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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-06-14
Victim Of Bigamist.

The people about Alleudale, il
Barnwell county, seem to be consid
erably stirred up over the fact that
one Of the most popular young women
Of the place has found herself to be q
victim of bigamist.
These details Of the affair are from
the Jacksonville Fla.) Metropolis OF
Saturday evening last:
&C. F. Pons, citizen Of Jackson
vile, is in Jail at Barnwell, S. C.:
charged with bigamy.
"Mr. Pons is a well-known detective
and has a wife and several children
who reside in this city. A few weeks
ago he married Miss Ollie Brabham, a
young woman Of Allendale, S. G. The
young lady was said to be the b"lle OF
the place and the wedding was a nota-
BILE event. The manner in which the
exposure was made is most interesting
and is af follows
"David Manier, trusted employee OF
the Matthews department store, is
native Of Allendale, and was friend
and neighbor Of Miss Ollie Brabham'
His cousin wrote to him from that
place stating that Miss Ollie had mar
ried a Jacksonville man by the name
Of C. F. Pons. Mr.. Manier at once
investigated the matter and says that
he learned that Mr.. Pons had wife
and several children residing in this
city on Beaver street, and he so noti-
fed the Allendale people, which re-
suited in arrest Of Pons, aud he was
taken to the Barnwell county Jail
where he is now incarcerated.
ga reporter Of the Metropolis was
shown a letter this morning written
by Hon. z. j. Connor, a lawyer Of
Allendale, hich says that the people
of that little city are very indignant
as Miss Brabham was one Of the most
popular young ladies in the place
The letter further says that Pons was
removed to Barnwell owing to the in,
dignation of the people.
"Mr. Manier was requested to hno
out all about Pons, which he says he
did, and sent afidavits to the authori
at Barnwell. Pons, he says, has ad
| mitted to his newly made wife that he
had former wife in Jacksonville, but
had recently secured divorce from
her. Mr.. Manier says that he went
to County Clerk Cassidey this morn
ing and secured from him certificate
stating that no divorce had been
granted to Pons or suit entered fol
the came. Tile State.
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SARGE .PLUINKETT.
Happy Anticipations for the Coming of
Lay-by Time.
Atlantic Journal.

tie and cry for their mothers return.
Children raised in the arms Of mother
give promise of being blessing for
ever; children who are doomed to the
care of servants and the nourishment
of bottle had better to never been
born, considering, Of course, that these
conditions pertain because of the
mothers desire to meet the demands
Of fashion.
But do not want to get off on any
Of the weaknesses of the day. 1t is
glorious thing to contemplate the
peace and pleasure Of lay-by time,
and to know, too, that farmers can
claim this as entirely their own. /
heard business man Of Atlanta say
once that If it was not for the rest Of
Sunday he would very soon land in
the asylum. What glorious thing if
these hard-worked business men could
have a lay-by. 1t would be SO good
for them and good for the world. But
they can't have it, Itis business,
business. The world is running wild
on business. Night must be turned
into day. The great wheels Of the
industries must turn and the clatter
Of machinery be heard through all the
nights. They have no lay-by-they
have no night. 1t takes millions of
dollars to satisfy mans ambitions
where it used to take only thousands.
A man with million dollars cannot
rest-neither can man rest who has
his heart set on making million.
There is too much strain, too little
lay-by. We can see the need OF rest
and peace wherever we look. We are
soon to have another big prize fight,
and exciting games will be instituted
to relieve the strain; but the strain
remains, and will remain until the
world shuts down the machinery at
night; stop craving for the millions
and take lay-by once in every year,
trusting more in the Lord. A boy at
ten years of age now knows more than
they used to know at thirty-and yet
they are all fools. Not great states
man in prospect that has been evolved
under the culture Of the last thirty
FIVE years. Try the country. Have
lay-by. Get back to old-time ways.
This is my advice. New departures
have proved failure. Great wealth
aud the cravings for wealth is all vex-
alton. After you get it, it will do
you no good. Millions will not buy
the peace Of the countryman S lay-by,
and fashion cannot supply the pleas
,ures Of an old-time big meeting at a
country meeting house.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
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Bad management keeps more people
in poor circumstances than any other
one cause. To be successful one must
look ahead and plan ahead so that
when favorable opportunity presents
itself he is ready to take advantage OF
it. A little forethought will also save
much expense and valuable time. A
prudent and careful man will keep q
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy in the house,
the shiftless fellow will wait until
necessity compels it and then ruin his
best horse going for doctor and have
big doctor bill to pay, besides; one
pays out 25 cents. the other is out a
hundred dollars and then wonders why
his neighbor is getting richer while he
is getting poorer. For sale by Hill
Orr Drug Co.
"A person one year old may ex-
pect to live thirty-nine years longer !;
of ten years, fifty one; Of twenty,
forty-one; Of thirty years, thirty-four;
Of forty years, twenty-eight; Of fifty,
twenty-one; Of sixty years, fourteen
more; of seventy years, nine; Of eighty
years, four.
Mr.. P. Ketcham, of Pike City, CAL, !,
says: During my brother s late sick
ness from sciatic rheumatism, Cham
berlain's Pain Balm was the only
remedy that gave him any relief:
Many others have testified to the
prompt relief from pain which this
liniment affords. For sale by Hill-Orr
Drug Co.
Dixie Thompson, the bean king"
of Ventura county, California, planted
20, 900 acres of beans last year. The
crop was 1900 carloads, embracing
more than one hundred varieties. The
beans were sown and cultivated in the
same manner as corn, and were har-
vested by special machinery.
What is kodol Dyspepsia Cure? 1t
is the newly discovered remedy, the
most effective preparation ever devised
FOR aiding the digestion and assimila-
ton of FOOD. and restoring the derang-
ed digestive organs to natural condi-
ton. It is a discoveryRsurpassing
anything yet known to the medical
profession. Evans Pharmacy.
= Snow fighters are at work with
dynamite and shovels on the noun
tain system of the Colorado and South
ern road. Without the aid of dyna-
mite, it is claimed the banks would
not disappear before the Fourth of
July.
No man can work well with torpid
liver or constipated bowels. A few
doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will
quickly remove this condition and
make work pleasure. Sold by Evans
Pharmacy.
It's easy to find reasons why
others don't do the foolish things we
do.
"A Cincinnati judge recently gave
man ten days for stealing an eight
day clock.
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= Three thieves in New York stole
valuable dog last week. and later
the owner found the dog in possession
of the thieves. He claimed his prop
erty aud attempted to recover it, but
was brutally assaulted, when the dog
came to his rescue with such good ef-
feet that when a policeman came the
three thieves were glad to be arrested
and thus escape the dogs fury.
Wha you want is not temporary re-
lief from piles but cure to stay cur
ed. Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures
piles, and they stay cured. Evans
Pharmacy.
= Husband-Why are you SO angry
at the doctor? Wife-When | told
him l had terrible tired feeling, he
told me to show him my tongue.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-06-14
Ancient Corn.

Mr.. William McCabe, resident Of
Riverdale, Nd, has six kernels Of corn
which were found among others in
mountain cave of Arkansas, and said
by those versed in fossil signs to be
5000 or 5000 years old, says College
Park, Md, special in the Baltimore
Sun. Mr.. John E. Burton, the send
er of the precious grains, has in his
Office in Milwaukee, Wiss., 10 ears, in
every respect like other corn, save
that the grains are much larger, and
in color dark chocolate. Mr.. Burton
received the corn from Mr.. George
Barnum, of Columbus, Neb., and Mr..
Barnum raised these ears from the
original seed, discovered in cave her
metically sealed in some ancient and
curious pottery.
Mr.. Barnum planted the corn last
June, and the growth seemed to him
to be marvellous. In spite of the dry
and unfavorable season, this antedilu-
vian maize grew to the height of 10
feet, and in instances to Is feet, the
stalks measuring in circumference
inches, with leaves feet loug, when
other grain shriveled and perished un-
der the heat Of the sun. Mr.. Burton,
seeing some notice Of the gigantic ce-
real, and thinking it fake, wrote to
Mr.. Barnum about it. Mr.. Barnum
replied by sending him some of the
seed. Mr.. Burton has sent it to his
old home, near Lake Geneva, where
some of the farmers will see what can
be done with it. 1t has been demon
strated in the most satisfactory man
ner that the corn was actually found
in an old cavern in Arkansas. Mr.:
McCabe has planted what he has, and
anxiously awaits the results. A great
deal of interest in this matter has been
awakened in this neighborhood.
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In a criminal prosecution recent

In criminal prosecution recent
ly in York, Neb., the jury, after
brief deliberation, returned the fol-
lowing verdict: "We, the jury in the
above named case, do not believe one
word that the witnesses have sworn
to; neither do we believe that any Of
the attorneys have spoken the truth,
nor that either of them could do so if
he should care to take the trouble to
try"
There's many slip after the cup
touches the lip.
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Notice to Creditors.
touches the lii

Ill persons having claims against
IA the Estate of Mrs. Mary E Nandi-
YER, daceased, are hereby notified to pre-
sent them 10 the undersigned, properly
proven, within the time prescribed by
law. N. E. SULLIVA Ex'&.
MAY 81, 1899 49 j
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
The NEW BATTLE SHIPS.
Per Cent of Completion Of the Kearsarge
is92, Kentucky 80, Illinois GS. Ala
bama 8S and tho MaineO.

WAsnISGToy. July IA statement
prepared by Chief Constructor Hich-
born shows that OF the three battle
ship5 buildings at Newport News the
Kearsargc is advanced 81 Per cent. to-
ward completion. the Kentucky 30 per
cent. and the Illinois IS per cent.
Cramp has the Alabama IS per cent.
finished and the Maine per cent. At
the Union iron works the Wisconsin II
stands at - per cent. and the Ohio at
per cent
The shcathed cruiser a. bany in Eng
land Is advanced so per cent. The
monitor Wyoming, at the Union iron
works, is set down at II per cent; the
Connecticut, at Bath. at 10 per cent,
and the Florida, at Nixon's, per cent.
The training ship Chesapeake at
Bath is set down at 9S per cent, and
the submarine boat Plunger, at the
Columbian iron works, at S5 per cent.
The torpedo boats vary all the way
from 81 per cent. in the case OF the
Dshlgren at Bath, TO nothing.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
BITTEN BY A TARANTULA.
Tho wife Of "a Minneapolis Grocer Crit
icdlIy Ill From the Efrect-The Spider
Was Young One.

MINNEAPOIIs, Mimi, July 1L-Mrs.
Andrew ). Hammond wife Of a grocer,
IS critically i'll at her home as the re-
suit Of having been bitten by taran-
tula Sunday morning. The woman
who was assisting her husband in the
store reached for bunch OF bananas
hanging on a hook just outside the
door. As She did so she observed the
big spider but before she could
withdraw her hand, the creature
fastened itself to her index finger and
had inflicted several bites. Mrs Ham
mOnd tainted and her husband called
Il doctor who gave what aid he could.
Sunday night he entcrtains but small
hope Of the recovery Of Mrs Ham
mond. "lf She lives it will be due TO
the fact" he says, that the tarantula
was n young one"
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
The Aggregate Mileage of the
Roads OH June 30, 1898,
Was 247.532.
THIS An An INCREASE OF 4,l& MILES.
The Total Of Railway Employees in the
Year 1898 Was 87t.553. an
Increase of 5l.O82.
Total Number of Passengers Carried Was
5of,e60.6s1. an increase OF 1i.6:1,
A2S-Gros Earning OF the " hole
Mileage Was sf.24Z.3.J.62I.

WASHINGTON, July l6.-Thc report of
railway statistics for the year 1898,
compiled by the interstate commerce
commission and made public Friday,
shows that II roads went into the
hands of receivers. against - taken
out. while the mileage OF receivcrship
roads was reduced by 6.ll6 miles oper-
ated and 5, l53 miles owned.
There was decrease in the capital
stock OF the roads in receivers hands
of s22l. g27. 2S9. The aggregate mile
age Of railways on June 80, lS9S, was
247. 5S2, an increase Of 4,0SS miles.
The total number OF railway cor
porations in the United States was
2.047. The total number OF locomo-
tives in service was 50. 254. an increase
OF 3sS over the previous year. The to-
tai of railway employees was S7i,55S. an
increase OF 5l,0S2.
An interesting feature is n wage
summary compiled from over 90 per
cent. of the total employees. There
was paid In wages S49j. 0jj,GlS, an in
crease for the year of $50. I5i,0 ,057. This
sum represen ted CO. ). por cent. of the
total operating expenses.
The total amour: OF railway capital
outstanding on June 80, 1898, not in
cluding current liabilities. was SlO,-
s1S,554,O3l. OF the outstanding stock
G6. 20 per cent paid no dividends.
OF the stock paying dividends Cos
per cent paid from one to four per
cent. There was 45i per cent. Of the
dividend paying stock that paid from :
to per cent. The total in dividends
paid was 500 l52, $50, being an average
OF B. - per cent on all stock on which
a dividend was declared.
The total number of passengers car
ried was sol, ,O66, 6sl. an increase of H.
8si, ,43s. The total number of tons of
freight carried one mile. per mile of
limo, Was 6l7,slo, which WAS greater by
sa7si tksa the prtriou, year. The
gross esrUingS Of the whole mileage
wac 81. 81, 81, ssl. an increase of sl95,-
so6. SIS.
The total NUN Der OF casualties for the
year was 47,74L The aggregate killed
was g. $50 and injured 40, $50. OF rail
way employees $50 were killed and 3D.
76l injured. The passengers killed
were Dbl and injured 9.9i5. The total
number Of persons killed other than
passengers and employees was 1850 and
iRjured G, l76
This ipcludes persons classed as tres
passers, tramps and the Ike. One pas
senger wa. killed for every 2.@G7,27O
carried and one injured for every l7O,-
l4l. One out of every AZ employees
WAS killed and one out Of every 2S was
in iured
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
Reported 1t Will BE Removed
From lIong Kong to the
Island of Labuan.
CL0SELY WATCHED AT HONG KONG.
They Find it Almost Impossible to
Furnish the lnsurgcnt Soldiers
With Arms at Present.
Colorado Regiment starts for Home sun
day-Oiher Volunteer Regiments VIII
Leave Later-Prof Schurman
Coming on Eosrd the China.

MANILA, July Il. 1t is reported that
the Filipino junta will be removed
from Hong Kong TO the island Of Lcb-
uan, British colony six miles from
the northwest coast of Bornco. as the
American officials have watched the
members Of the jun.a 50 closely at
Hong Kong that the latter have found
it impossible to supply the insurgents
with arms.
The transport Warren sails sunday
with the Colorado regiment. Maj Brad
ley Strong. and Maj. Young, Of the SUI
prcmc court, who is going to Utah for
a vacation, on board. Prof Schurman
will arrive at San Francisco on board
the China.
WAsnINGToN, July 1G The war de-
partment has received the following
cable:
"MANr.A, July IA ijutant Cen
eral, Washington: Twenty inches Of
rain July, attended by typhoons, made
leaving Of transports impossible. At
Negros, impossible to unload 9th in
fantry until last day or two Califor-
MIA is now loading; Colorado's leave to-
morrow on Warren; Idaho's, North Da.
kota's and Wyoming's next week, soon
as transport Grant can be loaded.
ssOrre
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
STREET CAR MEN STRIKE.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co Endesv-
ors to Run Cars with Non Union
Men-Much Disorder.

NEW YORK, July Nearly all the
conductors and motormen Of the brook
lyn Rapid Transit Co. struck at ;
o'clock Sunday morning. Those who
had cars out left them on the tracks.
The company endeavored TO ruin cars
with non-union men on all the lines,
and there was much disorder Wires
wero cut, rails were torn up,
noa-union men hooted and stoned,
and at the Marcy avenue stables a
crowd of 8, 600 men resisted the police.
Many arrests were made during the
day. On some lines the company
maintained a regular service and on
others they failed altogether. Cars
were unable TO run to the ocean
beaches. The tie-up has not been
nearly so complete as the labor lead
ers said it would be.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
WILLIAM F. BLAIRS' LUCK.
claimed Goods Auciion-rhree Thou-
sand Dollars In Bonds Wero Pound.

CHICAGO, July l3.-Wm. +. Blair. a
custom house broker for &. W. sheldon
& Co., was thanking his lucky stars
Wednesday that he attended the auc-
ton sale of unclaimed merchandise
held Wednesday morning at the ap-
praisers warehouse in this city. Mr..
Blair stood in the crowd which
was watching the sale and bid
in box Of goods, which on open
ing he found TO contain IS, 600 worth OF
bonds of the Equitable Investment Co.,
of Council Bluffs, la. Mr.. blair got
the box for his bid of 81. The package
of bonds lay in box OF clothes and
furs, and have been in the warehouse
for more than year. They were ad-
dressed TO W. j. Morse, in care of A. A.
McLeary, Room 1908 Fisher building.
At this address nothing is known con-
cerning either of the men named.
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BIG ESTATE ALMOST GONE.
Amounted to Nearly Two Nil-
lion Dollars

EUFFALo, y. T., July lC.-lt. became
known through papers filed in the SUI
prcme court here Friday that OF the
estate OF Roswell :. burrows. who
died - years ago, but 500, 900 remains.
The property at the time OF Mrs. Bur-
rows death was worth 81, 900, 600 and
lvns not since deprecated in value, but
has passed into the hands of the law
ycrs who have been suing the
estate on behalf of clients who
claimed that burrows owed
them money on loans. None of the
suits have been decided, but costs and
LAWYERS fees have eaten up over ST.
900, ,OJ0 Of the estate. This fact came
to light Friday when the referee APP
pointed in one Of these cases filed his
report. which alleges that the money is
practically all gone, and also that
son OF burrows has drawn $50, 900 more
than his sharc of his fathers prop
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-20
The Wrought Steel, Iron and
Tube Industries to Form
q Combine.
CAPITALIZATION TO Be SSe,eoe1es.
Large t Of the Kind iu the World and
Third in Rank as q Steel AID
Iron Organization.
Besides ontrolling Domest'c Businseo
the New Combine VIII Invade the
Russian, bulgarian, Jspaness
and Canadian Markets

NEW YORK, July decentralization
Of the wrou yht steel. iron and tube In
dustries Of the country was effected
Wednesday by William Nelson Crom-
well and c. Converse, the consolida-
tion purchasers. The new company
will be known as the National Tube
Co. 1t is the largest OF the kind in the
world and is the third in rank as
steel and iron corporation. 1t is cx-
ceedei by only the krupp and Carnegie
interests.
The plants controlled are: National
Tube Works Co., McKeesport, Pa;
Riverside iron works, blast furnaces.
rolling mills and pipe works, VIII ell
ing, W. Va; United States Seamless
Tube Co.. Christy Park, Va; National
rolling mills, Mckecsport. Pa; Ameri-
can Tube & Iron Co. S plants. foungs-
town, O.. and Middletown, Pa; Ma
tional Forge & Iron Co.. Nc
Keesport Pa; Pennsylvania tube
works, Pittsburgh; Boston Iron
e. Steel Co.. McKeesport. Pa;
Allison Manufacturing Cos tube mill,
Philadelphia; Monogahcla furnaces.
McKeesport; Morris, Tasker & Co.'S
Delaware iron plant. Newcastle. Del;
Republic iron works, PittsburgE Oil
Well Supply Co., Continental tube
work and Elba iron works, Pittsburgh;
National galvanizing works, Versailles,
Pa; Chester Pipe & Tube Co..
Chester, Pa; Monongahela steel works,
McKeesport, Pa; liooven plant, Nor
ristown, Pa; Oil City tube works, Oil
City. Pa; Syracuse tube works, SYRIA
cuse. y. y; Ohio Tube Co., Warren, o.,
and Western Tube Co. Contract until
1902 and onc-tbird stock ownership,
Kewanee, Ill.
Beside controlling the domestic bus
iness the new combine will invade the
Russian, Bulgarian. Japanese and Ca
madam markets where 1t alrsFiy sup
pllcS tuptGd BNpDhS i't Nhc ObA WUAo VI
these counttiea n will sell merchant
pipes to all tho other nations O< the
word twenty-five thousand men are
employed.
William Nelson Cromwell, general
counsel for the combine, said Wednes-
day night that the net earnings of the
current year will be between six and
seven million dollars while the annual
saving in general expenses will be
from two TO three millions.
The capitalization is 10000, 600. di-
vided into per cent. cumulative pre-
ferrcd stock of $40, 600, 900 and common
stock Of the same amount. The pre-
icrred stock divided is 81, 500 600, is linn
tied to that amount and is made cumu-
lative. There is no mortgage lien on
any Of the properties and none can ever
be placed upon any realty of the COM
pany without the consent OF so per
cent. of the common stock and pre-
ferred. All dividends exceeding S2,-
500 600 90 to the common stockholders
and now equal about 10 per cent The
heads of the old concerns become di-
rectors in the new one.
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IN HONOR OF ADM. DEWEY.
Tho New Gcyser in the YellowstOne Ma
tiOnal Park Named After the Hero
OF Manila Bay.

ST PAUL. Mimi, July H.. The new
geyser which recently broke out before
the Fountain hotel in Yellowstone
national park, has been named
Dewey" in honor of the hero of
Manila bay. DIR. l.. Il. Sperry, OF Ober-
lin college, who recently passed
through st, Paul with n party oftour-
lists for the Yellowstone natioual park,
has teleGraphed General Passenger
Agent Fee, of the Northern Pacific, re-
garding the geyser. The new geyser
is a sumner, second only to the Excel
sior. 1t plays an hour and a quarter
constantly and throws a great volume
OF water $50 feet high. The old foun-
tain geyser has resumed action on a
grander scale than usual"
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Won the Dewey Cannon.

Nkw YORK. July 1.-The village OF
Three Oaks, Mich. has won the cannon
whieh Adm Dewey sent from Manila
for the Maine monument fund. The
cannon was 10 be giveu TO the city or
village making the largest contribution
in proportion to its population. Three
Oaks. with population OF from 500 to
1000 people. raised 81, lG2, representing
ore than 81 per caDita.