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f* THUItLOW 8. CARTER, | j! Family Newspaper : For the Promotion of the Political, Sx"UU, Agricultural aid Commercial Intcr^t*. J TJ\.HMS: $1.60 a \kkh. Eihtob amu ILamaoeb. > " * ' ^ __ ' Payable in Advance. StMI-WH KIT fcUlllUN. LANOAKTKH. S. ().. AUGUST v"5T~')7 ESTflBTTi!SH < I) ? _ . OUR LEADERS. tS,l pounds light brown sugar for $1 s pound* Arbu -kin* Coffee f??r 1 7 pounds good green coffee for 1 I pound fine Tobacco for 36 cents. 8*ir Tin Ware VEItY CHEAP. WE KNOW bow close monep matters are w most people. We are prepared close buyers. Values that two three years ago seemed almost I possible are to-day an actual far nearly cut in two. Many are s prised at the line of Orocerle differ. Home even are iiicredulo A. (JI.ASSKIt. County Poor House to Let SEA I.ED PROPOSALS for keep the County Poor Hou-e for year I HAS. will be received by County Board of Commissioners their office until tl>e ttrst Mom lay September at 12 o'clock, M. Bids must be made at a fixed s for each inmate per month. 'I County will furnish the land free rent Bedding and medical attent will also be furnished. B<?nd will required of tlie stiroes-ful appllcii in tlie sum of two hundred doili for faithful performance of duty. The right to reject anv and all ti is reserved, li. J. PERRY. Cullnty hupervisoi rm. ? m in- i juik'unum' liniil Mini :o: T1IE NEXT session of the Li caster Graded School begins S teiuher 18th, IbtlX,*?Tbe build) has l?eon enlarged recently i the teaching force augment We are now prepared to give )?cial attention to pupils prep ing for a college course, or ' special classes in a college cour Terms reasonable. For finer information address A. M. RANKIN, Superintendent Aug 17, 1897?lmo. Registration Books Open. ] N AOCOItDANCK with the Ac 1 IhUfl providing f >r t'm regirftrat of electors, the bool, * ?>f tile Supervii of Registration will he open at ?V?l)rt llllll-l* fill l!l?? ONI \lr?iwl..?. each month for the registration ofc; torn entitled to rcgtalratiou und It op-*u for lhrt?e HUC'cnalve days in e niontii until the general election r.?H. w. ti. \. Porter, It. M. Kirk. It. J. Fiyi.n, Board of Keglatratloi Nov 18, 1890?tf. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Complaint Served.) HTATK OF SOUTH CAKOLU OOtTNTV OK I.ANCAH I'KK. </ourt of Common Plena. C H Wolfe, Plaintiff*, against It W Wolfe. Defendant. To the Defendant It W Wolfe : You are hereby aummnned and quired to anawer the complaint in I action, of which a copy ia hereu nerved upon you and to ae a copy of your anawer to the aaid ti { iitiiii on tin* atmacrioer tit lih ol at 1 ancaater Court Houae, Count, Cam-anter. and Htate of Mouth Car n? within twenty daya after the i vice hereof, exclusive of the da> auch aervlce; and if you fail to ana the complaint within the time aft aaid, the plaintltr in thia action i apply to the Court for the relief ma tided in the complaint. Dated April 27th. IMI7. R. K WYLIE, PlaintillV Attorney ' .Kea' , W H- ^ PORTER, v^ea. ? c, c c L c To R W Wolfe, uomreaident Reft / ant: Take notice that the aummona i complaint in the above action waa led in the office of W H I. Por clerk of the circuit court for aald Co ty anil Htate, at Lancaater Cot Hmwe. on the 27th day of April 18 Dated A pril 27, 1807. R E. vVYLIE, Plaintiff"*' Attorne (GALLANT S&VSN- 1 ::j TEENTH. MM I History of a Famous South Carolina Regiment. ith ol BY COL. F. W. McMASTER. i Hist? ur" Thrilling Incidents and Sketches; ? I . of Battles Which will Interest the Survivors of the llegiiuont and old """ i Veterans Gen , orally?HelnK I roic Deeds the! of Brave ,he! Men at | in j The seventh regiment of South urn l Pl1(, Ghrolina Volunteers was orgnm- j of zed in 1861. Four companies inn I woro from York district, C. K. F. j )ip I , and K; two from Chester, A. and urn, I D; two fro n Barnwell, G. and 11; , | and ono from Lancaster, I, and Fairfield, B. each. r> I At the first organization, Gov. B? John II. Means in as elected Colonel, F. W. McMaster Lieutenant Colonel, Julius Mills Major and I . R. Stark Means was appointed U ! Adjutant. lu At the second organization, in ' (May, 1861, J. II Means was ! elected colonel, F. W McMaster 1111 -1,. . . - - lieutenant colonel, K. Stark ^ Means major and Jaiues W. Conner wan appointed udjubu't. ^ j The followiug table will give at one glanoe the number of soldiers enlisted in each company of the 111* * ^ regiment, the number discharged, ?r! transferred, Jcc., the men for sc. I ' j duty, the men killed and died from wounds, those who died 1 from disease and the percentage i of loss: . I (Seventeenth Iteifltnent of ft. V.? T??t?5 enlistment inou. I "! I F * I xi i 2 1 ? 1^=1-1- I - i e \* | ~ I 5* I = 571 47! tof j a-3 I < ^ I ion' I 1 * ' " I - I | M?r* A. 130 -7 103 20 87 53 til*, j B SO 13 7). 1? 18 23 i I? 11M 22 t?lt 80 80 03 I) 128 21 Ml II -<? -In k,t' E 103 S,s 110 17 in 30 :ei I s* 131 ti 12? 2 . 10 4 1 acl ',s 30 63 10 ill i!f? I H 130 27 112 21 11 32 I 122 20 )o2 20 21 17 K 130 32 Ml 20 89 50 : I'oUli 1243 230 907 207 211 41* 11 ! The percentage of loss *>f the whole regiment in 42. mm There uro incidents in the his, tory of the Seventh which rarely ! befall the infantry, and slight sketches of battle will interest ja the survivors of the regiment and old veterans throughout the state, which I propose to recount briefly RATTI.K <JF RAPPAHANNOCK. The action took place a few days l>cfore the great battle of rlt?> Second Manassas, when Evan's : brigade marched up the hill and *1?? then marched down again. y of, " oil- Col. Stevens of tho Holcombe rn'f, IiCgion received an order to 1 charge tho enemy, and doubled wi 11 quicke<l up the hill. Col. Means (,e" received a similar order, and ,1,*.?i ? ? i-ii | iiwuim - I'll llltJ mil C)I y Stevens. Col. Gadberry of the | Eighteenth and Col. Goodlett of the Twenty.second roceived an ind- order to charge and doublequicked and massed their men on the Seventeenth. And tho battle ,er? was won. innirt Col. ltenbow of the Twenty?7, third received an emphatic order to charge tho enemy, and with all his martial enthusiasm for which he was distinguished in j wc the army ho led his men bravely j I ^ on until ho reached the Washing. 1,11 ton Artillery of Now Orleans. | *1 'l'ho shells were bursting around the t them and the captain ran towards rlfhim and shouted: "Whero are j rof you going*" Tho colonel in polite terms told him ho was ordered tt to charge the enemy. The cap- 'ett tain rejoined, "I hopo your men J105 are good swimmers." Ben how Ke replied: "What do you mean, w'> sir*" To which the captain said: we "Don't you see the river down yonders" and the colonel lost no 1,10 time in marching hack. nA At this time the attention of *? the Seventh was directed to a hat- *UI tery of the enemy. There was a pull of smoke and Private W. Li. Cor .Jones of Company A was killed, *Pr I and the Seventeenth lost no time 1 in moving to the right to inter- ' 1 ' 4 1 pose the hill between. The, Kightecnth and the Twenty-second i were slower in moving and lost, |' r as 1 heard at the time, about 20 1(>" men. j'1"' Boyce's battery, which was at1 ste tached to tno brigade, had one . ' ! Iiei man desperately wounded and lost fifteen horses. So we all were ,m | I6tl ordered back, and we double ; quicked down the hill again, j?m I . I 4 | . cot incur cn.bl/>t? I VI inv/i , Irut WI'JVl IllCIlt ' . ing SECOND MANASSAS. Evan's brigade passed over the dead bodies of the Zouaves which i^, Ilood had witn a lavish hand | scattered in a valley. We march- lj ed up * wooded hid, apd when we i j)() had gone some distance up the hill 0f Col. Stevens ordered the bripade|cei to lie down. Firing soon began m(, and Stevens cantered along the|wo rear of the line, shouting, s| "Charge!" Charge!" We sprung }lj(| to our feet and rushed madly on. tjr As soon as we got to the edge of {[1( the Held I saw a brigade oftheiu^ enemy in perfect lino and fully mN equipped n<?t thirty yards off. It , poured a volley ir.to us.- The ^|u smoke and dust of battle was so j | great that I could not see. The I hissing of the balls and shell was ... ? ... 1 11kg a tempest hailstorm. 1 >?-:\tli w?i > seemed inevitable, hut 1 rushed t l.( blindly oil, for the command was1^ u( iitir^ro!*, When I got a short /< I distance over the hill the ntmos- Lj( phero was clear and the huh shone i ^jj brightly. The storm of battle ^ had partly subsided. I saw (jjf across u little valley on another I hill about two hundred yards off : another brigade of the enemy. Then I saw in a little red el ay | ditch Private Nesbit of Company nu I sitting down with a rille in his wa I hand. I rushed to him and shout' ed, "Why don't you shoot! Why|rft| don't?you shoot!1' With a calm, r0, serene countenance, he pointed to j his broken leg. I snatched tho gun from his hand, tired at the I enemy, and threw it down. I | looked around for my men and icould only *ee ?t>out ado/en. ll hastily ordered them to go back ^ j over the crest of tho hill and made I them lie down. In a few moments ('apt Cole- Sj; I man came Iin an/1 o.l-l ??. l.A _ _ X.IN4 VVIU IIIV uv could not lind any of his men, and p,, got with Hood's men, and ho was nn seckinp his company. While is talkinp a cannon hall swooped off w< I his leg. While tixing a toneni- (l(, ?piet around his leg Lieutenant ttb Coleman, his brJther, who was^a: also a physician, came up and relieved me. ne Immediately Major Means came an up, his hruast covere<l with bloo<l, and asked for his father. I di- as rocted him to tho corner of the of ' 1 i ?ods a short distaucc off, wh iad last seen him. In a f n ute s afterwards 1 saw rginia brigade retreating do ) hill a short distance to i ;ht, the general galloping in \ ir and crying out, "Come bu< God's sake! Come back seemed to me it contained st 2.000 men. The brigad ird afterwards it was (it 'toper's brigude. I was ov cluicd with sorrow, for tin re no troops in sight. 1 kept my little squad arou i and abided tho result. I ' lamentations were soonturr rejoicing. 1 saw Gen Renni niliarly called "Old ltock" > (ieorgians, come out of 1 ncr of the woods tho Sev< nth had traveled over with st 1,200 men in battle urn ushed towards him and told h t enemy was just over the h i responded: "Which way eplied: "Right half wheel yt rimcnt, go to the top of i 1, and you will see them." lw,lf ...1 1?" : IV.j^WV ?IIWI. 1 n tor inn voice, which eould ird ji fuile. As soon us n reached the crest a most v t rattle of infantry began. I smy rapidly retreated ami ild hear the guns and the sbo j miles after the sun was set Evan's brigade, composed rentoenth, Eighteenth Twen ond and Holcombo Legion, ^ jrally knocked to pieces t y. Gadl>erry was killed; 11 vv was wounded it the boginn tho battle an<l other high c s 1 cannot recall at this i int. Col. Means was mort^ unded with a fragment c ill. (iallant Hal Clarke, e, lay at his aide, and told it the old hero would say ! soldiers as they passed n. "Go on, my boy a; avei ' death!" Company E. was detached fr regiment that day to guar ttery. Fifty two men of 'intent were killed that daw Lieut. Waters of Compan; s killed; ('apt. Coleman < in his wound; Lieut. Stan the same company was kill pt. .John Witherspoon rmt Young of Company C w leil; Capt W .J Diekensor nipany (i and Capt II Ml >d some years alter the 1 >m their wounds; Lieut S y, Company II was kill lor Sergeant W I) Moore nipany I was killed, niber of those slightly woun s immense. I think consh ly aliove 100. I had an a? te history of every man in inicnt, hut my b(?ok was hi the enemy. [TO BE CONTINUED. | A DEPOT HI RVED ork of an Incendiary- Safe i bed. Ijosh Heavy. ecial to The Stato. Bishopville, Aug. 22.?'The t at this place was burned nning about 4 o'clock. Tl no doubt about its l>oing )rk of an incendiary, as the or was blown off and was fo out 20 feet from the safe, fe was robbed of $ loo. A tramp who slept in a bo: ar the de|H>t has been arrei d is held on suspicion. The loss by this fire is hen the merchants had large st< new goods in the depot. ?!A LEGAL HAHGING, ?n Tonrnej Lyles Pays the Death Penalty. iik, | COOL AND COLLECTED. ut e 1 on. ; The Second Execution for the er- Crime of Rape That Ever ere Took Place in South Carolina, ind | ! Special to The State. ,C(^ J Newberry, Aug. 20. ?Tourney in? i Lyles was hanged here today. The march to the scaffold began at 12:03. Prayer was offered in pn": the cell for the condemned rnuu a* j by Revs. Reeder add Williams. Cpon arriving at the scaffold 11,11! the noose was adjusted about the 1 negro's neck and the death war / * ^ 1 rant whs then read by Sheriff mr Ruford. | After prayer by his pastor' j Rev. A. McNeil, he was asked by n u the Sheriff if there was anything H> he would like to shv before being executed. He then spoke a few lo" words usking the mercy of God [M . upon his soul and said he was I ' .... i ?in:? * ,T icavi y mill ? Llllll^ 11* I IC 1 asked tliat all would meet him in the hereafter and prayed that the I Lord would have mercy upon all. Y~ He never once touched upon his vas crime on the scaffold, hat While the rope was being fn" tightened ho asked the sheriff to ,nK fix it so he might die easy and not " let him suffer. He was attired in no*! a neat suit of black with o black bow and plain black shoes. ^ u After saying good-bye to all,the '1*s drop fell at 12:lfi, and he was lI,f pronounced dead at 12:30 by Pr. ! P. (i. Ellisor the county physi j cian, and Pr. Van Smith. The body was cut down at 12:33. His neck was broken by t,in the fall of about four feet. Hi ' 'l was hanged in private, in the jail ouilding, the trap being so nr ranged as to throw the bodv A ' ' through the third story tloor down ^ near the tloor of the second story. n There were only a few witness ' es present beside-, the newspapci 1 men. A crowd of perhaps 50' people, black ami white, stood ii 1 the jail yard from where they W..,...i,i u.i? ..ft..- ti... t-... I vvfillVi IUV WUU> 111 HI I IJl" II il| kVRr had been sprung. <i F m 'e '! Tlic Greenville News has dis ?* covered another marc's nest. Ii "e says that Senator MeLaurin do clared in his speech at Loxingtoi *01'" that he still believed in the prin icu- cjp)P8 0f Alliance, and thui tho nT|,0 State's candidate is uo lesi irnt a Populist than lie was live year ago." If The News would in form itself before seeking to in struct others it would be less nb surd. MeLaurin can believe ii Alliance principles and yet not b tob- a Populist in doctrine, for th conclusive reason that theAllianc last year dropjied from its rate gory of principles tho distinctive! Populistic demands. This oc 'e~ correal before tho May State con I i 18 vention, which followed suit. W icr< rejoicod at tho time ovor thi wholesome change on tho part i Ka^? both bodies.?Tho State. iiind u _ The ()no Negro Kills Another. ?car Sjieeiai to Tho State, sted Laurens, Aug. 20. Yesterdn at Lanford, Turner Merodit! ivy, with a shotgun, killed Julius Hoy< >cks l>oth colored. Meredith surrci dered. j We Undersell All Others In Groceries. I ? I f* 'V K IV z j 20 pounds granulated ^tigar for $1 00 ! 24 pounds Uglo brown Sugar 1 00 Wc have the cheapest line I of Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ' in town. Also we carry a nice line of Notions, such as handkerchiefs, ( Ladies' and (tents' Hose, etc., ete. I ? - S. CJli-ii'f.v A: I Sco. ggwtren mCTWtwrmCT.'gw x-.-xjer-rmnmm. A SUNDAY TRAGEDY. * i The Leading Citizen of a Georgia Town Killed. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 2d.?A ! special to the Morning News from i Tennille, (ia., savs: A terrible tragedy occurred at Lovett this evening at 4 o'clock wherein a negro man enraged from blind tiger whiskey killed one of the town's leading merchants and a popular citizen, dangerously wounded a negro woman and he himself wm shot to death by a posse of outraged citizens. Thetpiiet little town was thrown into a state of excitement never before witnessed since it hecam0 a village bv an infuriated negro j man named Andrew Green. It seems that Andrew and his wife . have not beeu living together as I man ami wife should be, he havinrr forliiil Imr uitilinir tl>" p v?-a *?V4 ? tUt Vi 4'^ CUV ' ?T II again. Ilia wife on Sunday evening disobeying his commands came I to the village from their home at . Gnrhutt's mills some three miles i from Lovett. Andrew discovering hor absence, pursued her in his road cart, driving a mule. ' On arriving at the station he M found her seated on some cross ties near tho depot in conversation with another woman and a 1 negro man. Without a word of ; warning he opened lire with a 44 ' Colts pistol shooting wide of his > aim. He tired three times, two I of the shots taking ell'ect in the thigh and side of the unoll'ending r woman who happened t<> be in i conversation with his wife. After seeing what he had done and - thinking he had killed his wife, I * j he whipped up his mule and at tempted to escape. i Mr. (Jeorire Heath, a nronM. - i ~ * | nont white citizen, seeing what > the negro had <lono attempted to | stop him jnst as he was crossing the railroad truck. Green being i desperate and determined not to t he arrested turned his pistol which ho still held in his hand, and tired * Jon Mr. llouth, who was in a few " I steps of the tloeing negro. The * hall entered Heath's forehead just * I between the eyes killing him al** most instantly. Tho negro tlo3 - in tho direction of Gar butt'8 mills. I In a short time after tho people - of the town learned of the tragedy ft a posse of some fifty well mounted e men armed to kill, went in hot 0 pursuit of the marauder who by ? this time gained sufficient time to ' reach Garbutt's nulls. John y ; (leorgo, the husband of the in! nocent negro woman who had '* | been wounded, had by this timo c heard of the alTair. lie too joined the posse and Green was captured d in short order and brought up to the mills and after a few minutes I consultation tho death of Heath was avenged and the body of An| drew (iroen, the murderer, was perforated with Winchester and 1 V " pistol balls. Tho citizons then j' returned quietly homo well satisfied with what they had done. Children Cry for Pitcher's < ?tortsu a