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"BY CLINESO??iEg ? LANflST?Kf . ANDERSON, S. C^'WBDHESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1901.. . VOLUME YYYVr?ato an That is exactly what we axe giving in merchandise to our customers during this Twenty-five Fer Cent Discount Sale. If yoa will but stop to consider that our Clothes at regular prices arc always the lowest in price, you will readily see that this Sale means mort? to you than a casual glance would indicate. If we were offering you. old Goods or Clothing hastily put together for bargain purposes, then such a reduc tion would mean nothing to the economical buyer. But when you can purchase High Grade Standard Clothing at an actual saving of one-fourth, then you are really getting one dollar for seventy-five cents. This makes our? $ 5.00 Suits and Overcoats, 25 per cent off, $3.75. 7.50 Suits and Overcoats, 25 per cent off, 5.63. 10.00 Suits and Overcoats, 25 per cent off, 7.50. 12.50 Suits and Overcoats, 25 per cent off, 9.38. 15.00 Suits and Overcoats, 25 per cent off, 11.25. Leave one-fourth of what you expected to pay at home, the balance will pay for the Goods. - This Sale includes all of pur Clothing on hand. Nothing reserved. We always do as we advertise, and our patrons know it. Better hurry. THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS: WHITE FRONT. IT! D 4? coy When you are buying a Vehicle that life depends on at times, buy ? good one. If you don't know what maker to chooBe from, buy from a reliable dealer whose word is his reputation. I have a splendid assortment of light-speeding WAGONS, FAMILY CARRIAGES, FANCY TRAPS, And are made by the best manufacturers, at prices that will surprise you. Come to see me. JOS. J. FRET WELL. DON'T FAIL TO SEE Now being shown by the Evans* Pharmacy. All kinds, all prices. ers -"Fresh. Get the ftrst look and you will find what you want. EVANS* PHARMACY* & G. EVAN87 Jb. G. W. EVANS. B. a EVANS, Jr., & CO., dealers irr Drugs and Medicines, Pendleton, S. C, T"E PBk?OKIFTION department ? . JS ?r tne otmost importance to ovnry Drag: Store I; ?houl? bo presided over bv - .uOnjaHbiy competent man, and 'only the.beat and freshest goods dispensed wuauty and ability \n the Prescription Department are of the greatest importance. tvi"86'11 fconfidenao ia tbo pa?edt and exoito the admiration of your Physicians. , .D"?> n? B, DAY I? not on?y an experienced Prescription man. bat also an np dato PhvsMan, #ad is doubly aafe In cane of an orror. He bas full charge of our 1 'ascription Department. Bend your Prescriptions to u?. E. G. EVANS, Jr. & CO., Maeonlo Building, Pendleton, S. C. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Otcn Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Jan. 14,1900. The fact is generally known that both River and Harbor and Pnblio Building bills represent an organised system of loot whereby the surplus in iiw Treasury can be distributed. It is not so widely known, however, that they represent loot for the especial benefit of the members of the commit tees that report them. These two com mittees are the most sought after in all Congress, places on them being pre ferreri hv v?~.* SXvi?u??? t? i?iUBO on I Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, or even Appropriations, great aud Influ ential as these are. The reason, of course, is that their members are ena bled to look after the interest* of their districts and make themselves solid with their constituents thereby. The fact that they do this was brought out in the House this week in a speech by Representative Cnshman, of Washing ton, who was disgruntled because he could not get an appropriation he de sired for his own district. He showed by means of a huge map that the Riyer and Harbor bill as reported to the House, allotted $88,050,050, to the sev enteen States having members on the Committee reporting it, $8,840,557 to eighteen other States, and nothing at all to the remainder. In addition $12,440, 000 is appropriated for the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and for surveys that cannot be charged to any State in particular. No analysis has yet been made of the Public Building bill, as that has not yet been reported to the House and its terms are not yet cer tain. If the plan of last year is follow ed most of the money awarded will go to States having members on the Com mittee. The parcels post system has now gone into effect between the United States and New Zealand, and the United States and Venezuela. A person can send by mail a package of merchandise from Washington to New Zealand or Venezuela weighing 11 pounds, at 12 cents a pound. But if he wishes to send a similar package to New York or San Francisco the government will not undertake the job. It must go by ex press. The government also under takes to carry packages weighing as much as 11 pounds to Honduras, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Germany, Trini dad, and various other places at 12 cents a pound. Even to this, the ex press companies object, maintaining that the Postmaster General has no authority to make a foreign parcels post contract which allows foreigners to send eleven pound packages through United States mails, while citizens of this country may mail domestic packa ges weighing four pounds only. For that reason they demand that the con tract bo abrogated. The Postmaster General very properly refuses to do anything of the l ind ard the swagger ing express companies threaten to take the matter before Congress' and com pel him to do so. The express com panies of this country seem to bo the most offensive and impudent of all the common carriers. Entrenched as they are in the House and Senate they may actually attempt to pass' a law of Con gress that will prevent the Postmaster General making international agree ments, lest by experience the people of the United States become aware of tho cheapness and efficiency of the service and demand it at home, but they will probably fail. There have been un counted proofs of Republican subser viency to monopolistic demands, bat not oven a Republican Congress is likely to allow Senator Platt and his associates of the express business to dictate postal regulations for the bene fit of Half a dozen corporations. A most peculiar case is pending in the Senate, in the nomination of James S. Harlan, of Illinois, to be Attorney General of Porto Rico, without the approval of the Illinois Senators and without their endorsements having been asked nor received, It is thought most unfortunate that the nomination should have been made at this time. Mr. Harlan is the son of Justice Har lan, of the Supreme Court, before which the Porto Rican cases are now being argued. Of course, no ono im agines that Justice Harlan would think of changing his convictions as to the powers of tho government for such a miserable thing as a fat ofttco in Porto Rico (which would probably go out of existence if the government's conten tion should bo overruled), but, at the same time, it is generally regretted that anything even suggesting abar ~~?n and sale on tho part of a member of the Court should come np at ihis critical time when, as nearly as can be 'guessed, the support of only one addi tional justice is necessary to sustain the position of the government. For eoruo time past statements have appeared asserting that Senator Hanna had predicted an extra session of Con gress unless the ship subsidy bill was passed during the present session. These statements have, however, been anonymous and indefinite. It can now I be stated positively that Senator Hanna I has annonnoed to Senator Clay, of Georgia, that "unless those who arc opposed to the shipping bill will per mit a vote upon it daring tho present session of Congress an extra session will bo called to consider tho measure." Senator Hanna's intimation of an extra session unless his pet measure is voted upon before the 4th of March has, it is said, had the effect of solidifying the opposition to the. subsidy hill. The Democrats arc now especially anxious to see tho Pr?sidant call an extra ses sion for this purpose, and they have organized an opposition which will, thoy claim, prevent tho measure from coming to a vote.' The opinion, how ever, is freely expressed that Mr. Hanna s statement is merely a bluff and that the President will not venture to call any session for the purpose. A Reported Great Discovery. One of the most fatal and most dreaded, of all diseases is consumption and if Dr. Hoff, of Austria, has really found a cure for it, as he so confidently announces, he has conferred a great boon upon mankind. He in convinced after long investiga tion and practical experiments that bis remedy gratis and upon its efllcacy bases hia professional reputation. He in convinced after long investiga tion and practical experiments that his remedy will effect a cure in any case of consumption which is taken in time. The HofT cure is not a scrum, but a mixture of pidinary drugs that can bo fonnd in any drug store. The formula given by Dr. Hoff is as follows: "One part of arsenic acid, two parts I of carbonate of potash, three of cin amlic acid, five of distilled water; heat until a perfect solution is obtain ed, then add twenty-five parts of cog nac and three parts of extract of opium which has been dissolved in tweuty five parts of water and filtered. Of this mixture there are to be taken at first six drops after dinner and supper, and the dose is to be gradually in creased to twenty-two drops." Dr. Hoff deolnres that he has tried his consumption euro on 200 cases and says: "Incipient cases were quickly cured and those in an advanced stage were greatly improved." Appetite and weight of patients in creased steadily; the fever became lower; night 'sweats, insomnia and asthmatic symptoms lessened; the cough decreased and the rattle stopped. T 10 duration of the treatment depends mainly on the condition of the patient. Mild casc3 may be cured in two months; severe ones may require two years. One of Dr. Hoffs own patients "had cavities in his lungs large enough for the insertion of a fist, yet a cure was effected in about two years.'/ The established reputation and high character of Dr/ Hoff cauBohis state ment of the results of his experiments with his coo sumption euro to be re ceived with confidence and arouse strong hopes that a more successful method of treating the disease than any hitherto tried has been discovered. ?Atlanta Journal. The Confederate Reunion. Headquarters United Confederate Vet erans, New Orleans, La., Dec. 38, 1?00. General Orders No. 340. 1. The general commanding announ ces, the department commanders con curring, that on account of the argent request and insistence of our "our host," tho next annual meeting and re union of the United Confederate Vet erans, which is to bo held in the city of Memphis, Tenn., will take place on May 28th, 30th and 80th, 1001?Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday re spectively. 2. With pride the general command ing also announces that 1,800 camps have now joined tho association, and applications received at these heart qu?itciK for p&pors tor over 100 more. Ho urges veterqns everywhere to send to these headquarters for organization papers, for camps, and join this asso ciation, so as to assist in carrying out its benevolent, praiseworthy end pa triotic objects. By order of: John B. Gordon. General Commanding. Geo. Moorman, Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff. Mexicans to Grow Cotton. Charlotte, N. C, Jan. 5.?Mr. E. S. Heid, of the Henth-Reid Jobbing and Commission Company, has started for Monterey, Mexico, for tho purpose of instructing Mexican farmers in the ait of cultivating cotton according to tho most improved methods. In the section which ho will visit cot ton is planted in the latter part of Jan uary, or nearly three months earlier than in this country. For the last five years Mr. Reid's firm has been shipping cotton seed to the Mexican planters and they have writ - ten many letters asking instructions as to cotton growing. As the easiest way to solve the prob lem, Mr. Reid will remain in Mexico several weeks with a view to imparting practical knowledge. The'Mexican government, by the way, exercises its good offices for the protection of tho cotton planters. If they raise enough cotton to supply the Mexican mills tho government imposes a duty of 5 per cent on all imported cotton, but if tho cotton crop falls short and it is necessary to. bring for eign cotton nereis the lino tho govern ment removes the duty. ? Hon. Ellis G. Graydon, of Abbe ville, is announced as a candidnto for Judge Townsend's place. STATE NEW?. ? Charleston has won tho naval sta tion. Port Royal loses. ? There arc 10 young lady students in the South Carolina College ? A jail to cost $8,300 is to be built for Kershaw county at Camden. ? C. M. Calhoun, of Greenwood, is ?ritisg a history u? Butlers Brigade. I ? The naval board has recommended the removal of tho station now at Port Royal to Charleston. ? The 19th of January, which is tho birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, is a legal holiday in South Carolina. ? Geo. S. McCr?vy, the retiring Bhtriff of Laurons county, has been ap pointed a dispensary inspectorat a sal ary of $1,500 a year. ? J. M. Brawley, a*prominent citizen of Chester, died suddenly a few days ago at tho homo of his brother, Judge Brawloy, Charleston. ? Congressman Talbert. on account of ill health, has been granted an in definite leave of ab8enso from Con gress and is now at his homo in Parks villo. ? They have no mercy on chicken thieves in Union. Tho mayor recently sentenced a darkey 120 days on the chain gang for stealiug seventeen fowls. ? The iigures indicate that tho peni tentiary under tho capable manage ment of Capt. D. J. Griffith will make perhaps tho best showing c,l tho State institutions. ? George R. Webb, of Aiken, is tho flrnr. to go from a cotton mill to the legislature. Ho was once an operative in the Laugley mill and is an enthusi asts labor man. ? Announcement is made that tho South Carolina International Sunday School convention for the year 1001 will bo held in the city of No wherry, Feb. 25-27 inclusive ? While an unknown tramp wus painting the standpipe at Chester the iron hook which held him straightened and ho fell a hundred feet. He gasped a few times and died. ? It will bo interesting to know that the pension roll of the State show? that there are 7,707 pensioners- on tho rolls. Of this number 4,575 aro old soldiers and 3,132 aro tho widows of veterans. ? There seems to bo a strong feeling throughout the State that there is more genuineability, intelligence and states manship in the present general assem bly than there has been in this body for at least ten years. ? William L. Trenholm, a promi nent South Carolinia, who was comp troller of the treasury during Cleve land's first administration, and since held several high public offices died last Vriday in Now York city. ? Car-Inspector Ozeman ot tho Southern Bhops in Columbia, knocked Foreman Ovorton down the other day and beat him nearly to death with a hammer. Tho foreman it seems had reproved the inspector for neglecting his business. - ? The Hon. P. B. May son, member of the Bouse from Edgefield, will, at the present Bession of tho legislature, introduce a bill looking lo a discontin uance of the present system of public road working in the State, and a sub stitution therefor of the contract sys tem which obtains in many of the States, and some of the counties in this State. ? The Dorchester Democrat tells of the horrible death of the three-year old son of Mr. K. N. Headden of Bar ley ville daring Christmas week. The little feliow got hold of a half pint of whiskey and turpentine mixed and drank it. Tho draught caused convul sions and paralysis and the littlo hoy died in great agony. ? The Kingstree dispenser has been arrested and it is said that the detec tives have worked up a strong caso against him. It appears that he was drinking the day before tho alleged robbery and was said to have boasted of having $2,000 in his pockets. It turns out that his shortage will be $2,500 instead of $1,800 which he claims was taken from him. ? The Cherokee Iron company has been chartered. The object is to de velop iron mines in Cherokee and to mine nnd ship tho ore. This may bo the pioneer of a new industrial de velopment in that section of tho State. Iron mines were once in operation in tho upper part of tho State, and the name "old iron district'' still clings to it, though no mines aro now in operation. The cupital stock of the company i?s to bo $30,000. ? In the present general assembly as memborsTaro Messrs. Aldrich, Austin and Sheppard who wero members of tho Wallace house in 1870, during the reconstruction period. Gen. Hemphiil, who is the present clerk of the senate, is tho only other porson of tho present body who was a member of tho famous Wallace home. Most of tho members of that "house" have died in tho last decade. It was a historic organization. ? Deputy Marshal W. B. A. Corbin, of Walhalla, was assaulted at his own homo a few nights ago by several men. He was badly wounded, it i* believed that one object in going to Mr. Corbin's was to seizo mules which he had cap tured some time ago and which are to bo sold. Planks had been torn from tho rear end of his barn nnd some one had entered it but had not succeeded in reaching tho stalls whero the mules were kept. Blood hounds were brought from Clemson College hut nobody waa caught. UKNEIML NEWS ITEMS. ? Lato statistics show that Michigan now leads tho world in the production of beans. ? E. St. John the active head of the Seaboard Air Lino lias resigned. It is said that be will go to another road. ? Gnlvcston has expended t ?g and a quarter millions of dollars in now buildings since the storm in Septem ber. ? Tho orphnn asylum at Rochester, N. Y., wns burned down recently, and more than thirty people perished in tho flames. ? Near Lancaster, ivy., buzzards are attacking livo sheep. They fasten their claws in tho wool and proceed to make a meal of the shcop's flesh. ? Tho Finnish Turva Temperance Society at Ashtabuln, Ohio, is about to erect a $10,000 temple in which to hold its meetings nnd cutertainmcnts. ? Mayor Kol ley, of South Omaha, Neb., has been indicted on tho chaigv of accepting bribes from saloon men for the privilego of allowing them to keep open Sundays. ? Six boys broke through the ice while skatin g at Bridgeton, N. J., the other night und drowned before assis tance could reach them. Three bc I longed to one family. ? Tho Delaware legislature will be called on nt this session to abolish the whipping post, and another member will seek to make kidnapping punish able by death or life imprisonment. ? A Jersey City church has unani mously called to its pulpit a woman, Mrs. Charles 11. Vail, who will here after bo n spiritual shepherd of tht flock of the First Universalist Church ? In a circular announcing tho date of the Confederate reunion at Memphis General Gordon announces that 1,80( camps have joined the association uni applications have been received for 10( more. ? ltobert Goarhart, who is 81 yean old, recently walked from his homo ir Brush Creek township to McConuells burg, Vir , and back, making a rouue trip of 52 miles, lie is tho father of 2) children and has never been ill in hii life. ? During a revival meeting nt Kemp ton, Ind., a penitent confessed, ns hii I greatest sin, that he had voted foi Bryan, after accepting $20 to cast hit vote for McKinley. "Herenf ter," cri?e the convert, "I will voto ns they pnj I mo." I ? The Galveston News estimates I from the most complete and reliabb I data obtatnablo, that the property losi in Galveston from the storm of Sop tomber 8th last amounts to $17,058,270 I The heaviest loss was in residenei j property and contents to $0,100,500. ? An cx-Confederate soldier of Coop or County, Mo., who raised a ninet] pound pumpkin on his fa:m this sen son, intends to have tho mnmmotl vegetable made up into pics for din tribution among such of his forme: comrades of Shelby's brigade as rcBidi in his vicinity. ? A lie was tho result of an olectioi j for mayor held in the city of Worchos ter, Mass., tho other day. One of tin candidates was a democrat, the other i J republican. The republicans want U try it over, and the democrats want t< adopt the republican rule of throwing out a few votes and come in anyhow. ? A telegram to tho Charlotte Ob 1server from Lowell, Gaston county I tells of the collapse of tho Gaithercot ton mille, a four story struct mo on th< soutli fork of the Catawba river. N< lives were lost as the plant was ole and practically abandoned. This wai I one of tho oldest co?onmills in Nortl I Carolina, having been erected in 1851 ? Rev. L. S. Ingram, a Protestant missionary, located nt Oaxaca, South cm Mexico, wont to Laredo, Texas, tc bo married to Miss Franc Battley, ol London, who came tj this country t( meet her fiance. The ceremony wni performed by tho Rev. Mr. Rommen? of Lornn, 111. The bride travelled 5,0XK miles, the groom 1,200 miles and the clergyman 1,500 miles to the place ol meeting. ? Richard Thomas, who committee1 suicide with gas nt Philadelphia lust week, was a thoughtful person. H< left a letter addressed to tho gas com pany, in which ho said: "Enclosed you will find $1, which is to bo used as payment for tho gns required to end my life. What amount remains givi to the gas inspector of this district, autl ho is hereby directed to spend the same foi* a Christmas present for himself.1 The instructions were carried out. ? Nearly half a million people from all parts of tho world have come into tho United States during tho year just closed, seeking permanent homes. The details of the immigration indi cate that the totals will reach 100,000 immigrants for tho year. Austria Hungary furnished over 100,000, Italy another 100,000 and Russia nearly an other 100,000. Ireland sent 40,000 and the rest of tho United Kingdom 10,000. Only about 4,000 or les3 than one per cent, came from tho tropics. ?*Ir. Roberts, treasurer of the United States, calls attention tc the fnct that there is in tho vaults of the government; $480,009,005 in gold coin, the largest sum over known to bo in the treasury. Tho following is tho ex planation offered: "Tho immense ac cumulation is duo to tho Dingley tariff, w Meli has increased tho customs ro venues to tho great prosperity of the I country, nnd to the increased production I of gold, which has made tho United [ States tho creditor nation of tho world.11 Porlman News. lieront Port man for the last few days "the voice of many waters" is not a rhetorical ligure, but a substantial fact. The heavy rahm have filled the streams throughout the country, and the commingling voices, like harmon ious stFaius pitching their tones from the sonorous keyboard of the dam pro duce the sublime oratorio: Seneca in a storm. Seneca, apart from its poetry, is now a majestically sweeping stream. It has not the breadth of the Mississippi, nor the length of the Mis souri, hut it has the tremendous mean ing of a Niagara. Those who have crossed Niagara Falls, New York, in tho "maid of the mist," touched upon the American side and felt the keelof tho little boat churn in t he violent caldron of waves, strug gling with its wondrous machinery, and tilling its passenger* in the mist with terror, know in a larger degree the vibrations of thoRhore, the volcano ' or steam of spray, which make tho fall I of Port man shoals in high tide an im pressive spectacle. ) Seneca is tho embodiment of many I waters; the Iveowee river, 12-milo riv er, Little river, 18-mile, 2;1, 20-mile, and^Dcep Creeks. The Kcowco heads in the Blue Ridge, near Joeassce, in I Oconeo County; 12-milo river heads in I Pickena County, not far from Pickens Court House; Little river in the Blue Ridge at Highlands, N. C; 18-milo Creek heads near old Pickensville, emptying into the Seneca about three , miles above Portman shoals; 23-mile Creek heads a few miles Southeast of ) old Pickensville; 20-mile heads by , Slabtown and Pisgah Church; 23 and j 20-mile Creeks run together, close to , the old Earlo's Bridgo road, leading to ) Anderson. Seneca is not Seneca river I till 12-mile and Kcowco rivers meet } and How together, near Clenison Col lege. So forceful is tho descent at the foot i of the dam that during tho last high - tide a few months ago, the fall broke I in two a large rock, and cast tho scc i Hons, each measuring 12 or 15 feet s square by H thick, to a distance of 30 or 40 feet down stream. Sometimes - sections of the now dam aro loosened a by the concussion and require rebuild r ing. } Deep Creek bridge, loading from I Portman to Anderson, was the basin r for a small lake and not a river. Teams and their drivers crossed by faith and not by sight. Yet on Saturday last in 3 a march that from its safity wad evi 9 dentlynota military drill, 20 wagon - loads of cornent from J. S. Fowler in Anderson crossed over in procession, 0 rendering assurance to others doubly sure. A mulo with its wagon and - occupants waited almost an hour for T the presence of a horso whose reason - ing faculties would decoy the faithless 1 mule over. Tho horao came, driven by - a lady in her buggy, tho man requested r tho privilege of following in her train, 3 remarking intelligently, "a mule is such a fool, aud a horse aint." 1 Tho bridge crossing 23-milo creek, - between Port man and Asbury, would 3 bo sacrificing no beauty to its utility, i were it to completely drop into the > creek and out of sight. It is tho bete > noire, as tho French would say, of all ' ? travellers that way, lest?having no other pass by which to go?they find - themselves much like tho Egyptians in > tho middle of the bridge and tho cen tro of tho stream tho samo time. At 3 its best in dry weather, the traveller > says his prayer or counts his beads be 1 foro crossing, feeling his head filled with the unwilling belief that the bot i torn of tho bridge, like tho keol of a boat dipping in the water?or almost t dipping for so long?must surely bo mouldy or rotten. This impression is > strengthened by tho bridgo being sunk I' on on one side to almost the water's ) level. Saturday, 12th inst., a meeting was ? called at Asbury to decide upon a loca ) tion for a school building, and see i whether a now school house should be E built or tho old retained which seven or eight years ago was new, amlremov l ed in tho interest of the graded school t at Denver. Since the removal of this i school, the people of a large vicinity have boon sadly lacking ?u school op i portunities. Three townships are I ready to combine with Asbury?Rock i Mills, Pendleton and Centervillo; the s nearest schoolhouso to all theso is I Zion. s The school commissioner, Mr. Sam ' Georg?', says: Go ahoad and build; ho sees ample claim upon public school I fund from so large a section, and in tends they shall have it. Already|thir ty or forty scholars are awaiting their inalienable right to public education. Tho whistle of Mr. John A. Bolt's saw mill knows no rest from morning to night. The lumber carried away from thero indicates steady progress in building throughout tho country. Mr. Willie A. Bolt's child, who has been sick, is well. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Busby had the pleasure of responding to aa "At Home" invitation from Mr. and Mrs. J. ! J. Norris, of Andorson. The bride Mrs. Norris, nee Hill, is charming in her I r?ception?, any a Mrs. Busby, and tho young wife's homo as beautiful in interior as tho lady is in personality. Dr. Orr has given a new incentive to guests visiting Portman. The Doctor lias placed a zonophono in tho Hotel for tho public pleasure; twelve select picceagrind around from gay to solemn, and the Doctor promises fifty inoro new airs when ho can make his choic est selections of plates.