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Intelligencer. Published every W ednesday. J. P. CLINK8CALE8, ) EDITORS AND O. C.~LANOST0N, \ PHOl'RIKTORS. Ul RMS; ONE YEAH. - - - - Si 50 SIX MONTHS, - - - *75 WEDNESDAY, DHC. <?, l-'('">^ Thc farmers are beginning to realize and appreciate the power and the ad vautago of organization and co-opera tion. It will be all tho easier in the futuro to organize them for mutual protection. - ? -i ? i^^*-^ -1 " -"* A good many home seekors are com ing South, and being fellow Amerioau citizens, they arc especially welcome. Our northern arid western friends will find great opportunities for home- j making awaiting Lhem in Dixie land, j A lot of peoplo have alroady made J np their minds as to that forthcoming New Year's resolution, and tho con temptation gives them virtuous, de- j light so long as it does not interfere tfith tho vico to bo forsworn-for a few days. _ Tho Fifty-Ninth CoogresB convened last Monday, and it promises to be a long, lively session. It will bo cona- j posed of 250 llepublioans and 136 D?mocrate. Tho Democrats in the House of Representatives hold a cau cus and selected Hon. J. 5. Williams ns their leader. I Pr?sident II ?rv io Jordan says that very soon all the machinery of the Southern Cotton Aeaooiation will be put to work to keep cotton acreage re duced next year. It io to bo hoped that the machinery will run true and strong, without tho Blipping of a belt or the broaking of a cog. Good limos have not failed, and show no signs of failing. On the contrary, continues tho New York Tribune, there is every evidonoo that the next two or throo years will soe a narked acceleration in our industrial growth and a greater diffusion than ever of material prosperity. The liquor oases in South Carolina have again been delayed. Last Mon day in Columbia the Supreme Court set January 8th for tho hearing on the constitutionality of tho Brioe law. This, we pres?me, means that the dispensaries in the counties that ha?a recently voted them out will remain open until ofter the final hearing. % U I [Bi . South Carolina has lost the suit for $20,000 instituted about four years ' ago against the National government, j Last Monday the Snpreme Court of I the United States decided that the National geversmsat. say lix the State liquor dispensarles. The opin ion waa delivered by Justice Brewer. Tho position of the State was that as the liquor waa sold without profit, it should not he taxed. The tas has been collected ainco 1895. The Court says this ia not a police power but a mo; tey making business, hence must pay. ^ The agricultural department at i Washington ia now working on a curi 1 one experiment. . A machine nae bean invented whioh does very suc cessful work in tho picking of cotton where the bolls stand oreot, but can not gather this lint where the bolls are low down near the ground. The pres* ent typo of cotton plant has a marked tendency to grow its bolls near the ground, and the department is npw trying,to develop a type of plant whioh will grow moro erect-a' case where the plant is to be made to suit . ?; the machine instead of the maohin? j lithe plant. Tba Columbi a Record says that Comptroller General Jones has ad dressed a circular letter to oity and \ Township Boards of Assessors, Coun ty Auditors ?nd County Boards cf Equalisation, wWoh will have, the 4Bffeet either of revolutionising the aa? .f sssm?nt of property in this State or of further and finally demonstrating that *be auditors and the members of the boards baye nb. Intention of en v foroing the very plain statutes peened by the J?^slaiti?it?'y??ira.'a^'?'.'-i?bkins- lo the assessment of property at its full "true money}Talus'' l^i^d\vt\on a ' 60 per cent, bssts of a valuation ar rived at through a system>f dodging made possible by politics and wire | polling. The regular quadrennial ai ..aessment of real estatei fe to be nia?^ n?xt y ear, tho returns beginning to bo made tho 1st of next january. Th? Cbmptroller'Goneral estimates that,his direction s, if carried our, will double the tax^ vftluoB of the State, making thom ovi?r.;.>10P,000,000 indeed of : only $2JiO,O?0,000.- He find? tha|?%y? <^:'.fce$et?}:W?^tiy. is' assessed in feel State at from 0 to 100per cent, of i&l real valu?,'-?nd^ j V small pr^ ia carry-1 thc ui^?jj^ H ; i is th? large psoporty.which is dodging. * i : Of coarse, if* bis directions aro carried $mffi*WihS?Hy throughout the State' #?*&$i*f#H not only' be oe furth?r State defioUe.libt ^eoity, town and:boun ty authorities, aa well as'.the ?uto anthon?i^a, will have more tax mon^y than th?* cen^ ?p?ndi and the levy will ; -have to be iredaoed io ptopertiotf aa i . tb?-asoeaem?fi'Mfl fti??d., ' ? ' - i Gambling in Colton Would be Lessened. Washington, Dec. One of tho first bills introduced into the Fifty-ninth congress will bc ono on Monday Dy Representative Webb, of North Carolina, providing for a daily report <<i tho cotton ginned by the KUI ne rica of tho south, The cen HUH bureau now issues a nomi ...suthly report. Mr. Webb has corresponded willi D. A. Tompkins and other well known manufacturers and he believes that a daily report would tend to pre - vent violent lltietuatioiiH and thus de li troy the speculative element. Speaking today ol' tho matter Mr. Webb said.' "Growers und manufac turers alike are against tho present ey s tem. A daily report could be issued at little if any increared cost over the present system and certainly it would prevent the wide fluctuations that often result in financial rain to in dividuals and corporations. 1 huvo tolked with members ul ?bc American Cotton Manufacturera Association ?md they aro in favor of suer, ft bill. The farmers with whom I have talked favor it. It preveuta s?*" mutation on their crops. Good people generally i will look with favor upon it because it I involve? a moral question. The gov I emmett cannot afford, to bo respon sible for the speculation which the present ayetem of reports unquestion ably cnuBeB. Only a few weeks ago cotton fluctuated to the extent of 85 a bale during one day. This would bo "inpossible if daily reports wore issued and the temptation to speculate would not bo BO great.-Washing Cor. Col. State. A Marlboro Tragedy. BennettBvillo, December 4.-Walker Sweet died in the Smithville section Sunday from the effects ol' a wound on the head with a gun barrel by Duncan Grant Friday. The testimony ai tho inquest show? that Sweet, Grant and J. li. Laviner were coming from Che- i raw in a buggy. On the way Swept j and Grant got into a disput? and got ont of the buggy to fight. Laviner j persuaded them to make friends and they went on. Grant tried to take the linei, but Laviner refused to let him drive. He cuiaed Laviner for taking sides with Sweet, and Laviner made bim get out of tho buggy. Laviner and Sweet ?hove, to Lnviner's house* | Grant afterwards carno up and Lavi ner went out to meet him. Grant greeted bim by knocking him down with hin gun and breaking it out of the otock. While Laviner was lying unconscious Grant seized the gun Dar rel and turned upon Sweet. They had a BcnfHo and Sweet, in trying to back away, stabled and fell. Grant bit him several times while down and then got on bis horse and rode away. Sweet was cavr?ed into the boase un conscious and liv id till yesterday. All of the parties wei? drinking and had been patronizing the Cheraw dispen sary. Grant car;o to BennettBVille and surrenderee* today. Sweet was a son of the lat? Kev. N. T. Sweet, who was twice school commissioner, of this county, and .. highly esteemed citizen and Methocist min i ot or.-Special to News and Cornier. Broke Dr. Evans' Rib. The Bev. W. E. Evans, reotor of ./Monumental Church, Richmond. Va., and formerly of this city, is Buffering with a broken rib as the result of a de monstration of affection on the part of thc Kev, L. Landon Mason rector of Grace Episcopal Church.. ~Both'~of"tue reverend gentlemen were at a minis terial gathering and Dr. Mason was so overjoyed at meeting his friend that he took him in hie arms and bug ged him. At tbat timo Dr.. Evans did not feel any inconvenience,, bnt on arriving home B?uorou irita a pain in bis sine? An X-ray examination revealed a broken rib. Dr. Mason isa small man, while Dr. Evans it quite large.-Tho State._" a .1 : Killed ty His Tenant. Gaffney, December 4.-Today abon? noon, near Antioch, this county, Mr. C. J. H ugh ra waa shot and killed by Mr. Hu fus ttyars, one of his tenants; A difficulty arose over n settlement* when Byers shot twice with a shotgun, both loads taking effect, one in the shoulder and ono \u tho bowels. Ro jjwiti o? tho tragedy tro very meagre. Tho sheriff baa gone to the scene of the shooting. Both men Were prominent, Air. Hughes was nt one time in the mer cantile onainesa ut this placa.-Nowe and Courier. .. . * . .< Shot lils Fat her-In-Law. V Branson? December 4.-Yesterday (Sunday) John Hunt, a young white man, went to tho home of his father in-law, Jacob Preister, near this town, and asked to see bis wife, to .whom ho was married a few months *?o, and from whom he recently sepa rated. Hunt being denied admission to the houso became involved in a diffi culty *ruh Preister and his two so na. Hunt being armed with a pistol anda double-barrel shotgun, shot all three men, seriously wounding one Ot tho y ono g men and the elder Preister: Hunt made his escape. All aro ci ti zens pf Hampton County.-Hews and' Courier. . , A Sermon on Love. Bev. J. D, Chapman, D. D:? of An derson .occupied the pulpit yesterday, morning at the - Washington Street; Methodist Church. He took as a text the verses, beginning with the ninth? of the jr?th chapter of John and deal ing with the love of God for bis chil dren: ? ... ; > . " , 'As the Father hath loved me, so 1 have 1 loved yon; continue in my ! J'ff ??.kei?P W, commandments, ye I ahall abide in my love; even as 1 have kept my father's commandants, and abide in Hia lovo. . j m "These things .have I spokon unto t??ft thatv my joy might r?rotin In ;7on, and that your joy might bo full." .j-Using these verses,.. Dr. Chapman explained their, significance aa applfod to tho life ot today. Love, ho^oaid, waa the keynote of mon's btst success, in this world and bo made nu earnest exhortation for love in . the heme, in business and in walks! ofv lite; In speaking Ot a tendency of aor.m people to associate- wildfellow chnrch mem bers while beneath tho sacred roof andi! then forgottiog to speak to t hem when \ meeting on the street; he said, ."Never, whs there i a. greater c?ucor - tust-, eat? into th?^h?art ^}?:>a?an ; tban thia epirit.^Cc*amfcift State 14th Iner., ? ?..';'"''>^-;*'.:fi?','!'. v - - xho:ais^n^?T?r':e?9oti?n'.in Wil liamsburg Country has beso contested on aoooao t of irrer;?} ari ties. Tfaedisr perisjirf :people ?raployed a Hwyer who i appeared - before tho board of election] commissioners ?=hes they, met to deJ*{ okre the r^Bult of the election. Thc oanW vftBsing of ^h v roturas was po$tponed Of?CU^^t?, D*eenber.22tbt when A?'.OAsa will be fully a?gaed. on f GENERAL NEWS. - Tho Stale insane asylum of Ar kansas was almost totally destroyed by lire. - American's on tho Isle of Pinea rati?cd tho election of a delegate to congress and territorial officers. - A negro in Louisiana was taken from tho deputy sherill end lynched for assault upon an aged white lady. - Miss Hettie Green, of New York, t!?e richest woman iu the world, passed her 71st birthday last week. - While in a drunken frenzy, An drew Owens of Banks County, Ga., shot and killed his father for reprov ing him. - Secretary Wilson reports that thc value of farm products in tho United States this year will reach $0,415,000,000. - An explosion took placo in tho Keystone powder works of Emporium, Pa., killing nino men and seriously wounding several others. ; - The entire number of rcproson j ta ti ve s in tho house of tho now non gress is 386, of whom only 137 aro Pemoorats. Only eighty-ono arc first termers. - $778,511 has been raised for the Jews ii Fungia. Tho sum was fixed at $1,000,000, and there will prob- ! ably bo no difficulty in ra'sing that amount. - Another Oregon congressman has bc.o sentenced to jail. Oregon seems likely to be moro prominently represented in the penitentiary than in con?tess. - President Roosevelt has removed the assistant U nited States treasurer at Philadelphia for "constant and persistent violation of the civil ser vice law while in office." - A dispatch from Wisconsin on Wednesday said: "This vioinity is experiencing the Grot real blizzard since 1872. A 70 milo wind is blow ing and the snow has drifted from four to six feet deep." - A woman and three men who were engaged in a traffic in girls lu New York were sentenced to 32 years in the . penitentiary. The jndgo in sentencing them said their crime was worso than murder. - Prof. Goldwin Smith, the ven erable Canadian publicist, is fond of children and believes thst as an en couragement f natrimony two votes should bc givbu to every married man. -'Congressman Dinsmore, of. Ar kansas, in a personal encounter with Gov. Jeff. Davis, of that State, o truck the Govornor over the head with a re volver. Political differences occa sioned the trouble. - Riobard A. MoCurdy has resign ed his position as president of the Mutual Life Insurance company. He gives failing health as a reason; but the public believes it is because of tho iosuranoo investigation. - The Unit jd States Supreme -Court has decided that it has no jurie? diction in the case - of Mrs. Mary Rogers, cf Bennington, Vermont, who is under sentonoe of death for the. murder of her husband. Unless the governor interferes she will hang the 8th instant. ' V - - Patrick Raymond, aged 18, Was arrested in Lincoln, Neb., while Ugh ting a cigarette v?hich ho had just tolled for his own use in the presence of a city detective. He was fined $50 and-,costs, This ia tho lightest pen alty prescribed by tho kw for "m&au f io tu ring*; cigarettes.* + J?. - 1 " ;> --To*inaugurate Theodore Roose velt president of the United States; last Mo'roh coat $145,401, \ a greater/ Bum than was over Spent for any pre viouo inauguration. 'The details of this e?a| were made publie Thursday in a report by GcnoralJohu M. Wil son, the ohataau" of tho inaugural ebmmtt^ev/r,. f>|V ?X:- m . v :. I - ?cooVdbg te tho loafc religious census of the United 8tatesj tftere are in this country no lesa than 145 distinct denomination, or. church . bodies, coming , under the genera)' name of . Protestant, i The Presby terians themselves are subdivided into 17 separate bodies, the Methodist into 12 and tho Lutheransinto> 14. .. ; ; >7 Judge Edward M. Paxon, Who died in .Philadelphia October 12, lof t the major part of his fortune ,for the endo wment of ? college ot agri? ul . tur?. Provision io mane for oxperi* Stiled instruction on th? land owned by the distinguished j uris t, which rS to be Md of? in farms and equipped with ali tho modern appliances. Tho for Laue amounts to nearly S3.000.0?O. The affairs of the institution aro to bi .placed in tho eo?trol of a hoard of trustees - wb* are : named by tho Judge.. -, ? ? s ?otic? to 'Cr?ditera, - A&L persans having dom ando against tho Eetate of Anthon? Webb, deceas ed, oro hereby:notified te p?esefct them? ? properly proven, to the underaigced, within the time proaorlboc by btw, add those indebted to make payment >-?; > v " NOEL B. SHARPE, ;: Administrator. Dee;o, 1005 ; <? 2ft.. :-:.. ^ Ono of th? m09t doeWablrt plaoois io up per South Carolina-Tho Old ?'Maxwell Pia? tation'''-~nn the Seneca ? JUveiV'W* mlleV from "Pendleton;; A mile* from Cherry Station, Blue Rid go, R.^H&jsS Ctemson College;^ .250 aerea In good state if cnltivatlotti 100 aerea rtverl^ tom, 400 aerea timber land, a ponton of lt virgin forest, a nearly new dwelling h?uset7roorn*. Large barns, stock and, t6t>l abada, 7 tenaut .houses, ?H in good ropalr. An UV*! opportunity for tho in vector. Tba ?1 rober on X00< aerea v wu!, when cut and p?i op the market, i?y tom land ?an be s'old ?f SfiO ^MteVlm ibero turo plenty o? rentera uv-4na?thtrd of ev?/ortnln?, standing v;ready<:^t^ntHot;' ??^wBttiSf'"S?&rm 7 moles, ono yoko4 of cauto,. wagon?, can s end for nor imple- i awi^mKmtiw mil*, hog?, young CAW ALL BE SUPPLIED HERE For Clothing, fchoes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions. Etc. Clothing Buyers Will save 20 to 40 per cent by seeing our line of Men's and Boys' Fine Clothing. Men's Wool Suits, cheap at $6.00, our price,8448 suit. Men's Suits, cheap at 88.50, our price $5 98 suit. Men's Wonted Suits, worth $10.00 to 615.00, at 88.00,810.00, ??11.00 and $12.00 suit. Dress Goods. In thin line we have all your heart can desire in ' Fine Wool Dress Goods, Silks, Cotton Goods, Etc. ' Shoes, Shoes, Shoes, You ma) . -ne to us expecting the BEST. We Bell BJ v*h Shoes as Bion F. Reynolds, the Walk Over Shoes, T. D. Barry's, E.c., for men, the Bering Shoes for women, and we also have the agency for Queen Quality Shoes for women, and as good line of Children's Shoes as can be found m Anderson. Men's and Boys' Overcoats. Men's Overcoats, .worth 05.00, at 13.50 each. Better Coate at 84.48, 86.00, 08.00, 810.00, and 52-inoh Coats, worth 616.00.. at 811.00 each. Boys' Overcoats 81.25 each and up. . Notions, Notions. Extra Heavy Ladies'.Vests and Pants 21c each. Men's 10c Socks at 5c pair. . ; Men's 2Do Suspenders at,15o pair. Crapa Paper, for decorating, all colors,lat 5c roll, Boys' Drill Under waiata, with Hose Supporters, at 25o each. Men's Wool Socks at 10c pair. "? Ladled Wool Hose, worth 25c, at 15c pair.. Children's Wool Hose at 15c p^dr. '., Wright's Health Underwear for men at 88o each, or 81.75 Suit, ? 200 11-4 White Bed Spreads, worth 11.50, at 08o each. THE BEE HIVE Saves you 25 per cent* a . . fl Ga V , .'. I I TO ?WAKE YOUR PURCHASES. Everything Going at Greatiy Reduced Prices; Julius EL Wejl &Co's. Grand Bargain List I Prints................ 2?c Cheeks....... $e 8heetinnr.. ............ .-,.,. {t .......... 41c Jeans.........*... 15c Ked Flannel.........-.................. 10<r Cotton Flannel....v.........--<.. 4<? Percales................ .................. 5c Bleaching.............. . 8e Blankets...46c? liad iee' Underheat.......................... 10o Ladles' Walking Jackets........*. ?2 9cV Ladio3? Trimmed Hats. '. c.,... * 4Bc Wool Dross Goods.. 8c "Bed Tick....,. ec Table Dama?k............V;....... yi.' X4c Ladies' Shoes* *........ KS5? Men's Shoes...... *...... ....... 00c Boje* Suits*.......,.... 05e> Men's Salts.. ,. ...32 75 Men's Overcoats.?>.......... .\ ..152 \ Men's Undershirts.. lite jMfen'S For Hats........................ v.. . 85e Rugs; ;-..................... 98? Matting...,.. 20c Carpet Remnanta.............yi. 22c Window Shades.. ,y... V..y................. 1?^ . ?rt Squares..... .V..,............. .82 50 Ladies' Suits.........:....,.;..>> .$?' 50 WaUPaper...... ....... ....... .... 5c: In&ntfi' Wrap?..;. 86c Men's Bubber^oatfl...... - .... .>W 25 ?Men's Rain Coats.........?IQ ?5 Wright's Health Underwear. ...... ......... f6c ill? il ??fe Bemesnber the place-113 Granite R?^'. Three large fleers leade?dewja. .. . mm u loi ls a Steinway Piano the .recognised standard Ja -Piano? sir .? J; Of the a^tnai - . inerifc Vand worth of 'each; o?these ?^M^ all 'ether dmiiiir geode, inanntaetnred. Bach- Uno- hasy-ita^pjpi .tandara? We here'-give ?lew-rea^^ io laying cl^^ ? \-:Jyk''r . Xs ^ the recognised sta*