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J. FR?SER LYON WRITES A LETTER Resents Till man's Refer ence to Committee. FORCIBLE STATEMENT. Intimation that the Senator's Acts While Qovernor will be Investigated?Scv. eral Suspicious Matters. ? Senator Tillman in a manifesto which he gave to the public recently attacked a great many people and officials, not even sparing the members of the com mittee appointed to investigate the af fairs of the State dispensary. That re 4' ference has been taken by Mr. J. Fr? ser Lyon as an effort to discredit the investigating committee and in a letter to the attorney for a liquor house Mr. Lyon has expressed himself rather for cibly in regard to Senator Tillman's statement. Abbeville, S. C, April 3, 1906. My Dear Sir: Your two letters of re cent date were received by me upon my return home yesterday, after an Vabsence of about two weeks. You will, therefore, iunderstand why you have not had an earlier reply. While it is true that I do not think there is any good reason for withholding payment of the claim of the Cook & Bernheimer company of New York, still a3 I have said heretofore, I will not give my con sent to the payment of this or any other dispensary claim now held up un til the matter of such payment is dis cussed at a public session of our com mittee. I feel sure that you will appreciate my position in this matter, especially since the publication of Senator Till man's "Address to the People of South Carolina," in which he says: "Is there not plenty of opportunity for more graft and secret transactions in regard - to the settlements of these accounts? Will not the legislative committee be suspected of corruption, if it does not get in the middle of the road and stay there?that is, stand by the law, obey it itself and require others to do so? Why so much delay?" You see this additional reason for my position. It is unfortunate for your clients to have had dealings with an in stitution which no one can even inves tigate without having it suggested or insinuated that he may be a grafter, or at least has a good opportunity to steal. While I regard this reference to our committee as only a shrewd attempt to shake public confidence in us and in || terfere with our work, which is evi dently becoming distasteful to many of those who are irrevocably wedded to the dispensary, still when I see this proneness to criticise us I wish to be es pecially careful not to put myself in a position that could, with even a color of justice, be criticised. In your letter of March 26 you prac tically asked the question, and sin cerely, "Why so much delay?" I know no fact that I have learned in the dis pensary investigation that I shall in tentionally withhold from the public. We are trying to get the facts in re gard to several suspicious matters, which we think should be investigated. Among them is the statement, as I re call it, of Senator Tillman that he re turned certain rebates to a distillery. We wish to find the credits on the books of the distillery showing the amount of rebates which Senator Till man said he returned as a gift for the gratitude he felt to the liquor concern crediting the State of South Carolina. Besides this there has come to my ears a rumor?the source of which I do not now recall, but a rumor which I think should be looked into?that Tillman when governor was presented with a piano by a liquor concern. It may be that receipts may We shown for the re bates which may have been returned and also for the payment of this piano which may have been received aa was rumored to be the satisfactory explana tion in the case of the Towill horse matter. The opinion is so prevalent that the dispensary has been a breeder of 30 much corruption that no one can touch it without the suspicion of some one be ing aroused. Unfortunately, in the case of our committee, the insinuation of this suspicion is cast upon us in the public prints by one who, above all oth ers, may know of the innermost affairs of the dispensary as transacted by it* officers since its inception. I trust, however, that we will finally emerge from our distasteful tank mer iting the confidence and approval of all honest {[citizens. Believing that this will satisfactorily explain our delay, I am Yours very truly, j. Frasek Lyon. SENATOR TILLMaN REPLIES. To a representative of The State, Senator Tillman makes reply to Mr. Lyon's letter in the following charac teristic manner : "I am surprised," Senator Tillman said, "that a gentleman such as I thought Mr. Lyon to be would go in the papers in such a sneaking way as this. Even the name of a lawyer to whom he wrote is not given, but whether he authorized ita publicity or not, I assume it to be authentic. "I have not attacked the investigat ing committee ; I only warned it in a friendly spirit. And why ? I ither the $7X),000 worth of claims against the Stete board are valid and binding or they are not. I say they are not, be cause the whiskey was bought contrary ^ to law and the State is not legally bound for payment. i.The committee knows this now aa f ? ?.??**? PERSONAL MENTION. | Mr. W. M. Hunter of Lanford was in town Monday. Mr. Gilliam Aiken of Abbeville spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. Darrell Harris of Columbia is spending this week in the city. Mr. Robert W. Davis ot' Fountain Inn spent Sunday in the city. Miss Dolley Holandof Lander College will spend Easter at home. Mr. W. W. Ball of Charleston was in the city for a day last week. Misses Sarah and Agatha Davis of Clinton were here Saturday. Mr. J. E. Minter of Sedalia spent Monday and Tuesday in the city. Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Posey of Wood ruff visited in the city this week. Master Steward Boyd spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Clinton. Miss Julia Macfarlan of Philadelphia is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. M. Irby. Mrs. Wistar Wright of Pacolet is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Mr. Creswell Fleming of Greenwood spent several days in the city during the past week. Miss Laura Lumpkin, of Charlotte, N. C, is in the city for the Boyd-Tal ley wedding today. Mrs. B. F. Ballew visited her son, Cadet B. F. Ballew, at Clemson College, the past week. Mrs. Alexander Long of Darlington has been the guest of Laurcns' friends during the past week. Mrs. E. H. Wilkes spent a few days in Newberry during the past week with Mrs. W. A. Jamieson. Mr. J. A. Austin and family attended the funeral Saturday of Mr. W. A. Nichols at Friendship. Miss Helen McGhee of Greenwood was th i guest of the Misses Gilkerson for a day during the past week. Mr. Geo. W. Shell will visit his sister, Miss Elizabeth Shell, student at Win throp college, during the week. Miss Claudia Copeland returned Sun day to Norfolk, Va., after a visit of several we?;ks to her father, Mrs. W. J. Copeland. Miss Mary and Master J. T. Johnson arrived from Washington on Sunday to visit their grand-mother, Mrs. H. W. Anderson. Mrs. S. L. Frierson returned yester day from Jacksonville, Fla., where she has been visiting her son, Mr. L. G. Frierson. Mrs. Emma J. Little and Mrs. Jas. Ii. Copeland of Clinton were the guests last Friday of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Copeland. well as it will ever know it. Messrs. Lyon and Christensen have blacklisted certain firms; the presumption is they have discovered evidences of fraud. If these firms have acted dishonestly the old board cannot be clean; but leaving Messrs. Lyon and Christensen to hunt for proofs, to which I do not object, again I ask: 'Why the delay?' "Whether fraud is proven or not, no decent lawyer will contend that these large purchases of whiskey are legal. First, because there was not competi tive bidding, as the law requires; sec ond, because the law expressly limits the amount that may be on hand to $400,000, and instead of dickering with lawyers employed to collect the money, it is the investigating committee's plain duty to repudiate the whole transac tion, forbid the new board to pay for any liquor, and thus have an end to it. Messrs. Lyon and Christensen will be responsible to the taxpayers of the State if they O. K. a single purchase that was illegally bought." "What about the piano," Senator Tillman was asked. "Well," he replied, "I have heard it said if you throw a rock in the dark and a dug howls you may swear he is hit. "I have not sought to discredit the investigating committee," the senator continued, "but to warn it, and when Mr. Lyon, without provocation, makes public its dirty and cowardly insinua tions that a whiskey firm gave me a piano, it is pretty clear to my mind that he howls because he is hit. It was easy enough for him to have found out all about the piano. Mr. Malone, the music dealer in Columbia, knows to whom he sold it, and who paid for it, and he knows when it was bought. "I note also Mr. Lyon's pretext for delay is that he may look into the rec ords of the Mill Creek Distilling Com pany to see whether there are any eredits." "Mr. Lyon heard my testimony in Columbia, and he knows I said nothing about returning any money, for I never received any," said Senator Tillman. "If the books do not show that any money was ever paid, they certainly will not show that any was ever re turned. "I am earnestly desirous, both for their own sake and the dispensary, that the new board's action shall be ap proved by the people, but there can be no excuse for continuing to pay for nmn who are not needed. Either the ol 1 force was overworked or one-third of it ought to be dispensed with. "In my efforts to keep the dispen sary from being assassinated, I shall spare no man, te he friend or foe, whose actions do not square with the 1 vw, and indicate a desire to carry it out loyall/." AN AGED FAUMEll COMMITS SUICIDE. James Sherbert, a Thrifty Farmer of Hobbysviiie, Spartanburg County, Takes His Own Life. Woodruff, April 10.?Jim Sherbert, a respectable farmer, living near Hobbys viiie, about six miles from this place, committed suicide Friday night about midnight by shooting himself in the heart with a shotgun. Mr. Sherbert, according to his fam ily's statement, was in his usual good health and his mind was perfectly sound so far as they could detect. Dur ing the night Mr. Sherbert got out of bed without disturbing any member of the family, later in the night he was missed and from the fact that he did not come in about the time he should have done so the family went out to look for him and found him dead not far from the house. Mr. Sherbert was about 60 years old and a very thrifty farmer. He had hid in some place near his place about $2,000, which he has always kept buried. He had no faith in the good banks of the country and it is very likely that not even his wife knows where his money is hid. Entertainment at Young's Store. "The Coming Woman" will be pre sented by Gray Court talent in the new school building at Young's Store, on next Friday night, April 13th. DEATH OF MR. WATT NICHOLS. Veteran and Good Citizen of Sullivan Township Passes Away. Mr. Watt Nichols, aged sixty-three, died at his home near Friendship church, Sullivan township, Saturday morning last at 10:30 o'clock. He had been ill for several months. He was laid to rest at Friendship Presbyterian church on Saturday morn ing, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. W. I.. Poggs of Greenville, pastor of the church. Mr. Nichols was a survivor of the Civil War and he was ever held in the highest esteem and regard by all who knew him. Mrs. Nichols, who was a Miss Johnson, passed away in 1880, leaving seven children. Six of these survive. They are Messrs. R. W. Nichols of Laurens, J. W. Nichols of Salida, Colorado, who is engaged in rail roading in that State, Mr. Clarence Nichols of Fountain Inn, Mrs. Matthew McDaniolj Miss Annie Nichols and Mr. A. P. Nichols, who reside at the old home place. Special and Regular Terms of Court. On Monday, April 30th, Judge Geo. E. Prince of Anderson will convene a special term of Common Pleas Court here which will probably be continued for a week. Following this the regular summer term of General Sessions and Common Pleas will be called Monday, May 7th, giving Laurens three weeks of court on a stretch. Judge Dantzler will hold the regular term. MR. JOHN H. HUNTER DEAD. He was a Successful Farmer and Former County Commissioner. Mr. John II. Hunter, a leading farm er of the county and member of the county board of commissioners in 1903 '04, died of heart failure at his home near Goldville last Saturday afternoon, about 5 o'clock. Mr. Hunter had not been feeling very well for a day or so and remained in bed most all day Sat urday. In the afternoon lie had a se vere attack and before a physician could reach him he had expired. . Mr. Hunter was 43 years old and leaves a wife, who was a Miss Aull of Ncwbcrry, and three small children. The burial service, conducted by the Knights of Pythias, took place at Clin ton Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Attention, Democratic Clubs. The presidents of the several Demo cratic clubs are notified to call their respective clubs together on Saturday, 28th inst., for the purpose of re-organ izing, electing officers, appointment of the necessary committees and to elect delegates to the county convention that meets on the first Monday in May. The basis of representation in the election of delegates is one delegate for every twenty-five members and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof. G. P. Smith, County Chairman. April 9, 1906. WILL MEET MERE ON NEXT MONDAY, District Meeting of the Knights of Pythias One of the Events Scheduled for Next Week. The Knights of Pythias district meet ing will he held in this city next week, beginning Monday afternoon with a business session which will be called and presided over by Mr. J. B. Carlisle of Sparlanburg, district deputy grand chancellor of the 7th district of the grand domain of South Carolina. Monday evening, the regular meeting night of Laurens Lodge No. 43, with which the district meeting will be held, the rank of Esquire will be conferred on seven candidates. Following this a tine banquet will be given at the Ben Delia hotel. On Tuesday morning the concluding session of the meeting will be held and adjournment will be reached probably before noon. A number of delegates are expected from Spartanburg, Union, Joncsvillc, Enoree, Woodruff and Clinton. Miss Werner's Millinery Opening. Miss Werner, who has just opened up a new and well selected assortment of all the latest things in millinery in the store room next door to the postoftice, invites all bargain seekers for ladies' and children's hats to give her an early visit as she is sure she can please them. EASTER FIXINGS In all their Beauty will bloom afresh in our big Store this Week. Our Millinery Department! Has received many new things, which will be added to our Easter dis play. Among other things we will receive this week a number of new shapes in the celebrated 4'Gage Hats." When looking for your EASTER HAT don't forget to visit us. We are sure we will have what you want, and we will name you economical prices. Ready=to=Wear. Because you may not have time to make your suit need not be in the way of your having an up-to-date outfit. We have added to our line this season an elegant line of Skirts, Shirt-waists and Wash Suits. You may walk into our store now and before you leave have your Suit, Hat, neckwear, Hose and Oxfords?in fact everything you need for a complete outfit without the trouble of dress making, or in fact any worry. Shirt Waists of the newest designs in fine Lawns and Lingeree, $1.00 to $2.00. Shirt Waists in Silk of the latest designs, in both white and black, $2.25 to $4.50. Great Skirt Values in Blue, Black and Gray. Panamas at $4.50 and $5.00. Beautiful Brilliantine and Mohair Skirts, in cream, gray and black, $3.50 to $5.00. Elegant Cheviot Skirts in the new circular makes, $4.00 to $5.00. Beautiful White Wash Suits in fine India Linon, $3.50. Beautiful White Mercerized Panama Suits only $4.00. Em broidered line-finished Suits, $4.50. For Dress Goods See our big line and if our styles and prices are not satisfactory you need not buy, and we promise to show you with just the same grace as if you were buying. Dress Goods. Silk Warp Henrietta, #i.oo. Chiffon Mohair, 36-inch, 50 cents. Checked Mohair, 36-inch, 50 cents. Vigro Suits, 36-inch (very new), 50 cents. French Monrcith, $1,00. French Serge, 50 cents. Fine Ltunines, 38-inch, 50 cents and 75 cents. Cheviot Suiting, 25 cents. Printed .Silk Kolines, 50 cents. Printed ?Silk Mulls, 25 cents. Eyelet Embroidered Mulls, 35 cents. Printed Dotted vSwiss, 15 cents. Genuine Printed Organdie (looks like 25 cents goods), 10 cents. Beautiful Floral Lawn, 5 cents. Figured Scotch Lawns, 3^ cents. Fine Floral Figured Lawns, 5 cents and 3;/ cents. In Silks We Will Show: ?Silk Kolincs, 36 inches wide, 50 cents' to #1.00. Silk Crepe Dechincs, 75 cents. Mcsaliue Silks, 50 cents. Jap Silks, 35 cents to 85 cents. China Silks, 39 cents. Radians Silks, 36 inches, #1.25. Taffeta Silk, guaranteed, 87 }4 cents, #1.00 to $1.25. Novelty White Goods: Lingeree Waistings, 10c, 15c and 25c. 38-inch Linecue, ick:. 36-inch Irish Linen finish Suiting, 10c. 36-inch 20c White Madras, 12^0. India Lin ons, 5c, 8c, 10c, 15c, 20c and 25c. 45-inch Wash Organdie, 15c to 50c. 45-inch French Lawn, 15c to 50c. 36-inch Pure Linen Lawn, 35c to 50c. Shirt-Waist Linen, i2J/?c to 35c. 90-inch all Linen Sheeting, $1.00. Pure Silk Mull, 50c quality, 25c. Make yourself at home with us when shopping. Easter Slippers and Oxfords. We have a groat lino of the latest things in Ladies' and Children's Slip pers, and no buyer of these goods can afford to go by our Shoe Department. A fine line of Kippendorf Dittman. Big Bye-let Ribbon Ties, $2.00 to $8.00. A beautiful line of Bluchor and Oxford Tie:*, in kid and patent leathers, .$1.50 to $2.00. Special for Children. We invite every lady to see our big line of Children's Slippers. Hoyond a doubt wc have the greatest showing of these goods in Laurens. Bluchers and Oxfords in big Eyo-let and Ribbon Ties in all sizes and stylos and prices. Si c them before buying. x O. B. SIMMONS COMPANY, Laurens' Largest Dry Goods Store. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. Many farmers are busy this week planting corn. Mr. A. Huff is attending the United States Court in Charleston as a juror. The Briars will hold their annual re union at the Gray Court-Owings In stitute on Saturday. Mr. Reuben Robertson, one of the oldest citizens of the city, is seriously ill with pneumonia. The County Teachers' meeting has been postponed from Saturday, April 14, to Saturday, April 21. The Rev. T. Tracy Walsh of Columbia held services at the Church of the Epiph any Sunday morning. See Chairman Smith's call for meet ing of Democratic clubs thoughout the county Saturday, April 28. A good rain fell in portions of the county Monday, but it will not inter fere with bean-planting Friday. Mr. J. T. A. Ballew attended the fun eral of Mrs. H. II. Belue, his aunt, who died in Union, last Saturday. Miss Bessie Roland has accepted the position of stenographer and type writer with the Laurens Plumbing Co. Mr. E. L. Baync of Columbia, travel ing representative of the Southern Cot ton Oil Company, was in the city yester day. Mr. C. Alva Rower announces his candidacy today in Tub Aovkutiskk for re-election to the office of county auditor. Mrs. T. D. Darlington entertained very delightfully for the members of the Euchre Club at her beautiful home on Irby Avenue Thursday afternoon. Col. Thos. B. Crews, executive com mitteeman from Laurens, attended a meeting of the State Democratic Execu tive Committee in Columbia Thursday night. Mr. E. V. Garrett of Laurens, stu dent at Clemson, won the declaimer's medal in a contest at Clemson Friday evening. Mrs. Warren Bolt was called to Ab beville Monday by a telegram an nouncing the serious illness of her sis ter, Mrs. Bowie. The friends of Mr. Jockey P. Saxon of the Huntington section, are urging him to enter the field this summer for legislative honors. Senator McGowan has accepted an in vitation to deliver an address at the close of Prof. J. C. Burdette's school in Greenville county, near Princeton, Saturday, April 14. Col. J. 11. Wharton, Mr. C. C. Feath crstone and Mr. J. P. Saxon are at tending the State Sunday School Con vention at Pelzor. Mr. Featherstone will deliver an address this afternoon before the convention. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bolt, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Jones, Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Albright, Mr. R. E. Copeland and Miss Mary Bowen attended the burial of Mr. John H. Hunter at Clinton Sun day afternoon. Herr. V. A. Iloltzhausen, a native of Wittenberg, Germany, delivered an ad. dress on Martin Luther, Monday night at the First Baptist church. It was a most admirable address and was great ly enjoyed by an interested audience. Col. John H. Wharton, chairman of the State Railroad Commission, has ac cepted an invitation to deliver an ad dross at the closing exercises of the Gray Court-Owings Institute Friday evening, April 27. Messrs. W. W. Griffin and O. W. Babb will represent Calhoun Lodge No. 17, I. (). O. F., at the meeting of the Grand Lodge in Greenville next month, while Messrs. W. C. Winters and T. K. Hudgens will attend as committeemen and grand officers of the Grand Lodge. Messrs. G. H. Milliken and G. A. Hatch of the linn of Deering, Milliken Si Co., of New York, were in the city Sunday and Monday as the guests of Mr. N. B. Dial. Monday afternoon they went to Darlington but will re turn to Laurens for the meeting of the directors of the Laurens Cotton Mills Thursday afternoon. At the annual meeting of the State Council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics in Columbia April 17, Laurens Council No. 24, will be re presented by Messrs. R. S. Templeton and O. W. Babb. Mr. II. Terry who is a member of the State Council, being Chairman of the committee on creden tials, expects to attend with the Lau rens delegates. Laurens will be well rmresented at the meeting of the Shriners in Colum bia today and tonight. There will be live candidates from here for the Shrin ers' degree, Messrs. H. Terry, C. M. Babb, W. H. Gilkerson, Jr., G. P. Smith and Fred Nelson. These candidates will be accompanied to Columbia by Messrs. M. L. Nash, J. S. Machen, R. H. Hudgens and Dr. W. W. Dodson. Messrs. H. Terry and J. H. Peterson have been chosen as representatives from Laurens Lodge. No. 4.1, K. of P. to the annual meeting <>f the Grand Lodge, which meels in Sumter on the second Tuesday in May. Dr. W. II. Dial and Dr. H. K. Aikcn were elected as alternates. Mr. M. L. Nash will also attend the Grand Lodge, being a mem ber of one of the important committees of the body. A liver makes a lazy man. Burdock Blood Bitters ll the natural, never fad ing remedy for a la:;y liver. Amicable Adjustment of Controversy Readied. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT Mr. Milliken and Associates Agree to Buy 500 Shares of Stock?Mr. Lucas to Retire. The contest for the control of the Laurens Cotton Mills, which has been waged for the past eleven months by Mr. Seth M. Milliken of New York and his associates on one side, and Mr. W. E. Lucas, president and treasurer of the mills, and his friends on the other, has been settled. According to the agreement which was reached at a conference of repre sentatives of both factions held in Spartanburg last Saturday, Mr. Milli ken and his associates are to purchase the holdings of Mr. Lucas and his friends in the mills to the extent of five hundred shares of stock at $170 per share. If more than 500 shares are offered then the shares will be pro rated, thereby allowing those who de sire, to go out with Mr. Lucas, on pre cisely the same terms. They have ten days or two weeks In which to arrange for the transfer of the indicated num ber of shares of stock. A meeting of the board of directors of the Laurens Mills will be held at the office of the company in this city Thurs day afternoon. The Spartanburg conference was at tended by Messrs. C. C. Fcathcrstone and W. It. Richey of Laurens, repre senting Mr. Lucas, and Messrs. G. II. Milliken, son of Mr. S. M. Milliken of New York, G. A. Hatch of the firm of Deering, Milliken & Company, and their attorneys. Al this conference the Mil likens also agreed to take all of Mr. Lucas' holdings In the Darlington Cot ton Mill of which he is president and treasurer, at $05 per share. This adjustment of a controversy that has attracted widespread interest in cotton manufacturing as well as other business circles throughout this section, means the retirement of Mr. Lucas from both properties. As president and treasurer he superintended the building of the Laurens Mills eleven years ago and it i ; today one of the best and most successfully operated mills in the State. It is capitalized at $1150,000 and pays an annual dividend of 12 per cent. OUR SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR SALE: Rull* Orpington Eggs for setting, pure bred and good strain, $1.60 for setting of 15. Miss Irene Ray, 32-tf Laurens, S. C. DON'T FAIL?To see our line of port able and traction Engines. Hudgens Bros. Laurens, S, C. 33 tf WHEN YOU buy flour, call for "Copyright" Fancy Patent, The very best Patent Flour made. "Copyright" is Pure Wheat Flour. ENGINES We now carry in slock a full line ol* Portable ami Traction En gines, also Threshers. Hudgens Bros. Laurens, S. C. 33 tf. AS A HEALTHY bread maker "Copy right. Flour leads them all. It has the purity, strength, and quality to make nigh class bread. "Copyright" is the best. NOTICE-Highland-Gould will serve this season at my home. Fee for ser vice $15.00 with insurance, .lohn M. Wood,Princeton, S. C. R. F. I). No. 2. 35-6t. MORE PEOPLE use "Copyright" Flour in Laurens County, than all other Patents combined. This tells the tale. It. leads them all. WANTED?To employ a quiet and sober young man to work on farm and to wait on father. Will pay good wages to right man. For further particulars address or call on George M. Davis, Clinton, S. C. It. F. D. No. 3. 35-2t. ''COPYRIGHT is a pure Flour, and takes less lard and baking powders to make good bread than any other flour on the market. SAW MILLS?If you want a Saw Mill get our price before you buy. Hudgens Bros. Laurens, S. ('. 33 tf FOR SALE Eggs for hatching from pure bred Bull* and Barred Plymoth Rocks $1.00 for setting 13 eggs. Ambrose L. Hudgens, P. (). box !if>, Laurens, S. C. 31-4t. FOR SALE A full blooded Jersey Bull, about six months old. Apply to O. F. Cannon, Fountian Inn, S. C. 3i>-2t "II I "MM ER" I will be at Martin's stable with "Hummer," the well known stallion, April 10 and oven nine days through season. Fee $12,50. VV, K. I Chapman, Fountain Inn, S. C. 35-'lt I HIGHLAND GOLD This celebrated stallion will be stationed at my homo this season. Fee $15.00 with insurance. John M. Wood, Princeton, R. F. 1). No. 36-Gt. LOST White Pointer pup, with in-own head, four months old;answers to I name of Hal. Suitable reward for his return to. T. D. Darlington, Laurens S. C. 36-lt MERCHANTS' NEWS. Sec our ladies' Faster neckwear this I week. 0. B. Simmons Co. Sec our Easter belts thi.s week (? B. Simmon:; Co. See our Easter Oxfords this week. (). H. Simmons Co. See the best $l.oo silk thai , ou ever saw, this week at 0. B. Simmons Co. EGGS FOR SALE: Have few more settings of eggs f,?ln mv famous Huff and Golden Wyandotte, 15 for $1.50 32-tf Fleming Jones, Laurens, S. C.