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T?? LE0G1R. (81810* S. cults. EDI TDK AND MAN Aii KK IHl'KP WKV?NK>r>AY AN l> SAH' Kl"" AV WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER ?8, 1 iK'4 8WB.SORIPTION L 40 PF.P YK \K Cotton Crop Estimates. Under date of Saturday last, Latham, Alexander & Co., havo issued a circular in which they ostimate the cotton crop for 19041905 at 11,300,000 hales, this re uii oeing arrived at by figures submitted byureliable and intelligent correspondents in every cotton growing county in the Southern States." The firm states that itsl<eflorts to obtain approximate! v correct results have boon as diligent and thorough as it was possible to make them, and the following table is the result: Estimated or >p. Cro,>. Htates. 1904-J915 1903-.1904 Alabama 1,150.000 1,006,000 Arkansas 800 ,000 705,00a Florida 60.000 55.OIK) Usorgta 1,650 000 1,825,000 Louisiana 900.000 824,000 Mississippi 1,500,000 1,387,000 North Carol I ua 040, (KM) 513,000 Houth Carolina 950,060 * 825 <MH) Tenn A C AOk Ty 550,000 451,000 Tex and I nd Ty 3.200,000 2 8<-6,000 E timated total 11,300,000 10,011,000 I? t- ?J l-J iL.l .. .1 - li is iiuuuu iuui hid garnering season has been exceptionally tine in all sections and the crop thus far Ins been secured in good condition and marketed rapidly, on account of urgent demands from spinners, who carried over very email stocks into the new cotton year." In connection with this estimate of the Nevr York firm of 11,300,000, it is interesting to note that A. J. Vick of the firm of Hay ward Vick & Co., leading cotton dealers of New Orleans, while in the pit.v VAulArHav bIoIjiI Ihul J j vv ? w? v?m J uvMbW* bUUV UU U1U not believe the crop] would be over 11,250,000 bales, and that in view of this indication too price should not bs less than 10 cents. A special telegraphic cauvass made by The Journal of Commerce, of New York indicates a crop of 11,275,000 bales. These three estimates seem to be unusually close together.?Charlotte Observer. Former Greenville Woman Murdered In Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.? News was received in this city tonight of a double tragedy at Kennesaw. 58 miles from Atlanta on the Western and Atlantic railroad, in which J. R. Butler of Augusta, an engineer on the Central of Georgia railroad, had shot and killed Mrs. Lola Green of Atlanta and mortally wounded himself with the same pistol. The tragedy occnred in a hack in 1 whish the couple were riding to ' the depot to catch the train to ' Atlanta. The exact nature of the trouble which led up to the 1 killing and suicide is unknown. 1 Mrs. Green came to Atlanta from : Greenville. S. C. TO CURE A COUGH i The coughs ao prevalent these days < usually develop before you realize what has happened. Now the beat ' thing to do ia to take the moei reliable cough cure you can get. None bettoi than Murraya Horehouud Mullein and Tar. It is made of the purest in- ( gredienta and can be given to infanta , as well as growu people. Ahovealj i else It CUUEH. You will find it at all druggists. 25c a bottle?extra large J bottle. n Tax Notice. a Notice is hereby given that the time within which Town taxes f ran hr naifl wilttnnf r\.nibt; ?v. plres on Nov. 30th instant. The tax books are now open at the office of C. O. Jones, Esq., Town Treasurer. If not paid on or before above date, executions will Issue for taxes with costs and I penalties. R. E. WYLIE, 1 Nov. 21,1904. Mayor. E\* fiovemor Thompson Dead. K : sncr > mih Carolina Executive IVm'* Awiv ai His Homo in Now York Funeral in (Columbia. New York. Nov. 20?Hugh S Thompson, former governor of South Carolina, died at his res', dence here tonight. He was horn in Charleston, S. C , in 1830. In recent years ho was comptroller of tho New York Life Insurance Company. No funeral services over the body of Mr. Thompson will be held in this city. The body will bo tnken to South Carolina from hero at 3.25 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. No arrangements for services in Columbia have been made, except that tho interment will take place on Wednesday afternoon. Quarrel Over The Propriety Of Asking A Negro For A Match Results In A Fatal Stab. Huntington, W. Va . Nov. 20. ? Anthony Martin was stabbed to death on the street to.day by Curnio Coon, son of Councilman John Coon. Martin and Samuel Ritteuhouse, wuilo walking along the street stopped a colored man and asked him for a match. Coon was passing in the opposite direction, and he made the remark that no gentleman would ask a noarrn o ntnK * ? * iiv^iv; AMI a Uiai^u. AliO UtCiJ came to blows, and Coon stabbed Martin to deatb. Coon also plunged bis knife into Kittenhoust making an ugly wound in ilio neck but he will recover. Coon walk* ed up street with a bloody knife in his hand and surrendered to the police. Young Man Kills Himself, y >' -f? 'k T|.' Asbeville, Nov. 20.?John O. Grimes a well-known young man of this city, employed as bookkeeper in the nursery department of the Vanderbilt estate, at Biltmoro, continued suicide this morning between 10 and 11 o'clock by taking poison and then plunging into the river. It is said that a love affair is responsible. KILLKI) BY A WOMAN. Duo West, S. O., Nov. 21.? Bennett Haynes, a young limn from Honeapath, was shot and instantly killed last night by a young woman, who lived in the red light district. Haynos, with several other young men were carousing about the house, which has anything but a good reputatino, when they became mixed up in a row. The young men were drinking, the women wero in bed, and an3ther homicide hasbecn added to the long list inSouthCarozint's record. The woman who did the shootng is only 18 and had a seven nonth's old baby in her arms as ihe passed through ho-e ou her way to jail, she did not seem to realize her position and was laugh* ing at the by-standers jokes. The leceaicd was, a widower of only Lhree weeks. ?It was found necaasary Thurslay morning to remove the hand of Miss Minnie Russell, who was inured at the College Saturduy if tor noon. The operation was per01 mod by Dr. W. G. Stevens, aslisted by Drs. Hirschman, Miller ind Lynn. The patient is doing ! licely. ? liock 11 ill Record. ? O n z^k. Bann the J KM You Have Always Bougft ? <Ve rue celling a great many goods regardless of cost. Come and see before you buy. Lancaster Mercantile Co. - " p w?* Sequel To Tatnall Tragedy. Kngouo Edwards Avenges The Murders Of H is Brothers. I 4 Macon, Ga, November 20.? , Additional reports of the tragedy in Tatnall County, Goorgia Sat j urday, in which A. J. Edwards : was killed and Coy Edwards beaten by the nagro Davis, say that ; the wife and mother of the two ! men notified Eugene Edwards of ' the occurence when ho returned from a hunting trip. He started in pursuit of the negro, catching him just as the ! negro got even with a man named Wray who was driving a wag nn Ril want* Im<1 1 ? 1 I ......... ..v. ! VU| HID IW AH j striking the negro, who returned j the fire. Thtf negro dodged be- j hind tho horses' head andEdwardu bcbind the tail of the wagon. ' With Wray ducking between then), they fired as they caught sight of each other. Edwards was wounded in the face by n splinter knocked from the wagon body by one of Davis's bullets, but tho boy kept firing and reloading, using bird shot. Not until tho third load struck the negro did he reel and stagger to the roadside, nhoreupon tho boy ran to him and emptied both barrels of his gun into his body. Then he jumped upon tho negroes body and stamped out any life that remained. A great crowd gathered and wanted to burn the body of the negro and lynch his family. A counsel c f cousins of tho Edwards family pi evented this however though the crowd was particularly incense d, because it was said that Davis was from Bullock County, where ho had belonged to an allege i "Before Day Club" that was said to have bronchi n about the murder of the Hodges family and the burning of their home. |*r?- v - " " * Fire at World's Fair. St. Louis, Nov. 19.?The Missouri State building at the woride fair, the original coat of which was $145,000 was destroyed by tire as the result of an explosion of a hot water heater in the bnso^ ment, and the tlauies spread so rapidly that they could not be checked. The heaviest loss was the contents of the structure which included oil portraits of Missouri govornors and Supreme Court Judges. Small Hlnzo at Cleinson. Clemson College, Nov. 20.? Fire broke out in the main building of Clemson college at 6 30 o'clock this afternoon on the north stairway, but effective work by the corps soon extinguished it. Cnly slight damage was done to tke stairway and coiling. The j origin of the fire is unknown but is supposed to have been caused by rats cutting a match. castoria ; I 1st Iafcate sad Chlldrsm. Booker Washington Sends #25. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.?Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala , has contributed bis check for J^25 to the fund no,v being raised for the erection of a monuiuenf to the memory of General JobnB. Gordon. ? The Ledger, The Atlanta Journal, Semi weekly, and The Southern Cultivato**, all throe one year for #2., but must bo paid for in advanco. r I >H EVER OFF] Our Mr. Heath North, where he in dress goods an nierous to mentit BRO1 Being the preyai in those two shat ed Cheviots and 1 shades. Our not right up to the 11 wish in that line Jackets and Cap< think the pretties this market. Ar preeiated and wi ( W e are still ha: clothing- maiiufai more. Also A. I lenburg- & Co., a terns in browns, call tor. All we we do not dress } isfied for any of ( We are still ham DOUGLAS, G< Shoes, which are lines that are ma ry over, have dec our Lawns, Piqu< and malm A nn?/i unu uianv/ a |vu? some price. Ju Furs, which are for the Fall MiIli in October, 5th dialty invited. G that will satiety tl past patronage ai we are, V J Lanc ,,r*' . niummijuiuuimwi'i Hwmmmmmrnr UNI IF Y GOODS HjRED TO THE PI lias just returned scooped in some star id lots of other barg; >11. m% AM GREENS ling colors, we bou les in Mohair, Crav Whipcords, llroadc ? .1 i. A * idii uepariiiieni is cc otcli, and anything; we have it. Tailor r ?s. A tremendous 1 st and cheapest evei i inspection of same 11 insure us a sale. XOTHING lulling the eelebrati stured by Strouse & 1. Kirschbaum & nd other lines. Be grays and any coloi ask is to give us a fou up, we will he pi >ur competitors to hi lling- the ODMAN, and DRE1 Kliree of the best at lit t 11 1*4 wl \/kt "io ? (? v? ta i v w i.^ *FI 1f 13 tided to sacrifice the es and Veils, j-o eoi hase for surely thej ist *-eceived a beai very cheap. Be su nery Ope/^inp:, first day. Ail the ladi< iroeeries of all kinds lie inner man. Than td hoping for more ii Your* to ?er kin k Ntraki :aster S. C riKT/rfj. , from the tling values [fins too nui > ght heavily inetts, Mixcloths in all miplete and * you may aade Skirts, ine, and we r snowii oil will be ap3d high art Bro., Balti- * and Snelautiful pat you may look, and if erfectly sative the sale. WSELBY id strongest iking- to carprice on ail lie at once y will go at itiful line of ire to watch Wednesday is are cori and such king all for a the iuture, >e, - ; ltd).-' I V - .1 i /