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E-4TABLISHED 1865. N WBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1898. TWICE A WEEK, 81.50 A Don't forget the plac< this section are now trading at Goods as any two stores here c chants, therefore I can sell Go< want you to buy from me. I' 50 pieces Black Figured Mohair, othe 25.pices Black Henrietta and Serges, :800 pieces Colored, Figured and Plait We know every C CAPES 100 Capes, a beauty, for only 35o, oth 10n-o 85c, 100 " " " $1.10 -100 " " " 1.50 100 Plush Capes, a dandy, 1.98 100 " " " 2.40 50 "6" " 2.98 50 Plush Capes, a hummer, 5.00 A BURNING ANSWER MRS. FY.TONOR REPLY TO . VILE SLAII)EK OF MRS. ORANNIS. The Latter oharged That. the i-Jnrty of . iho White Women of the 8-.tth Had Negro Blood in Thom. The following is a lettor from Mrs. Felton, who has taken such a prominent part with pen and tongue in the recent race war in North Caro lina. It. was an editorial in reply to a speech of Mrs. Felton that caused tho negro editor, Manly, to --leave Wilmington and cau.,ed his office to be destroyed. The letter is as follows: Cartersville, Ga., Nov. 19, 1898. To the Editor: A friend has sent me a clipping' from the -No Y York Herald, of -late date, in whi 6h ap pears the report of an address mado by Mrs. Elizabeth Graunis, of New York city, during a colored citizens' meeting in Cooper union, which took ,place one night of last week. This woman "set the audience wild" when oshe aid: "I am only here tonight to repro tsint womanhood. Now we all know that the white women and girls of the South are full of colored blood." At this a wild uproar ensued. The colored meon and women jumped up in the aisles to cheer. . Many. laugh .ed and gave vent to hysterical excla oations. Others mounted thoir seats and waived their hats. Mrs. .Gran is added''that in her opinion the churches should be in sackcloth and ashes over the effects of the race war in the Southern States." .Dr. Parldurst sent a letter of pro.. found sympathy .with the meeting. ther letters were received from i.n B. Odell, Jr , (candidato tates Senator, as I am William Olcott and nt of Brooklyn eeting was attacks on a, and it of the mand d to d i te black mon at audience towards e women of the South. It 1d appear from her presenca at , just follow the crowd and you my store; ask them about me, I ombined. I pay spot cash for t ids at retail as cheap as most mi m not here on charity, it is sti rs ask you 40c per yard, our price - others ask you 40c per yard, our price k Dress Goods, worth 25c and 35c, our pi irgument is usec IT CAPEST ir stores ask you - - - 19 it -- - 4 4 i4 it Mi mna' such a time and place that she has boon outlawed from her own race (for some reason yet unexplained), and took the opportunity afforded her in a negro assembly to expose the exceeding filth and false hood of her own mental and moral anatomy. The colored citizens of New York are welcome to her, and the white women of that city are well rid of her. Water seeks its level and Mrs. Elizabeth Grannis has turned up in such company as she should be obliged to stay in, for the - relief of the community at large. She would not be tolerated in a colored citizen's meeting in Georgia, with such a base falsehood on her lips, and -to similar consul as that given by Mrs. Grannis does the ne gro owe much of his woes-both North and South. It is discovered nlso, much to my surprise, that such men as those men tioned in the Herald's report, name ly, Odell, Parkhurst, Grant and Wol cott, are herding with a flock that should all woar the same badge of notoriety, without regard to sex or color. It is more than likely that these politicians and race disturbers did not know that Mrs. Grannis would be there in the unblushing nudity of her mind and1 manners, and they are probably congratulat ing themselves that they used a post age stamp to communicate with col ored citizens' meeting rather than to risk a hand-shake arnd encore for the Grannia woinan when she everlast ingly defiled her name anid family by utteoring what she kneow to be false, and used the lie for so base a purposo. 1t is just such persons in our Northeorn churches who are "troublers in Israel." If she can not be promptly dlismissed from as sociation with white people in any other way, charges should be pro ferred before courts of justice ar raigning her as a common falsifier and dangerous to the public pen -e Perhaps she ob)tained all she sought for in the public meeting, and I ask you to pass her around in Southern newspapers, that she may obtain a little more of this notorious advortia ing. - Minus. W. HI. FEL.TON. ho show MakI,,g sn,akes P'opula,r aN l'#its. g to' the influence of the mnke Show at the Grandi ,all the principal bird eders in Nowv York a rush of orders akes by people who hat they are clean and pets and cana be handled ittle danger as a kitten or a ybird. A large number of ers for various species of snakes have also been left with Manager Allen S. Williams of the snake show, who has promised to relievo the pro vailing stringency in the snake mar ket, as lie has ordered some from Flori/-i and (nonga. can't miss us. If you are not tbout my Goods, about my wa3 on, Lots of things I buy as 3rchants buy thom to sell agai .ictly business with me---one o - 25c 50 pieces Kid Cambric . 25c 50 pieces- Standard Cal rico, J9e 50 pieces Best Jeans, v I by our competil BLA] $ .75 50 Blanket 1.25 1.50 50 10-4 " 2.00 2.50 50 11-4 3.00 50 11-4 4 3.75 11 7.00 V 92iAsk to LIg ugh._ CAN'T BE REDUCED. THE TAX LEVY IUST STAND Ab IT Is. Treaurer Tim,nermans Thinska Sce If Nece tary Fxpuem are to be Mot-Loss lof tihe Phospaisto Money. (Columbia Record.) In view of the fact that taxes are being so slowly paid, evidently from the low price of cotton, people are beginning to discuss the quetion whether it will not be possible for the legislature to reduce the levy at the coming session. Dr. Timmerman, treasurer of the State, is probably more familiar with the financial condition of the State than any other man in it. In speak ing on the general nspect of affairs he expressed the opinion this morn ing that the levy could not be re duced, provided even the necessary appropriations for the governmen'. aro counted as they are. There is no extravagance in appropriations. On the contrary there is in many in stances a disposition shown to cut down the expenses of the dopart monts absolutely nocessary to the proper conduct of the government. Dr. Timmorman planned that the great loss of the revenue from the phosphate industry made it impos sible to reduce t he levy. This meant a loss of several hundred thousand dollars which annually wvent into the treasury. From interviews and letters pub lished in the county papers it is evi dent that legislators are set on cut ting do(No expenses, many of them advocating the reduction of - alarios of officers. Such bills come up year ly, but generally amount to nothing. Even if they were scaled as some legislators want them the situation would not materially he affected; the levy would not be decreased. It seems that the only thuing to do is to grin arid bear it, now that we are in hard luck, and hope for better times to come. STON10WALL JA(OK(4ON's scoUlr. Hie Was,n Wouded t4Ixty-enz Tiunes anid I)ecorated by thme (zar. (From the New Haven Register.) Major Lamar Fontaine, wvho ar rived in the city yesterday morning, is probably one of the most interest ing vetora[ns of the Confedoracy. HIe is the only representative of Camp Sam Cammnack, of Coahoma County, Miss., and during his stay in the city will be the guest of Capt. .John Milledge on Trinity avenue. Major Fontaine has been a soldier nearly all his life, and the story of his adventures in all parts of the world sound1s like fiction. lie served in the Russian army during the Crimean wvar, and at the siege of Seb)astapol was decorated b)y Czai- Nicholas with the Iron Cross of Honor for dlaring lbravery dunring the batl. At the t.ime of ta mamm.r. g 3r one of my customers now you v of doing businesv. If they ar a jobber from first hands. In I i. If you think, or if you let E the bust equipped stores in I Dress Lining, worth 5c, now only - icoos, worth 5c, now only - - - - rorth 25c and 33je, now only - :ors to prevent yc qKETST BLANK s, as long as they last, 4 " 91 " " $1.4 see these four Numbers qEWBERRY, S. C bl charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava Major Fontaine was six teen miles away, but could hear the guns and see the smoke of that fa moul bale. After leaving the Russian army he travelled about the world in com pany with an uncle, but was living in the South at the opening of the civil war, and onlisted as a private in the 10th Mississippi Rifles,'but lator was transferred to Company K, 18th Mississippi regiment.. While a member of this regiment, in August, 1861, he wrote the well-known poem, "All Quiet Along the Potomac," which has since been widely copied all over the world. He began his war work with the Confederate army as scout and cou rier for Gen. Jackson. He served in the samo capacity with Gons. Stuart and Johnson, and briefly with Gon. Lee. He took part in twenty-seven pitched battles, fifty-soven skirmishes and over a hundred individual skir mishes, in which blood was shed. Although he was but a private in the ranks, he was at one tin-e entrusted with a carte blanche order on the treasury of the Confederate Stati-s Ho wvas knowvn in all branches of the Confederate service as the best marks man with rifle or revolver in either army. He was wounded sixty-seven times, and thirteen times his lungs were pierced. Five times in the course of the war ho was reported dead. On t.wo occasions he was ablo, with thre aid of mirrors, to look into apertures in his flosh and watch the beating of his own heart. Major Fontaine has kept a com plete diary for nearly fort.y years, and this in itself is ani unusually in teresting work, comprising a num bor of volumes, andl containing much valuable information, lie also hats many documents signed by promni nent oflieors of the Confederate army bearing testimony to his remarkable markmanshi p. "Ye," said Major Font aino last night, "it would seem as though I had spent the most ofmy life on the battlefield. My life has been rather eventful in a way, and I think that I have had a few interesting experi onces. "T1hosio documents I have saved all through the war, and while they may be intorostig anid valuable, I care for them only for the sah~o or my children. It will be something to leave thoum wben,] am gone, and I have managed to preserve thoem in good condiltion for the last thirty yoars" Major Fonta'ao is a man of dia tinguished appearance, anmd wears a complete uniform wvhich wvas mado esp)ecially for himt to be worn at the reunion of -.eterans. Hie is a civil enigineer by profession, arnd is en gaged in business with his - two sons at Lyon, Miss. Col. Joseph Honory, of Vance burig, Ky., is the great grandson of P 1atrick Honory and the only living direct 1lnannnslat nf te hatrh. I iill be as soon as you see how 3 satisfied, then you will be act, I buy them as cheap as h iomo sliok-tongue follow nak he up country. - - 3o 50 piec -- - 2jc 100 La - - - 9 98< )u buying our O< ETST 9 cents a pair v walt COm |VI -9 "'s ha Ways TIE STATFE UFFOItMAITOlY atuestion May Comne Up for DicussIon nt Us-sneral Asm-nibly-The Itev. ). U. ntrowni Haimrs fronm In"pectling Wbtir of Iirt-r. iar tietttot, Makesi a Report to the Gover. nor Nuttablo Superit iuntlit L. (Columbia Register.) The puestion of establishing a State reformatory will bo brought up for discussion probably at the the next sosion of the general as sembly. For some time this ques. tion has been agitated and the plII has met with somO considoration. There are many who contend that the establishment of a reformatory is imperative and should receive the sanction of the legislative body this winter. A few weeks ago the Kov. C. C. Brown of Sumter, who is a member of the committeo appointed to in quiro into the workings of reforma tories, went to Elmira, Now York, to visit the institution it that place. He has just roturned and writes Governor Ellorbo as follows concern cer(ing his investigations: Dear Sir: It gives in plisuro to be able to say to your uxeellenc. that I have completed my round (; investigation, and am at home again. I confined my investigations to the( inlstitultionls at Elmira and Rochet-ter, or p)ossibly I should say to tile Re formnatory at Elmira alone, for th( others are not worthy to ho com pared with that one. Your letter of introduiction gav( me an openi sosaino, and1 I waIs treatedl with marked kindness. Especially a,- I under obligat ions to M. Z. P. Brockway, su perintendent at Eira. As sooni as we can have a mieeting of our committee, I shall hamve a re p)ort ready, and then I hope also that I may be allowed to present the( case as I now see it to tile mnembelrt of the legislature, or to a commwittee appointed b)y that b)ody. I am glad to be able to say that the trip cost onily about half what ant icipated1. I maiude mlorei thtan twc thousand miles of travel, going al most enitirelly iln sleepers Ont mtght trains, so as to ha4ve daylight for my visitations, and( on my returin fint that I have e'xp)ondedQ only at hutndrei andi two dlollarts and eighty cents Whatever prop)ortioni of this you foe is just for mee to pay in fuilfilment of promise, I am ready to pay; so it sending a diraft, you must foel fre< to deduct what you see fit. I de3voutly hopoe to soo a reforma tory set up in onr State. T1o set i up, we needl first a imani of the righ sort to put at the hteadi, andi thena small approp)riationl for Jayinig th plant. I believe it will be easier fo us to got the money than to get th man. IIowever, I need not discuss plan now. Allow me to say, sir, that at convenient time to you, it will b)0 m delight to have a talk with you cor corning tihe whole raatter. To hav y our sympnthy nd oo*per..ou. uhoap others buy hore. A. majo sat.io,d also, Bar inl mind at Ises do who send (rum1tllers I - you think, that you can do is Bost Table Oilcloth, others ask you 1 lios' Ready-nindo Skirts, ehenpor than 3 each. >ods, but they arc SHOEST S o have the greatest S hoe . Dep stylish, nobby Footwear ithat uld see me1(3. I carry Ilore Shove, ve in their entire stock. COmi 6veoe1 at mnaugh. m111 sCCesH to tho mlit orprise; to hanvo sucecess would mlefin to youriself ;t sort of last.ing m11oniu11milt. to the 130mHOry3, of your adimlinistration. I think 1 11111) e ahlo to 1nuit) this p)1lm Who I iavo nll Oppotluinity of talking with you faco to face. A very sigiilicant editorial froi the Coluiniis of 'Ihe Chicago Tiivs Herald will 1,o fo itl olsewhero. That oditorial, discussiing tho ravo war in North Carolina, deplores the possibility of such a condition of thiniigs, and" iti tt soio doubt as to whether the troops7 of the niation could bo lawfully omployed for its sHupprsHioln. 'lon going oin, 'rho Tiiies-Hraid romarks that it. is easy for the Cnucasians of lio iorth to coudemn tho attitudo of Southern Caluceians while they thilmselves aro froo from th aggravation whichi han thus moved the whito nel of the south. It is then thatn hie Times florild comes to this declaration: We have just hold elections in tho north, aind wo need go no furlher than Cook County to find that no repiresenitat ivos of t.heo ngro race is chioseni to ant oflie. We doC niot find ini naitinal affairs thast the) Presidenit has invited ai single negro to his cab inot, or appointed negroes n orthi of Mausoni and1 Dixoni's liito to forlorall oIlices. T[his simplodeclarahuI tion11 calrrios dloub1le- leaded colinn of edhitorial ini voetLiv, because it state-i a fact., Ior sely and(1) bluntly. TJhe peopldo of thei ntorthi are comimitt.ed to ai certain p~ol icy, and1( because of his ioppo~sitionr, is detormiined that thle negro shall niot. hol olico. TIhuts, thIoni the wvhito meni of the north and t he while moni of the south mrarch in dliforenit di recti onts, they reach thet sameit goal, and that is whit.e sup)rtnucy. Such a statomniut as this, coingl froum T 1he Timries Ilorald, recogntizedl as oril of the loading republican organs (of opinion, anid being closely knit to -the adiiistriation, proves tat at last thle people ofI Ihlei country hxave awvakeds Ito a grea:t fact -ono( wvhiich his alwaiys hoon~t appalrent. to u.ho people of the south, awl wvhich Ithey wvere sat isfied wVould( inl i time becomo erqually apparenit to I ieh~o - pIe of the [north. 11lavinig thus reacIed thle co1chi sioni of a quest ion which has beien one of irritation for thlirty yocurs, thie south feels rep)aidl for theii stand1i whv iichi it ha~s taIken ini detfenisi oft ri - umphanit Cscsaim Iit.t ile rejoicing ini th is ciuhtbuit iont, tlhe ', soluth uniderstanxds the ms ro bietter r than thai northI, feels that lie shotild have an oplportunitIy to live and1 t hat for this piurposo lhe shion hi be pro octed in his persontal rights, htis us family ties, his opplortunity' to Imako s living anid in all t hat goes to croautt true i h un happmItIess. There i only on0 p)oinit ait wihi eixclusioi comies, and that is when they attempi 0 to onecroach upon the rulership o; v t.he whiin rnae rity of tle very best po')plO of ew facts---I buy as Iriany Dry re to sell goods to other m1er )etler els 'ewhr, then I don' 5c, our prico - - - - - . 0o3 you can buy tbo material, our price, i wasting breath. HOEST irtment in New-herry. It' 3you is up to the highest standard, i 1111due tables than most d l to lIoa<quarters, you are al. O11F. aV IE'. FU1i'N 1ii5,ooo It lue i, it Few 1liinr'm w tic for it hinug nzsi.n Ar t ile'. ISta t, It oro Uhtll, " l hatika1 ; '1 no 11tepy." A diural Devoy, tho greatost naval horo of tho War, colaunlldi today tho highest, prieo inl tho .literary markel. Ho has thus far rOfusod all bi-ldvrs. The editor of McCluro's 1n1gazinle cabled to him rocontly an ofl'or of $5,000 for on short articlo Ol the th hilippines. Admiral Dow vy's r1spolno by cable Was: "'hitiks, but I 1a too busy" Lieutc,1n11ant 1obson8, tbo orfir liro, rocoived offers of $5000 each from t.wo mangazminc for an articlo dslcribing hii exploit at Santiago. Livitonaiant 101oo, though a modest ho0 and 1 slincore, litraightforward oflicer, pilt hiiiself in the hands of i lawyer, who mana1111god to obtaill S5,000 for tho articlo which Liouten. al I Hobson is soon to Writo. Tho (11ntu1ry got it. 'THso privos lt tho naval hero ahovo tho literary genius, althoiugh twiCO wit,hink ono yvr ludyard Kip ling has bmin offord by at nmwspaper $1,000 for 1,000 Wo1d4 111d1 has do flinT%d it. Th-e regular 1pri o paid(l for the long stories of lthi e8xtraor dinary young man11 is no0w $150~ a thaousandtc words and for 1his short stories fromt $2,000) to $5,000) eatch. for thet first of the searios of Sherlock I tohnetis's aLd ventuare. Soveral Amaieri can1 puIblishers' are readIy to pay himi $2,00 )t( an aric lei for ant.hling o:so as good. The prices of lirst, class5 au t.htors are1 gettIinzg htigher overy' year. K ipl Iing has b1Ioon, palid I 50 centsi a wVord for ai p)oorn, and1( Eliz,abethI Stuaari Phtel 1 $8 e l~"in for' pioetry. N.rIninhy. Certainly nobilit.y is of blood ande birth , and lhe who woiihl 1)o immnor tal must1) hazve care1 for hti.s posterity. N4othling' cant be' more absurd than theo fuss outr get riy maisk" concen ing t ithe to n laces~ of plroceodenco. They are'( of a mind1( with thioso foolish old1 courftiers (of Lois1 XIV. and1( thinik that niobihity cons1ists inl "11o drtoit duti mlonItor' dans11 lo carosso dui roi."' Th'Iey forgot t hat. wIhat is called biluoe blood is ofteni ve ry hadl blood0. 1I(know a1 famiiily of lontg dlescout and1( high coIIInuInionI which has1 b*en ''decor ated"' ini abltot atli possib10 ways. Nothlin g enn II nnllob le it. Nearly oey member11i1 of it is marked by somo1( (coar*ees (If phIysitine-somoa lowdness08 (f conduc11t ; and1( this not withstandinalg inteor mahrriages anid thIe initrodtit onl of now blood(. This stock 111my safely he balcked to pro doce0 iln overy generationa 0110or mfore p)rofhigatos of dlishonocrablo life. E"very mnemaber of it has1 a COrta(ini liability of shiamao. Th'o poe o:u in the blood has1 had1( its inlet thtrough vice, ad must have its ouatlet, in suf fering. Uiltinuotely it will bring abaouat the e'xtohntionl of the rico. ''To\vicked, Plato has truly said, are wiekod becaunso of their organization --t heir pairents, and not they, she. d Ibe nunlisia('t