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BF= * Lg [ LOCAL DOTS ffll ?? -ffi ^ ?Cotton yesterday, 12^ cents ?The court house square is being graded this week. The' Rurplus dirt is being placed in rear of the building. ?Former Coroner Win. S. Green, of Columbia, was tried and acniiit.t.nd in thot o,;. -J -** W?l?w ViW liilO week ot billing a negro. ?The many friends of Capt. W. H. Stewart, of Rook Hill, will regret to learn that he is qui.o ?il with appendicitis. ?Mr. Eraser McMackin, ol J lleath Springs, has accepted the position of bookkeeper for a wholesale house in Rock Hill. ' ?Mr N-eoly M. Grant, a brave old Conf derate soldier o* Chester county, died Tuesday evening. He was 80 years of age. ?The Union Baptist A*?ocia-l Hon will meet, with Kiug Street Baptist church at Waxhaw OotoA her 10'h to 13th inclusive.? Marsliviili Home. ? Mr. John L. Caskey, of this vicinity, cue of Lancaster coun ty's successful voudk farmers, sold a bale of cotton and the see l, one day this week, that brought him $86 45. ? Mr. J. M. Porter, formerly of Lancaster, has been reelected manager of the Monroe Manufacturing company. He will ha ve charge of both the old and new plants of the company. ?Mr. John 0. Huntley and Miss M iry McGregor, daughter of Mr. D. U. McGregor,of Ruby, Chesterfield county, are to be married next Tuesday evening, in the Presbyterian church at Ruby. ?The Episcopalians of Rock Hill are going to build a handftnmo nour nhnroK ft ?i> I-"" w w m_M-m w ??V/ VIJMI V*I< A. O ! IVf UU hoped that those of Lancaster will some day bo able to repair the front and rear steps to their present building. ?Rev. W. B Mcllwain will preach at Douglas next Sabbath morning at 11 o'clock, Providence permitting. Mr. Mcllwain is a missionary from Japan and the jL public is cordially invited to hear him. ?Court will convene here on the 17th of October. Judge Wilson, who succeeded Judge Purd.v, will preside. Petit jurors lor the first week will be drawn on the 24tli instant, and those for the second week on Oct. 1st. ?County Supervisor Perry is having some of the worst hills on the public roads put in good condition. Among those that he has hau worked on are the hills at Hannah's creek, on Chesterfield road, "Jacob's hollow" hill south of town and "Montgomery hill," on Steele creek road. ?Mr. John C. Steele, one of the county's road overseers, is to he congratulated upon the fine condition in which he is putting his section of highway, which is a nart of th? CliarlnMn road, above Lancaster. The hill at the Diaflin place, beyond Oarap creek, is said by ?ompetent judges to be one of the best pieces of road work ever seen in ^ this county. THE LA NO A ? Winnsboro'u hijih school e- jj lection last Tuesday resulted al- ] most unanimou Iv in tavor of the j] school. ?Dr. P. L. Murphy, auporin- 1 tendent of the ? rv<MTW ? K k Ok U | Morganton, N. G., died Wed lies- t day. He had held the position lor 24 years. 6 ?As previously published iu The Aews, a called meeting of First Presbytery will be held at ' Shiloh next Tuesday, 17th inBtaut, to install the Rev. O. W. Carmichael as pastor. s ?The first bale of Union ^ county new crop cotton lor this season was sold at Waxhaw last J Tuesday afternoon. It was sold C by II. B Stevens of Marvin to the A. W. Heath Company. The | oale weighed 502 pounds and ^ brought 13 cen's, netting the producer $65,26. ? Monroe Jour nal. ( An Atrocious Deed?Colored. Man Shot in Hack while Ljfiiiu on ^ floor of hin Home. An attempt, was mide here Tuesday night to assa-sina'e a well-known colored blacksmith, 1 Arthur Moore. He was lying on fi the floor of hie house, face downward. when some one on the ' outside shot him in the back with 1 a shot gun. A number of the shot enterel his body, inflicting , serious wounds. The force of the shot was weakened somewhat, by Moore's sus] panders, through which the bulk of the load passed. One or two 4 of the shot struck a small child in the room, on the foot. , Wednesday morning a wai- i rant was sworn out before Magistrate Oaskey charging Johnson | I B-nson. the colored man who j has figured in more than one ( blind tiger case, with the shooting. A warrant was also issued ( against him for alleged whiskey selling, lie was arrested by (' Chief of Police Hunter ami lodg- ' ed in jail. Tuoora was one of the principal witnesses against Benson in his recent trial and conviction in the mayor's court of selling whiskey. The Small Grain Crop, Again. Our hustling farmer friend, Mr. J. A. Cauthen, of Dry Creek section, sends us the following statement of the small grain threshed by him this season : Oats, 3,720 bushels; wheat, 683; rye, 7? ; barley, 44 ; total, 4,415; bushels. Providence permit i ting, Mr. Cauthen says, be will i thresh three or tour other lots of grain. Mr. A. B Ferguson, as recent ly published in The News, threshed this season 8,236 bushels of oats and wheat, which added to Mr. Oauthen's total makes 12,651 bushsls of small grain threshed in the c.ftnnl v llm ni-oDun* V VI?V pkWOUItU year by these two gentlemen. We should like to hear from ot' or owners of threshing machines in the county. Since the foregoing was putin type we have received a report from Mr. R. 1*. Neal, ot Heath Springs, of number of bushels of grain threshed by him this reason, as follows: 1000 bushels of oats, 415 bushels ot wheat; total, 1415. These figures make the small grain crop in the couuty thus tar reported 14,066 bush1 els. 1. 1907. Mr. J. N. Spann,of Columbia,J y who has beea in Baltimore for several weeks, ,j'ine l his family N here ve s' erdav. ! s( ' Uev. and Mrs It. K. Sm >11, of ' Heath Spruits, M>en1 several " t 1 hours in the city ve-t rd ?v.? ce iviiisilii, lias returned home. Dr. II. L. Hougn, of Birmingham, Ala., is visiting his mother, Mrs. S. E. Hough, in this county. Mrs. I. E. Wallace and Miss liussie Cunningham, of Heath Springs, are visiting in Anderson. Mr. E. C. Allison returned Thursday Irom an extended trip to the Exposition and to points North iSTKIt NK'A'S SEPTEMBER 1 PERSONAL Mrs J. J. Biackin m vmilel leath Springs this week. Col. Leroy Springs made a rip to New York this week. Dr. Rutledge,of H- it'll Springs, p^nt Thursday in Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Butler, ol death Springs, are in Richmond, /a. M r q iiH \! ? ? rI^ Yl.? Y? u l?o\t t.U 1 Oi A *? , i*i Jl U' 1 ttJ pent a few days in Yoikville the >ast week. Miss C'arabel Croxton, of [tershaw, is veiling Mit?s Celeste 3aui lien. Mrs. M. 11. Johnson has reurned from a visit to relatives a Kersbuw. Miss Nora Boyd of L -she, S. J. is visiting her cousin, Mrs. lus Uinson. Miss Liia Lee, of New York, is risiting her sister, Mrs John A. jtewman. Mrs N. L Bird, ol Darlingon, visited Mrs. S. E. A. Union here this week. Mr. T. W. Boyd, supervisor of fork county, was a visitor to Lancaster Thursday. Miss Lucy Patterson, of Fort dill, is visiting her brother, Mr. 1. K. Pa'terson, an 1 family. Mr. James Evans, now of tlock Hill,is visiting his parents, dr. and Mrs. Joseph Evans. Miss Inez Frew, of Rock Hill, vho has been visiting Miss Clar Greenville News. Miss Louise Taylor, a beauti i a ful girl of Lancaster, is I he guest ; of Mrs. E. B. Mobley?'J6aihj^ Springs cor. The State. I Mrs D. A. King ami children, of Tabernacle, are visiting th" b former's daughter, Mrs. J. E ^ Walters, of tins jilace. t< Mr8. Henry M. Smith and ' children, o! Darlington, are visit \ ingthe formers brother, Mr. W. F. Broom, on East Meeting s street. 11 Mr. and Mrs Joseph Byers. of M"le Rook, Ark., were the ^ guests of Mr. a.id Mrs I) A. j King, of Tabernacle, the pa-t ^ week. . Mrs. C. A. Broom, of Timmoo8ville, is visiting her son, Mr. C W F. Broom, of the A. .T. Broom t company, and his family. (Miss n Inez is happy ) I Miss Gladys Twitly has return- ^ ed from a visit to Roanoke, Norfolk, Petersburg and other Vir * ginia cities.?Heath Springs cor. The State. i Congressman Finley, of Yorkvide, ?nd Mr. Cansler, of Tirzah, were in town yesterday for a short while, on their way to the ' picnic at White Bluff. Miss Minnie Pardue, the handsome daughter of Mr. 11. B. Par- ^ due, left this week for Hernando, t Fla., to pay an extended visit to ^ her sister, Mrs. S. S. Perkins. p Miss Ilallie B. Kee,of Kershaw^ c S. C., arrived Saturday niglit to t enter tl>e Carolina Railroad Tele t graph and Business coiiege.? \ Mooresville, N. C., Enterprise, t Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lazenby x and their sister, Miss Pearl Mil ( ler, returned Weduesday from 1 New York and other points north, ' where Mr. Lazenby purchased the Lancaster Mercantile company's fall stock of goods. I After a visit to their aunt,, Mrs. ! M. C. Courtney, and uncle, Mr 1 D. A. King ot O. K., S. C., Mr. j and Mrs. J. 11. B.vers, came back to this county, visiting Mrs. J. I T. McCorkle. thence to Charlotte < to spend some time with relatives f before returning to their home . j at Little Rock, Ark.?Monroe , Journal. I I , , ^ I , Completion of the Unites ftritlye. As noted in our last issue, ^ County Supervisor Perry went , to Indian Land the first of the 1 week to inspect the new bridge, known as Baiies bridge, over Big Sugar creeK, on the road leading Irom Pleasant Valley to Fort Mill, lie was met there by Supervisor Boyd, of York. Mr. Perry returned Wednesday. The bridge was found to be all ' iifini,?cuiupuaieu according to I plana and specifications. The 'structure is 350 feet long, 130 foet being of steel. The coat of the bridge and approaches is about .$3,680, one-half of which the 1 county of York pays. ? Attention is called to notice of bridges to let by Supervisor j Perry. Mr. George Plvler, one of the progressive farmers of the O. K. section, spent Thursday in town. Mr. H. U. Shute, of the Flint Kidge section, visited friends in Lancaster and Kershaw this week. Mi-s Susie Bell, of ileath Springs, has gone to Bennettsvdle, to leach in the graded school. Miss Belle Mel I wain, of Washington, D. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. E. Mcllvain. Mrs. Herbert Hortou, who has been visiting relatives in Heath Springs, returned home Thursday night. Miss 1511a Belk and Miss Adkins, of Fort M.ill, are visiting Mis9 Stella Mae Hough, of Lan uamer county. Mr. and Mrs W. B. Twitty, of Heath Springs,visited Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mackey in Camden the past week. The Key. W. B. Mchwain, of tlie Presbyterian church, a wellknown Lancastrian who has been serving as a missionary in Japan for a number of years, is on a visit to his old home. .J 'he Or titled Sihttofs. As published in Wednnsdnv'a ows, the Luici-tr graded ;ho'?l > opened les Mo nlay I'Hiniig. T i" le iciieis 11 abeen i iujie*I I til* i" respective grade", !* pupis elas.-iti *ii aa 1 th * real rk of i.' e session b 'guti. The of ti-aoher.- ami their grades re as tollo.v*- : ^ A. K Hulls, superintendent, ion i a ; Silas M. Busby, prinip.l. . ? High school?Tenth, Mr. Husy, Aliss Craw, Miss Hill; ninth, liss I a Lee Hill of Washingjn, Ha.; eighth, Mr. S. M. Busy < f Lexington. Grammar scho >1?Seventh, lis* Marie Grain, Craigsville; ixtk, Miss B aache Moore, Lanaste ; fi t?t, Mr. .Joseph K. Conors, Lancaster; primary deiar meu', fourth, Mrs. T. Y. Villi tns, L -.ncasfer ; third, Miss Jessie Harper, lvingstree; second, liss Eva Hough, Lancaster; first, i liss Nora Hough, Lancaster. School No. 2?Principal, Miss Irace Gary Whisonant,Cherokee; bird and fourth, Miss Whisoant; second, Miss Ha'tie Taylor , .aucaster; first. Miss Lona Reed, iftncaster. The enrollment is as follows: Central school, 300; No. 2, or actory Scliool, 80. Heath of l>r. ./. Jf. Wan a it rot her of Iter. 11. It. l>u/f'ie, of Dwtffht. Dr. .fames F. Dulfie, an aged hysician of Blackstock, Chester ounty, died at his home there ast Monday afternoon. He was ,bout 70 years old. He was a irother of the Rev. R. L. Duffie> he well-known Moth idist, ir?in ater of Lancaster county. A8 0011 as Mr. Duffie was notified >f his brother's death ho went o Blackstock, but reached there 00 late to attend the funeral, vhich was at llopewell. He reurned home yesterday. A Ches;e.r special in the Columbia State, >f Wednesday, gives the followng interesting account of the life of Dr. Duflie. Dr. Duflie was a graduate of the Charleston Medical College. He went West a fow years before ihe outbreak of the war, und at the opening of the mighty struggle between the States was a surgeon in the United States 3?valry at Brownsville, Texas. He decided to cast in his lof with liis section, however, and enlistsd in an Arkansas regiment, serving throughout the war. At ihe close of the struggle he was in line of promotion to the post of assistant general in the Conlederate service. After the war Dr. Duffie movsd bacK to ins old h me, near Blackstock. He abaudoued the practice of medicine and labored lor many years a* a teacher, dividing his time between this employment and farming. For the last few years Dr. Duttie had been almost totally blind and been compelled for that reason to desi9t from all active employment. His mind was a wonderful store house of facts, his lib eral education, united with labors, having served to give him a wide ramie o! information. Dr. Duffie is survived by s veral brothers, among whom are the following : W. J. Durtie, of Columbia, a prominent bookdealer ; M. M. Duflie, Dallas, Ark , (deceased,) once Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas; Samuel Duffle, lawyer, Texas; John Duffle, lawyer, Washington; R. L. Duffle, superannuated M. E. minister, Lancaster county, S. G; Alex Dutlie, Circuit. Judge, Hot Springs, Ark. 1