Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? absoilptlon Price 12 Months, 11.60 PA YABLE IN A i> VANCE. W. W. BALL, EDITOR. Rates for Advertising.?Ordinary Ad vertlseniouts, por Bquare, one Innor tlou, ji.oo; each subsequent lusortlou, 50 "Uli t M. Liberal reduction mado tor largo A>1 rertlsomoutH. W. W. BALL, Proprietor. LAUKENS, S. C. Feb. 8, 1898. OLK S0L0NS. In the Senate u constitutional amend ment to make the Sossions of the Gen eral Assembly biennial, Idstead of an nusl was killed. We aro of the opin ion that it should have passed. Still a Legislature should be elected every two years. There was a stout debate In the Senate on tho Ii II to put tele gruph. telephone and OXprOSB com pares under the control of the Kail Road Commissioners. They refused to kill it, but exempted telephones. The opponents of the measure expressed much sympathy for the already over worked Kail Road Commissioners and ono Senator suggested that the Com missioners would demand more pay- - "all work and no playmakts .lack a dull boy." Another Roman, suggesteu that they had as much work as they could now well do. No Senator sug gested that the Commissioners would likoly Sing up their jobs. If they should resign their $2,00(1 jobs then oomes In the joke of the Hydra headed monster ?When Hercules knocked off a head sprang a hundred instanter in tho plaoo. Pluto came up with red hot irons to the assistance of tho 11 ro, and with much dif ficulty tho creature was overcome When tho R. It Commissioners get tlrod and l?ng up their jobs?listen to hoar an awful crash and stand from undor. Tho broad tire bill struck a narrow gauge olement in tho Senate and got punotured and by tho way side It fell. A Senator, Connor, very sensi bly movod that Clomson Colloge ex periment with the broad tiros, but tho Conservative? Senate rejected thosug gostlon, preferring tho ruts in which their grand-daddies were wont to run. Thero is nothing like bolng "raised" to a thing. Items in tho appropria tions woro narrowly canvassed. The Btato Agricultural sassioty appropria tion (usually $2,hV)) was laid low.? Tho State Hoard of Health was knockod down from $3,000 to $l.">00.? The Citadel $20,000 and Winthrop, the State College for Women, $30,000.? There was a fight over the S. C. < ollege appropriation, which was reduced to $20,000 from $25,000. Carson said "he was a plain farmer" but would stand by higher education. Fatton pointed to a son of A.C. Haskoll and a nephew of Ben Tillman sitting side by side in this Colloge. Swearengen is the neph ew of Tillman, a blind boy of extra ordinary talent anil promise. Goodwin and Smith voted to support the in stitutions of learning in the State, as they urged in thoir oanvaES, and we may Btill expect Laurena to stand squarely to Clemson, the South C.iro lina College, tho Citadel and Win throp. McDanlel was absent. After awhile somebody will want the three mill tax-and the poll tax for education abolished. Militia inspections aro not provided for and the Adjutant General will no longer need brass buttons. All the State institutions have their usual allowance. The rat ions of Cue big of ficers are secure for another year. (Rppresentative. Illderton seems to be the watchdog of the Treasury), l.'e introduced a Bill to require common carriers to transport certain ofTlolalfl froo of cost. If riding is so sweet they might "swing upon tho gates." Gaines gains a point. Gaincs was elected Senator from "Old Edgeflold," and when Greenwood was cut olT ho was sliced into Greenwood . The Senate doclares him ontitled to hold .on. though Greenwood has a Senator.? Gaines sticks. $100 per day, mileage, freo pass and free express. Gaines is "up-to-date." Dr. Smiths Bill for an other Magistrate in Waterloo Town ship got a mortal stroke in the Senate. The Bill to give cities and towns re presentatives on county Boards of equalization passed tho Senate. Hon est. Mr. MoDanlel's bill to dlsponse with the publication of Treasurer's Report In Laurons county passed the House. Prohibition appears very strong, but Mr. Childs in charge of the Bill is quite unwell and for lack of a stalwart champion it will likely fall. The separate coach Bill passed the House and will likely become law. It requires separate coaches or partitions in coaches for tho races. The (Georgia law.) Tho Laurons levy will be about as usual. Adjournment between 12th and 16th. Thoy arc hustling. V Tho bill repealing the anti-free pas?? will likely receive tho requisite num ber of votes. That would bo right. Thero was no use for tho antl freo pass except in tho day of small things. ? Abboville Fress and Banner. A trust in microscopes Is in ordor.? Ed. Adver. * * ? Germany prohibits the Importation of fresh fruits from this country. Wo R.he South) arc not In It. New York and New Jersey apples this time. *** Japan has takon the chip from her shoulder and wo may now annex Hawaii. THINK ABOUT YOUR HEALTH This is IhoTiino to Givo Attention to Your Physical Condition. Tho warmer weather which will couao with tho approaching spring months should find you strong and in robust health, your blood pine and your appetite good. Otherwise you will ho in danger of sorious illness. Purify and enrich your 1 blood with Hood'srJarsaparllla and thus "prepare for spring." This medicine makes rich, red blood and gives vigor and vitality. It will guard you uguitisl the danger from the changes which will soon tuko place. Certainly you don't want to suiter tin I dyspcpMa, < onstipatioii. si. k headache, s<d low skin and loss of annetite. You have never tried Witt's Utile Early Risers for these romnl?ini<? or you would have been cured. They arc ?null pills le.it gu-Ht regulators. B. I-. l'os*y, wholesale and re 4*11 druggist. HR1CWERTON. Old Aunt. Patsey Gaines, (the widow of Billio Gaines, deceased, tho former owper of the Ware Shoals on Saluda,) is now lying n( the point of death at -her bou Wesley's with Pneumonia .lol\n Duvall has a very Biok child. D. S. Jones and wife, of Hodges, wore visiting Mr. J. It. MurlV's family last week. W. Sauford Knight and wife visited thoir daughter Mrs. VV. I). Washington, of Owensville, last Saturday and Sunday. The champion board-splitter lias beon in thin section the past weok (t labo Williams 111<* oue-foged man and old Confederate veteran. A considerable wind Btorm passed through the lower part of Greenville on Saturday night tho 22d uh . doing some damage on J. I5d Knight'* place, blow down his gin house and killed 'A oows and tore up n wngon. The brethren of Mt. Gallagher Baptist Churoh, at a special meet ing on Sunday tho 28rd lilt., called Dr. .lames (). Martin, of Owens ville, to preach for them tho re mainder of this year in place of I). A. Swindler who resigned to serve another church for a bigger salary. Browerton can boast of having the largest school in the country, 02 pupils. .lust, as i go to close I have learned that th?- school hotlSO at Poplar Spring Church got burned down this morning about 1 o'clock, this Thursday morning ,Fob. ?3d. And I have also heard that old Mrs. Gaines is dead and will be buried this evening, February 8rd, at 2 o'clock, p. m., at Poplar Spring, beside her husband On Dir. A stomach of undigested food is about as unhealthy a mass as one can well imagine. What can be done with it? There it stays. It won't di gest. It churns up, ferments and decays; becomes poisonous (as all putrid matter docs) and causes great pain and deep-seated disor? clei8. In order to change all this, tak<* Shaker Digestive Cordial, li stops fermentation and decs) at once, so that no more poisons nle created. It clears the stomach of p >ison * already there. It helps t> turn the food that remains into health ful nourishment, It strengthens the stomach for the next meal. Here's the whole philosophy and cure of indigestion in a few words. And what's more, it's all true. Try it. Shaker Digestive Cordial is f r sale by druggists, price io cenls to ?ti.oo a bottle. * Johnson's ChUI and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day. Running sores, Indolent ulo?rs und sim ilar troubles, even though of many year's standing, may l>u cured by using De Witt's W!ton Hazel Salve, it soothes, Btrongth ens and heals, ft is the great pile cure. It. Posey, wholesale and retail druggist. NOTICE To Executors and Administra tors. The attention of Executors, Administrators and Guardians is called to the law requiring them to inako their annual returns from 1st January to last day of Febru ary. 0. G. Thompson, Doc. 10, 1897?td. j.p.l.o. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. NOTICE Of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. Take notice that on the loth day of March, 1898, I will render a final account of my acts and do ings as Administrator with will annexed, of the estate of R. A. Jones, deceased, in the office ?f Jntlj^e of Probate for Lau rens county at 11 o'clock A. M., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as such Administrator with will an nexed. All persons having demands against said estate will please pie Bent them on or before that day proven and authenticated, or be for ever barred. P. B. COOPERf Administrator with will annexed. Feb. 8, 1898. SI5 REWARD. Fifteen Dollars' reword will be paid for the capture of one Tom Boas ley, colored,who escaped from the ohaingang on the 28t h day of Docenibor, 1897. Said Tom Boas ley to bo delivered to (he guards of tho ohaingang in I/unions coun ty. It. P. ADA I It, Jan. 20?14?4t. Supervisor. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from S to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. LONG BRANCH. 1 Representative O. V. Goodwin made a living visit home laut week from the law manufaetury. Neighbor Hairston is making a great effort to get ub nil t<> haul rock to macadamize our public roads. And we suggest thai it' he oould got enough of us to occupy the proper pew in Court next week wo might got a job of that sort with board and clothes thrown in. Mr. E. T. Taylor has more farm work doilO than any one else in this community. Blisses Octave and Jauie Mo Quown are spending a fow weeks in Greenville county. And now dear Telephone you just plant as much pinders, pop corn and sorghum as you like, and lot the rost of us make the cotton, and don't bo too hard Oil tllO poli tioiaus for yo old scribe might want a woe bit of a olllco. What say you? We sympathize with Mr. Joseph Weeks in the doatll of Iiis father, who died at Iiis home al Orn last week. Whoat and oats are looking flue. The health of the community is very good. SLOOUM (111.BON. There is more Catarrh in this -eei ion of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last fow years have boon incurable, for a great many years doctors pronounced it a 1 lOttl dis ease, and presoribod local reme dies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pro nounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to bo a constitu tional disease, and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only const itutional cure on -the market, ll is taken internally in doses from lo drops to a toaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY, & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. To heal the broken and diseased tis sues, to soothe the irritated surfaces, to Instantly relievo the irritated sur faces, to Instantly relieve and to per manently cure is the mission of De Wilt's witch Hazel Salvo. B. F. Posoy, wholesale and retail druggist. Notice! Assessor. The Auditor's Office will bo open from the 1st doy of January to the 20th day of February, 1808, to re. ooivo returns of Real and Personal property foi taxation in Laurena ('??iinty. Real properly to be returned this year. It will save much time to tax payers, also great ly facilitate the work of the Assessor, if every per son before leaving home will make Olli a complete list of every item of personal proportyin the follow ing order: rlorsos, cattle, mules, sheep and gouts, hogs, watches, organs and pianos, buggies, wagons and carriages, dogs, mer chandise, machinery and engines, moneys, notes and accounts above indebtedness, and all other prop erty including household. It is always required that the Auditor got the first, given name of t ho taxpayer in full. Undor the hoad of place of resi dence on tax returns give the townshi ()? All male citi/ons between the ages of twonty-ono and sixty years, on the lsi of .January, ex cept those who are incapable of earning a support from being maimed or from other causes are deemed taxable polls (confederate Veterans excepted ) . And overy taxpayer is roquirod to give the number of their school dist riot. After the 20th day of February next, fifty per cent, penalty will bo attached for failures to make ret urns. In every community there aro persons who cannot read or that do not take a newspaper. Those more fortunate may do such per sons a great favor by tolling them of the time to make returns or by returning for them. The assessing and collecting taxes is all done in tho same year, and we have to aggregate! t he num ber and value of all horses, mules, cat tle and other pieces of personal property, as well as the acros of land, lots and buildings and their value that there is in this county, and have the same on file in tho Comptroller General's office by the 80th of June of each year, and from that time to tho first day of Oc tober the Auditor and Treasurer's duplicate have to bo completed P^nd an abstract of the work in the Comp! roller General's oflico by that time, which will show at a glance that the Auditor has no time to take returns or anything else much between tho 1st day of March and the 1st day of October but work on tho books and the blanks. We hope t'.ioroforo that all taxpayers will make their re turns in timo. JOHN R. FINLEY, Auditor. If you havo over seen a little child in a paroxysm of whooping cough, or if you nave been annoyed ny a constant tickling In the throat, yen can appreciate the valuo of One Minute Cough Curo, which gives quick relief. H. p. Posey, whok-salo and retail druggist. Hood's Are gaining favor rapidly. amR - a Business men and travel D. fl ler.i carry tliern In vrst ^[ I I pf-okete, Udlee csrry them ? ? in purtee, housekeeper* keep them in m*x ine clotett. frleodk recommend tbem to frlem* J*c. i Strong, steady nerves Arc needed for success Everywhere. Nerves Depend simply, solely, Upon the blood. Pure, rich, nourishing Blood feeds the nerves And makes them strong. The great nerve tonic is Hood's Sarsaparilla, Because it makes The blood rich and Pure, giving it power To feed the nerves. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures nervousness, Dyspepsia, rheumatism, Catarrh, sen>fula, And all forms of ^_ Impure blood. WILLIAM S. GLENN, Central National Hunk Building, Spartauburg, s. C. Heal Estate, Bond ami Stock Broker. Persons dosiriug to sell or buy Stocks will do well to consult him. NOTICE, NOTICE. Parties having businoss with tho County Supervisor will find him in his oilier on Monday of oaoh week, between the hours of ton o'clock it. m. and 1 oolook j>. m. R, P. A DA IK. Jan. 20, 1808?ly. Supervisor. For Sale The Methodist Parsonage and church property?within 4? >0 yards public square -South side Main Street. Band* some now dwelling, three acresof land. One of the most valuable and dosit a ble lot or lots in tho city of Lauren. For further information and terms ap ply to Dr. W. II.Dial or O. H. Sim mons. I.aureus, S. C. ^;Rates West, TEXAS, MEXICO, CALI FORNIA, ALASKA, or any other point, with FREE MAPS, writo to FRED. d.BUSH, District Passenger Agent , Louisville & Nashville 11R HO.V Wall St., Atlanta, Ga. Hood's Stimulate tin- stomach, n-tx ? ? H rouse tho liver, cure bilious- Jj. I Hess, hi'u?arlii', iliz/jhi'ss. ?"^1 ? f?j ?mir stomach.itntiiuttioii, H B B B ?to. r-rlco its cents. s.?ni by nil tlriiKKlsta. I 'I'lio only Pill? to t.iko with llood'i Saraaparllla. Tfjese afe tfje I<^if)cloF Days which make one think of the Winter Wrap?the warm underwear?and the other autumn wearables, all of which are here in full force. Half Over Now, is the Milliner)' Season. From this date we will sell all goods in this department at greatly reduced prices. Our Millinery can't be surpassed in quality, style and Novelty. Wc would be glad to have you call and examine before purchas ing elsewhere, as we are sure you will be pleased. When the mercury Drops is the lime to buy your Winter lothing, il you havn't before. But "don't lock the stable door after the horse is stolen," and don't wait until you catch a heavy cold before you buy a better overcoat?a warmer suit. Drop in, look around, feast your eyes on the good clothing. It is pleasing to the eye, easy to the pocket, and will wear to sat isfy. The best of everything that goes to make good ! >. 1 s i < in ours. Prepare for the holidays?the quicker, the better. J?sta Little change in the crown, a little difference in the brim, and there von are ; but what a difference it makes in the HAT. There's satisfaction in knowing that you're wearing the correct Shape. We've the pick of the season's plums in HATS. No need to wear old styles with such prices. Davis, Roper & Co. \ \ \ ') Standard Clothing brings standard prices aud to pay less than we aro asking is (<? n >i lossvaluo. A oaroloss man thinks only of tho appearance of a suitof clothes the day il is bought, while sensible men take an interest in the way clothing bought to-day will look six months from now. If you want an up to date suit, neat and nobby, and one that will give entire satisfaction you can get it in any color, any size, any out, for ^7.'">() The Largest Stock of Clothing IN UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA TO BE SOLI) IN THE NEXT CJliejipoi" nriio-n Ever Before. h will pay you to see these Goods and got tho prices. Now is the time to got n good suit lor less money than you will again soon. We mean business, these Goods must and will bo sold in the next OO Days. Come, see for yourself. Davis, Roper & Co.'s Fatuous ( lothing, Hat and Hig Shoe Store. Laurons, S. < !., Oct. 14, 1897 ,'../....,........ wmmmmmmi i?iwiijwi?iiaMBfj?>w^ S. IL & E. H.Wilkes & CO. Yolif Cr)af)ce During the next Ten Days we will offer our entire stock of Ladies Capes and Jackets at reduced prices. RESPECTFULLY W. G. Wilson & Co. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF LAURENS. Court of Probate. Copy Summontfor Relief,- -Complaint not Served, Matth- A. MeDuMie, Plaintiff, against li. Morgan I.cake, Kostor Brown, Willis 0. V, Urown, John Henry Brown, Mary Cl'Owdor, Sallie B. Fleming, Minnie B. Chandler, J. F. Brown, Hattio T. Boyd, Defendants. To the Defendants above named? You are hereby summoned and required In answer (ho complaint in (Iiis autiOl), of which a copy is herewith sorved upon vou, and to serve a copy of your answer lo the said complaint on the subscribers al the ofllco <>f N. It. Dial, Laurel's Court Mouse, South Carolina, within twen ty .lays after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and If you fail lo answer the complain! within the time Iiforrsaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in (lie complaint. W. H. Martin, I >. l. sou um pert, N. B. DlALj l'laintiuV Attorney. To Sallie B. Fleming and Minnio K. Chandler, non-rosidonl, Defendants: Please take notice that tho com plaint in tho above stated cause wus Hied In tho ofllco of Judge of Probate for Laurons County, at Laurens, S. C November 2?1, 1897. W. H. Martin, O. L. SCHUMPERT, N. B. Dial. PlaintlftV Attorney. if mil Forget to ?Jall Cash Store. \\ e ran save you money. We buy nud sell for cash and get the best discounts which enables us to handle Goods at the LOWEST PRICES. m Our stock is large and-varied, ranging in prices fioni $2.50 to $2o.OO, and conies direct from the Factory. We have Stouts. Slims and Regulars and can tit and suit the trade. It' we sell once we can sell you again. SJ^oes af)cl Hats. Shoes arc one ol our Specialties, and arc lolling in from the Fac toiics. Sec them and he convinced of thief extra good value. We take great pains in selecting our hats and cany a line line of the latest styles, and are agents tor several factories. Wc arc up on Dry Goods and can offer you good honest goods piiccs that will make you glad that you called. Thanking you for patronage and soliciting your future business wc remain, Very respectfully, J. R. Minter & Son, Headquarters Jor Lowest Prices and Best {Values.