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____ e Berr rI !%e mMs. E AT AIBLISHED 1865._ NEBERY,S C, FRI DAY, DECEMBER 21, 1900. TWICE AIEE, $1.50 YEAB The Great Chris pec Special articles at s miss us. Record break them. You can't matc same quality. MIMNA Now is your time to STEP 5 Bales of Blankets and Comforts 50 pairs 10 4 All-Wool Blankets 50 " 114 " " " 100 " 11-4 Grey and White Cotto 100 " 11-4 " " " " 50 Large size Comforts for thig sale 25 " " " " " " A big lot fully guaranteed Gloves j and shades, -Tau, Gray, Castor, 'Brc getting $1.25 and $1.50 for same glos A big line of Drummers' Samples t A clean sweep in Millinery. You c and remember the prices you paid bel today. I am satisfied with small pro 100 Trimmed Hats, $1.00, $1.25 and Our entire line tc MImR ~imni NEGROES EXCEED WHITE CHILDREN, STATEMENT OF TUE ATTENDANCE IN PUBLIC sHOOL. Record of Each of the Countles-Somo Inter eating Figuores Taken Fortheom ing Report of superintend ent of Education MMa han. (The State.) Dec. 18. -The annual report of the superintendent of education, just about to be issued, will show that the total enrollment of the public schoo1F amounti to 271,787 for the entire State. Of these 120,395 are white pupils and 155,602 are coloreu pupils. Of course the figures foi average attendance will be somewhat different. Below are given the en rollment figures for the races by counties: Total both Total Total races. whites. negroes. Abbevilleo...8,187 2,873 5,314 Alken......... 8,280 3,4'i8 4,812 Andereon...12,293 7,254 5,039 Bamberg......3,524 1,346 2,388 Barnwell...7,311 3,231 4,080 Bleaufort....... 6,89)1 1,123 5,768 Berkeley......5,050 1,493 3,557 Charleston ...12 511 4,802 7,709 Cherokee ...4,509 3,008 1,591 Chester........ 6.254 1,003 4,351 Chesterfield..4,319 2,719 1,600 Clarendon ...6,408 2.130 4,218 Collet on....... 5,550 3,101 2,449 Darlington...6,665 2,820 3,845 Dorchester ...3,070 1,318 1,752 E'dgefld......6,136 2,130 4,000 FairSeld...... ,469 1.642 4,827 Florence....... 6,040 2,747 3,203 Georgetown.4.561 1,275 3,286 Greenville..12,752 8,318 4,434 Greenwood . 8.. ,415 2.186 4,279~ Bampton......4,763 1,921 2,842 otury....'..... 5,123 3,825 1,298 Kerstawy,......5,388 2,884 2,504 Lancaster .,. 6,394 2,075 8,4 l9 L4aurens....... 6,141 3 458 . 4,683 Lexington..... ,74 , 4,006 1,735 Marion.......7,t01 ~ 3,'15 4,066 Marlboro ...5,327 2,161 3,166 Newberry.....8,119 3.276 4,743 Oconee........ 5,330 4,072 1,258 Orangeburg. 14,115 4.659 9,456 Pickens.......4,709 3,507 1,202 Richlandi......7,025 2,208 4,817 Saluda......... 5.152 2,555 2,611 Spartanburg ..13,367 8,305 5,062 Sumter....... 0,(82 2 886 7,190 Union ......... 5,192 2,268 2,925 Williamsburg 6,498 2.686 3 862 York .......... 10,045- 4,066 5,979 Total......271,787 128,393 155,602 The Amount Expended on School. (The State.) Dec. 19-The State yesterday morning gave the statement from the done tmas Sale continuE ple. No timeto lo MIM )ecial prices will meet you ing values in Black and C< h a yard at these prices e1 UGH'S price, as long as ti buy a Black Silk Dress cl, QUICK 1 just opened-All-Wool Elkin No. Ca. Blai long as they last $3.75 worth $5 00 I" 49 I" " 4 $4.75 " $(3 50 a Blankets only $1 00 " $1.50 " "t $1.49 " $2.00 "4 080. " $1.25 ust opened up for the holiday trade, all wn and Black. Some stores in Newberr '0s. Our price is only 95c. a pair. E be opened up this week at MIMNAUGE1 an buy a handsome hat here for a little i ore I opened Millinery, and the prices yol fits and large sales. $1.50, worth double. be sold regardles4 augh. annual report of the superintendent of education as to the enrollment of T, white and colored pupils in the pub- c lie schools of the State. That state ment shows that there were more colored than white pupils. Today the statement showing the amount expended on the schools is given. It Pe shows a total of $902,716.03 expend- bit ed on the public schools during the oc< year. wr The statement by counties is as fol- wo lows: th< Total Total go for white. for negroes. an hAville ......... $ 18,465 36 $ 6,912.12 . Aiken ............... 1571969 6,539 75 s i nderson ........ 26 362.25 6,339 39 an Blamberg......... 11,419.78 1,783.88 to Barn well......... 15,556.84 4,273 16 sti Beaufor,t......... 5,904 25 7,730.931e Berkeley ........ 8610.09 4,319 06 Charleston......87,430 09 12.979.37 I fi Cherokee ...... 13, 254.79 3,048 97 sR Chester.......... 14,351,45 5,207 90 bu Chesterfield.....5,190,85 1,925 85 wi Clarendon-........11,591.931 4 561.96 g dollet,on-..........12,425 38 3,184.86 Darlington......10,523.07 5,6.22 ' Dorchester. ......8,335,50 2,209.96 fir Ed gefield........ 10,944.00 , 5,000,00 st( Fair field........ 15885.02 4,228.07 au Florence........15,067 87 4,102.58 on Georgetow n ...8,291.99 4.239. 96 Greenville......29,183.70 6,609.13 T Greenwood ....13,933.25 6,499.75 oh 1lamlpton ........ 8,402.24 2 748.70 bu Hlorry............ 12 240 51i 2,830 36 mi Kershaw ........10,257.02 3,140.00 i Lancaster ........ 10,808.99 5,4100.62 Laureus.......... 19,897.12 5,04352 ali Lexington.......9,849.31 1,588.35 ha Marion .........15.909.85 5,122.55 Bp Marlboro .......10.261.07 3,234.65 Al Newberry ........ 18,521.65 '1,430 00 t.h Oconee ......... 12,318.02 1,055.00 Orangeburg ...29,184.23 10,141,39 t Pickens ......... 11,787,59 2,053.55 wi Richland .. ..... 33,233.35 10,270.60 Saluda........... 9,547.15 3,005 97 loi Spartanburg...56,506.99 13,481.52 en Sumter ~......... 19,710.39 8,410.72 th Union ........10,277.04 4.340 412 WIlliamsburg . 9,768.39 5,023 85 sti York............. 27,669 23 9,934.18 th Tiotal..........700,540 10 $202,175.93 shi CASTOR IA i For Infants and Children. s The Kind You Have Always Bought A Sigature of L ;X~4 :4 or Tickets on sale for everybody for gl tho''Christmas holidays, on Seaboard w< Air Line Railway December 22nd, as 28d, 24th, 25th, and also December 80th and 81st, 1000, and January tr 1st, 1001, good until January 4th, it inoltnnive. W' s this week. N se if you are go brohter or s, JAUG]I on every hand this w >Iored Dress Goods at 3ewhere. French Fla iey last, 60c. a yard. eap. Our entire line ikets. Here is where tho and Jacket s t han all tI bo oponed up1) this Wou ica. I pay no middle save you money. Dc sizesa bales Plaid Hfor y are 2 bales Newberry 'S. I 1 caso, 50 pieces, oney, d ust opened Bed i pay Towels, Bleachod and wear for men, wcinvn cent. less than any ho 3 of cost, $2.50, for A lIG FIRE IN 0OLUNIUEA. n Jerome lHotel and a Number of Ot ier uIldinge Hurned-The Loan Estimated at 9100,000. (News and Courier) Jolumbia, Dacember 19. -Special: rhaps the most serious fire Colum , has had since Sherman burned it murred here to night. At this iting the steam engines are still at rk, but all danger is at an end, al )Ugh at one time it looked dan rously like a great conflagration, d as if the entire block on the west le of Main street, between Lady a Washington street, running back Assembly street, would be do eoyed. For a while the heat wvas intense that it looked as if the a would extend over to the east le of Main street. The fire wvas rning on Main street simultaneous thi Assembly street, and betweon ese streets stables and out houses re a mass of flames. Columbia's 3 department includes only three am engines and of these one was ay, being repaired, so there wvere ly two engines to handle the fire. tey could at best only work to oak the fire and confine it to the rning buildings, which was ad. rably (lone, considering the facili s and the delay in sending in irm. The stores on Market Btreet d to burn, as no engine could he ared from the Main street side, ter a while the State Hospital for a Insane consented to send down 01(d band engine and it was put to >rk on Assembly street. Mayer Earle telegraphed to Char iton and Augusta for two engines ch, and to Newberry, but before e special trains from these places trted with the engines, he wired anks and countermanded the re est. it was a quick fire to start, but w to get under control because of o area covered. A long wooden ible in the heart of the fire district read the fire from IMain street tc isembly stkeet. At 7.45 a bright ~ht was noticed on Van Metre's rniture store. it grew before any y of fire was made. Although aere every one could see it no one yve the alarm. Finally a .few cries re given. The alarm struck and if by magic the crowds concen sted. At first the fire seemed as i could be0 managed. First th< wrkeban bu-ned, then the. kitchar iakin ever before have ing to buy any Xy meetheart, now is 0 H S is aek. Ten sFiesmen anc cut prices. Don't buy o nnels with -ilk dots, all v 10 pcs. 50-inch Black c of Black Dress Goods, re ,apes and Jacket the old fogies lio in lin" beilind. I h'a m othor sitores in Nwhehrrv combined k I. huy them direct from ihe big profit, don't buy a Capo or Jacket uid )mestic DepartmE 11Uspun for this sale, ite. Drills, extra heavy, 5c. Danton Flannel, unbloachad, regilar 12 Tlickiug, Ie and Whito Flannels, lod Unbleached Sheeting, Rlickory Stripes, aid children. Any of the abovo article iso in Newberry. $2.75, $3.00, $3, Men and Worn mN A .U G. of the Hotel Jeromn naught and the stable, formerly Talbort's stablo, and so the fire spread. A stream of water was sont through to protect the hotel, bnt the fire spread too rapidly. The hotel dining room was soon afiro an( the fire spread. Crowds wtnt into the hotel and began tho work of saving. Somo sensible folks first throw down mattrosses and on them threw the furniture and trunks, but other peoplo throw glasses and furni. ture on the pavoments, and many pioces were let down with ropes. It was quick and desperate work, and while men were crying for every one to get out of the building men were taking things cmt. Many of the guests took charge of their own effects and those who wvere enterpris ing saved everything. Mrs. John P. Richardson saved everything. Capt. B. C. WVebb had an inconvenient room to roach, but saved most of' his effects. The most serious loss falls on Mfrs. J eromo F"agan and MIr. Thomas Fagan, the owners of the Jerome Hotel. There are dlifferent accounts as to how the fire started, b)ut it certainly began back of Var. Metro's. Mr. Mc Cravoy, who was dressing, says he heard somfeonoe in Vani Metre's furni ture wvorkshiop cry out that the lamp had overturned anid the next thing ho knowv thoi workshop was a mass of flames. in his hurry to son about his family lie left a now gold watch on his bureau. It was soon realized that there was no hope for the Jerome Hotel, K(ing's racket store, May's stable, Van Metre's, J. A. Platt's, Myor's wagon shop, Cooper and Taylor's hall and the intermediate shacks. Next to *McGravey's store there is a ten foot alley entirely through the block. On the north sidle of the alloy on Main street is May Schaul's store anid on the Assembly street side is Gross man's clothing store. They had luck and stopped the fire on each side. Fortunately Mr. Schaul did not disturb his stock except to take one of his pledges and send it away. In one of the Jerome hotel stores was the King racket store. Nothing whatever in this store was disturbed and the doors were left closed for fear of some insuranc(o complication. Everything possible was taken out of all the other places,- but where there wore heavy groceries and furnituro not much could be done.. Tharn wna of course, cnndeabale we been so well nas presents for the time and t he I salesladies to serve" ne yard of Dress Good vool, handsome quality 'ilk Gloria, regular one< gular price 35, 40 and -Old m111or1 line CApes 1 b Another slipiienlt. to . . 1ninfacturo iAm big raih 'u soO oUr line, i will ) c mnt. 10 e1, for this sale, 8.3c. 5 Spreads, Tablo110 Linen, 30 Jean1s, Oitinl(g, Under AsI S I will sel IYou 10 per Asl man's $ U .25, $3.50 and $ en. I stealing, but tho polico made half a dozon arrests and put a stop to it. At midnight tho enginos are still working and there sowns to be no way to got vory definito or exact in formation. Mr. Van Metre and Nfr. King woro not to bo found up to mid night by any nowspaper men. At this hour the loss is estimated as follows: Jeromo Hotel, value of propert% $47,500; insuratco $19,000. Jorome Hotel furniture, additional value of property $10,000; insuranc( $1,000. Kings racket storo, value of prop erty $5,000; insurancoe $3,000. Van Metro's stock of furnmture, $1 1,000; insuranco $6,000. Van Metro's store, $6,000; insur ance $3,000. Van Met.ro's store, (occupied by PiatQ , $6,000; insurance $3,000. Camrrol l's harbor shop, $750; insur anco $500. J. A. Platt, grocery, $7,000; in suiranco $3,500. J. A. Platt, household furniture, $1,500; insurance $3,600. Handy Myers, wagon shop, .$1, 500; insuranco $750. B. 1F. P. Leaphart, (Myers' shop and1 store'), $4l,000; insuranco none. Clooper & Tas lor's Hall, (Mrs. WV. 1H. Lyles,) $.l,000); insurance $2.500. Moore's restaurant, $500; insur WV. HI. Grilli, (boor privilege,) $1,000; insurance none. Schaul's store, (F. and M. Bank,) $300; insurance $300. Goco. F. Friday, shop, $250; insur aince none. May's stable, (wagon.s, etc,) $500; insuranco nlone. Total value $1 10,000; insurance $15,000. This is probably a full estimate of the value of thre prop)erty hurnied, but the insunramnce is largely approxi mated1. The site of the Jeromoi Ilotel has boen occupied by hotels for over sevenity years. First it was Blrigg's, thter Edgar's, thern May bin's, t hern The ->IigareP, and then Sherman bned it. Janey ran it after the war, Rtutjeas managed it until the Fagan Brothers occupied it and made it a well known house. It is now a complete and absolute wrecki and1 whether another hotel will be built there is uncertain. Cooper & Taylor's Hall,. on As. sombly street, is another landmarke Uts prepared to meet wife, mother, sist( place. you here. Just follow th until you see our line. , other stores ask you 7. Jollar kind, your choice o 50c. You can take your< Shoes! Sh avejust received oo cases of Mon's, \Vo 011d wrek. Nothitg wrong with the sl: tses Mon's Stono C rusher Brogruns, S1. 1 " " Alfred Tics, best veil calf 1i S\ olliall's overy (a1y Shoes f all size Hel or Spring Heel, Butt< " AMen's Satin Calf Lamce or Congress, I pairs Children'ti Shoes, as long as they for Drew Solby & Co's. ladies' line sli i for Lowir A. Crossetts mnon's fino sh< 5 shoes. 4.00. We sell ev( 'in It W!asl at o tilm a thiotre and at unother tino LogiHIativo sessions woro hld in it. After the liro had spread thero waH hanger of looso oloctric wires hang ing around and, to be on the sifo -4ide, General Manager Clark had tho circuit cut, out and thiat portion ,f tho city is now in comploto dark (1PS. The loss to insuranco com 1aniMPs an1d owners may be consid tred l at 8100 000. Tho Idopondent. Firo Company was to have had their annual supper tonight, but the fire made it impos. -;ible. The Una Clayton Company, which p)layed at the Opera House, hand to ove'rcomoe dlIficulties ini the mat ter of light, butd gave a very credit able por. formance to a l.rgo audliencc. Although there was a largo numi her of guests in the hotel no one was hurt arid everyone got out in goodl timeo. ANOTHIEI AccIdUNT. Columbia, S. C., D)eomber .1. Tonight (Colunin was visited by tire most disastrous fire in t wenty years. TPhe Jerome Hotel and1 three large mnerc!antilo establ ishmnents on Main street and1 four smaller ones on As somubly street were dlentroyed. The total (ostimated loss is $14 2,000; in sur ance $~l00 TJhe tire started at 8 declock in tho rear of Van Metre's furniture store, a lamp having exp)lodled. A livery stable and a hay warehouse ad1joining caught in almnost a second's time and the lire started to burning through lairn arnd Assembly streets, clearing everything until stopp1ed by an..alley dlividing the square. The Jerome hasn been political headquartors for the Slate for years. The b)uildIing andl( furnitunrc were valued at $75,000; insurico $20,000. Other losses: J. M. VanMetre, two store buildings, $1 5,000; stock, (fur nitunrc,) $30,000; insurance. $20,000. Mr. McCrary, stock grocem i04 and household effe'cts, $9,000; insuranco $1,000. King Racket Store, steck, $6,000; insurance $6,000. May's stables, contents, $1,000; i nsured. B F. P. Loaphart, two brick stoi'e buildings, $4,000). Wmn. Hi. Lylbs, store buiilddmng, $:3,500; insuranuce, $3,000. The fire wans urnder control at mid night. Save Christmas money by taking advantage of low rates on seaboard Air Linn Railway for the holidays. the wants of the e crowds and you can't Here is but a few of 5c., 85c., and $1 .00 for nly 65c. a yard. :hoice for only 25c. yd. oes!! n10n'H and Children's Shoes from a OPs only )OX(H a little smashed. 0t pair, worth $1.25. logans, $1.20 a pair, worth $1.150. $1, a pair, worth $1.25. >n or Lace, 95c a pair, worth $1.35. " $1.25 " " $1.75. $1 it pair, worth $1.3i'. lastt, 20c a pair, worth 37)c es, $2 and $2.50. >s, $2, $2.50 and $3, good as any 3rything to wear Ough. RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. I r IINP ASP3E) THE 1 ECXPRIIMENTAL 8TAGE. tans 11e0n a SuccesO and the System Will ho Extenided-How the D.l1very May bo Obtained. (Columbia Record.) .Dec. 17. -The postmaster general in his annual report speaks in the highest terms of the efliciency and popularity of the free rural mail do livery and recommends that the sys - tem be more widely extended. Con sidering the probability that the recomo mendationi will be0 adopted Congressman WVdson has issued the following letter showing how the b)eneflits of the system may be ob. tained: "Free rural dlelivery beimg no longer an experiment, this congress wvill appropriate several million dol. lars for its extension. About every community in the district can eecure the benefit of the service during the coming year, by making application herefor. Thme conrse to, pursue is~ this: "Present a petition, addressed to the first assistant postmaster general, signed by those who desire the ser vice. This p)etitionl should be signed only by heads of families, antdshould mention the number in4 each farmily. It should set forth the nature of the country where the delivery is desired, whether densely or sparsley popn lated, the principal avocations of the people, the characteA of the road, and the distance, which, under the existing conditions, each patron has to travel to receive his mail, and should be accomplished, whenevt r possideo, by a rough way indicating the route or routes proposed. "Th is petition, when properly signied, shouldi be sent to the repre sent ative in congress, or to one of the sonators' witb the request that he en. dorse thereon his recommendation of the service asked and forward the pe tition to the department. "The route should be between twenty and twenty-flye miles in length and serve not less than 100 families. Upon receipt of the peti tion a special agent will be detialed by the dlepsrtment to visit the loca tion, map out the route and select the catrier." By your printing this information all sections of your county will know how to proceed to avail themselves of their opportunity. Stanyarne Wilsan.