Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MARKET REPORT New York Cotton Now Verls, Sept. 17.-That tho New York cotton exchange ia preparing to trade under the terms of tho new cot ton futures law when lt ia found poa ?ibje to resume business, was indi cated by today's announcement that a apneiai committee had been sent te Washington for the purpose of con sulting tho secretary or agriculture and of possible, aocure rulingB on cer tain at the jaw's provisions. No official ?tatcment could bo secured as to tho points which would be dis cussed,. ; Yesterday's operations in Liverpool resulted In.the liquidation of 400 traies of, -ike -aid . straddle*) interest hero, according to a statement from thc conference .committee, and it was reported that another 600 balea would i>i.? put to ballot ?today, although tho re ult? might not bo published until Monday. Li ? erpbel Ccttca , . Liverpool; Sept. lfl.-s-Col'-ton spot In better ? demand/ Tho - better "grades wore acaree with a hardening tenden cy. Salon 0.600 hale? including 5.800 American on tho basis of 6.80d for middling. Importa 100 bales Ameri can. Weekly- cotton statistics-: Total forwarded to mills 30.000 bales of which American 3r>,000; stock 835.000; American 560.000; imperita 20,006. American' 9.000 ; exporta 3,000. Cotton Seed Oil New York. Sept. 18.-Cotton seed oil was quiet and featbrolorB with the undertone Arm. owing to tao light of ferings of crude. Final prices .Were 1 to 5 points net higher. Salea 3,700 b?rrela. Farther tenders of 1,000 b:ir rela on contrat-t brought tho total to j arond 40,000 burroin:. The markets clo esl firm. Spot 584 { a 600. September fi?S a GOO. * Dry Goods New York, Sept. IS.-Cotton goods! marketa today were jaulet sud steady, i Yarns wore higher. Wool markets* wero easier. Foreign merchandise . waa reported to be coming in more] freely. * 9fBW ORLEANS COTTON rfevr Orleans, September 18.-Sou- I thorn Market? today cont limed to show . a steady advance, and in Botno casca < reporrfH? whai minni oe considered J under- thc present circumstances, an heavy trading. In tho astern belt Savannah and T-ioi'foiS: advanced prU'e-* 1-4- cents, Snvannih quoting midd lg at 8 1-2 cents and Norfolk at 8 3-8. Memphis rose an eighth of a cent. quotlng'mld dling gt;8'l:4 and reporting Balea of a thousand bates. . - Houston, Dallas and Galveston all markeh] quotations up one eighth, Houstons and Galveston quoting .raid & "l-iSjSBt^ 4ki "Dallss wr?" 3^36: Galveston 1.500 and Houston,. Left?. Thcae-f large Texas salsa wero then thought - to moon that the milla g\m erallyi were taking more ' Interest In acquiring their Htirplns or raw ma terial for the sea'OH: Foreign exports for: the. day from all Uhfted States Sports #ere 4.964 baies. 'jviileh, vhtle small, were In bet ter thud Hie average daily outward movement aluee the European war starteil ;? Th? coastwise movement Was W?6 balsa and. lt waa considered tbr.t much of this cqjtton was des tlned-;tor American mills. Weekly Cotton New flfork. Sept. 13.-Tho features or tba Week itt ?ottnn bsa been the nd vapclam tendency of the- Southern ; p?;l ^markets, owing largely, KL IS. bcitevbd;, to th? buy-a-balo movement, and holding tn the ????cr?ar by th> growsra. Some IrVe Or six of the slclarod as reflecting merely the Im mediate conditions In the various cit ies, and as consequently affording l.i.tle huais for forward business. Trading, therefore, hus continued along bnnd-to-mouth linns, and there has beon continued agitation for au carly opening of the exchanges, in order to fix the price for futuro de livery and affording hedging facili ties at on established level of value:. Kvery <\7ort is evidently being mudo to clear up Ubo remaining interest in old contracts hore, and prepare for an carly resumption of business. Liqui dation of the straddle interest under the plan of International conference, has proceeded slowly resulting so fur In I natos .bf about 1,700 bales, and it ls reported that a syndicate pinn is being formulated which may result in taking over the etitiro remaining Interest tn a block, and thus hasten the reopening of thc exchange. Crop advices haye been generally favor able and there has boon little modifi cation of c-'lim?tes, since the publi cation of the last government bu reau. Dun's Review Mew York, s-apt. i?'.- "ii??iujney & entering upon now commitmentn oon tinues and a spirit of caution is man IfOHt 'evorywhefo, yet tho confldeSfi. feeling in business circles Is molntufrf end. Sentiment lsx strengthened by developments in the flnuncial situa tion, a favorable- - Impression being created by the further improvement in foreign exchange and the action taken to meet maturing obligations abroad. Considerable gold already has been shipped to Canada tor this purpose, and lt ls j evident thnt the hanking interests here aro trying ac tively tov restore more normal mone tary conditions. The prevailing high rates for accomodation.* still exert a restraining influence upon trade ex pansion, hut moderate- progr?s* ia noted In varlouB leading lines, espec ially in 'the eastern and western sec tions of tho country. Failures this week in the United Staten were S84 compared with 282; ip> Canada, 55 against: 20 last year. ' Onnk clearings S2.0C7.G24.Q00, a de crease ot 26.7 from lost year. Money on Call New York, Sept. IS.-Mercantile pa per 7. . Stoning exchange firm, cables 496, demand 405. Timo money 7 to S per cent* Dar silver . 61 1-4. Mexican dollars 40. Chicago Grain PIIIMM O~.*I IO r,-1-. -*. - I -- ~ r^' -*-. ........... *. ports of Koronen business at the sear board/md gulf and nf good eales hore for foreigners put considerable activ ity loony into wheat. Although the .Holding hi the end was rather ner vo??, tho market chowed an advance of 1 1-2 to 1 5-8 net. Som finished a-S to 1 Ii-8 on, oats with a gain or 1-8 to 1-4 and previsions the same ns last night to 12 1-2 above. Grain and provisions closed steady. Chamberlain's Liniment. j ii you ore ever troubled wjth aches, pains or soreness of tho muscles, yon j will appreciate the good qualities or Chamberlain's Uniment. Many snr. lerere from rheumatism and sciatica have used. lt with the best results. > t iB espovklly voh'nblo for lumbago, and lame hick, ? or sale by all' deal er?. A BIT. RICAN SAW FlflHTIXO Was Wltccss to Four IK?ys Rattle, See fag S0.060 Hermans Killed, london, Rent. IS.-?A dispatch to thfc .lMUy Telegraph from Part? say?: iv "An American army edlcer who ob r. rved tlie fighting in line of Rebata Champenoise last week declares lt wrX? of a most desperate character. He estimabas the German lesees in I tb kt direction In tho four days fighting (hat hn saw .? 20,000. many of. them being hilled by the French In bayonet ohargiM. These charries, he sayn were repeatedly executed against tee vWosext* faaflfce tsweoheo by Senega IjhMr i jr Turco troop?.'* ?oooooooooooo STATE NEWS o o o OOOOOO?OOOOOOOO ?fitjimie Dqdds, young son of W. O. das. was smothered tn cotton on lils father's pince near Chester. J. 7J. Galloway, waa drowned In a river near Darlington, while he was trying to swim across tho Btream 3 times. President Stackhou36 of the state Farmers' Union' han called a conf?r ence to which thc public ls invited on ember 24. - Dr. Correll wil be Installed presi dent of the University on Founders'! pay In January. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o j o .... .I o GREENWOOD NEWS ol o ol o o o o o o o o o o n o o o o o o O u I yom tho Journal. ? Mr. Mays a Candidate. Y ' Mr. Calhoun Maya is a candidate for the clerkship of tho House of Rep resentatives for the next romilar ses sion in January. Gther candidatea for the position arc Wilson Glhhes and ?. O. DePass, of Columbia. J. W. Ham el, of Kershaw, J. Rutledge McGee, Of, Tbitcsburg and H. Cv Hooker ot Spartanburg. Mr. Mays has boen gen eral deak clerk of ?ie house for some I ti" ? ind ho will sorve in this capacity] at i li J extra ses dion in October. The "Catawba" la the name of the parlor car which ia now in operation, cn the Piedmont and Northern tween Greenwood ? and Spartanburg. Thia car leaves Greenwood, at 10 a. m., reaches Greenville at 13.10 and arrives at Spartanbt* g ut 1.20. Re turning lt leaves Sp&reanburg at 1.55 Pt m. and arrives in Greenwood at 5.16. ooooooeooboooooboona 0 o e FARM NOTES. o o 0 oooooooooo ooo o o ooo W j. McClure Is ? ..other Anderson county farmer who ; doing well. Re-i cent ly he bas pick. .1 3O.000 pounds of; pea? that were so -? broadcast,, and he nay loo rons ,>'.? peavine hay. In ead ?on to thlc :1s le^-d has boen "brtaght np" b- the pl ."tho; of the bbas.and- he tht ;.5 lt l3 good for the, |*n'l , Mt.rMcC'? <. ita* cii hand a lo* ?.of M ?i; wheat ?ta-*1 re is nro-is of Hie] lT??'i?y, for lt '.?? ?'.'i?- whle.vins ti.-on in tn* family )/..? stn-to thc war. It jiu**.y ttive bera in thc icuntry siuuy year? before ?hr.t tlho.\ hut ?be i.-?d given I.is lather by a.Haolg'ib.r [Hftbt *ijer fie war '..'*! es puro clean as th . day hu- father got lt. . Sam Tims, the miller on Ti;ree and Twenty, who waa In the city yostor d?fi nay* he Ia busy grading wheat for his neighbors-from which lt la .T???rrc? thst many Q? ????? ?:?: ...... tho grain. Mr Tims does tho grading fres. He wishea to see a grain mill (>u every water course in the country. The Day in Congress _; j Washington, Sept. 18.-Senate met ar ll a. m. Democratic leaders considered cut ting the river and harbor bill still fur ther to end-tho (tilbuster which con tinued unabated. . Repeated roll calls on demand? for quorum. Seargeant st anns ordered to bring In abaenteess House met st noon. Ways* and moans committee contin ued work on the war revenue hill- H 'tepubllcan Leader Mann . delayed < business by forcing repeated roll calla < for * u quorum. - Adjourned st 2:04 ra. m. af?*r four J rali calls jp tl! noon Saturday. j< fo o o o oooooooooo 'lo o o SIX AND TWENTY o ?OOOOOOOOOOOOO WtlUameton. Sept. 18-Well. well,( the elections ar,, all over and the sunt i? still rising in lh> east and setting in the west. and it still shines as bril liantly as it did before. Everything seems to bo moving on Just as it did before and not a single hitch as oc I curred in the inarch of progress. No. I didn't say that everything would come to ;i standstill, but our favorites , were all defeated, and we will be able to stand it inuybe for two years. On the iou ri h Sunday and Saturday before, in this month, the Anderson county Hinging ?(invention will meet at this place. Thia is expected to be the biggest Binging that the conven tion has had in ev< ral year.? and our poonta'are look i UK forward to lt with ? a great deal of pleasure. Mrs. Addle Link and children of Abbeville visited the family of W. T. Link last Sat II ni:iy and Sunday. W. A. Elrod und wife of Frankvlllo were visitors lu re recently. j. D. Ston?, ls in Anderson this week j attending court is a juror. George Mulllkln is erecting a large Imrn on his pl.iee near hero. Vernon, the little son of A. M. Mar ?tin is at present suffering with fever. Ile Is being attended by Or. J. E. All good of Wa'lKcr-McElmoyle. MIBS Bessie Moore is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Albert Link of Abbeville this week. Misses Eva and Loin Richey attend ed service.; at ;'i igah Sunday night. Every one who can possibly do so ls request' 1 lo be at Six and Twenty next Sunday nfiernoori at :t o'clock p. m. Especially those who .attended tho singing school. Misses Hattie Kay and Janie Lee Shirley of McKlmoylC a* ended Sun day school here Sunday. J. B. Stone of this section has bc gun thc erection or a largo dwelling tor Warren Mo A lister of Five Forks When completed it wll be one of thc nicest buildings in the Five Forks section. W. C. B GEORGE YOI'Yt J'S Ul'RR KR M It S Were Convicted fn tho Conrt al LauniN I'Vlday. Laurens. Sop/. i?i -Rogers, a negro wns today convicted of arson, In con nection with tho murder last Janti ary of Otorgo F Youung at Stomp Springs and tito -subsequent burning of his cottage over the dead man'p body. The verdict carries the dpatl penalty, rogers wm tried and con vieted on a rh::rge of murder at th March term ot'court'Ie. ttrlfe f,ame tose tho Jury recfsmiiending mercy and caving him from tho electric chair then. Junk Ca?dwell wan also convicted* af tho same crime, and given . a Ufo ?r^iteace. Tom Young, the ? third party, in' tito conspiracy turned BtntoY. Qvldehcc and largely on his testimony ?onvlctlons were sorurod in the other ?asea. ^The ease of Young, will prob ably, be disposed ,of tomorrow. Goo. F. Yoking was ot ono time a rory wealthy man, but at the time of lila murder he was living the Ute of a recluse. He was an uncle of John Young GarlitiRion PROBABLY A BLUFF .. Roosevelt Says Thal He Won*t Run In WI?, Baltimore. Sept 18.-Edward C. Hartington, jr.. Republican nominee for the l rn lt ed States sennte today made public al etter under date cf Au gust 27 last trom Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, willa after sayln "there arc certain states where the Republican candidates have declared they are for me In 19K>" continuo/, , 'As regards the announcement for thyself, I do' not regard lt as amount ing to anything, because in the' first place, I not - inly hope, but ?it the pres ent time believe, that I will not be a candidato in 191G and alao, what Is moro Important, that lt is Of no earth ly consequence to endorse me unies the principle:, for which I stand are endorsed. , WANT FACTS MADE KNOWN (Continued From First Page.) them on us for the sake ot self pres ervation. The intensity of the resist-. ance of the population ls shewn by 11 tts fact that In !<oewen ?? bonn wernU' isceseary to break dowr. their attack. We ourselves regret deeply that dur ing those lights [the town of Loosen haB been destroyed to a great extern. Weedless to nay theso are act Inten tional on our part but cannot be avoid ed In this infamous rranc.tlreur war being led against U3. , , "Whoever snow's tho good hfet?red character of ~onr troops cannot sorl cmsly preti nd that they are inclined to needless or frivolous: destruction. "Tho entire responsibility for these cvnets rests with the-Belgian govern ment who with criminal frivolity havc|| given to the Belgian..people induc tions contrary.to the 4e,wv of nations and Incited their resistance, and who, ita spite of oar. repented warnings, oven ?Oer the rall of jUego have donej nothing to indure them to a peaceful attitude." 'ANXIETY FELT* steamer h. Lot* Past Oes^Ne Newall Smelted as to Wlrereahi! (By Associated Press.) New York, S?pt. 18.-Concern over Ibo whereabouts of the steamer Ka tahdln which left Georgetown. Bi C.. September 12 for New ..York, and is I now overdue, wai expressed by ber ! awners. the Atlantic Coast ^-Lumber I ??oration, tonight Ko word been received from Norfeik.. tienrv. or any other point along ?ioast regarding ib* **soel. J We agree to receive your cotton ar.d allow you cred it for same on basis of TEN CENTS per pound for good middling. We will give you in exchange for this cotton any merchandise we have, at our lowest R E TAIL PRICES or we wil apply the proceeds on any AC COUNT or NO?E you hav? with us covering goods purchased at RETAIL from us. This offer applies to farmers only. We will accept no cotton other than of sellers' own raising. This offers does not ap ply to goods bought WHOLESALE, nor to accounts or notes given by MER CHANTS in settlement for goods bought at WHOLE SALE prices. We reserve the right to withdraw this proposition at any time we see fit. For further information see us. m WM Sullivan Hardware Cm Anderson, S. G. Belton, S.M- J Some Peopl? I . ? . - . J- ...... yU Try to get along with Printing that is cheap in every sense of the word-and wonder why .their Stationery does not look or wear or feel as they wi*-* it would. They have a good taste, but n?V perspicuity- which is a good word, if it does souni demagogic. . I?i> li E Tile classy kind that makes good everywhere, every way, every time, it will pay you to ?be us when in need of fAAl\ D??X?VIMf? vu .uv i ivi-ti i mu --?I -I- li . . ' ? S The Anderson Intelligencer JO B DE PA RT M EN T ii PHONE 693L ANDERSON, S. C.