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BY?CLINKSCALES ft LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1904. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 37. m What Kind of... t s Are those we're featuring in our windows ? To be sure ! WORTH showing. Better worth bnying 4 * And wearing. i For Men, $3.50 and $4 (1 tva tic fir'C A ANDERSON, S. C. ?ash Clothiers IAre too Busy to fill in this space with the many - - ' Matchless Valu They are daily giving out to the Trade* es These values speak for themselves wherever they are sold, and hence need no fulsome praise in th?se columns. Our refutation for selling only Goods of the very best quality is asufficientguarantee to the trade. Our prices are always THE LOWEST (Consistent with the best quality and honest measure. Bear in mind, then, our lino : ?3H0ES, DRY GOODS, TRUNKS, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, DIAN'S PATENT FLOUR, Ratliff's Select COFFEE, pt foot, everything that white foU? nee. Also, fiole ageats .Tor ?ndereon ld-fanhiomed Ceuntjtfor the ?genuine, PEBDTIANm&so: UTI m.iwL STATE REWS. - Congress has passed an appro priation of ?G?<i,n00for the Charleston navy yard. - Greenville ie experiencing no little in convenience on account of a kerosine famine. - Greenwood County will le^d off io the campaign this year with seven ty-five candidates. - Adjutant General Frost is ar ranging dates for the inspection of the militia of tue State at an early date. - The appropriations made at the recent session of the Legislature amount to something over a million dollars. - Prof. W. J. Spillman, of tho government department of agriculture, will establish a IOU-aero diversifica tion farm near Columbia. - The house of a negro woman near Laurens was blown up with dyna mite Thursday night by unknown parties. The occupants escaped with out injury. - Chesterfield had two horrible deaths last week. A Miss Jenkins was burned to death and Jaoob Rivers, an old Confederate soldier, foll dead while chopping wood. - lt is reported that as means to ward ridding themselves of the Dis pensary, the town of Saluda has thrown up their charter and will ap ply for a new one void of said Dispen sary. - Tho Bank of Greenwood has had its officers and clerks bonded in one of the strongest surety companies in Amerioa in the sum of $25,000 for the honest and faithful disoharge of their dutieo. - Jno\ W. Meet ac, a young farmer of Lexington county, was shot from ambush and killed on Friday by an unknown white man. A negro wo man who waa with Moot zo was also shot and seriously wounded. - A barn belonging to R. R. Brown about two miles from Cowpens, was burned last Thursday night. Three mules, corn, fodder Lad cotton seed were burned with the barn. Two of the mulea belonged to Mr. Brown and the other to William Whits. - Melvin Brady, a farmer of Cam ^ jhello. waa killed last Thursday after* noon by a tree falling on him and eru8hing hie body. He and several other men were out felling treen on the lands of Ben Bowling, near Cam pobello, when the tragio occurrence happened. . - A pretended cripple and deaf and dumb man has been playing on the feelings of our community. He is said to have been seen talking with another man, when c^ duty, and when he gets around the oorner his oripple neBB is suddenly cured.-Aiken Jour nal and Review. - Last Wednesday morning at about 3 o'clock a store house and stock of goods were destroyed by fire at Troy. The stock of goods was owned by J. F. Wideman and was in sured. The building was owned by J. T. Solomon* on whioh there was no iuDurance. - The State pharmaceutical board will meet in Columbia on Maroh 17-18 for the purpose of examining appli cants who may desire licenses to prac tico. The State Pharmaceutical As sociation .???? -nest at the same time, when a number, of panera will be read and matters of importance to the pro fession discussed. - At a negro, bonne on th? Capers plantation on St. Helena. Island, Thursday evening, Emili no Green and Sarah Lockwood, sisters-in-law, had a quarrel over the ownership of a Spoon, which resulted in Emiline fatally stabbing Sarah with a pocket knife. Tho Lookwood woman died shortly afterwards asa result of her wound. * - Ooo of the saddest occurrences we have recorded .in a long time is the death of husband and wife within two hours and a half of each other, as reported by our correspondent at Tyger, . in the upper section of the County. Mr. R. C. Lister and nie wife died on Saturday of pneumonia, and they were buried in the same grave, on Monday, leaving two boys aged roBpectively oix and eleven years. Greenville Mountaineer. .-Sallie, wife of Wm. Maxwell, a colored Woman living on Col. T. J. Moore's place, near Sparenburg, had a peculiar accident. When stewing some apples ip a half gallon tin can she took the lid off and tho contents exceded, burning her. face and cloth ing badly and closing up both ber ey o s. Some of tho fruit struck the ceiling over her head. It in: not be lieved that tho woman's sight is lost.' -The smallpox has about been etimped out in this County. At One tim? last fall it was feared that lt would become epidemic. Dr. J. M. Creushaw, who le working under tho direction of the State .board of health, says that since last September he has attended about 150 eases in the Coun ty; principally in the upper part. Ho 1)aa vaccinated hundred s with vaccine points furniRhed by the State board. There have been very few sorious oases, as it seems that the disease is cf a very mild type.-Piokens Senti nel. . ~Tht ttxii\Utr privilege tax re ceipts to dato are $21,000 in excess of the receipts np to this time last year and equivalent to the entire inccme from that tax two years ago. The total for & fit last year waa $98,000, while ty date the 1904 receipts are $80,000? with the eales of Maroh ex pected to he luit/ heavy. As this is the principle source of revenue of Clemson College, the friends of that institution will appreciate this vastly increased revenue. 6ESEBAX HEWS? - A $150,000 fire occurred in De catur, AU., on Wednesday. - Texas is having some race trou bles. In a pitoh.battlc botween whites and negroes at Bryan several puroona wore killed. - Insuranoe men pat tho Baltimore fire loss at 132,864,894. Two more small local insurance companies havo gone to the wall. - Paymaster Harry Bisooo, of tho United States steamship Oregon, has been arrested for alleged shortage of $2,600 in his acoounts. - By the will of the lato Senator Hanna an estate valued at about $3, 000,000 is left to his family. There are no oharitablo bequests. - Miss Pearl Niedcothal, aged sixteen, committed suicide in Balti more by swallowing carbolio acid be cause oho was scolded by her father. - Several Geoigia farmers near BarneBville have sold their next crop of cotton, in lots of 100 to 200 bales, at prices ranging from ll to 12} oenta. - The blowing up of a locomotive on the Pennsylvania:' railroad, near Johnstown, resulted in the killing of three men and the injury of two ethers. - It ia reported from Moscow and j St. Petersburg that Jewish soldiers I are deserting in great numbers from I the Russian army. Six were caught and shot. - T. J. Cornwell, defaulting presi dent of the Bessemer, Ala., savings bank, who fled to Honduras about s year ago, will return to Bessemer and stand trial. . - Robert p. Skinner, American consul general nt Marseilles, Frame, has recently effeoted trade relattunt with Ethiopia which will be to the in terest of the United States. - G. W. Aderhald, of Canton Ohio, visits his father, Mike Ader bald, at Tallapoosa, Ga., after the] had been separated for forty-two years not having heard from each other. - A dispatch from San Domingo tc a Paris paper says that the Unitec States cruiser Columbia and the train ing ship Hartford have bombardee D uar te which is oooupied by the in sargents. - A torpedo or a etiok cf dynamic was thrown under the rear of the reel nenoe of Mr. Bobert Spitzer, at Bir mingham, Ala., and the explosion which was deafening, almost destroy ed the house. - Deadville, Mis?., a little town is experiencing some serious raoi troubles. Several persons of bot! races have been killed. Whites ar< searching for several other negroei and declare that they will lynch them .-The Houston Post notes tha "disquieting reports of a tendency ti largely increase tho cotton acreage oomo from all over Texas, particular ly from those sections where the bol weevil has done the greatest damage.' - William Little and Samuel Hall well-to-do farmers near Whitesburg Ky., fought a duel on Sunday am both were killed. They used revolver and 'had "seconds." They fough about a young woman with whom bott were in love. -? A carload of dynamite explode at Jackson, Utah, on the Souther Pacific, eighty-five miles from Ogden Between tw*aty and twenty-five pei sons were killed outright and ebon thirty injured, many women and ohil dren being among the number. - In sixty years the annual pe capita consumption of whiskey bo gradually decreased from two and ont half tonne and one-quarter: gallons In forty years the consumption c beer has increased from less than tn to more than seventeen gallons pc capita. , .?-C. H. Troutman, cashier ur tb Merchants and Farmers' bank, c Milledgoville, Ga., who shot him se! is treasurer of the State sanitariui and is said to bo short in his account about $23,000. Speculation in cotto !? thought to have caused this ahor age. Mr. Troutman is under a $40 000 bond and the State is folly pr< tested. Providence News. . It baa been quite awhile since our la communication, hence we moBt ask yo Mr. Editor, to bear with ne tb ie time at wa will do better In the future. . ; Everything ia calm and serene down our territory, and the farmers are vei bu ay hauling out tho f?rtil leer. O'wli to the bad weather very little has bei accomplished on the farm as yet. Misses Matilda Smith and Idell Brook w|tb a un m bor of ot bor friends, called < Miss Lucy Pettigrew last night, and their hono*. abe rhode thing? lively f them. After they had played several e Joyableplaya someone suggested gob serenading, and of course, all ware rea< to go. So each of them s soured an I Btrumontfor the parp?se and depart for Mr Shirley's home, not very far o We think that they had a Jolly good Ut from the . great amount of noise th made; In feet, il proved a aneoese every Way. with the exception of one the nappy band, wbo lost bte shoe. No young mau, when next you go out si unadleg be auro and fasten your shoo t ?bro a tarting. Mr?, P. M. Brooks is visiting I daughter at LavonU, Ga. in*Aud*r?o?f GUmer U vl*Mng ******* Miss Paarl' Barrett hun returned hoi from Anderson, vuora she has been v Uln&\ fri?tiria ?cd relatives for the pi two months. Mica Pearl la a onana! The aabool at thia place la progress! nicely 'under the/ management of li Corrio Lougberldge. - Toe many friends of Mist Alalpple ft Clal u will bo glad to learn of her ape? recovery from a very severe attack oi 8 Good health prov aile in our common andalKsqulotalongthn Seneca. TwoOldMaldi The Hf!! Und Batt?t Between Russians Chee Foo, February 27.-The first land collision between Russians and Japanese occurred Sunday north of Ping Yang, when the Twenty-ninth Japanese infantry met a strong force of Russian cavalrymen and put them to Hight. Tho Japanese regiment which met the Kassians is the advance guurd ot tho main army and hus been occupy ing Ping Yang, which ia midway be tween Seoul and the Yalu for BOH?O dava. Tho regiment was ordered to ad vancoSuuday morning and had pro ceeded only a few miles north of Ping Yang when it encountered tho Russian cavalry. The tiring began nt a range of 1,700 yards and was very sharp tor a time. Tho Cossacks seemed to be preparing to charge when the Japanese comuian . *:r ordered up afield gun, which quickly opened on the Russians. After a few shells, the Russians broke and fled in some disorder. Twen ty Russians were killed and douWo that number wounded by tho Japanese shells. The Japanese suffered no cas ualties. Tokio, Sunday, Fob. 28.-The first shots of the war on land were exchang ed today at Ping Yang. A small de tachment of Russian infantry, evident ly scouts, appeared this morning to the northward ot the town. The Japanese outposts opened fire from a range of 1,700 meters and the Russians retir ed. The telegram reporting the incident fails to mention any casualties. lt is presumed there were none, on account of the small number of men engaged and tho distance separating the opposing armies. It is reported tUat there will bean eBj?ag??ieht soon soto?wher? in north ern Korea, where the Russians are fiuonting over an extended area, close to the Japanese positions, but a general engagement is uot expected for some time. The Russian force Booth of the Yalu river is inconsiderable, its great est strength seeming to be in the vi cinity of Wijn. North of the Yalu the Russian army is constantly increasing la numbers and is being mobolized, but the chances of it assuming the of fensive are slight. The Japanese are constantly strengthening their position and increasing their force in Korea. Washington, D.C., Feb. 29.-The Court of Claims today handed down a deoision that the State of South Caro lina standB in the same position as an ordinary whiskey dealer throughout the country, so far as the payment of the international revenue dues is con cerned. The deoision is quite a sot baok to olaims of the State. On June 25,1901, a petition was filed in the oourt of claims to reoover -sums of money whioh had bean paid by the State and County dispensaries to tho United States as an interna* tional revenue tax, upon the ground that inasmuch as it was the exercise of an instrument of the government, whereby the State of South Carolina effectuated its power of police regula tion, a tax of any sort would be a tax upon the State, and hence a violation of the implied provisions of the Fed eral Constitution. The cl ni m was made, first, that the word "person" as used in the Federal statute, requiring all persons engaged in snob, ooo^r? tions to pay these taxes, was not in* tended to inolude a State; seeond. ? that the Constitution of the United ] States contains no grant of power to Congress, expressed or implied, to ?ax a State for its instrumentalities of government, and that the exeroise by Congress ot tho power was not ex pressly or impliedly granted by the Constitution, is impliedly forbidden; third, that the South Carolina dis pensary system was a legislative ex eroise of the poliee power, seeking to subserve the health, comfort and morals of its citizens, and as such, was not subject to Federal taxation, direot or indirect. The State was represented by Frank lin H. Mackey. The United States attorney contended, first, that tho provision of the Federal international revenue laws were applicable alike to natural and artificial persons, whether engaged in business on their own be half or as agent of munioipal corpora tions of States. Second, they relied upon article 1, section 8 of the Fed eral Constitution, whioh provides that congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and that all duties, imposts and excise shall he uniform throughout the Uni ted States and he eontended that im munity from Federal excise tax could not be claimed for South Carolina un der the poliee power of that State, for the reason that the Federal exoise tax is levied pursuant to an export's grant o? power in the Federal Constitution, ana hence is superior to the reverse polioe power of States. The police power of a State eannot be set up to control the inhibitions of tho Federal Constitution or the powers of the United States government created thereby. He further contended that the dispensary law waa not the exer oise of one of the instrumentalities of the Sitte for the effectuation of its powers of govet imeot, bnt was merely a commercial enterprise, eonduoted for profit j and gain and that if the State can engage in the business at all it is not by virtue of .the exercise of any government function, but merely as a corporation, and as such it is amenable to the same exoise tax es ie imposed upon the individual en gaged m the same business. The opinion rendered sustains the oonten .iona of the United States and dis misses the claimants' position. It ia not known whether the State will ap peal from tho deoision of tho Supreme Court. : ? CITY IiOTS FOR SALK-Situated on and near North Main Street. Five m?n ate*' Walk Oourt House. A?ply to J. F. Oiin kscaloa, In toll Igonoor office. and Japanese. Must Pay Tax on its Liquor. THE Has Changed Base on account of Needing More Hoorri - FOR OUR - Grrowing Business From Now On Will be Found At WITH More Clothing, More Dry Goods, More Shoes, AT LESS PRICE than any Store in Upper South Carolina. WATCH US ! We aro going to sell thom CHEAP t Tour loss if you don't give us a look; Satisfaction guaranteed to everybody. Come to see us in our New Quarters and you will continu? to come. Yours to please, HOI-BASS CO. a WE ARE RECEIVING.... Eash week so many Mew Goods cf differ ent kinds that we can't tell you about each piece. You will have to come to our Store and spend awhile looking through. : : : Dress Fabrics. For your evening and street costumes, 25c to $2.00 yard. Handsome Trimmings, New Notions, Pretty Novelties, \ White Goods, Of every description. EMBROIDERIES, LACES AND INSERTIONS. From 2c yardup. Remnants of Percale, Madras, Oxfords, etc., the best yon? have ever seen. We save you on these from 2c to 10c yard?, Most anything you want can be had here, and the prices are alright. Sena us your older?. Samples sent on request. Moore,Acker&Co. CLOGGED KIDNEYS. Tn? kidneys are th? sowars or the body. When they loee their activity thur become filled ?Ob poisonous wftBtound kidney alimenta retail. Pain in emull o? the back, h cadi-,?ho, scanty BMMML burning urine, d Inls eas, bloating, are the forerunners of what, If neglected, meena serious disease. ! Murray's Bacilli? Oin and Juniper Ii a remedy tbat affords imaiedlato relief- a combination of drugs whioh hare a direct RM curativo action on the aiinary organs -a formula use ? nnd prescribed by thoora ods of eminent physicians. It increases the action of tbe kidneys, o earning them of disa&ae-proJueln.r Impurities. It wadere tho urine bland, soothing ano antis )ptlc, rollo dug at once all bladder difflaultiea, scan'*, acid, burning urin*,etc. Useful in every kidney andb'adder ailment, dropsy, gravel, jaundice. ? Pi ?co, One Dollar. Guaranteed satisfactory to ev ay purchaser. PREPARED BY Tf?E MURRAY DRUG COMPANY, COLUMBIA, 6. C,