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"M * y f t i 1 ' Site %?tltlgE ^HUULOW 8. OARTER, I Family Newspaper : For the I'ronujtian of the Foliticul, St.'tal^ Agricultural and Commercial Inleresta. $ 11* It MS: $1..?0 a Ykak. Euituu and iU^AoiiK. ) v . ) I AVAIU.k in Advance. Sbtfll-WfH(LY hi-Jlllhte T T^ANTJASvrI^ii, S. <).. (H~V 7;h;U( iP'Til? ESTABlTlr-S I I) IRh'jT lllU^M l HI.O-V IM? i'finn CROCERItS IId 4JUUU Oonfcctioii;3 M ill soil 10 pounds good grce '4 'offtm for * 1. T pound of 'K. ?I. U.'Tobbacc fttr 4 1 cents. 2 r'j' Just. reeeivcjl a nice linoc K.mey (bandies?cheap. For Slates, Slate Pencil: Pens and Ink, call oil ,V. 4i J .AKSKli. v>a?? .liKir Xni'ih of (j C PaYBeur'^ For Sale! 1 pair matched nudes, wo 1?r?ke; 1 heavy two horse wagon I 4voi so; I plug mule: shop an ^tricing utensils, will lie sol eitfcer prixately or publicly. Sc arc ?t once. \V. 1>. Sapi*. JV'otice. % 1A. persons indebted t<? tin* es|a< ^ of Harriet WHali, deceased, hi hereby 11otiHt*< 1 to c?w> f Nirwanl an ?*?K.le tin* sani", and all |>ers<?ti8 linvi clauniM H^aiiiHl the said estate will jrn react < hem at once t ? i heMtiuleraigii* < < \ ?W Kl.sll, Atlmuiintruio.. -riet.fi, ISJ17 ' ( :UI .V otice. ? I r ... * ? ? - r\ * jj iHTwiiif iniuiiietl to the < >'ul J ? ?>l K Jam* L$lHk?'ii'\\ , at >nC4tliy untitled tu coiiit' forward an the sum--, tuiil ail prison* Ipii ItijE <'. luiinw spainst the niltl estate u j jn*e?cnt 1111*111 ai >? re yt the untie n Wki.su. A ?1 in I rt t? t ria* <> y. <Aei o, 1H07. 3 vi I ^MMUjitini ? mm ? n? a?i(m.D.w^: FRESH BEEF AT ALf. tilu * nt my market In tl Davis Inn Mlm; My ixfri>r?*rat< 'kurttw it nliiHiHt icH-i'ulii i wiliilelivi i. in any part of town at any hour ?l< -ii re<i Vnu i'ii i pui?uha*e beef win you wish, leave it in the refrigerait tml I will semi it t * your home an tifun you may wish it sent. This it nuri* yeur lieef being kept prrfeetl cfr??U. W. K. YOUNO. July ?*th, IK?7?.'tm. legislation Books Open. IK ACCORDANCE with the Act. <Hif providing f.?r the registratio ?a?etcetera, the books of the Huperviao if Registration will lie open at tl <aart hease on the first Monday I aaefc month for the registration ofeta Oaia entitled te registration and ke| f<r three iitmiaulw 1" ? ? atth until Cbe iceuertl election i ts?. W. O. A. Porter. R. M. Kirk. R. J. Flynu. Board of Registration. f?rt . 1?6??tf. NOTICE Pe the Tax-payers of Lancaster Coui ?yThetkK h xik* will he open in tl oflloe ?f the county treaanaer for Lai <2*ater county for the collection of tax ferthc fiscal year 1897, from the l.V October to tiie Slat day of I) *rtfear, J 897 The following is the levy for t! oMut y : State ft mil Oainty !i " fnoueat on (' A (' It It .'I " f fit on C < & t; It It Gills Creek 4 J " int ?wi " Pleas Hill 9 " OiNitliHtionnI 8rh(H>l tax ;t ' faiKWtt -r <traded School 4 ' Jones' X Honda 2 " KrmiiHW 4 " ^Wklinrvt. < " TH>? 1 evie* hy lowuihipi ?rt : Imtian L tml ]<; nil] Wnxh.iw |(> " fat** Cr-eek 16 " " ' Urailnl wrli?ol 2'l " " " fJoiien'X Iloa?l*) 18 ' 'Sill* Creek 2OJ ' t " (Cir?<t? d Hchnol) 24} " " " (Jones X Hoadrf) 22j " ifaaford 16* .Flat Creek No 12 2?> " ?*Jea?ant llilt )A " No 6 2S " *' " Jnnm' X RorcIh 21 " " (Oakhurwt) 23 ' -Jed reek 16 "ar r " (Jonee'XRoa.le) 18 fteaeeetfully submitted, J E BLACKMON, Co. True., Lariuanter County Manted-An Idea SSrS vssnxss ys&FB'SrBjfi &>&, ?; y TT?yilntu>n. r> C..y* prM tM THK CVLINlUflCA!, dKI | AND (JIN. - Cot. Mino BroA'n Begins Opt lions. Tne Now Bound Bui ? IIow the Murium; n 1 Works. ? Special to The State. J Barnwell, Oct. .-? Col .M Brown started hi-c\Tuid! k :d pi t ' ami gin plant to ay, turning round bales weighing a- high j 5oS pounds This is the ti plant of the kind in South C;i ? linn and \\ ill revolutionize cotton business. lie is pay 5 15-4 to '> 1-4 f o b Barnwell II round bales and has engaged sj with C II Belts of the .Ions ,j steamship line via Charleston 'c the first shipment of 1"U ba I which goes direct to I.ivorp< ? He charges ^1/ao for ginni t compressing and covering. tare, all cotton.* Seed cot '.? Seed cotton taken from the wag <1 by suction pipe with the Wins 1 improved system and delive ' from press ready for export. The farmers of this section all pleased with this new en prise, and are waiting and en* ing the plant to l?e served. It takes 1" minutes to unl n* r,- seed cotton from the wag< o. ._ and pack a bale complete. B" wfell i- prouder tIt of r- | , . oioau-nuutic l and energetic. v Col Mike 1 Irown. " ,T?'o Prisoners Iiurnt inn (.' boose. Killed 11 is Suter. ^fl f? IT~ . . ' \4 \'r Montgomery, Ala., Oct (5. t special to tin* Advertiser fi n Opclikn, Ala., says: Last ni '* | the old jail building at this p ?- caught lire, and was totally | y stroyed. It was used as a 1 calaboose, and two prisoners w confined in it at the time of tire, both of whom were bur to death. They were both negi of; 1 t *l ,n mm imhii in priHon on mi r? charges. The tire was tir-it covered near the entrance, ^ the rapid progress of the Ha p prevented any rescue. I The same dispatch says n no OI farmer near town saw some moving around his place, thinking it was a burglar ti his gun, and was shocked to Ic that he had killed his own sis Greenville's Tax on O. P. Deal Special to The State. Greenville Oct 4.?The ,e council passed an ordinance a- ... . ., *>? night imposing a privilege tax ^ original package houses. tax is on a graduated scale, follows: Two hundred dollar "l he paid at once hy each de and at the end of three mon $.r>0 additional for each * 1,001 sales of liquors. This tax is one year only. At the end ol months another payment of s? will he required, and ndditu quarterly payments ns s*i above, provided that no de shall pay more than ?.">00 year. S*tv* Your t.ifr. bv lining "tlik (jhp.al* Ho j A michigan Kidnky cuhk " new remedy i? n great Rurprlm on count of Km exceeding prompter*' relieving pain In the Kidney*, BIh? ' and Hick in male or female P lleve* retention of water And pair panning it altnoet immediately t | you reel ve* by u-ing thin marve ? cure. It* uAc will prevent fatal eequencrfi In almost all cane* l?v 3 great alterative and healing pow a Hold by J FMackey A Co , /, uica< & ri C. >-S NOTABLE DIX KHASH. Bl In Iteooijits of 'the l'h-p Misnrv for \Y ra- Sept em ber. O The State. ?' At tln> September meeting of ; the State hoard or eon'.ro! it was eontidentl v asserted that tin- 'O P like agem ies, iu>t aid of hurting thelOi ess dispensary, w?>ild 11 1 j? it. To -ha out establish the truth of this propo-. Cu as sit ion u comparative statement of wl irst the .sales for August 1 >*.? ? and t,ct Li*o- 1^1)7 was read. whit'll showed jTh the tlmt the luisiness done in the pa ing month of the last named year was tin for several thousand dollars in excess ov iaee of the ruuie month the previous ( D? ton year. Eroiu the showing thus mi for made the hoard felt confident of a vil I ^ 4 les, large fall trade and for the Sep an ol. teinher business alone ordered ! aw n?r, 1.21" barrels of corn and rye ab 'No whiskey. , toj ton At the meeting of the board wi ons yesterday another comparative thi hip statement of sales was read. Itiwl red It was for September 1 s?.u; and .">o 1V.?7. It showed a falling otE of ho are $Jt7,tt."i."?.1Mi in the receipts. Tills is tor statement, which is taken from ( I wd- Commissioner Vance's report, w; rends: ion ond Boeeived Sept 1 s l g:?ttl7d.02 C i < :i I'd oived Sent 1>W7 s?: : ?!? U) - i " Pculh (.1' Pr. Win. 1).* Bratton. 111 ? ? ' ^.jn :l l' A W lite >r?> -?i><of Monday, to the Columbia papers, says: J'v : About > u nlock 6i'ntlav night 5 A tehgnun was received here Cy ^ coin (Jeneral John Brut ton, announcing ",l!" i^lit tlie <lealh of his son, Pr William ol? lace PuBo*?e Bratton, past assistant .vc (lc- surgeon in the Vnitcil States navy in .o 'P u. i i ?i? in, i iiu nan 1,1 -ere volunteered liis services for the 8,1 the l?onetit of the yellow fever 8iitrcr-|fir ned ers, and while en route on Satur a^' roes day, ho fell through the hold of nor | the vessel, receiving tho fatal in- j he dis juries, from which he died about et^ and I 10:30 Sunday morning. The renics mains were forwarded here hy express today. Dr Hratton haa *? >gro been connected with the United *n one States navy for several years. " and He was about 36 years of age, a ^e red gentleman of sterling attributes w' sarn ant^ a hard student. He had won ter. for himself an enviable reputation 16 in the navy. Rev T P Hratton Pr ers and Miss Isabel Hratton, brother and sister of the deceased, arrived here this evening from Spartanburg, to lie with their grief-strick- ' C,t>' en father to* CI on fo Another Original. a* ~ j ci n to j Another ordinal package place r( aler was opened on Wnll street We< ths, nesday morning. The place was si( 3 of opened by I) .1 MoCurtcr, agent w, for h?r A (' McCartor, maufacturer j1( { 12 and di-t iller. of King's Mount u, 20b N (I'he whiskey was In night K(. >nal 111 !l wagon train from North ('a- \ jj . ...i roli"i? I'i* ? * - , - r > " *"??* ^'111u> 1 til aler prca* ciilv ono two horse loud pCr parked in saw dust li i<i ar:ivctl. - (.'heater Bulletin, 7th inut. _ til "* Fever Fr* vented. lie ( ( I In r>- is oti'v oik* sure w?y of pre- |<| , . veutliiK v**l|ow fever. I>?*tr?iy ihe ' " genua of the disease try* Using Cnseas 'i it rH*' ' un,,V 1 H' urtie and keep the! ? 11 svatem clean try continuing their me. , ,1 ( The tried and tested *al? guard against , iii yellow fever is to place your faith In . iave t'ascarela. 10c, i2oc. AOo, all druggist*. ' hrus ??. n<j - its ?1,000 truh'H of cotton were th *rp' hiirnod at Montezuma, (ia. Sun- to ?ter. ne dav. 1??8 $35,000. yt \<; OF TlllJBK TOWN: ! ! Fire in <"annda 1 wet V\ omen and Two Cliil 11 si ! jcave :i 1 louse of Safety and Perish in the Flames. Otiawa, Ontario. Oet. '?.?Tin uada Atlantic Kailroad train ve liot vet lieen able to oet t< sselmati on aeeonnt of the (in iieh started in that vicinity yes 'day, and whieh raged all night le Nation river, a small strean sses through Cnsseltnan, am wood work of the iron bridgi er i* had lieen burned down tails of the damage are st.il agre. but it is known that threi luges. Casselman, South Indiat d Cheney, have all been swep av. The people of Cusselman out ,*oo are, rep??rted as huddlei .'ether on the rocks in the rivci thout sullieient clothing or any ing to eat. At South Indian iieh has a population of -too <> o there are only three or fou uses standing. South Indiat several miles from Cassclman leney, another small village is burned down. 'I he lire cov I'd a distance of about '2."? miles -rli i!i!t;i<i 7.~> or loo resideneo.s uml er mill, grist mill, furni ' e factory and several t?t lio i - place-, >1 importance. A sistunco i.-, being furwardc t homcless^rnm Ottulvu, an Fund !i:ibeen started. Foil lies have been recovered nea >uth indian as a result of lh est tires. Tliey are those < rs Lev telle, Miss Stiles, he iter, and Loviello's two childre e an infant and the other 1 urs old. Mad they remaine their dwelling at South India 1.1 I..,..., i? ? ?. T OI'IIKI llil? O I HX'II Pt'IlUCll f?, as it was not touched by th e. Two houses and a hotel ar I that remain of Casselman. Six -four destitute were brougti re, and others are being provid for at farm houses and else here. Another victim has l>een adde the list of those who perishe the fire at South Indian. Mr \ Croix, a widow, was foun >a?i about twenty miles froi here the village once stood burr \ to death. A special train wa nt from Ottawa tonight wit ovisions for the sufferers. Shot by Policeman. fecial to The State. I>atta, Oct. 5.?Last nigl aief of Police (r (i Craw rd shot, and it is feared mortal wounded in the leg Williai hristmas, .Jr., for resisting ai .it for violation of the laws r e State and town. It was cor lercd by all that the shootin iis perfectly justifiable. It i ?pcd that Chri.-tmas will recovc id profit thereby not only liin If but all law-breaking people e has resisted arrest twoortlm mos when iu liquor. St, m ft hi hi/ to Know. It mm In* wor'h nmnethtng to k n> Ht the very beat medirlna for re*t<> g the tired nut nervou* system i uItli and vig>rla Kleetrb Hitter list medicine it purely vegetal*! t? l>y giving tone to ttie vervr eenin the atoinaeh, gently Htlmulatea tl iverand Kidney*. and aid" theae o nt in throwing ofl'linpuritiea in tli nod. Bwotrifl Hitter* Improve* tti itetlte, aid" digestion, and la pr? innced by lho*e who have tried It i e very heat blood purifier and ner\ nio. Try it. Hold for ROq or $1 t r bottle at Crawford Broe' Drt ore. s l'Ol'Nl) HIS KLONDIKK. I>r IOmmens Makes (ioldand Scilit to tlio (tovermiient. Pr Stephen II Kimnens of New York, a rhemist of some reputation, has heen t<f 11 i nil Birectoi l? Preston of the l"nitivi States mint s about his industry of turnir.jj sil ? ver into jjold. This scheme wa? a made public some time n^o. hut - now Mr Knunens tells the mint <ti . rector that tin? lotted States jjovi eminent itself since April l.'ttl 1 has taken Sii.ouo worth of hi> e! manufactured "old at the mint . price, and a Washington corres1 pendent of the C 'hieti<;o I liter -()ceai 0 declares that Mr Preston lias fonnc i. from the records of the assay of t .tice that this is true. But it ma\ , i have lieen original and not manu 1 factored jjold in a word, is Prof, r Kmmens salting 1?is laboratory - mine To this he simply answer, that he is satisfied if the governr ment is, that he has no secret t< r sell and no invention to he bought n up, and all he asks is to he h?1 . alone in the prosecution of his in , dustry. l?y next year ho expect? - to he aide to turn ,*?o,0no ounce: i. of hi-> manufactured ix<?! I eacl . month int?? llit* I'nilcd States niin' - I hiring < >etol?er he will have si. r o??o worth nadv for the a >ay of tier, lie savs. The corresp mden il t who tells of the meeting of tin il ehemiS ami Iiireetor l'reston 01 r Frida\ u??e- on to ?|tiote tin* form r er ilireet!\ and indireeti\ e 4'So far a- inv own observation '1 have gone,' said ih\ Knonens, 'r' mil led to believe that ordinal", n silver consists of groups of parti cles having varying decrees o "'molecular stability. Some o n these groups are capable of disin y i tegrution and rearrangement ii 0 the forin of argenturmn, and thi 0 latter appears to be altogether un stable. At the least provocation d ho to speak, it reverts into silve I" or advarces into gold. This seem '* to explain why the chemical anal ysis of gold found in nature inva riably shows the presence of boll ^ silver and gold.'' "8 Dr Em mens said it is agree< d among chemists that the differenc 11 between gold and silver is a differ l* ence of s|?ecitic gravity. It is no 8 color, for Corey Lea of l'hiladel h phia some time ago treated silve in a way to give it a yellow colo ! so that it looked like gold. Chern i ists called tins "allotropic silver" j but, call it what they would, i I was as yellow as gold, and by hi '*j process Dr Emmens says ho ha r" | given silver the same si>ccitic grav ' ity as gold. He has simply pack 11 ed the silver closer by beating and whether ho has converted sil ver into gold or rot, he has pre duced a metal which commands ~ price as gold. |s The process of conversion i "l"! somew hat expensive, but Dr. En 1 linens snys lie can net prof '* on every ounce of gold produce* 4il am in this business for money, he continued, "and I am makin my pile, or expert to. No, 1 *1 not want any man to invest h ^ money in it, nor do 1 want tli in government to purchase the s< /?rnf I nn? ?4 ioi.i.l*f 4.? vi w, a am inn i cnv?j u? B' simply have found my Klondike and it is in my laboratory on Sti r ton Island, N V." And the coi respondent adds that when tli ie chemist had finished, the mint d m rector, who is n pronounced gol ^u8 an<^ upon silver as w bane metal, ap|>eared dazed Moi ,g gold was coming into view thn he was counting on. W1 i i v. ') :v.i? la iiJ .1,1 v/.iji J i:I Groceries. a , a p- '2' r??; = i 1S ji! in.(1- v. i"a mibitei t t"?>r i <>u "J" pornoi* |iuii lijiwvn Miyar 1 'Ml I * We iiiive the cheapest line L of C'liew iiiir .uid Smoking Tobacco in town. A!.m? we carry a niee line of Notions, -m il as handkerchiefs, Ladies" ami < lent-' 1 lose, ete., ete. t | 1 i . S. < Si ji*i\v ?V I Sro, _____ i "PKACK AM) I'MTV." i t[ Senator McLuurin Say* it is I)(? sired All Over the State. i After a brief visit to the Capital City, during wliieh he scarcely had time to see all bis friends here, Senator John L McLaurin I yester*lay afternoon returned to : his home in Bennettsville. Before leaving lie expressed his '! satisfaction and pleasure at the ' era of good fooling which prevails throughout the State. The ?le sire for peace and unity, said he. has almost heroine a mania. The people seem satisfied and happy with the political situation and 1 arc ijuite content with everything ' except the low price of cotton. The Stat". DIF.S AT A FMIH. Mem her of Legislature 1 ro; i Y ork Becomes KxciL-d While (iinnery i> Burning, and s! Falls Dead. I - Special to The State. Yorkvill*, ()ot-l.?This morn. ing at 7 o'clock lire was discover 1 ed in the ginnery of the Hon L K Armstrong, a wealthy farmer residing near Bethel postolliee. 541 and about eight miles from Yorkville. The ginnery ?vas completel v ' destroyed. In the excitement atr' i tending the tire Mr Armstrong 8 j became overheated and very much excited. He was a suffeier from heart disease and undue exertion 1 "land excitement resulted in his ^ I death. Mr Armstrong was a member of the legislature from York coun ty. He was a pr?si>erous farmer, a man of undoubted integrity and perhaps the best known man in r northeastern York. He leaves a r . wife and hosts of friends. The bare facts only are obtainable ' now. it 18 Valuable Contribution. I Col J 1* Thomas has presented , to the state library through GovI ^ |. ernor Ellerbe bound files of the Columbia IMuenix, from March a 1 27, 1868," to .lunuary 21, 1"*72; and of the SouMi Carolinian, js from Jan 25, 1*72, to M:iv 3. ,.[1873. The governor has w; it ten jl t(? Colonel Thoin a !- tt r of I thanks for this val lublo c<>ntiibu ?' tion.?Colunibia Hecord. 0 lluoklen's Arnica Salve. 1 The lie*! i f 0 ' rliH r < lit ? Brui^ea,Mores, I lr. nit Rh? um. ? Kvvit tjOKR, Tatter, Chapped Hands v t hilltlnin-, t ?>rn* m> ( 11 skin erup* tOIIH Hllil l> .Mlllv . 111/,.- ?.l 1 wty required. It in uuurantced to give perfect aarixfaci Inn or money refunded > j price 25 cents per l?ox For eat" *>v j. Prnwford Kros i0 A cannon made of solid pold i- and valued at $20,000 has been presented to the Gorman army by the Hamburg Museum. n C^UBTOTil^ 1