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V BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1900. VOLUME XXXVI -NO. 7. Spring Suits AT SAVING WE place on sale today our entire line of SPRING SUITS at A REDUCTION OF 33 1-3 per cent. Our reason for this cut is simply to get the money out of the Goods rather than carry them over until next Spring. Then next Spring we want io show a brand new lot of Goods. Don't want to show the last season patterns and styles to our trade. We know this is a big reduction, so when you read the prices below, and note that the price is reduced away down, don't be skeptical. The Suits are here. Some are sold down to a few Suits of a kind-call them odd and ends if you wish. They are the last few of some of our best sellers. Others are in a full line of sizes almost-didn't sell as we thought they would. Nice patterns, we thought, but for some reason didn't go. $5.00 Spring Suits now $3.35. 7.50^ " " " 5.00. ' 10.00 " " " 6.67. 12.50 " " " 8.35. 15.00 " " " 10.00. Remember, the trouble commences to-day and be on hand. Leave one-third of what you wish to pay at home the balance will pay for the Goods. B. 0. Evans & Co, THE .SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. WHITS FRONT. DON'T FORGET! EVERYBODY hw boen teilin? Fruit Jars thia season, but up to this time we have been selling Cherry Jars ; now we are ready to furnish you with THE BEST FRUIT ?TARS That bas been on the market this season, and we give yon nothing bnt good, sound Jars-no broken ones. _ . Our line o? TABLE ?UTIiBBY ls up-to-date In every respect. Auto, the beat Batcher Knives for kitchen noe ; and when lt cornea to Pocket Knives and Scissors we have them or the beat make, sold under a guarantee. Don't forget to call on us when you are In Town, as wo can save you money on some line of Goods. Just received ona car load of Lynchburg Chilled Turn Plows, the beat Plow on theuiarket. Bern em ber that we can give you Jobbers prices on Dixie Points and Castings. You can cet them at oar Store or have them shipped direct from factory. We sell GBOCEBIBS as cheap as anybody. v . CARLISLE BROS., Anderson, 8. C. IT DRAWS THE BAR NO PUSH. This Draws the "Added Traction. THE WHEELS WILL NOT LIFT FROM THE GROUND. FOR HIS GRABS CROP the farmer needs a MOWER that is con venient lo handle, durable and with gieat capacity, so that with the least labor for Himself, and the least care and risk, and with the least strain upon horses and burnes?, he can cut tho most grass, whether in heavy cutting or light, over rough ground or smooth, in a dry season or a wet one, in good conditions or bad conditions. BUY THE CHAMPION, And you have a machine that meero all of thesA T^erremcsis. Ii a ihe Dm wost satisfactory Mower on the market. We also have a line of CHATTANOOGA C \NE MILLS. McOXJILiIiY BROS. TM MOFFITT'S S/^!R?s?^??Kpia|, EETHIN? ?SS CTeethma flowdm).JLJ&.TC^^ Coster^y25ce?t8?i!Ngg&te, T^?MAG?T! ?>ssaacscftcts to ?? jf, t?ftOFFOTT, MU O-, QT. M*U 18. 1Mb GARY VS. PATTERSON. A Lively Scrap Between the two Candi* dates at Laurens. Special to thc State. LAURENS, Aug. 4.-Tho great educa tional campaign evoluted into a slug ging match to-dny. It was somewhat tho unexpected which happened. Frank IL Gary and A. Howard Patter son had a rough and tumble fight be fore a thousand Laurens people, men and women. They fought with des peration and determination until Jim Tillman and others separated them, and then they wanted to get back at each other. Had the incident occurred years ago m this county, when there were a cartload of pistols at a meeting, there would have been funerals here to-morrow; but these days all the feel ing Boenm to be between the candi dates. To-day the result was two badly bruised faces and emphasis on the style of campaigning going on, and if others showed the same spirit there would be many more fisticuffs | each day. From day to day Mr. Patterson ham mered at Mr. Gary about his Charles ton speech, reading the clippings and making the statementis published. Mr. Gary thought this persistent effort was to make it appear indirectly that he straddled in Charleston or favored n local option while in Charleston, with a license feature which he insisted was not thc case, and that Patterson's effort by reading extracts was to place him in a false position ns to what he lind Baid and his announced attitude On the liquor question. As persistently ns Mr. Patterson would make his state ments just so persistently would Mr, Gary insist that his position in Char leston, as elsewhere, wns plain and un equivocal and not intended to be nor was it misleading, and Mr. Patterson kept on with his statements as pub lished, and from day to day this kept up and Mr. Patterson got me to send the papers his speech on this very mat ter and Mr. Gary was asked for his reply, which Lave been both pub lished. To-day Mr. Patterson repeated and reiterated about Mr. Gary's alleged straddle in Charleston. When Mr. Gary's turn came to speak he imme diately replied, as has been published, that he did not "straddle," and that his position then, as now, was plain. Mr. Patterson was sitting about five | feet behind where Mr. Gary was speak ing and got up and said: "Mr. Gary, I want to explain something." Mr. Gary turned squarely around and said: "Now, Mr. Pattersen, I want to ask you plainly-is what I have said about that Charleston matter true?" Mr. Patterson said he would explain. Mr. Gary replied there was no use to explain, but insisted cn knowing whether what he had just said about the whole matter was true or not. Mr. Patterson went on to say the candidates would not agree with Mr. Gary, or something on that line. Mr. Patterson said he dared him to prove his statements hy any of tho candi dates. Mr. Gary insisted on a direct reply as to whether his statement about the Charleston speech was true or not. By this time the two men were within arms length, looking 'fiercely at each other and no doubt looking for a blow. Mr. Patterson said, yes, ho denied as being correct what Mr. Gary had said, if he could not explain. Mr. Gary then said: 'tff you saytnyi statement is not correct you say what ls not so." The two men joined, Patterson struck ont and claims to have hit first. There was not a second's difference in the passage of blows. Mr. Patterson struck Gary an underhanded lick under the left eye, which cut the skin for half an inch long. Gary hit Patterson on the month and cut the lip and struck him ander the eye, judging from the bruise.. It was not a minute before half a dozen men were around"the two combatants, they were up against each other clinched and several blows were passed, but they were pulled apart. Gary was taken toward the front of the stand and Patterson to the back. They said nothing but were eager, and the watch ing crowd pressed up to the stand. Some yelled for one candidate and some for another. Two policemen, Sheriff McCravey, Senator Tillman and Chairman Smith moved for every one to get back and eit down and get oft' the stand. By this time the candidates had mopped off their faces and wiped the blood off, for blood flowed from both of their bruises. When quiet was restored Mr. Gary aced the audience, somewhat dis heveled and bruised, and quivering al! over ?ua with clinched hand, and spd?ccuta?u enid when ho left homo he decided he would be a gentleman and give no possible offense to anyone and in tarn he would not take any insult from anyone. He had treated Ur. Patterson aa a gentleman and friend, but he had gone too far, and he would allow no manto insult him with oat hitting him in the mouth. Mr. Gary apologized with feeling and almost tears for having fought bofore ladies, and expressed his deep regret at the incident, then ho went on and con cluded his speech, cutting it hore and there. Mr. Patterson was alloted to make a statement and said he was very sorry for the occurrence. He did not like such things. He and Mr. Gary had been warm friends and he had been a staunch friend of the fnmily, but when ever a man told him he lied he tried to put his nat in his mouth and give him the best he had in his shop. When the two combatants had taken their seat a police ofticcr, who looks like thc pictures of Mr. Dinkelspiel, good natured, held out his hand and said it would cost each of the combat ants $5 or they would have to go be fore mayor's court. Mr. Gary paid bis $5 and then Mr. Patterson, when uGkcd, handed over his $5. The officer, when asked about the matter, said it always cost that amount for a tight in tho town, but the com batants could go to court, if they wanted to, and they might get back their money, but they had only one rule. Mr. Patterson and Mr. Gary left the stand soon after the speech of Mr. Gary. By a strange coincidence they both were guests at one home, but they are now at different homes. Through the efforts of Clerk of Court Bolt, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Gary mot, shook hands and agreed to be friends and comrades to each other ns when they entered Laurens. Of course neither of the contestants was hurt to any extent. - - -?? mm - Making Rain. Those who doubt the efficacy of the rainmaker's work have at least some facts to explain concerning a new pro cess. It was tried in Warrensburg, Mo., three times last year and each ex periment was followed by a good shower, so that when corn began to suffer again this year it was decided to try it once more. A fund was raised recently aud work begun the following Wednesday afternoon. During Thurs day night a heavy rain fell. Sulphuric acid and zinc were used. These gene rate hydrogen, which is lighter than nir and rises. The theory is to induce a storm centre by establishing an up ward current of air. The experiment cost less tbau $100 and thc resulting rain was worth many thousands of dollars If the system can bo rciied upon it will soon find general accept ance, for rain is something worth com manding. The Kansas City Star main tains that on?'day's rain in that State recently was worth $35,000,000. Its proof is that the rainfall was general over the corn belt, and was sufficient to break the price over 4 cents a bushel on the Chicago market. Speculation as to Kansas coin prospects changed ma terially within a few hours, and there were then numbers of men who said there woulJ be 80 or 85 per cent, of a crop of corn in Kansas, while three days before the man who predicted half a crop was regarded as an enthus iast. This means nearly 100,000,000 more bushels, or probably $35,000,000. to Kansas.-Tfte State. Nearly Sixty Thousand Democratic Ma* jority. CHARLOTTE, N. C.rAug.3.-A special to the Observer from Raleigh, says: The Democrats rejoiced quietly all over North Carolinn to-day. The re turns to-night show that Democratic majorities aggregate 64,678 and fusion majorities 5,125, making the net Demo cratic majority 59,553. There will be contests in several counties, there be ing gross irregularities in Randolph and Harnett and smaller ones in Wilkes and Chatham. In the latter county, at Congressman Atwater's precinct, tho fusion stronghold, the fusionists, finding they were being out-voted as saulted the election officers, smashed the ballot boxes and burned the bal lots. This is the only outrage which occurred in the State yesterday, so far as known. " The returns show that to the Senate there are elected 38 Democrats and 9 fusionists, with three seats doubtful, and to the House 95 Democrats and 13 fusionists, while twelve ?eats are in doubt. There was some talk to-day about national politics. This grew ont of a rnmor that Senator Butler had declared North Carolina's electoral vote should be cast for McKinley. Chairman Sim mons Bald at Democratic headquarters to-night that the State's vote would be cast for Bryan beyond doubt. Mecklenburg, Edgecomb and Robe son nre the banner counties so far as the vote on the constitutional amend ment is concerned. Each gave it 3,500 majority, New Hanover ranking second with 8,018. There will be only two Populists in the Legislature, both from Senator Butler's county. Drowned at Kiawah. CHARLESTON, Aug. 5.--While land ing a party of about 100 excursionists .from the steamer Latta, at Kiawah To land at about noon Sunday, a small boat containing 14 men was swamped and Walter L. Daggett and J. L. Hope were drowned. Twelve swam ashore. Daggett and Hope were good swim mere, bnt for some unknown reason failed to reach the shore. Daggett was manager of the Daggett printing company and a leading member of Knights of Pythias. He leaves a widow and eight yoong children, all girls. Hope was about 19, and unmarried. Aa a clerk in a grocery store he supported himself and widowed mother. The bodies have not been recovered. Iron King Stoves are considered the best. . Buy one. Osborne A Osborne Sole Agents. THE WAR IN CHINA. First Battle of Allied Troops with tt e Chinese. WASHINGTON, Aug. G.-The follow ing cablegrams were today received nt thc navy department: CHEFOO, Aug. <>. Bureau Navigation, Washington: British officer reports. unofficial, en gagement ut Peitsnug, Sunday morn ing, three to 10:30. Allied loss killed and wounded 1,200; chiefly Russians and Japanese. Chinese retreating. TALSSK;. ClIKFOOi Aug. 0. Bureau Navigation, Washington: Unofficial report believed reliable; i about 10,000 allies heavily engaged Chi- j ne6e at Peitsang daylight of the 5th. REM KY. WASHINGTON, D.C., August G.-The big battle reported this morning be tween the allies and the Chinese forces at Pietsttng as having occurred Sundny, is sufficient to cause the greatest alarm to the officials here in Washington. It shows too conclusively that our forces will meet with tremendous resistance in their march towards Pekin. If they continue to lose so heavily, they may have to wait for reinforcements. The administration is beginning to see that their preparations for the campaign have been insufficient. That our oili cinls have been too tardy is apparent on every hand. A total of twelve hundred killed and wounded in a heavy engagement of seven and a half hours is not a cheerful prospect at this early stage of the cam paign. Pietsnng is about twelve miles from Pekin, While there are doubt less errors of judguieut in the unoffi cial report, aud the losses may not be so heavy ns fust thought, still our officials realize that the resistance to the forward movement on Pekin is greater than was at at first anticipated. There is satisfaction, however, in the fnct that the Chinese were repulsed and thc first engagement of the advance may weaken and discourage them. The fact that tho Russians und Japan ese were the principal lossers in the fight in point of killed nnd wounded discredits the story published Sunday that the Russians were sulking. lt is probable that on nccount of the difficulty General Chadee had in un loading his troops and supplies thc Americans were not well up to the front. Yet it may be said that the re pert-cf the battle coming from an Eng lish source would be particular only in stating the very heavy loses. On the other hand, had an American sent the report he would have been more pre cise in telling just whatpnrt our troops took in the engagement. Tho allies left Tien Tsin about Friday, ns General Chance suggested. There is a great difference of opinion there, causf&l by conflicting reports, as to just how many allies are advancing on Pekin. The report that they aggregate about 40,000 is not generally accepted. Con servativo estimates place the number at about 25,000. Peitsang is at the head of the tide water of the Pei Ho and the charts of the war department show it is a point of ^articular stragetical advantage, such is might have been chosen by the Chin' se as the main point of resistance of the advance towards Pekin. The troops encountered there, it ia inferred, are those which retreated from Tien Tsin after their defeat at that place, probably very greatly augmented by the addition of regular and irregular troops. Unless such a crushing defeat has been administered them at Peit sang as will throw them into utter demoralization, they will probably five resistance all along the/?pute to ekin, making a stand at every advan tageous point and pulling back when compelled to. This undoubtedly is the Elan of the Chinese officer in command, nt it is not improbably and army offi cers here think it very likely that the Chinese troops will be so demoralized by defeat that their resistance of the advance of the allies will speedily be come very feeble and that long before the relief column reaches Pekin, the Chinese government will have becomo sufficiently alarmed to be very eager to make terms of peace. There is great apprehension lest the work of butchery shall be completed at Pekin. It is suggested that if the allied losses by killed and wounded nt Piet snng amounted to 1,200 the loss on the part of tho Chinese, who were defeat ed, must have been terrible. It is re garded as entirely likely that such punishment was inflicted upon them as to throw them into n position of de moralization and confusion. Moreover, tho fact tiiat the fighting lasted seven hours aud a half at a point where it must have been practically in the open, indicates that the Chinese must have been in great force. The defeat there fore indicated by the announcement t'jat the Chinese are retreating, isa defeat of the main army which was probably better organised for that fight than for another engagement. Nothing is said about americans in a dispatch received by the navy depart ment, and np to to-day, noon, it was stated at the war department that no information concerning tho battle had been received here. The renewal of fighting is regarded as rendering more difficult the settlement of the trouble with China by diplomacy, and there is naturally a feeling of keen apprehen sion as to the safety of the foreign ministers in- Pekin. Every possible effort will be made by this government to facilitate the advance of the reWef column, bat the difficulties of equip ment and transportation are very great, and the opinion expressed that the situation with respect to the land ! ing of troops and supplies at Tien Tsin presents a parallel to that at Santiago, where much of tho supplies and equip ment of which the army stood in need was left on shipboard by reason of the lack pf lighter facilities. ?i i>;? .'. ? . .... . ' STATE SEWS. - Burglars have robbed Gen. Hamp- | ton's residence of clothes and some money. ? - Florida's oldest man, a fisherman, recently died aged Vii. He died while 1 tishiug. - The next annual reunion of Con federate Veterans ol this State will be held in Columbia. - A monument to the Indians wno fought for the Confederacy lias been unveiled at Tort Mill. - (ius Bostick, of Hampton county, was killed by a falling limb recently, the end of w hich pierced his heurt. - Thc Newberry cotton mill shut down for a week-in order to allow the operatives a much needed rest, so the mill officers say. - The Walhalla Guu Club will have a Shotgun Tournament in Walhalla on Friday, 24th iust. Cash prizes to the amount of $75 are ottered. The con test is open only to amateurs. - A well authenticated story is cur rent that the Armours of Chicago and the Charleston Mining and Manufac turing company are to^ereet a $1,500, 000 fertilizer plant near Charleston. - The German artillery, of Charles ton, will send 100 men, with a battery of four cannons and a full baud to thc Walhalla semi-centennial celebration. One hundred or more ladies will accom pany the soldiers. - Miss Addie Bradley, who lives near Field post?nico, Wickens county, is a brave girl, (?ne day last week, single handed, she killed a rattlesnake that measured lour feet and toni inches, and thirteen rattles. - Pr. J. E. Rutledge has entered ti suit for damages against thc town ol Kershaw in the sum of $:J,000 for tin sentence imposed upon bim last fal for practicing his profession in tin town without a license to do so. - In Oconec County last Friday Brooks Williams shot and instantly killed John Rigby, both young negroes Williams accused Higby of criminally assaulting his sister. Williams es caped and has not been captured. - Prof. Thornwell Haynes, who wa? thc principal of the school at Central Pickens county, having been appointee consul nt Rouen, France, will sail foi that country on th 14th inst. He wil visit the Paris exposition before enter ing upon his duties. - Thc South Carolina ngticultura experiment station at Clemson College has completed its report of analyses o commercial fertilizers for this season Three bundled and thirty official sam pies have been collected and analyzed during the past year. - The contract for the completion o the State capitol has been awarded and the building is to be completed by December 1, 1001, under the contrac to be signed. The work goes to a lurg* contracting company of Pittsburg, Po. and the price to be paid is $158,800. - Several tobacco farmers have tole tho Oraugeburg Patriot that theil crops have cost them very little mon than an equal farm of cotton woule cost; yet if they succeed iu curing t good article of tobacco they will gci from $40 to $100 per acre for their crop - In Camden Isaac McLaughlin sud denly went crazy and attacked H. I Depa88, who he met on the street. Mi Depass ran into a store and securing J baseball bat hit the negro several licki on the head. The negro became se violent that it took four or five men ie carry him off. - Work on the main building pf the Seneca Mill, of Seneca, has commenced The ground for the foundation wac broken a week ago. Pres. L. W. Jor dan states that from now on work will progress ns rapidly as possible, as il is their intention to put the - mill in operation as soon as practicable. - Christina Veal, a colored girl., was killed at her father's place about nine miles from Columbia by a mule. Thc girl was about nine years of age. While the mule was drinking Christina got a switch and began to play with the business end of the animal. Out went both heels, one striking thc girl in thc head, the other striking her in the stomach. She was instantly killed. - The Governor has received a let ter from a gentleman in Velaaco, Tex as, asking about thc county road law in this State. He elesires to get informa tion about the plan of working State as well as county convicts upon tho chain gangs. Ho askeil for [a copy of thc State laws as to roads, and aTstatc ment ns to its operation and the re sults. - Lightning struck the Baptist par sonage at Westminister last Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, instantly kill ing Henry Simpson, a prominent farm er, and seriously injuring Thomas N. Hall, a lumber dealer, and M. Ailen Terrell, a planter. They were attend ing a Church conference, and were sit ting on the piazza conversing, when the fatal stroke was received. The piazza was demolished and the house badly injured. It is t hought that Hall and Terrell will recover. - The tobacco saleslare beginning in the eastern part of the State. The small farmers who do their work with out hiring hands make the most clear money per acre out of tobacco. They plant about half a cotton crop and the balance of their land in tobacco-about four or five acres to a horse. The gathering of tobacco begins just after tho cotton crop is laid by, and they can euro it and sell before tho cotton is picked out. They generally get $40 to $00 an aero on their tobacco and some times as high as $80 per acre. UENERAL NEWS ITEMS. - Yellow fever is said to have ap peared at Tampa. - There are 52,000,000 people iu the famine region ?d' India. - Bryan will manage his own cam paign. Hu is now mapping out his course. - The Illinois supreme court has de cided that hard cider is nu intoxicnt I ing drink. j - The yellow fever at Tampa has j been officially announced, hut it is I thought that it cnn he kept in that one place. - A big million dollar company, made up ot northern men have applied l'or a charter to develop thc Savannah river. - Lightning struck a church at Chat Ueld, Ohio, while a funeral was in pro gress and injured 20 persons, two prob ably fatally. - Fire in a mine in the State of San Louis Potosi, Mexico, July 2tf, caused the death, by burning and sn (Vocation, of about .10 miners. - Dr. Harris, head of the national bureau of education, estimates that there are now in this country over 15, 000,000 school children. - It is estimated that the war in South Africa will cost thu British gov ernment #500,000,000 in nioney to say nothing of thu cost in blood. - A million dollars for strawberries is thu record for the season for North Carolina shippers, and other sections of the middle South have done rela tively well. - Patterson, N. .L, is said to be the rottenest hole of anarchy in the world, rudern free government where men may meet and discuss what they please tho anarchists of all nations have gathered there to plan their murderous policy. - A couple died in New Jersey who had been engaged to bo married 4:1 years. They were about to complete arrangements for ibo happy event when tho prospectivo brido was taken ill and died. The shock was so great to her life-long lover that ho died in a few days. - At their convention tho Kansas Democracy surrendered to thc Popu lists and thereby mndu possible thu most harmonious fusion that has ever existed in that State. Tho ticket was endorsed by the Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans. His headed by John W. Brcideth.J, Populist, who was nominated for Governor, - Collis P. l?untington, having bought out his associates in the South ern Pncitlc, is one of the richest rail road men in the world,being sola own? er of a system embracing ferries, ter mina.s, river and ocean steamboat lines and 7,000 miles of railroad, rep resenting $850,000,000 of securities and annual gross earnings of $00,000,000. - The convention of railroad com missioners of the Southern States will be held at Lookout Mountain, August 20. It is expected that all tho South ern Status will be represented, and that the discussion on the subject of rates will result in somo concerted action looking to securing better rail road freight rates to the South by con certed action of the several commis sioners. - Director of thc Census Merriam says that over 10,000,000 names have been counted by the force in the cen sus office. Tho accounts of the enu merators aro now being settled at thc rate of 1,000 a day. Ten thousand enu merators have received the balance due them, and their accounts aro closed. Eleven hundred young women are employed in tabulating the returns from enumerators. Each operator on the punching machine is expected to finish GOO cards each day. It is esti mated that the population of the Unit ed States will bebetweee 76,000,000 and 77,000,000. Some of the officials, how ever, believe the total imputation will not exceed 72,000,000. Tho complete returns will be given out about Decem ber 1. - The advance summary of the forthcoming annual report of Commis sioner of Pensions Evans does not dis tinguish between thc different classes of pensioners. The total of 903,521) on the rolls o . Juno W, 1000, includes sol diers, widows, parents and children. Thu names added to tho rolls continue to exceed the number dropped, tho net increase for the past year having been 2,010. That tho possession- of a pen sion is calculated to prolong life seems to be shown by tho commissioner's fig ures, says the Philadelphia Records Estimates based on the estabished life tables placed the probable deaths dur ing the yuar at 50,000; but they num bered only 35,809. Of nearly a million pensioners-the . largest percentage being men who were wounded or who had contracted disease in the army and are rated as incurable?-less than 200,000 have died in the past six years? Dearness Cannot be Cured br Ioctl applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There la only one war to cure Deafness, and the.l la by constitu tional remedies. Deafness ls caused by an Inflam ed condition of the mucous lining of the Euatach inn Tube. When this tube gets Inflamed you hare a rumbling Bound or Imperfect hearing, and when lt la entirely closed deafness ls the result, and unless the lnflamation can be taken out and thl? Itube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will oe destroyed forerer ; nine cases out of ten ?to caused by estar rah, which la nothing hut an In flamed condition of tho mucous surfaass. WA will giro Ono Hundred Ooll?rs for any case of Dsafness (caused by catarrh) that cinnot bo cured by nail's CaUrrh eur?. ^ndfor circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY A Co., Toledo, O. SOTSol? by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Faally Pllla>re tho.best.