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AND Preparing to go away to SCHOOL we would be pleased to assist in Getting Up Your Outfit ! We have had you in mind for some time, and have had some Goods shipped early for your benefit. We have just opened up a lot of Ai! especially well-assorted line of Black Dress Goods. We are offering a remarkable value in a 3 8 ?inch all-wool Bilk-finished Henrietta at 50c. yard. The prettiest cloth you ever saw at 50c. Also, good values in Black Henriettas at 78c, $1.00 and $1.25. Serges as popular as Ever. All-wool Serges at 50c, 75c and $1.00. Beautiful Black Mohairs at 50c and 75c per yard. Hew stock of Black Melrose, Granite Cloths, Prunellas, ?c., and some new weaves. We have a good stock of Ladies5 and. Misses' SUMMER OXFORDS That weare anxious to close out, but if you prefer the new Fall and Winter Shoes we have the best and most stylish. Also, Summer Shoes for the young men. New Fall and Winter Shoes expected every day. Trunks Will of course interest every one. You will not find the variety of styles and prices elsewhere. Good Strong Trunks at $2.50, $3.00, $8.50, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00. Elegant Trunks at $6.00, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50, $8.00, $8.50, 83.00 and S9.??. Handsome Trunks at $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00. Also, a large line of Dress Suit Cases, Valises, Telescopes, Hand Satchels and Traveling Bags. BLANKETS. GUILTS, COMFORTS, SHEETS and j BED FINDINGS. Just the things you will need. Big variety and good values in TOWELS and LINENS. NOTIONS-a Complete Stock. All are invited to see our Stock. None can come nearer supplying your wants. PRICES GUARANTEED. Yours truly, Successors to Brown, Osborne & Co., WMesale and Retail Coalers in ?Greneral IS^erolaaiiciise. A.NT>IU:EW*OT*, H. C. Local News. WBDNE8DAY, AUG.*23, ?90i. The days of tho straw hat are uum bered. The Anderson base ball team has disbanded for thia season. The farmers are discussing the price of cotton with much interest Next Monday ia Salesday. There will be no publio eales of real estate. Rust has appeared in cotton in sever? al sections, particularly in sandy land. George W. Evans went over to Glenn Springe last week to spend a few days; Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Kati i fib left last week to spend a few days in tho moun tains. The Anderson merchants are laying in large stocks of goods for the fall and winter trade. Mrs. John McFall, of Greenville, is in th?* city visiting her daughter, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Harris. Next Monday is Labi >r Day, and by an Act of the Legislature isa legal hol iday in this State. Miss Birtie Ortman, of Charleston, is in the city visiting the family of her uncle, C H. Ortman. J. A. Ruddock, of Charleston, form erly of Anderson, ia here visiting his neice, Mrs. Baylis Maxwell. Guy E.; Mauldin, accompanied by his wife and children, of Washington, D. C., is visiting relatives in the city. The County Singing Convention will meet in annual session at Neal's Creek Church next Saturday and Sunday. Rev. J. D. Chapman and family, who have been spending a few weeks in the mountains, returned home yesterday. The fine cotton on some of the farms around town has surprised the natives, by its rapid growth and development. Lawrence H. Carlisle, of Union, spent last Saturday and Sunday in Anderson visiting his father and other relatives. The County Supervisor has an im portant notice in another column to bridge contractors who should read it. Mr. Joe W. Pr?vost and wife, of Charlotte, N. C., are in Anderson vis iting the former's mother and other relatives. C. C. Hind man, of Pelzer.has accept ed a position with the Sullivan Hard* ware Co., in this city, and will move his family here. Cotton ties have gone up ten to twen ty cents on the bundle and heavy or ders are being sent in to the factories. The strike has caused this. L. P. Smith's proposed oxen; sion to Atlanta next Tuesday has been post poned to a later date. The railroad could not furnish him a train for that date. Mr. R. W. Dodgen, of Gainesville, Ga., representing the McNeel -Marble Company, spent a few days in Ander son last week and give us an apprecia ted call. George N. Broyles has purchased an interest m tuc C. A. Reed Musio House, He has long been in the employof Mr. Reed, and thoroughly understands the business. <. The hunting season will begin on the first bf November. The attention of the eports is called to the game laws of this State and before the season begins it would be well to review them. W. B. Di wer, who was recently elected Assistant Chief of the Ander son Fire Department, has ivjgned. LUBE evening the firemen held a meet ing and elected Walter H. Murphy as his successor. Mr. ?nd Mrs. W. H. Smith, of Broad way Township, have the sympathies of their friends in the death of their in fant son, which occurred last Sunday. The interment took place at Eureka Church on Monday. Alice, the 2-year-old daughter of J. .J. Sra:rh, died at her home in Hope well Township last Monday after noon, i after a brief illness with scarlet fever. The remains were buried at Hopewell Church yesterday afternoon. A colored farmers' institute will be held at Anderson on Thursday, Sep tember 5th, beginning at ll o'clock a.. m. ' An address will be made by Thom as E. Miller, President of the State Colored College at Orangeburg. The Sheriff and his Deputy are now on the trail of the delinquent poll tax payers and are arresting a few of them every day. There are several hundred, and many of them will be forced to do service in the County chain gang. Next Friday is the day for the Sena torial candidates to let off their gas in Ander r on. Only one side of tho ques tions now agitating the minds our people will bo heard, but tho oe .jion will no doubt attract a large crowd. The new advertisement of Ligon & Le db ott cr will prove specially inter esting to the farmers, who should read it carefully. This firm has just re ceived a lot of fine seed oats and are offering them at prices that will please you. Wo are indebted to Rev. W. W. Leathers, Clerk, for a copy ol the min utes ot the recent annual session of the Salufia Baptist Association. It full of ***disg matter-statistics, of the chc.'ch js, reports Of the various com mittees, etc. The annual reunion of the descend ants of Maj. Thos. H. Russell was held at his old homo in the Slabtown sec tion last week, and was attended by about 75 of his descendants. Maj. Russell is now 81 years old, but has the agility of a much younger man. His desccsdasts uu?uber about one hun dred, and tho reunion was no doubt a most pleasant occasion to all who at tended. ! Rev. W. W. Leather*, the efficient ! Clerk, requests as to announce that the minutes of the Saluda Association are arc at Dean & RatiifiVs store in the hands ot N. C. Burris?. Clerks of the churches are requested to call there and get them at once. Mrs. Docia Brock, wife of W. W. Brock, died at her home at Millville last Wednesday, after aa illness of several weeks. She was about 83 years of age and a Rood woman, whose death is regretted by her friends. She leaves a husband and five children. In the municipal election io Spartan - burg our former feMow-towneman, W. H. Dillingham, was elected Alderman from Ward 1, having secured the hand some majority of 141 votes over both his competitors. We join his many friends in Anderson in extending con gratulations. Kev. W.T. Capers, the former be loved rector of Grace Church, with his interesting family, who were the guests of Mr. and Mis. J. A. Brock last week, have gone to Cedar Mountain, the sum mer homo of Bishop Capers, tc ??pond a few weeks before returning to their home in Vicksburg, Mies. August has certainly been a wet month. In this section rain has fallen every day with two or three excep tion?, and much damage has been done to tho public roads and bridges. Some of our farmers say that their cotton crops aro showing a little rust and oth er crops are being damaged. Co. I. of the 14th S. C. V., will hole its reunion on Thursday, Septembei 5th. Col. J. N. Brown, of this city Gen. T. W. Carwile, of Edgefield, anc Gen. R. R. Hem&bill, cf Abbeville, hav< been invited to address the survivors who are looking forward to the occa sion with pleasant anticipations. Five ia?n were killed and several se riously hurt by reason of an acciden on the new bridge being built acros the Congaree River, near Columbi? last Monday. Sam Williford, anegr from Anderson County, was among th number killed. He was horribl mangled by a heavy beam falling o him. Our venerable townsman, Mr. Georg W. Fant, is confined to his home wit what is feared to be an attack of pu rai j sis. It bas boen coming oohii gradually for several days, and thi morning he is almost helpless on oe side. His maoy old friends througl out the County will regret to hear < his illness. The August number of The Erpoa Hon, a magazine devoted to The Soot Carolina and Inter-State and Wei Indian Exposition in Charleston, coi tains pictures of the officers and men bera of the Woman's Departing among which is one of Mrs. James 1 Yandi vcr, of this city, who is chairmr of the committee in this County. The State Board of Assessors ha^ given oat the figures in reference the cotton mills in this State. The are 116 mills io the State. Spartanba: County stands in the lead, with Ande son second. Aiken' third and Greenvil fourth. The valuations for Sparta barg County is $4,422,205; Anderso $2,180,800; Aiken. $1,718,052; Grce ville, $1,608,515. Two car loads of beautiful Tenness pink marble arrived in the city Mond and will be used in the front of Hi Bros. commodious storeroom on Sou Main Street. The marble was sold them by O. J. Hammond, who repi sen ta tho Tennessee Co. in this cit and when pat in place will present o of the handsomest fronts of any bull iog in the State. The appointments of commission and non-commissioned officers for t cadet corps of Clemson College for 1 coming year bave been announce The following Anderson County b( are named for their respective po tions: Lieutenant-F. E. Spearm Sergeant-L. O. King, C. V. Sitton, Garrison and W. A. Holland; Corp o -F. T. Hamlin. B. F. Lee and E. Brown. Last Saturday afternoon L. S. M tison, President of the Anderson Bi Ball Association, was presented by I members of the team with a beaati sterling silver shaving set. The me hers in a body waited on Mr. Matti, and the presentation speech, was mi by Manager Moore, which was resp on i to very eloquently by the former, \ was completely taken by surprise the kind act. Marion Clayton, a negro, entered depot at Iva last Friday, stole a nt ber of railroad tickets and rode on of them to Anderson. The theft' soon discovered and the agent t< phoned a description of the negri Deputy Sheriff Dillingham, who, : short while, arrested him. He ? tried before Magistrate Wilson on ? urdny and sentenced to '?/) days of h labor in the chain gang. Lewis E. Abercrombie, of Conterv Township, is the champion watermc producer in this section so far this ! son. Last Saturday he brought i load of the finest we have ever see Anderson, the largest of which wei ed 67i pounds, and many of tl weighing 40 or 50 pounds. Mr. Al crombie is one of Anderson Coun most progressive young farmers, success ir crowning his efforts. Lee I vester was riding a horse, wi i belonged to his father, yesterday al noon. While passing the Andei Cotton Mill he stopped near nn e!ei light polo and the horse came in < tact with a guy wire, which was > near th? current wire. Suddenly animal fell to the ground and i died. The boy was slightly hurt the horse falling on him. The cur was of sufficient force to kill an ani bul not hurt a man. *> Thc Augusta Chronicle of the i inst., in itsrrnort of the City Court j cc cd i ogs, says: "Newt Sloan, a ni man claiming Anderson, 8. C., m home, and Artie Harris, claiming t */<??>?;._'.,' y:*/l. <'\->-'A ' <fvLr.'?' a boat hand, were picked up ou the streets for acting iu n suspicious man lier. Newt was given the choice of tho following three penalties: a tine of $300 or 00 days on tho public works or twen ty-four hours in which to leave the city for good. Ile took the last." Buck Patterson, colored, who lives with Dr. lt. G. Witherspoon in South Carolina, had his mule drowned while attempting to cross Lightwood Log creek, near Miltown Church, Monday evening. Ile had his wife and chil dren with him who escaped without injury. The rushing waters swept tho buggy down tho creek several yards. The recent rains have swollen the wa ie recurses considerably. Reports uro that the Savannah Riveris very high. -J?articell (Cia.) Sun Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Chambleo and bright little children, ot' Mountain Creek, S. C., were in town Monday. The Sun oftico was the recipient of a very pleasant call from Mr. Chamblce, who informed us that the main object of his visit wns to purchase a farm aud becom? n permanent resident of our county. Ho is a clover, public spirited citizen; a substantial and successful planter. His is au estimable family and would be a valuable acquisition to Hart's citizenship.- Hartnell (t?a.) Sun. Tho Sunday School Institute of the South Carolina Presbytery held its first annual session in tho First Pres byterian Church, this city, Inst week, and wns well attended, nearly every Church in tho Presbytery being repre sented. Rev. R. G. McLees, of Green wood, was elected chairman, and Kev. H. R. Murchison, of this city, secre tary. The sessions were exceedingly interesting, and the delegates no doubt returned to their respective homes full of renewed energy for work io their Sunday Schools. Tho State of Sunday says: "Notice has been filed with with the Secretary of State of the iutention of the pur chasers of the Blue Ridge railroad to make application tomorrow for an amendment of charter in order to ex tend the line from its present terminus at Walhalla on toward the ultimate terminus at Rabun Gap, Ga. Mr. B.L. Abney, one of the new owners of the road, was not in the city yesterday and could not be seen; consequently, it is impossible to give any further details just at this time.1' The Xe iv fi and Courier ol last Mon day contained a map of South Carolina, showing the average number of per sons to the square mile in each County, based on calculations made from the official reports of the last census. The population of the State is 1,151,310, and the area 80,170 square miles. Ander son County, with 74 persons to the square mile, stands fourth in the list of Counties. Charleston leads with 120 to the square mile, Spartan burg comes next with 80, and Richland takes the third place with 75. Gen. Hemphill, of the Aobevillo Medium, in speaking of the recent re union of Orr's Regiment nt Sandy Springs, says: "The audience divided into groupu and picnic dinners wore spread. We took dinner with the party in which Mrs. J. D. McElroy was th*, moving spirit. She is a handsome wo man with light hair, a winning manner and a welcome in her voice and eyes. She and her friends made us feel at home. In abundance, variety and manner of preparation, the dinner was all that an epicure could desire." $2,810. Will buy a well-improved and very de sirable Farm of 231 sere?. Schools, Chuiobea, Doctora, trl-weekly mails, su perb road8. No better community in the State. Timber, bottoms, ?fee. Easy terms. Also, l?O aores, or less, of the freshest sod most productivo farm lands near market. Also, 20 to 30 other choice farms. Call on me. W. H. FRIBR80N, Anderson, ?. C. Strickland's Corn and Oin Mill, in Va rennes Township, have been repaired, are now in good order and ready to serve the public 10-2 WANTED-Shucks In any size lota at once, at the Anderson Mattress Factory. 10-2 Kolice I Those who owe us for past indebted ness, either by note or aooount, will eave cost of collection by an early settlement. 0-4 W?hlte & W?hlte. MONEY TO LOAN ON LAND. A few thousand dollars to loan now for olienta at 8 per cent. B. F. MARTIN, Attorney. Bee Ooonee's crops aod the farms-in size from 25 to 1500 aores-for sale by Thompson & Swann, Seneca, S. C. Piles! Piles! Piles! Dr. Williams' Indian File Ointment is prepared to cure Piles and DOES IT iv. short order. Easy to apply, every box guaranteed, 50c. and 81.00. All druggists or by mall. Williams MT* Co., Cleveland. Ohio. For sale by EVANS PHARMACY. Pot Plants and Cut Flowers for '-nie. Large and small Palms a specialty. Mrs. J. V. Ciinknoalee, 242 North Main St. When you need Screen Doors and Win dows, alto Screen Wire and Fly Fans, c".ll and see Brock Bros. Also buy the Gem when you want the best Ice Cream En? zur, at Brock Brot?. We offer thia week hundreds of palra of sample Shoes at prices to please. Come quick while we have your number. Pri ms on these Shoes too cheap lo quote. Vandlver Bros. We have two new Geiser Thrashers end two secondhand Peerless four and six horse power engines In ire od condition. Also some new Peerless Engines and we can name ooma very low prices on same. Brook Bros., Anderson, H. C. Brook Bros. have two good Second Hand Stationary Engines also two fi ret el aaa Second Hand Threshers for cale at a I very low pries. Twenty-five Dollars will buy a fWr?y seed squmro practice Piano at 'the CA. Reed Music House. They are intrinsi cally worth double that arnon nt. Thia Ia our greatest year. We are proud of our record, and are striving by every honest means to win von for a cus tomer. Give ua a trial if you have never done so before. Vandlver Bros. If yon are In the market for a Mower, Reaper and Binder, cali at Brock Bros. and buy the Deering, the moat durable, lightest draft and best adjusted machine on the merket. Jobbers prices on "Schappa," "Early Bird" and "Blue Jay" Tobacco?. Low est prices on Klour, Coffee, Corn, Bacon, and heavy Grooariee. Vandlver Bios. South Main Where we extend you Special Invitation To call and see us. We propose to the Price Still lcwer this month than ever before. No expense to be added on our Goods. We can and will sell you lower than the other fellow. HALL BROS. Cut Price Clothiers. South Main Street. Only Week More! Getting to the Point Quickly. We want yon to read this ad. ; do not merely glance at it, but read lt. Note what we propose to do. ON THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER We move to our New Store-room on South Main St. WE HAVE TOO MANY GOODS TO MOVE. Here are some of the prices we will make to keep from moving them : 300 Men's $1.50 and $1.25 Hats to close at. 98c each 250 Men's 81.00 Hats to close at. 75c each 250 Men's and Boys' 50c Hats to close at.. 19c each 1 lot Men's $1.25 Shoes to close at. 75c pair 1 lot Ladies' 81.25 Shoes to close at. 75c pair 200 boxes Ball Sewing Thread to close at.15 balls for 5c 1 lot Men's 25c Drill Drawers to close at. 15c pair Several lots of Men's Odd Pants to close out "at a price." These are only a few of the thousands of Bargains we are offering. Remember, during this Sale everything it. sold at Spot Cash. Nothing charged. Nothing on approval. Very truly yours, D.CBrown Next to Post Office. M. L. CARLI8LE. I,. H. CARLISLE. DROP IN AND SEE US. WE are not the largest dealers but you will find that wc will give you the best values in Anderson. Remember that we have the exclusive sale of the Walter A. "Wood Mowing Machine, Which is given up to be the best Mower on tho market and costs less for re pairs. Wc can cito you to ono farmer in Anderson County who has out on an avcrago of 100 acres per year for 10 yoars in succession with only 35o. cost for repairs and machine still in good condition. Respect*""/, G?RLSSLE BROS.? Anderson, B.C.