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W j ?wo*ptrn rMTcr>nnior Published Wednesdays by Etfr*RPKISK PUBLISHING Co. *+ A. J. CLARK. Editor. ? One Year, ... $].0( i Six Months, - - .5f T.Urce Mor Us, - - .2." A 1 I IN ADVANCE. Wednesday, 'o'v 2^, lftU3. WJj J 9 J Senator Tillman says neither Bvyan or Cleveland are among tha, presidential candidate possibilities?thatClevoland is only fit to bo pitchforked and thai Bryan is out of dale. Senator Tillman was at one time a strona advocate of the Nebraska statesman ; but things have changed, -and free silver will not be an issue in the next campaign. The SpartanburgJournal says Ex-Judge Buchanan lias entered suits against the state for the difference between what he was paid for his services as judise a.< what He ci. iv ii j,i.-.v.-n v'ttitled to. It is the opinion ol many people in South Carolina and elsewhere that he has already been well paid for his service us judge.?'limes and Der*#trat. !Mr. Hugh F. Mc Master, who fov Beyeral years has so successfully bandied the business department of the < harleston Evening Fott, resign. d thai j position recently to go with the Colombia State as circulation ni*Ft?g?*. Mr. Mr Master is on stirbhp, clever gentleman, and y wet *yvBh him the \Y' oral elegit f joi *rs in V.r n v.* position y as ku arhifyed in his old. The t?4 cardinals of the Ro j \ ' mat* Catholic church, or sc many oi' them as may intend 1 ... 1 - -. * , ,? ( tuv \j\r n V 1(1 > t'| 11 ? l? \ t'llv? bl i t'Cyl i (11 I of a iticcessor to Pope LooXTIT The hallottir.g will probably b< gin ?hi* week. The cardinal: will bft quartered in the vatiren a piOace of ll,MOt? rooms Eacl of tu* cardinals will have ; suite of apartments comprising four rooms. Tin. la.llotting wii tale plr.ee in that portion of th( vattrnn Known as the Sistem chapel and will proceed froir day u? day till an election i mod v. It may i e several day; before a choico i- announced. Just as we expected and pre dieted, a wail ceres up f;o:? the tobacco grov'og sections o the iitnie on .account of the low prior of new crop ieat tohacco caused, no douot, by the con solidntion of tin; America. Tobt.i co company ,uid the !iii portal Tobacco coi.,>a.iy. L i> year r h?se two companies won in she market for j< if tobac u bidding against each other Tlio refcult w as tii farmers go. llfl r'Uli'MO 'ifinno r .t?. "... -1 .1"' . ' l" ;iu co Miu siin ( h; mo the i v < great companiow have divider up i.'ne territory w i ie tobaec is sold and they no ! >no;<*r cone in *einpomioii nun .lit; u/nacc< growr r?. have .i.-copt ju what they can ?, t .rem bu^er? lor one concern ? 1 , aval 11 *<-y , are threatening to abandon i > ba< co culture ?ir 1 r turn t( cotton. Last Minu.ior und fai the t baeco prowl ^ section:- o the state wore :v .i is?r 1 j. ' ; O a fircevi bay fcrc 1. .1 no v a! < is ?t*?trnntion c"l ' ?t-#? on-" .y* difpftif PQF.MIUM MS'r OUT. ... r.. ..... i. ..',;; . TC'iJ'O Ul copy of the ]>ror..k;m Iht of th< ue?i SitAte Fair u> be hold i? Columbia tho <. pari < O*fc>bor. We r? ^t t. to no;ic? that this list w;t printed ii OWo. Tho Fa't" i'htsr r Oh" an* ? , j : -T f fix v I i ? ? tlio c'tofo inolnrlin 'f r?tw? i n ! Uio buCiCiai} 3 own town, uiu.^ have done the work as well ; yet it was sent away to Ohio. And the amusing part of the .natter is that the management ) has the gall, after treating the ) newspaper ofiices that way, to send n 'ot of matter relative to j t-he fair to be printed gratui-1 i llyltoiV . i >iO oCv.'1't tUij O . | ' Tn behalf of the new nianago-l r\* r< * * ' .1 J ' sjV ' Ivour valuable aid in makin"! j ------ "O j the next fair a great success." j Without the newspapers of the i state the fair would he a stupendous failure. Doubtless the management know this <juite as well as we do. 1'hen is it not strange that they do not get their job printing done at home? But it may be that they offered ; it to several cilices in the state and that they refused to do it. But that is improbable. They neve, g.iv 3 theDntkkpiusk oflio^ any opportunity to even bid on I | it, and we can do it as well as the Ohio otlice did. i Ol' J J Oix Ol'1 Oil If there is such a thing as aj Cleveland boom, it is traveling on rubber tires.?Savannah i Morning News. rrho race problem of the wet and north seems to ho who can run fast enough to catch the negro ?Macon Telegraph Scientist have discovered the j hydrophobia microbe, and htne I named it "Coccus hahhus )>?>lv ! mophus liss ac," and the dog I ! f I that would not go mad over! 1 1 .1 1 M CT ! ln<] ? \\ j - -- ? i., v?*!i '4 CV IKI.'IK" I i V U ' ?l I | iought to bo shot?Washington ; I j l'ost. U-iusT walk M;W timo.v II New Yor'v, July 21 ?1The11 'ir-l bale of cotton of t o cr.-p /of 190d arrived bore loony andj j was sold at the <loor of the cot ! 'ton exchange for 2''t ootids a i J pound. The cotton was raised , in Zapata county, Texas, and' , was bought in Galveston,Texas . .i III K bl?l Hbrll .iltl.M il KM . 1 The unveiling of the ^hurley >'monument will take place at i i' Pleasant Valley chord*. ai It). J o'clock a m., August After i; the exercises are over a picnic dinner will he served All arc i 'invited to come and bring asell j | hlied baskets The program I I w i 11 begin with an introductory! '{address by (.'apt W. K Arurey,) i imiMter of ceremonies. Victor! MS tti-iv.nl ,if V " -I .. -> 1 ' II I I l|li l , J > \ J jj ' iThos I\ Mcl)o\v, York* il!c,S.(' , i "land J air ps \. Poll, ('bn'dotto, 1! N C , Who \v< r? f.irniiir pupil* of the deceased, -\vill deliver addrosses it promises to be tt ivory interesting niVair >j .J. J. Bailes. | (i\M WKV.K '! Anderson, SO , Aug *1-7, lObo., Cheap rates via the Southern I'nilwny. < bi account of the :d>r>v per-* >!sion, the Southern R'dhvtv *vp! -" I round tr;?> tieket to X^der < l ... M>n mi rare oi ope 1 r IoI:?ws tor? jtl'.'s '25 cts for the rounu ?rip Minimum rate 50 ets Tic' at#! '? '? > op T--:ilt? A up 11.-it *Dh, 3th, ! Oth and 7th, \vi?h f?nnl limit ! August iSth. 1003. Kor rnt?in, sehedll'eM, etr ppplv lo lor?;i| , it,;-'iit, br to K \V. 11 uul,L j- A., , > / .uli'it clOll, i.t ? J* Mr. Lemuel Stephenson of ( Kershaw was in town yesterday. Mr. J. C. Me Dow of ('h?*,l???( ion visited Lancaster recently f A. I,. McDonald, a young col i ored man who went from Dan t!cantor to Washington, !).(*. and gaged in tin real est at' ' > <\ ' 's is rn ?. -i-it her,;. % ftnt> va r iipn \rv noit It is reported by the Spartanburg Journal that a party prospecting last week on the scene of the flood in Pacolet river ac cidontally discovered in tho sands cotton valued at $?H),0()0 While there prospecting tho partj in question is said to have ? hit of white Cotto'i sticking out of the sand, lnvestig>.M< :i followed at once and . iiu Vt <lt O Kit t't tOtllUll till lltlu out to be part of a bale which in turn was one of a lot of near ly one thousand hales of cotton which wore lying buried bo neath the sands all unknown to tho workmen who had many times passed over this veritable mine of .wealth in burigd cotton. The single bale was quickly ex cavated from the sands and all about it buried some foot under tho surface in the sands was seep bale after halo of cotton lying well protected and almost uninjured under the weight of tho sand The scene was soon an arena of busy life and many busy workmen wore called upon 10 'i. getting out tli" cotton. When every bale was dug out and an inventory taken it was found that nearly 1,000 bales of cotton valued in round numbers at about 100,000, had been rescued. UK \ I II OF Y1INS HINMK ( HOCKK IT. Mies Minnie (/rocket! died at in erla.it Sunday evening, Jnlv 18th, in the fortieth year ol Lor ag.-. Sue was the daughter ??l the 1 .ito John Crockett ... L u e.is!i*r. l he deceased was Lorn in h.i u aster Village in 180?i. ml lived ail of h?.r life there i-vr.'iil ll.p 1 ,.ef I.?j- i j wl.^i. she made lo-r home with her Kinsman, 11 I). Robinson. She l-j s beer. ;,i had hc;;!'h lor some ime She wac raided in a pictis homo ;.t <1 e;yly in life made a nnhPe profession of her faith in li'.'r S-tvun ami united with the \1. I". church, where she remain od a tailbful and consisten* tnem b'.-r. Fur some lime I eloro her ilh si.e was shut in by ii! health a d d'O'i -d the privileges ot (Rod's hni.c an 1 association with her friends, hut no murnitir ever escaped her lips. All that loving heart could suggest or ^willinsr IimuIs could do was done, hut with it all e!ie continued to grow worse until finally death cnr? ui) I relieved her of her sulToring*. Sue leaves only 0110 brother, Mr. James A. Crockett, and a large .?.c c i relutiv .'Sand friends who will mourn the deal it of this ?'X"oioiarv christian ladv. Full r.;l services were conducted by Rev. T. I'resslv at Iter hotne. lloriiil jii Fishing OreeK Fresby .er.?,n church, Ldgenioor. Judge Clary has appointed Col. i.() i\l.ir.-hall receiver for the ,\ | . (I (>? Mvflliltn'H Inn.I v_ I > i < 11 h?s h??en t h*? cause <>f s<> much on The attorneys tor 11;? etchai?k?* have the option ot fib inj. i i.oti l mr $33,000, twice the .noi>iint 111v oi ved, ami an at torney ...i i?..n 1 .-.tnt.ed Ti.iirod.iy uiorn ' ?' ili'? bond wonM bo filed ill appeal to toe nu,< < ?n"" cfiorr. 1 !.?' i rdor handed down by [ (? y stated that the ?li j i< i.i.M of the excl. inge clearly : v.r! tie ' the rules and charter in ' i - ;ip? of f he fund. A n ''"lgot the State Farmi ? /\'" tore was l?ohl W?'dne?. i tr ?:, thero t*ein?; aboil" I tniriy nieiuhers from ail over the iblaie hi attendance, and the ro < i ivt ,-H.iip matter was discusped ( i * . ' joi led to fight the bush j if eld in Ihe court and in case i <.i i iiv. iable decision to distrr I? m h-? $17,000 among thf jVari-tUf nub alliances. This is it ,'cc" <i inco with a resolutior '< ' a' a meeting in October r? r?TT. I ? i A A Li 44 1 Li* I ITHTM WDNnFIM-MH, ^VOIMH \> a. sJ ??u. By John Rlfreth Watklin In Ladies' Homo Journal. T!ie .i?o oi Luo eurlli ij fifteen! billion years. This is the mean estimate ol Professor W. J. Me(r.?e, the geologist and ethnolo gist, llts maximum estimate is \ t uli.iUiiy lUiU ?iio tiiiiitliiUiii estimate twenty million vears. j ; ) ? j* ? , ??,.> . estimates that the maximum huh of the earth is a hundred million years. Our atmosphere extends five hundred miles upward, according lo the most, recent tlmories. It was formerly held that there was 110 air above sixty miles, but. astronomers observe that meteors, which are bright only when trav cling through our atmosphere, are sometimes apparently as high above onr heads as five hundred miles. The tallest clouds are the thunder heads which we most commonly see on summer afterH V..., . ' ,ll K ...I .... I )tl* which recently co operated with European countries to survey all lorms of clouds, estimates that the largest are seven miles and a halt tall lrom base to summit. Their bases seldom hover nearer than a mile above our heads. The lowest clouds are within hull a mile of us commonly. These are the horizontal sheets of lilted log which we see in misty weather, and their normal speed is twenty.three miles an hour. The deepest hole in the earth ever dug is in the coal fields of Parmchowitz, V pper iSile. ia. It extends to a depth of 6750 feet, or a mils ami a quarter. Fho highest human dwelling is the Piddbis? cloister Llanle in Kashmir, liiitish India. Here at a heigh i ot over three miles aOove sea level, one hundred people, mostly I?ud?ihisl 1 aulas <?r priests, live the year maud. To a height ot il iut four miles ventures the c aider, which, ot all living things, fr< quents the greatest altitudes The largest fish is the gian' hark of the Jndo-l\?cific region ! It is stated to grow to a lengtli ol seventy feet. The coldest, place on earth, inhabited by man, is Verkhoyansk, above the Arctic ('irelo in Northeastern Siberia. The thermomo tor lucre drops to ninety degrees below /^>ro in .Jantiurs, but sometimes n-es to eight v-six degrees above zero, in the shade, i?> July, dropping, however, to the free/, ing point on the warmest Rummer nights. I'he population of tliis uncomfoiiable town numbers ab. ut one thousand. Heavy rams iii autumn subject them to 'reqopnt II *>o'l a. Both anitu 1. and vegetables in the region arc stunted. The hottest place in the world is tlie interior <>i the Great Sahara^ desert, Alrioa, where the j thermometer rises to 122 decrees. | The wettest place isGreytown, j ,N toaragua, where the mean annual i,iiii.all is 2t!0 iiiCiieA. Tiie place ol lua.si rain is Port Nol;oih, in South Alrica, where less than an inch sometimes falls in a year. The sunniest, place on earth is either the great Sahara ol tie? ' desert ol Arabia. i'he clouoi<??t place is in Northern lio.s.sia, the '.soiMhweii coast of' Peru, or the 'j ont < I French K,,.i,o1 Atricu, | ail being about the same in tins ! r?s I Si/j>crvl*or's Dctf*. ' My regular olfico days will be on Wednesday and Saturday ' of each week. Tlio remaining days will be requirod in the \ discharge of othor duties L. J. Perry, i County I iot.t* rr^vtnrwc cttt to Kentucky's hills are fu 1 of rills, Aid the rills lined with stills, And all the stills are full of gills. Ana all me gills ltiii 01 uiriiis, And all the thrills full of kills. i Yon the feudists dot the j lulls, And cn .j ' ' ' ' fills j Convenient to the busy stills, \?<1 Tit'-uf for 1 ?> r'lj* gum, And when the juice his system fills, Each feudist whoops around and kills. Now, if they'd only stop tho stills, They'd euro Kentucky's many ills, f Men would be spared to climb tho hills, And operate the busy stills. -? However,this would mean more gills, And that, of course, would moan more thrills, 9* Resulting in the same old kills. o?.? ai roe huts, fills im! stills, And all the gills,thrills and kills Are splendid for the colliu mills, And matte more undertakers' bills. ?W. 1). Nesbit, in Chicago Tribune. NOTICE TO TlfXJS 1'EES. ai. .a, % . - immtjHK iu<4fc nave not as yer. made their annual report to ma will pleas#* do ho at out-**, au toy annus! report. to the state auperluluodenl of education is duo now, but 1 cannot make u until 1 got a report from ail the trustees. lvHHpeehir.lv, A. C. llowell, County Supt. Education. FATAL WHEOK IN MINNESOTA. ) | St. Paul, Minn, July 2t>.? (Two trains met in a head oil collision on < lie Chicago Great ? Western Hail road early to day and four men were killed and about twenty-live or thirty passengers were injured. The dead : Charles Marckart, ! engineer of i lie passenger train, I Minneapolis ; ii. Cagei, fireman who was riding in the cat) of tlio I passenger engine, but not on duty; ii llelmati. engineer of | the freight train; Fretl Morton, ICodge Center Minn, passenger. 11. .1. iiiekey, fireman of mo passenger traift, was seriously injured. Kred Morton, the passenger who was killed, was said to have been standing in the vestibule of tne front sleeper tal'ing to a friend ami was instantly killed, while his friend * se.iped injury. The two trains wore the Twin City limited and a fast freight, and the eollision was due to the latter's crow misreading orders. llrKaro of Oiidnn ii.s lor ratal i ll TVal ' .Mercury. i mercury will auroly I *troj t of | hiii-ll unit io:ui>l< l<'Iv ili-r.n tlx' > in?lo s.v?III Mi ?? IK II ? !l It I i?K ll .<1. Ul.? 11 III' ul. JO'.S Mil rf .i-.- ? Sin'ii >r ii-K's ithnin i ii' N" 'i cx I i<H I lie (lullilttfU I'll y Wl I il?? I- ten (mil * | H i in ll.i.i .v ( iii< , nineiji iei .r, <1 ny If ,1 i, u .< i ?\ i ? em ?/ , I,,. i ii < no niMnurv, mi l in iitken inierrutily. iietine tit iiictly fi n I iie l>]' <k! itti-l inini i.< ..'i *? ? iii?' i * i -w I n i?u> n 11 >kl * ? (*?! irr lt i it r hi si.r yni.net lie k* I,nine It is t >;.t'ii intor ml'* 'U uiile in "'Hi il??, t,iie. > / I'. J t nil > .v I <i. 'lesllnee i Ir> S d '>j* iruftji' n. I'r i e |?er li 111 . | ttMi'r t .hi tiy I'diS are lie- best. | AN NOUN CE/vi HNTS J?*. ft ?\ J# Y Jinii' :,it?t' ntj iii u a . ?6Pi4i<!%l' for n-.?lort ion ? t!in i olllw ol I Cltl.lC COI'ION tVKIUII. I KK, nt t hp election to b* held > ii the ! isei'.oriii Tuesday in August. | J. F. XI. iBET. [WWWF.BY announce mj.-?**If a ?o?4idate for I'Ulll.H." i >yi I'UN 1 V> d! (.?11 KK f?ir Laiiraater. j X. J. HAiLbY. ( / IIUHKRY innoiinci* myself a . ofitMf for the p'>*ifi<~n of fOTUiltillfcK at Lancanier, s. t;, | i?. i, li*Ai , 'l