Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.s H td H O on PRICE, $3.00 IN presenting thi? wonder ful Shoe we have placed before you a Shoe of excep tional value for the price, $3.00. ...Best of EvoFything... Workmanship and mate rial-made in various styles, fit perfectly-retain their shape. Superior to any sht? made at the price, $3.00. SEE TRADE MARK IN EVERY PAIR PS H ? m > m FOR SALE ONLY BY IN THE CITY. THE BEST DRESSED Nj THOR FINE SHOES FROM US. Because for $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 per pair they get Shoes that wear better and have mors style to them than they can get elsewhere. FASHIONABLY DRESSED GENTLEMEN P H ta tt SHOES from ns, too, because cur $3.00, $3.50 and $4.50 Shoes are noted for style and durability. m w ?aa CIL CY, BRACKETT CO. to great variety. Also, HEAVY FARM SHOES. Wholesale Buyers should see our Stock? Yours lralv. { 4-, Wholesale and Retail Dealers uv fi t-t .; 11 WLe pc"ha.nclise? Local News. WB?KJ?BDAY, OCT. 3, 1900. THE CfTTOH KABKKT. Cometed Weekly by Brown, Otborn* A Co. j ?V?ct Good Middling-10i. Good Middling-10. Strict Middini,;-9L Middling-Ot. Stained Cotton-7 to 8. The Cox Yarn Mill expect* to begin work to-morrow. . See ginning notice of T.. O. Clink scales in another coluro o. See advertisement of a fine farm in Abbeville County for sale. Attention ia directed to tao new ad vertisement of Brock Bros. ? Some very fine homo raised sweet potatoes aro on tho market. Anderson ia weil represented at tho colleges in this and other States. Tho new advertisement of O. D. Anderson & Bro. will interest you. Miss Gertrude Jones has gone to Bal timore, whero sho will attend College. In his new advertisement C. Frank Bolt offers bargains in groceries. Bead his prices. M. L. Willis has Ji few pianos which he is offering at cost. Read his new ad - vertise nient. Our next Solicitor, Hon. J. E. Bogga, of Picken?, spent a day or two in tho city last week. Persons indebted to Vandiver Bros. & Major for guano should read their advertisement. Mr. Thos. M. Kennedy, representing the ( !Greenville News, spent last Thurs day in the 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 you about their big t tock of fall goods. Read it. Old September was another Tecord breaker. Like Jnly and August, it kept the mercury high. October peaches, muscadines, pears, and grape-: are now engaging the atten tion of the housewives. Col. B. F. Sloan, of Seneca, spent Inst Monday in the city and wes a wel come visitor to our sanctum. Our young friend, Paul Barr, has gone to Chat leaton to study pharmacy at the Charleston Medical College. Tax Collector Payne has an impor tant notice in this paper to tho taxpay ers, who should road it carefully. Frank Watkins, of this city, who is attending Wofford. College, has been elected manager of the college foot ball team. S tree to v erseer 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 in An derson with his -mother, has returned to Charleston. Coi. J. N. Brown, wife and daughter, who have been spending several weeks at Beach Haven, N. J., are expected home this week. The young men of Anderson should organize a first-class military company. We have the material aild we should have the company. ?????e^^Zp Mrs. S. M. Johnson, of Anderson, is on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Monta, at Little Mountain. Newberry Observer. Married, on Sunday, September 28, 1900, by John T. Wi gin g ton, Notary Public, and at his residence, Mr. John W. Capps and Miss Ada Orr. Mr. H. L. Adams, tim popular agent of the Southern Railway at Charlotte, N. C., spent Sunday in the city with his wife, who is visiting her mother. All persona 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 S tore vi lie. His suc cessor will probably be named in a few days. The friends of T. J. Mauldio, Esq., who met with a painful accident two weeks ago, will be more 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 ?ow ow j. They will need lota of horsefood next spring. Messrs. A. H. Deo r>. 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 Court: . Tho Knights of Pythias will hold an interesting and important meeting in their castle hall to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Ali the members are nrged to attend. Tho public schools in Centcrville Township, District No. 0, will open on Monday, 15th inst. The Union Grove School, tn Broadaway, will also open on the same day. Married, on Thursday, September 27, 1000, by Rev. 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, t wo negroes, were committed to jail yes tor day by Magistrate Gilmer, charged with assaulting a negro womals a few days ago. The preftminary hearing of tho prisoners will *?ke pliee th'.saii^k I noon. Moore, Acker &. Co's, millinery de partment wns opened this week with everything new and stylish in* the way of pattern hats, etc., which aro ready for your inspection. We have heard farmers say that it took thirteen months to cultivate and gather a cotton crop; but tins year breaks that record, as tu? wurk wiii be completed in less than nine months. Nearly ovary day a half doten "mountain schooners,'* loaded with apples, cabbage and potatoes, make their appearance on our streets. All three of these crops are reported fine in tho mountains. H. C. Boattie, receiver o? tho Blue Bidge Bailroad, spent Tuesday in tho city and promised to make some much needed repairs on the McDutlio and j Slain sireetbridges us soon as tho lum ber could be secured. Our venerable friend, Col. W. S. Bickens, of the Brushy Creek section, spent Monday in the city and gave us I a pleasant call. Ile is one of Ander son County's oldest citizens and is. holding hi? otpi. remarkably well. A commission for a charter has beeu issued to tho Pendleton Telephone Company. The corporators are Messrs: J. C. Striblicg, H. P. Sitton, J. II. Mounce and J. B. Sloan. The capital stock of tho company is to bo $000. Deputy Sheriff Billingham, with his bloodhound, was summonsed by tele phone this morning to Pendletou to trace a negro who has mysteriously diappeared from there and who, it is feared, has been foully dealt with. Partridges are said to bo abundant j this season. The shooting season will I not begin until the first of November, i There is a law against exporting par tridges, dead or alive, from tho State and no one is allowed to sell them. The grand fall opening of Julius H. Weil &. Co. took place last Friday and was a big success. Throughout the day their establishment was thronged with the fair sex inspecting the bc tti ful and 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. Wilhite has been seriously ill the past week. This morning he is much better, and we hope he will soon be_put again. His mother and sister; who have been spending a few months in Georgia, returned homo Inst Satur day to be at his bedside. Last Monday being salesday 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 Nance and all of it brought good prices, averaging moro than twelve dollars r. . acre. Last Thursday morning John Smalls, a colored boy, while walking ulong West Market street, near the Enterprise store, fell on the sidewalk, and before a physician could reach him he woe dead. A severe hemorrhage from the lungs was the cause of his death. East Monday morning Deputy Sheriff Dillingham went out to Portman and arrested six negroes, who had caused some trouble there on Sunday, when a crowd bf them were engaged in gam bling all day. .Others would have been arrested had they not disappeared. The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition Company oi Charleston, is organizing a board ol four commissioners in each County ol the Stale. Messrs. B. S. Hill, A. C. Latimer, S. L. Eskew and C. E. Harpei compose the board for Anderson Coun ty. The Woman's Missionary Society ol Barker's Cretk Church have arranged an interesting programme for the ob servance of missionary day at theil Church next Sunday evening. The exercises will begui promptly at 1 o'clock. The friends of the congrega tion are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. J. B. Hall died at her home it Martin Township last Sunday, after ;i long and painful illness with a cancer Uer remains were interred at First Creek Church Monday afternoou. Sh? was about 55 years old, and a most ex collent woman, whose death is deeply deplored by many friends and relatives James Bichie, who lives about si: miles north of this city, was arrestee and lodged in jail here last Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff Moss, o Walhalla. He is charged with steal io j a horse in Franklin County, Ga., re cenily. An oincer from Georgia is ex pected to como for the prisoner to-day The State Fair will bo held in Co lumbi.a Oct. 9th to Nov. 2nd, inclusive The premium list shows an increase ii both the number and value of premi urns. The Society otters $1.000 for th best County display-$400, $800, $201 and $100. Anderson County shouh arrange at once to secure one of thesi prizes. Last Monday evening the Evenin Literary Club was reorganized at Mi jji A. Brock's residence by the el cet io of the following, officers: President Prof. T. C. Walton; vice-President Miss Nannie Harkness; Secretary an Treasurer, Miss Fannie Watkins. Sev eral new members were added to th roll of membership. The cattle of Mr. E. C. Marett ar dying in his pastare on his plantation on Tugaloo river, i ?ar Fair Play, froi a disease which has been pronounce' "Texas tick fever." The disease brok out there the first of last week and Mi Marett has already lost several cowi Prof. G. E. Ncsoro, Veterinarian c Clemson College, was over there In* Friday, and, after A thorough exam i m t ion, pronounced the complaint to Tn iiie --'Texas tick fever," or "red min rain," ns formerly known.m these part II iwiiMiM an ????? mmi M,,^ ,,,, "", ?mmmi \ mwm ????iwifi ii-BI M a Mi*. Marett has about fifty Hue cattle in hie herd, and ho is using every pre caution to prevent the spread ot tho disease.- Walhalla Courier. A slight change has been made in tho schedule of one of the trains on tho Blue Bidge Railroad. The train leaving Anderson in the morning foi Walhalla now leaves at 8 o'clock and returns from Walhalla in the afternoon at 4.44 o'clock. This is n much more convenient schedule to tho traveling public and will bo appreciated. In accordance with their announce ment, C. F. Jones &. Co. held their an nual opening of fall and winter goods last Friday, and their many patrons and visitors were moro than pleased with their grand display in every de partment. Tho millinery nnil dress goods departments were especially at tractive to the fair sex, who made many purchases. Mr. Evans Brown, a young farmer who lives a few miles north of the city, accidentally cut his left wrist with a broken bottle while in the city last Thursday afternoon. A deep gash was made, severing the main arterie? of his ! arm, from which the blood flowed free ly. Dr. J. C. Harris soon reached tho unfortunate man, tied the arteries and sewed up the gash. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Claude Wilson, of Georgetown, 8. C., died at tho district parsonage, thc home of Kev. J. B. Wilson, the grand father of the little ono, lust Sunday morning. Tho child was only nine months old, and had been sick foi two or three months, tho parents hav ing brought it hero hoping that ? chango in climate would benefit it The remains were carried to Florene? for interment. Two fire alarms in ono day is some thing unusual in Anderson, but tba was her record^ yesterday. About o'clock yesterday morning the firs alurni sounded. The tire was in a sinai house occupied by a negro in tho north eastern suburbs of tho city, near th steam laundry, and was extinguish^ before the firemen reached it. Th damage wns slight. The second alan called out the tiro department about o'clock p. m. The Aro was in tho two story brick building opposite th CounryJJnil. The building ?s occupie by negroes and owned by Capt. J. YA Daniels. Three steams of water wen turned on tho building and in a shot while the tiremen were tho victori The building was only slightly injuree but nearly all of its contents were de stroyed or damaged, lt is not kuow how the tire originated. The Williainston correspondent c the Greenville Xfirs, under date of th i 1st inst., says: ""arney Owens, a i'm mer living nenr Grove Creek betwee Pelzer aud tho Augusta road, met wit I a horrible accident yesi. rday afternoo that cost him his life. He had drive his mule attached to a buggy to see h: J son-in-law near Piedmont, and on hi roturn the mule became frightened an i dashed oft', throwing him violently t the ground. His head struck a st um j i knocking him senseless and frncturin his skull. Tho unfortunate man wi carried home nt once and medical ai called iu, but he never rep ii ned cor scionsneBS, lingering lintel 4 o'cloc this morning, when death relieved bin It is said that he was considerably ui der the influence of liqnor, whic doubtless accounts for his untimel death. A wife and several childre survive him." Last ?Saturday night about 0 o'cloc at ??elton, Elias Green, a negro, she and seriously wounded Tom. Kendel son, an operative in the Belton co tte mill'. Green and another negro wei in a store near the mill when a crowd? boys from tho mill came iu and accui ed Green of having cursed ona of the number a few days preceding. G ret denied the charge and a quarrel ensue The proprietor of the store ordered tl whole crowd out of his door, and whe Green reached tho sidewalk sever rocks were thrown at him. G ret pulled his pistol, tired into thc crov, and fled. The news of the shootii spread rapidly, considerable exc?teme: was aroused and a crowd started out capture tho negro. In t' ? meantin Sherill'Green was notified over tho tl ephone of the affray and in a short whi Deputy Dillinghnm, with his h' m hound, reached* Bolton and took up tl trail of the fleeing negro, who was ca tined near Ilonea Path, where he ht stopped to spend the night. Mr. D lingham brought the negro at once this city and lodged him in jail. The Westminster correspondent the Walhalla Courier says: "M Annie P. Brownlee, whom we report j to bo desperately in a week ago, di on Saturday mom ing, 22nd instant, j 8:15, and her body was laid to rest the town cemetery on Sunday ni o rn ii ! at half-past ten, Elder W. P. Anders conducting tho burial service. Ii illness of six weeks duration w borne with Christian fortitude, pntier and resignation to tho very last. M Brownlee'e maiden name was Ba* and she was the last member of a fan ly of twelve sons aud daughters. S was born October 24, 1832, and M brought up in Anderson County, nc the section known cs the Dark Corn Her husband, the late Wm. A. Brow lee, was one of Anderson Count j most influential citizens. She was 1 a widow six years ago lost May a ! moved to Westminster soon after 1 husband's death. Three childre! Mrs. H. J. Tribble, of Elberton, G and Mrs. W. G. Smithson and M Ellen Brownlee-survive her. M Brownlee was a good woman and zealous, conscientious Christian, bei a consistent member of the Preebyt ian Church." Tho deceased has mit friends and relatives in Andere County who will regret to hear of 1 death. >- No wonder a young ?nan 'ec all broke up when his best girl thro him down. FOR THE HAPPY SCHOOLDAYS. We know you are delighted-you will get a new BV1S, CAP and SHOES. Mothers, remember the only CLOTHING that will stand the rough and tumble of thc School Boy, is the Celebrated Jane Hopkins School Snits. Double Seat, Double Knee, Patent Waistband, Warranted not to Rip. New Stock now ready for the opening of the School. ALL STYLES, ALL GRADES, ALL PATTERNS. Frier $1.50 to $5.00. We ire waiting f^r you to select a Suit for your Boy. HALL BROS. OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF AND HOSIERY AT COST ! Come early, before the sized are broken. No Goods charged. 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 are 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, as the best on the market. PRICES TO SUIT THE TI M KS. S&- PRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded. -THE ANDERSON - Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Policy Sept. 23, 189G, and has made only two assesiai?nts sinoo it commenced business. This ia a great deal cheaper than you can get firo insurance elsewhere. Any of our Policy-holders will tell jv?u that. Other people hava saved money by placing theil fire insurance in this Company, and it is confidently believed vnn can. . J. R. Vandivcr, President. J. J. Fretwell, R. S. Hill, J. J. Major, Jnf>. G. ftucworth, W. Q. Watson. R. B. A. Robinson, J. P. Glenn, A. P. JtiuD bard, Directors. J- J- BECK, Agent.