Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Intelligencer. Published every Wednesday. J. F. CLINKSCAI.ES, I EDITORS AND G. C. LANGSTON, \ PROPRIETORS, TERMS! ONE YEAR, - - - - $1 60 SIX MONTHS, - - - 75 .VEDNESDAY, JUNE 2b', 1901. Clemson College has just closed the most successful year in its history. The College has had 450 cadets on its rcll and has been forced to turn away many because of lack of room. The new barracks being built will atcomno date 150 boys, KO that an attendance of (?00 is expected next fall. The past year has hoer? -xii unusually prosperous one for South Carolina's schools and colleges, lu thc State, sectarian and non denominational pri vate institutions thc attendance has been unusually large, while thc grad uating classes have contained a greater number than in almost any previous year. -.- mm m mm Capt. i>. C. Ileyward, of Walter boro, has been nominated by the W'al terboro J'rrs.K ami Standard as a can didate for (jovernor next year, and in another column we publish a shor'. communication from one of our citi zens endorsing thc nomination. Capt. Ileyward is a leading fanner of Colin ton County, and is a man who has always possessed thc unbounded con fidence and highest respect of his many friends throughout thc State. Ile has had very little to do with politic?, and is eminently quulified to fill the Executive chair of South Car olina. It docs not disturb people living at present to loam that the coal measures of England arc being rapidly exhaust ed and that the same fate will event ually befall thc United States, Bay in 300 years. Hut men are prospecting on that point and wc arc also informed that China possesses an unlimited sup ply of coal, almost untouched, and the inferenco is that, in thc far future, as the metal supremacy of the world is leaving England and going to the United States, China will, with her coal and iron measures become, ulti mately, the most extensive and en during industrial empire of the world. Probably before ?100 years have passed ooal will no longer be in request for fuel. Oil or something else may take its placo. At any rate we who now inhabit thia planet need not worry over what may happen centur'.?s hence. Wo will not be here, and the other fellows to come aftor us may be left to their own dovioes. The American girl is rapidly prov ing that she is superior to the Ameri can boy in a great many respects when it comes to getting an education. It may not be true that giris are brighter than their male follow students, but it is undoubtedly true that they are more conscientious, to bogin with, and that oounts for much. Then they tako pride in their work, and that is a wonderful spur in effort. Every high school commencement furnishes proof of the fact that girls work harder and to better purpose than do the boys. Almost always four-fifths of thc grad uates are girls, and the great majority of them go through the twelve years of school work without missing a sin gle promotion. Some boy3 are com pelled to drop out of the high schools to go to work, but in many instances the dropping out is due to indolenoe. The American boy should stand up and givo an account of himself. Is he willing to admit that he cannot keep up with the American girl in the race for eduoation, either because of inferior mental powers or because ho is lazy and indifferent to the opportu nities that are presented to him? The prosperity of the South is a subject of much discussion among northern capitalists and in thc news papers of that section. The discus sion will no doubt result in much solid and substantial good to this seotion, and the good work has been largely augmented by thc Southern Industrial Convention recently held in Philadel phia. In this connection the New York Worl<7 presents some interesting facts an ligures. After stating that the South includes one-fourth of the total area and one-third of the popu lation of the United States the World notes that its cotton and cotton seed alone gave it an income last year of $545,000,000-the largest value of any single orop in the world. Its corn and its lumber product brought it the snug sum of $300,000,000. Moreover, thc South raises 80 per cent of all its coal, produces IS per cent of its iron, has30 percent of its total rail road mileage and a steadily increasing percentage of its manufacturing. The growth of its cotton rciils has been simply wonderful. These oonditions lead tho World to tho conclusion that New England's old supremacy in thc manufacturing of cotton is gone; neve1, probably to return. "Taking ouc thiog with auother," it says, "thej are doing very well indeed 'away down South in Dixie.'" Senator McLaurin has accepted an invitation to address the voters of the Piedmont scetiou at Spartanburg oo July 4th. Thc first bale of colton of the 15)01 crop was shipped from Nueccss Coun ty, Texas, to Houston, on Thursday, 20th inst. It is claimed this breaks the world's record for carly cotton by four days. The new third party has been launch ed in St. Louis. It claims to bc in sympathy with Bryan, butit looks as if it is going to make any kind of deals to get ahead, Bryan denies any connection whatever with it. A iiood Man Suggested for Governor. l?litor Intelligencer: Your course us a Journalist, through all the yeal? ol' turmoil which have followed the up heaval ai 18?0, han been so cairn and conservative that I feel sure you will take very kindly to a proposition to elect a man to the oflice of (?overnor who is not a partisan and has never been a politician. Such a man is D. C. Hey ward, nf Colleton, who has just been suggested hy his local lispers for the oflice of < ?overnor. Capt. Ileyward is a gent Ionian of the purest character and most unblemished life, ile ?B a linc speaker, highly educated and fully informed on all public questions. Withal, lie has all his life been a larmer, and is, therefore, closely identi fied in interest with the most numerous class of our population. I^m't you think the people of this State would be glad of the opportunity to vote for such and thereby toll the politicians that they are tired of them T ? do. B. Wooden Shoes in New York. "1 was surprised the other day to lind a mau who makes a specialty of woodeu shoes," said the man with the red mustache. "In my ignorance I had supposed that there was not a sample of that kind of footgear to he found in New York, unless it might be a few specimens brought over by German and Dutch immigrants, but I know now that there is at least ono person in town who considers the fashioning of wooden shoes a lino art and who pursues his culling diligently. "This man, who is of German birth, is housed in a little narrow shop up on Hast Fifty-ninth street. His work room is nothing moro than an old dis used hallway, but in those close quar ters ho has stowed away all the appli ances of his craft, and there he whit tles and planes away steadily on his ungainly footwear. "I'pon my expressing surprise that an occupation so antiquated and foreign could yield him any sort of income in this town ho explained that there are hundreds of residents of Now York who retain their fondness for tho shoes they were accustomed to wear when young, and that in the privacy of their own homes and on the streets in their own immediate neighborhood they still go stumping about in wooden shoes. "This particnlnr shoemaker turns out, he tells me, no fewer than 150 pairs ot shoes a year, which sell for 75 cents to $2 a pair, according to the si/.o and amount of line work on them. MoBt of these shooB are made to order, hut he keeps a small stock on hand to supply the wants of chanco customers who may happen to needapair of shoes in a hurry and nie not particular ns to size and style. "While I stood there talking to the little cobbler he had a call from a wo man whoBO wooden-shod feet rang out loudly on the bare floor, and when 1 saw her go tramping around in that primitive gear I made up ray mind that I wouldn't ba surprised to see adopted New Yorkers wearing Oriental sandals in the streets next."-yew York Sun. If you have a Mirror you want Re Si Ive red, or want a Mirror made to flt or replace the old broken one, see R. W. SPEER. He will make or repair all BIZOS at reasonable prices. 33-13 ti EN Ell AL MEWS. - Virginia's convention is now in session. They want a new constitu tion. - If the machinists on a strike stay out there will be about 7,000 out of a job. - An 88 year old wife in Paterson, N. J., wants a divorce from hdr hus band for desertion. - Parisians have beoomo so fond of horse flesh that a slaughter house for horses will be built. - Mrs. McKinley continues to im prove slowly and a trip homo to Can ton is contemplated early in July. - Attempts to close the Pan-Amer ican Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., on Sunday by legal proceedings were stopped. - The Gre stricken city of Jackson ville, Florida, has suffered another severo loss bj' Gre amounting to fifty thousand dollars. - Abe Barrett, a negro who assault ed a white girl at Gulf Port, La., was hanged by a mob on tao 18th. Ile con fessed to the crime. - A $40,000 pearl was found in a clam near Lansing, Iowa, by a fisher man. It is said to bc the finest ever found in the United States. - Chas. J. Ryan, 26 years old, committed suicide in court in New York by drinking carbolio aoid. He had just been sentenced to threo months in prison for abusing his wife. - A woman in Chioago sued for a divorce because her husband fooled her by claiming that he had a sprained ant lu when ho bsd a wooden leg. - By the men apportionment Cook county, 111., which includes Chioago, will have, two'years henee, 57 of the : 153 members of tbe house of represen tatives of Illinois. , - Patrick Hawkins was perhaps blinded for life by Miss Mary Collins, at New York City, who throw earbolio acid in his face in revengo for his hav ing jilted her. - Thc California orange crop is the largest ever grown. - Strutting about on a Colorado Springs ostrich farm is a big bird that is valued at $1,100, $100 for himself and a ci,OOO for his owuer's diamond stud, which ho swallowed the other day. - Dr. Franklin H. Kerfoot, corres ponding secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board, died last Saturday night at his home in Atlanta of acute rheumatism. - Bishop Galloway left Jackson ville, Miss., on the 17th for Rio De Janeiro to preside over thc Mission Conference of Brazil. This is said to be the most flourishing mission field of the Methodist Church. - Samuel Wood of New York died in 1878 leaving $1,000,000 to found a college of music. The will was con tested and has been in litigation for 23 years, and $1:10,000 of tho million hus been left. How that escaped the lawyers has not bein explained. - There are overS.OOO aores of cot ton planted this year in Nicaragua. Planters now estimate that they will be ablo to sell the product at 4 1-2 cents per pound, Nicaragua currency, cr abouti 1'J cents iu guid?t tue present rate of exchango. - Tho gross receipts for the fifty largest postoffices in the United States for May, 1001, as shown by a state ment issued by the Postofiice Depart ment, v ere $4,334,571, as compared with $3,815,120 for May of last year, an increase of $510,442, or 13.G per cent. - Five negroes were legally hanged from tho sami gallows 'n Sylvania, Georgia, last Friday. They belonged to a secret order known as "The Knights of AfOuCr," ami had been eonvieted of murdering two prominent citizens of Screven county. Tho ex ecution was witnessed by several thousand people. - Of tho 053,243 population of Por to Rico only 75,000 live in cities. On the island but 100 miles long and 36 miles wide are 40,000 district farms and one-fifth of the island is under cultivation. Tho average size of a a farm in Porto Rico is 45 acres, of which 12 are cultivated. Seventy-one per cent of these Porto Rican farms are owned by whites. - It is dangerous business to .'monkey" with Texas justice. Some time ago a man named Dent forged a pardon and therewith secured the liberation of a life convict. He re ceived $10,000 for tho forgery. When the trick was discovered, Dent was ar rested, tried and convicted and sen tenced to serve the sentence of thc man he liberated-the term of his natural life. The matter was taken to tho snproinc court, which the other day decided that the sentence upon Dent was legal. - A railway has been projected be tween Berlin and Hamburg, in Ger many, a distance of 156 miles, on which electric trains will run at a spied of 126 miles an hour. The tracks will bo isolated, and there will be no grade crossings or switches, all the ordinary interferences' with high speed thus being eliminated. The road will cost about $33,000,000. If the existing plans should be carried out, tho question of the relative cost of steam and electricity on long dis tance railways may be partly settled, at least. NOTICE. WILL, let to the lowest responsible bidder on Saturday, the 29th day of June, at 10 o'clock a. m , the building of a Bridge over Broadaway Creek, near the Broectaway Trestle, in Broadaway Town ship. Also, on Wednesday, the 3rd day of July, at IO o'clock a. m., the building of a Bridge over Hooky Elver, at Hogan's Mille, in Kali Township. Also, on ?ame day, at 2 o'clock p. m., the building of a Bridge over Rocky Riv er, at Lee's Shoals, in Hall Township. Also, on same day, at 4 o'clock p.m., the building of a Bridge over Kooky Riv er, at Jaokson's Milla, in Hall Township. Also, on Thursday, the 4th day ot July, at 10 o'clock a. m., the building of a Bridge over Hencoop Greek, at the Par ker bottoms, in Martin Township. Also, on same day, at 4 o'clock p. m., the building of a Bridge over Broad mouth Creek, near Broadmouth Church, in Monea Path Township. Also, on Friday, the 5th day of Joly, at 10 o'clock a. m., the building of a Bridge over Big Greek, at Wilson's Mill?, in Salton Township. Akt?. on same day at a o'clock p. m., the building of a Bridge over Cherokee Creek, near George W. Pant'?, in Belton Township. Reserving right to accept or reject any or all bid s. J. N. VANDIVER. Co. Sup. A. C. JAS. H. CRAWFORD, PHYSICIAN A.wrr> SURGEON. OFFIOE-Over the Post Office. A DREAM OF FRIENDS. The possession of PHOTOS of friends is a decided pleasure, and as time rolls on these mementoes become moro valuable because they can't be replaced. You should do your share toward laying up future pleasure for others. My PHOTOS aro lifo-liko now and will still be works of art years hence. J. H. COLLINS. Midway News. Kev. J. L. McLin preached a very interesting sermon last third Sunday, which waa sincerely received by the wein bera and several visitors. Misses Vernie and Dora Martin and Karn Heed, three young ladies from Williamston Female College, have re turned home to spend their vacation. Mr. Mack Martin, who is suffering with rheumatism, we regret to note, is not improving much. Two of our young lassies were con sulting a very serious subject a few days ago on matrimony. It seemed that the widowers were tho only ones with them. Ono used a very nattering expression just ns a lady stepped in the house and said: "Girls, you don't know who is setting on the piazza, do you?" Tho last heavy rains have damaged the bottoms very much and are now in a bad condition. It will bo a hard mat ter to make corn on them this year. The health of this community is very good at this writing, and everybody seems to be in a big hurry to work. Messrs. A. N. Fortune, Kerry Wilson and F. J. Rhody and Misses Pearl, Nora and Sudie McConnell and Ger trude Rhody enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon on Monday, June 17, fishing and hunting Howers. Tho fish were very hungry and they caught eight, so large it was with great difficulty that they could be handled at all. The farmers have finished cutting wheat, which is not as good as they expected. Messrs. A. N. Fortune and Berry Wilson were in our midst a few days last week. They may rest assured of a cordial welcome. One of our youno? erents felt very I much ?truck when he opened n package j and found that old letter? wno the con tents, Don't take it so ha rd, old boy, there are better tish in the Bea than over has been caught out. Cotton is very much behind this year, and there are a fow farmers who are not yet through thinning, bat we hope it will soon catch up and yWd an abundant crop. BELL. Program Fer Sunday School Union. The Sunday School Union of the 3rd Union District will meet with the Pen dleton Baptist Sunday School next Sunday, June 30. l st. Devotional exercises from 0:30 to 10 o'clock, conducted by P. P. King. 2nd. Reports from the schools-30 minutes. 3rd. Address by J. M. Pagett-30 minutes. Subject to be chosen byhim solf. The Sunday Schools in tho District are earnestly urged to send at least two delesrates vnch. L. P. SMITH. FOSTER L. BROWN, C. (Jr. BURRISS, Committee. One of the President's Cars. The Southern Railway having inaugu rated "Gentlemen's Club Caro" on the Washington and Southwestern Limited between Atlanta and New York making this one of the ti nest passenger trains in the United t?rales, has succeeded in ob taining as one of the nsrs for use on these trains Gentlemen'H Club Car . Atlantic," which was recently used by President McKinley on his tour to the Pacific Coast. No better guarantee of tho elegance of these Club Cars could be given than that they are of the class of Pullman equip ment seleoted by the President for bis tour which, as a matter of course, ls of the finest workmanship and latest de Shoe Sales SEEK SUMMER STIMULANTS. WE don't propose to hold Sunday School during the week, nor to open a Bleeping joint at our place during the dull season this Summer. We havn't slept a little bit since Sept lat, bot have kept things howling at a lively clip, and as a result we have doubled our business of last year, as evidenced by our sales-book. Now, we defy the dullness of Summer, and in making a new record propose to make one that can't be beat without hustling. Our Goods are all paid for, and are oura to do with just aa we see fit. So, just to liven up the sleeping animals a bit we will throw our entire .Stock of newly arrived Summer ?lioes On the market at prices that will make our unfortuuate competitors foam at the mouth. We are sorry for them, but foaming is mighty good for Borne folks. They're powerful good and pretty, (the Shoes, we mean,) but they've got to go. Wc can't bear to be so lonesome during these hot months, and if we can't swell the crowds at our counters one way, we'll do it another. When we say that our Shoes are of the best quality, thoee who have traded with us the longest know that they are up to the standard. This is the Store you've heard so much about-that you can trade with us safely, even with your eyes shut. Don't forget that we are the largest distributors of CORN, HAY, FLOUR, TOBACCO, And everything else people and horses eat. If it isn't here it isn't anywhere. DEAN & RATLIFFE. DUE WEST FEMALE COLLEGE. OFFERS A. B., B. S., Normal, MUBIC, Expression, Art and Business courses un der experienced teachers, and the best moral, social and religious environment, in an ideal College community. The purest tubular well water. Home comforts and restraints. The last year was moat successful, every room in the building being occupied. Applications should be made early for next term. Terms low. JAMES BOYCE. President. Jnne 10,1001-oct 1 Doe West, 8. C. -CELEBRATED ^ Acme Paint and Cement Cure* Specially used on Tin Koofs and Iron Work of any kind. xor ?aie by ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. Reference : F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Druggists, Anderson, S. G. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNI HAVING sold my entire interest in the Firm of HILL-ORR DRUG CO. I hereby transfer to them all profits in said Firm, and am absolved hy them of all liabilities of every description. They to have and collect all Accounts and pay all debts. June 1,1001. G. W. EVANS. HAVING purchased of G. W. EVANS his entire interest in the Firm of Hill-Orr Drug Co. we assume all liabilities of said Firm, and will collect all 6ums due said Firm. June \ 1901. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. FRESH SHIPMENT OF NATIONAL BISCUIT GO'S. Cakes and Crackers. Peach Creams, Assorted Atl?ntica, Chocolate Marshmallow, Fig Newton, Cream Jumbles, Five O'clock Tea, Social Tea, (fee, _A.t 20o. per pound..-. A big assortment in Package Goods. C. tfRANK BOLT, The Cash Grocer. LAST WEEK OF THE Only a few days more and the Big June sale? remarkable for its extraordinary Low Prices and throngs of buyers, will close: Prices are materially reduced in every department. Good? never were sold at such small prives, under Uko conditions, before. Tou have b ta few days more to take advantage of this money-saving opportunity. 3000 T?Sm? LAWNS Have just been received. The regular price is 6c. a yard, but the June Sale price is TWO AND ONE-HALF CENTS A YARD. Three thousand other items have their prices cut into in the same fashion. Men's Clothing Cheap. Special prices prevail in the Men's Clothing department. Tou cannot buy a Suit of Clothes anywhere at prices such as we will make for you. Besides, wo have the heaviest stock anywhere to be found. Compare it with the City Clothing Stocks and you will be right. We have here just what you want, and at June Sale Prices. Agents for American Lady Corsets. Agents for Butterick Patterns. Ask for a Coupon for FREE PREMIUMS. Ju Respectfully, . Weil & Co. Up-to-Date Men ! It is not necessary to wear the most expensive Clothing, or even the very latest cot, to be up-to-date. It is the accessories that count : A Nice Umbrella, Correct Furnishings, The Little Particulars. Our line of UMBRELLAS, fer G^?smss. ssd Ladies, is tbs most cor* rect in the city. Will you look in? Next to Post Office. Perfect Grain Savers ! The Celebrated old Seven-Finger Counts, And Fourteen-Finger Josh Berry <2KR,.A.i:iSr CRADLES ! Every Cradle perfectly set and fitted with blades of highest quality. McCormick Mowers and Reapers ! McCormick Mowers heve the lightest draft, the! simplest gearing, the longest and strongest pitmans, widest and strongest, riamos, largest wheels and the most excellent and line Cutter Bara of any Mowers on tho market. There is not a point in the mechanism of these excellent Mowers in which any expert obn fail to appreciate their superiority. In case you ooma in contact with stumps or other obstructions tho Cutter Bars of these Mowers can be Tai?Ad by ? ??mple pressure cf the trip with tb? foot or a pull of tho lover with the hand, without stopping to throw the ma chine ou! of gear ; after passing snob obstruction simply drop the Cutter B?J with thp Lever and tba machiuo is atttomotically thrown back into gear ant contin?en to ont as before. This is only cns of ?he many ?oou foulures of the McCorsnck. Wo invite you \o let us demonstrate some of the many others to you, and we wi8h to impress upon you the fact that there is no Mower on tho mark? that will require as few ropairs as the matchless McCormick. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO.