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Pot Yoor Wants ..IN.. THE DAILY TIMES.] The Bl©ren4e Drily TTmes. RIVET YOUK Eyes ...ON... OUR ADS. ■ Ml VoL. III. FLORENCE. 8 C.. TUEsllY EVENING. DECEMBER 22,189k No. 109. ■ v v ■ xsr&t We are selling our ele gant line of Christmas Goods. Why? Because merit and pt ices are right. ’A We do not appeal to the charity of the public. No old goods to shove off. Everything new and honest. J&S. N - N f A ‘Vji'.N. N N S , N ,' .N . N ififSb ..'N - n n N s s N 'S AS* LOCALS IN BRIEF. Short Paragraphs of Home Hap penings. Pi-inoiial uud ’General Mention of Home 'Folks nml Ollier* Whom we all Knew. Our collector u ill call upon fath er ribers to the D i fly Timex on Thurs day of thie week. We ash our sub scriber* to be ready for him with their dimes so that we may ( lose up this matter before Christmas. Business improves as Christmas nears. Mr. F. YV. Clare, of Timmons* ville, was in Florence yesterday. Col. R. L. Singletary, of Mars Bluff, came in to see us this morn ing. Editor Churchill of the^ Dillon Herald, was in Florence last uigbt. Miss Sallie Sessoms, of Mars Bluff, is on a visit to relatives in this city. T. M. Gilland, Esq., of the Kingstree bar, is spending the day in Florence. Mr. Claude Smith, a popular knight of the grip, is at home for the holidays. Mr. Riley B. Howell is visiting his uncle, Mr. YV. B. Rowell on Jarrott street. Messrs. J. It. and Y\\ 1). Cogge- shall, of Darlington, were in the city last evening. Mr. J. E. Anderson, buyer on the Mayesville tobacco market, is in Florence to-day. Mr. M. H. McCown, of Low- moor, \ r a., is visiting relatives in Florence and vicinity. Miss Irene Charles, of Timmons- ville, is visiting Miss Jessie Smith on East Evans street. Mr. J. A. Gullette, of Mexico, is on a visit to his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Crawford. Mrs. YY T . U. Abel, after visiting at several points in North Caro lina, has returned to Florence. Mr. John Kike, who has been quite sick for a week or mor*, we are glad to say is convalescent. Clarence Sanders, against whom Frank Jackson swore out a war rant, has skipped to parts un known. Miss Hattie Chase left this morning for Monroe, N. C., where | she will spend the holidays with [friends. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Thompson have gone to Barnwell, Mr. [Thompson’s old home, to spend ;Xmas week. Miss Aggie Carpenter, who is in [charge of a flourishing school in Arlington, is at home lor the Christmas holidays. Mrs. E. S. Lathrop and family, >f Salem, after spending a short rhile with Mrs. W. T. Heard, left lis morning for North Carolina. Mr. J. B. Brogdon, while going his home in the country last night, was thrown trom his wagon and came near being seriously in jured. Mr. J. D. Cs”-ter, the genial and hustling representative of the Southern Newspaper Union, Char lotte, N. C., paid us a pleasant visit to day. Mr. and Mrs.O. N. Hill, of Car- tersville, spent yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Adams. Mr. Hill paid the Times-Messenger a pleasant call. Miss Mami* Carter, of All Healing Institute, arrived in Flor ence last night. She will spend the holidays in Florence and Mars Bluff. WORK OF CONORS! The Camerof Resolution ported to the Senate. Wiley Kelley, colored, was tried by the Mayor’s court this morn ing for stealing apples from C. A. Buchheit. The Mayor discharged him with the understanding that he leave the city at once. Mr. Hamp Covington, formerly of this city, now’ of Carrabelle, Fla., is spending a few days with his brother Dr. F. P. Covington. His old Florence friends are glad to see him. Mr. J. W.* Ragsdale, editor of the Timmonsville Enterprise, passed through last aight enroute to Seven Pines, to attend the re union of the emigrated Confeder ate soldiers of Virginia and the Carolinas. Mr. \\ r . B. Flowers left Sunday night for Chicago with his little three year Jd daughter, who was bitten by a mad dog several days •go. The little girl will undergo treatment at the Pastenr Insti tute. Oliver Moses, who was arrested by the city for stealing bacon from H. S. Rose’s grocery store, and who was turned over to Mag istrate Smith, was tried yesterday, found guilty, and given 15 days on the county chain gang. Rev. W. S. Martin, pastor of the Methodist church at Marion, passed through last night on his way to Charleston, to which field he was transferred at the recent conference at Abbeville. Mrs. Martin and children accompanied her. A word to the wise is sufficient. Cheap goods at Penny’s. New tobacco seed just received at Lake’s Corner Drug Store. Go to C. D. Bristow for raisins, citron, currents, almonds, walnuts, butternuts, peacans, cocoanntsetc. Citron, raisins, nuts and every thing nice at Geo. Stackleys. Peanut Brittle 10c lb at J. R. Ives. Fresh new groceries arriving daily at J. F. Stackley’s. Dr. Lake’s little daughter has lost a gray cape with green collar. Finder will be rewarded by hav ing same at his store. 80 ball Roman candles, 16c each at Brown’s Chean Cash Store. General Insurance Agency SANBORN CHASE, Fire, Life k Aecideit lisimee. Swrctjr Bawds Issued. It OccasloueS no Unduo Kxolla Various Sit but Hate* Offered — I)I»«-umIoo Will Goa tin oe. YY’aehingtun, December 21.—No] special excitement was manifested to-day, either by Senators or by the general public, in the mat ter of the joint resolution acknowl- edgeiug the the independence of the Republic of Cuba. The gal leries were not occupied to the ex tent of two-thirds of their capacity The proceedings were of a formal and uninteresting character. They consisted merely of reporting the joint resolution by Senator Came ron from the committee on foreign relations and of the offering of various substitutes for it on the part of Senators. Senator Vest presented a tion declaring that the exclusive power to determine when the in dependence of a foreign people struggling to establish a govern ment for themselves should be re cognized is vested by the Consti tution not in the President of the United States, but in Congress, and he gave notice that he would address the Senate to-morrow in support of that declaration. Senator Hill offered a substitute for the committee joint resolution declaring that a state of war exists in Cuba, according -belligerent rights to the Cubans, and announc ing that the .United States will preserve a state of neutrality be tween the belligerents. Senator Bacon, Democrat, of Georgia, offered a resolution that the question of recognition of any people as a free and independent nation is a question exclusively for the determination of Congress, and does not appertain to the executive department. And still another resolution was offered by Senator Chilton, Democrat, of Texas, de claring that a condition of public war exists between the Govern ment of Spain and the Govern ment which has for some time been maintained by force of arms by the people of Cuba, and that the United States will main tain a strict neutrality between the contending parties, according to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the United States. These various resolutions and substitutes were either laid on the table with the foreign relations committee report or were referred to the committee on the judiciary. The whole sub ject, however, will be open to dis cussion to-morrow when Senator Vest calls up his resolution. On behalf of himself and Senator Mills, Senator Morgan submitted an additional report on the Cuban question, which Senator Morgan did not conclude until after he en tered the chamber at noon. It en dorses the action of the committee, but takes more advanced ground. Senator Morgan submits as appen dices to this report the report to the Senate made by Slidell in 1859, the speech of Senator Judah a. c | P. Benjamin on that report, the case of Cuba as presented to the State department by Palma and that part of the President’s message relating to affairs in Cuba. Senator Call’s resolution refer ring to the alleged imprisonment ef American citizens in Spanish nal settlements was passed. It irects the Secretary of State to nd to the Senate a report of all aturalized citizens of the United tatea of whose arrest and impris- nment, trial or conviction or Bou nce, either to imprisonment at he penal colony of Ceuta or else- here, he has any information, nd that he shall inform the Sen- |te in such report of the persons low held in confinement at Ceuta, and of the chaiges, briefly stated, which they were condemned, d the nature of the evidence, so ftlr as the same appears on the MMlof the State department. Tne Senate, after a short execu- tfvejWeion, at 3 p. m. adjourned Atuericftn Bible SoclHy. Dr. T. H. Law, of Spartanburg, president of the South Carolina branch of the American Bible So ciety, lectured in the Methodist church Sunday night on the work of the society in the United States and foreign countries. After the lecture a meeting of the Florence Society was held. Mr. YY’illiam Hoffmeyor, secretary and treasurer read his report which w T as adopted. The regularly in stalled officers of the preceding years were re-elected. WaJ Work of the Hoiuo. hington, December 21.—The Hous^ spent most of another day’s sessioin this afternoon in’eonsider- ationl of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, and “still came to no resolution thereon.”. Nearly all of the time was given to discussing the future control of the library, whether by the joint committee on the library as proposed by that committee in Mr. Quigg’s substitute, or by the librarian, as proposed by the com mittee on appropriations. The principal speeches in favor of the appropriation committee’s plans were made by Messrs. Biagbam, Republican, of Pennsylvania, and Oannou, Republican, of Illinois, of the committee, and by Mr. Cunynings, Democrat, of New York, in favor of the Qaigg substi tute.! The latter was rejected—27 to 8^ On motion by Mr. Sha*- roth v Silverite, of Colorado, the salary of the librarian was reduced from $6,000 to $5,000. On the subject for the appro priation for the civil service com mission Mr. Evans, Republican, of Kentucky, made a short speech agaiait the civil service law. Oo motion of Mr. Ogden, Demo- cratJtf Louisiana, bills were passed •utilizing the Kansas City, 8hre||port and Gulf Railway ComPmy to construct bridges across Caddo Lake and Black River,.Louisiana. In the morning hour the immi gration bill was taken from the Speaker’s table and the Senate’s request for a conference on the amendment# made by that iody agreed to. The House conferees are Messrs. Bartholdi, Republi can, of Missouri; Danforth, Re publican, of Ohio, and Wilson, Democrat, of South Carolina. At 5 p. m. the Honse adjourned until to-morrow. • at &c. Fresh almonds, 15c lb. Brown’s Cheap Cash Store- Fresh nuts, raisins, citron, at J. F. Stackley’s. Oranges, apples, grapes, bana nas, nuts, fireworks <fcc., at J. K. Ires. New Bicycles at $35 at Florence Bicycle Co. Dargan street. Go to C. D. Bristow for celery. Killed the Kail. From the Au usla Clirouicte There were 6,136 persons killed and 33,748 injured upon United States railways last year. We are informed, through an official re port, that the largest number of accidents occurred at highway crossings. From this cause 505 persons lost their lives, and at rail wjiyatati 376"p<Trw»hs W ere killed. Through out the United States only forty persons were killed in collisions during the year and only 97 were injured ; only 47 were killed by derailment, and on ly 84 were injured, which shows that the larger part of the fatali ties caused by railways is due to the carelessness of the public, and not to the railway managers. Get your Xmas oysters at Wal ton’s market. D-21-3t. Pickles, chow chow, and every delicacy for the holidays at J. F. Stackley’s The largest stock and lowest prices on Xm is delicacies to be found in Florence at Geo. Stack ley’s. Ladies’ or Gents’ Elmore Bi cycles fully guaranteed, $40 each, at Florence Bicycle Co., Dargan street, opposite Opera House. A splendid variety of Tobacco seed for sale at Palace Drug Store. Covington <fc McLeod. * Propr’s. Nothing more acceptable for a Christina* present than a nice comfortable rocker. YY’aters has them in great variety. Did you say you wished a quart of large oysters Xmas? If so call on YY r alton and leave vour order * « Fire crackers, 2c pack, at Brown's Cheap Cash Store. For Xmas delicacies of all kinds call at Geo. Stackley’s. GotoC. D. Bristow for apples, oranges, bananas, lemons etc. When you are to be married buy your furniture of YY r . M. YVaters. Finest apples 30c peck at Brown’s Cheap Cash Store. Best attention paid to all oyster orders left at A. L. Walton’s. He receives heavy shipments daily. A Xmas present that pleases and in reach of all. Our $2 00 rocker. W. M. Waters. Geo. Stackley is prepared to fur nish everything nice for the holi day trade. YY’hen you need a baby carriage go to W. M. Waters, he carries the best and cheapest line. Tl»«» Wi-Kthor Kiiiviiu (Ugiials. The following is a lidt of the United States weather bureau Big-, nals as will be displayed from the"* city hall tower daily and indicates the weather from 12 o’clock noon till next day at the same houri 1st. The white flag indicates fair weather. 2nd. The blue flag indicates rain or sur w. 3rd. The white flag with a black square in the centre indicates a cold wave. 4lb. The black triangular flag is a temperature flag only. 5th. A white flag with the black triangular flag above it indicates fair ami warmer weather. 6th. A white flag with the black triangular flag below it indicates fair and colder weather. 7th. When there are more than one flag, displayed the readings should be according to the manner icl( Uh Aej* nning at the top of the and reading downward, for in stance. If the weather is to he fair followed by rain and colder weather, the white flag will be on top the blue flag next aud the triangular flag below. The telegraphic reports as re ceived daily by the city clerk from headquarters will he displayed in a glans frame on the door facing of the entrance to the city hall every day, and any one wishing to see them can do so any time after 12:30 o’clock each day. Cut above weather signals out paste them in your hat and keep them for future references. mast -Cost *i)(f POUND —TWO SMALL HOGS. owner can have same by paying for this advertisement and expenses. Ap ply at this office. Fruit of all kinds in endless va riety at J. F. Blackley's. Brown’s Cheap Cash Store, is the cheapest place in the city to buy fire works, fruits, candy, nuts, &o. The cheapest line of oak suits ever brought to this market just received at YV. M. YVaters. Fine fruits and confectioneries at Geo. Stackley’s. 4 ball Roman candles, 1c each at Brown’s Cheap Cash Store. Everything for a first-class Xmas dinner can be had at J. F. Stackley’s. Remember that Geo. Stackley leads in nice fresh Xmas goods. YVhen you want a wedding or Christmas present for your friend go to W. M. Waters. Mince meat, Jellies, preserves aud everything nice for Xmas at J. F. Stackley’s. Fresh mixed nuts, 15c lb. at Brown’s Cheap Cash Store. Subscribe to the Times-Messen- ger. 10-4 White Quilts 49 cts., at Star Racket. Subscribe for this paper. Administrator's Sale. Under and by virtue of an order of of the Court of Probate we will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday, the 30th day of Decem ber, 1806, at the store recently occupied by L. K Timmons, all the remaining stock of merchandise belonging toth* estate of Luther R. Timmons, deceased. Mattik £. Timmons, John T. Nissan, December 19,1896. Adia’ra. dZJ dlOt w-lt j i 1 / Ml % * M "T / 2.4a