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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
Notice of Dissolution

FNHE copartnership heretofore existing
Il between the undersigned, under the
firm name Of j. w. Shirley & Co., at
Neva, s. G., and at Townville, s. c., has
been dissolved by mutual consent. S. L..
Shirley will continue the business at Neva
in his own name, and j. w. Shirley and
P. S. Mahaffey, Jr, will continue the
business at Townville, under the firm
name of Shirley & Mahaffey.
j. w, SHIRLEY,
S. L. SHIRLEY.
March q, 1897 81 ~. Iilt IA
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
Finding Fault.

EDITORS INTELLIGENcEn: 1t is very
true that it requires little talent to find
fault. But it does seem clear that to spend
thousand dollars for machinery to crush
rock, when We have no rock to crush, is q
mistake. 1t is especially so when we have
so much sand in reach which can be had
almost for the hauling
Besides. if we would stop putting red
clay on the Streets, we would have little
need of either crushed rock or sand. This
is evident from very slight observation.
Add to this the dangerous tendency to-
wards increased taxation, now IA mills.
We are reaching dangerous ground that
demands halt. B.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

The committee of the New York legis-
lature that have been investigating the
great trusts doing business in the State
make in their report several recommen-
tions. They would have restrictions set
on the amount Of stock which it is per-
mitted these corporations to issue. This
would prevent the vast watering of stock
which has become SO deplorable an evil.
They would also have the taxation laws
made so stiff that there would be no way
for the great corporations to evade their
just share Of public burdens. The COM
mittee are also of opinion that when cap
ital outside Of given State is employed
in that State it should be subject to tbs
same taxation as is imposed upon local
scompsnies.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

= 1t takes about three seconds for
message to 90 from one end of the Allan
tic cable TO the other.
Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and La
Grippe when LAXATIVE BROMo QUIN1NE
will cure you in one day. Does not pro-
duce the ringing in the head like Sulphate
of QuininG. Put up ia tablets convenient
for taking. Guaranteed to cure. or money
refunded. Price, 25 Cents. For s,'essby
EVansP Pharmacy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Gen. Wade Hampton, who has been
seriously i'll in Washington, is On the
mend now, We are glad to say. His
physician thinks he will soon be in his
normal health, if he does not have anoth-
or attack. We wish the noble old hero a
speedy recovery.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Suicide seems to grow in popularity in
this country. the per cent being nearly
up to that of Germany. In 1896 there
were $3.50 cases of self-destruction in the
United States, an increase Of 761 over the
record of Of 1895. Besides this enormous
total, there were likely many cases not
reported at all. Here comes in a fine
field for scientific exploration and con-
quest. The investigating expert who
discovers the bacillus of suicidal mania
and subdues it and renders it harmless
will achieves triumph for which man
Kind will rise up and call him blessed.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

ROBERTS, S. c., March 20.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER: In accordance
with the request of the County Auditor,
a number of the old soldiers of Rock
Mills Township met at Providence for the
purpose of electing Pension Board. B.
i. Shirley was requested to act as chair
man and J. w. Shearer Secretary. The
Pension Board resulted in the choice of
c. 3. Gilmer, B. +. Shirley and w. II.
Campbell.
There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.
J. w. SIIEARER. Sec.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Prize fights are delnoralizing, and a
disgrace to this great country. They
should be stopped. Among the great
metropolitan dailies, the New York
Tribune and the Philadelphia Ledger did
not print anything about the recent fight
or fighters, and they deserve praise for it.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

II is said that Senator Hanna's mail is
so heavy that it takes his secretary and
{ five stenographers to keep up with it..
Most of the letters received are applica-
tions for Office. The writer's seem to know
where TO strike.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

William Drury resident Of Illinois,
and said to be the largest individual land
owner in the United States, died a few
days ago, aged 81 years. He owned hun
dreds of thousands of acres in Western
States and 6,OOO acres in the county he
lived in. Now he hasn't more than about
~ foot
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

1t is said that The war in Cuba has cost
the Spanish government about $4,000, 900
month since the rebellion began, or
about $50 100000 up to the present. No
wonder that government wants somebody
10 pull her off.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
Honor Roll OF Trinity School.

Cassie Bolt, 9O Eugene Brown, 9l j.;
Lois Brown, 80; Waddie Brown, 90
Matte Finley, 90; Ella Finley, SO; May
King, 90; Nellie Moseley. 90; Yancey
Shirley, 90; Mary Welborn, 90.
Myrtle MCWHoRTER, Teacher.
Waco, March 19, 1897.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

The Dingley .ariff bill was introduced
in Congress Monday, and the debate at
once opened. The debate in the House
has been limited to nine days. The great
est fight on the measure will be in the
Senste, and it is doubtful whether the bill
-asS it comes from the House will go
through this body.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Japan has had committee of fifteen,
consisting of eminent statesmen, at work
for three years on the currency question,
and the recent determination to adopt the
gold standard was done on the recon-
mendation of that committee.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

tits estimated that the new tariff bill
which Mr.. Dingley OF the Ways and
Means committee has presented to Con-
gress will increase the revenues on i'm
ports, upon the basis OF last years impor-
tations, at least Sl12,000,000.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Every day, almost, brings some new
evidence of Southern progress. Not only
are there cotton mills building but others
projected. On other lines also there is
constant, well-directed intelligent effort.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

One section Of the fishing laws of
Florida provides that ''Whoever fishes
for shad between sundown on Saturday
afternoon and sunrise on Monday morn
ing Of every week shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding $500, and by conGsca-
ton OF boat and fishing tackle used in
s such unlawful acts"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
EVE FORKS.

TIVE TOKkS, NIarCn 70.
Editor TtclIigencer: A meeting of
Confederate Veterans was held here to-
day to elect Pension Board for Garvin
Township. J. L. Mullinax was called to
the chair, and J. N. Hembree requested
to act as secretary. The chairman ex-
planned the object of the meeting. An
election was gone into and resulted in
the selection of J. T. Jones, j. o. Harris
and W. L. Dalrymple as members of the
Board. The meeting then adjourned.
J. y, HEMBREE, Sec
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Greece defying the united powers of
Europe shows splendidly what one
|plucky little individual can do simply by
taking stand for the right against forces
ten times as strong as himself.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

A meeting of the old soldiers Of Bolton
Township met at Bolton Saturday even
ing, March Goth, for the purpose of elect
ing a Beard of Pensions. The meeting
was organized by the election of G. w.
Cox chairman and Jas. w. Poore secreta-
ry. The object of the meeting being
fully explained, J. Il. Green, E. B. Rice
aud J. J. Copeland were elected the three
members to compose the Board of Pen
sions for Belton Township.
j. w. PooRE, Sec.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

4 II the proposed tariffbill passes the rich
people who buy their supplies of clothing
abroad and bring them back by the
trunkfull will be limited in their tariff
free purchases to 500.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

A meeting Of the surviving soldiers of
Williamson Township was held on the
Goth day of March, 1897, at the Richard
son Garrett place, for the purpose of
electing Pension Board for said Town
ship. The meeting was organized by
electing j. +. Clardy, Esq, Chairman, and
L. B. Roberts, Secretary.
The new pension law was read and eX-
planned by the Chairman.
On motion, it was unanimously re-
solved to elect said Board by ballot.
The Chairman appointed B. F. Media
vid, II. A. Robertson and J. T. Holiday,
tellers, to hold said election.
l.. b. Roberts, Pelzer, Il. It. Benson,
Piedmont, and j. S. Lawless, White
Plains, were declared elected to constitute
the Pension Board for Williamson Town
ship.
On motion, the County papers were re-
quested to publish the proceedings ofthis
meeting.
After appropriate remarks by the
Chairman and others the meeting was
declared adjourned.
The Williamson Township Pension
Board met at PelZer on the 22nd inst, and
organized by electing l.. B. Roberts,
Chairman. l.. B. ROBERTS, Sec.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
Cure for Headache,

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by giving the needed tone to the bowels,
and few cases long resist the usa of this
medicine. Try it once. Large bottles
only Fifty cents at Hill-Orr Drug Co.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

= Only God can tell how much wrong
doing is prevented by one man doing
right.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
The Discovery Saved his Life.

Mr. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beavers
vile, ILL.,, says: "To DR.. Kings New Dis
covery owe my life. Was taken with
La Grippe and tried all the physicians for
miles about, but of no avail and was given
up and told could not live. Having Dr..
Kings New Discovery in my store l sent
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first dose began to get better, and after
using three bottles was up and about again.
1t is worth its weight in gold. We won't
keep store or house without it." Get q
free trial at Hill-Orr Drug Co.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
Pension Boards.

Williamson, S. c., March 20.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
The Duke VIII Not Be There.

New Bedford, Mass, August 23-The
Duke of Bedford in n letter to the New
Bedford semi-centennialc committee writes
that he has read with great interest Of the
celebration in October.
Engagements prevent my being pres
ent at your celebration, but wish you
every happiness and good fortune" he
says.
1.-THE Bedford, from which you take
your name, has Of late prospered and in.
creased and is now one of the most beau.
tiful and healthy centers of education in
England.
sit is difficult to express it's leading
characteristic. or to suggest sentiment
drawn from purely local considerations
but perhaps the spirit of the midlands OF
England may be summed up in the word
--Moderation-and L cannot do better
than suggest to you the thought that
the quiet prosperity of Bedford is due to
It's midland habit of avoiding extremes. .
Yours sincerely,
BEDFORD -
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
THE FARMER G ETs IT.

There has been d notion prevalent that
the rise in wheat would enure chiefly to
the speculator. sit won't do the farmer
any good" has been dismally croaked by
thousands of people whose political future
depend upon poor crops poor prices and
poor business, and who hate therefore to
see prosperity on the way and seek to
minimize it as much as possible. But
their croaking has this time been founded
on Ignorance, wilful or otherwise, Of the
facts According to Mr.. Pillsbury, the
great Minneapolis miller, who probably
knows the facts as well as any one in
this country, the farmers have on hand
$50, 100000 bushels of wheat which they
hSye not sold, and which of course the
rise in price affects. Spectators are sell
ing. this wheat but they have got to buy it
later on, and thu farmers are not in dan
ger of furnishing it to them at less than
the market price. If the spectators had
already bought it, then the advance
would enure to their benefit entirely, but
they have not and hence the farmers are
going 20 get most Of the benefit from it.
1t has been shown by repeated expert.
ence that the general business of the
country can not be prosperous when the
staple agricultural products of the coun-
try are abnormally low-that is when
the farmer is poor and has little to buy
with. And the converse too has been fire.
quently shown to be true that with
agriculture fourishing everything else
thrives. Prosperity is coming the right
way to be lasting. The wind is not bach
ing in but is swinging round the righI
way to insure long and pleasant spell
of industrial and business fairweather.
OF course there will be more disma.
croaking. the leaders of parties whose
chief stock in trade is calamity will moi
admit that their cause is lost until they
are absolutely compelled to, but theil
forebodings will not delay prosperity S ad'
vauce
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

The agitation over Sonora Cisneros, the
young Cuban girl, said to be doomed 70
a fate worse than death, seems to have
been decidedly premature. Gen. Weyler
may not be very truthful person when
he is reporting in regard to the con-
dition of the Cuban rebellion, but 1T is
highly Improbable that he would tele-
graph to an American newspaper over
his own signature statement in regard
to the case of this girl which was not
true. Weyler says the girl has not been
doomed to anything as yet. She has been
arrested, charged with Turing Spanish
officers into ambush with the intention
of having them murdered by concealed
armed men, but as yet has not been con
demned nor tried If she is guilty OF
the offence she is charged with she Is de-
serving of some punishment even though
she be young and very pretty. The act
she meditated was murder, and none the
less murder because conceived in the in
tercst of Cuban freedom. While we re
Duke and condemn cruel and wanton acts
on the rart of the Spaniards, we should
not pass them over or excuse them when
Committed by the Cubans This girl
should have a prompt and fair trial. and
whatever agitation may be directed to
that end is justif1able, and also praise
worthy, but when it goes to the extent of
demanding her discharge, whether she
be guilty or not guilty it goes altogeth-
err too far
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
ELITTLE OVER HALF A BILLION.
Volume of Appropriations and New Offices
Created at the Last Two Sessions of
Congress-,

Washington, August 23.--The volume
of appropriations, new officers, etc.,
covering the second session Of the fifty
fourth Congress and the first session of
the fifty-fifth Congress, has just been
completed by Mr.. 7. P. Cleaves and Mr..
J. c. Courts, clerks of the Senate and
House committee on appropriations, re-
spectively 1t shows that the appropria-
lions made were as follows: General ap-
preparations account, 1897, 100, 1884; de-
flciency accounts, $40, b57, All; miscellaneous
accounts, 1899, 500; total, S4oS, $3.50, 1858
permanent annual appropriations, $780,
07S, 221; making q grand total OF appro'
priations made at both sessions OF $685.
735, 07S.
The number of new offices and employ :
ments specifically authorized Is 40, and
an annual compensation of SAB, 439. and
the number omitted 1874 at an annual
compensation of $1o7. 697 making net in
crease of 276 in number, and $3.50, 742 IN
amount.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
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The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
4Os,656,85s
Seal Commission Has Completed I'll
Iuvestie alton.

Washington, August 23.-Assistant Sec
rotary Howell today received the follow
ing telegram from Seal Commissioners
Davis Starr Jordan at Seattle, Washing
ton.
Investigation successfully completed.
Shrinkage of breeding rookeries 10 per
cent since last year. OF killable males
SO per cent. Latter due to starvation OF
pups from pelagic sealing in 1894. Former
due to last years destruction of females
plus starvation of pups in 1894. Con,
illusions of last year completely yindicated
in all important regards"
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

The Massachusetts, gold Democrats are
preparing to call a State convention on
the assumption that the regular conven
ton at Worcester, called by the State
committee, will be free silver affair, an
assumption which is undoubtedly correct.
Inc Boston Herald, however, inclines to
the opinion that the convention is I'M
called for and will only make an unneces-
sary disturbance. The Herald thinks
that Wolcott is good enough man for all
the gold men to vote for, whether Repub-
leans Il Democrats, @
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

The treasury department has prepared
a statement showing that the purchases
of silver under the Bland-Allison law
amounted to 291, 272, o18.56 ounces and
cost s308, 279, 26O71. The purchases under
the Sherman law amounted to 1853, 674,
,s.53 ounces, costing s155, 1881 ,60s. 20
making the total amount bought unde,
the two laws 459. GAG, 701 90 ounces costing
S464, 2l0 1896. The average price pei
ounce paid for the silver was 81 .0093. AT
the present price of bar silver, the com
mercial value of the metal thus bought by
the United States would be about 242, 622,
0S4-S 80. The loss sustained by the govern
ment is big one, but the wealth OF
knowledge which the experiment. has
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

According to statistics prepared by
Commissioner Evans there were filed in
June of the present year 0,169 applica-
lions for pensions as against only 1898 for
the month of July 1896. The commits
sioner ascribes this startling increase to
hard times and the incoming of Repub-
lican administration. At the hands of
the latter the worthy applicants will
doubtless receive due justice yet at the
same time the peoples money should
not be lavishly launched out.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

The decline of silver has sent everything
up in Mexico, but one thing, and that is
wages. Here is another demonstration
of what has been demonstrated many
times before but which nevertheless the
Populists and Silveritos of last wear
would not admit, that the last thing to
rise when the currency is cheapened is
wages. For long time after the Dur
chasing power of his dollars have diInin-
ished the laboring man gets no more
dollars in number. Eventually he may
get more, but never enough to recoup
him for his losses due to the quicker rise
of all the articles he has to buy.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

Americans are warned by the London
Truth that Society of Science, Letters
and Art is selling in that city academic
degrees to unsuspeeting aspirants on thi s
side of the water; whereupon the Congre-
gationalist says the same thing is done in
this country and adds, ''If every man
who is called doctor had to append to
his title the name of the college which
conferred it, the list would soon be much
diminished
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

1t is reported that convention is to be
agreed upon between Spain and the
United States for the settlement of all
claims on account, of the wrongs and in
justices committed in the island of Cuba.
The result of this convention will be the
appointment of a claims commission,
similar to that appointed in 1871, which
settled the claims of citizens OF. both
countries after the instruction of that
time. rg ~
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

The wares of reputable, responsible
firms are advertised in these columns, and
are for sale by enterprising dealers. No
substitutes or limitations should be ac-
cepted. Be firm, and you can get what
you want
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
G<A11lAO ~ = At<AN
CUBAN WAR,
(From the London spectator.)

AttOih t1iO l1OAAdob OPNOe1eoA'J
People here hardly realize what Spain
has done in the course of the struggle
with Cuba. She has sent so many CON
scripts to die there of fever and home
sickness and wretchedness, that at present
the Spanish war office has greater ex-
perience in the matter of the transport Of
troops by sea, not merely than any other
war office of modern times, but of any
times. Spain in the last few years has
put 250, 600 men into Cuba. That she does
not have to provide for bringing them
home is the most dreadful and disastrous
fact of all.
The Cuban war has done much to ex-
haust Spain in three ways 1t has cost
huge sums Of money, has absorbed the
energies Of government, and, more i'm
Dortant it has robbed the country of half
her crop of young men. The conscripts
have been sent to die in Cuba at the very
moment when they ought to have been
using their young energies in tilling the
soil, winning iron from the mines, OF
working in the trades. In land where
the men have On invincible longing to
rest in the shade after forty, and are old
at fifty, the nation cannot do without
it's youth. Spain, then, under it's present
conditions, is exactly the country in
which one would expect the gospel Of
anarchy to flourish and abound.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

vouchsafed the thoughtful element of the
community is compensation of no light
consideration. The money has not been
spent in vain and, perhaps, the future
will demonstrate the fact that it has been
we'll spent.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

Lieutenant Governor Jester, of Texas,
wishes to be promoted to the executive
chair next year. Unfortunately he is
handicapped by name which may pre-.
vent his being taken seriously on any
subject even that Of political promotion.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24

The expectations of domestic merchaa-
disc for the fiscal year 1867 shows a val
ue of 81, o32, OBJ, 800 being the largest in
the history of domestic exports from this
country and 26.7S per cent of the
total exports Of thesyear.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY, AUGUST "a.

Westminster Gazette terms dollar wheat
an unmerited stroke of luck for the Nc
Kinley administration. To be born lucky
rather than rich is well for individuals,
not less SO, perhaps for administrations