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ta A „ Pat Your Wants .is... THE DilLT TIMES. Vox. ill. THE The RCoRENeE D^ily TTmes. FLORENCE. S C.. THURSDAY E’ i’ENING, NOVEMBER 26,18% m \m ;^ v i IW ; &00 yds. of our host 50o silk at 24c, this week only. 500 yds. of velvet and velveteen, all silk, worth from 50 to |1 per yd, at 88o, this week only. Our best $1 kid gloves at We. GikhI 4-4 brown homespun at 4e: best calicoes at 3 and 4; good brown domestic at 3 3-4e; befl checked homespun at 4c; ^hh! checked homespun at St'. Our Shoe and Clotting ittock has been reduct'd 26 per 4®t- RIVET YOUR Eyes OUR ADS. No. 87. THE HUB Tilt l.E/ IN LOW PRICES. APER ^tl^ ftu'i' GIVE A CALL C. li. Bat ringer. u The Hnb.” I Proprietor LOCALS 1H BRIEF. Short Paragraphs of Home Hap penings. Ontonal and General Mention of Home Folks and Others Whom we all Know. -ai.-aBS'. Advertising pays. The Court did not adjourn for Thanksgiving. First-class job printing done at the Times-Messenger office. Mr. J. P. Chase, Jr., attended a dance in Kingstree last night. Tobacco continues to sell at good prices at our warehouses. iftenographer L. I. Parrott, of Darlington, was in Florence last night. Cards, invitations, pamphlets, etc., are printed at the Times-Mes senger job office. If you have a place of business make its whereabouts known by an advertisement. Mr. W. \V. Sellers, State con stable has been on a visit to bis family in Marion. Mr. L. W. Hodges and daugh ter, Miss Nannie, are spending the day in Wilmington. A single holiday to a m -i who is used to absorbing work is just sufficient to confuse. Mf- H- F. White, of Darlington, agent for Personae’s Army Let ters was here last night- Mr. H. M. Rummel, of West Virginia, is spending some time with friends in Florence. The Misses Sessoms, of Mars Bluff, are visiting at the home of their brother Mr. A. L. Sessoms. There are two guns in the woods to-day for each bird. They can be heard popping in every direc tion. By daylight this morning the bicycle bells began to ring. Bi cycle repairers will doubtless have a picnic to-morrow. Mr. W. D. Maroe, from Florence has opened a grocery and confec tionary store in Mrs- Huggins’ building.—Dilkn Herald. Mr. Samuel Heiss and family, of Timmonsville, are spending Thanksgiving with Mrs. Heiss’ mother on Palmetto street. Condensed fog fell so thick from the trees early this morning that, to one standing under the trees, it seemed like a regular rain. If you have goods to sell and want to sell them, advertise in the Times-Messenger and the Florence Daily Times, either or both. Prayer meeting will be held in the Methodist church to-night. The members of the other churches are invited to take part in the meeting. The big snake show is attracting large crowds daily. The slight-of- hand performance is good. Big Bob, the snake, is claimed to be the largest ever exhibited. In a collection of rare and curi ous books to be sold in Boston next week is a copy of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, abridged and edited by Benjamin Franklin, which, so* far as can be ascertained, is the only one of its kind in existence. The books to be sold composed the li brary of the late Prof. Henry Reed, of the University of Pennsylvania, to whom it was presented in 1785 by Mrs. Samuel Bache, a daughter of Franklin. At a London Salvation Army 1 meeting recently a fervent Salva- j iomst prayed, with all the intensity 1 of his faith, that God would “break the Sultan’s heart,” with a view of course, to the conversion of the ’ barbarous Abdul. The prayer w r as interrupted by an additional peti tion from one of the devout com pany, and it ran thus: -‘Oh, God, break his neck!” SCALDED TO DEATH. Horrible Fate of an Engineer and Fireman. Mr. M. H. McCown, one of Flor ence Connty’e boys, who is now located at Lawmoor, Va , has been spending a short time with rela tives in this city and county. Mr. McCown is accompained by his wife, who is also a native of this county, and his little boy, Sam. Mr. McCown is the general super- tendent of a large mining com pany at Lawmoor, and it is really gratifying to his many friends and relatives in this section to know that he is doing well. Mr. McCown will leave to-night for his adopted house. ■ —— — — ..1. , The FesUval I.nxt Night. The untiring efforts of the la dies to ensure the success of the festival last night were compensa ted. The band has a number of lady friends who never fail to re spond when their assistance is sol icited. Between $25 and $30 net was realized last night which is, under the circumstances, gqod. On account of some misunder standing between the committee and some of the douators, several delicacies essential to a Festival were missing. The band discoursed sweet music during the evening. THANKS EXTENDED. The members of the Band have requested the Daily Times to ex tend their thanks for the kind ness and attention shown them by the following named persons and also to many others who loaned their efforts in making the festival last evening a success. To the ladies of Florence for their untiring exertions. To Messrs. Cole, Commander & Huggins for the Warehouse build ing. To Messrs. Rodgers and _ Revill for the loan of a horse and wagon. To numerous ladies and gentle men for generous donations. Tobacco Grower’* Convention. Governor Evans has appointed delegates, as follows, to the Na tional Tobacco Growers’ and Deal ers’ convention to be held at Oca la, Fla., January 17, 1897: Frst district, M. R. Cooper, Col leton ; Second district, S. G. May- field, Denmark; Third district, R. C. Kirksey, Easley; Fourth district, T. J. Moore, Moore’s; Fifth district, Joseph Edwards, York; Sixth district, F. M. Rodg ers, Florence; Seventh district, Woodham, Sumter.—The State. The wife of Mr. Leonard Wells, of East Brimfield, Mass., had been suffer ing from neuralgia for two days, not being able to sleep or hardly keep still when Mr. Holden, the merchant there sent her a bottle of Chamberlain’s pain balm, and asked that she give it a thorough trial. On meeting Mr. Wells the next day he was told that she was all right, the pain had left her within two hours, and that the bottle of Pain Balm was worth $5.00 if it could not be bad for less. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by all druggists. General Insurance Agency OF SANBORN CHASE, Fire, Life & Accident Insurance. Surety Bonds Issued. Hhm-kiug Scene for INissengerM on a Wrecked Train Near Nea Brunswick, N, J. New Brunswick, N. J., Novem ber 25.—A freight tram on the Pennsylvania railroad, east bound, was nearing this place this morn ing when an axle broke and wrecked the rear end of the train. The Southern express, carrying passengers from Atlanta, Wash ington and Baltimore, was cloae behind on another track, running at a high rate of speed. Before it could be flagged it ran into the wreckage of the freight train, which had spread over its track. The engine, mail car, two baggage cars ai.d four sleepers were de railed. The passengers, though considerably shaken up, escaped with a few bruises. The train crew, however, were not so fortun ate. Joseph Meegan, 49 years old, of Jersey City, engineer of the express, and his fireman, H. W. Chichester, also of Jersey City, were pinned under their fallen en gine and slowly scalded to death in full view of the passengers and trainmen gathered about, who were powerless to aid them. The baggage master was badly hurt in the wreck, but it is thought he will recover. The trains were stalled for hours. Wrecking crews were soon on the scene, and after four hours work succeeded in partially raising the blockade by opening one track. The wreck occurred at Millstone Junction, two miles from here, at 5.09 this morning. E. S. Lambert, express messenger, had two ribs broken and was injured about the jaw and body. He may recover. Meegan, the engineer, must have seen the wreck in front of him just before the crash came. The passengers remember feeling a sudden slacking up of the train, and they noticed the application of the air brakes. In another moment came the awful crash. The first four cars were telescoped and crashed down a fifteen-foot embankment on the right. The first car was the mail car, contain ing the clerks, who were unhurt. Next came the Adams express car, and then a heavy Pullman coach, containing ten passengers. The fifth car, which was also a Pullman, went off the track, but did not go down the embankment. The next three Pullmans kept the track. The passengers who were in the telescoped Pullman were asleep in their berths at the time with two exceptions. They were thrown out of their beds violently, and awoke to find themselves hemmed in. The lights had gone out and the gas was escaping, adding to their horror. They heard the cries of the frightened and injured, and when they found egress cut off at the rear doors, broke through the windows and crawled out to the ground. When the attention of the passengers in the rear cars was directed to the engineer and fire man of the passenger engine, they found they could not get near the engineer, who was buried in a heap of debris. Steam escaped in hiss ing clouds from the engine, and it was apparent at once that whoever was in the wreck was dead. SAFE CRACKSMEN. tYfeiuilouRU Blot* 0|mmi ihr safr Of thr Mtnmlanl oil Co. Columbia is receiving a visit from professional safe cracksmen. Sometime Monday night they ettered the office of the Standard Oil company near the Blanding street crossing of the Southern nilway and blew the company’s w j open with dynamite, taking ail of the money, amounting to about $39. The work bore the trade mark 0: an old hand at the business. It e»s set about in as methodical a manner ae could be well imag- i#ed. The requisite tools, consist- t»g of a chis*'l and two picks were Uif i from the Southern railway’s tool room. The door of the office was forced open without breaking tin* lock, and a hole driven into the outer casing of the safe door just below the combination lock. A charge of dynamite was put in the hole and touched off, causing all the bolts and rivets of the door to be tom loose. After that, it « as an easy mutter, with the le picks, to prize open and get at the contents. All the papers that the safe contained were taken out ^nd scattered ^ver a table. For tunately the amount contained’ was amall, as the Oil company follows the custom of most busi ness concerns of depositing all its cash every afternoon in a hank. Just $38 was gotten, the robbers dropping a dollar and a few cents (jmrAlk* floor. Nothing else was troubled, and they took their de parture, leaving behind them a chisel and two picks. Though several houses are near the office, no one seems to have heard the noise of the explosion. Mr. Husemann, who has had con siderable experience with explo sives, said that the noise of the discharge would not be much louder than that made by a fire cracker. Even a louder noise than this would be drowned by the roar of an approaching train, and at the Southern depot there are several incoming and outgoing trains at night. No other trace than the tools were to be found. This is the third or fourth time the oil company has had its safe broken into and looted by robbers, but in every instance the amount secured was small. Whether this is the first of a series of robberies is hard to say, but the police are on the alert and will make it warm for them.—The State. miles from the northern coast of the island. Cu n. Weyler had spread his trocha across the island at its narrowest part to prevent Maceo’s forces marching toward the east. Then the remaining forces were divided into three detachments, one of 5.000 men, another of 10,- 000 and the third of 20,000, the latter being led in person by Gen. Weyler himself. These detach ments moved towards the moun tains from different directions. The detachment of 5,000 reached the mountain first and, after heavy fighting, was repulsed by Maceo’s forces, with 700 wounded and it is not known how many dead When the second detachment of 10,000 men, under command of Gen. Ech- ague, arrived and began to storm the mountain they found that the enemy had disappeared. Gen. Weyler, who approached from the trocha, did not have a chance to smell powder. Details are lacking, but it ap pears that Maceo had another en gagement west of the mountain, in which 1,000 of the Spanish troops were injured. Five hundred of the wounded were brought into Ha- bana by rail and 200 were brought by water, leaving 1,000 sick and wounded still on the field. Wey- ler’s failure to locate Maceo would appear to have been the cause of his hasty return to Hahana. Wnr Willi S|iilii Menu* War With Kuro|M.. Paris, Nov. 23.—Th« Figaro to day, commenting upon the rela tions be twee 4. thy^i^ijed States and Spain on the Cuban question^ says: “The American newspapers which are egging the United States to war with Spain should re flect that war with Spain means war with Europe, and in the inter est of the United States itself it is to be hoped that this eventually will not arise.” Italdii<'a<!*'<l or Itliuil. )Kroin the Wilmington Star.) The question has been asked, is the coming man to be baldheaded? A more pertinent 01.e would be, is the coming American to be blind? Out of 53,000 pupils in the schools of Baltimore whose eyes were examined 9,000 were disqualified from attending school and several thousand more were advised to have prompt medical attention. FOR TRAVELLERS. l. MIVliTANT INKOKMATION KOK THOME WHO BIDE THK KAILKOADH, Tin* following in valuable iuforuia- tion to passengers traveling over the Atlantie Coast Line System : FOR PASSENGERS GOING NORTH. Nx». "H leaves Charleston at 5.30a. m., arriving at Klorenee at 3.26 a. m. 20 minutes for breakfast. Conueetiug with No. 54; leaving Columbia at t.M a. in., ami arriving at Wilmiugtou at 12.16 p. m. With No. 02 for Darling ton. cheraw ami Wndesboro. Arrives at Fayetteville at 11.20 a. m., connec ting with North Bound train on O. K. *t Y. V. Railroad. Arrive at South Koeky Ml., at 2.07 p. m. 20 miuntea for dinner. Connecting with No. 4< from Wilmington with Nos. 10 and 4$ for Norfolk and points on N. 4 0. R. R. Arrives at Riohmond at 3.40 p.m. 2t minutes for supper. Through coaches Charleston to Washington. Pullman Sleeper Charleston to Wilmingtou and Jacksonville to New York. No. 32 leaves Charleston at 6.20 p. n>.. arrives at Florence at 0.16 p. ai. 2# minutes for supper. Connects with No. 50 from Augusta and Aiken, 8. 0., via Denmark and Sumter connecting at Sumter with No. 53 from Columbia. No. 50 also has a Sleeper from Macon (la., which No. 32 takes to New York. No. 32 also connects at Florence with No. 03 from Wadesboro. Cheraw and Darlington. Through Coaches from Charleston to Washington, in addi tion to I’ullman Sleeper from Macon to New York, there are Sleepers from Charleston to New York and Tampa t« New York. No. 32 also makes connec tion at South Rooky Ml. with No. 4d from Wilmington, and leaves South Rooky Mt. at 12.45 a. m., and reachea Richmond at 3.40 a. m. FROM RICHMOND GOING SOUTH. heave Richmond on No. 23 at tf.06a m. Reach South Rocky Mt., at 1 p. m. 20 minutes for dinner. Arrive at Wilson at 2.06 p. 111. Change ears for (loldshoro and Wilmington on No. 40. \rrive Fayetteville 4.15 p. in., connec ting with southbound trains on C. F. A Y. V. Railroad for Wilmington and BennettsviUe. Arrive Florence0.56 p. m. 20 minutes for supper. Change cars for Sumter and Columbia, reach ing Columbia bv Ifartsville and Bennett at Charleston at 10.20p. m., connecting with Plant System for Savannah and all points south. Through coaches on this train from Washington to Charles ton. Pullman sleeper New York at Jacksonville. Also leave Richminond by No. 8* 7.30 p. in. South Rocky Mt.at 10.44 u. m. Passengers for Wilmington take No. 41, leaving South Rocky Mt. at 6.4f a. m. No. 35 arrives at Florence 8.14 a. m., connecting wit h No. 51 for Sumter, 'olumbia Denmark, Aiken, S. C., Aus- ta and Macon, and Atlanta. Pullman Sleeping Car on this train, New York to Macon. Passengers for Columbia an go to Sumter and wait until 9.40 in., for No. 62 from Charleston, ar- rivingatColiimbiaat 19.55a. m.,or take . 15, a mixed train leaving Florence at 4.30 a m.,audarrivingat Columbia at 1.46a. in. No. 35 reaches Charleston at 0.02 a. m., connecting at Ashley Junc tion 7 miles from Charleston, with Plant System for South. Through oaehes, Washington to Charleston on this train. Pullman sleepers New York to Tampa, Fla., New York to Charleston, and New York to Macon. MACEO BROUGHT TO BAY. Pboac a. FLORENCE, S. C For bill heads, note heads, let ter heads and envelopes. Go to the Times-Messenger office. Tbe Captain General Found Him Dangerous and Left. New York, Nov. 25—The Ward Line steamship City of Washing ton, which arrived to-day from Ha- bana, brought some interesting news of the engagement which oc curred recently near Mount Kubia between the Spanish troops and the insurgent forces headed by Gen. Maceo. Last Saturday the government organ, La lachua, called for trains to convey 1,000 wounded and sick soldiers -from Candelaria to Ha- bana. This was the first intima- mation that had been received that the enaagement had been serious in its results. One of the passen gers on the City of Washington, who for obvious reasons did not wish to have his name mentioned, gave an interesting account of how the battle was fought, and, this, to a great extent, it is thought, ex plains why Gen. Weyler returned to Habana so soon. Mount Kubia is twenty-six miles west of Habana and about twelve Evidently, Hlie Ha*. From the Houtheru Tobtreo Journal. A statistician puts the value of tobacco consumed every year by the inhabitants of New York city at $30,000,000. This figure, it is said, is believed to be approxi mately correct by manufacturers and experts in the trade. Of this sum $17,000,000 is spent for ci gars, $9,000,000 for cigarettes, $3- 000,000 for smoking tobacco and $1,000,000 for chewing tobacco. New York is a luxurious city—the richest city in the world. Her per capita wealth is nearly $4,000. She has money to burn—very evi dently more to burn than to chew. 60 inch Bleach Damask 39 cts at Star Riicket. DISEASES OF THE SKIN. The intemte itching and smarting inci dent to eczema, tetter, salt-rheum, and other dittem s of the skin is instantly allayed by apply! ig Chamberlain’s Eye and Skin Ointment Many very bad case* have been permanently cared by it It b equally efficient for itching piles and a favorite rem edy for sore nipples; chapped hand*, chil- ilaina, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes. For sale by druggists at 25 cento per box. Try Dr. Cody** Condltlen Powders, they are just what a horse needs when in bed condi tion. Tonic, blood purifier and veranfage. (ioiKl advice; Never leave home on a journey without a bottle of Chamber lain’s colic, cholera and Dlarrhocea Remedy. For sale by all druggists. Horses and Hules. Wanted to sell, one pair pure white full grow n rabbits. Ap- p to II. I>. Long. A NTED TO SELL,—J aBBIT Metal elsewhere in stock. —Can be bad cheaper than at this office. Over 100 bs. WANTED, TO PURCHASE FOR cash, a small house and lot desirably located to bu siness section of Florence. This office. S. D. Rodgers’ Lei very Stable? Having just returned from the stock markets with a well broke* lot of horses and mules, I am pre pared to offer bargains to pur chasers. S. D. ROGERS, Covington’s Old Standi jN-iq-j-t.