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mm _ -. - ? . ' _-- ? 1--.? - ? - - ? ? ? - -. ? ? - - ?-?-.-._ SHH "BY CHNKSCALES & LANGSTON. . ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER <i, 1901. * VOLUME XXXVIT~.NO. 20. iH STATE KEW?. - Thc President has reappointed J. F. Ensor postmaster at Columbia. - Tho negroes will hold a State Fair ia Columbia November 18 to 22. - The State Fair in Columbia last week waa a big success in every rc epeot. -I It is reported that Judge Benet wiil unter the race for United States Senators - Thc iv ye??-olu mm of Andrew Moore of Spartanburg county died from chewing jimsen weeds. - The South Carolina Annual Con ference will be held this year in Co lumbia, convening on Nov. 28tb. - The Granite vii le Manufacturing Co. has completed the addition to its mill and now has 50,400 spindles and 1,666 looms. - The long continued drought irr the lower counties of the State has ?dried up many of tho 'ponds and re tarded the growth of fall crops. - At a "bargain sale" in Charleston last week there was suoh a rush of' buyers that policemen had to be sent to the store to prevent acoidents. - Last Thursday morning the Methodist Church and parsonage at Seneca were destroyed by fire. The loss is partly covered by insurance. - The Blue Ridge ]Water company, of Walhalla has been chartered. The -capital stock is$20,000, and the object is to furnish a water system for Wal halla. * - L. B. Quinn, of Spartanburg, has a violin 188 years old and it still pro duces he finest of music when in the hana? of a person who knows how to handle the bow. . - The stockmen of the State have at last determined to organize a State Live stock association, which is muoh needed, and a call for the purpose of effecting the organization has been issued. - President Roosevelt has agreed to open the Charleston exposition and to attend if possible on the occasion of Lincoln's birthday, which will be a holiday and wilt be observed at the exposition. - J. T. Fuller has entered suit for $40,000 against the Bradley Fertilizer .company of Charleston for damages suffered by the company's aocusiog him of embezzlement. He was tried upon the ob argo and acquitted. - In Marlboro county out in the country a one legged tramp riding a wheel, called at a house to stay all night. He was taken in by a Mr. Brown. The tramp said his name was Witherspoon. Dunne the night he killed Brown and his wife, robbed the house aod escaped._ - Twenty-three business houses of thc thriving town of Timmonsville wore destroyed by fire last Thursday morning, A keg of powder in one of the stores exploded and tho fire war thus started. The loss is esti mated at about $100,000. , - The Baptist State convention will meet at Florene J, S. G., on Mon day, December 2nd, and will oontinue in session until the 7tb. All who at tend are requested to notify Dr. Brooks Rutledge, ehairman of the committee on homes, at Florence, S. C. - A. M. Cooper sold, last week, to ; J. G. Oooksey perhaps the largest hog I in Sp-rtanburg county, if not in ?he? State. This iog weighed nearly 1,000 pounds and brought $200, It ia Mr. Cook soy'H intention to exhibit this mammoth hog zi the Charleston Ex position. - DarliugtOD never before had such cause for complete satisfaction in the tobacco business. With no drum ming, no ''breaks," no blowing and with a short crop of light weight leaf tobacco to handle, results in every re spect have been entirely satisfactory | to buyer . and seller and warehouse man. , - The latest news from Thomas M. Hill, the wounded depot agent at Greers, is that his chances for re covery are excellent and that he is improving rapidly. Nothiog definite has been discovered as to who the murderous robber was. Three men are still held at Greenville on suspi cion. - December 1st, the day for the 1 opening of tho Exposition at Charles ton, being Sunday, it has been deter ? mined that a thanksgiving service be j held at the Exposition Auditorium ? in the afternoon of that day, which j will consist of songs, p.ayer and ad dresses by distinguished men of the gospel. - Loyd Smith, son of Dr. E. F. Smith, of Easley, met with a very painful accident a few days ago. He was playing and accidentally fell on a barbed wire fence, one of the prongs of the wire striking him in the left eye and ripping through the ball. The wound is exceedingly painful to the young man, but at last reports he was resting very well. - Deputy Colleotor E. H. Deas is hard at work "collecting evidence and dots" against the recent South Caro lina appoinments of President Roose velt, which he eonsidsrs au invasion of his domain. Deas is full of sup pressed wrath and babbling over with indignation, and is securing every i available "dot" that he thinks will . be of assistance in frustrating the: . appointments that are evidently most displeasing him._._ GENERAL NEWS. - Mrs". Roosevelt is a good house teeper and says she oao dress well on 300 a year. - Arrests for drunkenness In 129 litios ia the United States are said to iggregate.312,000 during the last fiscal fear. - In the year ending June 30, 1901, there was paid to railway em ployes in the United States S577.2fU, 51 i in wages. - A dispatch from Manila says that, notwithstanding the port3 of Samar are closed, supplies still reach the insurgents. - Tie government's grant of 34,000 square miles to the Union Pacific Railway Co., is the largest ever made to any railroad company. - It is said that Cuban nievchauts are starting a campaign and circulat ing petitions asking that Cuba be an nexed to the United States. - Milton H. Mory, cashier of tho National bank of Boyertown, Pa., h is disappeared with a largo amount of securities, and tho institution has closed its doors. - The Amerioan Agriculturist es timates the commercial crop of apples this year at 23,000,000 barrels, agaiost 48,000,000 last year and 70,000,000 in 1896. - Two female nurses in the insane asylum at Bunning, 111 , have been charged with causing the death of two patients by withholding food from them. - Rev. B. Ar Cherry, of Lebanon, Tenn., has been deposed from the ministry for setting fire to buildings in order to get insurance. Insanity is suspected. - President Roosevelt has decided to appoint a Democrat to fill the va oanoy on the benoh in North Caro lina caused by the death of Judge Thomas Fuller. - Negroes are on the warpath about Selma, Ala. There were twenty homi cides in that vioinity in two weeks, all being negroes that were engaged in the deadly work. - A bread war is on in Cincinnati, and a 15 ounoe loaf for a cent is near .at hand. It is olaimed that there is a profit for the large bakers at a oent and a half a loaf. - The postmaster geo <? al in his annual report makes some suggestions for a radioal o ban ge *n the matter of subletting mail contracts and many changed for the service. . - Tho balanco of trade io favor of tho United States aa shown id a re cent statment of the treasury depart ment was $339,270,546 for the nine months ending September 30._ - The United Stutcs naval board f )f construction has recommended the instruction of forty naval vessels of ill classes in addition to the four war ships authorized by last co.:;jress. - A party of native soldiers under the Britith flag were sent to quell a riot in thc back country of Africa and t] they were killed and roasted by the natives who ate them up with great ? relish. ' Cl - Rev. John Spurgeon, the father ?J of the famous Charles Spurgeon, now t| dead, recently celebrated his i)lst e: birthday by laying thc foundation n stone of South Norwood church in tl Eugiaud. Jj - On the raco course at Morris si Park last "Wednesday ono jockey and ? three horses were killed. One horse P fell and broke his neck thc first race, j1 and in the fifth race a jockey a?d two r horses were killed. c - A twelve-year old boy in Mou- * tana kidnapped a child and demands jj a ransom of $1,600. threatening to ram t pieces of glass into the child s eyes i and cut his hands off unless the de- B maud is complied with. t e - The governor of Indiana con- t tinues to refuse to honor tho requisi- S tion of the Governor of Kentucky for 1 former Governor Taylor, who is char- ? ged with complicity in the assassina- ? tion of Governor Goobel. t - Caleb Powers has again been convicted of being accessory to the [ murder of Governor Goebel at George- J town, Ky! His fenlenee was fixed r at life imprisonment His attorneys g I gave uotioe of an appeal. c - A tramp was arrestod in New < York oity a few days ago who had i $2,000 in his pockets, all of which he 1 said he made begging, and wasn't in 1 right good luck either, for some years * he made as much as $7,000. ( -- Ismail Hudjo, said to have been < the oldest tuan in the world, died at j Khuti. Albania. It is said that he j was 160 years old. His faculties were j unimpaired, and he h r i all his teeth \ when he died. He leaves 200 de- 1 Beenden*-*, j - A bank officered and managed by ? negroes is in trouble. It is the Dime < Savings Bank, of Kingston, N. C.. i which has suspended payment. The J liabilities are stated to bo about $6,000 ) assets $15,000. A run on the bank ( by negro depositors caused the trouble. , - A negro was hung in Fayette ville on Saturday for a-sault, but it < seems that there was some question of j his guilt. He protested his innocence j on the gallows and the priest who ac companied deolared him an innocent < man as the trap fell. It was the most . dramatic execution ever witnessed in . j North Carolina. j tOM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4,1901. rho Sehluy caso is ended except tor e arguments of the opposing counsel d the decision of the Court. Whcth tho latter will acquit Schley on nil unta or will criticise certain of hi? ?leos uu tho ground tnat they were rors of judgment cannot be told, ese being questions on which only perts eau pass. Whatever the Court ay decide us to this, it is certain that o inquiry hu?, shown conclusively ut tho battle of Santiago was won by e Brooklyn and the Oregon exclu rely and not by the American licet. >r tho past three years the oilicers of 0 ships which were not in the light ive held tho center of tho stage while lose who were have kent silent; the suit lias beeu an altogether falso con iption of tho battle; whether the avy Department has fostered this 1 sc une rp ti on for its own purposes jes not matter. Tho actual facts ob lined by cross examination and the ailing down process show that the [arin Teresa alone was destroyed by ie fleet; tho other three vessels scaped and started to run. This was ie upshot of Sampson's plan. Then ? chley's plan came into operation and ' nder it, he and Oregon chased down nd destroyed the other three vessels, 'his is now an established fact and no rrora of judgment, if any bo found by tie Court, can obscure it. President Roosevelt has . explained is action in inviting Booker Washiug >n to dinner to several personal riends, not as an explanation bnt ?erely casually, in conversation. He ays that he had no idea of tho storm f criticism that his action would pro* oke; in fact, the subject never oc erred to him as one calling for a corn sent at all. This was by no means the mt time on which he had eaten with a icgro. On the plains, in the nioun ains, in his home and the Governor's ?an sion in New York, he had asked ?thorn tn dine with him in a matter of ourse way, not caring as to the color ?f his guest's skin so long as otherwise ie was all right. So on this occasion ie wanted to talk to Professor Wash ngton and invited him as the easiest vny of bringing about a quiet talk, le had no idea of raising tho negro as i race, or of making an issue before he country or anything of the kind. \.t the same t;:ue, Mr. Roosevelt is careful to state < hat if he had known di that the invitation would bring orth, he should nevertheless have in cited Professor Washington. This is he explanation, whether it condones >r aggravates the original offense, is a luestion for the consideration of the ' south. The failure of the last Republican Congress to reduce taxes to a safe do rree has again forced Secretary Gage :o go into the market and oiler to bny United States bonds before they are lue at a heavy premium. This will Involve a gift to the bond holders of the country of many million dollars in the aggregate, a bum which should never nave been taken from the pock 8 ol' tho people and never would have l>"i K'ti if the Republican party lind not eli ?eu BO anxious to maintain the rates <*t order to protect thc trusts and ena- 11 o them to make an unearned prolit. wi icretary Gage has beon forced to this un ; tho nceuuiillations in tho Treasury ; nt lese have increased to 820,000,000 wi nco July t, mid $0,000,000 of Milich sh .crued during tho last month. The mtinucd accumulation of these vast nus, would be certain, very shortly, > contract the currency of the country ? nu alarming degree and to causo usin?es distress. All tho favored ff? auks having been supplied with free K nids, ns far us is consistent with lU ifety, tue only way of reducing the cc mount in the Treasury is by purding- fr ig bonds. Congress can, ot course, DI aduce taxation when it meets but . lier? is no indication that it will do so. lu in tho contrary, Republican members di rho have been interviewed on the n* uestion favor spending money broad- "i ast instead of stopping tho machinery lint takes it from its proper owners. Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has tl ut down his foot and declares that no lt eciprocity treaty shall be adopted. w ia Mr. Aldrich is chairman of the Sen- . to Finance Committee, which has con- u roi of all mutters affecting revenue, -? vhat he says is pretty apt to rule. In ft act, it must rule, unless hia colleagues C( leliberately turn him down and over- . ?ear by weight of numbers all tho ma- ? ?hillery of delay of which he is such a P linster, lt was duo to him that tho ei xeaties failed so utterly in tho last v Jongress. Yet Mr. Aldrich has the lerve to allego that he favors recipro- P ;ity; he says that what ho objects to tl ire tho special casts of reciprocity set k forth in the dozen or so pendiug tren- _ tieB. Tho truth is that while Mr. Al- . Llrich may be in favor of the principle ? af reciprocity, ho is bitterly opposed to p its practice. \? Ir Senator Gorman is chosen to the Senate by the Legislature which will ? he elected next Tuesday-and there is h lictlo doubt that he will be-he will, it p is said, nt once become the most promi- v nent candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1904 1 -Mr. Bryan having stated positively that lie is not a candidate. * Already, v prominent Democrats from widely _ separated States, such as Senator Bailey, of TexaB. Representative Liv- c ingstone, of Georgia, and others, aro a already out in his favor. Senator Car- g mack, of Tennessee, favors the nomi nation of Bryan for the third time and * Ex-Senator Butler, of North Carolina, 8 favors the selection of Schley as stand- s ard bearer. c Representative Hopkins, of Illinois, chairman of the Census Committee in the last Congress, has on hand a nice little scheme to evade the civii service G laws and put some 8,000 clerks under 1 the protection of its rules to the detri- , mont of those who are now on the eli gible register provided by the Civil ' Service Commission. He proposes to y make the Census Bureau permanent -which ought to be done-aud to . place all its employees under classified service rules, transferring them to 1 other Departments as the need for j their services at the Census shall cease, j The other Departments can in time absorb all of them beyond a doubt without increasing tlieir present force. ( _?^^iffiii1 "a?-* ?M? n ll .? h, 1S?|?E^ truthfully say are "better iffi ^?^fs?S^ha?^weVe keeping in front; Sag} slason|^ittle^betier dian last; getting new t?eas?- and imp^rov?ng^on>ldrones; ?;learning some thihgfevery day, and putting v it| to . use for our customers';benefit This failjve say "better than ever" with unusual emphasis. The celebrated makers of men's fine clothing, >r . ^ . Hart'Schaffher & Marx have surpassed their own record; a better lot of suits and overcoats was never produced than we show from this famous house. We shall be glad to show them to you, whether you come to buy, or merely to look; they are worth seeing, as well as buying. You're welcome to try on as many as you please; you'd better see them before looking else where. . Our trade the past October has been by far the best we have ever known. We have sold more Goods than ever be fore in any October. People are finding out that it pays to trado here. That our way of doing business is the right way, and the only way by which wc can save them money. ft takes the Cash to get our Goods, but it'll pay you to get the Cash and trade here. You'll find everything you buy just as repiesented. If not-YOUR MONEY BACK. Think of us when you want Clothes, Shoes, Hats and Furnishings. Remember the place-on Granite Row, between Brock Bros. and Wilhites' drug Store. ' . 0. Evans & Co. : to t?o so, all appointments from th? ?iblo lists of the registers of the tumi8B?on must cease for ono year, s evident that Mr. Hopkins' pian ,1 wipe out all resisters in existence 1 make the formation of others un .essary for a year or two. In other rds, the machinery of the Commis? u will lay idle for that time. - mm -* mm i - Studying Cotton Wilt. dr. VV. A, Orton, assistant pntholo tt in the department ot agriculture Washington, was in Charleston re ntly. on hie way to Washington, nu a trip through Georgia and Ala ma, where ho has been arranging for ld experiments with the cotton wilt, ' sense, known also in South Carolina! "blight" and in other places as dack-heart." Mr. Orton has studied this disease in e sea island cotton for titree years. was thought at on?' time that it juld prove a serious .euaeo to cot u culture, but he says that danger is ? >w practically over, lt has been und possible to secure a variety of .tton practically immuno to the wilt sense by selecting seed from healthy ants that have grown in oadly.dis ised fields. lu every field attacked j this wilt there may bo found some ants that have resisted it, though all ie other plants around them have beeu lied. Seed from these plants will row whero any other cotton would ie, and Mr. Orton believes that it is jssible for the planters themselves to reed up a resistant cotton of any do r?e of fineness of staple desired. This ns been well demonstrated during the nst senson by experiments carried on y the department in co-operation with te sen island planters. Mr. E. Li. Rivers, of James Island, ho was tho lirst planter to make this election of an immune cotton, has eeu notably successful in his attempts, nd the department is h. ving seed rown by Mr. Rivers and others for enernl distribution, especially in the ea island cotton districts of Georgia nd Florida, where the wilt disease nuses much loss. Mr. Orton says that the wilt isgener dly prevalent in the upland or short tapio cotton in North and South Caro ma, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi ind Louisiana, though it is generally ionfined to sandy soils and is not al vaya recognized by the farmers. The problem of its control is a very teriouB one and must be undertaken by ;he Government, as few farmers can rive the attention .necessary for the se lection of a resistant variety in upland ?otton, which is more susceptible to the lisease than the sea island The department of agriculture has therefore begun experiments in sever al States, but especially in Alabama and South Carolina, with the aim of developing a variety of upland cotton and not subject to the wilt disease. If this can be don? it will eave the cotton planters hundreds of thousands of dol lars. The department will endeavor to im prove th? quality and productiveness of the cotton at tho same time,. while another branch of tho work, -which now promises great results, is the de velopment of a long staple upland cot ton. The experiments made at Colum bia this year by Professor Webber have been full of interest and value. Mr. Orton is engaged in tho investi gation of several other diseases of cot ton now prevalent in the South and ex pressed a wish to hear of any such that may com? to the attention of the read ers of The News and Courier. Confederate Home Scheme. Under date of October 29th the Co lumbia correspondent to the ivett's and Courier says: "Tho committee on the Confederate Home, appointed at meet ing of the South Carolina division of Confederate Veterans' Association in May last, met in Columbia Hotel to night. A quorum was present com posed of Gen. T. W. Carwile, chair man; Gen. W. E. Jones, Col. T. B. Crews and Col. lredull Jones. A grent deal of information in the way of re ports from officers of soldier's homes iu other States waa submitted nnd there was a discussion of many matters connected with the laws and general j management of tho homes iu other States. The chairman of the couir mitteo was authorized to have prepared j a bill to be submitted to a future meet , iug of the committee, to^be finally iu j troduced into the] General Assembly I It was the unanimous opinion of the committee that the proposed Confed ' ernte Home should in no way interfere I with the pension laws of the State, j The additional charity of the State j will be asked to be extended to those t deserving Confederates only who j have no place on earth to call home, j The meeting was very harmonious , and it is proposed to have the bill to ' be submitted very carefully prepared. 1 The committee adjourned subject to 1 the cali of its chairman and they ex pressed the hopo that every member of the committee would attend the j next meeting.'7 Prompt Settlement. Piedmont, S. C., Oct. 30, 1001. ; Editor Intelligencer. Please allow mo j space to thank the Anderson :l/ntunl Vr'Fire insurance Company for their prompt and liberal settlement for my ? barn and contents that were barned on j Oct. 21, 1001 I W. D. Srr.?itMAN.