Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Intelligencer. Published every Wednesday. J. F. CLINKBCALES, i EDITOR8 AND U. C. LANGSTON, S PROPRIETORS. ?ERM8; ONE YEAR, - - - - $1 CO SIX MONTHS, - - 75 WEDNESDAY, JUNE G, 190?. l?eports from various parts of thc country show that exceptionally pros perous conditions continue to pre vail. It is said that an Atlanta man liad his check turned down at thc hank upon tho ground that he did not sign the check in his usual manner. Mo.it men get their checks turned down hy the bank fur ijuilc different reasons. A western State insurance commis sioner is explaining in court why he was insulted at an oiler of $2,000 in cash made him by an eastern life in surance company. Ile may explain this easily, but ho will have a hard time explaining why ho didn't take the money. The negro Republican congressional contestants in South Carolina are hav ing a hard run of luck. Murray has fled the State to esoape a term in the penitentiary for swindling, and anoth er would-be negro congressman, Prio leau, han been sentenced to the poni tentisry for opening letters while a postal olerk. Some people think it e shame that John D. Roakefeller has made $113, &C?/,000 out of Standard Oil during the past eight years. In view of the fact that Standard Oil itself made $341,000,000 daring this time, the faot that John D. only took $113,500, 000 shows that ho is a very modest and unselfish man. r A recent issue of the Manufactur ers' Record presents a revised list of the cotton mills of the South whioh shows a total of 042 cotton mill com panies and firms, with 9,470,637 spin dles and 210,203 looms. This is 4, i>78,000 moro spindles than in 1900. The invested capital has increased from $112,837,000 in 19?0 to $230, 000,000 in 1000. With very few ex ceptions all the plants are roported doing a successful business. It is said now that, in view of tho prospect that ho will bo unopposed for renomination to the United States Senate in the campaign this summer, Senator Tillman will not make a can vas f'/cm count" to county for the dispensary or upon any other ques tion, bat will contest himself with delivering a few speeches about the State on the great issue before the people. This is the best thing Sena tor Tillman eould do. The Abbeville Press and Banner sayfj: "It seems that a number of candidates are withdrawing. For in stance: Col. E. H. Aull, of Newberry, for whom we had been saving our vote, withdrew, and then wo proposed to give it to Mr. J. E. Norment, but he, too, has withdrawn from the raoe. We have our vote still on hand." Take our advice, Brother Wilson, and east that vote for Col. M. P. Tribblo, of Anderson, who is in o very way qualified for thal position, and you will never regret it. The man "who know8 it all" and deems himself all-sufficient for all r J easions, and especially for emergen c?es, is a familiar figure in all employ- ? meats, publio and private. More men achieve failure by knowing too much and Crying to do too many things to whiob they are not called than by the opposite course. The overdoer, more frequently than the man who keeps below a big!* standard, fails to realize bis aims. Dominated by a deep and and abiding sense of bis capacity for usefulness and by unequally robust doubt of other mon's qualifications, this inflated personage is a nuisance at all times and in any avocation. Hon. Arthur P. Gorman, United States Senator from Maryland, died suddenly at his residence in Washing* ton last Monday morning. While he bad boen in feeble health for several months, heart trouble was the imme diate cause of bis death. Senator Gorman long had been a notable figure in the National Congress. He first took his seat in 1881 and served eon sinuously t** eighteen years, and nearly ell tk fime he was the leader of the Democratic pariy in the Sen Ate. Winning an early reputation for sagacity and the keenest judgment in congressional affairs, be attained prominence, not aa a leader in the Senate but in the country at large, and by many men was considered the most available man in bis party for the presidency. He waa chairman of tho executive committee and managed 'the campaign that resulted in the election of Cleveland in 18&4. The most Notable contest of his congres sional oweer and c~z whioh attracted to hi m wUer attention than anything else, ^aV rhea he l*d the s?nato minority io 1800-91 and defeated the j W#**itf*$^\f&*) MIL, To (bis ?ega- j oious leadership and adroit manage ment his party fricudu attributed the defeat of the mea?urc which was sc obnoxious to the South. A great and good man has gone to his reward, and his place in the Democratic ranks will be hard to CU. A late magazino writer attempts to show that the average profits associa ted with agriculture are very much less than those obtained by men in other lincB of business, but he entire ly overlooked one very important fact. The salaried man, thc mechanic, the merchant and that large class whose yearly earnings do not exceed $350 per year, find that house rent and house hold supplies absorb tho larger part of their income, while the mau on thc ? farm has Iiis home rent frc1 and can with dairy, poultry, garden and or chard well cared fi>r secure r.? abun dance of those things free which cost thc town resident thu iu'?->t money. The farui is not as a general rule properly credited willi thc item of thc good living obtained directly from it. Many a farmer would think that he had struck a snap if he could secure an $H0l) position in some town, when ho would very soon find out that he i had left on tho farm a better home and a better living than $800 would secure for him in any town. iiiiMiBimmm.n?mm?i ?TATE NEW?. .- Lawrence Garter, oolored, shot and killed his wife in Clarendon County and then committed suicide. - Elliott Rouse, oolored, killed his wife with an axo, near Goronaoa, Greenwood County* Jealousy was the cause. - C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens, and B. A. Morgan, of Greenville, both aonounoe 'hat they will not make the raoe for governor. - Candidates for State offices are j rapidly filing fledges. Thero will be ; a good crowd in the oampaign party. I Senator Tillmsn is not likely to have oppo&.tion. - T.xe State Supreme Court has re fused tie appeal of Commander John son, the white man convicted in Horry county of tho murder of Rev. Mr. Grainger, and he will be hanged. - Master Hubert Pitts, son of J. M. Pitts, of Clinton, was awarded a vordict for $1,000 against the Seaboard in thc Laurens oourt for damages in getting his foot mashed while croasing tho railroad track. - Young J. Culbertson, of Laur ens County, who has jrfe?, celebrated his 77th birthday, owns a mulo 85 years old, with which ho does a great deal of bis own ploughing. Tho mule is in good condition and does good work. - Lightning struoic the barn of T. W. Wood, who .Woe in Reidville Township, Spartanb jrg County, sot ting tho building on fire, destroying the barn and twenty bales of ootton which fdr. Wood was holding for high er prices. Tho loss is ^about $1,500. - South Carolins will have a naval training school at Port Royal. The naval appropriation bill contains an item of $96,000 for the purpose of re modeling the buildings of tho Port Royal navy yard, fitting them for the training of reoruits to the navy. - R.C. Harding of the Charlotte division, has been appointed addi tional roadmaster of the Columbia di vision to have oharge of the lines be tween Greenville and Spartanburg and branches, thus dividing the territory of the division with W. A. Fort. - The late J. E. Tindal was a mem ber for life of the board of trustees of ni_rv_n_i . i \JICUIBUU vuuago uuu UID piaau on ene board will be filled by those 'trustees representing the Clemsbn bequest. Governor Heyward appointed F. H. MoMaBter to succeed Mr. Tindal as a member of the State historical com mission. - Charles Baber, administrator of the estate of John A. Cain, through -?J attorneys, Butler & Osborne, of Gaffney, has filed a suit sgaiast the Southern Railway for damages in the sum of $50,000. Cain was killed ia a wreck on Broad river trestle near Blaoksbnrg sometime ago. He was running as brakeman on the ill-fited train. ' - John H. Zimmerman, of Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County, died labt Friday morning from the effect cf a bee sting. Mr. Zimmerman wan sixty years of age and was well known throughout the connty. He was walking in his field on Thursday after noon when he waa stung on the lobe of the right ear by a bee. The man walked for about ten steps and while calling to his wife to como to his as sistance fell to the ground and outside of a few incoherent statements made during thc night never spoke agaiD. Wheo Mrs. Zimmerman reached lu r husband he was ]>iog on the ground with his face black with congested blood in an unconscious condition. The man was immediately removed to his homo and medical attention sum moned. Tho physicians remained with him all du ingthe night, but at 5 o'clock Mr. Zimmerman died from the effects of tho poison which had been injected into his system by the bee. - Henry J. Hesse, a prosperous farmer living two miles south of Wal halla, committed suicido by handing himself with a wire. His body waa found dangling from a tree with a wire around his neck. No definite cause can be given. More than a yea" ago h?: lost a large barn and its contents by lire, and this calamity seemed to | have had a depressing effect upon j him. - Senator Tillman and Congress man Johnson have accepted invita tions to speak at a big political barbe cue und rally on tiuly 7 at Sindy Flat, in (J reen ville County. No specilic subject vus assigned to Senator Till man, but this will be the first Tillman campaign meeting of the year, and presumably he will talk about the dis pensary. Other Tillman meetings will follow. - South Carolina still has a safe lead in thu number of spindles and looms in thc States of the South. According to The Manufacturers' Re cord, thia State has 136 cotton mills, 3,329,408 spindles and 84,244 looms. North Carolina, which ranks first in the number o?' mills, having 243, io a distant second in spindles and looms, having nearly a million less spindles than South Caroline, and 33,000 looms less than this State. - John Purdy, a young son of Judge R. O. Purdy, was bit* :a by a rattlesnake at Sumter while playing in the woods near town. At the time he was looking op into a tree, when he heard the rattle of a snake, and in a moment the fangs of the reptile were fastened io his leg. He hastened to the nearest house where whiskey was given and a pbysioian summoned. The doctor regarded him as out of ?roger late Friday afternoon. - Two negroes named McKenzie and Lewis, employed by the gas com pany at Columbia, were painfully and seriously burned while disconnecting a Standard Oil oar tank at the gas plant. The tank had been pumped empty, and tho men were underneath the oar disconnecting the tubes when the open toroh they used ignited the oil which had spilled out. Both men were badly burned about the feet and legs before they could get out. - W. Q. Bryant, a prosperous farmer of Washington, Ga., was found dead on his doorstep, having been as sassinated, it is believed, although there is no clue whatever to the iden tity of his slayer. - The brilliant marriage Thursday in Madrid of King Alfonso and Prin ce BB Eva of Baten burg had a terrible sequel. A bomb hurled at the royal pair missed ita aim, but exploded and killed at least sixteen persons in the precession. - At Gadsden, Ala., last Wednes day Rav. J. R. Trotter, a prominent minister and a former Confederate soldier, was killed in a runaway. His horse beoame unmanageable and Mr. Trotter was thrown out of the vehicle, breaking his nook. He was 70 years old. - William C. Brown, who has just been chosen first vico president of the New York Csutral lines, with a salary of $75,000, the best paid vioe presi dent of a railroad in the United States, waa in the early seventies a telegraph operator and messenger boy in Sioux City, Iowa, receiving mes sages and delivering them himself. VT_ rr _ _rsi. _ m_ planted oO acres of Irish potatoes, which yielded au average of 68 bar rels per'aore, and cleared for the farm er the neat sum of $7,000. - The estimates for tue work on the Panama oana) for tho ensuing year, beginning June 1st, amount to $26,348,281, and congress has been asked to appropriate that amonnt. Notice to Creditors. A LL persone having demanda against JC3L the Batate of J. G. Johnston, deceas ed, are hereby notified to present them properly proven, to the undersigned, within tba time prescribed hy law, ana those Indebted to nuke payment. S. M. JOHNSTON, Adm'r. Junee, 1900 61 8 otice of ?in&l Settlement. THE undersigned, Executors of ?he Katata of B. O. Dean, deceased, hereby give notice that he will on Fr ld ny, the 6th day Of July, 1006, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, S. 0., for a Final Settlement of said Ka ta to, and a d lach argo from his office aa Kxocutor. L, A. DEAN, Executor. Junee, 1006 51 5 oj/, ?JV 2$? MATTINGS. Thia is a new line with us, and we have put ow whole energy into it. We carry the largest Stock in <j| town, and can save you from 10 to 35 per cent on this line. CHINA MATTINGS. i^ice China Mattings, wor.h 15c, at 12Jc yard". Better China Mattings, worti? 20c, at 17c yard. China Mattings, worth 25c, at 22c yard. Other grades of China Mattings at 19c and 20c yard. Very best China Matting on the market, worth 35c, at 25c yard. JAP MATTINGS. Nice Jap Matting, worth 35c, at 29c yard. Better Jap Matting, worth 40c, at 30c yard. Nice line of Rugs, Art Squares, Etc., at 25 per cent less than you can buy elsewhere. We will pay freight on Mattings to be shipped out of town within a radius of 30 miles. THE BEE HIVE < DO NOT FORGET THE BK AT THE RAC?A?I Cil AP QtAro 1 UUOlUll VJIIVU ? IUI u. $3.50 Bay State Shoes at $3.00 I $5.00 Cushion Shoes gat $4.25 i 4 This sale Trill last fifteen days. Everything sold for Cash only during this sale. ? Yonrs for easiness, THE BOSTON SHOE STORE f MABTIN SEUGM?N, Proprietor. > Two "deers ' from Fam?rs and Merchants Ba&k. r -!-SM lio ? i for This Week? Men's Fine All Wool Blue Serge Suite, best tailoring, ^ sold everywhere a'? ?8.50, our pri?e during next week at - - ? - - ? . . - $5.00 Ladies' White CanvAS Oxfords at - 40* Ladies' Fine Brilliantine Skirts, black, blue and brown, tailor made, go at . Oneyard-wide guaranteed Black Taffeta, sold every where at $1.25,.?, . 75o Fine All Wool Fancy Panama Cloth, black and brown, worth 50c, our price, ? - > . ? . ? 32ft Ladies' Fine Pattern Hats, sold at 85.00, go at . ? 2.25 Yard-wide Changeable Taffeta Silks go at - " ? ? 75ft Plain White China Matting, 40? yard roll, go at ? - 7.50 Lauies' Steel Bod Sun Umbrellas go at - - - - 40c Rttptctfuiiy, jyuus H. WEIL & CO. ? 113 Granite Bow. cnn Diicuci c UUU UUUIIL.I.?* TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK. :Plj^y$^ We treat you fair and appreciate your trade. Wm We are holding th? prk? down to $1.25 bushel. Th?i ii the time of the year when Winter Shoes cocoas ufc^^ te^MM'.; ? ito missing until you try one pair. We have a large assortment for ali kinds of feet We carry High Grade Patents and Vjeie frr ^J^?^'^m?B?^m mt?tjii xmlu Hutu as?rt?^S I Women's, Misses' and Children's Shoes are a speoialty with ns. Come and examine our big Stock. We can flt yonr foot or ^ux0i?:Wi- *? ~ " ? 1 If you wre shod with W?M ^