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est t ?gv * thulllow 8. l.arfeu, | A Family Newspaper \ Fur the Promotion of the Political, Sucuil, Agricultural and Commercial IntcnxU. 5 terms: $1.60 a \ kaa. editob amu llamaabb. > 'j _ > payaui.k in auvan't.. StiHI-vWERi-Y tUlTlON. " IjA N('A8'!'KH, S. I J.. OOTOBKK ^7 TmFj ^T~ ' " Iter's:: I'finn GROCERIfS nnd UUUL) Confections. Wl Will soli 1 <) pounds jjood ?jreen j Coffee for ^I. nn 1 pound of 'K. .1. K.' Tohbaceo ^ju< for 44 cents. ! . . ; K i i m *' .lust received a nice line of j Fancy Candies cheap. For Slates, Slate Pencils, ( Pens and Ink, call on s^( A. (? I iASsKIt . I w?! One .loor N< rlh of I. O l'avsedr's. I < id to I CITlTllIJi MITUX ? RTATE OF KOUTH CAUOI.lNA c.oll COUNTY OK I.ANCASTRH ]^()| In the, Z'robate Court. By Cleortre Mi'C Withersi oon, A's?i ! ? J mine. j * W H K K K A H , Henry S. 1'lyler, woi lots made suit to ntc, t<> mailt him I .,|tl 1-ettera ol Administration of the ' Estate of ami efF^ct* of Aaron Plyler, j Bu< These are therefore to cite ami no | luoniMh nl and sinKtilar the kiiniieil ami creditors of said ytaron I'lyler |,tu deee'd. that tliey i>e and appear hetnre s me,in theCVturl of I'robate.to he held at ( tra .Lancaster on St It tiny of November I i ? next, arier publication thereof, at II 1J< o'clock in the forenoon, to show j j cause, it any they have, whv the Maid Administration should not he granted, tna Given under try Hand, this 22d ' day of October Anno Domini, 1H!I7. GEORGE Me'.:. WITH ER-POON. ! of I'rolmle Judge. ,, I iC FRESH BEEF !?" :o: IP"1 AT A [<Ii tim-s at my market in the son Davis building My refrigerator keeps it almost ice-old I will deliver it in any part of town at any hourde- 'j'ltt aired. You ean purchase lieef when i you wi-ii. leave it in the refrigerator tire ami I will send it your liome any time you may wish it sent. Tliia inaures your beef being kep' perfectly vill fresh. W. K. YOUNG. . July 20th, l>?!)7?8m. j',01 Registration Books Open. IN ACCORDANCE witii tin* Act of \y | ISiW providing f >r tin* registration ! of electora, tlie boons of the Supervisors of Registration will be open at th?* court house on the first Monday i. each m-mlli for the registration ofelec 1 tors entitled to registration and kt j s~" open f ?r three successive days in eacl Lit month until the geueial election <?t '|'|, IMPS. W. O. A Porter, Jl. M. Kirk. j reH R. J. Fiyi.ii, rtts Board of Regi-dratiou. rec Nov w. isno-tf. ' """ rnl NOTICE ;? Lit T ? the T.?x-p tyeTs of i.auc.ister Couu- Jin< ty *' '.sir The tax b > ?fc?* will lie open in the ofllcn of liie'o unity tretsuser for I.an- I int carter county for the ? >1 leer ion of tnxes for the fiscal year 1807 from thn 15i|| ! C(" day "f O.itolmr t?> the .'list dnv of De> i to cimbsr, 1hs?7 The following ih lb? levy for the Stl county: ? Hu-e V 6 mill* I "* County 5 " int Interest on C A C R It 3 Int. on O ('id U KOlllHCrcfkt^ " yei Int. on " " Picas Hill 8 " ..... Constitutional School tax 3 * I,ancast?r (trailed School 4 of Jones' X Roads 2 " Kershaw 4 " ~ Oak burst 4 '* The levies by townships are . Indian I .and 16 mills Waxhaw 16 Cane Creek 16 " " (traded School 2h " " " (Jones' X Roads) 18 " Gills Creek 20$ " " (Ciraded School) 'Jtj " its " (Jones X Hoads) 22j " i Huford 16 ,mi Flat Creek No 12 20 " JJlt I'leasant Hill 10 " ? ' No 9 28 " ">? ' Jones' X Koads 21 " (Oakliurst) 28 . I 11 ttplf I it ? * " (Jonen'^IloRils) ]8 " . Respectfully submittal, S" J. E HLACXMON, C!o. Tre?s., I .ny caster County Notice to the Public. UNTI I. KITIITH Kit notice Is ulve i1"' m nflti'S w|i| U) <i|M>o on M??u lay of cw^li wtrk, find on the rtn '* Monday in each month. ' L. J. PERRY, J!" f'ounty ANipcrvmor. nmmmmmms i i n i, 10. Wanted -fin Idea ggg Prot?t TOUT th*T tn?T ?>rtn? j.u wr*lcl Wrt'.. j6nrt WftnorKHCRS * CO. r ,.nt Aiioi j Omjm, V ii.iiinii'n., '> r th.-ir f 4? oO?t , ( ?TO ??*?' ' ' # f * AS IIAMITON S Hi I ENDS uson Why McKinley ll:is Not Appointed (Ion. Lon?;street. ishin<rton Post. C >?' Atlanta, (in., Oct. 20. ? From in unimpeachable source comes explanation of President Me ilev's failure to appoint (ieu lies Lontjstreet to the railroad v. . i aniissionersliip, Lou^strcct, l.r. H cs hein<r an active Republican, . t , nu'r s a very active factor m the nrurin McKinley csmpni:_rn. ami v llis influence is largely due the '' 10 man's capture of tins (ieor-l tS delegation to the St Louis 1 i /< ' ( en ivention. In consequence ticn nostreet was shded for the poon now held l>v (ien Wade l11"1 mptor, uloncr with other/ealous ^ . rkers. All the other promised ^ ins have heen received, Col ^ ck goine to Japan, Maj Smythe tiii^r the [lostotlice here, ?Scc., | . the tirst year of the adininis- j tion lias almost passed, and ' nirstreet is unprovided for. ! . j tirci It seems that Secretary Sslier- j ^|iat n, ex-Senator * Edmunds, ami j ny other Hepuhlican senators (>^>r the old regime have so uri;ed ^ I l ive 11 Hamilton's retention on the i sident that he has yielded. As, cam pm lit t 1 MA n v .( 'niil'oiLitMil/i ' - i ,4'""' n.lti liciins of Georgia and the (j)(lv it It arc very indignant ?t tlie ( ., j utinent of their old chieftain. ; ^ <ri e fact that Lon?;strcet*s friends | , / now trying t<? get him the in- t|(t> (sequential postotlice at Gains- ^ v le, shows that they have lost t| lovo GRANTED A RESPITE. ~?: . . AM tiy There \N as No Il:m*?itt?jf in r<m, Camden Friday. ' Ik?s| ' was l<yhn Watkins, the negro under aloi iteneo of death, did not hung in \Va.H inden yesterday as scheduled, pre o execution was stopped hv a Imp pite from (iov Kllerhe. The t,a< ipite is until Nov 10. At the ?rj\( sent term of court in Kershaw tin* lllH' i!lS? II'Ul! ?.* in ??.-? v win H UN U1 I TftC >o, his victim lieing a colored tlio 1 claimed to l?c l.*? years of age. ovist week prominent citizens of Imj union came over to Columbia anv I presented to the governor ,|iS; ong petitions signed l?v many, hie -hiding the victim, asking for a <,vo nmutation of the death sentence ||n_ intprisoi.ment for 1 ift* in thojers lUs |?eniteniiary. The governor j-on t not had suihoient time to look lu o the merits ot Hie ease, so he HUV aterday morning granted the ipite preventing the execution the death sentence. The State, d. , y Ashovillo Hank Hreak No. 8. " ; lie Asheville, Oct 22.-?The Nation- <on Hank of Asheville, has closed J nat doors. This leaves hut one S( 1 nk hero. Toe statement of the,<on tional Hank is to the effect that r i ihilitv to make collections was " 5 cause of the failure, ami that is prohnhle the assets will t?e ^ ' tKeient to pay all depositors. Mr A Sure Thitiff for i on. I la * iriin-iiiHioi) In wlil' h yon rmnoi h Ih h huth tiling. Itilio'HUt'H*, nh'k j?er nliu'he. fiirr<?<1 tongue, fVvnr, . la iliou>?a'i<l ather 11 Im htp caUkhI '"O OonMlpatloii ami >?lii?irl*li JIvm ()|j, Tirat* Uati<ly Cm! arib-, the armif-.i' hmw liver stimulant and Intm al tonic are t>y nil ilrinrgitt ? tftiarali 1 (I to cura or money refiiiniicl. (3 I' | tr * a mire I liinjK Pry n l?ox tmlay: 2ft, $0 cent*. Sainpii'N an?l booklet Cj * at all <lrugtft*tn ! ? m ? 1 I rrfu i Subscribe for the Ledger. j ^ * 1NGED INTO THE RIVE l'KOPLK LOST IN WKKt >N NKW YORK CKNTKAL dies Loaded W" it!? Men, \\ ion and Children Thrown Into ?\Vliter?Confined in Cars They Drown. : York Dispatch, 24th. v the caving in of an embai it on the Hudson river abc miles from l'eekskill at 7: . a New York Central tr, thrown into the river and ions killed. The New Yc tral train left Buffalo last ni< had progressed for nea tenths of the distance towai hMination. The engineer 11 lireman had just noted the gi n breaking in the Hist and ' t streak betokening the su ?arance, when the great cng servant on the rails, a dc -plunged into the depths river. Neither engineer nan will ever tell the story terrible moment, for with il upon tin' throttle, the eng plunged with his engine to 1 r bottom, and the fireman,t at his post. Behind til e the express our, the com on car ami the sleepers, i ie piled on top ot the engi < known that it was a tr zy and the track was not v i mit if there was any break ljnes of steel it must have b erv recent hapjiening, for ,11 hour before there had pas r it a heavy passenger tru mi with human freight. > is there an i xplanation rem is conjecture. The section I was supposed to lie the vi t on the entire division. Tin a heavv retaining wall ig the bank, ami while the t , high ye-tordny, it was not i eedented. What seems to li pencil was that underneath ks and ties the heavy wall I en wnv and the great weigh engine struck the unsuppor ks it went crashing throi rest of the wall and top} r into the river. Tlicn th ijiencd, what on tho railroiu other time would have can istcr but now proved a v ssing. As the train plan r the embankment the co ; that held the last three sh parted and they miraculor mined on the broken trn that way some sixty lives w Oil. Abernathy's Confession. d . .} It \\ tlliamnoii, of l'r< ice, was in the city Thursd says in reference to tho rci fession made by Frank AI by, and published in the < ver, that AI?ornathy <li?l fess to the robbing of his < re. I le confessed to the ses> he church having burned reh, and ho confessed to Ilia in son having burned * barn that he lost by t Williamson believes that ing umn is truly rejienti says he and the church foetly satisfied, and ho thi public should bo. ? Charh server. rlcatc Your Buwn tt'ith Cm rtt rct>* uuly ' atbHrlir. cure const*p>Ri ver 10c I f '(, <: fall, ?lru/y iiui money. drer C'*' V Caster ;r,i merchant thieves. nk K KKiHTHKN KOBBKKS FOUND , ! GUILTY AT DALTOX. I > !, . . j , o- Some Sent 1o the Penitentiary, Others Fined ami Sentenced to Sj)( Chain (Jang? The Convicted | Merchants Were All Prominent in Businesv and So- !1 ?!l< i / . , <rro eial ( troles. .k-1 ? "h; )(It Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct 2'1.?j<0 ijo The most remarkable ear robbery <(U nin ease on record in the South came ? * I j) to an end at Dalton. (Ja., today, 1 )rk in the Superior Court, .Judge rht i Alonzo Kite presiding. During 11y the past three weeks eighteen ' ' rds rohhers, charged with systemati-1 1 in,I eallv looting ears on the Southern U<1 ay | Kail way, extending over a period H>1 the live years, have been trie<l and j n^ j found guilty. The ring-leader :l^1 ine Walter Bohannon, was convicted ivil in five cases, and was today sen- U ,t* of tenced hv the court to ten years or in the penitentiary. Ilis gang, i of Tom Kinneman, P?cn Pearcc, Sam 1,1 1 liis i Painter, Lute White. Bill Long rier in and F.d Morris, the latter colored, 11 1,1 i|lt. received sentences from three ^ 0Oi years to one year. Jim Harris, 'in< cm the member ofthegang who turn- 11 * 1 |,j. | ed away, was not sentenced, and 1 iD(] it is probable that under the re- j M,f no commendation of the superinten-;( 1'' ifl,? ?ifiit ??i tin" railroad, la? will Uisi released, or his sentence will lie so? in very li?;lit. S,M* eon 'he merchants convicted of ro- llX(J on - eeiviug stolen goods from the rol?. , *,u' s0,l, hers an as follows', all prominent jKWt an, j in business and social circles in uaiei-1 Ihiljon mid north (ieorgiu: (i M |y. Cannon. T P.I Peoples,.! II Pen-1 W i nf <lor, Anderson (tiddens, t'leo.Wl) cry Com bee, C. W Iloran, \V B Mc- fllil oro Carson, ,1 Kirkefarrer, Kd Hoball erts and .lease IKingston. l)1,f' ide Today the eourt sentenced all, *on in- these merchants to pay lines rangave in,- a< cording to their ability to the pay, from $l,Oo() down to ?2.r>, had and one year on the cliaingang, ' t <?f the latter sentence to be suspended ted on payment of the lines and costs. ij^li On account of the robbers, of ?led which theso suits wore the result, l,n iorc* 'I"' Southern Railway claims to *:l" 1 at have paid damages to consignors ' >t..l amounting to s;,n.uoo during the P'" orv five years the gang were making 'or god theii depredations. ?' Kip-! For Men Only. , to isly ick. I Ladies please skip this para ' ere graph. It got into our columns hy mistake and we have asked thei^' printers to set it upside down: i ?il *H ?" .1 .* < | no p nit is <>) p?t| <>i|s j | wn.pnnoM p j*j1 pillow ai|h moiiif t>.\\ ',l 'pll.ll \ 1 >1.?1J 111 KB.I .U,S St(|X ' I ill )vi- ,8'lnP " ?1 HU^O (13) J^Kmw II,.?W MOjJ (,ri i ?WOIJS W JO pllin JHM3| OI,| .MJS JJ ;,v wo., b? ent aiuo* ino p pop pw a.,s pa, no.\ pijj eoi . won j, <?) ion )t|7foo >ii|B joi111 v?oi(>s s,)] uiniiow w iBpinmiX mijuCiiH h| ajaip j, not A very distirn I earthquake shock ' vn was felt nt Lenoir, Winston au.l no ,Ion other parts of North Carolina last tho Pi kiny, It was also felt At several (>bl ^'r points in Virginia. w" ire. Stimeihlny to Know, ur< the It I11I1V !> wi.r'll lii lr w.?i> ..... ?r " " j thai the very heat nieilieine for restor- |(l log trie tired out nervous aye-tern to! health uii<I vigor Is Klwiiri Hitters. lias rhin meitl 111e ii purely vegetable, ' >tt<? itw by giving tone to ine i orve eonire- A^ i the Mioinach, Knit y stimulates the hp I liver an I Kidney*. an I aids these or- Coi ins in throwing ofl" mipurities in tiie , rel "? i t>l ? m). K eetrie flitter- iniproves the p,., ' *Pl>etite, aids digestion, and Is pro- palion uouite d t>y III -e who have fried it as JW" gist the v ry best hlood puritl -r mid nerve tonic Try it. Hold for 5n . or $1.00 |a>r b dtle at Crawford tiros' Drug Hoi ' tsiore. ' ? < (iKOKS KXCITKD NKAH MOUNT CLIO. o Youn?* White Men Whip :i \vjZVo lioy and Kidnap a (iirl. Kun to Swamp. *-ia 1 to The State, aiiutcr, Oct., '2.">.?A report died here today that ihe lie es and eiti/.ens generally of Mount Clio neighborhood io'o siderahly wrought up and inse(l at the outrageous eonduet wo respectable younj* white 1, Henry .Joscy and .Josh Searniirh. )n Saturday afternoon the ve nanud young men someit under the intiuenceof liipior, c driving along the puhlie il when tliev overtook a negro and girl ahout 1 Jt year* of flighting from their buggy, y caught the hoy, and, without provocation, gave him a most terciful beating, and then liinir the girl they forcibly put in the buggy and drove oil" at ipid rate. The girl, thorough'riirhtened. becan to scream , seeing that her cries wauld act attention, her captors hod her headlong from the :gy and continued their rapid re. ^ crowd of infuriated negroes n gathered and set out in purt of the young men, who t?i id capture, had to abondoii ir buggy and take to a nearW> imp. They then made theii y to a friend and induced hin ;o to the negroes and oiler t? ' them a sum <?f money if thej uId say nothing about the af % but their oiler was refused I'lie negroes declare they wil ill the matter to the fullest ex t. The British government ha: en act ion on the silver question London dispatch of Wednesday s: "Lord Salisbury tonigh t to Ambassador Ilaythercpb the British government to tin iposals ?.f the Aiiicrii'iin bune lie special commission headec Senator Wolcott. It is a di imatically worded note. Ili dship says that the governmen (treat Britain is not alje b >pen the India mintsat present regrets the inability to acced the proposals of the America amission, (ireat Britain havin great an interest as the I'nite ites and France in securing bio par exchange for gold an rer anand enlarged use of silvei these circumstances, continue ml Salisbury, the British gov unent does not see the dosin uyoi un internallonai moneinr inference; !?nt will lie pleased t rjsi?ler any other practical suj Ksion from the I'nited State; ml Sali.shury encloses with tl te a copy of the statement < * .1 W cstlaml, head of the linai J department of India, whit ,h under discussion at the nice r of the cabinet council last Sa lay, and which takes stron minds against the reopening < dia mints." Stive Your fjifr. Itv using "Tim Okrat Morr [KKICAN KlONKV ? l!RK " Til .v remedy l? a irreat surprise on ai mi < f its exceeding promptness i leving pain in 1110 Kidneys, Hiudih I Itmk in male or female It n res retention <>f water ami pain i islng it almost immediately. irselves by using this marvelot e. 11h use will prevent filial eoi lienors In almost nil cases by I at alterative ami healing power d by J F Mac key ,ttt'o , /#au caste i_o i ru 5 j i it i' t 'j We Undersell Ail Others In Groceries. I. I S T l<: > : Is pounds uraniiliit<?il Sisyiir fur 1 (Ml ; 31 pound* liaht nruwn Sugar I on * > Wo have tho eheapest lino of ('hewin?r and Smoking Tohaoeo in town. AI so wo parry h nioo lino of Notions. siioh as hnndkorohiot's, I aidies' and (lents" 1 loso. oto., oto. I f . S. <. '!? ?? ! v *.V ! Si?o. TIIK FKVKIi llKCOUD. In All Ovor Three Thousand and Four 11undrod ('asps. Atlanta, (la., Oct 2d.?Tho Journal eonipilos today tho following tahlc hy special reports from all infootod pities and towns showing tho oxtent of tho fever opideI mio: ('itios and towns Cases Iloaths Now Orleans 1,1 <?4 12(1 ; ()ooan Spring 7t)7 1 I Kdwards 0 J? do Hiloxi 4S5 2d Scranton 240 10 Moh'le 201 2N Floniation 20 o Montgomery ds 2 Mairar i> 1 I Stclino it o Franklin .*> 2 Whistler 4 1 Tonlnion villo . 4 o ' iiatterson 1 1 California d o Baton Roujje 2 2 i Mugi/.ine Point "2 1 1 Wheelcrvillo 1 0 VSelma I o Memphis 1 < i Total :r ?;<?:; ;!h> I TMK DF.ATII KOj.l. Is SWT 1.1.1 NO. New()rleans, ()ct Numeri rally, this has been the worst day vet of the fever situation here. S | | As early as 7 o'clock this evening . the score of the hoard of health C showed a total of ~>2 new eases, .land there had been deaths to the > I number of 11. Heretofore the I highest nuinher of deaths in a i J single day has been ' *. s Convicted <<f Murder in Four I Minutes, o Special to the Observer. o| ( ioldsboro, ()i-4 22.? Sain n Wrijrht, ?*olored, who, on the g niurlit of 2d inst., brutally idmid j do rod \V A Carr, a country slorca keeper. by cutting his throat, d for the purpose of robbery, was '. tried today before .ludgo Robin* ;a son and found guilty and sentenced r- to be hanged on November loth. i- The evidence was wholly circumystantial, but conclusive of the o prisoner's guilt. The jury retired *. at 5:45 p in., and four minutes * later brought in the above verdict, I n ... ih which gives general satisfaction. ?f V motion for a new trial was l- j overruled. t" I Tim I loiw><.t ! irnu'V t ^ i 'It's dreadfully (piecr," said the ^ ( housewife, 'that the potatoes you ! bring should he so much bigger on tho top of the basket than they ii I are at the bottom.' 'Miss,' said the honest farmer, 'it (tonics about In , this way. 1**titters is growin' so 5r j . 9. | fast right now, that by the tune 1 : git a basketful dug, the last ones is is ever so much bigger than tho fust ones.' H. M , ? m^_ _ r, Children Crv V Pitcr?-V Castoria