Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JLocal News, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1900. THE C0TT0I MABKET. Corrected Weekly by Brawn, Osborne A Co. Strict Good Middling- lOfe. Good Middling-10. Strict Middling-8}. Middling-Of. Stained Cotton-7 to 8. Tho Cox Yum Mill expects to begin work to-morrow. See ginning notice of L. O. Clink scales in another, column. See advertisement of a fine farm iu Abbeville County for sale. Attention is directed to the new ad vertisement of ll rock Bm?. Some very fine home raised sweet potatoes aro on tho market. Anderson is well represented at tho colleges in thia und other States. The nev.* adv?&???c?jc?l o? O. D. Anderson &, Bro. will interest you. Miss Gertrude Jones hos gone- to Bal timore, where she will attend College. In his new advertisement C. Frank Bolt offers bargains in groceries. Bead his prices. M. L. Willis has a few pianos which ho is offering at cost. Read his new nd - vertisement. Our next Solicitor, Hon. J. E. Boggs, of Picke ns, spout a day or two in the city last week. Persons indebted to Vandiver Bros. & Major for guano should read their advertisement. Mr. Thoa. M. Kennedy, representing the Greenville News., spent last Thurs day in tho city. .Mrs. W. A. Tennent and Mrs. J. B. Franks, of Lowndesville, are in the city visiting friends. The new advertisement of Vandiver Bros. tells yoe about their big stock of fall goode. Head it. Old September was another record breaker. Like Joly and August, it kept the mercury high. October peaches, muscadines, pears, and grapes are now engaging tho atten tion of the housewives. Cob B. F. Sloan, of Seneca, spent last Monday in the city and was a wel come visitor to our sanctum. Our young friend, Paul Barr, has gone to Charleston to study pharmacy nt the Charleston Medical College. Tax Collector Payne has an impor tant notice in this paper to the taxpay ers, who should read it carefully. Frank Watkins, of this city, who is attending Worford Coiiege, has been elected manager of tho college foot ball team. Streetoverseer Jackson, with his gang of hands, has made some much needed improvements in the Central graded school yard. Our young friend, Joe McCully, who has been spending the summer ia An derson with his another, has returned to Charleston. Col. J. N. Brown, wife and daughter, who have been spending eeveral wseka at Beach Haven? N. J., are expected home this week. The young men of Anderson . should organize vc, first-class military company. Wo have the material nad we should have the company. J&&MI,-:*>~ Mrs. S. M. Johnson, of Anderson, is on a visit to her parents, Hr. and Mrs. John W. Monts, at Little Mountain. Newberry Observer. Married, on Sunday, September 23, 1000, by John T. Wigington, Notary Public, and at his residence, Mr. John W. Capps and Miss Ada Orr. Mr. H. L. Adams, the popular agent of tho Southern Ballway at Charlotte, N. C., spent Sunday ic the city with his wife, who is visiting her mother. All persons interested in the Sandy Springs graveyard are requested to meet there next Friday morning at an early hour for the purpose'of clearing it off. Mr. J. T* C. Jones, who was recently elected county dispenser, has resigned as Magistrate at Storer i lie. His euc cessor will probably be named in a few days. The friends of T. J. Mauldin, Esq., who met with a painful accident two weeks ago, will be moro than pleased to know that he is doing as well as pos sible. It is encouraging to know that many of the farmers of the country are sow ing rye and preparing to sow oats. They will need lots of horsefood next spring. Messrs. A. H. Dean, J. D. McCullough and J. A. Mooney, three popular mem bers of the Greenville Bar, spent a few days in tho city last week attending vyvrUt L ? Tho Knights of Pythias will hold an interesting and important meeting in their castle hall to-morrow evening at S o'clock. All the members are urged to attend. The public schools ia Centerville Township, District No. 0, will opea oa Monday, 15th inst. Tho Union Grove School, in Broadavray, wiii also open r.n day. Married, on Thursday, September 27,. 1000, by Betr. J.E. Spearman, at the home of the bride, Mr. George Evans and Mrs. Cynthia Spearman, all of Anderson County. Tom. Parks and Pierce Maxwell, tito negroes, were committed to jailyeslcr day by Magistrate Gilmer, charged with assaulting a negro woman, a few days ago. The preliminary hearing of tho prisoners will tako place this after noon. Mooro, Acker (c Co's, millinery de partment was opened this week with everything new and stylish in tho way of pattern hats, ete., which uro ready for your inspection. We bavo heavd farmers say that it took thirteen months to cultivate and gather a cotton crop; but this year breakB that record, aa tho work will be completed in less than nine months. Nearly every day a half dozen "mountain schooners," loaded with apples, cabbage aud potatoes, make thei: appearance on our streets. All throe of theiio crops are reported Uno in tho moun tains. H. C. Beattie, receiver of tho Dino Ridge Railroad, spent Tuesday in tho city and promised to make somo much needed repairs on the MoDuttio nnd Alain street bridges ns soon OB tho lum ber could be secured. Our venerable friend, Col. W. S. Pickcns, of the Brushy Creek section, spent Monday in tho city and gave us a pleasant call. Ho is one of Ander son County's oldest citizens and is holding his own remarkably weil. A commission for a charter has been issued to tho Pendleton Telephone Company. Tho corporatorsnro Messrs: J. C. Stribliug, H. P. Sitton, J. II. Mounce and J. B. Sloan. Tho capital stock of the company is to bo $000. Deputy Sheri tr Dill ingham, with his bloodhound, was summonsed by tele phone taw morning to Pendletou to trace a negro Who has mysteriously ai appeared from there and who, it is feared, has been foully dealt with. Partrioges are said to bo abundant this season. The shooting season will not begin until the first of November. There is a law against exporting par tridges, dead or alive, from tho Stato and no one is allowed to sell them. The grand fall opening of Julina H. Weil & Co. took placo last Friday and was a big success. Throughout tho day their establishment was thronged with the fair sex inspecting the beauti ful sad stylish new goods in every de partment. Brown% Osborne & Co's, establish ment attracted a largo crowd of visi tors yesterday, tho occasion being their annual fall opening. Their immense stock of fall and winter goods was tastefully displayed and were admired by every visitor. Mr. F. T. Wilhito has been seriously ill the past week. This morning ho is much better, and we hope ho will soon bejmt again. His mother aud Bister, who have boen spending a few months in Georgia; returned homo last Satur day to be at his bedside. Last Monday being salesdoy a largo crowd was attracted to tho city and everybody seemed to be busy. Con siderable real estate was sold at public outcry by Probate Judge Naneo and all of it brought good prices, averaging moro than twelve dollars an acre. Last Thursday morning John Smalls, % colored boy, while walking along West Market street, near the Enterprise "?ore, fell on the sidewalk, and before i physician could reach him he was Ie~d. A savefe hemorrhage from the longs was the cause of. his death. Last Monoay morning Deputy Sheriff Dilliughnm went ont to Portman and wrested six negroes, who had caused tome trouble thor? on Sunday, when a :rowd bf them were engaged in gam bling all doy. .Others would have been irrested had they not disappeared. The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition Company of Charleston, is organizing a board of .our commissioners in each County of fte Stale. Messrs. K. S. Hill, A. C. Latimer, S. L. Eskew and C. E. Harper >oinpose the board for Anderson Coun ;y. The Woman's Missionary Society of Barker's Creek Church have arranged in interesting programme for the ob servance of missionary day at their Church next Sunday evening. The exorcises will begin promptly at 7 /clock. Tho friends of the congrega ion are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. J. B. Hall died at her homo in Martin Township last Sunday, after a oug and ? ?inful illness with a cancer. 1er remains were interred at First Creek Church Monday afternoon. She vas about 55 years old, and v most ex cellent woman, whose death is deeply leplored by many friends and relatives, James Richie, who lives about sis niles north of this city, was arrested ind lodged in jail hero last Saturday light by Deputy Sheriff Moss, ol Walhalla. He is charged with stealing i horse in Franklin County, Ga., re cently. An oliicer from Georgia is ex pected to come for the prisoner to-day Tho State Fair will bo held in Co ombia Oct. 0th to Nov. 2nd, inclusive The premium list shows an increase ir jtoth the number and value of premi ima. The Society offers $1,000 for thc >est County display- $400, $800, $200 md $100. Anderson County should .rrasgc at euee to secure ono of these prizes. Last Monday evening tho Evening Literary Club was reorganized at Mr I. A. Brock's residence by the olectior >f the following, officers: President ?roL T. C. Walton; Vice-president Hits Nannie Harkness; Secretary one Treasurer, Miss Fannie Watkins. Sev eral new members were added to thc ?li of ineciber?hip. The cattle cf Mr. E. C. Marett arc lying in his pastare on his plantation, rn Tngaloo river, near Fair Play, fron i disease which has been pronounced 'Texas tick fever." Tho disease brok( mt there the first of last week and Mr ifarett has already lost several cows ?rof. G. E. Nesoro, Veterinarian ol Clemson College, was over there last friday, and, after a thorough examina ion, pronounced the complaint to b< he "Texas tick fever," or "rod mur nin." as forni?rlv V?OW? in *hr-=r. p~?? Mtv Marett has about fifty fino cattle in bi6 held, and ho is using every prc- I caution to proveut tho spread of tho disease.- Walhalla Vouritr. A slight change has been mado in tho schedule of one of the traius ou tho Blue Ridge Railroad. Tho train leaving Anderson in the morning for Walhalla now leaves at 8 o'clock and returns from Walhalla in tho afternoon at 4.44 o'clock. This is n much more convenient schedule to the traveling public and will bo appreciated. In accordance with their announce ment, C. P. Jones & Co. held their an nual opening of fall and winter good? last Friday, and their mnuy patrons and visitors were moro than pleased with their grand display in every de partment. Tho millinery and dress goods departments were especially at tractive fr? the fail sex, who made many purchases. Mr. Evans Brown, a young larmer who lives a few miles north of tho city, accidentally eut his left wrist with a broken bottle while in the city last Thursday afternoon. A deep gash was made, severing thc main arteries of his arm, from which the blood (lowed free ly. Dr. J. C. Harris soon reached thc unfortunate man, tied the -\'eries and sowed up the gash. Tho infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Claude Wilson, of Georgetown, S. C., died at the district parsonage, the home of Rev. J. B. Wilson, tho grand father of tho littlo one, last Sunday morning. Tho child was only nino months old, and had been sick for two or three months, tho parents hav ing brought it hero hoping that a chango in climate would beuetit it. Tho remains were carried to Florence for interment. Two fire alarms in ono day is some thing unusual lu Anderson, but that was her record" yesterday. About t o'clock yesterday morning the first alarm sounded. Tho fire was in a small house occupied by a negro in tho north eastern suburbs of the city, near tin steam laundry, and wae extinguisher before tho firemen leached it. Th? damage was slight. The second alaru called out the fire department about 1 o'clock p. m. The fire was in tho two story brick building opposite th? CountyJJail. Thc building is occupied by negroes and owned by Capt. J. W I Daniels. Three steams of water were turned on tho building and in a short while thc firemen were tho victors I The building was only slightly injured but nearly all of its contents were de stroyed or damog *d. it is not knows how tho fire originated. The \Vi!liani8ton correspondent o: the Greenville JVeirs, under date of th? !st inst., sn.ys: "Harney Owens, a far mer living near Grove Creek betweei Pelzcr and tho Augusta road, met witl a horrible accident ycstord?v aftevnooi that cost him his life. Ho had drivel his mule attached to a buggy to seo hil son-in-law near Piedmont, and on hi? return the mule beenme frightened am dashed off, throwing him violently ti the ground. His head struck a stump knocking him senseless and frac turi nf his skull. The unfortunate man wai carried home at once and medical ai< called in, but he never regained con sciousness, lingering until 4 o'clocl ?his morning, when death relieved him it is said that he was const? drably un der the influence of liquor, whicl doubtless accounts for his untimely death. A wife and several childrei survive him." Last Saturday night about 0 o'clocl at Belton, Elias Green, a negro, sho and seriously wounded Tom. Hender son, an operative in the Belton cottoi mill'. Green and another negro wer in a store near the mill when a crowd o boys from the mill came in and accus ed Green of having cursed one of thei number a few days preceding. G ree; denied the charge r. nd a quarrel ensued Tho proprietor of the store ordored th whole crowd out of his door, and who Green reached the sidewalk severa rodi s were thrown at him. Grec: pulled his pistol, fired into thu crow and fled. The nows of the shootin spread rapidly, considerable excitemen was aroused and a crowd started out t capture tho negro. In the meantim Sheriff Green was notified over tho tel ephone of the affray and in a short whi! Deputy Dillinghnm, with his blood hound, reached Belton and took up til trail of the fleeing negro, who was cai tured near Honea Path, where he hn stopped to spend the night. Mr. Di lingham brought the negro nt once 4 this city and lodged him in jail. The Westminster correspondent ( the Walhalla Courier saya: "Mr Aunie P. Brownlee, whom we reporte to be desperately ina week ago, die on Saturday morning, 22nd instant, i 8:15, and her body was laid to rest i the town cemetery on Sunday morniii at half-past ten, Elder W. P. ?nderte conducting the burial service. Hi illness of six weeks duration w: borne with Christian fortitude, patient and resignation to the very last. Mr Brovvnlee's maiden name was Bnk< and she was the last member of a fam ly of twelve sons RB?! daughters. SI was born October 24, 1832, and wi brought up in Auderson County, net the section known as the Dark Come Her husband, the late Wm. A. Browi lee, was ono of Anderson Count,} most influential citizens. She was le a widow six years ago last May ai moved to Westminster soon after h husband's death. Three children Mrs. H. J. Tribble, of Elberton, Gi and Mrs. W. G. Smithson and Mi Ellen Brownlee-survive her. Mi Brownlee was a good woman aud zealous, conscientious Christian, beii a consistent member of the Presbyte ian Church." Tho deceased has mai friends and relatives in ?nderst County who will regret to hear of h death. - No wonder a young man loo! all broke up when his best girl thro* awi u ? vi a. ...'?V-V- '} ,' -, \ HAPPY SCHOOL DAYS. Wo know you are delighted you will get a new SUIT, CAF aud SHOES. Mothers, remember the only CLOTHING that will stand the ro gh and tumble of the School Boy, is tho Celebrated Jane Hopkins School Suits. Double Seat, Doublo Knee, Patent Waistband, Warranted not to Rip. New Stock now ready for the opening of the School. ALL STYLES, ALL GRADES, ALL PATTERNS. Prices $1.50 to $5.00. We are waiting for you to select a Suit for your Boy. HALL BROS. Al OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF AND AT COST ? Come early, before the sizes are broken. No Goods eh&rged. COBB * CRAYTON J. M. RICHARDSON, M. D. KEMPER I). SENN. For Pure, Fresh Drugs GO TO THE CHIQUOLA DRUG COMPANY ! Try our CHILL TONIC. Our Turnip Seed are fresh from the growers and r.re guaranteed to be good The place to get Fruit Jars cheap. We are sole agents for the Heath & Milligan Paints, which are consider ed by all Painters, after a trial, at the best on the market. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. i?- PRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded. -THE ANDERSON -- Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Policy Sept. 2.??, 1896, and has made only two assommants sinco it commenced business. This is a great deal cheaper than you can get Bro insurance elsewhere. Any of our Policy-holders will toll you that. Other people have saved money by placing theil fire insurance in this Company, and it is confidently believed you can. J. R. Vandivcr. Prosidcnt. J. J. Frotwcll, R. S. Hill, J. Major. Jnt>. G. Ducworth. W. ? Watson, ll. B. A. Robinson, J. P. iiienti, A. P. Hub bard, Director?, J. J. BECK, Agent.