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?-'. \ tc " %* ' tfW II V ' ' I CHARLIE ROSS. The Kidnapping of n Clmii?i Which Occurred Louv Ak<>. By Joe Hitt in Alanta New.s The following is the full story of the kidnapping of Charlie Ross?the most celebrated crime of the sort since the middle ages. It happened about thirty years ago, and thought the vountrer ireneration has never beard the details of the affair, and in the minds of the older people they hove grown vague and indistinct with time, the name of "Charlie Ross" is as familiar to every ear as the name of Little Red Riding Hood herself, and his sad story is still a theme of conversation in every laud. There was never another crime that so deeply moved the heart of humanity as the theft and death of thisjfour year old golden haired boy. . The man who furnishes the fact* for the following story of the kidnapping, is at present an Atlanta business mau. He was, for twenty-four years a Pinkerton detective. And wlien the kidnapping occurred, he was chief of the Pinkertons' New York Bureau, and, as such, directed the work of the sleuths who followed the case. The criminals and who they were ; Uyxnt if woo nnrtA?r>?\lioh_ lllC UriLUt; ?1X1U Iiuw it *rao ftuwmpiioaed ; the pursuit and how it was eluded : the fortunes that were ottered in rewards ; the tragic death of the kidnappers, and the pathetic end of Charlie Koss are told fully and authentically in tbis narravtive. In the little suburb of German-town, lovely and historic, and hard by the City of Brotherly Love, there is a great expanse of greensward near the center of the town, whereou stands a stately and elegant mausion of red brick and - white mortar. Io days agone this stately house and this spreading sward was the demense of one Christian K. Koss, wealthy, aristocrat, well liked by his fellow townsmen, and unknown to fame. And he lived there for a timein quiet happiness, with his wife and two little sons, enjoying all the comforts and ease which the possession of money makes possible, and seeing fewer clouds in the skies of life than the average man. Then he fell upon evil days. His riches took unto themselves wings and flew away. And it came to pass that all he possessed vanished, save greensward with its house, and the wife and boys. Which stroke of fortune was not sufficient, however, to entirely overcast his skies. He still had more than the average man to make him content in 1 life. Then another stroke fell. The two bovs were playing upon the sward one sunny morning, and suddenly one of them vanished. He was a four-year-old youngster, this boy. And he was exceeding winsome. He had the face and figure of the little aristocrat, and he wore the dainty garments of a lady's son. His eyes were blue and dancing. His hair was golden and curly. Hi9 complexion was milk and roses. Aud his name was Charlie. 1 The brother returned to the house and told a prattling story of how two rough looking men accosted them while they played and took Charlie away with them to buy him some candy?"he was such a pretty boy they 1 said." < That occurred on the second day of July, 1874?a little less thau thirty 1 year* ago. And the alarmed parents ' who waited, hoping that each succeeding second would bring to their ears the sound of pattering footsteps upon 1 the graveled walk, have never seen him more. < Two days after the child disappered 1 the father received a communication, rougniy anu uuieraieiy suawieu auu advising him that the lad had been kidnapped and was being held for ransom. ! This set the father frantic. And he appealed wildly to his friends for the 1 loan of the money to buy back his boy. I "Wait," the friends said ; "the police can catch them To pay the ransom would be to invite other crimes of, the sort." He saw the reason in their argument ' and waited. The police were set upon the track of < the kidnappers, and the story of the kidnapping was sent out to the press. ( It was a new crime, this kidnapping of a child. And it so appealed, iu 1 all its many phases, to the heart* of < m-dn, that a search such as never seen < before was instituted. - < And day after day the writers of the press furnished fresh inspiration to the 1 searchers. Thev painted word-oict- ' ures of the charming little fellow tortur- 1 ed by the rough usage of his cruel 1 captors, aud sobbing for his mother 1 and little brother. They described 1 the silent anguish of the father the wondering grief of the brother ' and heart rending tears of the ' mother, as week followed week without developing a trace of the whereabouts of the.goldenhaired one. They < said, these writters, that the captors ' would probably murder the boy and escape the country unless quickly appre- ' hended. They declared revengeful 1 mutilation upon the little body was likely to be perpetrated ; aud they ap- ' pealed, by one means and another, to * everybody to join in the search. Christian Ross' friends later came to him and tendered the money he had ' asked and more iu addition, and said : 1 "Give the kidnappers this?iu our ' name !" And individuals all over the country 1 rnao nrv utiH nffaru/l raiuortlu fnr tliom l\/Ob up UUU WliUi V.U IV ? UJUil I VI IUVU1, aud for the child, And iu Phildelphia a party of rich men, among them 1 Childs, Drexel, and others, mettogeth- 1 and resolved to employ the best detective talent iu the world at their own expense. They sent to the Pinkertons, these millionaires, and told them to put a 1 man on the trail and spare no expense. "We"will pay all costs aud add a five thousand dollar bouus, they said. Later they doubled the bonus. Then they said $25,000. Then they said $50,000. 1 Then they said $75,000. Then they said ?100,000 And finally they offered "any sum !" Altogether a million dollars, it is estimated, were offered iu rewards. Wherefore it came to pass that such a hue aud cry was raised and public feeling was so aroused that the entire : world was looking for the criminalsAmerica, Europe, South Africa, and even Australia. The Pinkertons, immediately upon 1 rcueiviUK iuc uuuiujiasiuu, dci an turn i wonderful machinery, silent und in-J visible to work. And they learned! who the kiduappers were in a comara-! tively short space of time. There were two of them?an elderly wretch nam-,1 ed Mosher and a youthful pal named I Douglas. This pair was not unknown to the police. But their oftenses against the law had always been of a petty, character, They were given to driving through the country in a ram* . shackle wagon, peddling, ostensibly, stove polish. But their real business was sneak thieving when nobody was 1 1 * WO. looking, aud the burglarizing of uuoc-| cupied houses. They had parsed through Uermautowu, and seeing Charlie, stole liim upon an inspiration. It was a crime that, ordinarily, was far beyond them. Aud these detectives also turned up many friends aud relatives of Mosher aud some acquaintaucs of Douglas. And they also traced the kidnappers themselves from the moment they first s-poke to the child while playing on his father's lawn until they reached >?'ew York City. liut these friends aud relatives knew noihiug that was of value. They were, those people of the low east side class, as anxious to deliver the criminals into the hands of the law as were the piukertous themselves ?the rewards offered them to do so were not to be resisted. And in the hope of gaining them they told many stories of the men?none of which guesses happened to be right. The Piukertous, in the meautime, had (iU(),000 copiesof a circular, describing the boy, giving his picture and oU'eriug the tremendous rewards, strck off aud distrubuted. These were printed on very thin paper in order that they might be more easily mailed to foreign countries. The belief, however, all along prevailed that Mosher aud Douglas were in the vicinity of new York with Charley Koss. They had been followed there, and then the great metropolis had been microscopically watched aud their escape therefrom was a matter of impossibility. At the same time the most marvellously perfect search of the city and all its environs failed to reveal a trace of them or any body who bad seen them. When Mosher aud Doughlas saw what a lurore they had throwu the world into by their crime, they were paralyzed with fear, and straightway went into hiding, tuking their victim with them through sheer fear of leaving a clue. And they hid well. They crowded into a cabin-yawl or cat boat, and lived aboard in out-of-the way corners of New York harbor. In it, hid among little craft in obscure corners of the harbor, the kiduappers had found* a ?safe place?the only possible one. Day after day those two men lay in its tiny cabin, no human beings seeing their faces. Had they beeu in the grave itself their burial would not have beeu more complete. Neither ever showed his head above deck save when one of the other ventured forth at midnight to steal food. "The search for Mosher aud Doughlas was the closest ever made," says the ex-Pinkerton. "Cluee were picked up in the most incredible piace?a word overhead on a street car, an expression by some corner loafer, a laughing allusion in some bar?aud followed back by our sleuths with the most incredible ingenuity. And they always brought up in what might be called the vicinity for the men?at some of their friends or relatives. But they never went futher. And they didu,t for the simple reason that not even those Iriends aud relatives knew the hiding places oi tne Kiauappers. "There was an old woman who lived over in Green Point, back to whom a word, dropped by chance, was traced. And in her we uuearthed a most remarkable old character. "She told us all about Mosher and Douglas, from the time they returned to New York up to the moment of aur conversation with her. We proceeded to investigate the story forthwith. And we couldn't verify a single point in it. 'When we told her this, she insisted that what she said was true. And she again went over the narrative with the most perfect circumstantial detail. And again we set out to verify it. And again we didn't verify it. "This thiug happened many times And finally we cut loose from her as a vain hope. "We had many experiences of this sort, but for a long time we could not, despite our best efforts to get futher than the point at which the kidnappers aud the boy vanished. The police finally got hold of a man named Gill Mosher?brother of the kidnapper. Gill agreed to deliver the two men into,police hands, provided his brother was allowed to turn state's evidence, aud Douglas made the scapegoat. This, Walling, then superintendent Df Jhe metropolitan force, agreed to. And Gill went oll'and arranged with the criminals for them to be at the iven now very tough corner at Grand ind Allen atreets, New York, at one 3'clock that night. Walling told off two detectives to seize them. And these twowonderful sleuths took their station and wasted half and hour. Then they left. And fifteen minutes later the kidnappers made their appearance and went into i, bar on the corner. The proprietor of the saloon did not know Mosher and Douglas, but he was well enough acquainted with the criminal ela-s to surmise that they were lawbreakers of one sort or another. And so, by way of doing his friends a good turn, he said: "There were two fly cops ou the corner watching for somebody awhile ago." Whereupon Mosher and Douglas hurriedly departed?never more to be seen in life?save for one tragic iustant. In the meantime the crime had so preyed upon one woman's mind that it made her a monomaniac, aud she reported, in her mania, that she had seen a man named Westervelt, a Drother-in-law of Mosher, but a very respectable man, on a street car in Brooklyn with Charlie Ross. Westervelt was arrested upon her estimouy; aud sent to the penitentiary for five years?perfectly innoceut. After the police detectives made their dismal failure of catching the kidnappers in New York City, Gill Mosher was laid hold of by the Pinkertou's, and an agreement reached with him by them whereby he was to toll his brother and Douhlas iutoa trap. But the kidnappers-were too irigntened to keep any rendezvous? they kept to their cat-boat, and not even (Jill knew their whereabouts then. Later Mosher aud Douglas crawled up to the mouth of Hackensack river, just below Staten Island, and anchoring their boat there, slipped over the Bay Ridge. Their purpose was to rob an unoccupied house near that suburb owned by a Judge Van Brunt. The Judge was a next door neighbor to his brother, one William H. Van Brunt, who was at home with his sons when the burglars came. And when Mosher and Douglas weut into the Judge's honse, they set ott'an alarm which refused the William H. household. And the members thereof seized their doubled-barrelled shot guns, aud slipped over the Jud ge's domicile. Just as shey took their station, Mosher and Douglas emerged from the cellar. Whereupon the watchers left fiy with their weapons. Monher full iltiftd And Ilmnrliluau reeled, btraigntened up, and pointing to Mosher, said: "Tnat man could have told you about Cbarlie ross." '' rft'ii:.' ?&** '?&..A- a > ' m r ' . v . "v Then Douglas sank to the grounddead. Shortly after these men were slain, Oill Mosher again came to tlie Piukertou olliee, and told them that Charlie Ross was dead. His brother had met him shortly after the lad passed ?way, and told him and tlie re-t of the Mosher family the particulars. .The child, suHVriog from grief and rough usage, and the confinement of the filthy little cabin, and the horrible food with which he was MUppiied, succumbed to a stomach complaint, and the body was thrown into the river. Later, "its body was recovered, and buried. fpI,rt flinf- Mio nhauft ^nrlpd 1 lie UUWO luuv uiv v.. was uot long in spreading over the largest cities of the country. But it was years before the smaller cities learned it. And some do not know it yet. From start to finish it occupied just about a year HAVING purchased the PLUMBING lately conducted by Mr. C. P. Hammond, we are now prepared to attend to your wants in this line. Mr. A. G. COCHRAN, so well and favorably known to our people, will have charge of this part of our business, and we will guarantee all work instrusted to us, .to be done in thoroughly workman-like manner. Abbeville Hardware Co. Charleston and Western Carolina R. B Augnsta and Abbeville Short Line. In effect .Ian. IS, 1901. Lv Aueusta 9 40 urn 3 35 pin Ar Greenwood 12 15 pm Ar Harris Springs 12 52 pm Ar Anderson 8 00 pm Ar Laurens 1 20 pm 5 35 am A'r Greenville 3 00 pm 9 00 am Ar Glenn Springs 4 (X) pm Ar Spartanburg 3 10 pm 0 00 am Ar Saluda <5 88 pm Ar Hendersonville. 6 08 pm Ar Asheville.. 7 00 pm Lv Asheville 8 20 am Lv Spartanburg 11 46 am 3 55 pm Lv Glenn Springs 30 00 am Lv Greenville 12 01 am 3 25 pm Lv Laurens 1 37 pm Lv A nderson 7 25 am Lv Greenwood 2 37 pm 4 30 am Ar Augusta 5 10 pm 11 40 am Lv Augusta i 50 jim Ar Allendale 4 54 pm Ar Fairfax 5 07 rm Ar Yemassee 9 00 am- fi 10 pm Ar Bpaufort 10 15 am 7 10 pm Ar Port Koyal 10 30 am 7 20 pm Ar Savannah 8 15 pm Lv Charleston 6 80 am Lv Port Royal 1 00 pm 7 10 tm Lv Beaufort. 1 16 pm 7 20 am Lv Yemassee 2 30 pm 8 30 am Lv Fairfax 9 85 am Lv Allendale 9 47 am Ar Aneusta 11 55 " Lv Greenwood 4 0& am Ar Laurens 6 00 am Lv LaurenR t) 15 am Ar Snartanburg 9 ?0 am Lv Spartanburg 8 55 pm l>y Lx.urens 6 80 pm Ar Gieenwood 8 45 pm Close connections at Greenwood for all points on S. A. L. aud C. & G. Railways, and at Spartanburg with Southern Railway. For any information relative to tickets, rates, schedule, etc., address W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agent, Augusta, Gs. K. M. NORTH, Sol. Atrent T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manager. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ? Condettsed Schedule in Effect Jan. 17th, 1901. STATIONS. No"'*. Lv. Charleston 11 00 p m 7 00 a m " Summerviile 1*^ 00 n t 7 41 a in " Branchvllle 2 00 am 8 55 a m " Orangeburg 245am 0 28 a m " Kingville.. 4 25 a m 10 15 a m Lv. Savannah 12 90 a m 12 30 a in " Barnwell 4 13 a'm 4 13 a m " Blackville 4 28 a m _4 28_a m Lv. Columbia 7 00 a m 11 05 a iu " Prosperity U 14 a m 12 10 n n " Newberry 8 30 a m 1- 25 p to ' Ninety-Six 9 30 a m 1 20 p m " Greenwood I) 50 a m 1 55 p to Ar. Hodges 10 15 a m 2 15 p m Lv. Abbeville 9 35 a m 1 35 p IB Ar. .pciton 11 u a m ? r "? s Lv. Anderson 10 45 it m - -K> P ]|i ArT(ircenTille ~\i 20 p m 4 15 p in Ar. Atlanta.(Uon.Time1 3 55 p m 9 00_p ni STATIONS. I KoHi. Lv. Greenville 5 HO p m 10 15 a in " Piedmont 0 00 p nil 10 40 a ni " Williamgton 0 22 p ni, 10 55 a in Ar. Andersoa 7 15 p ni| 11 40 a in Lv. Belton 6 45 p m 11 18 a in Ar. Donalda...". 7 15 p ni' 11 40 a in ArTAbbevTllo 8 10 p in;Ti 25 p m Lv. Hodges 7 30 p ni 11 55 a iu Ar. Greenwood 7 53 p in 12 20 p ill ' Ninety-Six 8 Si p ni 12 55 p in " Newberry il 30 p in 2 00 i> in " Prosperity 0 45 p m 2 14 p in " Columbia 11 00 P ni il 30 p 111 Ar. Blackville 2 57 a ni| 2 57 n m " Barnwell. 3 12 a ml 3 12 a in " SaTannnh 5 00 amj 5 00 n m Lv. Kingville 2 32 iv mi 4 43 p in ' Orangeburg 8 45 a ni 5 33 p in " Branch ville 4 25 u m| 6 15 p in ' Summervillo 5 57 a in j 7 31 p m Ar. Charleston 7 00 a mi 8 15 p in STATIONS. M'lW 11 UOp 7 00a|Lv..Chariesion..Ar a In pi V UU;i 12 00 n 7 41 a " Snmniervillo " 7 111 p! 5 57 a 2 00 a 8 53 a " .BranchvilJe. " G 15 p| 4 25 a 2 45 a 0 23 a " Orangeburg " 5 bilp 3 45 a 4 25 a 10 15 a " . Kingville 4 4:1 pj 2 32 " 12 30 a Lv..Savannah Ar j 5 Uuu 4 13a " ..Barnwell " I 3 12a 4 28 a " ..Blackville.. " 2 57 a 8 20a 11 40a " ..Columbia.. " 3 20pj 9 30 p 8 57 a 12 2(>p " ....Alston.... " 2 30pl 8 50a 9 58a 1 23p " ... Zantac... " 1 23pt 7 4'lp 10 15 a 2 00 p " Union " 12 45 p; 7 10 p 10 35 a 2 22 p " ..Jonesville.. " 12 25 p 0 53p 10 50 a 2 37 p " ....Parolet.... " 12 14 p fl 42 p 11 25a 3 10 p Ar Spartanburg Lv 11 45a *5 15]) 11 30 a 3 40 p Lv Spartanburg Ar 11 22 a G 00 p 2 48p 7 15plAr...Asheville...Lv 8 00 a 3 05p "P" p. ra. "A" a. m. "N" night. DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE BETWEEN CHARLESTON AND GREENVILLE. Pullman palace sleeping ears on Trains !J5an<l 80,37 and 38. on A. and C. division. Dining earn on thes?i trains sorve all meals en route. Trains leave Spartanburg, A. & C. division, northbound, 7:03 a.m., 3:37 p.m., 0:13 p. m. (Vestibule Limited) and 7:07 p. m.; southbound 12:2(1 a. in.. 3:15 p. in., 11:34 a. m., (Vesii liule Limited), and 10:20 a. m. Trains leave t-ireenville, A. and C. division northbound,ti:02 a. m., 2:34 p. m. and 5:22 p. in.. (Vestibule Limited), and 0:15 p. m.: southbound, 1:20 a. m..-t:30p. m., 12:30 p. m. (Veslibule Limited), and 11 *13a. m. Trains 15 and 1ft?Pullman Sleeping Cars between Charleston and Columbia; ready for orcMiimnev at lmth iiointsat 0:30P. m. Elegant Pullman Drawing-Room Sleeping . Curs l)i*t\vcM>n Saviuinali and Asheville en route daily imtwci'ii Jacksonville and Cincinnati. FRANK S. UAXNOX. S. H. HARDWICK, Third V-P. & Hen. Mgr., Men. Pas. A gout, Washington. D. C. Washington, D, C. W. H. TAYLOE, It. \V. HUNT, Asst. Gen. Pas. Agt, Div. Pas. Apt. Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C. C. C, GAMBRELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ABBEVILLE, S. C. &T Office over Capt. J. G. Edwards'store. May 85,189S.. tf 1' . . - - _ i J I iJ ' - " " ii ? Ulenn'R LbrrilN, Peas, bpnns, corn, tomatoes, okra and to maloes. Hoston beans, can meats, otaees macaroni, (t>eht 10c pkg.) huckwheat, Knox' sparkling gelatine. flavoring extracts. Potatoes, cabbage, apples. The best met and flour tl?nt. tbe best, mills can produci Price below ilio market value. Glenn's Is th place to buy soap, soda, blueiug etc. comiiij ciciiripd and softened at tbe Lain dry. Send your lace curtains to the Laundry. .Send ull your soiled lines to the Laundry. Jewelry j, a Staple. ^ Look atlhe next te/i people yon met and see how much Is worn of the si called jewelry. From a 5500.00 watc chain to a tlve ceut stick pin. Jewelr has come to be a staple article of dres Von will buy more or less of it; s? that you get what you pay tor wbe you buy. You can be sure of this you wljl buy of J. B. Harmo". of M Cormick; W. It. I>unu, of Donaldf who have a full assortment of the V F. MAIN CO. goods. Every article < these goods Is fully warranted to be e; actly as represented. A printed gua anty to this etlect Is given with eac article of these goods purchased i their store. II'. F. MAIV CO. I Eastern Factory Cor. Friendship ar; Eddy Hts.. Providence, K. I. Western Factory (Largest Jewelry Fa tory In the world,) Ea*t Iowa CI I, Iowa, Over 52,000 feet of floor space, j Jan. 9,1901. I mo. Eslate of Sarah Cool, Deceased. Notice of Settlement and Appli cation for Final Discharge. TAKE NOTICE that on the 15th day February, 1901, I will render a final a count of my actings and dolnes as Admlnl tratoro' the Estate of Sarah Cook, decease In the ofllce of Judge of Probate for Abbevll County at 10 o'clock a. m., and on the sarr day will apply for a final discharge from rr trust as such. All persona havlnsr demands nealnst sa estate will present them for payment on < before that day. proven and authenticated < be forever barred. H.J. Robinson, Jan. 11,1901. Administrator. I ...LANE $ /ft # , GARDE fXS /ft /ft Fresh in any Up-to-Date 4 Phone 107. C. ^ GOING 1 if. M. TJ Find that, owir crease in their i oblige to have i order to handle Oats, Flour, Mesi and Staple Groce 4 Stuff. We are ] class order ihe It cently vacated 1 door to the one t We cordially ir come and see u luiil/lina' nrliPi*A U KJ UllUlll^ } f? AJLVA V to serve you inuc past, and when il are simply in it. Yours f H. M. Ti Notice to' 4 Returns of Personal Property M Before the 20th of Februai for Neglect. In order to accommoda ville County in the matter of making the County Auditor will be at? Calhoun Falls, January 8th and i Lowmiesville, January 10th and Mt. Carmel, January 14th and 15 Willington, January 16th?Wedr Bordeaux, January 17th?Thursd McCormiek, January 18th and 19 Due West, January -2d and 23rdDonalds, January 24th and 25thAutreville, from January 1st to F Bryant's Cross Roads, from Janu; : Long Cane, from January 1st to ] Abbeville, from January 1st to F Remember that parties having same, are liuble to prosecution, by th< When parties wish corrections m; fore returned by them, they must pr deputy. Don't send returns by mail, excej appointments of the Auditor, or to cc where parties reside outside tlie Coun Remember that in swearing to yc rptlirnofl vnur nrnnurlv or it-a rnorlrof J KJ *+~ ********* Hoard of Assessors can approve. En their employees are returned. W W.BRAJ ' - ? id - - ii rr rr * ViTi- T.y MAIL CLOSES.. e h MiiIIn CuiiiIiik an<l Guliij( Kvery Hour il inllieDny. e Hours that the mails close at the Abbeville post office: 9.05 a. m. going North on the Southern. 10.50 a. m. going Soul h on the Soul hern, i- 10.5(1 a. m. going to Hodges. 11.40a. in. going South on the S. A. L. 11.40 h. in. going North on the S. A. Ii. 1.10 p. rn. going North on the Southern. 1.10 p. m. going to Hodges. ? 2.55 p. m. going South S. A. L. 3.55 p. m. going North S. A. L. 1 A .111 n m irnlnir Mnnt.h Soufhprn. ' H.00p. m. going North and South S. A. L. Hobt. S. Link, Postmaster Pictures of every description In all colors ana rugs to beat the band. J. D. Kerr. it 1 MAXWELL'S IK 4; J. If J x" a AM PREPARED AT ALL TIMES TO lurnlnheB iny customers ?| FRESH BEEF, PORK, SAUSAGE, And Fresh Loaf Bread id Krpoh flsli on Friday and Saturday. Hlghesl market prices paid for Beeves and Hogs and c> Oreen Suit Hides. y T. H. MAXWELL. _ Phone No. I. j Estate of Marpt GMrt, M, ' | Notice of Settlement and Applij cation for Final Discharge. of c- rpAKE NOTICE that on the 20th day FEB s- A RUARY.1901,1 will render a final account ft, of nay actions and doings as Administratrix le of the Estate of MARGARET OH IRK de le ceased, In the office of Judge of Probate foi ly Abbeville County at 10 o'clock a. m., and or same day will apply for a final discharge frorc Id my trust as such Administratrix. [>r All persons having demands against sale ar estate will present thera for payment on oi before that day, proven and authenticated oi be forever barred. Mrs. J. C. Wllllford, Jan. 20, 1U01. Administratrix. IRETH'S... t N SEED. , I f quantity at the w Drug* Store of Sj[ l. niLFORD'S. | ro MOVE 1TB & CO. ig to the rapid inirade, they will be nore room, and in car loads of Corn, it and other Heavy ries, Hay and Feed having put in firstirge store room re)y R. M. Hill, next ve now occupy. ivite our frsends to s when in our new re will be in position :li better than in the b comes to prices we or business, LTE & CO, Fav-Pavm JL UX1 X UJ VI KJI .'list be Made at Its Market Value 7, 1901, Fifty Per Cent, Penaltj TE THE TAX-PAYERS IN" ABHE ; tbeir tax returns for the fiscal year, 1901 )th?Tuesday aud Wednesday, lltb?Thursday and Friday. th?Monday and Tuesday. lesday. ay. th?Friday aud Saturday. -Tuesday aud Wednesday. -Thursday aud Friday. 'ebruary 20th, at MeAdams' Store. itry 1st to February 20tb, at Bryant's Ston February 20, at residence of A. F. Calvert ebruary 20th. credits aud not making a fair return o i Auditor and County Board. ade iu the number of acres of land hereto eseut their plats to the Auditor or bis jt where parties are unable to meet tlx >me to Abbeville before February 20th, oi t.V. >ur return you take an oatn mux you navi value. We want a fair return such as tlx i ploy era are requested to see to it thai DLE Y, Auditor DR. J. A. DICKSON, SURGEON DENTIST. ' GOLD KILLINGS; CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY. A HOOD PLATE $8.00 j\i ? I (Jill 1,'ir.I I vns 7.V? nnrl I no OKKieKOVBK BARKSDaXE'H STORE. ?. P. GILLIAM), TAILOR,... HAH moved, and occuplen the rooms upKtairs In Knox's Hall, and Is now prepared to do all kinds ol repairing and cleaning of gentlemen's clothes on short notice. Samples of anils always on band. Charges reasonable 50 YEARS' ? ' ^|^^m^EXPERIENCE ^ fill j . i 1 n k I * 1 Trade Marks _ Designs^ rWWlV^ COPYRIGHTS ate. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention Is probably patentable. Commnnlcai tlons strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn A Co. recdve special notice, without charge. In the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific Journal. Terms, $3 a year: four months, 91. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN 4Co.36,Broa^ Hew York Branch Offlco. 625 F SU Washington. D.& (in m i i i THE ABBEVILLE COTTON MILL WILL 1 contract for a ! Quantity of Split Four-Foot r Pine Wood, . If early application Is made at tbe office Make your contracts at once. If you delay you may not be able to sell your wood. Apply to J. S, HARRIS, Jan..2,1900. tl MILL OFFICE. For Sale! THE HASKELL ESTATE, containing Three Thousand [3,000]4 Acres, more or less, lying on tbe waters of LlttU Rluar and nltnntPil in Klntwooils section. In Abbeville County, will be sold, eltber as t whole, or Id tracts. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad run through the place and has a flaj station on this property. A fine old dwelling of ten rooms, in goot repair. Property exceptionally well watered anc Iwoodt d. Parties wishing information, will call od, o; |. communicate with, . L, C. HASKELL, Agt. 1 Abbeville, S. C, Nov. 28,1WJ0. :5m. Don't Wait UNTIL IT GETS COLD BEFORI YOU ARRANGE YOUR HEAT ING APPARATUS. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVEI A FINE LINE OK URATES FROM THE CHEAPEST TO THE BEST, AND INVITE YOUR IN SPECTION. Mantels and Tiling, Heating Stoves For Coal or Wood or Oil. IRON KING, ) ~ . . elmo. [Cooking garland, | ...stoves. superb, j Abbeville Hardware Co. Everything In House Furnishings. J. L. HILL & CO., DEALERS IN | Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, Harness, Laprobes, Etc. " Our Specialties are SUMMER BUGGIES, BABCOCK BUGGIES, ANCHOR BUGGIES, And CHEAP BUGGIES Fro n $30 up. Owensboro Wngons, Wbit< Hickory Wagons. We also have a full line o Harness, Laprobes, Etc. Give us a call before buying. T T TTTT.T. ^ rr) . \J . JV. ?* No. 3 Rosenberg Block. ? jjjgJJJJ 0 nh2 ^ I OS ? s " 22 ? ea g N?3 < V r 1 M q esT ? ; ^ < . l!s s! ss^ z > ss si oa < t ss^si 5 ss j ,T?-Iiich?Venltian cloths; full line of i Kliuiitw nt fiaddoii*M, 1 ' . Our fee returucd if we fail. Any one sending i sketch and description of any invention will ..i promptly receive our opinion free concerning the patentability of same. "How to Obtain a Patent" sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at bur expense? Patents taken out through us receive apectal notice, without charge, in The Patent Record, . ' ' an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE. Address, VICTOR J. EVANS & CO. (Parent Attorneys,) Evans Building, WASHINGTON, D. CMICE OF REGISTRATION. \ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,' ABBEVILLE COUNTY. OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. Abbeville. 8. C., March 6,1S99. ,, ' rj Notice is hereby given that in accordance with au Act of the General ' Assembly, and in conformity with the ' requirement of the State Constitu- ' ~'t tion, the books for the registration of all legally qualified voters, and for the , issuing of transfer*, ect., will be open at, the office of Supervisors of Reflristra tion in the Court House, between the ''^ hour 0 o'clock a. in.. and 3 o'clock p. : " m, on the ftrnt Monday of each v . ^ month, and kept open for tliree sue cessive days in each mouth until ' thirty days before the next general '-jVj election. The Board of Registration is the. . >5* judge of the qualifications of all ' applicants for registration every male citizen of this Siate aud of the United (Stale. twenty-oue years of age, who is ' not an idiot is not insane, is not a pauj>er supported at the public expense, aud is not confined in any pub-, lie prison, and who has not been convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining ' V goods or money under false pretenses perjury, fcr?ery, robbery, bribery, adultery wife beatim?, housebreaking, >> receiving stolen goods, breach of trust . 'a with fraudulent intent, fornication, 9odomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or crimes against the election laws, and .;'i who shall have been a resident in this J '.i State two years (except'ministers in r.\charge of organized churches and 1 teachers of public schools, and these after pix months residence in the . V > * State,) a resident in the County for six months, and in polling precincy four months, and who can read any Sectioujn the Constitution of 1895, or can understand and explain any section of said Constitution when read to him by the registration officer or pfflcers shall be entitled to registration and become an elector upon application for such registration. If any person baa been convicted of any of the crimes ? above-mentioned, a pardon of the Governor removes the disqualification. In caseany minor who will become '. 'M twenty-one year9 of age after the clos! ing of the Books of Registration and . before the election, and is otherwise ' qualified to register, makes applica- . V 1 tion under oatb showing he is quali- ' 1 fled to register, the Boards shall regis! ter such applicaut before the closing of, ' . j ' the books. Any person whose qualification* as . . > 1 an elector will be completed after the . closing of the Registration Books but v '* 1 before the next election shall have the '[# right to apply for and secure a regis- ^ r tratiou certificate at any time within . sixty days immediately preceding the closing of the Registration Books, . < upon an application under oath to the facts entitling him to such registra' tion. The registration of voters must be ? ' by polling precincts. There must be a Book of Registration for each polling i J precinct, that is for eacu township.'or parish, or city, or town of less than f five thousand inhabitant*, or ward of - j 'J cities of more than five thousand inhabitants. Each elector must vote in the polling precinct in which be ' resides. If there is more than one ; voting place in the polling precinct, '' the elector may vote at any voting place designated on the registration certificate. The Boards must designate H in the registration certificate the vot- ' i ing place in the polling precinct at r "which the elector is to vote. If there <c is more than one voting place in the polling precincts, tbe Boards' sball designate on the certificate the voting place selected by the elector. S. 8. BOLES, l'$M W. A. LANIER. G. H. IVfOORE. Board of Sunervisore of Registration Abbeville-Greenwood M MuruAL ;'m juiDuuil ASSOCIATION. m $550,000. I 5 * f \\TRITE TO OR CALL on theunderolgned or to the Direotor of your Townsbtp for any Information you may deilre about our plan of Insurance. We insure your property against destroo tlon by REE, fflMSMI OR LI8ITM, ?' '? and do so obeaper than any Insurance Com pany In existence. Remember we are prepared to prove to yon tbat ours Is the safest and cheapest plan of Insurance known. SBI J. R. BLAKE, Jr., Agent, Abbeville, S. C. J. FULLER LYON, Pres. '' M Abbeville, S. C. BOARD DIRECTORS. W.E. Leslie Abbeville Township S.M.Benjamin Greenwood " J. Add Cailioun .Nlnety-yix " , Iff T> 4 -1 IWal/ia II # 7 ? D? M. B. CUnkscaies Due Went, " Dr. J. A. Anderson.Diamond H1U * " H. A. Tennent Lowndesvllle J.D.Coleman Coronaca " J. W. Lyon Troy J. K. Tarrant CalhouD Mills " T. L. Haildon Long Cane " Joseph Lske Pboenlx " J. II. Chiles, Jr Bradley " I'. K. ChIMhod Calllson ' K. W. Townsend Kinards A. K. Waison Cedar Spring " [ A.O.Grant Magnolia " H.O.Harvey Walnut Grove " W. A. NlcK lea Hodges j J. W. Scott Verdery " I J.T. M<bry CokesOury " I a. r . truniur xsraiiuvnio i ?. N. McKlnney Bordeaux j P. B. Calllson and Joseph Lake, Yeldel ! Township. ; P. B. Callison, J. Add. Calhoun and Joseph ' j Lake. Klrkseys Township. ! J. Add. Calhoun, Joseph Lske and R. W 1 Townsend, Fellowship Township. . J. Add. Calhoun, Joseph Lake and R. W Townsend, Brooks Township. j J. W. Lyou and A. K. Watson, Indian Hll ! Township. I Ahhf?v|llp. S. f!? Jan. II. 1900. ... ' . ill. t Mllford is up-to-date on school books when in need of anything in that line cu and see lalm. J'houe luT. . P y,. -