Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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nure BYfCLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1904. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. ??). Was the best business year in the history of our House. We want to say the same . about Next year. The best and most ?p-to-Date 4 Clothes, Shoes, Hats and Furnishings, Will be shown here first, as heretofore. Evans & Co. ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers We Thank Each: And All of You For your patronage daring this year, and hope you are BO well pleased that you will continue to patronize us indefinitely. You will always rino! our stock very corn* ' . . ' .. v. ? 0 plete in every detail. . ..' . i ?' t i Wishing you a happy and pros perous Hew Year, we are Yours respectfully, 3?U 1^4h*r tobny onetof 4ho-- J BOYA' Tit* WAGONS rrom The Peoples Furniture Cd Some of tho Wagons] have STATE KEWS. - Forty nogroea left Union last weck for Arkansas. - Negroes aro still . starving in lower Richland county and more aid is needed. - A fourteen year old boy near Sp&rtanburg, while hunting accident ally killed a grown negro. - John E. Vernon. Sheriff of Spar tacburg County, died at his homo in Spartanburg last Sunday morning. - Last Friday in Columbia tho State constables presented Gov. Rey nard with a handsome silver service. - Thieves broke into a box car at Camden on Mondy night and stole $300 worth of dispensary liquor, in cluding some Ino case goods. - Spartaoburg city fathers have passed a stringent law against selling goods OB Suaaay, and the police aro seeing thal this law is enforced. - The Wesleyan Methodists of tho United States have soourod land at Central, Pickens county, for the es tablishment of au industrial college. - Young Howell who mysterious ly f disappeared from Columbia on Christmas ero is still missing, and it is thought that he has met with foul play. - W. G. Smith, of Charleston, has entered proceedings against th? Coast Lino to get $35,000 for the loss of both of his legs while in servioo of the company. - Dr. T. Ernest Todd, of Laurens, dropped dead from heart failure on the streets of Lauren* on Christmas day at 4 o'clock while (.?turning home from the postoffice. - B. L. Hart, a prominent fanner of the Johnston section of Edgcfield county, was burned to death on Christ* mas night, his clothing catching while be was lying by the fire. - Capt. Thos. W. Richardson, of Gaffney, climbed a tree to get a sup Ely of mistletoe. A limb breaking egot a severe fall, breaking the thigh hone and dislooating the hip. It goes very hard with a man of his age. - At Klein,. Barnwell county, on Christmas eve Benj. M. Jenkins ead Capt. J. T. Hogg, neighbors, fought about a boundary line. Hogg was shot four times with a pistol, end will f>robsbly die. Jenkins received Ive oads from a shotgun and is shrewdy dead. - A young man named Garvin Hamby WAS found dead in the woods on Christmas day near Mills mill, Greenville, with a gunshot wound in his head. He was hunting on Tues day with other boys, but whether he wat killed by accident or otherwise the coroner's jury could not ascer tain. - A few months ago some samples of crude tin were picked up by a South Carolina farmer on what was con sidered a worthless piece of land. The government geologist, whose duty is to examine gratuitously all Gpo*} mens sent him, assayed this spaoimea and found that it contained a large percentage of tin. - Attorney General Gunter has compiled the statistics of crime ia this State for each year since 1688, and the number of homicides is fear ful. During the psst year there were 222 sock ?rimes and in later years th? average has been in that nighborhoqd. In few crimes is there say decrease in the number shown; ; - While a little son of Mr. M. A. Chapman* of CroBB Hill, Laurens county, was loading a parlor rifle the gun was accidentally discharged, kill ing bis 3-months-old sister who had inst been put in bed ia the room a* few moments before by the mother. It was a deplorable tragedy and much sympathy is felt for the afflicted fam ily. - The assessed value of property ia South Carolina for 1903 as compared with tho values io 1902 shows a grati fying increase, although there i6 \ marked decrease of over a half mil lion dollars in the valae of the kui outside of the towns and villages. Whether or not this is doa to errors or to depreciation in actual value is a question. The total increase in values is $8,629,563. . - Julius Fisher, young white men,1 on last Thursday Bight ?hot sud dei- i perately , wounded his undo, a Mt. | Fisher, who lives on Paoolet river, i five miles below Cow pc o o The wounded maa is about 61 or 70 veers of age and ie a wall ka? an farmer of that county. Hr was shot twine, re ceiving the eon ten as of two ba??is of a shot ?aa ia his ehest, abdomen and lags. ' Immediately after the shooting Julius Fisher disappeared and has not been arresU-d. j - Oar Beate was act free from j homicides daring thc holidays. Ia j Hewberry a negro bey wea killed by a skyrocket. There was a homicide ia Laurens. At Lancaster C. B. Ship-! per, Buperiftteaient of the L ano aster - Cotton mill, slot ead killed Jam?? B. Gstkey. . They had a quarrel the! nigh fc before et a dan ce. Gat vi n Han ley, a youth 16 years old, was killed in the woods ussr the . Mills cotton mill. Thara was ao cia? te the. trie* ody. L?e Gillan af tba same HW? shot and SriUed Jehu Miller, *e**9e* Tbete were other bemieides la-tbs State. - The report cf 8?penateadeat I Griffith of the Pe si ten tiary ?hows that there is on band st the ?lose of the year ?28,861.13 in bank and $7.500 available sad in sight. Th? total re ceipts for the year were $91,020 57: current expenses $5,396 44 and $5,800 for permanent improvement. There are 679 convicts, 47 of whom are io the reformatory and 85 are leased to county chain gauge. There were 29 deaths dnirtog the year, 70 per, cent. I of them being due to consumption. GENEBAI. NEWS. - Mr?. Roosevelt entertained fivo hundred children at tho White House on Christmas day. - A prisoner in the Georgia peni tentiary received a present cf a dia mond stud on Christmas day. - A girl in j<?no?ster, Pa., wrote her name on a cigar box, and now sho is engaged to tha man who bought the box. - Alabama ooavist buroau ofici?is say that the State netted $200,000 from the hire of oonviots for the year j 1903. j - North Carolina had only ono ? lynching in 1903. The year previous there were eight lynobings ia that State. - Tho aavy department has Boleot ed a placo noar Peosaooia as the place ta make a test of open Air treatment for coasumptioa. - Fifteen boys had tboir wounded hands dressed at tho Grady hospital, Atlanta, on Christmas day, as the re sult of toy pistols. - There is au ?pid?mie of pnea monia io Chicago, 139 perseas hav ing died in a week with this ??asas* -27 per cent of tho entire deatk list. - As a result of the high prioo of cotton, 4,000 men, women and ohil dron employed in textile mills ia Phil adelphia havo been laid off indefinite ly. - Sem'l W. Leo shot and killed Mrs. Florence Leo, his brother's widow, io Kansas City, Mo., on Wed nesday because she refused to marry him. - It is reported from Liberia the massacre of a white missionary Barned John G. Tate and eighteen cf his fol lowers ia the depths of aa African forest. - Over 10,000,000 pieces of mail matter, covering $48,643 in mosey and $1,493,000 ia checks and drafts, reached Ike de*4 letter office daring last year. - Mrs. Elisabeth Busob, of Mobile, Ala., is suing 'the owner of a billy goat for $5,000 damages for io j aries received by being butted and knocked down by said goat. - Miss Ethel Revell?, heireae to a fortune of $8,000,000, has disappear ed at Meridian, Mies. It is believed I she ii?? uce? kidnapped by parlies who want ber money. - A big cotton mill is to be looatod co tho French Broad river in North Carolina, wbioh is to be operated by labor imported from the orowded tene ment district? of New York city. - A bold bank robbery, attended by a desperate fight between a posse or citizens ead ina robbers, oeeurred at Kiowa, aear Forth Worth, Tex., tho robbers .laking and destroying about $28,000. One robber waa in jured. I - Sixty-five persoae were killed in a wreak on the B, m 0. read near . Co noel's ville, Pa., on Wednesday i night. The train, ?roiog SO milos ? I boor, was thrown from Iba Iraak by some lumber that had fallen from a freigbtjtrein. - A fire ia the Iroquois theatre in I the eily of Chicago on Wednesday caused a panie aad about 600 human beings lost their lives. The company waa playing "Bluebeard/' and tho eleotno wires arossed palting the. stage in flames. - Lake Erie is the most dangerous of all the lakes, both for vessel prop erty and human life. One hundred and nineteen disasters were oharged to tba? lake ia the pail year, or nearly one-feurth of the entire list. Laka Michigan came next, with ninety three disasters. * - Daniel J. Sully, leader of the bull movement in cotton, gave hie wife as a Christmas: present a five story and basement briok houie in New York oity, coating $250,000. Heretofore they have lived in rented rooms. A few yeare ago 8ully waa a buyer fer cotton mills at$7i a week. - Wm. H. Clark, a young New Yorker, age eighteen, is making a tear e? ?ka cilies of the United States of ovar 30,000 population, winning bis way by shining shoes. He mada a wager of $1,000 that hs could ac complish the task by Christmas, 1904. He passed through Colombia and Au gusto last wetk. - Felix Yan Breisea, a yonng sauiptor. manies young lady of Ashe ville. Work being soaree, ha goes west. His wife not hearing from bim far mare thai * year, gets divorce. A fa? weeks ago abe received a latter from him. Me . waa left a fortune. He returned home and they were re* married. --Earthquake shooks wera fallon Christmas morning at Odgeaebury. N. Y., and Loo Angeles, Cal. Buildings trembled violently at Madrid, N. T.. ead the esxtbquake was sceompaoied by a noise resembling thu oder. The Mr buildings in the business contre of Los Angelan swayed for aa instant, es though they would fail, aad people rushed Tuto tho streets under tie be Uaf ih?a on earnlasiaa ba? swaned. - ffW. department af agriaaltura GfiSOsaeiB thal eommereial estimates indicate that if favorable weather pre-1 reis daring the neat few months tba orange ?rons now e omi og on the mar ket will be the largest ever produced in the United States; A conserva tive estimate of the Florida crop planes it at about 1,600,000 boxes, while if present promises sro fulfilled, there will bo snipped from the orange groves of California io eastern mar kets between ten million and eleven million boxes or (including about threo thousand cars of lemons) from 25,000 to 30,000 car loads. HsHHsmSsM^ Celebrated Their Golden Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. S. Landor at homo on Monday afternoon, December y 1st, from 5 to 7, Williamston, South Carolina, Samuot Landor, Laura McPherson. So road our invitation and BO read several hundred other?. Providence kindly allowed us to attend, and a beautiful scene greeted us as wo enter ed the hospitable homo. The halls and reception rooms presented a love ly appearance, nith the soft candle lights shedding a golden glow over every nook ana corner appropriately decorated by artistic hands in white and gold. The warm hand-shake given, the cordial welcome extended, tho kind thoughtfulness chown put one at ease immediately and the enjoyments of the evening were entered into at once. Many guests were present and tho hum or social intercourse, interspersed with wit and humor, could be heard on every hand, as youth and old age conspired in celebrating Ulis happy event. The decorations in the reception and refreshment rooms were simple but very pretty and appropriate to the oc casion. In the purler radiating from the center of the ceiling to each corner of tho room there were graceful fes toons in white, spangled with golden stars, designed Dy the bride'B own hands. Curtains of the same design draped the windows, and banked nt the top of each was a mass of green, with a sheaf of golden grain to bright en its beauty. Over the mantle wore the dates 1853 and VMi made of Sold encircled with green wreathe, lasses of fetus aud pot planta com pleted the artistic effect in this room where the bride and groom received their friends. In tlie library the caine idea was car ried out, the usual simplicity of the room being changed only by the ad dition of star-spangled curtains, yel low drapery on the mantle, and masses of ferns disposed about the room. Yellow draperies in the refresh m o nt room, green wreaths artistically plac ed, and a portrait of Mr. Lander on I the wall, with yellow flowers on the tablea and center pieces embroidered in yellow, with constant reminders of the occasion which was being cele brated. Scattered about were numer ous white candles in gold candlesticks, several of which were presented by friends and used now for the first time. The refreshment room was in charge of the Misses Lander of the third ?generation becomingly attired in yel ow. A look at the presents was bewil dering. It would require one of the gentle sex to describe the seores and .cores of handsome pr?sents eent by loving frienda from farand near. From far-away China came an elegant piece of embroidery with iim following in scription: "A souvenir from far Cathay with the abiding love and gratitude of a 'daughter* who treasures us golden every day spent under your influence." (Sigued) Johnnie Sanders. But time and tide wait not, even on the rare occasion of a golden jubilee, and time had flown before we were aware of it. For a moment let us go back in our imaginations fifty yea? and see the real wedding. Yoong Samuel Lander, bright and well ed scated, with a prac tical and expanding mind, stood at the altar with gentle Laura Ann ifcPher son, gracious and winsome at his aide. Then, aa now, the bride was attired in ?hite with her only elster, now Mrs. .opieton, aa brides-maid. The sol emn "I now pronounce yea husband ?sd wife" ?ruu? the iips oi the groom's father launched the well mated pair sn the matrimonial sea. I By a fortunate accident the original invitation to the wedding was secured and exhibited to the guests in a gilded frame, lt reads as follows: Mrs. L. McPherson would be pleas ed to see you at 7 o'clock. Tuesday evening, ??til inst., JLinoolnton, N. C., Dec. 9th, 1868. On the corner of the envelope were the names. Samuel Lander, Miss L. McPherson, the only evidence of ita being a wedding invitation. ! The only person present atthegolden wedding wno witnessed the marriage was Mrs. Templeton who came four hundred miles to participate in this celebration, again being by her sister's side as ehe received her friends. Mr. Lander was acting aa assistant to the principal of the Catawba College and teaching seemed hie calling in life. But the Master had other work for him alongside this noble profession. The ; cali to preach waa upon him und he entered the ministry in his 27th year. Pleaching and teaching in hhs own Stale until 1871, when became to South Carolina and found himself with a lari re family to support, preacher in charge of the Williamston circuit, then paying only a meagre sum for the sup port of its pastor. Ever resourceful, ne quickly cast his eye on the vacant hotel near the Chalybeate spring, in tho small town of WUliamston, the center of his work, and the idea of the Williameton Female College was con ceived. What appeared a blunder in the Bishop's cabinet brought forth a leading institution far roaching hi its influence on the Uvea of the fair daugh ters of Carolina. For thirty ono years his work haa baca teste*!, and the fact that the boarding department of the school is being taxed to ita utmost capacity .tampa tao approval of a wise patron wider field hoe opened before Dr. Lander and,Providence permitting/, a greater sphere of usefulness awaits him. Tho removal of thia noble institution to Greenwood is a sad blow to Wil liamston, but great gain t o that enter prising city. . , Our town wishes the bride and groom a continued honeymoon for many days to come and assures them that their stay here has been an inspiration and a tmnstfattoo to oar people. Dr. and Jin. Lander, both children of Methodist parents, are blessed ta ceeiog too second and third generation of their CAecendAiite each with a rcprv .Botative in th? minis try-Dr. John M. Lander, an honorai member of too Bon thorn ifothodiat Conference in Bra ail and Esr. Norman L. Prince, now nonning a course of stud/ in Vaorter But University. ? . . The best legacy that can be left to descendante is tho record of a life well spent, and we are sure that the chil dren of Dr. and Mrs. Lander will ever have before them such a legacy aa a continual inspiration to all that is good and pure and noblo. ' ? . lt. Brooks Goodgion. Has Changed Baso on account of Needing 'MCore Room -FOR OUR G-rowing Business! I'roni Now On Will bo Found At - WITH More Clothing, More Dry Goods, More Shoes, AT LESS PRICE than any Store in Upper South Carolina. WATCHIUS ! We are going to sell them CHEAP ! Yourlloss if you don't give us a look. Satisfaction?guaranteed to everybody. _-??j 353B Come to see us in our New Quarters and you will continue to borne. Y ours to pl?p_Be, To our Friends AND Customers ! We wish to thank you for giving us the greatest trade? we have ever enjoyed. We wish you A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR, And ask that you kindly remember us in the future as in tho past. We make it a rule never to carry Goods from one sea son to another, hence we are going to FORCE all Wintei I Goods out by ruthless PRICE CUTTING, Which is our method of reducing stock to make room] coming Goods. NO THOUGHT OF PROFIT OR EVEN COS Has been allowed to stay OUR PRICE CUTTING You can buy all Winter Dry Goods and Shoes, or the 1*01 articles we sell AT A PRICE |whlch woi the manufacturer HEART DISEASE if he had to mc for the PRICE that we are going to sell them for. If you are wise ^you" will watch our ad. next ! lay In a stock cf our goods now. I ?X \ r^r^e Yours al ways'truly ? JOHN A. AU THE MACNE Tho 5e. and 10c. f* dow? next to tho ?oatpftcoibat