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Sieaorlptlon Price?18 Months, il.oo PAYABLE IN W. W. BALL, EDITOR. Kate? (or Advertisings?Ordinary Ad vortlsomonts, por square, one inser tion, $1.00; eaota subsequout insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction made for largo Ad vertisements. W.W.BALL, . Proprietor. LAURENS, S. O.. Nov. 5, 1895. The Convention. The convention has about reached its majority and tho day of adjourn ment is stili in tho clouds. We venture to guess thatthoy will be able to turn over the keys by the 20th instant, how ever, the structure don*, whether founded on sand or good masonry or stone. As wo have before said, there has been too much talk. Twenty min utes is long enough for a statesman to wag his tongue?it tukes two hours to pull off a half digostcd harangue. lie sides there are honorable gentlemen who concclvo that the convention was called specially that thoy might air their vocabularies. Tho suffrage ques tion is still under discussion and will probably bo brought to a vote with the close of this week. There is no ques tion, as now dovelopod, that the com mittee plan, a modification of tho Mississippi plan will bo adopted. With this course we concur, several fantas tic propositions have been presented, notably tho Patton idea and the femin ine gender notion, but thoy wore very sensibly, in )ur view oloctrocutcd, in '"?pjatn anglo on, killed Tho Missis sippi plan s juld have been adopted without crossing an j or dotting a t The "modiflc/itlona" *s invented by tho committee is a mistake. We will come out at the same holo at which wo went in?as B. R. Tlllman honestly con fesses, it won't work with downright . common honosty. Probably the Mis sissippi plan does not. The plain truth is that the people should not havo boon promised that an honest plan could be hatched of scouring white supremacy wlthout^y^f ranch ising a single poor or illiterate wffllo man. Tho thing was, is and will beXimpraetlcablo. Gone to tho extent it hW, the commlttoo report should bo promVdJy. adopted ann ?he \ convention should adjourn. Thon the white peoplo ought in a twinkling to get together. With the white peoplo divided into factions in this State thoro is no safety. This is sure as fate.? This can bo successfully accomplished only by side-tracking the demagogues Then, if factions still ex ist, the leaders if not utterly depraved self-seekers, could easily compromise all differ ences. But this anon. We simply urge that the work ought to be prompt ly done and the convention adjourn.? The judiciary article remains to be settled and this ought to be quickly finished. There should be no radical changes. The present system has worked well. Add one other Supreme Judge and one other Circuit Judge in view of the fact that counties develop ing as Greenville and Spartanburg have developed, developes more busi ness for the courts. All the nonsense lately written about creating impromtu quick courts to prevent lynching is quixotic. It is not tho delay in judi cial proceedings that causes lynching. It is the apprehension that under tho law and by a logal trial the ovldonce will not be sufficient, that causes tho resort to ex-trajudicial remedies.-? Judgo Lynch, Lynch law can only bo abolished by creating a controlling public sentiment, against it. Let the Convention adjourn promptly. Wo havo this to say to our readers and all are to bo congratulated. Wo aro com ing out not far from where we went in. -?wTth this difference: there is little loft for white people to quarrel over In this State?veally nothing except the offi ces. There will of course be those who will want to keep up tho old di viding lines that they may win office by appealing to the passions and feel ings growing out of past differences.? Lot auch be sent far to the rear, surely out of the neighborhood of the commis sary and quartermaster trains. A gang jof railroad men gave to an old comrade other day a silver loving cup of \ two gallons capacity. Wo aro for one as big as the court house that every democrat can take a swig at. It has been accepted as a fact for some time that Senators Irby and Till . man .were at cross purposes (and havo boon whetting their teeth) upon tho suffrage plan as reported by the com mittee and Senator Irby had declared "his intention to antagonise it whon it should be on for uction, and tho coun try has been on tip toe to hear what these stalwart reformers had to say. Irby spoke on Friday morning last and Tillman at the night session. Both champions claimed to bo off their feed end unfit for the ordeal, but they came to the scratch, and did somo good hard knocking and clever fencing. Thero was some gentle crimination and re crimination, but tho country is not in terestcd in it. It seems to bo conceded by both tnali there are 15,000 white vo ters in the state who are illiterate or nave not *300 in taxablo property. Irby claims, as we understand tho is sue, that tho committee plan will, may or must disfranchise those, and ho poeos as their die-ln-the-ditch cham rtplon. Tillman urges that tho plan need not, will not and shall not disfran chise these, and ho too poses as the jieverdying champion of tho same ' class. Tillman does not claim that the election officers of tho future will havo cleaner hands than tho same officials In the past and does not hint that they may not wear gloves. Senator Tillman is evidently of opinion that tho way i. ?will be found to pull all the "ono gal lows" boys through and got their bal Kts into the box. As to the private ?iofs of these gentlemen nobody will ire, reformer, or conservative g Vou will find on another page of this '/'^reek's Advertiser their big talks tmd every body can read them and Inwardly digest. The convention has become alarmod that the $30,000 appropriation will bo . exhausted, and has dismissed a number tjpf clerks and other employees. It is a Brick with most of us to look the stable Bf tor the horse has been stolen. Woman'* Suffrage. \ This vexed question was disposed of in the convention on Tuesday last by the decided vote of twenty six for and one hundred and twenty one against the proposition. It was in a curious shape, and viewed abstractly nothing could be more absurd, or unlntulligi-1 ble; considered with referenco to the environment as an expedient make shift its purpose is perfootly patent.? The measure proposed to clotho with the suffrago all women possessed with 8300 of 'property, upon the ascertained fact that thousands of white women aro so endowed, while but few colored wo men would havo tho qualification, aud thus tho problem of white supremacy would bo solved and resolved in t hi st ate, as far as this generation is con cerned at least. The argumont by tho interesting strong minded ladies who have held the platform for tho last four months has boon based upon tho abso lute right of woman to an equal share in tho government with men, bolstered up with the pressing emergency of call ing her into tho political Hold as an available factor upon a great occas;on. The convention probably In voting down tho measure took sure ground, for it is safe to assumo that very few of tho high-bred Carolina damo-t would ac cept the franchise as a mattor of ex pediency or upon any protenco than the concession of equal right with her self-styled lord and master. As a mat tor of fact, unless the explanation goes along, with tho history, the coming generations will with difficulty divine why a woman was domandod to havo "filthy lucre" to put hor upon an equal political footing with an impecunious man. We aro of tho opinion that tho con vention disposed of tho mattor wisely I And wo do not base this conclusion up- I on tho suggestion that wo aro better than other peoplo. Not at all. Wo aro conservative, radically conservative; so aro our mon; and wo boliovo in keeping our sou;hern womanhood on a higher piano than dragging them to the polls and degrading them by making them factors in dirty, filthy political scram bles. The hustings and and the sham bles aro all-fours until mon aro re created, or civilization advances a thousand-fold beyond its present stand ard. Tho twenty-six who cast thoir votos so gallantly for "the lassos, oh," aro all mon of fair cleverness, and tho yetoran, G- D. Tillman, an intellectual Saul in the midst of the mediocre host. **# The State Fair. Our Laurens friends who attended the Woodruff Stock Show speak In raptures of the fine animals and grand things thoy saw there. Wo aro proud of all this, and how nice it would bo to incorporate Woodruff with Laurens, instead of taking off a part of the old couuty to make a new one. We havo Gray Court safe and sound, and we might borrow Palrviow from our good neighbor Greenville, and then wo would be tho garden spot of the earth. These three great towns will make our State Pair a success if thoy combine their resources and contribute of their beautiful productions. A. 13. Williams' suggestion of the low-country catching them, is a dream?the elves havo had him and his locks are notty. M * * "Dear Old Saluda. Theso are the endoaring terms in which tho editor of tho Saluda Sentinel in its virginal issue speaks of tho nowly baptized county. There is no disputing his maternity?dear old."Edgefleld." * * * ''Und: rstnnding" (lie Constitution, How about Par. 1. Sec. 8, Art. I. of the U. S. Constitution ? According to the Supreme Court the President, Dem ocratic Senator! nor Members could vote?all would be knocked out. See Income Tax decision. * In Good Shape. Tho Columbia Register is now a handsome eight page paper, and shows many signs of prosperity. While we are as wide apart in many things as tho East is from tho West, we are glad to note prosperity at the gates of our con - temporary. Going the Whole Pig. A democratic lady doclares if sho is fully enfranchised sho will vote for wo men only. Just obsorvo what a danger we have narrowly escaped. Prom Scylla to Charybdis and vice versa, don't you see? * W # It scotches tho wheels of business se riously when our monoy product does not flow froely into tho market. The Advertiser however recognizes that our dependence for monoy Hob alone in cotton. We sold freely at a fraction be low nine cents and when tho slum)) .came we halted. In thoso condi tions every man must judgo for him. 8olf. It may bo better to sell now and it may be bettor to hold. It is a delic ate matter to advise, but wo havo no hesitation in saying that if wo had cot ton to-day and did not need tho monoy for it, we would hold for a soason, hit or miss. But ono can judgo as well as another of a product extonding irom Norfolk to tho Rio Grande over a bolt from three hundred to ono thousand miles wide. It is beyond speculation that the American crop is short. *** John A. Moroso, city editor of the Charleston News and Courier died sud denly on tho 27th ultimo in the fiftioth yoar of his ago. He was a nativo of Charleston, his lifo spout in that city, and devoted to journalism. Ho was an acomplished newspapor man; was known throughout the Stato and all wno know him ho held as friends with hooks Of Stool. There goes up an UUivOl'Sal OX pression of regret at tho sudden doath of John A. Moroso. Tho world is poorer. V It is not the rich in towns and cities that hold office or bother with politic* It is usually a class of pot house politi cians who want to get possession of the possessions of tho rich. It is tho samo outside of towns; it is the cross rood politician and demagogue who keeps up a muss, looking to get office and tho spoils of office' It is largely the per quisites pertaining to patriotism that makes patriotism possible, Gold Weather is at Our Doors, and the Time has Come WHEN EVERYONE MUST LOOK OUT FOR and our Low Prices show that we have put for best efforts to benefit and please the public. Come and inspect our stock Ami see for yourself what we have in in store for you. Cloth ing, Cloth eng i 248 SuitB Men's Cheviots and Fancy Cassiraeres, $2 to ?.OO. In this lot Bee our biuck and grey Cheviotte. Men Suits, Blues, Blaoke?nil colors and textures, at $7.50 1 Men's Suite in colors and black Cheviotste, at $5 to $7.50. In this lot see our special $7.00 black Cheviotte. O A k\Z Men bui18' lillies' UiuoKe?an colors ana textures, at */.ou f\f\f% Youth Suite, all color.? and sizes, $2.00 to $15. O^KU to $22.50. Blacii Cloy Suits $10. GheviottP, $8.50. ? U U 150 Boy knee suits, $2.00 to $7.50. AwAi>AAritc?B^" ln*fl *'ne wo ^ave a^ c?l?rpi ull eizoe, all wYGrCOcLTS11" prices. See our Molntosh Coats. Men's Pants I Youth's Pants 1 Boys' Kuco Pants, all 1 grades, latest patterns! See boys' 20 cents pants. Slim xtra i We have got the Shoes at right prices, bought them bsforo" the riso in price. Sao our line of { 25 and I 50 Men's Shoes. Soe our line of Bay State Shoes for ladic?. The best School Shoe for children?Littlo Giant Shoe. See our Snoes, got our PriceB. Hiits, Gents' FURNISHINGS, UNDERWEAR, Trunks, Valises, Etc. We have not the space to iell you of our mammoth stock ; but we can plea?e you in everything found in a first class Clothing and Shoo Store ?-._,_,_,_)_,_,_ We mean business and are going to dispose of this stock at prices to suit everybody. Thanking you for liberal patronage in the past, wc arc your friends, Davis Si Roper, The Famous CLOTHING-, Hat and SHOE Emporium! Laurens S. O., Oct. 17,1895. STATE of SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Laurbns, in Probale Court. I John II. Wharton, Clork of Court, etc. us Administrator, with will annexed, of Martha P. Fleming, Plaintiff, against Trustees of the Presbytery ofTCnorooof the Presbyterian ChurOJ In tho United States, ot al., Defend ants. The creditors of Mut t Im P. Flouting, deceased, arc heroby callod in, and re quired to establish tholr claims boforo mo at a rcforonco to bo hold in tho above stated case, in my ofllco, on tho 13th day of November, 1895. at 10 o'clock A. M. O. O. THOMPSON, J. P. L. C. Oct. 7, 1895.?Ot. NOTICE Any person having businoss with tho County Supervisor. I will bo in tho office on Monday of each wook botwoen the hours 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. R. P. A da ik. Supervisor of Laurens County, S. O ?MMi? mm war WM 11 w i ? ? n1 Iii J m? i NOTICE Of Bill to form a New Comity from portions of Spartan* burg, I In ion, Lam'ens and Greenville Counties. Wo will usk tho Legislature at its noxt session to lay oil' u new county to 1 <o known us F.noroe county, with Wood ?n|t us its county seat with the follow g boundaries: llegining at or neur Polhnm Factory and running thonce to tho Union county line at or noar West Springs; thonco to Knoreo river to a point at or near whore tho town ship, line botwoon Jacks and Souflle town township of Laurons county strike said pivor; thonco no- said river to whoro Buckh?ud Creok omnltlcs into said river; thonco up said crook to IMoasant Mound; thonco lo a point on the Creonvillo lino ono mllo oast of Fountain inn; thonco a straight lino to beginning cornor. J. B. Kiujori:, W. S. Ghay, 8. O. Brockman, L. F. Pkarson, L. C. WOPFOBDj H. M. PlLQRAM, Committee for Petitioners. Aug. 2?, ?? Notice. Notice is hereby given Unit applica tion will be made at tho next sitting of tho Legislature for a charter for Kail road to run from Laurons, S. C, by way of Tumbling Shoals, Princeton, Polzor, in Anderson County, Piedmont in Greenville County, and elsewhere. J. H. Traynham, Albert Dial, J. H. Sullivan, C. C. Foathorstono, Win. 1). Sullivan, J, B. Humbert, W. A. McKelvey, W. P. Nesbltt, 0. D. Nesbltt, .Ins. L. Orr, R. A. Smyth. Sopt. 7, 189.").?3m. DR. W. H. BALL DENTIST, OFFICE OVER NATIONAL DANK, LAURENS. OmoE iiA.rf Mm Iv/h <?.'? ?1 Tu m I \y Or Settlement ami Application Tor Fluni Discharge. Take notice that on the iSlh day of Nov., '^95, 1 will render a final account of my acts and do ings as Executor ol the estate of Mrs. Nellie South, deceased, in the office of Judge of Probate for Laurens county at 11 o'clock A. M., and on the same day will apply for (1 final discharge from my trust as such ICxccutor. All persons having demands against said estate will please pre sent them on or before that day proven and authenticated, or be for ever barred. ?WM. D. SULLIVAN, Executor. Oct. 13, 1895?4t. Carj Fciffjisf) Von from Parlor to Kitchen. r^o. 771 XL W Llhjch Laurens, S. C. South Carolina and Georgia R K Passenger Dispart-most. Charleston, S. (./..May 20, 1S*>5. daily. I,v Charleston 7 20 a m (i 00 p m Ar Summer-villa 7 50 a m 0 42 p m Prognalls 8 28 a m 7 1!) p m George's 8 41 a m 7 32 p m Branch vi He 0 10 a m 8 15 ;> in Uowesville !> 25 a n 8 29 p in Orangeburg 9 33 a n 8 >I3 p in st Matthews 9 58 a in 9 O l p in Fort Motto 10 10 a m 0 17 p m Kingville 10 20 a ??? 0 20 p m Columbia 11 05 a m 1O 15 p m Hv Columbia 7 00 a in -1 00 p ni Ar Kingville 7 -10 a n> 4 11 p m Fort Motto 7 57 a m 4 55 [> in St Matthews 8 OS a m 5 0!) p in Orangeburg 8 :>2 a m 6 27 p in Uowesville 8 48 a m 5 -12 p ni Branohville 0 05 a m 0 10 p m tieorjre's 9 15 :i m 0 ?A p in Pregnalls ? 68 a m <> 44 p in Bummerville 10 32 a m 7 18 p in Charleston 11 10 a ra 8 00 p m LV Charleston 7 20 a m (i 00 p m Branohville 9 25 a m s 15 p in Hamberg 0 47 a m 8 40 p ni Denmark: 0 66 a m 8 ;">."> p m Blaokville 1012 am 0 00pm Williston 10 27 a in 0 21 p ni Aikon 11 03 a m 10 07 p m \r Augusta 11 46 p m lu 50 p in Lv Augusta fl 25 a m 3 30 p ni A ikon 7 14 a m A 12 p 111 Williston 7 57 a m I!) p m Blaokville 814 a in 6C0pm Denmark 8 28 a m 5 20 p m Hamborg 8 41a m '> 20 ]> in Branohville 9 20 a m 6 55 p in Ar Charleston 11 10 a m 8 00 p m Connection via A. C. L. ),v Augusta 2 26 |> m Ar Aikon 3 05 p m Ar Donmark 4 12 p m l.v Denmark 0 10 ? m Ar Alken 7 19 0 m Ar Augusta 8 00 ft in daily except sunday. Lv Canulon 8 65 a m 2 26 (> m Oamden Juno. 9 50 a m 66 p in Ar Kingville 10 20 a m 4 35 p m l.v Kingville 10 85 am 0 00 a 111 Oamden Jun 11 10 a in fl 10 a m Oamden 12 05 p ra 8 i "> u m Connections?Clyde Line, Oharlo&ton, i ontborn Railway, Columbia. Connection to and from Atlanta with I]trough Sleeper. E. S. BO WEN, Gen'l Manager. L. A . Emerson, Traffic Matiager. Goneral Ofllcos. Churleston S. 0. Executors Notice. Take notice that as Fxcoutor of (he lust will of Mrs. P. E. Monljoy, I will on tho 21st day of Novem ber noxt demand of tho Probate Judgo of Laurons County, a dis charge from said trusf. K. L. BAILEY, Oct. 11, '96?4t Executor. m imiaRSSBfXIlBraRV-X'Nl PURE DRUGS , Arc very essential when a person is ill and adulterat ed medicines cannot possi bly have the curative powers like wholesome medicines but DR. B. F. POSEY keeps nothing but the best and purest Drugs and Medicines and people wanting anything in my line will do well to call. I also carry a large stock of Teilet Articles, Stationery, acca, Cigars, Colognes, Toilet and Laundry Soap and a hundred and one other things kept in a first-class Drug Store. I keen 8A?0?N SEEDS of reliable houses constantly on hand and sell them at reasonable prices, Yours for mutual benefit, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST PORTIBR'8 For Darb Wire Cuts. Scratches ad lie and Collar Galla, Cracked Heel Hums, Old Soros, Cuts, Bolls, Bruises, I 'lie i and nil kinds of Inflammation on ..i.i "l beast. Cures Itch and Mange. - Bot?, Cat or Butt will tetet ntttet alt?? tto o!i hu boos ?vplloi. fl i prepared for accident* by keOplflg it ItlVOUl ibl?. AIIOrug(|lsls?niliton aguarnnlee. ( ?Cnf?, No Pay. Price a! cts. and $1.00. Ityniit ,r ; ? L ilots not keep It (end us 25 ct3. in bot? ?01 tampa and wc will send it to you t>y mall, Ptrlf, Tenn., Jnn. ?Hh. 1(04, Kiri i hare ??ed i'or?i>r'? ami? |.i'<. Iftatla? Oil i . Ilurntiiand Saddle OjI! i.Sqiatchr f hihI ll?rl> Wltn Cull . rIC*l Mtlitactlon, anil I hciitily rccununcnil It to : 1 iviry nnd ?lockinf n. 0. II. IRVINE, l ivery and Fffl SUbli. BABY BURNED. idlemon .?I ttn pleated to iptak i word fnr ranfr". \ itUtptla ll.allact (III. Mv lialiy wm liuninl a low month i >, rtnd (If r Irving Ml otfu r remedlM 1 applied your "Oil" ' t!i<< f.i-t nppUeall'jn oavo relief, and In ? few diy? ib< i-ttc '.ti i w*U. I ?Uo uwd llic oil on mv stork and Bndtlti : : i rn.ic.ly f'.r llii. iiurpoio lliat I liavo frt-r uicil. Youn, C T.l.KWls. l'.irlc. Tann.. Janu.iry C*._ ? AM I ilTl KKD BT PARIS MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS, M< For sale by Du. B. F. P08BY, Laurens, S. C