Every nook and corner in our Mammoth Establishment is crowded with Values Unexcelled in the History of our
.More Than Twenty Years of Merchandising.
SILES.
The business in this line has
Iner?ased to such an extent
that we have been compelled
^*to buy more than aoubte our
^ usual stock, a great deal of
which c?nnot loe duplicated as
they were barrans picked up
by our buyers when in market ;
but will be sold while they last
at a sacrifice.
At 39 Cents
we ofier 5 pi?ces of Taffeta,
all desirable shades for waist
' gs.
At 48 Cents
10 pieces Taffeta, all colors, and
At 49 Cents
5 pieces Poulards in polka
dot effects.
At 90 Cehts
5 pieces Peau De Chamois.
This silk is warranted to wash.
We have it in light shades
only.
In 36-inch Taffetas and Peau
De Soris we are offering some
excellent values from
98 Cents to $1.37.
We call your particular at?
tention to our
98 cents Black Taffeta
Full 36 indies, ' it is well
worth $1.25, and has the lus?
tre, the rustle and the body of
goods that is being sold at that
price. Send for samples and
compare them.
Black Dress Goods.
In this department we are
showing a full line of Voiles,
Etamines, Crepes, Yeilings,
Serges, Armures, Pumellas,
Brilliantines and Mohairs.
It will be to your interest to
see us on this line.
White Pique & Madras.
Here we are showing all the
latest novelties in mercerized
effects, for waists and suits.
Washable Fabrics.
Our stock in this line is too
elaborate to attempt a descrip?
tion of, but as we have for
many years enjoyed the repu?
tation for the most complete
line of wash goods carried in
the city, it is sufficient to say
that it surpasses, if anytMng,
our former efforts.
Table Damask.
We had practically sold out
in this department, so that our
stock is all new, embracing ev?
erything from a colored da
At 20 Cents
to the bleached
At $1.40.
Our line at
50 to 75 Cents
will be found excellent values.
Our Line ot Towels
embraces everything from 5 to
50 cents. Our specialty is a
25 Cent Number
and no better value can be
had anywhere.
$1,500 Worth of Em?
broideries.
This is what we bought, and
if invoiced at actual cost would
mean more than $3,000.00,
but we bought them at less
than
50 Cents on the Dollar.
It requires nerve to buy
goods in this way, but the em?
broidery business seems to be
a hobby with us, and no quan?
tity appears too much if the
price, quality and style is right,
all of which seems to be the
case this season, judging from
the way they are going.
Dress Trimmings and
Laces.
Bjere you will find a com?
plete line bf all the latest nov?
elties. f
Royal Worcester Cor?
sets.
Our corset business has
more than doubled since we
took the agency for this line.
We formerly bought by the
dozen. Our purchases now are
always in case lots Many
ladies have told us that they
never got a corset to fit com?
fortably until they tried the
Royal Worcester ; now they
get about with ease.
The prices range from 50
cents to $8 per pair. We do
not carry the very high priced
numbers in stock, but will take
pleasure in ordering them sub?
ject to approval
HOSIERY.
We had quite an ad on the
subject of
Shamrock Hosiery
a few months ago, and it is
most gratifying to know that
every statement then made is
being fully confirmed by ac?
tual results. We believe them
to be the best medium priced
goods ever put upon the mar?
ket We have a full line of
Lace Fronts and Drop Stitch
at
15, 25 and 50 Cents.
Our 25 center is a beauty.
CLOTHING.
Our buyers picked up some
of the greatest values in this
line we ever owned, and that
is saying a great deal, as those
who have been buying clothing
from us can testify to.
100 Suits at $4.90.
This is one of our pick ups.
It is a lot of fancy worsteds
and cheviots, . .
Strictly All Wool.
Not a garment in the lot
worth less than ?7.50, and
some could easily be sold for
$10, but they were bought at
a sacrifice and will be sold
likewise. Their tailoring and
fit bear the stamp of-a
$10.00 Garment.
The man who wants a me?
dium price
Easter Suit
cannot help buying one of
them.
In Two Piece Suits
we have some very nobby
things and excellet values at
$5, $7.50 and $10.
Our line of
Black and Blue Serges
in slims, stouts and regulars at
$10 will command the attention
of any one wanting a suit of
that character and price.
Boys' Clothing.
The Norfolk is the swell suit
for the well dressed boy, we
have them from $2 50 to $5.
For the little fellows from 3 to 6
years the Russian Blouse seems
to be what is wanted. Our line
comprises all the colors. In
vests and two piece suits we
have a complete assortment
from $1 to $5.
Shoes.
> This department is now as it
always has been a leading fea?
ture of our business. We ? try
to confine our purchases to re?
liable manufactures, thereby
avoiding shoddy goods. In
ladies' goods our specialty is
The E. P. Reed Brand
and feel justified in saying no
better value is put in a shoe at
the price. Their line of ox?
fords this season is very nobby.
For a medium class shoe
The Godman
has stood the test of many
seasons, and the fact that our
sales are annually increasing
on them is in itself an evi?
dence that they are all we
represent them to be.
In men's shoes we have
never been able to ?nd any?
thing to supplant
The L. M. Reynolds Line
Their $3 shoe may be equal?
led, but it has no superior.
We have them in calf, vici kid,
patent leather, and all the new
toes.
Our Carpet Room
is stocked with everything
which the home needs in this
line. Carpets, Mattings, Rugs,
Art Squares, Linoleums, Win?
dow Shades and Poles.
Wje have 50 pieces
Fancy Japanese Mat?
tings
usually sold at 25 cents. Our
price, 20 cents a yard.
25 pieces Reversible China
Matting, good body and pretty
patterns, at 20 cents.
Also a line of cheaper and
better goods, as desired.
The greatest value in this
department is probably our
rugs. We are selling a very
handsome reversible rug
$1.00
.75
.37%
36x72 at
30x60 at
24x36 at
We solicit your inquiries,
and will be pleased to send
samples of anything in stock.
Please remember we refund
your money on all purchases
that are not satisfactory.
DONNELL & COMPANY.
MISSISSIPPI FL9?B.
8S?ENVILLE STILL UNOES WATER.
Generai Situation in the Missis?
sippi Valley Does Not Seem to
be Improved.
New Orleans. March 30.-The carry?
ing away of addi tioai cribbing at the
Hymeiia crevasse early this morning
brought the forces that have been at
work there to the verge of abandon?
ment of the attempt to close the break.
Later in the day. however, as a result
of several conferences, it was agreed to
continue the undertaking. In no event
can the work be completed inside of a
week, and unless ample money is
guaranteed the next disaster to the
cribbing is likely to mark the end of
the struggle. This evening it was said
the break was close to 700 feet in width
with the ends still steadily melting
away.
Two ridges between which the levee
. caved has prevented the water from
spreading rapidly above and below,
but the mighty torrent is filling the
lakes and bayous to the rear and in
the next fortnight the whole basin
from La Fourche to the lower limits of
cultivatable land in Plaquemine is
likley to go under water, causing in?
estimable damage and much suffering.
The Tesas and Pacific ?oad is now
hopelessly involved with the water
running deep over the tracks and with
little hope of an early resumption of
traffic if the crevasse is permitted to
run until ?ow water comes.
The river remanied stationary today
in front of this city, marking 20.3 at
nightfall, as it had during the early
morning. The rise from yesterday,
however, was two-tenths of a foot.
Whether or not it will reach the pre?
dicted 21 feet depends to a large ex?
tent on the result of the work at
Hymeiia.
THE GOVERNMENT SUMMARY.
Washington, March 30.-The Missis?
sippi river is falling as far south as
Vicksburg. The stage of water at the
. latter place tonight is 5X4 feet, a fall
of 0.1 feet since Sunday night. The
fail will continue for a few days longer
when the overflow water in the levee
below Greenville will commence zo re?
enter the river at Vicksburg, causing
a moderate rise at that place and a
prolongation of the flood for probably
an additional two weeks. It is again
urged that preparations for an ex?
tremely dangerous stage in the vicinity
of Vicksburg should not be relaxed,
and this caution applies with equal
force to the remaining districts south?
ward to the Gulf of Mexico. High
water will continue in the New Or?
leans district for three weeks or long?
er, its duration depending upon the
extent to which the levees hold.
Should the crevasse near Lucy, La,
be closed during the next few days
and no other breaks occur there will
be a further rise at New Orleans ;
otherwise the changes will be slight.
The Atachafalaya river at Melville
will continue to rise, and a stage of 39
feet or probably higher, is indicated.
'the Red and Onachita will fall slow
ly. The stage at New Orleans tonight
was 220. feet, a fall of 0.1 feet since
Sunday night.
The heavy rains of Sunday and Sun?
day night have caused sharp rises in
the rivers of the South Atlantic States
and moderate floods will occur general?
ly during the next iewdays. Warnings
were issued Monday morning.
WATER NOT RECEDING.
Greenville, Miss., March 30.-There
ia little change in the flood situation
tonight The cutting of the protec?
tion levee at the northern border of the
town has given no perceptible relief in
letting out the water. On the contrary
a rise is still in progress generally
throughout the city. The big crevasse
three miles south of the city continues
to widen and it is impossible to say
what the ultimate breadth will be.
The negro family, a woman and five
children, reported to have perished
was rescued. There have been many
sensational rumors of persons drown?
ed, but to date not one of them has
been confirmed.
Persons who have inst returned
from tbe crevasse south of the city
report that a second nas occurred about
500 feet north of the first break. The
new crevasse is about 400 feet wide.
This new opening will add to the
volume of wat9r that is flowing inland
from the swollen Mississippi, but it is
not considered that it will serve to
complicate the situation further than
possibly to make greater the overflow
area.
AT THE DANGER POINTS.
Vicksburg, Miss., March 30.- Mud
boils appeared in the levee at Mayers
yille late this afternoon and tonight
almost the entire male population is
j working at the danger points. Tele
I phone messages state that the danger
is great and citizens are complaining
of the levee board's action in with?
drawing the guards from the levee in
that city. Mayersville is the county
seat of Issaquena county.
THE CREVASSE BELOW GREEN?
VILLE.
Arkansas, City, March 30.- The
crevasse below Greenville is about
2,000 feet wide and the water is rush?
ing through at a rapid speed, overflow?
ing Issaquena, Sharkey and a portion
of Washington counties.
Reports from all levees show that
they are holding out well. The gov?
ernment gauge now registers 52.6,
showing a fall of two-tenths during the
past 24 hours.
The Yazoo delta or bottom, which
has been flooded by water breaking
through the levee from the Mississippi,
is said to be the richest cotton land in
the world and although a comparative?
ly small portion of it is under cultiva?
tion it3 production of the staple is ex?
tensive. The Yazoo bottom has an
area of about 4,000 square miles and
contains the eleven counties of Tunica,
Coahoma, Quitman, Bolivar, Sun?
flower Tallahatchie, Leflore, Wash?
ington, Sharkey, Issaquena and Yazoo.
The water, after flooding the planta?
tions and settlements and obstructing
railway traffic, will, it is said, flow
into the Yazoo river and into the Mis?
sissippi, as the country is flat, nearly j
level, but sloping gently to the south- ;
ward. The richness of the soil is due
chiefly to these overflows which have
left large deposits of fertilizing value.
THE STORM ON THE COAST.
Havoc Played With Small Vessels
in the Coast Trade.
DAMAGE ALSO IN THE INTE?
RIOR AS FAR INLAND AS
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Norfolk, Va, March 30.-The north?
east storm that swept down the A tlan
tic coast yesterday and this morning
played havoc among the small shipping
and tied up coastwise trade almost
completely. Hampton Koads is full of
sailing craft awaiting a decrease in
the heavy sea now running. At Cape
Henry the winds reached a velocity
of fifty-two miles an hour, and the big
wireless telegraph masts at Ocean View
and Fort Monroe were blown down.
The naval collier Leon'das, while at?
tempting to change her moorings in
the harbor, collided with the schooner
Minnie and Emma, of this port, an?
chored near her, and carried away
stern yawl and davits. Capt. Wyatt
entered complaint at the navy yard.
The collier subsequently cleared for
Boston.
The high tide prevailing in the har?
bor flooded the streets in the lower sec?
tion of the city and for a time traffic
was suspended.
GREAT STORM AT NEWPORT
NEWS. .
Newport News, Va., March 30.
Heavy damage ashore and afloat was
wrought by wind and wave during the
storm which has raged in the past
twenty-four hours. The storm cul?
minated today in a violent gale. The
tide reached a danger point within two
feet of the level of the floors of the
piers and threatened to bring great
disaster to property along the water
front.
To venture out into the raging seas
was equivalent to attempt suicide, and
many seafaring men stayed on shore
last night rather than risk their lives
on the waves.
The two-masted schooner Wm. B.
Hal!, bound up the James River to
Norfolk, with 35,000 brick, sank at
her anchorage and will probably be a
total loss. The captain and crew of
two men put off from the boat in an
open skiff, as she was going down,
and attempted to reach shore. The
men,2 who were all negroes, fought
frantically against thc elements. They
were finally compelled to give up the
fight and sank exhausted into the bot?
tom of the boat. The men were ex?
posed to the storm until 0 o'clock this
morning, when they were rescued by
the Chesapeake and Ohio tug Alice.
They were almost frozen when picked
up. *
The dead body of Wm. Collier, of
the oyster pungy W. H. Smith, which
capsized in Chesapeake Bay on January
30, was cast up by the sea at Ocean
View today.
The body of a negro, probably from
a shipwreck in last night's storm, was
found in a fisherman's net at the
mouth of Hampton Creek this after?
noon. The corpse has not been iden?
tified.
ASHORE AT OLD POINT COMFORT
Newport News, March 30.-The four
masted schooner Charles L. Daven?
port, bound from this port for Bangor,
Me, with coal, went ashore head on
at Old Point Comfort in the gale to?
day. She is high and dry on the
rocks and is breaking to pieces. The
captain says he mistook the Old Point
light for. Thimlbe light. The schoon?
er will be a total loss, but part of her
cargo may be saved. The crew landed
safely.
VANDERBILT'S OBSERVATORY,
DEMOLISHED.
Charoltte, N. C., March 30.-A
special to the Observer from Ashe?
ville, N. C., says that there have been
heavy winds, rain and storm in that
section. On Vanderbilt's Biltmore
estate the weather Observatory was
completely demolished. It was a
handsome stone structure, seventy
feet high, and was owned by Mr.
Vanderbilt. The apparatus belonged
to the Government.
THE STORM AT NEWBERN.
Newbern, N. C., March 30.-Last
night's storm here caused no loss uf
life and no considerable damage to
shipping or other property. The high
tides in the Neuse and Trent rivers
during the night overflowed the water
front and drove the water almost a
block into the streets, flooding the
basements of some stores and ware
housse. A few people were also com?
pelled to escape from their dwellings by
boat.
THE BENJAMIN RUSSELL
ASHORE.
Cape Henry, Va, March 30.-The
three-masted schooner Benjamin
Russell, Capt. Cranmor, with lumber
from Bogue Inlet, N. C., for New
Haven, Conn, went ashore today one
mile south of Creed's Hill life-saving
station, North Carolina. Her crew of
five men were taken off in breeches
buoys. Her deckload will be taken off
tomorrow. Aside from a bad leak the
vessel is apparently in good condition.
SCHOONER EUTTRICK LOST.
Wilmington, N. C., March 30.-The
schooner John H. Buttrick, Capt.
Sprague, from Wilmington to New
York, with a cargo of lumber, went
! ashore during Sunday night's gale
and is a total loss. The mate was
washed overboard during the night
and drowned. The captain and crew
of seven, including the captain's wife,
were taken off by the Alexander Jones
and brought to Wilmington.
Convinced Charleston Tigers That
Ke Was Not Bluffing.
Chief Constable U. B. Hammett has
returned from Charleston, and he
thinks the outlook for the enforcement
of the dispensary law in that city
much better. The blind tiger dealers
seem to have had an idea that the talk
about enforcing the law was all a bluff.
Mr Hammett has disabused their
minds of such an idea, and he says
several of them voluntarily promised
to go out of business rather than get
in trouble.
Blind tiger dealers in other cities,
who have also thought the whole thing
a bluff, will learn better later on.
Columbia Record.
INDIGNANT PASSENGERS.
Charleston Train Held More Than
Two Hours for an Official's Son.
Several lawyers and other wonld-be
passengers were much disgusted over
an incident that occurred in connection
with the train that should have left
here over the Southern railway at 7.20
Saturday morning for Charleston. The
train in question did not leave until
9.40oclock, more than two hours late,
and thereby hangs a tale which excited
no little disgust among the gentlemen
in question and prompts the suggestion
that the delay was entirely uncalled
for.
The prospective passengers purchased
their tickets and were about to board
the . train when they were informed
that it would not leave until the
Southern's "Palm Limited" arrived.|
As the Charleston train is not sup?
posed to wait for the limited, tb?re
was much surprise expressed when
this information was imparted.
Further inquiries adduced the addi?
tional information that the train was
being held for the accommodation of
the son of President Spencer of the
Southern railway, who wanted to go to
Summerville.
Naturally, this information did not
serve to appease the indignation of the
lawyers in the party, who were on
their way to Charleston to appear be?
fore United States Circuit Judge Sim
onton in several causes of more or less
importance.
When the limited train did finally
put in an appearance the lawyers found
it would be too late to go to Charles?
ton and attend to their legal business
and they went to the ticket office and
demanded the return of their money.
There were very much put out and
said that they could not understand
why President Spencer's son could not
have had more consideration. It would
have been comparatively simple for
him to have ordered a special engine
to take his private car to Summer?
ville, thereby causing no inconveni?
ence to the passengers, who were not
in a position to accommodate them?
selves in like manner. As it was, the
latter were seriously inconvenienced
and very pardonably incensed.-The
State, March 30.
County Blown Off the Map.
Topeka, Kan., March 24.-Hodge
man County, in Western Kansas, has
been blown off the map. County lines
and public highways have been oblite?
rated, and the only spot where the
people can recognize their own
premises is the little town of Jetmore,
the county seat.
This information comes in a letter
from A. J. Coombs, the county sur?
veyor, to Governor Bailey. Coombs
says the high winds during the past
two weeks have practically wipd out
the county lines and public roads with
the storm of sand which has been scat?
tered over the prairies.
llodgeman is a cattle county. There
are no fonces. No attempt is made
at farm i ne, and tho only vegetation is
tho buffalo grass, upon which tue cat?
tle feed. Surveyor Coombs wants the
State to appropriate money to pay for
re-establishing the county"lines.
A NEGRO'S VIEW OF IT,
He Says That the Solution of the
Race Problem Lies in the Negro
Ownership of Land.
Chicago, March 30.-"The solution
of the negro problem lies with the ne?
gro himself. It can be brought about
by his acquiring land, saving money
and educating his sons. There is
nothing in the cry about social equali?
ty. The negro does not want it and
does not expect it."
This statement was made last night
at Bethel Church by J. J. Smallwocdr
president of the Temperance, Indus?
trial and Collegiate Institute, a negro
institution at Claremeont, Va. "At
the close of the civil war," Prof.
Smallwood said, "the negro had noth?
ing. Since then he has accumulated
$300,000,000 worth of property. He
has built up 96 institutions of learn?
ing and the race has furnished 2i,0CO
school teachers. He has terned bis
attention to buying land and this will
eventually result in the solution of the
race problem.
"1 have no objection to a law re?
quiring negroes to ride in a separate
coach on the railways. What I do
want is a division of the coach, so
that we would not have to mingle with
the element in our race that is shun
ned by the educated whites in theirs/''
May Move Its Mills South.
Manchester, N. H., March 2S.-It
is understood that the American Cot?
ton Duck Company, whicn owns the
Stark Mills, desires to withdraw from
this city.
.Agent Whitten says that it is the
undoubted intention of the manage?
ment of the company to remove the local
mills to Alabama but it is hopeful of
persuading the management to con?
tinue operations in this city.
The reasons advanced, aside frcm
the concentration of the company's
property, for abandoning the plant in
this city, are high taxes, the feeling
of unrest in the labor circles through
ouv New England, especially at Low?
ell: the fear that the troubles there
may reach Manchester and the con?
stant agitation in favor of an eight-hour
law.
The company recently removed its
Greenwood mills at New Hartford..
Conn., to Alabama, where it' owns,
tne thousand acres of land and has a.
plant of 15,000-horse power.
The mill employ 1,700 hands with a"
weekly pay roll of 640.000.-New
\ork Sun.
The B. and L. Compromise.
< Comptroller General Jones, in refer?
ring to the Spartanbnrg Building and
Loan Association's compromise on the
taxation business said that he had not
seen the official returns made under
the agreement, but with what little
consideration he had given the pro?
posed plan he was of the opinion that
it was not legal or in conformity with
the Attorney General's ruling. " How?
ever, this is not given as a final con?
clusion. "ColurabiaCorrespondent News
and Courier. ""