Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COTTOX CROP 1904-05. Last Montbdy Report of the New oYrk Journal of Commerce. ^ ^Xew York, October 31.-The Jour? nal of Commerce will tomorrow pub? lish the last of its special monthly cotton reports for this season. It deals particularly with condition and the amount of cotton picked. Twelve hundred, reports, bearing an average date of October 24, indicate a deteri A oration since October 1 report of 4.3 ^ per cent, making the condition 65.1 These reports of the Journal of Commerce for the corresponding dates 1904 and 1903 show a gain of 1.6 points respectively. On the average date of the reports 69 per cent of the crop had been picked this year, as Wt compared with .57 per cent last year. Comparing with a month ago, Louis? iana shows tile largest : depreciation, namely 9:3 points; Arkansas and Oklahoma come next, each showing 8 points less, Mississippi is 6.5 points lower and Florida and Indian Terri? ll Jory each. 5.7 points lower. The other declines by States :follow: Missouri 3.5; Tennessee 3.7;- Texas 5."4; Ala? bama 3.5; Georgia 0.3; South. Carolina 0.2..;' The percentage picked in each state follows: North . Carolina 81; South Carolina 85; Georgia'82; Flor $fdda 81; Alabama 77: Mississippi 59; Lousiana 65; .Texas 73.; Arkansas 41; Tennessee 52; Missouri? 30; Oklaho? ma 53; Indian Territory 23. Since last" month's report the weather has been generally favorable for picking and as a rule cotton was ma^Veted ?pidly about 10 cents, but holders >%are waiting for higher prices. Frosts oave done but little damage in the euroli": as and Georgia, but in nearly all other States killing temperatures a?ve more or less cut down yield. Top ^op prospects seem especially poor ind worms are complained of in ? louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansis. ! A much lower yield than last year is universal ry expected. A QUEER STORY IS THIS. anion Fanner Made the Victim of a Kt Shrewd Man. A^queer *story comes from Union county concerning the operations of a young man who represented' himself o be an agent of the Standard Oil it is alleged, victimized a Union farm? er, out of some hard earned dollars. According to the story which has : each?d the city Linder Carrier, . a known young man of Spartan i org will probably cancel the sale of a . ieee of property he had sold to the lleged Standard "Oil representative, irough his friend, Mr. Simmons. It appears from all accounts that a Parang man who gave his name os naries Briston, appeared at Union x>ut the time a number of mill men en and capitalists were at Union iring the reorganization of the mon Mills. He claimed to be an j rent of the Standard Oil Companv, ; I* id passed out the word that he was oki?g for mineral lands. He form- \ . the acquaintance of W. P. Simmons . unsuspecting farmer of Union, -ed about 50 years, who is the! rner of large tracts of land in that j - unty. Briston is said to have en- j .ed into negotiations with Simmons . a portion of the propery. He also nted the adjoining property which onged to Linder Carrier. Simmons de the deal, according to the story, .h Mr. Carter, paying out of his n pockets the purchase price which 5 to have been refunded by the ? ?posed Standard Oil magnate. Mr. .anons, it is said, came to Spartan g and drew his money from a lo bank here. When the time came the settlement with Briston the , er could not be found. Several 3 have elapsed and nothing has ' i heard of the agent of the Stand Oil Company. ! r. Simmons now has the land on ? hands, though being a large I ner he has no use for it. Mr. Car- . j r was of the opinion that the deal , s straight, and no doubt will prob? ably agree to a cancellation of the | . .de. An effort was made to see Mr. 5 \.rter today but he could not be j i ind.-Spartanburg Journal. SHOT OX THE CHAIN GANG. A shooting occurred accidentally the chain gang near Claussen 3 sterday evening in which a j ung white man I y the name of L. Iv!. Elmore, a guard on the chain . ng, was shot in the side and is dan , rously wounded. The pistol was it . agazine gun and was accidently scharged in the hands of W. L. Till io% another guard on the gang. orence Times, November 1. )R!A For Infants and Children. ie Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of ?^^^^^??5^ FITZ LEE FORGOT ONE SMITH. Reminded of the Pocahontas Story by Man in the Crowd. Lippincott's Magazine. I The late Gen. Fitzhugh Lee used to tell with great gusto an experience he had during his gubernatorial cam i paign in Virginia against Hon. John & Wise. ? . "Mr. Wise made the statement," i said the general, "that if I had been named Smith instead of Lee I never would have been heard of. I endeav? ored to combat that theory, and in every speech I made during the cam? paign would touch upon Mr. Wise's statement and would then briefly re? fer to some famous historical figures, in order to show that the name Smith was-not to be despised. . "One day I spoke before a large crowd on the court house green in a rural community, . and even before I began my speech I noticed a drunk? en man standing right" up in the. front row of listeners. I took up the Smith matter and informed those agricultu? rists what- a distinguished family the Smiths had been. As I warmed up to the subject I noticed that sometning seemed, to be worrying that drunken man, and more than once he seemed to be on the verge of interrupting me. I.-, reminded my audience that a dis? tinguished goveror of the State had 1 borne the name of Smith, and that many ether men famous m war and in . peace had borne the despised cog? nomen. Meanwhile the drunken man I watched me with ill-concealed anx? iety. Finally he could stand it no longer. Lifting his hand and bal? ancing himself with inerbriated grav? ity, he blurted out: 'Shay, gen'ral, don't forgit thash old Smith thash killed Pocahontas!' '* Sluggish Liver a Foe to Ambition. *You cannot accomplish very much if your liver is inactive as you feel dull, your eyes are heavy and slight exertion exhausts you. Orino Laxa? tive Fruit Syrup stimulates the liver and bowels and makes you feel bright and active. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and very pleasant to take. Orino is more effective than pills or ordinary cathartics. Refuse substi? tutes. Durant's Pharmacy. The hyphen has no place in the ci? tizenship of any man. He may be a German, an Englishman, a French? man or an American, but he cannot be more than one of the set at a time. ? When a foreigner coming to this conn- j try takes on the duties and responsi- j bilities of American citizenship, hi j forswears allegiance to the land of j his birth. He must be an American in in entirety or he is not an American at all. He must utterly renounce al? legiance to the land of his birth or otherwise his American citizenship falls short of that degree of perfec? tion which it should obtain. To re? tain even in imagination the name of his native land is to deny in some measure the full citizenship to which he supposedly aspires ip. this country. -Utica Observer. Pirating Foley's Honey and Tar. ?Foley & Co., Chicago, originated Honey and Tar as a throat and lung j remedy, and on account of the great j merit and popularity of Foley's Honey j and Tar many imitations'are offered ! for the genuine. These worthless j mitations have similar sounding ? i names. Beware of them. The gen- j uine Foley's Honey and Tar is in a j yellow package. Ask for it and re- ? ufse anv substitute. It is the best j remedy for coughs and colds. Du- j i ant's Pha.'ni-.ic. The railroad commission has post- j poned the hearing on freight rates to November 10, on which date a larg; \ number of the traffic and freight offi- ! cials will appear before the commis- ; sion. The hearing is for the purpose ! of adjusting disputes on rates in this ; State as compared with rates to points in Georgia. No Case of Pneumonia on Record. ?We do not know of a single in? stance where a cough or cold resulted in pnemonia or consumption when Foley's Honey and Tar had been taken. It cures coughs and colds per? fectly, so do not take chances with some unknown preparation which may contain opiates, which cause con? stipation, a condition that retards re" covery from a cold. Ask for Foley's tr .ey tn-l d refuse : nv subst: .ate offered. Durant's Pharmacy. Gen. M. L. Bonham o-f Anderson, who has been in a hospital in Rich? mond for several weeks has reached i home. He has greatly improved and { expects to be able to be at his law office again within a short time. The Clemson exposition car will leave Calhoun station about the mid- j die of the month, will tour th*- South- j ern part of the State. The car is to j be furnished by the Southern Rail? way. XEGRO FILES DAMAGE SUIT. Wants Big Money Because Conductor* Struck Him for Insulting White Woman. ! Greenville, November 1.-Through J his attorneys, Mauldin & Townes, j Hudson Johnson, colored, yesterday j filed a suit against the Greenville Traction Company, asking damages in the sum of $5,000 for personal in? juries and humiliation. The suit grew out of an accident which occurred upon a Pendleton street car early in the month. In his complaint Johnson alleges that he had paid his fare, and upon being ordered by the conductor to go inside, entered the car and sat down quietly; that tho conductor suddenly set upon him and with oaths and insults jerked him from his seat, tearing his clothing, srtking him in the face and about the body, and finally kicking him in the stomach and flourishing a pistol in his face; that he is subject to heart trou? ble and was rendered unconscious by the treatment of the conductor. He further alleges that he suffered griev? ous and permanent bodily harm and great humiliation; for all of which he prays judgment in the sum of $.5,000. The complaint does not set forth the 2ircumstances, alleged to be actual by people on the other side of the case, that the negro when ordered inside coolly seated himself beside a white woman of prominent connections of this city, and, when remonstrated with by the coiductor, impudently' refused to take another seat. It is said that in the circumstances the conductor was fully justified in using any amount of force-necessary to protect his lady passenger from the contamination and insult of direct contact with the insolent negro. It is expected that the case will yield some sensational de? velopments. Burgess Atkinson was arrested in Aiken charged with the murder of his wife's invalid father. Congress will be asked for a fur? ther appropriation for the deepening of the Congaree river to facilitate nav? igation between Columbia and George? town. BRICE ELECTION ENJOINED. Judge Klugh Issues Order Requiring Spartanburg Supervisor to Show Cause. i _ i I Gaffney. November 2.-S. P. Sims, of the firm of Sims & Hannon of ! Spartanburg. appeared before Judge j Klugh here today and secured an or ! der to the authorities in Spartanburg to show cause before him in Gaffney Monday. November 6th, why the su? pervisor and managers of election should not be enjoined from holding the election to decide, the question, "dispensary" or no dispensary." The plaintiff in this case is J. W. Harmon, one of the county dispensers' while defendants are D. M. Miles in. his own right and as'supervisor of Spartanburg county and E. E. Bishop, J. W. Bishop, et al., managers of elec? tion, in their own right and as mana? gers of election to be held in Spartan? burg county, S. C., for the purpose, amongst other things; to vote for or against having dispensaries in Spar? tanburg county. - ???? -.mw Mart Gary, a-Laurens county negro who was serving a two year sentence in the penitentiary for manslaughter, has been pardoned after serving three months. The killing was the result of carelessness. They bar of Kershaw ..county has petitioned, for a special term of court in that county. The People's Bank of Chester has been chartered with $35,000 capital. G. B. White is president. Man's Unreasonableness * Is often as great as woman's. But Thomas S. Austin, manager of the Re? publican, of Leavenworth, Ind., was not unreasonable when he refused to allow the doctor to operate on his wife for female trouble. "Instead," he says, "we concluded to try Elec? tric Bitters. My wife was then so sick she could hardly leave her bed. and five physicians had failed to re? lieve her. After taking Electric Bit? ters she was perfectly cured, and can now perform all her hou.eholl du? ties.5' Guaranteed by all druggists price 50c. G. ?. , D. D. S., Office over China's Drug Store. Phone No. 350. Prompt attention : Good service. Office hours, from 8 a. m. to 1 p. m ; 2 p. m to 5.30 p. m. ! S o o o-1 j- J j j' _. ; / WE GUARD OUR PATRONS' INTERESTS The Farmers' Banfe anti Trost Go. Capital Stock $60.000. .:- Undivided Profits $4.000. C. G. Rowland. Prst. R. F. Haynswortb, V. Prst. R. L. Edmunds. Cashier. * Deposits Sept 30, end of 2d quarter after organization, $170, 430.45. Liability of stockholders, in addition to capital stock, ?60,000. A general banking business. Solicits your patronage and guarantees every courtesy con? sistent with good business meth? ods. A FAIR PROPOSITION. If you have PROPERTY FOR SALE, it is my business to sell it for yon. But iu order to make the sale, I must have the matter in business shape. Write me for Description Blank, sign the contract on the back of same, and return to me. If the price given is reason? able, I will advertise and sell the property for you. The contract I wish you to sign is as follows : The State of South Carolina, County of Sumter I.hereby list for sale the within described property with R. B. Belser for a period of.months from date and authorize him to negotiate a sale for same at the rate of.dollars per acre or.dollars for the whole property, on terms as follows: And further agree that ciurinjr the period herein above mentioned. I will not offer tl e said proper t j to any one at a price lower than th at above specified, nor on terms more favor- ? able than above authorized. and that I will refer all applicants to K. B. Belser; Provided it j is understood and agreed, that i shall have tlie privilege of revoking the authority above! furred aft??** In vi'?vr ?riven thirty days written notice o? such intention: but no attempted ":!i,ui-;-\;;: .-.ir; ... *\t;. ....!>?;'' 'bisnrrr^nK-nl ?rith?JUT ?neb previov..- :;.>:>(.<... Anti ?'irtV.er. in c?ev ... . u ??.!-?.:.. ??r . :*? v.:: *y -^ployed . by hit:., wiie :... .* rhroutf?i personal snitch . i<?.:,>. -: y vert?*.: ." ? ; . :.- nvU-e: > ? if LI has in ! at?v way eon tri Wu red r?> asa?"oi>aid oro^rty. even though con ... . . . ::.??.. .<> pay to ?aid li. '?<- Belser. as compensation for*h?s services in ?ffe ir., . .<?. . ncr cent, commission on the purchase price for said pr?i>erty. to <>?. paid to lum inr. ?.. up? on the receipt <>f the first installment paid in by the purchaser o. i said prop* riv. Witness my bahd and sra! this..".day of.l-V In iii?- presen? e of: .Incal? ? .eal] I ? HAVE DEMAND for several NICK FARMS, E. g : A 10 horse farm in high state of cultivation in good community. ATTORNtY-AT-LAW ry ry np| Cp|} REAL ESTATE BROKER, HARBYBLGCOURTSQ K* ?>. OfcLSCK, PHONE NO. 309. Facts Are Stubborn Things Uniform excellent quality fof OYCf a quarter of a Century has steadily increased the sales of LION COFFEE, The leader of all package coffees? OOH Coffee is now used in millions of homes. Such popular success speaks for itself. It is a ^jOaO^li?^fe positive prool that LION COFFEE has the ?fJ^^^MW? Confidence of the people. /i/j^^^^^Wm The uniform quality of LION /WM^W^^MM COFFEE survives all opposition. 1 l^?^^^^'?? LION COFFEE keeps its old friends and ^?k/^^^if^\^^' vl$Mk makes new ones every day. f/f F^^Tfc^Wa Um COFFEE lias even more /J^iC^/S^'^^MM^E. than ii s Strength, Flavor and Qaal- (&^^>^j^W'^St tty to comment" it. ' On arrival from . ^^?^^^^M^m^F? the plantation, it is carefully roast- ^?^^^^?^. ftr ed at. our factories and securely ^^^t^?^f^^^ packed in 1 lb. sealed packages, and not opened again until heeded ^ ^j*^-*^^ for use in the home. This precludes the possibility of adulteration or contact with germs, dirt? dust, insects or unclean hands. The absolute purity ol LION COFFEE is therefore guaranteed to the consumer* Sold only in 1 lb. packages. Lion-head on every package. Save these JLion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. DALZELL MERCANTILE CO., Dalzell, S. C. Come to Dalzell and call on us for your Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions. Just recived full line of Windsor and other fancy candies, put up in 1 and 1=2 lb. boxes. Prices 75c. per lb. SPECIALTIES : Fresh Cream Cheese, fresh Butter, Macaroni, Evaporated Apples, best Columbia River Salmon, Can Peaches and Oysters, and, also, Evaporated Cream. By buying one of our many styles of Beautiful Heaters. They are great fuel savers. Come and see our large stock of Gook ^Stoves and Banges. We have the right prices. P ASKER, ] SMITH, ! LEPE VE Ri [ POX, J And a large assortment of other makes of Guns that should please the most fastidious hunts? man. Use our celebrated Paint : De voe/New Era and Hammer, and wear a continual smile of satis? faction. The Durant Hardware Co. See our Mammoth line of Stoves and Ranges. High quality and right prices. P. S.^All parties holding keys to money box come in and try them. TO THE MERCHANT: If you haven't Red Meat Tobacco in stock, write the factory-we will supply you direct TO THE CONSUMER : We give you cur absolute guarantee that each 10c plug of Red Meat is made of better tobacco and contains more good solid juicy chewing quality than any other 10c plug of any weight offered or sold by any factory. ?"rile name ?.nc caress plainly here.. TO ANY CHEWER of tobacco who will cut out and mail us this advertisement,wc ^ ail him a card which will entitle him to one 5c cut of Red Meat Tobacco FREE Manufacture '. by Liipfert-Scales Co., Winston-??!cm. K. C.