The Intelligencer from Anderson, South Carolina • Page 1

LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1904. VOLUME XXXTX-NO.

33. ty anuary Clearance Sa 1 Vi Our annual Clearance Sale is on. This sale is put on for the purpose of getting rid of all Winter Clothing. We do not -wish to Clothing from one season to another. We prefer making DEEP CUTS In the prices of all SUITS and OVERCOATS, so that each season we show a line that is entirely new.

This sale includes our entire line of Snits and Overcoats. NOTHING RESERVED. Ccpyrljht IMS bj Schaffner Hair. OVERCOATS at a reduction of 25 percent. This makes our $7.50 Overcoats $5.65 10.00 7.50 12.50 9.40 15.00 12.00 18.00 13,50 Odd Trousers at a reduction 20 per cent.

31.50 Odd Trousers now $1.20 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 ri rm ti Ol 45 ll (t ii ii 1.60 2.00 2.40 2.80 3.20 Men's and Young Men's Suits reduced 20 per cent. $5.00 Suits now $4.00 7.50 10.00 12.50 15.00 18.00 20.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.40 16.00 Evejry Suit, every Overcoat in our house at regular prices were good values. Kow, after they are reduced, you will find them EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN'S. B. 0.

Evans Co. OUR FIRST SHOWING OF 111 JUST RECEIVED. In Dress Goods, TOT Skirts and Suits. White Goods, Of every description. Embroideries and Laces, In fact, almost any kind of Goods you should want and When utility, beauty and variety is considered, they are most reasonably priced.

Never foil to visit our Store. You'll find it here. Send for samples. Give ns your orders. QUIT COUuHiMC I There xs no need of wearing om Lungs out, when you can get a bottle MURRAY'S HORISHOVNSk, MULLIEN AND TASU A lew doses of thia Houaehold Remedy will give immediate relief.

A positive onre for INFLUENZA, and DISK ABBS OP ttHBOAT. CROUP. PUT UP DRUa 'COLUMBIA. S. STATE NEWS.

The legislative commission has reported thot the recently completed State House need? repairs to the tune of contractors profits included. Thc police all over the State have been asked to look out for Clareuce who left Edgefield more than a week ago for Augusta, und has not been heard of since. special from Washington says that Representative Lever han prevailed upon tho agricultural department to establish an experimental tobacco farm in Orangeburg county. A true bill was found by tho Laurens grand jury against A. ll.

Sullivan, late dispenser, charged with breach of trust. His shortago of $1,800 has been paid up by his bondsmou. Reports from the coast counties say that large numbers of dead ducks are being found in the marshes and back waters where they are accustomed to feed and that some epidemic is prevailing among them. State Superintendent of Education O. B.

Martin has sent out a circular letter calling for tho annual meeting of the County Superintendents in Columbia on February 8. Reduced rates will be secured from the railroads. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company ata recent meeting of its board of direotors decidid to grant pensions to all of its employes over GO years of age who have given the oompaoy faithful service for at least ten years. Walter F. Derrick, a substantial citizen of White Rook, Lexington County, was killed on Friday by a falling tree.

He was 56 years old has 10 children, one of whom is superintendent of education of Lexington County. Alvin Smith, a prominent turpentine manufacturer of Starke, was arrested at Kingstree on Thursday and bound over to oourt on the charge of being au emigrant agent without a license. He was trying to get hands to go with him to Florida to work. W. 0.

Tatum, tho new liquor commissioner, has five hundred applications for places. He has appointment of 18 clerks an inspectors, with salaries ranging from $60 to $150 a month, and in addition he has the employment of every person who works in the dispensary by the day or week. There will be no tobacco barns in Sumter county this year, for no cotton grower will plant tobacco when cotton sells at fifteen cents, and macy who have been planting tobacco for several years past will return to cotton as a money crop, forgetting that it does not pay to put all their eggs in one basket. Over three hundred postmasters in South Carolina have been invited to attend the meeting in Columbia on February 9th for the purpose of forming an organization and practically all of them have responded favorably to the call. Only postmasters having money order offices were invited, and the attendance will be very large.

The DeKalk Cotton Mills, at Camden, which recently passed into the nanas of a receiver, are now running out the raw material stocked in the maohinery. It is estimated that the value of this material is about $0,000. Tho mill will continue in operation for about six weeks and then will dose down indefinitely, perhaps until the uext cotton crop. The registered distillery operated by T. F.

Trammel, at Marydell, sixteen miles from Greenville, was seized by Deputy Collector Scruggs. In addition to the plant, which is valued at about $2,000 there were thirty-nine barrels or 1800 gallons of liquor confiscated and shipped to Columbia. Trammel is charged with violating the internal revenue laws by removing liquor from the cistern room. Arrangements for an inter-oollegiate debate between Furman university and Wake Forest college were com5Jeted at Greenville a few days ago. L.

Yass, and A. B. Langston will represent Furman in this contest. Wake Forest speakers have not yet been seleoted. query adopted is: "Resolved, That the Expansion Policy, of the United States Government is for the Best Interests of Its People." Wake Forest, affirmative; Furman, negative.

Debate will be held in Charlotte, N. on the first Monday after Easter. The April term of the United States cirouit court in Charleston will try a number of peonage casos, originating in the tipper part of South Carolina. The cases were called at the recent session of the court in Colombia, bat weid carried over, and it IB now the intention of Di tr io Attorney John G. Capers to try the oases at the approaching term.

These are the first peonage oases to be tried in South Carolina si noe the recent agitatation began and considerable public interest will attach to the trial. It is expected that at the Republican State Convention in Colombia on February 26 candidates will be placed in tho field for Congress from viRuivi ui otate, lt IS rumored that the candidates will be white meo, those who have held fed-' eral offices siace the advent of John G. Capers in polities, although io one or two of the dis tr io ts some negro may be put op. This movement, which has only been decided upon in toe last few days, ip the result of orders received direct fkom President Roosevelt, who wants every Republican congressional committee in the South to put ont a candidate and arouse cu thu so that a largo vote may': bo polled. i GENERAL NEWS? Money and Mci.surin hi.ve both been re-elected Senators from Mississippi.

The lower house of Congress has passed the army appropriation bill, whieh carries the enormous sum of A resolution introduced in the Kentucky legislature inviting President Roosevelt to address that body was voted down. New Jersey, the charter State, boasts that she has more than two million dollars in her treasury and doesn't owe a dollar. The Produce Kxchauge bank, of Cleveland, Ohio, has boen forced to the wall owing to a defalcation of $170,000 by Cashier Hose. One hundred and eighty-four miners lost their lives by the caving in of the Harwick mine of the Allegheny Coal company, near Chcswick, Pa. A part of tho town of Elberton, was destroyed by fire Woduesday night.

A dry goods store, drug store and two grocery stores were burned. An old negress in Augusta, has been found guilty of tho fiendish act of thrusting a little child, three years old, into the fire and burning it so severely that its life is despaired of. John Sorrels a "prominentyoung man" of Banks county, Georgia, aged 20, pointed his gun at his 14 year-old Sister Monday and it went off and killed ber. HQ "didn't know it wa? loaded," Ohio river above is blooked with ice for miles. In some plaoes the ioe is 30 to 40 feet high.

The river has never been frozen over'co long as it has been this winter. Olary, chief master of arms on the United States battleship Nevada, with service stripes on4 bis arms denoting twenty-eight years of naval service, reoontly completed 100 trips around tho world. Senator Burton, of Kansas, has been indioted ou a half a dozen counts for receiving bribes for the exercise of influence with the postmaster general ia behalf of a concern that was making fraudulent use of the mails. ipi. i xuo mia ui Aurauitui uutwaio, with au unloaded revolver, drove baok to their cells two prisoners who had murderously assaulted her husband and Night Watchman Samuel Beckwith, in the jail at Norristown, Pa.

According to a cable report from the United States representative at Montevideo there have been three heavy battles between the insurgents and the government of Uraguay. In the last battle the insurgents lost 500. The governor of Tennessee has vetosd the dispensary bill passed by the legislature of that State, one of his reasons being that "if it is immoral and injurious for a citizen to sell liquor it is muoh more so for the State." Beoj. Dickerson is under arrest at his home 18 miles from Savannah, charged with having beaten his wife to death. FT? acknowledges that hs whipped her, but says he used small switches.

His children have testified against him. The coroner's jury of Chicago has concluded its inquiry as to the responsibility for the fire in the Iroquois theatre, and the names of about a dozen persons are presented as being responsible, among the number being Mayor Harrison. The Paoolet Manufacturing company's ootton mill at Gainesville, which consumes annually over 30,000 bales of ootton and employs 1,000 hands has closed down for au indefinite period because of the low price of goods and the high price of ootton. A statement has been issued by the family of the late Gen. John B.

Gordon expressing their gratefulness for the many telograms received during the illness of Gen. Gordon and after his death. Offing to the large number of messages received it is impossible for them all to he acknowledged, and the family requests that their appreciation be made known through the preBS. Another daughter of a Revolutionary boidier has turned up in Kansas in the person of Miss Eleanor Hoyt, of Lebo, Coffee County. She is said to be the only unmarried daughter of a Revolutionary soldier now living.

There are only three other daughters of Revolutionary heroes drawing Sensions. Congressman Miller, of has introduced a special hill in Congress to grant Miss Hoyt a pension of $12 a month. From the Mississippi valley to the Atlantio ocean in tho northern part of the United States, snows are melting on the mountain sides, rivers are flooded to their banks and over the lowlands adjoining, ice gorges have formed at all dams and bridges, and disastrous floods have commenced. A train was caught in the rising waters near Pittsburg last Saturday and one man lost his life at Wilmington, Del. The Mississippi and Ohio rivers have spread over the bottom landa and the residents along the low banks have taken to the hills.

In Pittsburg and Allegheny the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers are on a rampage. These rivera are thirty feet above the high water marks. The lower parts of Pittsburg and Allegheny are submerged, tba steel mills nave shut down and the flood is rushing down the Ohio livor with imminent danger of a big ioe gorge, and the highest water in twenty-five years. The property loss in that seetiou already4- amounts to $1,000,000. Townville News.

We bave had about I inches of snow hore the past few days. Tho young folks have taken great delight in snowballing, Looks as if we would have moro snow before this has melted away. Our farmers are very much pleased with the price ot cotton, and are going ahead preparing io raise more than they did last year. Wo iwaul one mau say he had his laud cleaned oil" ami his fertilizer hauled and was ready to commence putting it in as soon as the ground would db. (jness be aims to be ahead of tho balance of the farmers.

1 We hear sevoval speaking of a Hunk at this place. Un making dose inquiry we learn tho Hank is a settled fact. Tho money has been subscribed ami all to do now is to build the house to put it in. Hurrah for Townville. The oil mill at this place is running full time now, and is going to run night and day in a few days.

J. W. Shirley has about completed his large brick store, which mids much to our pretty little couutry town. We would bo glad to sec several moro like this one here. J.J.

Haley, of Conway, S. has decided to come to Townville to engage in the mercantile business. We welcome Mr, Haley to our town, and would be glad to seo Beveral moro come hero and put in a stock of goods. Our school, under the management of Prof. Zeugler, of Tennessee, is doing good work.

Wo hear the school complimented him very highly. The trustees have just set out some 50 or GO selected water oaks on tho grounds, and are tbiuking'of having the building Sainted at an early date. Theu we eau oast of having the prettiest school grounds and house in the county. Tho saw mills aud shingle mill men are doing a good business this winter. D.

L. Pant haB purchased a now shingle mill. There ie a lot of sickness in this neigbborhood at present. Sore throat seems to be vofy frequently spoken of. Mumps and smallpox is reported four miles above here at Tok( oint.

Mrs. E. E. Ledbetter has retMrrmfl home after a pleasant visit to her sou, D. A.

Ledbetter. We are sorry to note the death of Mr. Paul Campbell who accidentally shot himself on last Fiidny. Mr. Campbell is a son of W.

M. Campbell, who lives between thia place and Seneca, and is well known in our town. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community. Itisanother case of boys hunting and the gun going elf unexpectedly. The quurterly conference meets with Smith Chapel on the Pith and 14th inst.

News Boy. Fork News. Our people were somewhat surprised when they awoke last Thursday morning aud found everything wrapped in a mantle of snow. Mr, Bill Dobbins had tho misfortune of losing a line mule last Saturday. Kev, Mr.

Tedder, a missiouury from Jinna, visited at N. O. Farmer's last fourth Saturday und Sunday. Mrs. N.

O. Farmer is visiting her father, Kev. J. R. Earle, in tho Shiloh section.

Pendleton Barton, of Atlanta, is visiting his parents in this section. It is thought that it won't be very long before the new iron budge, which is being built at the freo ferry across the Seneca Iii vcr, will be completed. Prue McAdams and Miss Essie Sullivan visited at James Barton last Sunday. We are sorry to learn that Frank Wright, who has been sick some time, is no better. Mies Annie Barton visited at ber uncle, Jesse Barton, last week.

Miss Emmie Barton visited Misses Eula McAdams and Ned Major at N. O. Farmer's last Sunday and Monday. The sohool at Oakdale is in a flouring condition, the enrollment being eighty-four. Heller spent last week in North Carolina selling patent single trees.

He reports several cases of smallpox in that country. R. and J. Prospect Dots. Wo are having a lot of bad weather at this writing and it caught lot of people without wood.

Miss Eula Tate hus been spending a few days with the family of M. L. Campbell. Mrs. Abercrombie, the wife of Lewis Abercrombie, died on the 28th.

The funeral service wes conducted by Rev. W. B. Hawkins and the remains were laid to rest at New Prospect Church. She leaves her husband, one son and two daughters to cherish her memory.

L. D. King spent last Sunday with the family of M. L. Campbell.

E. B. C. Snipes gave a ponnd party on the 20th nit, his birthday, A large crowd of people were present and they had a very nice time. Rossie Greer has recently been visiting her uncle, H.

Greer. Clarence Reynolds spent last Sunday with his sister, Mrs. E. D. Anderson.

We are all glad to know that A. L. McLees is again able to be out after a spell of the grip. Jan. 80.

B. L. G. In Memoriam. One month from this, the first day of February, our friend, F.

M. Murphy, known to many of his friends as "Uncle Tommie," left ns to live with his Redeemer. We feel that his departure ought not to be styled dying but living, and we know that he has merely gono home. He leaves behind eight children, thirty-nine grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren. He had for many years been a faithful member of the Baptist Church, and at bia death his membership was at White Plains, where bis body was laid to rest the 8rd day of January.

'Tis aad to give np dear ones, we know, Yet this is the way the world must go. His life was a noble character. A Friend. Feb. 1, 1904.

Thirty-two negroes and six white Kopie were killed by a tornado at oaodville, on Jan. 22nd. Sixty-five persons wounded. Every house in tho town was blown down. THE Has Changed Base on account of Neediiig; TVtore JrlooixL FOR OUR Growing Busine From Now On Will be Found At WITHMore Clothing, More Dry Goods, More Shoes, A.T LESS PRICE than any Store in Upper South WATCH US! We are going to sell them CHEAP don't give us a look.

Satisfactlon'guaranteed to everybody. Come to see us in our New Quarters and you will continue to come. Yours to please, Start the New Year Right I TURN OVER A NEW LEAF, And promise yourself that you will buy all your Dry Shoes, and 1,001 other things that you need for 1904, from. ema We will promise to give you the Best Goods at a lower price than you get them elsewhere. TH ATS'S ENOUGH DO THIS-then we'll both be happy.

In token of the above we make the following prices for your consideration Yard-wide Sheeting, 6c quality, at 4ie yard. Outing, 7o quality for 5c yard. Outing, 10c quality, for 7c yard. Hickory Shirting at 8c yaid. 6o Cotton Checks for 4ic yard.

7c Cotton Checks for 6c yard. 18c Jeans for 12ic yard. 20c Jeans for 15c yard. 25c Jeans for 20c yard. Red Flannels.

The 15ckind for Ile yard. The 20c kind for 15c yard. The 25c kind for 19c yard. The 35c kind for 25c. The 25c kind, white, for 19c yard.

The 30o kind for 22c yard. Undershirts. Men's Fleeced Undershirts, 25o grade, now 15c. Men's Elastic Seam Drawers 50c, now Men's Negligee Shirts, 40c grade, now 25c. Ladies' Undervests.

Ladioa' Fleeced Undervests, 15c quality, now 10c Sox. Men's Heavy Grey Sox, 10c quali. ty, now 5c pair. Men's weiter value 50c, now 35c each. Winter Dress Goods at Cost I Ready-made Gingham Aprons 10c.

Bed Spreads, sold for 75c, now 50c. Children's Jackets.we sold for now 70c. Children's Jackets, we sold for now 85c. Children's Jackets, we sold for 1.75^ now 1.20. Children's Jackets, we sold for 2.25? now 1.50.

Ladies' $1.50 Skirt? to close oat PJL at SI 00. Ladies' 3.50 Skirts to close at 2.25. Ladies' 5.00 Skirts to close at 3.59. Ladies' 6.50 Skirts to tloae at 4.50. Ladies' and Children's Hats? $1.00 Hate now 50c.

50c Hate now 25c. Shoes. Ladies' $1.00 Shoes now 75c pair. Ladies' 1.25 and 1.50 Shoes now 1.00 pair. Ladies' 1.75 aud 2.00 Shoes now 1.50 pair.

Men's Heavy Shoes, formerly 1.00, now 75c pair. Men's Heavy Shoes, formerly 1.25, now 1.00 pair. Men's Heavy Shoes, formerly 1.50, now 1.25 pair. Crepe Paper for Mantels, all colors, 10 feet in a roll, worth 10c, now 5c roll. Bvli Toread two balls for lc.

Everything at CLQ4E OUT Leader Stoves and Ranges still in the lead. We willjappreciate a visit whether you buy or not. Spot Cash, no charge slips made, nothing on approval. Yours always truly, JOHN A. AUSTIN, THE The 5c.

and 10c. STORE, The Han down next to the Fostofflce that sells the Boat..