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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-26
BICYCLE CONTEST.
Who is the Most Popular Young Lady
in Anderson County?

THE 1ELLIGENCER wants its readers to
decide this question by a vote, and the
young lady receiving the greatest number
of votes will be presented with a Crescent
Bicycle.
The voting is to be by coupons, which
will be printed in each issue of THE INTEL.
LIGENCER from now until Saturday, July
Bid, when the contest closes, the result be-
ing announced in our issue of July 9TH.
Every coupon sent to US will be counted,
and it is guaranteed that the contest will
be conducted absolutely fair.
The bicycle which we shall present to
the lady receiving the greatest number of
votes, Is a Crescent Model No. 4, and is q
very handsome wheel, one of the bes.
manufactured by the Crescent Company,
which Is represented in Anderson by the
Sullivan Hard ware Company, who will
give the usual guarantee upon it. The
bicycle is now on exhibition in one Of the
show windows of the Sullivan Hardware
Company's store, where you are cordially
invited to call and inspect it.
Here Is the coupon, cut it out and write
on it plainly the name ofthe lady for whom
you wish to vote and send to this Office,
where it will be recorded. No vote will
be counted unless written on this coupon.
The vote will be announced from week to
week, and should reach Us not later than
Monday morning, in order to appear in the
paper of that week.
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The taking off of no man in public life
in South Carolina since the war has caus-
ed more profound and general sorrow
and regret than the death of United
States Senator Joseph H. Earle at HIS
home last Friday in Greenville. This
sad event does not reach the proportions
Of a national loss, because his record as
Senator, promising as it was of useful
ness and Of honor, was all too brief for
him. to have reached the country's heart,
and therefore quickened its pulse by his
untimely departure. But here at home,
where his name and fame are carved in
characters ineffaceable, is the sense of
loss keenest and the measure of sorrow
fullest. Descended from a highly hon.
orable ancestry, and reared in the atmos-
phere of the knightliness of the old
South, forging his way through the
changed conditions that have made q new
South, he stood at lifs's close the type
the impersonation-of all that was best
in the new and old. He lacked the charm
Of personal magnetism possibly, but men
were drawn to his standard by the force
of his character and the power of his
masterful intellectually. Senator Earle
was M Of the most conspicuous exem-
plars of personal and public honor that
our State, prolific as she has been, has
produced, and we would point ouryoung
men, ambitious Of honor and emolunent,
to this splendid Christianized manhood as
worthy of imitation. South Carolina was
generous to her son, showering upon him
gifts of honor and profit, and in return he
bestowed upon his proud old mother all
the loyalty, all the homage, all the ideli-
ty Of his nature, and she to-day
that her distinguished son, bearing fresh
in his hands her highest commission and
with the vista of still greater usefulness
opening clear before him, should have
fallen an untimely victim of the lnsatia-
BILE archer that spares neither peasant nor
prince,
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TOWnrille Items.

Our most esteemed friend, Mr.. a.. Hun
ter, living near this place, is still very
poorly.
A good rain is very much needed in
this country.
The farmers say that they are as
far along with their crops as at this time
last year.
Mr.. w. E. FAINT, of this place, contem-
plates going to Charleston on the Smith
excursion.
Mr.. J. B. Holcombe, of this place, had
the misfortune to lose his blacksmith
shop by fire on last Saturday evening.
Carelessness with fire by n Of his hands
was the cause. He saved his bellows, a
sulky plow and log cart, but all the rest
was consumed by the flames.
The Presbyterian Sunday School will
observe Children's Day on next Sunday.
Mr.. T. NJ. Bruce, of this place, who has
been running the county road machine
for the last two months, has obtained a
vacation OF a week and will take in the
excursion.
Miss Sallie McCarley, of this place, is
very sick at this time.
Prof. W. 4. Dickson, Of near this place,
has vacated his school and says he don't
know what to do with himself. He came
up one day this week and said he would
rather work than loaf. We thought that
deserved to be put in print. Who will be
the next?
Wheat is looking fine, but the rust is
on a good deal of it, but we hope not
enough to injure it to any great extent.
The capital stock is about all subscribed
for building the Oakway, Townville and
Anderson Telephone line. We presume
the building will commence in about two
weeks.
The Baptist Sunday School took up a
collection last Sunday to help cancel tn @
debt of the Foreign Board. It amounted
to 1898, and they added the collection Of
the Sunday before to it and sent $1S to
the Board.
Mrs. R. O.. Tribble, of Anderson. is
spending awhile with her daughter, Mrs.
Drayton Babb.
We consider the death of Senator Earle
a calamity to our State. We learned Of
his death with sorrow, as we are certain
did most all Carolinians.
OLD RosIN De Bow.
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Fork News.

Children's Day at Townville Presby-
byterian Church next Sunday.
Mr.. Andrew Hunter, of whom We wrote
last week, is still in a precarious condi-
ton. He is 50.
The dry weather has enabled the farmers
to put their crops in fine condition.
Albert Farmer has left the care of the
business of N. o. Farmer & Son to his
father and gone to run the commissary
store at Portman Shoals at a good salary.
All the schools in the Fork are closed
for Spring vacation. Miss McWhorter,
who had charge at Shady Grove, has re-
turned to Abbeville.
There is q good deal of sickness in the
Fork, and the doctors are busy.
Quite q number Of Fork people are alb
sent on the Charleston excursion this
week-more than formerly.
Mr.. E. W. Holcombe, who has done
more hard work probably than any other
man in the Fork since the war, complains
OF failing health and strength.
Mrs. Charles S. Milford, who has been
in bad health for so long, is able to ride
out. &*.
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For some years past Mr.. J. w. Shirley,
an enterprising young business man and
farmer al Townville, in this County, has
been engaged in truck farming in a small
way, combining himself to tomatoes and
onions. He has not kept exact accounts
with his experiments, but is satisfied that
these crops pay far better profits than
otton, or, indeed, any of the field crops.
This year he has two acres in onions of
the multiplying variety, and although the
season has not been favorable he counts
on gathering sixty bushels per acre. he
finds ready sale for his onions in the
market here at from eighty cents to q
dollar per bushel, SO that at g moderate
estimate this would be a gross yield of
one hundred dollars for the two acres.
The cost OF seed, ten bushels per acre be-
ing required, and Of the labor of planting,
c%uitivating, gathering and marketing we
will assume, for the sake Of estimate, to
be no greater than the same items In the
cotton crop. But 1t would appear to be
considerably less. The two acres Mr..
Shirley has in onions would, in its pres
ent state Of fertility, produce at an out
side figure fifty dollars worth Of cotton at
seven cents per pound. Thus it will be
seen that onions are 100 per cent more
profitable as a money crop than is cot
ton. But Mr.. Shirley will gather his
onions within q few weeks and follow
them with tomatoes, making two crops
per year on the same ground and proba-
bly, doubling his receipts. He sold to-
matoes in the market here last fall read
lily at dollar a bushel, and we see no
reason why he should not realiz. the same
prices again We have written Of Mr..
Shirley's success with onions and toma-
toes as Nd object lesson in diversified
farming. There is not an intelligent
farmer in Anderson County who will not
agree that TO make cotton, or any crop for
that matter, the principal crop, too gener-
ally the exclusive crop, is a ruinous poll
cy, and yet they continue it. Potatoes,
sweet and Irish, should contribute great
~ to the revenue of the farm. There are
no crops that yield SO large q return for
the labor expended in their cultivation
as these, and yet our farmers do not raise
enough for home consumption.
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A good deal of u%nfavorable criticism of
the questions issued by the State Board
o: Education forthe County examinations
OF applicants for teacher 9rtiticates, re-
Gently held throughout Tue State, has
been heard. We have read the questions
and our opinion in such matters being
non-professional, 80 to speak, may not
count for much, but as it strikes US these
questions do not seem TO be out of reach.
To be sure, In the preparation of so many
questions a few apparently unnecessarily
hard may creep in The terms of secur-
ing a certificate upon>tbese questions ap-
pear to US to be reasonable enough. To
answer correctly seventy five per cent. Of
the questions with what impresses itself
a. q wise proviso that at least sixty per
cant. on every branch must be made en-
titles the applicant to a first grade. With
the same questions the person making q
general average Of seventy per cent. and
falling below fifty in nothing, is given q
second grade. The instruction afforded
in our common schools, to cay nothing Of
our higher institutions, should qualify
our boys and girls for obtaining teachers
certificates, the more especially when it
Is borne in mind that the person-ayoung
woman of I7-making the highest grade
at the recent examination here, is a pro-
duet Of the too-oft derided common
school, and that her teacher, while hold
ing a high grade certificate, is himself q
stranger to college training. The conten-
ton in certain quarters is that the State
Board of Education, whose duty it is to
prepare the examination questions, is too
exclusively college bred, and, therefore,
not in touch or sympathy with the needs
of tho common schools. This may or
may not be the case; it certainly should
not be true. The interests Of education
should be as safe in the keeping of edu-
Gated men-thoroughly educated men
as with any other class of men, but this
is not he case every time. for some Of
the most impractical of men in the ap-
plication of common sense principles,
even in educational matters are thor
oughly educated. Let the State Board be
composed OF educated men by all means,
but at the same time let them be men of
practical wisdom and the common schools
will be safe.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-26
Am HISTORIC LEGEND !

Many, many Moons ago, when young
ambition slept and dreamed in the bosom
of many a drowsy tradesman hereabouts,
and strong handed competition had not
yet raised the magic wand which invites
and incites the bargain hunter from the
four winds of old earth to come and be
stated, there CHANGED this way q weary,
weary pilgrim. who became enchanted
with the lovely garden spot which the red
skins had deserted. On his breast he wore
this ensign, Il lead, let those follow who
will" On his brow was stamped in
scarlet letters this significant word
A
A smile of welcome lit up his counte.
nance, and soon it was heralded through
hill and dale that q new General was in
the field, and one born to lead. And for
eight years past the indomitable e. s..
MINOR and the TEN CENT STORE
have led the van, and cut their road
through the solid walls of Competition,
and planted their banner above the dis
mantled hopes of Competition. We drive
the bargains home with such sledge-ham-
mers as this:
Large Standard Lamps, fourteen inches
high, 13c.
Common Lamps 10c.
The Daisy Lamp Csc.
The Wild Rose Lamp 25c.
The Nellie BLY, Lamp 25e.
Good Tobacco at 15c. and zoe. per lb.
100 Fish Hooks for Sc.
Chewing Gum at half price to hear 9TH
ers kick.
A lot of Organdiea and Lawns to close
at lie. to &c. per ward for better goods.
Nice line of Ginghams at &c. per yard.
Heavy Cross-back and Firemen's Sus-
penders at loo. q pair-commoner goods at
SC. and &c. per pair.
French Shoe Polish SC.
Oiline Shoe Dressing l0c.
Pocket Knives Sc.
Sox and Stockings at 4c. and &c. a pair.
Oil Table Cloth l5c. per yard.
Turkey Red at same price.
Fine Lsundered Dress Shirts-Boys'
and Men's-at 24c., SOC. and 4Sc.
200 good Matches in a box for 1c.
2SS Shirt Buttons for Sc.
Pants Buttons Sc. per box.
Celluloid Collars Sc.
Celluloid Cuffs 10c.
A few painted Water Buckets, slightly
damaged, to close at Sc. each.
Heavy Glass Tumblers at l5c. per sett.
High Class Goblets 25c. per sett.
Half Gallon Pitchers 15c. each.
Cuff Holders 52. pair.
Cuff Buttons &c. to 10c. pair.
Breast Pins &c. to 10c. each.
Spectacles SC. pair.
Composition Gold for little more.
Market Baskets, with handles, ct 2 for SC.
We seek fame and fortune or poverty
and oblivion. We leave it to such figures
as above to name our fate. If men be
men still, and common sense be not at a
discount We know the result.
Yours always truly,
G. s. MINOR and
THE l0c. STORE.
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Card of Thanks.

The Iluste es of the Bolton High School
desire in this manner to acknowledge the
great value Of the public services rendered
in the suppression OF Friday evenings fire
in the school building, and on behalf of
themselve and the patrons generally they
hereby return hearty and sincere thanks
to all persons, and especially to the colored
citizens of the community, whose efforts
contributed 10 the successful result.
j. Il. RICE,
Sec. Board Trustees.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-26
Meeting Of Stockholders.

THE Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Of the Anderson Water, Light and Power
Company will be held at the Office of the
Company in the City Of Anderson, 8. c.,
on TUESDAY, the 22nd day Of JUNE
next, at II o'clock a. NJ, for the election
of officers Of the Company and for the
transaction Of such other business as may
come before the meeting.
s. M. ORR, President.
Anderson, s. G., May 10, lS97-4S-4
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Card Of Thanks.

Editors Intelligencer: I desire to return
thanks to my kind friends and neighbors
for their many acts, close attention and
words of consolation during the long i'll
ness and death of my dear daughter.
Words are inadequate to express my graft
tude to them. May God bless and reward
each and every one of them.
Respectfully,
A. M. BOLT.
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Card Of Thanks.

The family and other relatives of the
late e II. Poore, desire to return their
heartfelt thanks to the many friends Of the
deceased for their expressions Of sympathy
and renders of assistance in the trials and
duties attendant upon his death and
burial, aud beg to assure them that they
are thoroughly appreciative of and deeply
grateful for these numerous evidences OF
kindness.
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The Columbia State OF Tuesday says !:
"Fhe State receives information that to-
morrow Governor Ellerbe will appoint
Congressman McLaurin to- the United
States Senate. The news does not come
from either the Governor or the Con-
gresham, but it will do to count on"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-26

The funeral services took place in the
First Baptist Church at Greenville on
Saturday afternoon, and were conducted
by the pastor, Rev. DR.. Gardner. Citi-
zens of Sumter, Columbia, S%partanburg,
Anderson, Pickens and other places in
the State were present. The following
by appointment from Congress:
Senator b. r. Tillman, of South Caro-
lima; Governor McEnery, of Louisiana
dler, of New Hampshire Senator Clay of
Georgia; Congressman VIM. Elliott of
South Carolina; Congressman John l..
McLaurin and %Stanyarne Wilson, of
South Carolina; Judge w. l.. Terry, of
Arkansas; Judge A. p. Hunter, of Illi-
nois Congressman S. J. Barrows, Of
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Bank Stock at Public Sale.

WTE will sell at public outcry at An
w derson, 5. c, on Saledsy in June,
Ten Shares of Stock in the Bank of An
derson, s.. C.-$50 per Share. Terms cash.
8. E. FARMER, E%1ecutri1,
A. s. FARMER,
E. B. FARMER,
Executors Will of G. w. Farmer, decd.
MAY 26, 1887 4S 2
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-26

The Atlanta Board Of Education takes
the proper view OF corporal punishme nt
In the schools when it says: SIN many
instances it becomes necessary to either
whip q boy or expel him from school. II
he is whipped he is the only one punish
cd, while, The is expelled, the punish
ment falls on his parents more heavily
than on him. A whipping is a tempo
a punishment, while expulsion is a
lasting disgrace. 1t is easy, therefore, to
make the choice. In view Of these facts,
it would be foolish and even wrong to
Danish the rod from the public schools"
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Massachusetts Judge S. w. T. Lanham,
Of Texas Congressman Edw. L. Hamil-
ton, of Michigan Congressman J. T.
McCleary. of Minnesota and Ex-Gov-
ernor P. L. Osborne, of Wyoming.
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LAND. Land. LAND !.

WIZ offer at Private Sale on easy
wv terms in quantity to please buyers:
3 900 acres Land in Oconee County. sc.
1869 acres Land in Winston and Choc-
taw Counties, Mississippi.
1.024 acres Land in Upshaw Co., Te1as.
ALSO, =
Flour, Grist Mill and Cotton Gin, In
good order for work, with ample water.
power if developed fo- q large Clifton Mill
or other mar facturing purposes.
95l acres Land on Bsaverdam Creek,
near Fair Play, S. G.
553 acres Land near Oakway, sc
1881 acres Land on Connercss and Snow
Creeks, near Sitton's Mills.
1G2 acres Land, with Flour Mill, &c on
Conneross Creek.
Come and see US at once.
AUG'T. j. SITTON. Autun, s. c..
HENRY P. SlTTON, Pendleton, 8. c.,
Executors.
May 10, 1897 47 Oct
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Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will find
the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This
medicine does not stimulate and contains
no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts
as a tonic and Alternative. 1t acts mildly
on the stomach and bowels, adding strength
and giving tone to the organs. thereby
aiding Nature in the performance of the
functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent
appetizer and aids digestion. Old People
fud it just exactly what they need. Price
fifty cents per bottle at Hill-Orr Drug Co.
Two LiYes Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, Of Junction City,
III. was told by her doctors she had Con-
sumption and that there was no hope for
her, but two hotties of DR.. Kings New
Discovery completely cured her and she
says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers,
l39 Florida st. San Francisco, suffered
from a dreadful cold, approaching Con-
sumption, tried without result everything
else then bought u bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery and in two weeks was
cured. He is naturally thankful. 1t is
such results, of which these are samples,
that prove the wonderful efficacy of this
medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial
bottles at Hill-Orr Drug &C.. Regular size
SOC, and Sl.G0,
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The most that anyone cal lose is to
lose faith in God.
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u FURNISHINGS.

This Department was never so complete before. Bea
Curtains from s1.OO to $500 per pair. Fcesh lot Dotted
at lac. to 35c. per yard. White Quilts from Zoe. to So.
celled. We have the handsomest line of Table Linen
and Towels which we have ever shown, and we are anxior
give a careful look at our goods, for we are certainly 81
Goods, and every department is full and complete.
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k&oo 49, btSSS Ae~o WV
you appear to have learned this in practice
as well as theory, aud tie ripe fruits of
your labor, seen IN your farms and facto-
ries, should ~abundantly compensate for
the time and energy expended. With a
State filled with such advantages, and
guided by .uoh q people. its future SUCCESS
is assured. The itch gifts of nature upon
every hand cannot remain neglected. God
intends them 10 be utilized for the COM
fort Of man He placed them here for that
purpose, and IL we prove recreant to the
opportunity, others will come in and seizs
them to their own advantage. My fear Is
not that the State will not increase in
wealth aud development-.his is bound to
come-but Il at our own PEI pc will not
get the full bant6t of these evidences Of
divine favor by neglecting the chance until
it is too late. The attention Of all other
sections Is centred upon the South. The
home.seeker, the home-maker, the inVes-
tor and laborer are all making q careful
examination Of our conditions and oppor-
tunities. The other day q nan Srote me
from Wisconsin, inquiring about-climate,
the value of land, etc. I wrote him back
that our climate was worth 500 per acre,
but hat be could buy land in Marlboro
County at from S25 to $50 per acre with the
Cllluat6 tUEORu III dS d uOEuS W luuuCo
immigration.
The time has come when the progressive
and energetic In our State must take the
lead in the grand march Of development.
We must not daily until the alien and the
stranger secures the advantages which
were intended for our own people.
Young men of the South, you must come
to the front and do battle for financial and
industrial supremacy as did your fathers
in times past for personal liberty. Prompt
and energetic men and measures are need
ed to turn capital into our State in a
mighty stream. We have but to prepare
the way. Every n should exert his in
fuence and intelligence, invest bis time
aud means in the Inauguration Of an era
Of home development. Such efforts will
bring capital with the best class of immi-
grants. and in the end make US rich and
conteuted. When the vast water powers
with which we are favored shall speed our
own machinery, fed by our W products
and guided by our own people; when the
black smoke of thriving factories shall
darken the skies, and the hum and Whirl
of machinery be hoard throughout the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-14
A REIDSVlLLE RACE-Rl07
BEGAN WITH THE INSULTS OF An IN
S0LENT NEGRO.
A Free Fight Followed Joined in by Negroes
The Whites at Night MomentariIy on
Lookout For Outbreak.

RcidsviIle, y. c., Sept. 13.-(Special)
A race riot amy hour would not be
unexpected. To-day Colorcd Barber
james Allen insulted TaXCollecter Lam
berth for garnishc@ing wages, using
many ugly epithets. Bystander, Thomas
Keats assaulted Allen, and punished
him severely, when another negro por-
ter, Smith, came across the street and
struck Keats with II beer bottle
Lamberth used Il stick pretty freely on
both negroes, and several others came
to their rescue making violent threats.
For while it seemed II race riot would
be the result, but the police repelled the
crowd Tonight there are groups OF
colored people in various sections of
town and the whites are expecting an
outbreak momentarily. Reidsville has
two strong military companies which
will respond to duty when called.