Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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& C( *.-IN OUJ Dry Goods Department .Will be found a complete stock of Dress Goods, Autumn Cloths, Astrakhans, Outings, Table Damask, &o. Our Hoe of All wool NTovety Suitings at 25c per yard? Are val oes that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Ask to see them. . ^?"?"" -Holl A CORSET Is an article that every lady wants tho greatest amount of > comfort ou5 of for the least money, and we believe MMMMMML THE ARMORSIDE gigiMMMM. supplies the need. We guarantee this corset for 4 months . Any customer not being satisfied with it can have their money refunded at the expiration of that time. Price $1 per pair? -Roil Our Notion Stock Is supplied with a full assortment of Hosiery. Gloves, Ribbons, Laces, Hand? kerchiefs and Toilet Articles. Our Ladies Bad Gloves, in black and colors, every pair warranted at $1.00, Is one of the principal attractions of this department. We have handled this glove for many years, and the number returned would not exoed one per cent. Blankets, Gapes and Cloaks. The presort state of the weather hardly suggests the necessity of these article?, but ?re are liable to have a. anddea change and it is wei? to be prepared. We are st iii solo agents for the celebrated Tar Heel Blankets, And having made our contracts with the mill before the tariff went into et we are prepared to sell them at last year's prices, namely: ? ?O-4 $3.90, 11-4 $4.65, 12-4 $5.40. Ask your neighbor who bought these goods from us last year what he thinks of them and act OD bis judgment, _--ff ll Are going to be largely worn this f-".Q season, and for popular prices we be KSkj lie^e we have ?he largest stock that _ ever came to Sumter, prices from . Our fina of Misses aod Children's Jackets in^ A^-B ?\r * A^?\ medium weights for eaily Pall from ?5r ^ w Are exceptionally good values. jS?lO??# Every man, woman, boy ^llO?&$ and girl must have a pair of shoes before the oold weather strikes them, and we know of no place where their wants can be better supplied than with ns. Judg? ing from the number of new shoe stores that are Oeing opened one gets the im? pression that there are large profits in this line, but not so with us. Nearly ai! of our Shoes are bought for NET CASH and-are sold on that basis, our cos tomers getting the benefit of the dis COQ J ts. O'DONNELL & CO .~ c WfflMMil MMMBMMAM&BMMMMMMMMMOM Farmers ! AD Open Letter to the Farmers? Fully Prepared for the Fall Trade in Every Respect. In our long experience in merchandising we have never procured goods in every line more satisfactory with a view to low and suitable prices than during our recent visit North. We allowed no oppprtunity looking to this most important end to pass us. These bargains we pledge ourselves to give our cus? tomers the full benefit of, feeling sure that we could not give more practical shape to our sense of sympathy and gratitude to our country friends. We know by experience the special wants of our farmers, whose friendship we think we have a, peculiar right in claiming, inasmuch as our firm it was which was the pioneer in this section to operate first with the various farmer Alliances, and that our dealings with these gentlemen were most satisfactory in every particular and were appreciated is clearly evinced by the present enormous increased volume of our business. We take much pride in this, and are determined by continued conscientious dealing, and the lowest possible prices to retain our hard earned popularity. Our store is fre? quently literally packed with customers during the busy season; and this fact can be verified by a visit, and certainly most em? phatically sustains the correctness of our statement. We have not of course the space to Jay before the public all our offering stock, but can only refer to a limited portion. Probably much that is omitted will be found even more in? viting. I i O'DONNELL & CO. )DONNELL & CO We are sole apis for ike E C. Gotta Co of Colite, Olio, Maker? of Women's and Children** Snoop, And we can furnish innumerable testimonials of ladies who are wearing the Goodman $1 50 Shoes with as mnch comfort an?! service as soa>e other makes for which they bad been paying $2 and more, If your little girl can kick oct her Shoes ID two or sbree months fry a pair of the Godman at $1. And we^gl assured she will get five or six months kicking oat of them. Oar prices OD these commence at 50c ID 4 to 8 For Men's Wear our REYNOLD'S SHOE Has stood the test for several years aod it is our intention to retato their agency so long &s they keep their goods up to their present standard of merit It some? times happens that eveu in a shoe of this grade a pair may be found deficient, but in every such case, we satisfy the oostomer by giving a Dew pair of shoes or making doe allowance. -INI _-OUR Clothing Department This is a kind of bobby, with us We cannot resist the temptation of buying, DO matter what the quantity may be jf the styles and prices are right, acd it was oar good fortune to eeoare a line of about fifteen styles of -ALL WOOL CHEVIOTS ANO &ASS?MERES That were made by a Merchant Tailoring Establishment to sell from ?12.50 to $15.00, bat we bought them to sell From, $7 to ?8.50. You have tc see these goods to appreciate them. We also got "ID connection with this line of goods a lot of light weight Kersey and Beaver Overcoats, that were manufactured to seil from $12 50 to ?20. Our price IgWfi?lMiM?l $10 to $12.30 gi?iMMMMIi?. These are merely a few of the attractions of oar Clothing Stock You cao find anything from a boy's Knee Pants Snits at 50c to a mao'e suit at $20 HATS FOE "MES~AHD BOYS, Io this ooooection we will only add that we sre as well prepared to 6upply your wants as we have ever been, and that is sayiog a great deal, for we feel that our Hat Department bas cone more towards'advertising oar business than any other. We are carrying our usual line of Harness and Saddlery, Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware and Groceries. We are exclusive agents for the Millbourne Mills, of Philadelphia, and it would be an injustice to them to terminate this article without saying a word about their flour. WE EAVE SOLD 3,000 BAEBELS Of their goods in the past year and the best evidence of their merit is that we have never had a package retorned. or complaint made. We have arranged with the mill to deliver this flour in any part of the county in 5 barrel lots on a basis of Sumter car load rates. Mr. Gibson is associated with us in the cotton business and will be pleased to see his old friends. O'DONNELL & CO. :'?v 'Cit WSskhssm a? Sbaijr? the Sumter Wate timon was toun< i i 1850 sod tac 2rwe <Sbirf?ro?Mn 18< Che Watchman and Southron- now 1 He combined circulation and influe; cf both of the old papers, and is ma festly the best advertising medium , r S seater , ' - The appointment of Gen. Lan street as United States Railroad Co missioner redeems another of Ha na's campaign promises. The article from Bradstreet's ? the price of cotton, reproduced els where to-day. will repay careful rea Gea. Hampton will rei aro to I boose near Columbia as soon as be tun y over his c-Stae to G ;a L >ogstreet. E is expected to arrive io time lo acres % the State Fair. The death of Henry George r< moved the greatest obstacle to tb compl?te success of Tammany in th Er/: battle for control of Greater Nei York Unless all of the anti Tan: m a ay forces ooite the fight is as goo as won already. * The contradiction of the repot that typhoid fever had again becom epidemic at Clemson College will b gratifying to the friends of the co lege, and will set at rest the appre heoeions of parents who have som there No greater calamity coull befall Clemson than another epidemh of typhoid fever and we sincerely trust there will be no more fever The Conoty Board of Commissioner! bas authority to appropriate $100 foi the parchase of blood hoaods. At th< next meeting of the board tbe appropria lioo should be made,for blood hounds arc needed to run down criminals, such af the one who attempted to assassinate Deputy Sheriff Gaillard on last Thursday sight. Gov. EUerbe is said to have made an excellent and wise selection in tbe ap? pointment of Auditor L. P. Epton, of Sparenburg, to succeed James Norton k in the office of Comptroller General. fie bas DO poli tica i record, which is to B&h?8 credit, but bas a fae record as ao THS COMING CITY. The New Eaglaod cotton cnanafac' tarers are feeling the effect of SoutherD comp?tition more sensibly each year, and they are seeking to Sod out how the Southern mills are able to undersell them and sfciil earn greater dividends for stockholders than New Eogland mills have earned in years. There ip, at.present, a party cf the represents tive mill men of New Eogland tour? ing the South for the sole purpose of visiting the cotton manufaotariog cen? tred, personally inspecting the mills and investigating (he condition of the industry. They have visited the fao tory town6 of Virginia and North Car? olina, and are DOW io this State. Yes? terday was spent in Spartanburg ; to? day they are ia Columbia, and other places will be visited during the next few days. Columbia is to them the point of greatest interest, by reason of the fact that there eleotric power has been successfully and eco? nomically utilised to an extent never before attempted in cotton spinning, and, also, because the model cotton mill of the. world is situated in Colom? bia. They are-all practical, bard bead? ed business men and are seeking to learn bow to meet the growing Southern competition, if this be possi ; ble, bot if they Sod. as they prob? ably will, that the Sooth has insurmountable advantages, they wiil then be tbs first to endeavor to torn those adv.niagfs to their own profit They will make investments wbero the returns are large and certain, and it is not too much to expect that more than one cotton will be built io the Sooth by ?Northern Capitalists as a result of this visit of inspection, which is a prospect ing tour as well. Every towo visited should, and, per? haps, may, derive benefit from the visit of the New Englanders, bat Co? lumbia stands the very best chance of receiving the lion's share, for the cheap power supplied by the canal and the great field for the large expansion of the industry at that point will be the strongest of arguments with invest - ! ors." Columbia is growing more stead- j tly acid sabstautiaily than any other J place in the State, improvements are i seen on every hand by an occasional I visitor, and there is no gainsaying tb?.? Colombia has the brightest future of any town io South Carolina; Nature has endowed her with advantages and we rejoice that they arc beginning to be utilized. FREE TRADE IN ENG? LAND. Lord Roseberry Eulogises its Advantages. Manchester. Nov. 1 -Lord Roseber? ry addressed a large meeting here ibis evening in connection with the cente? nary celebration of the chamber of com? merce. He reviewed 'the history of free trade, elaborately eulogizing wh?t be described as its ' advantages to Eng? land ? Lord Roseberry contended that the ' condition of agriculture abroad, tienpi:? j bounties and protection, was little batter aod in someeases was wor>e than iu Eng land. liequntcd Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Domiuioo premier, as "a most illus? trious authority, sustaining (he view that it is free trade wbicb' bas preserv? ed and consolidated the British em? pire." Ile fully aureed with Sir Wil? fred Laurier, he deoiared, ;h?t any ce- ! viation from absolute political &ud oom.- j mercial freedom would only weaken the bonds bolding the empire together, and that "anyfbing in the direction of au imperial zoiivsrieu would weaken the empire internally and excite the per? manent hostility of the whole world, already seriously excited by British prosperity under free trade." He said he would "tread softly in | thc presence cf the idea of a zollve j rteu," for be believed it already dead. lc behooved them to walk strongly and warily in the path of empire; but such a zollverien would form a permanent mansce of war. Spain Buys Ships. London, Nov. 2 -The Daily Chron? icle says this morning : "We are in? formed that the Spanish government signed contraots last woek with an im? portant firm of British ship builders by j which it acqu?tes some cruisers, armed j with quick firing guns, which the firm j had nearly oompleted for another gov- j erooient, whose consent, presumably, i Spain had secured. When the ques ! tion of finance was raised by the con- I structors thc Spanish minister of ma? rine, Admiral Bermejo, represented that in the event of war the Spanish : government court count upon an inforoal j war loan. Quinine and other fe? ver medicines take from S to iO days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. The November Magazine? at H. G. Osteen & Co's Book Store. SITUATION IN ALABAMA ! MUCH IMPROVED. M?ntgotsety, Ala , Nov 1 -Tho cffi'-inl bul?etin ot the hoard of heairh I ti? day chronicles only ono new case of yellow fever for the past twenty-fonr hours-F. H Yarbrougb, 323 Herron street-?od ooe death, R. H Weathers, 509 South Coon, Mr. Weathers con? tracted his case at his work as a ootron man io the infected dist riot. He w<?s not reported ootil yesterday, but had been sick for several days before he called a physician. He was not a strong man, and so yielded readily to the attack. The faet that tbera bas been only one new case in the last twenty four hours, shows the beneficent influence of tbe cbaoge io the wea?her. Ii oom menced raining yesterday and rained hard last night This momio ? it com? menced clearing off and grew colder ? The thermometer has been under 60 all day nod a cool wind baa been blow- | ing from the northwest. The tndiea- j lions are that it will be quite oold in the morning, and if there i* no wind, there will be a good frost. Everybody feels that-? the epidemic is practically over. Toe chances are there will be few if any more oases, and those prob? ably from houses in which there have already been cases to which other mem? bers of their families have been ex? posed. The official report from Selma is no new cases and no deaths. The only pa tient under treatment. Miss Pearson, i? in a critical condition, with the chances against her recoverv. New Orleans, Nov 1.-From cow on, the Dumber of yellow fever cases will gradually deorease, is the opinion of the board of heairh of this city. The anxiously awaited cold wave arriv? ed here last night, and even colder weather is looked for to-morrow. The local forecast officials predicted that frost will fall io the northern portion of Louisiana to night. The cold soap has had the effect of increasing the roor tality and also has caused the number of new oases to swell somewhat. It is generally believed, however, that to-morrow will show a decided improve? ment in the situation The board of health report : Cases of yellow fever to day, 38; deaths to? day, 12 ; total cases to date, 1,548 : to? tal deaths to dare, 795; total cases ab? solutely recovered. 754; total cascs under treatment, 599. Johnson's Chill and Fe? ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the wost stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. ARRIVALS OUR 3d Car OF Stock arrived last week. 4t th Will reach here about the twenty-sixth. ar by. Somier, S. C., October 20, 1897. ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ss Just as Easy as winking your eye run onr pleas? ure carts and carriages, and onr wagons for farm and business sus? tain their reputation for staunch? ness and durability. Easy-running vehicles save horse flesh and harness -to say nothing -of temper. Onr prices, however, do not run up. H. HARBY.