Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-IN OUR artment Will be found a complete stock of Dress Goods, ^Autumn Cloths, Astrakhans, 1 Outings, Table Damask, &e. Our line of All wool Noyety Suitings at 23o per y?rd. Are valses that cao s ot be duplicated elsewhere. Ask to see them. '"? -?lol! - : .A COJRSET ; Is an article that every lady wanta the greatest amount of . comfort out of for tbe letst o;qney, and we believe ; .??l?MJlMl THE ARIfXORSIDE fJJUJ\ supplies thc need. We. guarantee this corset for 4 months Any customer not being satisfied with it oao have their t money refunded at the expiration of that time. ^ Price $t per pair? 0?r Voiioii Stock vi? supffied with a foll assortment of Hosiery, Gloves, Ribbons, Laces, Hand? kerchiefs and Toilet Articles. i OUT Ladies Kid Gloves, in black and colors, every pair warranted at $1.00, / f? one of the principal attractions of this department. We have bandied this w fglove for many years, and the number returned would not ezeed one percent. Blankets, jC?pes and Cloaks. 'JJ Toe present state of tho weather hardly suggests the necessity of these articles, , :;?bat we are liable to have a sudden change and it is weil to be . prepared. We are still sole agents for the celebrated Tar Heel Blankets, 3-V'Ao? having made our contracts witb thc mill before the tariff went into effect, we are prepared so sell them at Jaat year's prices, namely: f ?90, 11-4 ,$4,65, neighbor who bought these go^ds from us last them and act on his judgment, --?Ml 12-4 $5.40. year what be thinks of jmV% Are going to be largely worn this & f\ J ??JllftS season, and for popular prices we be- ?\| 1|* Ti| ^MHf IA) liCTe we baie the largest stock thaV *J VU il/ . ? J ?ver came to Sumter, prices from _:_ Hoe of Misses ssd Children's Jackets in AK~? ?\r * A^?^ v media? weights for early Fall from ^pl ZO Are exceptionally good values. Shoes/ ^h ?^ttlft5S* Every man, woman, boy ?HOCS# . l-and girl mast bava a pair of shoes be for? the cold weather strikes them, aod we know of so place where their wants can be better supplied than witb ns. Judg . ?cgifr^ai^0 trtMnber of new shoe stores that ure being opened one gets the im? presi?n that there are largc/profits in this Hoe, but not so with us. Nearly all - ?f oar ^oes aro bought for NET. CASH aod are sold on that basis, our cus? tomers getting '"the benefit of the discounts. ' j H O'DONNELL & CO. ~ ). c An Open Lefter to the Farmers. Fully Prepared for the Fall Trade in Every Respect. In our long experience in merchandising we have never procured goodsan every line more- satisfactory with a view to low and suitable prices than during our recent visit North. We allowed no opportunity 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 haye a i 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, arjd are determined lbj 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 b? verified by a visit, and certainly most em? phatically sustains the correctness of our statement. We have not of course the space to lay 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. WMlMMMMMMMM/SMlMMMtiMMMM O'DONNELL & GO. ?DONNELL & CO. We are sole apb for ile H. C. Godman Co, of Cotatms, Olio, Makers of Women's aod Children's Shoes, And we can furnish innumerable testimonials of ladies who are wearing the Goodman $1 50 Shoes with as much oomfort and service as some other makes for which they bad been paying $2 and more, If your-little girl can kick out ber Shoes in two or three months try a pair of the Godman at $1. And we feel assured she will get five or six months kicking out of them. Our prices on these commence at 50c in 4 to 8. y For Men's Wear our REYNOLD'S SHOE Has stood the test for several years and it is our intention to retain their agency so long as they keep their goods up to their present standard of merit It some titees happens that even in a shoe of this grade a pair may bc found deficient, but in#every such case, we satisfy the oostomer by giving a new pair of shoes or making due al!ow3oce. -IMI -OUR- - , Clothing Department This is a kind of bobby with us We cannot resist the temptation of buying, no matter what the quantity may be if the styles and prices are right, and it was our good fortune to secure a line of about fifteen styles of -ALL WOOL CHEVIOTS ANO CASHMERES That were made by a Merchant Tailoring Establishment to sell from $12 50 to $15.1)0, but we bought them to sell 9 From ?7 to S8.50. You have tc see these goods to appreciate them. We also got in connection with s this line of goods a lot of light weight Kersey and Beaver Overcoats, that were manufactured to sell from $12 50 to ?20. Oar price WMI?MMM. MO ?13.50 MMMtl?Ml?Sk These are merely a few of the attractions of our Clothing Stock You can find anything from a boy's Knee Pants Suits at 50c to a man's suit at $20 HATS FOR "MEST AND BOYS. In this connection we will only add that we are as well prepared to supply your wants as we have ever been, and that is saying a great deal, for we feel that our Hat Department has done more towards advertising our business than any ot?er. We are carrying oar usual Hoe of Harness and Saddlery, Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware and Groceries. We are Exclusive sgenU for the Melbourne Mills, of Philadelphia, and it would be an injustice to them to terminate ibis article without saying a word about their flour. WE HAVE SOLD 3,000 BARBELS Of their goods in the past year and the best evidence of their 'merit ?s that we have never bad a package returned, or complaint maxie. We have arranged with the mill.to deliver this flour in any part of the county in ? 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 & GO. Prof. Holmes' Address-H Traces the History of the Good Hoads Movements , ^akes Suggestions for Its ? s Advancement. From the Nejara aodr Coarier. Columbia. Noir. If.-The addret v.?? Prof Holmes at the Good Road ^ Convention was one of the festere . .of toe occasion. It was crowded ot of Wednesdays report, bot as thi topic is now attracting so nVcch ai fetation it is given at this time H sa id : ? Oar meeting to day and this ever iog is an evidence of tbe fact whic we have come to recognize, that th public road problem is the foremos of the economic problems wbicb, i this part of oar country, we are cal . ed apon to solve at tbe present time - .\ Tbe awakening of interest in thi subject ie one of the phases in the dc velopment of tbe new era in the ol , Soutar Baring the last quarter of . a cen fury we bave seen in all the Souther States the gradual development c 'f?. this new era, especially in conuectioi &~ with tbe growth of diversified indue tries, such aa tbe trucking indnstr dong our Gulf and South. ?tlantit seaboard, tbe springing ap of varioa: mao ufada ring enterprises througbou aar hill eouotry, the growtb of ou m in i og industries, tbe deveiopmen of our systems of transportation . both by railroads and by water We note but one exception to oui increase in prosperity along varioui lines, and that is in connection witt tbe agricultural interests of tbe coun? try, aod while in some respects these interests have pushed ahead, in otbei respect they have goue back ll will be out of place bere to entei into a discussion as to all of tb? causes of this agricultural depres? sion about wbicb we bear so mnch, but undoubtedly one of tbe greatest causes is the condition of oar public roads These bad roads bave retarded oui development along every line. They have interferred with our schools and with oar churches, and with the pleasures and the comforts of our people iu many other ways. Theil blighting influence bears heavily on af!, but especially on the farming classes Bat what ie of more vita; importance is the fact that these bad roads constitute an enormous mud aud sand tax of not less than $5 per capita per annum on every man. wo? man and child living in the Southern States. In South Carolina alone this * terrible burden amounts to sot lesa than $5,000,000 annually. No woi ?er that our people stagger undc such a burden, which they do nc seem either, to realize or to undei stand. . Tbis means that it costa the peopl of South parolina every year $5, 000,000 more to do the hauling an the ?raveling which they now do o the public roads than it would cos to do the same amount of haulioj and traveling if there existed in th State good macadam roads instead o ;Hie present poor dirt roads. Ever; tax levied is supposed to benefit; th people who levy it and the moue thus paid by the people as the ta: soon comes back into circulation an reaches them again, but this $5,000, 000 mud tax. which is levied regard less of the will of the people by th inexorable law of nature and the COE dition of trade, is a complete ioss. a it benefits no one. lt is simply ai enormous yearly drain upon the en ergies, resources and money of ou people, which is as senseless an< useless as it is enormous aud is a to tal loss. Our people complain that they an already too poor to build cost I; macadam roads. Tbe ti nth is we an too poor to do without them, and si long as our bad roads continue wi may expect to be poor. Indeed* ai compared with other States and cou? tries which have good roads we maj expect to become annually poorer Without good roads every phase ? I the industrial progress of the Soutt will be greatly ? retarded and her ag ricultural interests will relatively gt backward. This public road problem is of toe vital importance to be lefc longer ii the background. We must give it the recognition which it demands We have been asleep long enough We are not a wealthy people, uoi have we a dense population, but wc must accept the situation as it is and make the best of it Friends of good roads must or ganize and carry this campaign o education into every household The Good Roads League and the wheelmen must enlist in this work the farmers, the politicians and the I bankers, the preachers and the doc j tors, the women, as well as the men, j colored citizen?, as well as the j white ! The State must do its part W : . ought to have in every Southern State a road commission to officially aid in j organizing and directing the work ol j road improvement The State should i provide for the training of road en I gineers at all of its institutions for higher education It-should make an appropriation which could be used to supplement the moneys raised by counties and townships for permanent road work aud thus encourage tail's sort of work It should use its con? victs for the crushing of stone at certain central points, from which stone could be shipped to the various counties. The counties must do their part They must be the unit of action, pro vide fonds for pushing forward the work on a business like bar's They should purchase full outfits of road machinery ; they should use all their own convicts sentenced for periods less than ten years and hire labor when necessary to supplement the convict force. The people living along the lines of roads to be im proved should give the right of way for new roads ; they should give the stone from their farms for macadamiz ing purposes and should co operate in every possible way with county and State authorities First of all, before beginning the permanent improvement of any piece of road, it should be carefully sur? veyed by a competent engineer and its location should be changed when ever by so doing a better road can be provided. * ' Nowhere, except in mountain re gion8, should vthere be allowed on our prominent public roads a grade steeper than (5 feet in 100,) and in the more level portions of the States 3 feet in 100 should be regarded as a maximum grade. While some arrangement must, of course, be marie forkeepiug in repair the unimproved roads from year to year, yet the work of the county should be concentrated, as far as pos 8tble, on permanent improvement, and the system of beginning this per? manent work at the county seat and extending it as rapidly possible out? ward into the county by. degrees on the more important public roads is undoubtedly the system which Nac complishe8 the greatest good for the greateet number of people. We must regard road building as a business. It demands intelligent supervision as much as railroad build? ing or cotton manufacturing or any sort of business. We must select for the position of road supervisors the moat competent men to be found, regardless of their politics or other considerations, and whenever we can find a better mau for the place we should feel duty bound to make the change in turn the friends of good roads must uphold the supervisor in dt>ing the best possible woik We must not make the mistake of wast? ing the little money which eau be raised by taxation for this purpose, and hence we need constantly the best engineers and the best road builders which can be employed. Tom Cooper won the hone .s in the professional events of the bicycle meet in Jacksonville, Fla., yesterday. Hampton at Home Keenly Alive to All Events in Hhe State. General Wade Hampton arrived in the cir? yesterday morcing and sto?pcd ac the residence of Col John C. Has? kell, and later went ro Millwood. He is looking remarkably well and hardly a day older than be did ten years ago When called upon by newspaper representatives, he was reading with? out glasses, and appeared to he in the best of spirits. He is Keen?y alive to all that has been going on in South Carolina industrially aud politically, and while he would not ospreys him? self for publication, he discussed men aud measured interestingly. Speakiog of the McKinley "wave of prosperity/' be said that the only people who seemed to have realized it were the democrats, the recent elections beiog ail that they could have desired under the circumstances. He expressed deep regret over the retirement of Senator Gorman from | the senate He said that it wouid be ! a great loss to that body as weil as to che democratic p*rty He considers i Gorman a very strong man, which is proven by the fact that he rose from the position of a page in tbe senate to be a member of that body for several successive terms. General Hampton does but believe bis defeat was owing to Gorman's alleged boss? ism, but to the bitter personal enmity of certain prominent politicians and the Baltimore Sun. General Hampton said that he had read in the newspapers tbat there would be some opposition to the con? firmation of General Longstreet, but he personally knew nothing about, it. Concerning the report that he was to write a history of the operations of the cavalry of tbe army of North? ern Virginia, Gen. Hampton said that bs had not undertaken the work, though he had been urged to do so. Such a work would ho a valuable co?nribution to hif.tnry and it wilt i be learned with regret ihai the gene ral in not to write it. ile will remain in South Carolina j for some lime, and expressed regret I that a luisuocerutaiiding as to ?he j date of (he Lir, ha'i prevented him ! frons being present -Columbia Rcgu ! ter, Nov. 15. Why take Johnson's \ Chill & Fever Tonic? I Because it cares ?he \ most stubborn case I of Fever ? ONE DAY, A Triple Lynching Coolly Planned and Consum? mated. Minneapolis. No?. 14 -A special to the Tribune from Bismarck, N D , sass: Alexander Cocdert, Indian half breed, and Paul Holytrack and Philip Ireiaod, full-blooded- indians, the first of whom was sentenced to death for 'be murder of six members of the Spicer family faa Febro-iry and had juf>t been granted a new trial by the supreme court, and the latter two self confessed accessories in the murder, were taken from the couo ty jail in Emmons couoty last night, aud lynched. The lynching had been apparently coolly planned and was car? ried ont without a break in the pro? gramme Williamsport, where the hanging took place, is about forty miles from this oity, and off the rail? road. Toe news of the banging was received here this afcernoon, when a mounted messenger arrived and an? nounced that the three men had been lynched. The sheriff of the couoty, Pater /Shier, was io this city at the time the haogiog occurred. The men had been in the caetody of Deputy Sheri*? Tom Kelly, and they were taken from his control by a mob and hanged to a beef windlass several hundred yards from the jail, where their bodies were left swinging to the breeze dur? ing thc day. Durrant Cannot be Hanged Before February. San Francisco? Nov. 12.-In view of the fact that the supreme court, which is now in session at Sacra mento, will adjourn on Tuesday next, until-the secoud Monday io January, it is hot considered pro? bable that Durant, the condemned murderer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, will expiate the crime for which .he was sentenced' to be hanged in December, 1895, dur iug the current year. In the ordinary course of events, the matter cannot come up for hearing upon the points involved in the order granting the certificates of probable cause-, to which Durant owes his second lease of lite, until the middle of January. After the case has been decided, another thirty days at least must intervene before the remittilur from the supreme court can reach the trial court and the condemned man be resentenced fe: the second time ! This course would not allow the tx**' ; cution tt? take place before the latter pait of February, or the beginning of March next. It is possible that the attorney general may appi}' to the supreme court to advance the case, but this action is unlikely. Kershaw Barned. Special ?oTbe State. Kershaw, Lancaster, Co., Nov. 14. 1:10 a m.-Twenty stores occupied and eight other bandings empty, were burned to-night Loss is not less than $100,000 insurance not one-third. About the entire huiine^ porfioo of the town is destroyed. The fire originated irs a bakery. The dispensary a'?d orij?iml package stores an* a!const an entire loss. [t is impossible at ibis hour to state the exact amount, of lo*s. hst $100.? OOO \* a very conservarj%e es imate. SOUTHERN ENJOINED FROM REFUSING TO HANDLE IT Atlanta, Ga , Nov 13.-Judges1 Pardee and Newman of the- United States court handed down a decision in the famou? dispensary case this morning, enjoining the Southern from refusing to haul liquors into South Carolina in future The decision is an important one in that the original package law is involved The judges decided that liquors and wines in bot? tles, packed in boxes and shipped in carload lots were, under the law cf South Carolina, clearly admissible, and should be handled by any rail? road. The case has attracted consider? able attention throughout the south. The >7hiskey company never] had any trouble with the Southern in this respect until a few weeks ago. when the latter positively refused to haul any more of their goods into South Carolina Take JOHNSON'S CHILL & FEVER TONIC ?Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat' ^ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. Sour; OFFICE !S OPPOSITE U. s. PATCNTOFFICE? ?jarid wc can secure patent ia less tune tana taosej jremote ?ro:n Washington, 5 S-jnd ir.odc:, drawing cr photo., with deserip-j 5tion. Wc advise, it patentable or not, free ofj Jenarle. Our fee not due till patent is occured. < $ A PAMPHLET, M How to Obtain Patents," witfci ?cost ct same in* thc U. S. and foreign couat?esj jsent free. Address, IC, A. SN O W& CO.; S OPP. PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON. D. C.