S TBCJJC, Wholesale Dranlsts, Toledo, O. VAXOTSO, KDDUV a MABVXV, Wholesale Drag. ?Iste. Toledo, O. Hau'o Catarrh Car? Is taken Internally, selina; llreetly opon tho blood and mucous e-jrracesof te system. Testimon?ala neat free. , Hold by Druggists. 76c. Ha?1?family ruis}**?.tbs lest. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Otcu Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. c.. July IC, KOO. President McKinley has gonethrough his Cincinnntus-like performance of being notified of his nomination while dressed in rough homespun ou his trout porch nt Canton, and will return to Washington and take up the neg lected management of Chinese affairs. It is high time. The chiefs of all the European governments are working overtime ntteudiug to the tremendous issues that arise out of the eastern situation nud ouly McKinley has found time to leave the capital for a vacation. Besides important matters of detail, thc impression is growing that an extra session of Congress will have to be called, or that the President must take the responsibility of foregoing all vengeauco for our murdered citizens if they have been murdered. The pro tection cf the lives of Americau citi zens abroad is one thing. Punishment for their death is another and quite a different thing, involving the gravest considerations of policy, ns well as jus tice. The State Department was right iu its argument that the forcible rescue of our citizens threatened with "death at the hands of the Boxers or au infu riated Chinese mob did not necessarily involve any act of war against the Chinese Government. But any act of revenge, whether by an attack on tho Chinese forces, the seizure of a Chi nese territory, would be an act of war. If not war against: the Imperial Gov ernment, it would be war against the Chinese people. Such a step cannot be taken without the express consent and authority of Congress, which body alone, under the Constitution, has the power to declare war. Many people do not quite understand thc advantages that may be derived from running a two tailed-tickct in the campaign this fall. At first blush it would seem anythiug but advisable to divide the fusion forces and thus per haps allow the Republican Vice Presi dent to win by a plurality vote only, when the other two candidates had a majority if combined. But nothing of this sort is possible. In thc first place, neither a President nor a Vice Presi dent can be elected by a mere plu rality. Each must have a clear ma jority, of the electoral college, so that unless Roosevelt gets this majority, a division between the others only means that the choice will be thrown into tho present House. This, being Republi can, would of course choose a Republi can. But hero comes the point. The voters of the country do not cast their ballots for President and Vice Presi dent at all, but for electors, who can select anyone they choose for the office. Indeed, toe Constitution supposed that they would exercise their independent choice without any instructions from I the people. But as a matter of prac tice, they are chosen on one ticket or another and always vote for the candi date of the party electing them. There is, however, nothing to prevent their doing otherwise. A man elected as a Brynn elector could vote for Mc Kinley and the act would be entirely legal. If then, when.the electors are chosen this fall, it should be found that Stevenson and Towne together had. a majority, ono would simply instruct his electors to vote for the other, who would be chosen. Many western men think that the party is more likely to succeed in choosing thc majority of the electors if these are divided between the Populists and the Democrats. For instance, Nebraska Populista might resent being turned over to the Democrats, and might vote the middle of the road ticket, and give the State to the Republicans. But if a fusion ticket were arranged with, say live Towno and three Stevenson elec tors, it would stand a better chance of winning. And the votes, though cast for different electors, would really be counted for one mau, the other proba bly being consoled by a Cabinet post. Representative Richardson, of Ten nessee, minority leader of the House, chairman of the Democratic Congres sional Campaign Committee, and per manent chairman of the Kansns City Convention, has returned, to Washing ton to take up the work of the cam ?iaign. He warmly approves the plat orni and the uoimneea and thinks that they will commend themselves to the country. Said he, "My ideas as to the platform were pretty clearly set forth in my speech as permanent chair man. I did not nae the phrase 'free coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1,' and saw no necessity for repeating it in the platform. The controlling rea son for using it, was that some thought that, while free silver was not the Haue of this year, yet, were it omitted, the very fact of the omission would give it more prominence and possibly cause it to be discussed more than if it were simply repeated in tho platform. The argument was that if it were put into the platform it would be super seded by the great issue or imperial ism. This is the important point. The chief issue of a campaign is made, not by the convention, but by the country at large, and when the plat form declared that imperialism was the paramount issue, it was only de claring the fact as it exists. The greatest demonstration of tho three lays, while the convention was in ses sion, occurred while the plank on im perialism in the platform waa raul. I unvb atienden many conventions, but never witnessed any thing equal to the ?cene at that tune." A somewhat new idea is being tried this year by the Democrats, who nave organized what is known as a national precinct committee, composed of one working Democrat in every votin jg pre - ?inot in the country. Many States iave been organised and the commits tee has o> master roll nambering 47,816 corking Democrats. They aro tobe lsed to distribute literature, to canvass md make reports to the executive sommittee. Each has received acorn nission from the national committee, ind in fact, is an auxiliary member of hat body. This immense committee ms an organ, called "The Working Democrat;" which is issued every veek. It is a kind of a campaign extbook, and each issue contains inough pointers to furnish material ornll tho Democratic spellbinders in , he country. STATE NEWS. - Tho carpenters aro on a .strike at Aiken. - Saluda is catching pu well 1er a new county, lt has sixty candidates . announced for the various ollices - Greenville has her electric cars. . They aro at the depot in that city wait ing the completion of the work on the line. - The Mayor of Columbia tined C. T. Eulow, a white niau, twenty dollars for attempting to commit suicide in that city. - \V. E. Felder killed Clayburn Herudou in a row over a string of tish at Wnlterboro. It was teared at one time that there .would bc a lynching. - Kev. G. T. Harmon, pastor of the Duncombe Street Methodist Church in Greenville, has given $500 to the twentieth century fund which the southern church is raising. - A negro convict in the Abbeville County chain gang died on the public road a few days ago from the bite of a rattlesnake. He lived only ten miu ute8 after being bitten by the snake. - L. M. Werts, of Cloud's Creek in Saluda county, has reported to thc governor that a contagious disease ha? appeared among mules in that neigh borhood. The Clemson college veter inarian will make an investigation. - In Spartanburg Sarah Hinton severely stubbed her husband, Join; Hinton, with a butcher knife, just ai he came out of the church nt thc rail road bridge on Church street. They had been separated awhile and Sarai was enraged because .fohn had givei his heart to another. - It turns out that the United State, government's snit against the State i. for the building of the State house am nccured interest, the bonds having come into the possession of the federa government by reason of investment of funds held by the Stnte for Undi Sam. - Within tho nest twenty days an other brave South Carolina soldier wil bo lighting upon Chinese soil. Ai order wns recently issued moving on of tho companies of the 7th infantry of which Lieut. Hen Tillman, jr., i ranking lieutenant, from Alaska t Chitin. He it a son of George D. Till man. * - Tho Board of Directors of th Penitentiary have selected the site o tlie Lexington farm for the establish ment of the Juvenile reformatory which was authorized at the last sea sion of the Legislature. It is said t be quite a desirable and convenid location. - A storm unequaled in the uiemor of the inhabitants of twenty yeal residence passed over tho town ?. Saluda recently. Hailstones fell ft half an hour, cutting the leaves froi trees and vines; bridges were washe away, thc streets were flooded and cor and other crops were in many plac< leveled. - The largest mortgage ever recorc1 ed in Richland county has been file with Clerk of ?ourt Walker in Coluu bin. It was the mortgage given by tl Seaboard Air Line railway to the Coi tinental Trust company of Baitimor? It is beautifully bound and gotten u and is for $75,000,000. It is a voluni nour; paper, containing about HO.Ot words, anti the revenue stamps attacl ed to it amount to no less than $10,21 - There are charges of corruption i the letting of the beer privcleges i Greenville. It seems tho members < the State board wish to pledge in a? vance the county bonrd to vote for certain man for beer dispenser, anti is charged oifered one of the counl members some inducements for h rote. It i? also charged that the Stn board favored the election of a disper 1er who would buy his beer from tl Atlanta Brewing company. - Mr. J. S. Blalock is preparing mild on his plantation at Goldville Laurens County, a yarn mill, to be cap waltzed at $80,000. Mr. Blalock, who me of the largest cotton planters i he northern part of the State, coi lue ts his immense farming interests c i rather unique plan. Ho already hi tis own cotton seed oil mill and ho wi loon be prepared to convert the stap rom his own fields into yarn. He ni ms his own telephone line and otb nodcrn conveninces. - Last week iu Spartanburg Judj Udiich declared thc marriage of Re f. A. Nettles, of Pacolet, and Mi 'annie V. Littlejohn, null and voi lotion was brought by Miss Littl ohn. In her complaint she declar hat when the marriage was contr?e d she was unsound in body and mir nd was incapable of making a ma iage contract. Being restored to sa by. ?HA wile unwilling io enter in he marriage relationship with M rettie?. - Joseph Wylie, the generous hear d citizen of Cheater who died recent eade ?mite a humber of liberal b uests. He gave $5,600 to the Chest ? B. Presbyterian church; ?rskii 'heologio&l Seminary, $10,000; Boa f Foreign Missions-of tho A. R. Pre yterian Church, $10,000; ?. R. Pre yteriau Church Extension Board, $.f X); American Bible Society, $500; Er ino College, $10,000 as a fund to 1 evoted to the education of wome [r. Wylie had previously given $3i X) to tho college and seminary at Di ?'cst, and ho gavo altogether abo 100,000 to tho church and charitah t>jccts, including tho bequests mai t his death. (?KNKKAIJ XfcWS ITEMS. - President Diaz lias ?HHMI ve-elect ed in Mexico. - The strike in St. Louis lias been renewed. The hoyeotl will lie rein stituted. - Wo have 03,42 I nu n in our army in tin; Philippines who reported tor duty on June 30. - A million dollars for strawberries is the record for this season for Char lotte, N. C., shippers. - The Southern Methodist Epworth League Conference is to bc rudd in Atlanta, (ia., July 35-20. - Pall Uiver cotton mills have closed for a month, throwing 20,000 peoplts ! out of work and docking them $450,000. - British loss in South Africa up to date about equals the total number of Boers engaged in battle,and the end is not yet. - Tile cost of tin glorious Pour! h to Chicago is brietly stitninariz'.d as fol lows: Thirty personft killed! 1,JW"? in jured; lire loss, $123,325. - Five men were blown to atoms at Parkersburg. W. Va., by the explosion of a tauk ear containing (?,000 gallons of oil. Fifty more men were injured. - A great many of thc Independent papers of the West and East that sup ported McKinley in 10i)fl have declared for Bryau and will support him 'this year. - Our great battleship Oregon will go into Kuro docks, Japan, and it is estimated that it will take three months to repair the damage done hy running on rock. - Senator Clark, of Montana, is de termined to get even with the Rcpuh l Heans for ousting him out of his scat, i He says he will give one million dol lora to the Democratic campaign fund. - Cholera and famine continue to [scourge India. In Bombay district during the last week of June 10,5320 dcatlis occurred from cholera, and (1, 502 from starvation. Belief] is being furnished to 6*013,000 persons, j - A white man named Isaac ll. Pol lard in Lynchburg, Va., was in love with a colored girl and being jealous of tia* attentions she received from others shot and killed Hie woman Wednesday and then shot himself. - There's something in a name. Jell". Davis, a youug Arkansas politi cian, has been uominnted the Demo cratic gubernatorial standard bearer. There were several other candidates just as smart and promising ns Jell., but they didn't 'lave the name. ! - The superintendent of one of the largest hospitals for tho insane de clares that nineteen out of twenty of the business and professional men who have come under his caro have been in the habit of carrying business on their minds for seven days in each and every week. - The powers are rushing troops to China. The allies at Taku and at Tien Tsin now number 18,000 men. Thc re inforcements under orders consist of 19,000 Japanese troops, 15,000 Germans, 13,000 Russians, 11,000 Americans, 10, 000 British, 8,000 Freuch and .1,000 Italians. - Handles of forks and knives arc utilized for the storage of salt and pepper under a new patent, each han dle being formed ot a tube, which has spring clips to hold it on the shank, with an iuternal reservoir for the salt and pepper, which is shaken] through the ends. - The policemen of Pekin are armed chiefly with small drums, which they beat loudly, in order, it is presumed, to let burglars know that they are coining. All night long the watchmen beat their way around the streets, and as a natural consequence are said to make few arrests. - Among the exhibits at the Paris Exposition is n set of tea cups, thc cheapest of which is valued at $000. Whether a cup of tea out of one of them would taste sweeter than it does out of ordinary chinawaro is question able. The precious set is to be admir ed and not for use. - The rccordB of tho post?nico de partment for tho year past show a total stamp issue of 3,903,374,310, aggregating in value $70,270,804. This is an in crease over 1899 of 407,417,400, and an incrense of value of $9,474,413. Tho new stamp books issued by the depart ment late in the fiscal year proved to be in great demand. There were over two and a half million sold, aggrega ting in value $830,048. - About two months ago a buzzard was caught in Texas nud a sleigh bell attached to its neck, after which the bird was let loose to soar away at its Dwn freo will. Recently tho people of a settlement in Illinois were amazed by hearing tinkling sounds in the sky and began searching for the cause of it. They were rewarded by ono of their number finding on a fence a buzzard cvith the bell the Texans ornamented it with, it may be presumed, swinging :o its neck. - Good authorities say that the dis turbances In China are already exer cising a disastrous influence upon onr ^rade with that country. The Hart ford Times says: "Our exports of cot on cloths to China, which last year ipproximatcd in cash value about $10, KK),000, have practically ceased, and ?ur exports of kerosene oil, flour and ugar have been materially cut down. Ls a result thero is now talk of tem ?orarily shutting down the great cot on mills of Fall River. Last year wo xported 41,000,000 gallons of kerosene iii to China." Curlier Crock's latest News. Al tn ?I lew weeks* aliM iiiT l unn tho newsy columns ol' tin- much-admired INTUI.I.K.I.M KU, WV will resume our correspondence. With (he Hist issue ut' August we will have been writing the news from tinner Creek three years, and WO must say we enjoyed giving the news nt our people very much, and earnestly ami sincerely hope that in all we have wrote about the happenings and the continents that we have made concerning things have all been written with much candor, amino malice whatever toward anyon?-. We also hope that our scribbling has not been read with contempt by anyone, but trust it has bench ted some one at least. W?' will continue to give the reai'ers of the INTKI.I.K?KNCKU the news from this section, such as may come under our observai ion. Miss Sallie Callahan!, ol' Kay, spent Sunday in our midst, the guest of her son-in-law. Will Hell. Little Miss Lucia Shirley, the pretty and only daughter ot' Mr. ?. H. Shirley, spent last week at Melton with lela tives. Mr. and Mrs. .1. |>. Carwile visited relatives at Level Land Saturday and Sunday. Miss Jennie Ci ri H'm, from Clayton, is visiting at Mr. .1. N. Shirley's this week ami drinking the minerai water for her health. Mr. Shirley's spring water has proven hcuelicial to several who have drank it, as it has some min eral in it. One by one the candidates announce themselves. Six for the House at last! And we would like to seo all of them elected, too, but it seems to us one will be "left/' Too much rain, we guess, for them this year. It drowned them out, probably. If no more run than what have annoiuiced, several will have a "walk over/' We would rejoice to see our good friend and military captain, W. A. Uudgens, elected to the ellice of Audi tor. We know whereof we speak when wc say that he would make a good one, for he is thoroughly competent. A rain is much needed in this com munity, as crops are suffering to some extent. The upland corn, which has been laid hy, is needing rain very much. Crops are "clean" now. Our farmers haye moved around during thc past four weeks. Honestly, Mr. Edi tor, we have been too busy to chronicle any news. We will just say that nur people have not stood back on account of the hot sun. Hut we are about through work now and fully intend to have some flin lind merriment this summer. How is the campaign rolling on by this time? No doubt those in the gubernatorial race aro slinging mud lively. At any rato we don't* care, for our man will win in a walk. Mc sweeney is the man for the ellice. Several of our young people are an ticipating going to the Carnival at Ab beville this week. Miss Leila Cnrwile, one of our lovely young ladies, left last week for a visit to relatives at Henrietta, N, C. We wish her a jolly time. Misses Modella and Ora Rigby re turned last week from Anderson, where they have been in nttendance upon the Normal School. Watermelons will soon be ripe and then what a timo wo all will have eating melons, going to picnics and other gatherings. Surely there is no other class of people that enjoy life so happily as that of the farmer. The grain crop made by our people was ii very good one. All made nearly enough to do them. Some realized large yields from a few bushels sown. Our farmers are not to be found taking back seats when it comes to making a living at home, and any other work they undertake to do. Crops in this section are better on au average than other sections that we have seen this year. Cotton, of course, is not as largo as last year at this time on account of the continued rain we had injune. However, if wc have good seasons from now on a good yield is expected this year. Wister Bigby spent a portion of last week here with home folks. Our people have good health at this writing. O. E. GASSAW AV. Notice of Committee Meeting. The committee to whom was assigned the duty of selecting speakers to ad dress the survivors of Co. "F," 34th S. C. V., at their annual re-union, at Cars well Institute, on the ?th day ot August next, aro hereby notified to meet nt the above named place on Saturday, July 21st, at 2 o'clock p. m. lt will also bo the duty of this com mittee to] seo that all necessary ar rangements be made for the enjoyment and comfort of the veterans and their friends. Tho following gentlemen compose tho committee: L. M. Hall, J. T. Hannah, John O. McAdams, A. W. McKee, John B. Leverett, E. Hall, C. H. Bailey, J. T. C.Jones, J. C. McPhail. The committee, on tho part of the Students Association of Carswell Insti tute, arc cordially invited to meet at the same time and arrange for a joint re-union of the two associations. L. M. HAM., Chairman. J. B. LKVF.RF.TT, Sec. Inion Meeting. The Union Meeting of thc Piedmont Association will convene with the Six nnd-Twenty Church, iu Anderson County, at io o'clock a. m. on Saturday before the tilth Sunday in July. 1900. Introductory sermon by Bro. G. W. Bogers: Bro. E. A. Durham, alternate. The discussion of tho query*, "lu what w ay can church members bo induced to 'take n greater interest in Sunday School work?" to be opened by Bio. E. W. Long. J. JAMESON, Mod. E. W. L( sr., Clerk. Camp Ledbetter. The members of Camp Ledbetter, U. D. V., are requested to meet at Guyton on Saturday, 31st inst., at 8 o'clock p. m., for tho purpose of electing dele rates to the State Reunion of IT. C. V., bo be held at Greenwood August 1st, 1900. A full attendance is desired. By order of J. Jameson, Captain commanding. A. M. GUYTON, Adjt. Base Ball. Tin re will bo n match game of Bado lall next Saturday between Eureka md Union Grove. Gamo culled at 4.80 ). m. in tiainbroli's pasture. Allmem >ers of the Eureka Club arc requested o meet at Eureka at 3.30 sharp. - - A. M. CAMIMIKI.T., Mgr.