Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Intelligencer. Published ertrj/ Wednesday. J. P. CLIN KSC A LBS, i EDITORS ANO C. C. L.ANOSTON, \ PROPRIETORS. TIMMS ; ONE YEAH. - - - - $1 r>0 SIX MONTHS. - - - 70 WEDNESDAY. NOV. 2. 1904. The present prosperity in this com munity cannot bc called a "boom," for it has bc? n ?ti steady progress for eeveral years, and growing a> the years i?a^s. u- . ^ -- Our farmers arc sending products to .Eurone, crop failures having cre ated a .scarcity across thc Atlantic. Hut Senator Fairbanks and other Re publican orators, give credit for tili? natural situation ?o thc great proteo live tariff. Thc number of special Courts being held in thc State again bring to the attention of our legislator! thc neces thy for some remedy. Tin- whole system of .-pedal Courts simula bc abolished, and two new circuits cre ated. Until thc neoplc demand this of their representatives, they need hope for no change. Chairman Cowherd, of th? Demo cratic Congressional Committee, ?H sued a statement claiming Heats in the 5U?1 Congress for the Democratic party. He bases this prediction on thc claimed strength of tlx' national ticket in the cast and to "local dis sensions in tho Republican ranks" in the middle west. _ .. - m m mwt-- -- Thc frequent appalling wrecks on railroads in the United States force upon thc public mind thc fact that thc results would bc infinitely less disas trous if tho coostruo?on of thc bag gage, mail and day passenger coaches was heavier and more massive, as is thc case with thc Pullman sleepers, which rarely sharo thc fate of thc paper lox coaches. Such fatal wrecks rarely occur in Europe, where solid construction is forced hy law. - mt ? mt ? It is the duty of every qualified Democratic voter in South Carolina to go to the polls next Tuesday and vote. Ho not forget or neglect this duty. Unless the Democrats turn out there is grave danger of an attempt being made to reduce the nurubcrof our representatives in Congress. Theo, too, with a Kepublioan candidate in nearly every district there will bo numerous contests which may result in the Democrulio congressmen being unseated unlesH they arc elected by overwhelmirg majorities. Surely it is asking little enough of the voters of our State to go to the polls and sup port the nominees of thc party to whom they stand pledged already. A writer in the New York Herald takes the position that by the close of the present century there will be no genuine Americans in this coun try, that is people descended from Revolutionary ancestors. Ile bases his conclusion upon investigation of statistics in New York and tho east, where there are so many hundreds of thousands of immigrants arriving all the time. This writer may bo correct from the viewpoint of a New Yorker, but if be will examine the facto in the South, he will find that there is no danger of the old Revolutionary stock dying out. The percentage of foreign blood in the South is exceed ingly small, and almost all the peo ple in this section can traoe their ancestry baok to the men who lived in this country during the war of tho Revolution. The Inter-State Commerce Commis sion has issued a statement in whioh they say that during the year ended June 30, 1904, 3,787 persons were killed by tho railroads in the United States and 51,343 were injured-an increase of 223 over the cumber killed tho preceding year. Suoh figures are indeed at first glance appalling, but it is hardly fair to give the figures of one side without those of tho other. When we find that the railroads of the Unit ed States during the last year carried 694,891,535 passengers the situation grows less appalling. The figures of the Inter-State Commerce Commission also show that only one passenger was killed in every 1,957,441 carried. Of railway employees one was killed to every 364, a percentage not so large when wc consider that the em ployes are always on the trains. The number of passenger miles acoom plifhed in ibis country, or the num ber of passengers carried one mile was 20,915,763,881. Other figures show that 58,917,645 passenger miles was covered to every passenger that met death on the road. In other words at a rough estimate there are about 2,000,000 people traveling every day of whioh 27 are killed. When he packs his grip and starts off for a holiday there is about ono chance out of 740,740 that one will never gel baok alive, whioh is not to appalling after all. - Internal revenue officers seized 70 ?ali?os of liquor in Colombia that had been shipped there in dry goods b"vo" nnd billed as dry goods on the ?hill of lading. Cotton (?rowers Issue \ddrcss. At ?1 meeting of tho cotton growers hohl m tin1 citj* of Columbia on thc i?5th ?lay ol October, I'JOl, we, the un dersigned, were appointed a commit tee to preparo an address to th?- cotton growers of South Carolina. We dc Hire t<> atate mont emphatically that thia isa businessorganization puru und simple, t hut there is nothing Beeret or hidden in reference to ita business; its aoie and singlo object in tn secure for cotton growers such uniform prices aa will properly compensate thom for thu labor mid rnpitul invested. Realizing that cotton is the currency of the South and that ber industrial welfare ia dependent upon thc price ol' it, wo therefore invite tho aid ol'overy cot ton producer. ?.r:d al! buaincBH and pro feaaioual men in tho StnU . We ' 'li - ther recognize the fact that the cotton manufacturera are desi rona of main taining a Staple price for cotton, and we believe that this organization will promote the interests of the cotton manufacturera of the South. This is an agu of combination and organiza tion; other agricultural organizations have been able to liv and maintain a stable juice toi the COHIUloditiCH to the mutual benefit of prod neel and conan nie. and have successfully elimi nated tl:e demoralizing iiilluencu of thc violent liuctUlltioilH consequent upon reckless speculation, which has proved IIB disastrous to the manufac lurei'H ns it is to the producer. Wc de clare it to be a necessity for tho wei fate of thc cotton growers cd the South to organize for the purpose of protect ing the raw material. We wish to un press upon the cotton growers thc fact that they put upon the market within 00 duys thc bulk of their crop and do Biro the commercial wm ld to lake ?t ut its full value; to take the risk ol stor ing, the expense of insuring, tin* loss of interest for nine months without compensation to the purchaser, where as common sense would (each them thal in ordei to reali/O thc highctU price they must carry these risks themselves mid piuco upon the inarkot their cotton as tho trade requires it; in other words, instead of selling their cotton from September to December, we protest that it is common sense and business to perfect ii plun by which wo may Bell it from September to September. To thia unfortunate custom of dumping our cotton on the market in so short a time regardless of demand or price is largely due the uni emunerativo pricea to tho producer. What is the remedy? Millions of dol lars are waiting profitable investment in Kood securities. Tho world knows and conceives that thero ia no better securitj- than cotton. Hence a plan by which the cotton can be retained in the bands of the producer and used as a collateral upon which 1 can secure money nt n reasonable ruto of interest to meet pressing debts, enabling him thereby to place his cotton upon the market at such time and in Buch quan tity as tho price justifies ia most desir able. To this end wo ask tho cotton produce.? in every county in South Carolina to meet at once and organize for tho ' rposo of sending delegates to a liieeijlig in Columbia for the pur pose of formulating a specific plun to carry out the ideas above suggested and to perfect un organization which will maintain cotton at such price as will properly compensate tho grower. Wo congratulate tho ?. otton growers of this State that tither cotton producing Stutes aro organizing for thia purpose and tho future is briant with promise fora national organization to maintain a stable and remunerative price for cotton . With this end in view wo sug gest that in each county tho cotton growers assemble and send two dele Kates to Columbia on Thursday Nov. 10th, 11*0-1. We request all couuty pa pers to cony this address, ll. O. llallis, Anderson county; IL A. Richardson, Harnwell county; W. 1). Evans, Chesterfield county; P. L. Hardin, Chester county; H. A. Sublet, Clarendon county; W. C. Uland, Col letou ?county; T. IL Kaiusford, Edge lield county; J. W. S. King, Florence county; JohnCantoy, Kershaw county; J. ll. Wharton. Laurena county; E. D. Smith, Lee county; J. XV. Wylie, Lan caster county; H. li. Galloway, Marion county; B. M.Pegues, Malboro county; B. F. Kellar, Orangeburg county; J. IL Stribbling, I'ickens county; Francis IL Weston, Richland county, B. W. Dubbs, Sumter couuty; W. II. Stewart, York county; S. M. Ld wards, Spartan - burg county; W. II. Irwin, Greenville county. Opening of the Trinity School, The school at Trinity will open next Monday, 7th inst. A full attendance on the first day is urged, as it will add greatly to the classification of the pu fitls. If your child starts late it will be ato in catching up. R. A. Gentry, Teacher. Oo ?nd after November t?-h, 1904, pas sengers will not be handled on freight trains on Havannah Division, No. 71 and 72, between Columbia and Greenville! 8. C. Brooks Morgan, Assistant General Passenger Agsnt. - Southern Railway Co. Noiice to the Public. iluiiiiciiu'.s ni South < u roi i ti ?. Tl," record of crimes of violence committed io South Carolina dur'- ? tin; present year, und published in The Sunday News yesterday, ought to impress the law abiding people of the State with thc necessity of adopting prompt arid adequate measures for the suppression of crime and the punish ment ol' crimina!-. The only way, in fact, tn suppress crime is to punish tiie criminals, without regard to their color or condition. The record given ycterday was not complete. It showed, however, that in lesa than ten months of the current your there have been committed in thirty-two counties, out of forty-one in the Slate, one hundred and sixty homicides, au avurage of five homi cides fur each of the counties covered hy the reports, or about one homicide for every other day during the year. ll ratlo-r difficult to give a gen eral summary ol' tin. reports, but they sh? " that no white man was convic ted of murder and sentenced to death, that eight whit>: ?nen were convicted of manslaughter, sixteen tried and ac quitted and that lhere; are twenty awaiting trial. Two negroes were con victed of murder arid sentenced to be hanged and several others were convict ted of murder with a recommendation to mercy, twenty were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to vary ing terms of imprisonment in tho Pen itentiary for lifo, or to serve on the county chain gangs, twenty four were tried and acquitted and sixty-two are awaiting irial or arrest. There are mure homicides commit ted in Charleston County than in any other county in the State. There I have been four lynchings in the State I since the first of the year, three ne 1 groes and one white man. One very ' remarkable feature of the situation is ? that in so many oases of homicide I uo arrests were made and in some ca j ses apparently there was no effort on the part of the authorities to discover the perpetrators of the crimes. Thc people of the State are utterly condemned by the record. The few plain bald facts wc have given speak out against us and our civilization. Tho State is smeared with blood. We must wash it out io thc name of jus tice and humanity.-News and Cou rier. Belton High School Hail, Monday Night, Nov. 7. ELIZABETH UK BARRIE GILL j Contralto Soloist, Harpist, Header. Admissiou f>Uc. and "15c. Tickets on i salo Ht door. Sale of City Lot. I I will sell at public outcry on Salesday in November r.pxta Hmall strip of Laud j ot* the Benson HOUHO Lot, adjoining lots ! of EHtato nf John E. PeopU'H, Audy E. ; Brown and .). L. McUoe. gobi for dlvis j ion. Terms-Cash. Purchaser to pay ! mo extra for ?apara. JOSEPH N. BROWN. ? Nov -J, 1U04 W 1 Warning. All pereonH are berehy warned not to hire or harbor my non, John Anderson, who ia under age and baa left me with I out my cc neem. Any ono disregarding ; this notice will ho held liable for bin wages, FRANK ANDERSON. I _JNov 2, HRH _ 20 _1_ I Notice of Final Settlement. THE nnderogned, Executors of the Kdtate of S. M. S. McClellan, deceaned, hereby give notice that they will 01 Wed needay, rtuth day of November, 1904, apply to the Jude? of Probate for Ander son County for u Final Battlement of said Karate, and a discharge from their office as Executors*. E. H. PENNELL, M. C. ASHLEY, Executors. Nov ,A_19U4_ 20_5? CITATION. State of South Carolina, County of Anderson. Hy H. X. H. Nance, Judge of Probate. Whereas J. C. Watkins, Clerk of ! Court, baa applied to me to grant him Lottera of Adminstratton on the Estate and effects of J Rice Milford, deceased: These are, therefore, to cits and admon ish nil kindred and creditors of the said J. Rice Milford, deceased, to be and appear before me in Court of Probate, to be held at Anderson Court House, on tba 12 m day December, 1904,after publication horeof, to ?how cause, it any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand thia 28th day of October, 1904. R. Y. H N A*S CE, Probate Judge. Nov 2. 1904 20 G The Only Exclusive Millinery Store in Anderson. Ladies, by all means see my line of Ready-to Wear and Trimmed Hats before yon bny. Have just received a tremendous line of Sample Hats that X am offering at actual wholesale coat. A]so, received from the'Raw Yor?- Ribbon Mills five hundred dollars worth of ell the leading shades in Ribbon. I am offering this shipment at less than it dan be bought at a Southern Jobbing House. LINE CARRIED : EVERYTHING usually found in a First Class Millinery Parlor. Respectfully; MRS. F. A. BLACK, No. 209 South Main Street, Adjoining Bank of Anderson. Why the jj Kittens Change 1 Their Religion ! A boy offered to sell kittens to a noted Methodist minister on the ground that they were Methodist kitlens. He would not buy, and afterwards, while in company with a Baptist minister, the same boy was trying to sell them as Baptist kittens. "Are not these the same kittens you offered as Methodist kittens ?" "Yes, but they have since had their eyes opened." JUDGING from the crowds that swarm in at THE BEE HIVE, passing right by other Stores who claim to sell cheapest, looks like most of the people around here must have had their eyes opened. Look in any time and ceo more people in THE BEE HIVE than any two Stores in Anderson. The reason I hold the crpwd is pimply iecauee I sell cheaper. No pattners to divide profits with. Dress Goods, Dress Goods? The Biggest Stock in Town. 56 inch Wool Repellant, worth 50c, at 39c a yard. 52 inch Broadcloth 75c a yard. 06 inch MelroBe, worth 40c, at 25c a yard. 52 inch Mercerized Venetian, worth 81.50, at $1.10, in assorted colors. 22 ounce Skilling, all colors, 56 inches wide, worth SI.50, at 98c a yaid. Simpson's Calicoes 5c yard. Heavy yard-wide Sheetiug 4]c aud 5c yard. Beat line of Jeans Pauta Goods made-cheapest to the best made. Blo??e Linen, worth 15c, at iOc yard. Clothing, Clothing. Not High Priced but Fine Goods. Men's Fine Fancy Worsted Suit, cheap at $10 50, our price 88.00 Suit. AU Wool Suit at 84.98 Suit. Some beautiful patterns in Tailored Suits, Padded Shoulders, Hair Cloth Fronts, worth 814 00, at $10 00 per suit. Men's All Wool Pants at 81.00 pair. Boya' Wool Suit 98c and up. Special. 2,000 yards Poe Mill Bleaching, made in Greenville, S. C., worth 10c. at *7i? Kv m xvi juiu. Shoes, Shoes. Children's Solid Groin Shoes, sizes 6 to 8, at 60c pair. Men's Brogans at 75c pair. Best Brogans that are made ai $125 pair. ? Our line of Hand-made Kangaroo Shoes for women at 11.50 per pair are the best coarse Shoes in Anderson with no exception. Beet line of Men's, Boya' and Women's Shoes tobo found in ibis section. Men's Fine Shoes 98c to tho beat that axe made at 83.00, 83.50 and $4 00 per pair. Blankets, Blankets. Good Cotton Blankets at 25c each or 50c pair. 10- 4 Cotton Blankets 75c pair. 11- 4 Cotton Blankets, all perfeot, at 98o pair. 11-4 Cotton Blankets, worth 82 50, at 81.98 pair. Wool Blankets, such as the Elkin, North Carolina Home made need no talking about-they are good enough. The 84.00 kind 82.98, 85.00 kind, 11-4, at 83 75 pair. 100 Bed Spreads, large size, woith 81.50, at 98c each. 100 doz Hemstitched Bleached Towels, worth 25c, at 10o each. NOTIONS, ETC. Four Cakes Laundry Soap 5c. Two Balla Sewing Cotton lc Twenty-five Enveloper? lc. Shoe Nails lc box. One Bali Tape la Seamless Bl&ck Hose for Ladies 5c pair. -. > Ono Paper Finale. Ono dozen Safety Pina lo. ! THE BEE HIVE I CheapeetiStoie on Earth on } FiueGoois. G. H. BAILES. Announcement I We have decided to retire from the Retail Trade its Anderson. We place on sale our entire Stock of Goods, which consists of First Class Dry Goods, No tions, Shoes, Clothing, Mil linery, Carpets, Rugs and Mattings. All to be sold at Actual First Cost. The stock is all this sea son s purchase, and is the grandest opportunity offer ed to the public in years. Store Fixtures, unexpir ed Lease treated for at pri vate sale. Tho well-shod and well-clothed men always insist [npon being woll-hat ?ed. COLUMBIA ?J. 8. STETSON CO. That is why we are selling so many : .?...': ? ? v.. r . ,'- -.. i ..'-V We ?canry a full line of Stetson Soft and DerbyHatslin al| he latent styles.