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THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS Must eclipse all fermer selling with us. Our i Dissolution Sale Has progressed very satisfactorily from the beginning, but to sell $75,000 or $80,000 Woxth of General Merchandise in ten weeks was a stupen dous undertaking, and we realized it at the outset, and as the time grows shorter we are more determined to accom plish the end in view. 1 If not'a complete cleaning out present Stock. Now to reduce our Stock to the mutuel satisfaction of all concerned, we know that prices will play an important part. We invite all to come and see our Goods, and if we bave the items yon want we will trade, we will make prices right. If you are at all reaaonable prices will not prevent our trading. We invite comparison with advertised COST SALES. We have some things that you can buy from us for LESS THAN COST, some AT COST, and we will sell you our Newest and most up-to-date Goods cheaper than you can buy the same quality elsewhere. This is a Bare Opportunity for the People. Our Dress Goods Stock Is complete-one of our most popular Departments. Many attractive Goods and fascinating prices. Also, an elaborate display of TRIMMINGS and LININGS. Silks and Satins. The mo3t important items in Silks and Satins. Light Shades for Fancy Work and Evening Wear. Our Millinery Department Is ablaze with the popular attractions for the season. No reason why we cannot sell you a Hat. READY-MADE GARMENTS. Grand line of Jackets, Capes, 1Fura, Skirts, Want?, ?co, Iloiiselsieepers ire offered special inducements in Carpets, Bugs, Art Squares, Mattings, Window ShadeB, Curtains, &c. Our All Wool Carpet Remnants to close out at 25c. per piece. Our Bett All Wool Ingram Carpets at 60c. per yard, made and put down on the floor FREE. All Goods in House Furnishings proportionately cheap. OUR LINENS ARB TRADE WINNERS. We have a Big Stock of Domestics. Remember, our Mens and Boys Suits go at INew York Gost. BIGGEST SHOE STOCK IN THE CITY. Bargains Throughout our Store, The question is not how much we can'get for an article, but how much s eau reduce our Stock. Wholesale Buyers should not neglect this opportunity. Our Dissolution Sale means money in the pockets of the Utopie. Now for a smashing of aU former records. Terms Spot Cash. TO ALL WHO OWE US We wish to say that we must have our money. ^ We cannot wait for you to sell your Cotton. Our creditors will not '?u on u9. Our affaira must ba in shape to settle between the members of ?ar firm by the night of the 24th of December next, therefore if you hftte settled with us by that time we must know why. Yours truly, \W A * ?) :fi UtATTTtfi I In bi f\*?\ tx V_ a A UlU|||||||ip| Wholesale and Retail Dealers in I huerai ??eroliaxL?.ise Local News, WKDNE3DAY, NOV. 28, 1900. TES OmMMlStll! Corrected Weekly by Brown, Osborn? A Co St kt Good Middling-??. iSoo? Middling--vj}. 8triot Middling-9*. Middling-OJ. Stained Cotton-8 to 9. Eggs ore in demand at fancy prices. Carpenters and brickmasons aro in demand in the city. Hov. J. L. Yana, representing the Baptist Courier, spent yesterday in the city. Julina H. Weil & Co. call attention tc their-'big stock of clothing nt low prices. Th* heavy fogs several nights last week were ?oraething unusual for this section. A largo crowd visits the city every day and our merchants are selling lots of goods. Mr. W. V. Chapman, of Elberton Ga., ia in the city visiting h is son. Rev. J. D. Chapman. Brown, Osborne & Co. announce that they are still offering bargains in every department. In Keith & Co.'a advertisement this week they announce many bargains in useful goods. Read it. Next Monday ia Salesday. Consid erable real estate will be sold by the Judge of Probate and others. To-morrow (Thanksgiving Day) be ing a national holiday. Snnday hours will be observed lat the Post?nico. Mr. Julius C. Smith, of Greenville, is in the city spending a few days with his daughter, Mia. J. W. Qnattlebaum. Wateh the advertisements in the IN TELLIGENCER closely and you will know whereto go and get your Christmas goods. We invite your attention to the new advertisement of W. F. Marshall & Co., who are offering bargains to the public. Mr. L. C. Haskell offers a lot of val uable land in Abbeville County for sale. Read his advertisement for par ticulars. Rev. S. C. Byrd, of Columbia, has been spending a few days in Anderson and preached in th? First Presbyterian Church last Sunday. Mayor Tolly, of Anderson, writes Gov. Mcsweeney that blind tigers nor any other tigers ore tolerated in that city.-Greenwood Journal. Mr. W. K. Carlisle, the efticiont agent of the Southern Railway at Hodges, has been spending a few days in the city visiting his parents. The new Church building being erected by the Bethany congregation near Cray ton. is going np rapidly and will soon be ready for dedication. The scarcity of corn, fodder and hay for sale ia notable. It looks aa if the fanners made nothing to spare thia year except cotton and sweet pot/- oes. The annual convention of the League of American Municipalists will be held in Charleston December 12th. Mayor Tolly will attend the meeting. Col. J. V. Hoyt, of the Greenville Mountaineer, and Editor N. G. Gon zales, of the Columbia State, spent a few hoars in Andersen last Saturday. Mr. W. C. Harbin, who has been liv ing at Reed Creek, Ga., hos returned to his old home in thie County, and is warmly welcomed by his old friends. The demand for dwelling houses in Anderson still exceeds the supply, not withstanding the fact that new houses are being built in every section of the city. . ' Geo. E. Prince, Esq., is in Chester this week attending the annual State Conference M. E. Church as a delegate from the Greenville District Confer ence. In their big advertisement on the first pago B. O. Evans & Co. make an important dinoun cement to the men folks especially, who should read it carefully. Nearly all the cotton hos been picked and the corn is being gathered. Near ly every farmer will hovoto buy corn next Spring and Summer, as the crop is ' so short thia year. ' Mr. and Mrs. Frank II. Hill, accom panied by their neice, of Victoria, N. C., arrived in the city last week to spend a few days with the family of Capt. P. K. Norris. According to the annual report of the Comptroller General, which ia now being made up, Anderson County haa only 7U miles of railroad, on which the taxes are $7,853.46. Married, on Sunday, November 25, 1900, at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. N. G. Wright, Mr. Jacob I venter and Miss Ellie Hanks, all of Anderson County. Mr. John Flynn, formerly of this city? bat now a popular "knight pf the ! grip,*'. arrived in tho eity yesterday. His many old friends here are always delighted to greet him. Up to last night only about 1800 out of 12,000 taxpayers in thia Connty had ; squared their accounts with County Treasurer Payne. There will be no ex ! A number of our subscribers called in the past week and settled their sub ; scrip tiona, for which wo feel grateful. ! We have plenty of blank receipts and i are always ready to fill them ont. Mr. "Jake" C. Gilmer, who baa been with ?, Frank Bolt- *?? cash sTocpr. \ for sometime, left last Thursday for Columbia, where he hss secured a po sition as express messenger on the Mr. T. J. Maul din, who had tho mis fortune to break his leg two months sgo, ic able to be oat again os clutch es, and last Friday went to his old homo, Pickena, to spend a few days. Asa, the x-year-old eon of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Daniels, died at their homo at Millville lost Thursday night, after a brief illness. The remains were car ried to Ruokeraviiie, Ga., and buried. The C. A. Reed Music House an nounces in its new ?advertisement this week that it is overstocked on pianos and organs, and are offering them at bargain prices. Read the advertise ment. The Forman University and Woffotd College teams will play a game of foot ball in Greenville to-morrow. Several young gentlemen from this city will gc over to Greenville to Witness thc game. A meeting of Herman Lodge, No 110, A. P. M., will bo held at Starr nexl Saturday morning, at ll o'clock, foi the purpose of electing ofticers for tin ensuing year. Every member is urgci to attend. A congregational meeting will bi held in tho First Presbyterian Churcl next Sunday morning (December 2nd io elect a pastor, ic the way be clear Every member of tho Church is urge? tobe present. All places of business in Andersoi will be closed to-morrow-Thanksgiv ing Day. If the weather is favorabl a nnmber of the city residents wi] spend the "day in the country visitin frienda and relatives. Now is a good time, to set to work t get np an Anderson County exhibit a the Charleston West Indian Exposit io next year. . No Countv in tho State ca surpass us if we can only induce on people to go in to win. We have received a number of invi tat iou s to visit the country and par tal-: of fine dinners on Thanksgiving Da with kind friends. We appreciate th invitations, and our only regret is thr we cunt accept ali of them. Tho new advertisement of tho Sull van Hardware Company will nppei next week. The Company's store j now sportsmen's headquarters, and you need loaded shells and other an munition they can supply you. The congregations of tho Baptis Methodist and Presbyterian Church? will hold a union Thanksgiving servie in the First Baptist Church to-morro morning nt 11.30 o'clock. Everyboil is invited to attend the service. C. F. Jones & Co. are still pushtu their cost sales. This week they ni nounce tho many bargains they hal in their shoe department. If you wm bargains bo sure to givo them an cm J call, for they mean what they soy. A chango in thc schedule of tho C. i W. C. R. R. wn8 made last Sunda; The train for Augusta leaves here no at 7:2o a. JU. nud arrives from Augusi nt 8 p. m. The accommodation tra ?J?ia 1. "-~' " . -n..i\ _ ---3 i aim co mn, uti 1?.iv ti. ui. nuu icm CB I 1:50 p. m. Dr. Frank M. Lnnder, of Willina 8ton, has been appointed house su geon in the city hospital at Charlesto and went there last week to enter upc his duties. Tho hospital authoriti are fortunate in securing the servie of Dr. Lander. We arc* indebted to Rev. W. J Earle, of Aspen, Col., for latd copies < Denver papers containing an accon: of the crime of Freston Porter, negro, who recently outraged and mu de-red a little girl, his capture and li death at the stake. Mr. H. S. Todd, train dispatcher the Southern Railway in Columbia, company with his mother, Mrs. J. Todd, and sister, Miss Essie, ot cl city, returned last week from a visit Washington, Philadelphia, New Yo and other eastern cities. A new form of "roughness" for sto feed has made its appearance here the form of corn-stalks and blad shredded together and baled. In tl form the hitherto usually wasted cor stalks have been utilised and ca verted into a very palatable food i stock. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Milford ha the sympathy of their friends in t death of their little son, which ocean at their borne in Varcnnes Townsl last Monday evening. He wns ! quite two years of age and wns si only a few days. The remains w< interred at Flat Rock yesterday. Maj. A. W. Anderson, superintend* of the C. & W. C. R. R., and Col. F Wells, superintendent of the C. & division of the Southern Railway, vi ted Anderson last Friday and had consultation with the city latin which, we hope, will result in gettin union passenger depot in Anderson. Mrs. F. P. Mize, formerly of t County, died at her home near II mony Grove, Ga., on the 12th inst., ter a long illness with cancer, ? Mize was a daughter of the late Jni Erakine, of this County, and has mi friends nnd relatives in this sccti Her husband and one son survi her. Our good friend, Miss Jane Lever? of the Corner, waain the city yester? and called and renewed her subsci tion to TUE INTELLIGENCER, wt has been been a visitor to her he ever since its first issue. This was first visit tc thc city in seventeen ye; and she eaid she did not recognize place. The November term of the Supr< Court began yesterday and tho Eig Circuit will be called on the 4th December, when tho caaes will conn in the following order: State vs. P era; Cobb vs. Cater; Parker va. L mer. Millhouse. v?. -Tanning?, No Mfllhousc vs. Jennings, No. 2; Cook Cooper; Tamipased TH. Sirrin*; L mer vs. Sovereign Woodmen of World. '.- .-- ?--1 - ? Dr. A. P. Montague will deliver an j addi ow on Christian education at Cross | ?G?u? Baptist Church at Starr next Sunday morning at ll o'clock and at Flat Kock Baptist Church on the after noon of the same day at 3 o'clock. Tho friends of both congregations are cor dially in veted to attend and hear tho address. Deputy Sheriff Dillingham, accom panied by Mr. Koah Richardson, went out a few miles east of tho city last Saturday night and arrested eight negroes for gambling. Tho negroes wore caught in tho very act and were brought to the city and lodged in jail. On Monday, at a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Giiaicr, all of the prisoners plead guilty. Lawrence Simpson, tho negro ferry man iu charge of Maxwell's Ferry, on Seneca Uiver, wns accidentally drown ed Inst Monday. Ho was guiding bis boat across the river, when ono of tho ropes broke and ho waa thrown over board. Tho river was very high. Tho body of the unfortunate mau bas not been found; and it is generally believ ed that ho was struck in tho head by the boat when be fell out. IL F., tho ten-montbs-old son of Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Meddox, died at their homo in Martin Township last Thurs day, after an illness of three weeks with pneumonia. On Friday tho re mains were interred at Barker's Creek Church, Rev. N. G, Wright conducting tho funeral services. Tho bereaved parents have tho consolation of know ing that their little one is now "safe in thu anns of Jesus." A Baptist Church will be organized at Triangle school house, in Broadaway Township, next Sunday morning nt ll o'clock, and the public is cordially in vited to attend tho services. For tho past eight years services have been held regularly nt Triangle, and for the past four years Kev. N. G. Wright bas served the congregation as pastor, preaching every first Sunday. Tho' new Church will, therefore, start off with a large membership, The annual meeting of the stock- I holders of the Charleston and Western Carolina Kail road Company WC3 hold j in Charleston last Thursday. The af fairs of tho road were declared to be in a satisfactory condition, and the fol lowing oil i ce rs were re-elected: J. B. Cleveland, president; Harry Walters, vice-president; D. A. P. Jordan, J. O. C. Fleming, J. B. Dawfy, Avery Pat ion, J. B. Cleveland, B. F. Newcombe and Harry Walters, directors. Mr. J. A. Brock represented Anderson nt tho meetiug. An old negro woman was found dead nt her bedside at her home on Peoples' Kow, in thiscitj-, last Sunday morning. A little grandson was thoouly occupant of the house with her, and ho said she knelt down to say her prayers and never got up. She was very fleshy, weighing perhaps 230/ pounds, and heart disease is supposed to have caused ber death. No inquest was held, as there WUB no suspicion of foul play. The deceased was a stranger in Anderson, having recently como hero from Abbeville County. Several of our exchanges have men tioned the large sweet potatoes that have been produced in their respective counties, ranging in weight from 0 to 81 pounds. One of Anderson County's energetic and progressive farmers, Capt. J. C. Stabling, of Pendleton, can excel any wo have seen mentioned. As usual he has produced a line crop of potatoes this season. Gatheringn bar rel of his largest ones he weighed each one of them. The smallest of this lot weighed Ok pounds and the largest 101 pounds. Who can beat this 1 The Piedmont correspondent of the Greenville News, under dote of tho 22nd inst., says: "The annual family reunion of tho Ligon family occurred yesterday, when Dr. H. A. Ligon and wife of Spartanburg, B. S. Ligon and wife of Anderson, B. E. Ligon and John Temple Ligon, of Anderson, met at the residence of their brother, Kev. T. C. Ligon, on Orr street, for n fami ly visit, which must have been a source of enjoyment to all as the qualities oZ sociality and geniality are possessed for every member of the family in so J market.' a degree. May they meet, with unbroken ranks, for many years to come, is thc wish of all their host of friends." Genial James D. Hammett, manager nnd treasurer of the Orr mill of An derson, and John Lyons, master weav er, were making glad hearts by their presence with us for n short time yes terday. They report everything as working very smoothly at the new mill. It has been our privilege to visit tho Orr mill settlement, and we were surprised to see so pleasant a mill and village. Everything in and out of tho mill bore evidence of a regard for utili ty and convenience ao well as for the comfort and welfare of the operatives, with the tenements all of a better or der than is usually found in our mill towns; good streets and sidewalks, and an especial attention paid to tho sani tary conditions and to the Church and school needs of all. With Superinten dent Lof tin as executive and our friends Manager Hammett and Secretary Cal houn Harris in tho oflice, we feel sure that tho Orr will provo to bc a favorite mill for the workers.-Piedmont cor respondent Greenville Arctr?. W. H. 8hesrer Sarves or, Yon will find me at Dean & Ratline's. if yon want a good Razor Irv ono of Brock Bros. that ia guaranteed, and lt will make yon smile when you go io shave. Buy your Loaded Shells, Shot, Powder and Capa and Dynamite and Fuse at Brock Bros., and you will always find the prlc -u right. If you want a good Shot Gun, Rifle or Piniol, try Brock Bro*., an they have a large assortment and tbolr prices are rigor. Sullivan Hardware Co. have ibeir two large Store Rooms packed rritii goods from cellar to top floor, a* wrll as their rrarchoose?, and yon can get anything frn m. thom from a Plow Rnlt in ? ?te^i: look to Your Interest ! WVVVVVVViVV WE are in the Clothing, Shoe and Business. Don't mean to brag or boast, but we sell more Clothing, Shoes and Hats than any house in Andersen. We are up-to date in every line. We don't sell goods for COST. Any fair minded man knows that we can't do business that way, but we do sell Goods for less money than any first-class house in town. We give you a price, and challenge any store in An derson to sell it for less. Our Clothing is made by tho best manufacturers that are in the business, so we defy quality, fit and prices to be sold for less. Our Shoes are the best leather that the market affords, Prices right for solid leather Shoes. We are in the Hat business. Keep the largest stock, all grades-John B. Stetson one of the best. We will give prices if you will call and see us, and it will bo to your interest. HALL BROS. AT PnOTI OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF SHOES AND HOSIERY AT COST ! Come early, before the sizes arc broken. No Goods charged. COBB & DRAYTON. J. M. RICHARDSON, M. I). KEMPER I). SENN. For Pure, Fresh Drugs GO TO THE CHIQUOLA DRUG COMPANY I Try our CHILL TONIC. Our Turnip Seed r.re fresh from the growers and are guaranteed tobe good The place to get Fruit Jara cheap. We are sole agents for the Heath Sc Milligan Paints, which are consider ed by all Painters, after a trial, as tho best on the market. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIM2S. PRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded. THE ANDERSON Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Policy Sept. 23, 1896, and has made only two assessments since it commenced business. This is a great deal cheaper than yon can get fire insurance elsewhere. Any of o?r Fu?iey-hoi?ers V7ill icVi you inai. uiner people have saved arnzj by placing their firo insuranco in this Company, and it is confidently boliovod you can. _ J. R. Vandiver, Prosident. J. J. Fretwall, lt. S. Hill, J. J. Major, Jno. Ci. T>nA??orth, W. G. Watson, II. B. A. Hubiusuu, J. F. Glouu, A. P. Hub uara, Directors. J. J. BECK, Agent.