Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NELL & ?0. (iVe owe an apology to our patrons for being so late in making our Aniioiiiic SJJJJJJJJfJJJJJSJS. ?JJUSJSJJJJJJJJJA ?ut the gentleman who has*charge of our advertising department has been so busy attending to other matters, that he seems to have Slightly neglected this very important branch of our business. While we are Rna believers in newspapers as a means of ?making known the good things you have to offer, our experience is, that the people with whom you have been dealing and who have always gotten ONE HUNDRED CENTS WORTH For every dollar they gave yon are the be?t advertisers* s we have proven beyond all doubt during the past month, in which our business has been the largest ever recorded in September. Some of our friends attracted by newspaper advertise? ments, or curiosity, would go into other stores, and after looking through to their entire satisfaction would return and make their bill with us, admitting frankly that we were offering BETTER VALUES THAN OUR COMPETITORS. takes years to build a reputation of this character and we feel very proud of it. Our stock for the present season is the largest and best assorted we have ev ;play it we could fill a store twice as large as the one we now occupy, our duplicate stock being larger than what we have on exhibition on the first floor. died after January 1st, when we move into our new store now being erected. er carried, and had we space to" All this we hope will be reme Hats. We established a reputation in this ie some years ago, that we have .n constantly adding to We sop ly a good many dealers, who must ire money by buying from ns, or ?y would not do so. Outside of oar regular line we bought 100 Dozen rom a commission house at about 60 cents on the dollar. We nave Men's and-Boy s fur ita at 25 and 50 cents, and the nra Hat we sell at 75c would ?ar cheap, if bought elsewhere $1.25. Clothing* This bas always been a strong line with us, and we can assure those who have favored us with their pa tronage ia this department formerly, that we have never bad a better line to select from. Men's ail wool Cheviots, $5, $7 50 and $10. Men's Fancy Worsteds, $5. $7 50, $10 and $12 Men's ali wool Cassimers, $5, $6, $7 50, ?10 aod $12 50 Men s Clav Worsteds, in black and colors, $5, $?, ?7 50, $10, $12 & $15 BOYS' CLOTHING-. 750 pairs Boy's Knee Pants, worth 35c, 40c and 50c at 25c per pair. We bought the remnant of a man? ufacturer's stock, the quantity seems i large, but the way they are going j they won't last long. ! 250 I Boy's Double Breasted Suits at 75c and $1. These goods are worth 33J to 50 per cent more. Our line ot $1 50, $2, $2 50, $3 50 and $5 cannot be beaten. Dry Goods. Here will be found as complete a line of Staple and Domestic Goods as the needs of any housekeeper de mand Our DOMESTICS were bought on a basis of 7 cents cotton, and while we did not thick at the time that cotton was going to 10 cents we in? vested in 50.000 Yards We have 100 pieces of Outings at 5, 6? and 8Jc-ai? cheap as they were ever sold 50 pieces of Flauoelettes at 8?c this is a very desirable fabric for Waists and Wrappers, and is easily worth 10 to 12?c.' 50 Heel Pairs Tar Blankets. These are not in stock, but will be by the time this reaches you, as they are on the way. You know what they are, and no advance in price We have a complete line of cheep Blankets from 75c to $1,50. A line of Comforts from 75c to $2 Our stock of Sheeting, Pillow eas ing, Table Damask, Doylies and Napkins is complete and prices right Shoes. If there is any one line in our boose better than another we believe this is it All our Shoes are bought direct from manufacturers, and in such quantities, as to warrant us in getting Jobbers' prices, thereby sav? ing the middle man's prout, and giv? ing the benefit of it to our customers If anything was needed to strengthen this department, we have certainly succeeded in doing ,so by the addi? tion of the BAY STATE LINE and E. P. REED & CO'S LINE of Women's fine Shoes This latter line is no stranger to the ladies of Sumter County, as we handled them with a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction up to a few years ago, but for some reason, they withdrew from this territory, and we feel assured their old patrons will be pleased to welcome them back. Reynolds', Bay State, E. P. Reed & Co. and Godman are Hard *to Beat. In addition to these we carry a complete line of Men and Women's staple Shoes Shirts. We hesitate to say how many of these we bought, as we might be accused of varying from the path of truthfulness, but we are safe in as? serting not less than 250 Dozen Just think of it I 3,000 SHIRTS. You would naturally say, wby do you buy so many ? If you saw what we are selling for 25 Cents You would ask no further question. You cannot buy ?goods right unless you buy quantities. O'DONNELL & CO. O'DONNELL & CO. O'DONNELL & CO. (arlington's Fine Hoads. te letter of Mr C. D Eraos, priot !oo Tuesday, concerning the receot Etd improvement of the roads io arlington, preseots information and [estions of value to the counties te sand belt of the State, and to tressive communities io saab of counties as are lacking io public rprise. six years, say? Mr Evans, 750 of "bad" roads tn the county, stly sandy roads, have been so im red as to make them easy ways for feie riding-a good evidence of their thuess ; and so firm that wagons ting over them "make as much as wheo runoiog in the street of rn-a good evidence of their hard Formerly, "only light load97' be hauled over them, and with ilty, at that ; now 'twice asmuob be hauled with ease," a g"od ince of tba value of their impro7? , One team eau now baal as m pcb ooe of them as two could haul re. which means a saviog of so lush to tbs farmer and merchant who ts any ki ad of hauling to do More rer, the better condition of the draff t?mala, horses and mules, as the result their lighter work counts for some Most of the improvement that effected so desirable and valuable Its, it is noted, consisted simply io ling sand and clay" oo the road [rface ; sand bas obliterated the mud [oles and made them hard road, and ha*, stiffened the sand beds and tide tota good bard road. It is a Ie p;.?and ao io expensive one,but haa given Darlington better roads, id more of them-750 miles-than are Messed by any other coan ty in the He, sr probably by any other county the South Atlantic and Gulf States, >m Virginia to Texas. The good work is going on in the lunty. Its people know a good thing ten they see it, and drive and ride rer it, and 200 miles more have bren farked for early work, whieb will be tpplted by the people themselves, the mnty and towna helping io their own ty and for their own ioterest The inty chain gang is employed, but the pzeos, it appears, are not willing to Ut for good roads ali over the county ? til a few crimioais eao build :hem ie low cost of the work that has ;n done io ono of its most ootable ttures The estimates range from a mile, wheo ?lay is at band, to |00 a mile when i: has to be hauled ? considerable distance ; ss to fhieh figures it is only necessary to say tat $8,000 to $4,000 a mile is about ie eost of making permanent smooth, 'rd roads, on the clay soils of the bill io try, io this and other States. The iclusioa of the whole matter is that ?liogton bas demonstrated in praetiee not only good roads, but Soo roads. cao be built io all ?andy districts at the minimum cost-and a trifling cost, I when the results arc considered-and i all oiber couches and communities which posses? irs enterprise can get the *auie blessings in the same way, on the ! same terms -News and Courier. The Sac Jose Seato. The San Jose scale attacked the fruit ' orchards io the Niagara district, io On? tario, a little more than two years a??o, and although the farmers of the district were fatly informed in time as to the injurious work of the pest they disre? garded the warnings addressed to them aod have allowed it to invade their ter? ritory and extend its ravages until great lots has been inflioted on them Refer ring to the proceedings of a recent j meering of the Niagara Fruit Growers' j Society the St Catharine's Journal 1 sa^s : j "When the ecaie first attacked j Ootario fruit trees, and tho dangar of i a?jwing it to spread was manifest, the j Ootario gcvemmect took radical action, j compel!Log the trees affected to be j destroyed, in the hope of stamping out the pest and preventing the ruin of a most important industry-fruit grow j icg-in his province But tbere was j a cry raised tbs* the measure adopted I wa9 tco severe. Tbere are always some who are disposed to minimiza ; possible evil and shrink from radical j measure They objected to seeing their ' orchards toro out by the roote and horned, even though they got partial j compensation from the government for j it. A little mild dosing was eoough for them. Now it appears that not only i do th; se owners io so:oe cases find their j orchards irretrievably damaged and themselves obliged to do the teariog out they ohj?c:ed to, but they have to do this without oompeusarion It is a pity that the government mersures were in? terfered with." Th?9 ?9 the experience of growers j who were free from the pest three or j four years ago The grower? in Sou?h j Carolina may profit by it in several way*. The best way, however, is to j leave no stone unturned to keep the scale out of tho State "Radical j measures" mast be adopted, sooner or ! Iat<>r, io fighting it. They bad better ! be adopted at the outset than later, j when they will be more expensive and I will be less iffectivo -News and Cou !rier_,;,. } Bismarck'? Iron if ?rv?. j Was the re.-ult of bis splendid health. It: j d'xmubie will and tremendous etergj ar? not i found whore Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and i Boweis ?re out of order. If yon want *hese j qualities and the success tbey bring, use Dr j King's New Life Pills Tbey develop every j power of brain and body. Only 25c at J. F. ' W De Lor me's Drug Store. I-f SHAKING UP NEEDED. From Atlanta Journal. Mr Harvie Jordan, president of the Interstate Cotton Growers' Pro tective association, charges that the government agricultural department, instead of being operated in the interests of the farmers, is being uaed aa a basis for the rankest kind of speculation, to their serious in? jury He further avers that the sources from which the government secures ?ts information is no lon?er reliablo, and declares that the fact that this season's crop is short is too well known for attempts at deception on the part of speculators Mr Jordan made these charges in a statement io the Journal, which is as follows : ''The recent report on the estim?t ed yield cf the cotton crop for this season by the agricultural depart? ment at Washington only succeeded in. temporarily depre^ing the price of the staple It has been openly charged that advance information of the bureau report was furnished certain parties last Saturday, two days before the publication of the report, and that such parties were J able to take advantage of the specu j lation market, by creating the im j pression that a 'bullish' report would I be given out, when they knew the j contrary to be the case The New Orleans and New York cotton ex changes have demanded a rigid in? vestigation of tho statistical depart? ment of the Washington bureau, and it is to be hoped that the matter will be probed to the bottom "Twice this season the market has been thunderstruck by these monthly bureau reports and the prices forced down 50 to 60 points within a few hours after the news was flashed over the wi-es Thi* couid not bave happened it? either instance had uot the public been misled "It has been presumed that the agricultural department at Washiog ton was operated in tbe interest of the farmers, when, as a matter of fact, these monthly reports are being nsed as the basis of the rankest kind of speculation and against the inter est of the producers Strange to say, tbe market has rallied immedi ately after these sudden drops caused j by 'bearish7 bureau reports, which . provea conclusively that the poblic places but little reiianco on the cor . redness of such information Tho ! producers are not to bc cnugiit so essiiy and the mills will soon realiz" that in order to lay in their supplies they most come into the spot market fairly and pay the true value of the staple The fact that this season's crop ia I abo? is too wei! known for holden [ to be deceived, and if the source I from which the government secures I its information is no longer reliable i j change had better be made in the j methods employed If it were possi bl? that the yield should amount tau season to 10,000,000 bales the supply . wonid still fail short of demand foi ! consomption 1,000,000 bales, and j high prices should still continue tc ! prevail "The European and eastern mille must have cotton They can nc longer pursue temporary policy, and if the producers continue to stand firm, they will receive the prices they are demanding The fact is more apparent now than ever that the pro ducers of the south must effect some j system by which concert and reliable j information about the crop can be j placed in their bauds They most ? come together and perfect a method j based upon sound business principles, j which will guard and protect their : interest from the merciless imposition ; of the speculator i ''The experience of this season will i have a powerful influence upon the j future. Tbe price of spot cotton for j the balance of this season is absolute* ly in the hands of the producers, and I they should not be influenced to j sacrifice their holdings upon a 'bear j ieh' market and thus play into the . hands of the foreign spinners, j "Let the 'future' market continue j to fluctuate, but force the buyers in j the 'spot' market to pay not less than 10 cents per pound for your staple j Harvie Jordan, j "r/res Interstate Cot G-ro Pro I MARRIED AND WORRIED j - ! She wept ' Oh, you editora are hor ! rid !" she sobbed. ! "What id the trouble, madam ?:' in? quired the editor, j ''Why, I-boo-boo-I sent n an I obituary of my husband, and-boo ! and said io it wc had been married for i j 20 year?, and you-oo-oo-boo-boo ! -your printers set it np 'worried for j 20 years ' " Soe wept The editor grinned, i Pernsps it /as ail right. Who : know.* ? I There aro many kinds of tax-dodgerp, I but perhaps tbe smallest specimen is ; tho n>ao wtio, not having any other tax ! to p-iy, dodges his poll tax Tbe State j of ."Viississippi {.{ire* ira poll rsx to tho i eause. of education It b*s adopted a j cctv expedient for roping in the dodders I by ?ho pissing of a law providing that j *.hr Oi*n who do? s not pay bis poll tax ? before F'brus.ry l?t shall have bis catie j p;in?f?i io ft r ewrpaper auder a heading j i?r9?:rj? that he bas rufo'cd to contribute j |j42 toward the cdooatien of his own cniidren -Aiken Journal and Review. ABSOLUTELY NO ESCAPE FROM DUST. There is co escape from dost on this mundane sphere A "dusty" ooean highway. e-*ys the London Shipping World, founds almost incredible. Yet chose who ore familiar with sailing ships know that, no matter how care? fully the decks may be washed down ia the morning and bow little work of any kind may he done during the day. nev ertbeless, it the decks are not swept at nigbt'all an enormous amount of dust will quickly collect. Of course, on the modern "lioer'' the burning of hun dreds of tons of coal eTery 24 hours and the myraids of footfalls daily would account (or a considerable accumulation of dost, but on a *'wicd jammer," manned with a dozen hands or less, no such dust producing agencies are at work And yet the records of sailing ships show that they oclleot more Bea dust than doe? a steamer, which ia probably accounted for by the fact that while the dasi laden smoks blows clear of the steamer the Urge area of cau7ao spread by the sailer acts as a dost col? lector. To q-jote an instance in sup? port of ia:a contenfioo we may mention that no less than 24^ barrels of fine dust were swept from the decks of ao Am3rican sailing ship during a 97 days' i voyage from New York to San Fr2n I oisco The captain of this ves*el. a man of scientific tastes, made careful ob.-ervario? s on the mystery of sea dust, but beyond the wear and tear of the sails and rigging, a quito negligible facor, he could assign absolutely no perceptible oau9e for tho formation cf dust on board bis ship. It has been assorted 'bat the dutU whioh fall-* on the decks of vessels emsoates from tbe in? terstellar spaces This sounds both p oie a ti fia aod plausible, but it is at va? riance wi'h certain koown facts. Bits of leather, cork, wood and vegetable Ober are almost always present in sea dust.-Springfield Republican. --^mmm>-+-+~*~? mmm Washington. Deo 19 -Congress has authorized the president to appoint Representative Chas A Boutelle of I Maine to be a captain of the United States navy on the retired list Today, without a word of opposition, or even cf oomrueot., the senate paesed the bocee resolution authorizing Mr Bru tolle's retirement, ir is ezpectad that the president will appprove tbe resolu? tion and i.i accordance with tbe aotbor iztrioo nominate bim as a captain on the retired fist cf ?he cavy. Mr. Boutelle is a mrmber of thc presen*, bouse if representatives r?od a member ilect of the new bnuec lt is assommed that ht will immediately ?esign bis membership in the boase. Christmas cards, calcndors booklets, art editions of famous poems io gr**; variety sud exquisite designs at H. Q, Oatc?o k Co's , Nixon Spreading Out. It wag stated yesterday oo good au? thority that the proprietor of the Co? lombia hotel and arranged a lease with Mr J Caldwell Robertson, the new owner of ?be Wright's hotel property, I for that capacious building. It is an* I oooneed that it is Proprietor Nixon's j purpose to operate this hotel ae an j annex to thc Colombia Of course j only the rooms will be used, the lease taking in everything exoept the first floor. The are many delightful rooms j in the boase, aod they eao be made I among the most acceptable that thc I Colombia will have to offer. The e& ? pacity of the hotel will of coarse, be greatiy increased -The Stato. Is There Coal in Fairfield, The Winsboro News and Herald re? cently claimed that a deposit of coal bad been dsoovered in the eastern part of the county The deposit wes found on land beloaging to Mrs S. F. DuBoee. A specimen of the coal was taken to Win O? bore aod. is said to be a good sample of anthracite coal. The land was not thought to be valuable. Recently it bea*me necessary to dig a well on the place. The well digger had formerly been a coal miner. After getting down about 12 feet he struck a layer of what seemed to be coal and farther digging confirmed bias in bis view. Ho made excavations through the vein to the depth of 15J feet, and it is said that the coal, cr whatever mineral it may be, is of fine quality. It ts likely that thc geologist of Clem? son college will be rt quested to go to Fairfield to make au examination. There ?9 no railroad running nearer the place than Winnsboro, which is 12 milds distant, but should it turo oat that there is a deposit of coal there, it will lead to a great basiooss boom in that section Loren P. Merrit! of Paris tells the story of a particular old woman, and he makes ber a resident of Livermore. She was not only old but she was of the worrying, fretting species of anti? quity. She had fretted awsy her friends and relatives, until she was at ?eogrb ?viog aiooe in a small house in rho outskirts of tho town Just as she was retiring c::e bitter cold nigh;, she discovered that one unlighted match remained io (be boase. She lay awake until almost daylight, Worrying aod disturbing herself with wondering if the match was good. At list she got up, and bunted up the match aod strack it to see if it would light ber kindlings in tba mornings -Lewiston (Me.) Journal. --a*-mWmmmmt The booka that all cbildreo ebould hare, the books that will encourage a love for good literature caa be obta:oed from E. G. Otteen