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' ^^^^^ z^^/^^ * ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ? pow Much ?)o Yon Want to Pay for a SUIT o? CLOTHES ? ^^^^^j^^g Hart Schaffner You may have the idea that we sell only the higher grades of Clothing. Some people have that notion. You may have said to yourself, "1 can't afford to pay tl 5.00 or $20.00 for a Suit, and I don't believe I can get a -good Suit at a small price there." BUT YOU CAN. If you want a Suit at $5.00 we have the bent Suit that that amount of money can buy. If you want to pay $10.00 we'll give you the best $10.00 Suit you ever ssw. You choose for yourself $5, $7.50, $10, $12.50, $15.00, $18 or $20. The selection rests with you. We give you what you want. You get full cash value and a full guaranty for what you pay, no matter what the amount may be. When you buy a Suit here you not only get better Clothes than any Credit Store ?an give, and for less money, but you get the best Suit that could be made for the money you pay. It will be money in your pocket to see us before you buy any kind of Clothes for men or boys, no matter what induce ments ma?; be offered by any one else. W? guarantee to give you a better Suit for less money than any-Credit Store. If you aro in the market for Men's or Boys9 Clothes we want you to come here, whether you want a $20.00 Snit or a $1.00 Boys' Suit, all y ou need do is to come to see^us and.look at our line. ?T WILL PAY YOU ! ANDERSON, S C. T^SpotC An ??ipuf ?an? Statement. To THF; VOTERS OP SOUTH CAROLINA: The townships of Danklin and Oak Lawn in the enanty of Greenville; Cokeabury, Ninety-Six and Cooper in the cr unty of Greenwood; Sullivan in county of Laurena, and Huiett and Pine Grove in the county of Saluda, hereby call to your attention the pro posed amendment to Article VII Sec tion ll of constitution of ".893, which seeks to destroy the corporative exist ence of tbe said townships, and re spectfully auk that you vote in favor of the said proposed constitutional amendment, * for the reason that it is the only hope to relieve the tax-payers of the said townships from the pay ment of an enormous debt for bonds issued in aid of a railroad which waa never built, and for which they have received absolutely no consideration. The Buid bonds were illegally issued in the beginning, as the citizens of said townships respectfully allege and will endeavor to show, and the said indebtedness has been declared null and void by the supreme court of South Carolina, whose decision should bo accented as final and conclusive by all loyal citizens of tho State, the decis ion of any other court to the contrary notwithstanding. So then the " tax payers of these townships claim: (1) That there is no moral considera tion for the said indebtedness, inas much aa the conditions prescribed by the Act upon compliance of which alone the bonds should be issued, were never complied with and the people of these townships have received absolute ly no consideration for the said enor mous debt, the . principal alone of which amounts in the neighborhood of one huudred t' r. \saud dollars, and which has been drawing insterest at seven per cent, for something like six teen years. (2) That the said debt does not con stitute a legal indebtedness against the said townships if we accept aa final the decision of the supremo court of South Carolina, which it is our duty to do. That the decision of the Federal courts upon questions of thia kind is not authority binding upon the State courts ortho citizens ot a State hae been frequently decided. In the case of Congaree Construction company vs. Columbia township, re ported in 49 S. C., 586. At page 589 the co. rt uses this language: "Again, it is urged that, inasmuch as theeapreme court of the United States, in the case of Folsom va. Nine ty-Six township, 159 U. S., 611, has been called upon to pap? ripon the same questions aa were considered and de cided by this court in Floyd vg. Perrin, and has taken a different view from that adopted by this court as to the constitutionality of the statues there involved, (our own court in that case having held the honda invalid) this court should now, with a view to se curing uniformity of judicial decision, abandon ita previous well considered opinion and adopt the view taken by tue supreme court of the United States. While this court fa1 y recognizes the superior authority and binding force of all decisions of that distinguished tribunal in all cases involving the con struction of the constitution and laws of the United States, and is always ready to cheerfully follow and acqui esce in such d?cisions, yet we do not re cognize the superior authority of that tribunal, or tho binding force of ita d? cisions, involving only tho construction or validity of our own State constitu tion and laws. Upon1 auch questions it is onr sworn duty to pass, untram meled by the dicta of any foreign tri bunal, whether Stat or Federal, no matter how high its wk may be, and to decide such questa..: ? accord??? to oar best judgment." Tho facts are briefly these: In 1885 the Legislature passed au Act amend ing an Act to incorporate the Green ville and Port Royal railroad company in certain important particulars, and among thia incorporating certain town ships along the line of the said pro posed railway, and authorized these townships to subscribe to its capital stock upon the terms and conditions therein expressed. These conditions were never complied with, and the re cords in the office of the county com missioners for th? various counties will so show. The said bonds would, therefore, be invalid in tho hands of the original parties to whom they were issued. Notwithstanding the failure to comply with the conditions prece dent required by the Act, bonds on be-. half of these several townships were issued in an amount varying from ten to twenty thousand dollars to each township. A company was organized for the pretended purpose of construct ing the said road. Thia company pre tended to be grading the road, and thereby secured from the county com missioners tho issue of the said bonds. Shortly thereafter the company failed and left the grade in an incomplete condition, and tho people have po pros pect whatever of getting the said road. An action was brought iu the State courts for the purpose of testing the validity of these bonds, and the State court decided the Act unconstitutional and the bonds invalid. (See Floyd vs. Perrin, 80S. C., PUJ?O i.) Thereafter certain parties who claimed to be non residents and anbsequent purchasers for value and without notice, (the bonds being invalid in the hands of the original holders, for the reasons above specified) brought their action in the United States court to test the validity of the said bonds, and the United States court refused to follow the decision of the State court in Floyd vs. Perrin and decided in favor of the said bond holders. That is to say, that the bonds were good in the hands of the non-residents who might have purchased the same for value and 'without notice of those facts above re cited, and which would go to impeach the validity of the acid bonds. (This too i w face of the fact that the records in the office of the county commission ers for the varions counties, which re cords aretpubllo records and notice to the world, disclose all of the facts which would go to impeach the valid ity of the said hoads). Siace then the matter has been in litigation, until finally judgments Rave been obtained Against several of these townships upon coupons representing a part only of the accrued interest, and . mandates have been ??sued by the United States court authorizing a levy and collec tion ot a tax to meet the judgments already obtained, and suits are still pending against some of the townships; and inasmuch as the first installment of the principal Of tba said bonds falls doe this year other emfs will surely follow, since it appears that' these bonds, or at leasft a largo portion of them (the exact amount wo do not know), have found their way into tho handset non-residents who can sue in tue United States court and thus evade the decisions of the State court. The debt against Dnnklin and Oak Lawn townships, in Greenville County, alone amounts in principal and accrued interest to something like thirty thous and dollars each. The principal of bonds on behalf of Cokesbnry, Ninety Six and Cooper townships amount to $48,800. Tho other townships are simi larly affected. You can imagine what an enormous tax will be required to Eay this debt, and the number of ornee that will have to be sold in order to meet this unjust tax, if some menus ot escape cannot bo devised. It hangs over the property of the said townships as black as n black cloud, striking terror to the hearts of our citizcusnip. shutting out all rays of hopo for tho future. Unless relief is had thia debt will practically destroy the value pf our property, since no one would caro to purchase property, or move into a township with such an enormous debt hanging over it. Wo are advised that the supreme court of the United Stutes itself has decided that in cases like this, where the char ters of the municipal corporations are repealed, and their corporate agents removed, there would be no longer in existence anyone upon whom tho Fed eral courts could lay their hands in order to enforco the collection of the tax provided for by the Aot, and that the said court is limited in its jurisdic tion to enforcing the machinery pro vided for by the Act authorizing tho levy of the tax; that it cannot itself levy tho tax, nor can it place the said townships in the hands of a receiver, and that in such cases the creditors are without remedy except to apply to the Legislature for relief. If this constitutional amendment, therefore, is voted, the tovins'iips having no longer any legal existence would have no corporate agent upon whom the Federal courts ?ould lay their hands for the purpose of compell ing the levy of the tax and we would thereby be relieved from the payment of this unjust, illegal and iniquitous tax which we uro called npon to pay, and for which there is no considera tion either legal or moral. We, therefore, ask our fellow-citi zens tu stand by the decision of the State court. If a citizen of South Carolina held any of these bonds he could not recover. Under the decision of the Federal courts a non-resident purchaser for valuable consideration and without notice can reco ver, there by unjustly discriminating againBt the Stizens of onr own State if the said mt is just one and should be paid. We most earnestly ask oar fellow citizens to be sure to vote the rj: luted tickets, whioh will be furnie' ? the managers at the next general election, "Constitutional Amendment of Sec tion ll of Article VII of the Constitu tion, relating to Counties and County Government, Yes;" and also use their influence at the polls to see that others vote the same way. "Do unto others aa voa would have others do unto yon" under similar circumstances is all that we ask. Danklin-C. D. Smith, L. T. H.Dan iel, Jesse L. French. Oak Lawn-Dr. V. D. Hopkins, W. A. McKelvey. Geo. W. Sullivan. Sullivan-Wm. D. Sullivan, R. W. Niohols, John W. Beeks. Cokesbnry-Wm. J. Moore, T. J. Ellis, W. H. Moo*e. Ninety Six-M. H. Coleman, J. P. Phillips, G. H. Taylor. Cooper-J. H. Brooks, B. W. Town send. Pine Grove and Haiet-J. E. Bran son, W. B. Stevens. GENERAL HEWS. - Four hundred children are born in London every day. - President Roosevelt is able to walk again without assistance. - All of the arbitrators named by the president in the coal strike matter have accepted. Work in the mines has been resumed. - Oat in Oklahoma new mixed corn is selling Pt 25 cents; white, 30 cents. Farmers receive $65 a ton for broom oorn brush. - A member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, whose name is withheld, has given $100,000 to build a ohuroh in Manila. - Haweii is having the same trou ble that the South had at the end of the war, owing to the unlimited suf frage in that country. -- A hurricane swept over a portion of Argentine, by whioh fifteen persons were killed, many injured and a hun dred houses destroyed. - There is a ooal strike in Franoe whioh threatens to be as disastrous as the anthracite strike. In Switzerland the oar drivers are on a strike. - At Waterloo, New York, several men worked all night stealing what they thought was coal from a loaded oar. When daylight came they found it was broken rook. - The New York World publishes; a list of fifteen policemen in that city whose fortunes range from $60,COO to $300,000, and would like to know *'where they got it." - The apple orop throughout the eountry this year, aooording to the estimate of the New England Home stead, will be 43,000,000 barrels against 37,000,000 barrels in 1901. - James Albert Washington Green, of Nottoway County, Virginia, who, with his seven sons, fought in the Confederate army, is still living, hale and wonderfully vigorous. - The commissioners in Massa chusetts find that the motor man of the ear that struck the president's oarriage in Pittsfield, is responsible for the death of the man killed. - Some 13,000 horses are slaugh tered annually in a private establish ment in Berlin, and the meat ia sold chiefly to the poorer classes, who are unable to pay the very high price now demanded in Berlin for ordinary butcher's meat. - Jim Buohennan was hanged two boars after sentence had been pro nounced. He killed tho Hioks fam ily near Naeodoehees, Texas, and when caught confessed. Tho Judgo set November 17 for the execution, but the nerfro waived tho 30 days Ana was .banged immediately. STATE NEWS. - Two stores, tho depot and 08 bales of ootton were burned at Bradley last .Wednesday night. - Mrs.^Carrie Nation, the "saloon smasher," will be in Columbia to-mor row and deliver an address. - Johu Kilgore shot his wife twice ?od Will Childs once at Woodruff Friday. All negrea and none dead. - A little girl in Walhalla who swallowed a nail about a month ago brought it up in a fit of coughing a few days ago. - Joe linaine, a young lawyer of Bisbopvillo, rau away with a thirteen year old girl and was married by a not?t y public - Austin Lavington, of North's, Oruogeburg county, committed suicide j by shooting himself. No cause is known for tho act. - The grand jury of Lancaster ia stirring up a row about thc too com mon uso of the crinrnal court to col lect contract debts. - Mark L. Williams of Pickcns county had Iiis arm torn off in a gin and died from tho offectB ou Wednes day. He was 33 years old. - Last Friday, at ii reen ville Clem son college defeated Furmao Univer sity in a well contested gatuo of foot ball, with a score of 28 to 0. - Thc widow of Scott Wilson, tho j man who died in thc guard house at opartanburg last wiutcr, has sued thc City Council for $20,000 damages. - What was probably tho first pub lic library in the United States was started in Charleston, S. C., in 174V. - John Cantrell, a 5 par tan burg oounty farmer, was held up on the highway and robbed of $200. The deed was done by an unmasked white man. - Last Thursday fire destroyed the dye house and engine room of the Springtime mills at, Chester, S. C., entailing a loss of between $50,000 and $75,000. - Barney B. Evans was tried in Columbia last week for tho murder of J. J. Griffin more than a year ago, and resulted in his acquittal, after the jury had been out but a few minut?e. - Mrs. Switzer, aged 35, wife of David A. Switzer and mother of seven children, oommitted suicide with a razor at her home near Roebuck. Spar tanburg oounty. No cause is known for the deed. -- A negro boy, near Mayesville, Sumter County, tried to get a ball from the barrel of a small rifle by ?rizing it out with his pocket knife, he gun went off and the ball put out one of the boy's eyes. Same old story. - This State now has three regi ments of militia, thus oreating a bri gade and the rank of brigadier gen eral. Col. Wilie Jones has been ap pointed to the command and the rank by Governor Mcsweeney and the Ad jutant General. - A grand reunion of the Horse Swappers Association of the Caro linas and Georgia will be held at Walhalla during oourt week, on November 3, 4 and 5. Tremendous crowds, hundreds of horses and a jolly good time are expeoted. - The rico bird industry pays the negroes well in the lower part of the State. They collect by the million in the rice fields. The plan of killing is for a orowd of experts to make a drive and thrash them by night with a brush. They are shipped North. - Cotton theives seem to be abroad through the State. Recently they stole four hundred pounds of seed oot ton from Mr. J. T. Lathem and nine hundred pounds from Mr. W. O. Riohey, in Pickecs oounty. The same section was infested with cotton thieves last year. - The State House Commission has finally disposed of the mattet of the proper repairs to the leaking por tions of tho front and rear portions of the State oapitol, hy referring the whole thing to a special committee consisting of Governor MeSweeney, Colonel Marshall and Attorney Gen eral Bellinger, who will arrange all details with the arohiteot. - Another acoident ooouurrcd on the Southern not far from Easley on Tuesday afternoon, 21st inst. Three Kenmore brothers were hauling oom and as they drove across the track the engine of passenger No. 12 struck the rear end of the wagon, tearing it to pieces and bruising the young mea eoasiderably. Ono had his collar bone broken. They said the wind was blowing so that they could not hear the train as it oamo around the curve. - Cisely Rodman, a "bad" negro who had been "wanted" in Rook Hill for a month or more, boarded a freight train at Charlotte last week for Ches ter, remarking to some other beats that he would "go through or kill the whole damn crew." He was put off the train several times between Char lotte and Rook Hill, but always got baok on. At the latter place ho was made to get off and as he did so he drew a pistol and was in the act of shooting the oonductor when one of the train hands fired on him killing him instantly. - A few nights ago a young negro managed to secure an entranoe into one of the downstairs rooms of the residence of prominent Beaufort phy sician and secreted himself in a large wardrobe, where he had probably been over an hour when discovered. A suspicious noise being heard by the gentleman, who was in an adjoining room, he prooeeded to make an exami nation by opening the door of the wardrobe, when the oool burglar quick ly stepped forth, jumped from an open window and disappeared before the astonished gentleman eould aeeure his revolver. f a.*-" """XIV* J.?T? OFFICE OF .JOS. J. FRETWELL, Successor to Bleckley & Fretwell, - DEALER IK - HORSES AND MULES, BUGGIES. WAGONS, HARNESS, ETC., ANDERSON, S. C., October 21, 1902. DEAR SIR: Our rccout advertisement, in which we offered FREE TICKETS to the CIRCUS, waa highly appreciated, as ha* been fully demonstrated by the payments that we have received hinee October 1st. NOW we propage t?. go I? tiber, and GIVE AWAY more than 8200.00 worth of VALUABLE PRESEN TS, to thoso of our Custoniora who have paid their indebtedness in full nineo September 1st, last, or those who mako payments on their indebtedness to the amount of 825.00, or who purchase from us from October 15tl), up to and including the 22nd of December next, and make Cash payments on Fame, in like amounts. Read carefully our proposition printed below this letter, and do not neglect to avail yourself nf tbis LIBERAL OFFER. These Handsome Preeents will bj on exhibition ol our Stables after November 1st. Yours very truly, JOS. J. FRETWELL. LIBERAL OFFER. ALL parti?* who have paid their indebtedness in full, since September 1st, or who pay us 825.00 on their indebtedness from October 15th, to and including December 22nd, next, will be entitled to a chance lo obtain one ol the following VALUABLE PRESENTS. The same applies to all of our Customers who purchase Goods from us within dates named, aud who pay us $20.00 in Cash thereon. This applies only to indebtedness and purchases for STOCK and VEHICLE3. Following is a list of our Valuable Presents : One Nice Driving Hore*?, worth. $100.00 One Nice?Bug?y, woxth. 65.00 One Set Double Harness, worth. 25.00 One Set Single Buggy Harness, worth - - - 20.00 One Biding Saddle, worth. 10.00 One Biding Bridle, worth. 5.00 One Saddle Blanket, worth - -. 2.50 Numbered Tickets will ba given you]*at time of payment or purohas and a Committee of disinterested persons will be appointed to conduct the distribution of Presents. JOS. J. FRETWELL. i 5 I 5 I 5? I 5 I 5'-31 6 FREEISOGKS. The holder of this Tioket is entitled to any one of a Large Selection of Books from MOODY'S COLPORTAGE LIBRARY, After having purohasedlgoods to the amount of $2.00. _ -vv?iTHTT^^rwii^i'iE; DRUGGISTS, ANDERSON, - ' - - SOUTH CAROLINA. We take no risks and handle no poisons, Every Coupon brought to the Store is worth 5c._ 5 I 5 I 25 1 25 I 25 I 25 OUR STOCK OF Plain and Fancy Silks In Colors to be sold at BARGAIN FRIGES. 60c. Silks to go at. 38c 75c. Silks to go at. 60c 81.00 Silks to go at. 7?C S1.25 Silks to go at.W 00 $1.50 Silks to go at.M 20 These are the biggest Bargains you have ever been offered in Silks. If you don't take advantage of this sale j uti another opportunity thrown away. REMEMBER, our Stook of Goods in the different departments b second to none in up-to-dateness. Come as early as possible or send for Samples. Agents McCall Bazar Patterns and Royal Worcester Corsets. Moore,Acker&Co.