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intelligencer, Published every W ednesday. i. T. CLINKSCALBS, \ EDITORS AND U. C. LANOSTON. i PllOPRIBTORB. IJtCKMHi ONE YEAH, - - - - 8150 SIX MONTHS, - - - 7,r) WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31, liKMi. There seems to be n graft in every business. It.is now said there in a graft in the distribution of fa e ticed by congress. - o - The law makers in Columbia are making slow progress. They have much work to do, but ns usual the last days will be the busiest. Georg? W. Brunson, Jr., has for mally taken editorial charge of the Greenvillo News. Mr. llrunson ia an experienced journalist and a vigorous writer and tho News is fortunate in securing his services. - m ^ mm - The citizens of Nowbcrne, N. C., aro indignant at tho efforts of Mor mons to establish a church there, and havo burned the building where the Mormons held their services and told the missionaries to clear out, and if they loitered they would bo treated to tar and feathers. It may be that with tho OKCCHS of strenuous proposals and sledgeham mer suggestions for anti-trust legisla tion Congress will ultimately relent and enact some little thing that re sembles a law against tho hated trust. The mountain of anti-trujt agitation is likely tobring forth a meek little Republican mouse. II- t> m Late statistics show that tho negro race is being kept from increasing in thc United States by consumption, to which it seems peculiarly susceptible. It is Bhown.thati to each 10,000 of pop ulation, 24.07 negroes die from tuber culosis to 13.00 whites, every year. In Maryland the Stato tuberculosis commission finds that even a higher perocntago is roached, 33 80 negroes dying of tho disease to 21.75 whites; in Baltimore 45.0-4 negroes lo 17.84 whites. Tho poatoffieo department has given out the statement that there is to be retrenchment along tho linea of the rural free dolivery service. This ia to bo dono by cutting off auch routes as do not seem to be "appreciated," tho standard of appreciation beiDg that the route must handle 2,000 pieces of mail each month. It is not supposed (?hat this measure is partisan in char no tc:-, yet it can be readily seen that H will operate most largely against the ?oath, this section being decidedly more thinly settled than the North. '- . ia m mm General \> Joseph Wheeler, the fa mous Confederate cavalry leader, and a brigadier general of the United States army ia the war with Spain, died at 5:35 o'clock last Thursday af ternoon at tho home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, in Brooklyn, N. Y. The veteran of two wars WAS 69 years old, but in Bpito of his age there was liopo until Thursday of his recovery from tho attack of pneumonia, wbioh caused his death. The people of the wholo country honored and admired I him, his reoord since the Civil war going to show most conspicuously that bitterness over that : war had ceased and that, indeed, wo were aud :r ixtt\ United country. ;The General Eduoation Board of New York has donated ?25,000 to the endowment of Wofford, College. A short , while ago tho Secretary of tho Board spent a Few days in Spartan* .bs^^s^otlng WoSord and ita work. Be was so well pleased with the re sults of bia investigation that he made an enthusiastic recommendation to his board. This gift may be taken, therefore, na a mark of appreciation of the worth bf Wofford College by a disinterested educational expert, and . should bo exceedingly gratifying to the many friends of that institution throughout the State; Tho only con j ditton attaching to the gi ft io that the .'toenda nf Wofford should domp|ete by June 15,1007, the $1(10,000 which Dr, Child ia now raising. Uncle Sarnia j oat QO w being fed a : little of. his own . medicine. anent the . ;l^4ariff jque8tion. This country h aa in-, Bisled on a high tariff being levied, and;' the Consequence has been that":. f<???v, eign cOUotrjes have had to ke?p their goods at home. Now these ?i>rititries are oho by one ?tur bing against the , . United 3tatCB:and Baying totnia coun try that tho high tariff game is a game at which two?e?n play aa well as one, ^and that they^iH ^ast pUce a pro bibi live tariff on gooda of ?mericat? Vmapuf ac ture abd ??e ^ b ?tjr:. that pro gram wi 11' wcTk for, ? while at toast. The Democratic dootrine of a, tariff as -. ?'=? .:.: ?evenuea of tho country being provtd- j cr later thia country will have to come - If men would <jUifc .talfci^j aoon as ftey fiD^eh telH^ aUJtboy; . 4;aOw.:.?h^^Y^uji ? bo" gr?dt3a% j t< Vereaaio^ spells of ?Henea. OUE COLUMBIA LETTER. COI.VMI?IA, S. (*., ?Inn. 28. The muss of Inral bills acted on by bot li Houses ol' th? legislature during tho week past would lill several col unmsol this newspaper if enumerated individually, lt is said by those who have bren watching legislative allans lor yent? that this session is unique hi that thene miall mutters have 1 J?**"U . gotten nul ol' thu way at th? beginning und tin- way is now clear lor thc cou- ! Kidciatiot! ol' thc vital matters, Those i who view thc legislative proceedings lunn the capital, where volition ia! loo Jv cd at in its larger aspects as affect- , ing (he State at large, are inclined, peril ap A, to minimize the importance j ot what are called local measures, ' such as the bill lo provide for tho cree- ? lion of a jaii or court house, but those who are nearer to the people know that i it ittjuftt such things aa this which de- I termine a legislator's lato iu tho next election, and not unjuHtly HO, since the j legislator should first, of all represent ' his constituency without permitting the interests of tho State at huge to Buller in any respect. So when all these small, yet impor tant, matters aro out of tho way tho big. lights will begin, and tho dispen sary contest may come up any day. Tho Morgan local option bill is now ready for consideration, and each house hus several other measures on the calendar which w ill be pusher*, for consideration. If tho dispensary is realiy to go, then the men who are in ut tho death will have at least as much claim to fame as thoeo now almost for gotten ones who ouco claimed the pa ternity of the Groat Moral Institution. Tho sermon is now half over and the time for action is drawing near. The House has considered a largo number of email matters referred to during tho last week, Tho Senate has debated, and very thoroughly at that, tho bill introduced by Sonato?- John son, of Aiken, to prevent lock-outs. The measure was finally rejected, after a hard fight for it by tho author. Tho bill to provide a ten days Christmas holiday for the State Col leges hus passed both houses and stands a good chance of becoming effective, notwithstanding thc-avowed opposition of Senator Tillman, who regents what he construes to bo t he legislature's interference with Ilia du ties of .tho board elected to conduct Winthrop College. An interesting incident of tho week was the presentation to the State ufa portrait of tho late Gov. Hugh S. Thompson. Tho portrait wot* present ed through the governor by the* late governor's eon, Col. Henry T. Thomp son, and its transmission to tho Gen eral Assembly was the occasiou of tho delivery, of ' several very eloquent eulogies of tho '.ato Capt. Hugh S. Thompson, who served his State iirst a? a boy moldier, then as teacher, then as superintendent of.education and later as governor. Herc aro some of tho resultBof the week: The reformatory bill has re ceived a favorable renmt from tho Sonato committee; it was rejected by the Senate inst year. The bill to in crease the salaries of court stenograph ers has passed the Senate. There has betti introduced by Representative .Green, of Leo County, a bill to abolir? tho department of immigration, a sim ilar bill having been introduced by Mr. Green Inst year and ono by Josh Ashley this year. Mr. OttB has a bill to require tho formulae of all pat ent modiciues to boprinted cn the label on the bottle. There is pouding in the Senate a bill to prohibit county supervisors selling supplies to the county. < The bill by Mr. Otts, just referred to, brines op the charges made by Collier's Weekly and other periodicals that the patent medicine concerns in effect do a blackmail business with the newspapers by the large advertising patronage which they give and which I they withdraw from any paper which * opposes their interest. Sar. Otur ui? is probably the resnlt of the abuse of certain medicines which in prohibition domniunitioB, such as his county of Cherokee, are need os a substitutes for whiskey, and Borne of them have been ordered seized by-the chief dis pensary constable. Of course there are patent medicines and patent medi cines, end even those which contain a large percentage of alcohol may be proper remedies in certain diseases or ailments. < ? * The elections were hold on Tuesday and the legislature is that moon near er.finishing its work in good time. The elections did not arouse ns much interest nor take os much , time as they would have done hod thero beou spir ited contests fdr the places tobe flited and had tho dispensary positions been voted for. These latter have 'been left until tho General Assembly makes up its mind about the dispensary, and meanwhile.the possibility of getting tho jobs ia an inducement to the am bitious ones to preserve tho dispensary as an institution. The first ?lection was for obie! Jus tice, the terni of the late Chief Justice mwvcj UBVXjJK OAyucu. **iy SSCU!n= bent. Y, J. Pope, who was elected to fill the unexpired term, waa elected without opposition for the'full term, though there had been talk of nomi nating Geo. 8. Mower, of Newberry, who declined to allow his name to be presented.. .?, .-;,.v:.-> The other judges re-elnct?d R?6 tb A following: C. C. Dantsl?r of the first circuit; James Aid rich of the 'second 8ver Senator Warren, of Bampton} R.8 >. Purdy of Ihe third witbout.epposi- j Hon,- B. C. Watte of the fourthjU W.J Gage of the sixth With opposition; J. c. Klugh of the eighth over Senator McGowan, of Xanrena.\'..??}/ MiSB Linnio LaBorde, of Columbi** WUK re-elected Stato Librarian over Mit?? Sall io M. A. Black, tho poetess. Messrs. D. ii. Peurifoy anti John 0. Wingo wero re-elected members of tho penitentiary board; Mesara. W. J. neddy, JO. B. Joynea and A. M. Leo were re-elected members of tho Win throp board; Jl/caur*, Auront Kohn, W.T. C. Bates and J. i?. Davien were re-elected members of the South Caro lilia College leard; Mes?>rw. L. A. Sense and W. 1). Evans wero re-elected members of tho Clemson boord, but Maj. A. T. Smythe, of Charleston, was defeated bv Capt. Ivy M. Ma'ildin, of Picket?; Messrs. E. N. Blyt! e, and J. .). Luca* wne ro-clected on Cita- j ?Iel board; Messrs. W. It. howman und J). .J. l'rndham were re-elected on tlio board oi the State college io? C?'groes at I ?rangeburg. These elections, all of which had to bo by ballot under the law, rock op the whole of tho day Tuesday in joint sealion and required a meeting at night, ?o that neither Ilouso did any tum,: else thut day. J. ll. Gen. Joe Wheeler Dead. New York, Juu. 20.-General Joseph Wheeler, famous Confederate cavalry leader end a brigadier general in tho United States Army in tho war with Spurn, died at 0:JW this afternoon at the home of his sister, Mis. Sterliuo Smith, in Brooklyn. Ho had been ill with pneumonia for a week. General Wheeler was born at Au gusta, Ga,, in 1830. Ho graduated at West Point in 1829, was commissioned a second lieutenant of dragoons, and served at the cavalry school at Car lisle, Fa., until April 1801, when he resigned his commission and entered tho Confederate service. In tho fol lowing September he was appointed colonel of the Nineteenth Alabama In fantry, and was actively engaged in the earlier campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee. At Shiloh, in April, 1802, he commanded a brigade, and lc-ter in the year was transferred to the cavalry and participated in the battle of Parryville and Other engagements of General Bragg's Kentucky cam paign. Cn October SO, 1802, he waa promoted to the rank of brigadier gen eral, and covered tho retreat of Braggs army to the southward. In January, IHM, ho waa commissioned major general. He commanded the Confederate cavalry at Chattanooga and Chickamaugu, and covered Bragg's roar after tho defeat of Look out Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Ho harassed Sherman's ilank during tho march to Atlanta. In August, 1804, he led a successful raid in Sher man's rear northward as far us tho Kentucky lino. Subsequently ho op posed Sherman's advance on Savan nah, and in February, 18G5, he was pro moted to tho rank of lieutenant gener al, and continued in command of tho cavulr'y division of General John ston's army until its surrender, After the war he became a lawyor and cotton planter. lu 380 ho was elected to congress as u c .nocrut, and was n member continuously until 1889. lu May, 1808. ho was appointed by President ./McKinley, major-general of volunteers, and was assigned to the command of tho cavalry division of the Army of Santiago in the Spanish American war. He commanded tho troops in tho cugngemont of Lus Gu?s imas, was senior field officer in the hattie of San Juan Hill, and subaa quently was one of the American com missioners to arrange for the surrender of Santiago. In 1899-1000 he com manded a . brigade in the Philippine Inlands, waa commissioned a brigadier general in the Regular Army in June, 1900, and retired in the September fol lowing. He published a work entitled "The Santiago Campaign, 1808-1609." He was appointed police com mi J sioner of New York City by Mayor McClellan about three weeks ago* v ? , Wnshinaton. Jan. 20.r~Wlth full military honors General Joseph Wheel er, the-veteran of two warfe former representative in Congress and retired officer bf tho United States Army, was laid to rest in the National cemetery ot Arlington thia afternoon* \ ; ^ The spot selected for his final re pose is on the grassy slope to the Tight of..the historic Lee mansion, which Gep.? -Wheeler selected himself, Per sonal/Friends, representatives of both bl anches of Congress and citizens join ed in paying their tribute to the dead nouerai. Tho President personally at tended the last rites, i. ,' A guard of honor from the Spanish War Veterans', met the body on ita arrival inst night Und stood aa guard ia. St. John's Episcopal Church until 10 o'clock . thiB morning, when they wero replaced by .tho Regular Army guard. ? ' . ' The body, laid in state, ic. the church ' until two o'clock this af t?;?ootoj whore it was viewed by. many vf rienda. A brief service was conducted at -the church by Hov. Ernest Stires, who performed the same service in New York" 'Sunday. The< procession from the church waa h??d?d by a battalion bf- engineers. "A riderless horse was led with: th? cavalry/ then ' Carno the following ve torahs organisations;, The United Confederate Veterans of tho Washington Grand Army, the Spanish WarvVeterans, Co. "A,? -.Wheeler's ! Confed?rate cavalry of Atlanta, and tho Army and Nfcvai Union. < The nonororx FB? borers ?sc?sdsd Ge Lei ul Bates, General Lamar and other Confederate veterans; ofileers of Wheeler's staff in tho Spanish wari General Stephen D. Lee, General A. P. Stewart and General Baeil Duke; rep rosen ta tivea irma both Ho ases of Congress and promipent mon formerly closely :. related.'. o?Hcially to ' Goncr&l Wheeler^ ' T ..?i^^m^m^?m^m^mA mr Big Cost Sale MEN'S AND BOYS' We have just bought at about fifty cents on the dollar the entire stock of Men's and Boys' Tine Shoes of the Davis & Daniel Shoe Stock. Theee are such goods ss Edwin Clapp's French, Suriner & Urner's and Snow's Shoee and.Oxfords for men, and a full line of Boys' and little Gents' Excelsior Shoes and Oxfords? You know these goods, and know there is nothing better mado. We put on sale to-day THIS ENTIRE STOCK AT MANUFACTURERS' COST ! AND LESS THAN COST. Every pair marked with these letters and characters, so you J can bring thia mavk and buy by it : V T Z R 0 P # \X ? RE^PI^ATEB 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 We will sell these Goods at 10 per cent IOBS than marked cost. It will pay you to buy these* 86.00 and 86.00 Oxfords and keep them until Spring, when you can buy them at less than cost. COBIE ?ND SEE THEM; We muBt turn them int,, cash.- We do not ask anything but I first cost for the1 new gooda, and will'sell old goods less than coat. *j ?lust remember also that Shoes havo advanced 25 per cent in the last four months, and these goods were bought before the rise. . Remember we are sole agent for Queen Quality Shoesfor La? dies and Walkover Shoes for Men. - THE BEE. H1WE mm* TRYING TO iyjAKE : Grow IVhere mm Ililli ' li IS the spirit ; hack of all : prc when reasonable bounds age. J^fe^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ffl This re minds us that we are in a position tclend i s?d giT? isatedsl assistais te al* fAymara h^npniylnff to ^^^^^^drle^tly adapted to their refinir?me?ts., flows; made-from steV* of -tho * ver^-^ighes^ ^?ity, Bad*-en^ !ers & Sullivan IT^Oo, The same goods thalweg j ^^^^^ SPEGlAl? THAT WILL INTEREST OF SHOPPERS. Rousing newe, thia^exlrao?diflarj tidings ! No sale could possibly bo more corapreheur?^? ! None could offer a greater variety of attractions of sterling /worth ia seasonable mezchaudise 1 The price inducements are simply amazing 1 Hale Begins Thursday, Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, . ? ; ' - : :| Shoes, Ladies' and Gent's Furnishings,. 1 Carpets, Matting and Wall Papar, | ' Every bit- of Merchandise is seasonable and desirable, aad in mimy 'Jj cases it will go at less1 than actual cost. . ' ' \ 1 If we could present every item as fo?cib?y as it deserves, there woubj J sot be room enough in our Store to accommodate the crowds that would 1 come in eager anticipation fr^ ;'S Oat' large handbills will be distributed Vin every home. Read every ;-| line through caref^Uy, note' down aay^ ari?cls you wish to purcbasei You i will find we did not overpraise the Values. Thousands of our customers who look forward - | ; : VERY SPEC???i EVENT I Will find.that we have fairly outdone all .previous efforts.*'^U^rM!\^^k&k J In spite of the fact that all Cotton and Woolen Gooda baver advaucretS ' in price, we'are able, by having a lfcrge- 4 ? v?'^y . . l^holesale ??oxise At our command^ to offer value3 unprecedented. Sale will positiv'ely 'open Thursday, February I?t, and will contin?e for ten days only. \ . \ . ; , / ; To remark and rearrft?ge dur Stack tho Store will bo closed Wednes day, January 31st. . Watch for tho Red Sign. ?xpeirieBoed Salespeople w j 113 Granito Kow. I BEIM' ftS HPtt IT'S TOM rf 5 WE bav? been pleading with our customers in a t J? quiet way.for ten dajp not to delay tho very irapor- , ^ '. ' tent duty of laying in a fi.ll supply of :, : ; '?uWBBm^^ ! w??: : : DEAR'S P?TEHT FLOMB ?|. ; $ -HOW while the price ia .cheap; We have seen quite ^ 5? ' a ?arge number of them in,person, a^nd. have saved ' .. ;5 ^ day they have a profit of at least fifteen cenia a ?L. . \ fM^lt' bsd a reason^ a^eept our I o?H :A . % X. : : The priceja obliged to be higher, for the eU4uf?cieii % ? ^^^^;:.V:?fi?^n|i-:;t?iftt. Aft':?hnT^fe.^?lt^ ^^^?^^u^,^ . GS? ? ' : : ad^ced^ ; J. it has not gotten good started, yet. For those wh?^%^^?%-: S ' ? ???;V? cot used S^u's'S?a^?; ??^xeceut monday wo . %. ?SJ will ?ay th'at it is the best? bakiag Flour on the mar- . C y kettc-diy. It ls wait? and guaranteed! absc&t?ly *?' pare fresa aduH?rauic, such ES ?5 feuad m . % r^te-ltart.can never b% *&?iinllated by ^e s^stem? ' -and.. ftre% .therefore productive ?t mtik ?mszt?- &s ' ^; ? tion 'd^pepsia. * PeanVlPateu's h theare! duat . -ta^e?i;;ir^^o^l^ ^ &?d . thoroughly oared wheat : : : ? : : V ; ; . . .'POLISSES. ? When bsyiafc your %4n^: bill HffuVe ta . ? sell yo^your^lsoo^ ^^|r??f??a^;ai^i^^^