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! i (Hill:. I ? ^ ^|{S Anitas/ C-'^J ; > ., ' 'ls^ <$> THUULOW 8? CARTER, J j[ Family Newspaper : Forth* Promotion of the J'oliticqL Sort at, Agricultural and Commercial Interests. J TERMS: $1.50 a Ykab. ElMTOM ^Nl> AIaMAOBB. ) J_ ^ | Jt ATAEL.r. IN il&VANOB. Sfciftl-flfrEKlY fcQITlUN. LAN*'A>i i-.a. >.. < A a LaK -4 i 1)7 A F:umcr Killed. Special t?? The State. Laurens, Nov IP. ?Mr Austin Cheek, an elderly farmer and good citizen living near Fnorce, 1 was kiiled this morning. lie was driving spirited horses attached to a wagon with cotton, when they became unmanageable and ran away, throwing him from, the wagon. - ,1 ~ 7To * I, ; rc r't.jtiff S'if/t* Si?. i1 ('.wmk'IhI nirlv "a Jiartic. 111 111 ? Ml ii.*l?i?? !m<m?v*?-v of ill" . i^e. |>lni<:iiit 'oi.l re're inn-r ? I tie hum's. act u- ntiy ami jf-i tv ly on < Kl.lfS ;s. iwrjlllit l> i\Vi* K ClrritlM llvj the cnitr~ m.vH'o . d!?pcl e Mm, "uie 4 IhmkI 'c|n>. fever. lu.l ituu' cot ?-tiJ"Ui< it u ml lii'i >ti>.?ie-s (' Ii i , nmi try ah \ <>* '(today; 1). " fiOoelitstj do'I rin?l g ii rat it ;'<! to cut; by ail .Sriitc U-lH. A Work of Truth j in a "ingle Line. ! -It. Framit'h goods please every body,- l d nn*xirvn rrk? t I\, DRAilUl. I !lli OUVKI'ICI", < l-tnler Town Clock, Chester, K. } We carry a largo stock of Diamonds, Watches, Gold .Icwelrv, ? Fine Plated .Jewvlrv ? i Sterling Silver (Joods, Fine Silver Plated Ware, Clocks Bronzes, Fancy Art (loods, Optical (ioods, Cut Glass Fine I'mhiellus ami Canes, Fine China. The I.arrest Store") IN THE The Darkest Sfnek ! / H ami 1 /I OUNTIHS. | The Beet Facilities J 1 U J'* r* Fine Watch Repairing. FRESH BEEF j! A T ADI# tim-Mii' my marker in the /*- Davis building My refrigerator | keeps it almost Icu-cnM I will tleliver 11 in any pari of town at any Iw-ur tieairetl Von ea:i purchase tieef when you wish. Iouvh it in ttie refrigerator: miii I uiill uaml It I ? time you may w?m1i it cent. Thin In uren your beef being kept perfectly freah. \V. K. YOUNG. July 20th, IM97?8m. NOTICE To the Tax-payer* of Lancaster County The tax hwk* will he open In the oftlce of the ciuiutv treaauaer for Lauoanter county for the CDlleerinn of taxea for the fiscal year 1897. from the Ifttli day of October to the 31st dav of Dec mber, 1897 The following In the levy for the eounty : Btaie ft mills County 6 ' Interest ou fl A C R R 8 " Int. on C I'At: R It (III la Creek IJ " Int. on " Pleaa Hill 8 " Count 11 ul lone I .School tax 8 " Lancast-r (traded School 4 '* Jones' X Road* 2 " Kershaw 4 " Oak hurst 4 4* The leviea by township* ate .* .Indian Land In mills Wax haw lft " Cane C roe'? 18 " " (traded "'rhufll 2d " " ** (Jones'X Roada) 18 " Gilla Creek 2d} " " M jufiditil "I'lnidi I Jij " ' " (Jones X RohiIh) l!'J) " ilufoni Ifl * F*at Creek X?? 12 20 ' I'leamiit Hill 111 " ? No 0 28 " i ' Jmifit'X ?toai|n 21 " ' (Oi?kliur?t) 2.1 " C eek ii " " (Jones'Xll a<?n) ih " fully htil?>itiit?*?l. J K BIjA< KMON, Co. Trea* , Lancaster County OA8TOHIA. 3. l' ' i . if ?nt ixUJA * 'urt* ; I w wot th* m*fT?1/r.i4 Fifnrh I X. fUnwhlji CALTHOS r??. M.if ? | |yw i. W\ IM^IOtlCtIT???tHIl ^ P'fllP Dt*.4tr(il Ai ?, n~ KL'^aJ T ITUIfimtitrrlira, Uri.vMkl i Vfc \?* *?? >0?K Imi ? I J v!.^4k (is ' w // a ?'l ( <> f if Sc I I ? ?'?w.VOM MOKLCO., 1 ^ M? AmiHT #? * > iWt???4S '***.! I i ?r i %? PlJ* *| Ccfinnat 1 NKWB >M> Si irdKNDK'iS. State 1 totoetivc N w'uo ir,)l' killed Mr J II Turner i:: S art.m N burg county Nov 1?>t!i. urenlered to Coiista1 K- ! T Thomas on it his home no ir Kort Lawn ehoiu I!' 12 o'clock Suiithiv night. lie loan ivns accompanied to Columbia dunii Monday by Messrs Thomas-son, 2 \Y ii Cowan . id IU Ullov. :? , * .'Ion jis friend. .. Toe - \ ban-burg was notified oi i m sur- arms rOmler. I htil the a *i*i. , of the 1 sheriff for Ncwb >!d he will remain th it the penitentiary wli ' e jmd oflice Jonstable ' ;ii> ;, i:: "i '.?? ? : u junrtcrs. Siiani Murdered for Mon:-. Mr \t .1 Lee, n ir iiis'.iopvih \va> bint d ' . i i night by Charle;. Wdliauis, riegro in Mr Ix'flN employ. The negro w .i \ -i I Id i .i 1? . ' llis head open with u:i v\e, then otic entered his house :ui. s!??le ' > > ind a pistol. The negro confessed i'a-'. lifter being arrested and lodged in 1" jail and stated that West Jennings e.ipli was his partner in the crime. H way narrowly escaped being lynched. (> 1 Another iMurder in Sumter. Won The body of Mingo Thompson, : it i i " ''' in uioiitMiHivu coiorou man or 11 Sumter, was found in a ditch on M A the outskirts of the town Sunday her morning, lie was shot through '(>st 1 tlie head and otherwise heat and *stro\ rut in a most horrible manner ' d'1 about the face and head. Suspi- mnri cion pointed to Wallace Brown, but 1 col., who had cursed and abused nn(' 1 Thompson in the afternoon, lie "<M" was committed to jail. Stabbed by His Son. : a I >il Near Manning, last Friday, Mr Adolphus Coker was chastising 1,1 l>s one of his children when his son T1 Bosey Coker interfered telling his both fnthor not to striko the child work again. Tho father replied he the I would chastise tho child whenever | 'p| it needed it and perhaps struck it jU8t again whereupon the boy fell upon 8tru< him with a knife and came neur jnvp cutting hiio to death. er _ W A Texas Tragedy. ^ ~ ted s Col Gerald and tho Harris a^(.r brothers ha<l a shooting sera no at wj*e Waco, Texas, Friday. W A ^ Harris was killed in the tight. Kditor J W Harris died of his wounds the next day and Col 11:1 Gerald was severely wounded in the arm and groin. Hi* arm hu<l ,,IU" to he amputated and lie is lying in 1 a critical condition. then ItSOd Several Negroes Killed and " "" Wounded ut a Frolic. Ai 3.? y At a negro frolic in Greenville engii county Thursday night a negro "t named Reeks was shot and killed. '05 Another negro was f..tally wound- enro ed and several others seriously tt.iw shot. It ujis 11 free for all fijflit nioi'i and no one r-o! !1 who 'hot |: 4 the negro that died. anil . - - ?~ j lin, .1 Siff rhinyf >' lrt?w. 1 '2^, A t?a? 4'iirtti in w|il?' i j.m e >701 v* ??iire ? u-x fit ?<rl? l(v Im}i<' t'?t' vor. }iiie? j ii< i?? ,i -J o in* i< nO* cimi-mI 'j'f, hy 'i?ntl|'H't> 1 ? ?t i-oik l*h ?lver ||IUI. ro - I 11 v ? t ie. ?*?? ?v hi- j t rfu ? ti"?r t nn. ?.. mid totes j, il)lk 111 !< < ri> I it iiui - h KIlAinn ,1( ? ? e.l I .? " ?.. 1 ' I 1 1 |MV ,, 1 *' ?ur ton ii mix l<Ht?y: I p.: 10 V/l, lit i* t* x 1 11?1 m unit bouk nil |jflC, f e Ml Mi (till . . fn I |? rHE WAR IN CUB/Y. ['on Days Past Insurgents < Ollieiully Uepmtou as Killed. vail, .Nov 2<T ? Aecordin:.: official report, tiio insurgents ' the last ;> days liavo lost aim kill nl, among them u . !. a major and five other 20 pri.- mors .mid ios {ire and l",ii ? i cartridges imve . aptured hv the authorities. ; same time turn insurgent I r- and !'t trivutes have rsur* red. The report places 1 lie ?h !<> -,es for t h last ten at two officer* ami :N1 prihilledand five officer* and irivat bounded. A Traitor Hung: on v die. Ida.. Nov til.~ on th-? steamer Mas-1 witieh tirrived in Tampa it"; rriMni. report that Angel \v \i '-elra\ ed (leneral ('as!illo i e Spaniards for *n,o00 wasj ired 1 ?y tIn* insurgents on his t > (.'lenfuegos, court martial ilrnmiieiided and hung. nan and Child Perish in n I' iro in lopeka. tpeka, Kas., Nov 21. ? Mrs Trigg, aged 52 years, and 10 yeur-ol<l daughter, Kthel, Llieir lives in a lire that dc ed their residence in West street at an early hour this Tri laid eturned to save her daughter 'ell exhausted at her bedside, liodv wa.- horned to a crisp, girl was sulToeated. ? ?> m ie (Jeorgia legislature passed 1 Friday prohibiting match ;s of foot hall whore an adion is charged. ie friends of .Judge Izlar of of the former factions are ang hard for his election to >ench this winter. ie pardon of May and Rruce at this juncture may lie conid by some as a gubernatorial lition for Newhold tosurrend-Columbia ^Record. m Moody, a popular young less man of Augusta, commitmicide in that city Thuisdav quarreling with his young They had been married months. i Masonic fraternity of Colunipurehased a most desirable for $10,000 last week, and ng the incoming year will erect iree story granite building ion. The third story will tie by ttie masons and the other s rented out. a unknown white man, 30 or ears of age wax killed by an ic on the S C & (J Railroad Jnmhia Thursday night. >H,lh3 children have been I!?*? 1 in the public schools in State the present year, 2o,84b pupils than were enrolled i. They were, by races v\< -. : ^ follows: White, "*27: colored, 180,156; male, 51 7: female. 129,666. tliu k Urn's ArtilM Halve* it. iiiV l?? the world for C'tfts . s. .,i n, Ulo n?, *alt Hh'Qtn. r * : IViter. ''tmppod Han<l? < ? ?? nn, ami k>i xkln erup* ?uii p xitlvfly onrt<H ppex, or no ijoii. o ({ |h ^imraniced ro Rive . i 4itnf?otioii or money refunded 2b ceor? per tx>* For Ml* *?v fitr.i HriM Unknown Railroad Victim Identified, 1 4 " k :i'l unknown Ml,IK, swim to have l?cen a trani|>, ?n wife kiilv 1 1?y a train in the city |?l oljCohr ?'.a and his hody interred iulhe ; terM field after the coron- oi or-H i ,.i:|)'"ted his investigation, ri lfM-tr mi:! t , h'.ive heen Mr .John ti W 'la*".', of FairtieM comity. ^ ifo '* v. and live children. ?> He . t i.? (!olumhia that a! <hiy > i>in: and left his horse a ;Uid v a hack lot. Not a reflr.rn' ;_j honi" his v. ite wrote pi lier ither, Mi McMoekin, of itli C-4 eoneei nin<; Id deteiuion j>< * . Mia f nind the lior abd ? .oh! ; M o ithina (.i until it finally daw.'. >o,i him that the unkno. !.died l.y the train a r, day i ; - ? 'i -fore miir'it liave lieon ... his ner-indaw. With tlie j-, eonv'.i ( i the coroner he disin- |.( terred the mangled hody and || fouti I ti it hissurinisc was correct. |(( The liu !v will he sent to Fairfield ^ for interment in the Wallace oiirying ground. j A Woman to Ilang. | Cayuga, Out., Nov 10.?Mr* Allele Sternaman was tonight h | found guilty of the murder of y her husl?an?l and was sentenced to yj l?o hanged in the court yard of the jail in this town on .Fan 20 189*. sl ? \Y train on the lv C F S & M ^ "*yrocked near WiUiford, A pp. "Friday morning. One pas- . : senger killed and do seriously I o < wounded Two coaches were , li I burned. . ' I. \V Fisher anil Felix Wolf, " plead guilty at Austin, Texas, i Friday to robbing n train and 8 i wore sentenced to 50 and 45 years v respectively in the Texas peniteji- |, tiary. |t , Miss Lizzie Cross, near Athens, ! |Ga., committed suicide Friday night by taking poison. Half an an hour before her dead body was j found she hud been entertaining ? ' visitors. Why she took hor life t . is a mystery. c , The police of (iroenvillo have traced the many house breakings and burglaries which have occurred i in that city during the past three, months to a crowd of boys of, respectable parentage, with Jessie \ .lames notions. 1 he oldest of the i gang is about 21 years. They1, were all under solemn oath to \ murder the tirst who turned in-!, former.. i | ~ ^ f One of the most disastrous fires I ia London's history since the irreat tiro of 166tJ occurred last ( Friday. 150 warehouses were burned and the six story buildings were filled with Christmas fancy goods, dress materials, etc. The loss is estimated at $25,000,000. i For four and a half hours the; llamcs had their own way and it was onlv after morn thnn <m?> . hundred engine# had worked an r hour that the tiro waa gotten under control. I - - ??? Heii'it/J oml J)rr * . j * t'loan hlo<?d niiMiii h ?;lf> >lk s In, o hoauty without it i. Care a Hti iy <'?ihar>' 'loan your Moo.. and r ?e?-p i? clean, y etirrin? up the 1h*v liver am?I drivliiH all impurities from the body. MckIii todav to banish pimple*, Idutchea, bla?'ki enda, and t that aickly MIIoum complexion by tak |M i ivnrcN, beauty for ten cent-. All druiritlHta. aatlsfaotloa k urauteed 10 '2ft, AO oenta. ( !l Should Work lioth Wnvs. i;i v III The Iiurnwel! People says; Sever:;! farmer friends have told s recently thai they have quit hinting wheal because <t didn't ,s iy. If thai is a ?*ood rule as 1,o 2?? ie crop it ouirlit io be a jroud i;e as to all crops. I o lie eon of stent t'.io-o wlin have dropped hi heat culture because it didn't ' ' iy will have to let cotton alone so. \\ itii wheat at a dollar a * bushel md cottoti a nickel a pound a now calculation would ( rove that tlie former paid and tat the latter didn't make ex MINOS.'' 1 > -*? It * ? ?.. - I.lcatiS oi t': Prowhel Man. A letter received in C . cu'lostou om a Mr Haines of I lull' : >. N V.. iys that, the stranger recently ? innd drowned on Sullivan's Inlid was undoubtedly his brother, is I S Haines, whose whereabouts 'j', a<l been unknown for some ti lie. vyi o certain is he from the desfcrip n> on of the man that it is his mis* M' i<X brother that lie has asked that to in body lie disinterred and ship. ed to him at liulTalo. ^ an $500. damage was done by tiro <>f leaking out in the picking room f the Fort Mill Cotton factory! hi iirly Thursday morning. at Robert N Smith, a highly rc-jsM i Is ported young man of l'iekcns mint v has boon oonnnittcd to the ,K 'iokons jail for forgery. u> The indicalipns aye that \Y \Y Iradloy, Auditor <?f Abbeville ountv, will supercede Mr I>*'i* lain as chief clerk in the Comp roller's ollieo since the ap|>oiiit- c: ncnt of Mr Kpton. I8 Merchants who have begun bu iness since January 1st, last, and rho have not made returns had mltar iln wn nl nnnn Ttio t'nnill. I " roller General has issued a very v >ositive circular to county audiors on the subject. ' ; i> Thousands of head of stock were L turned in Texas the past week by ! ^ m awful prairie tire which swept i ^ hrough Lubbock, Iluleand Crosby ft :ountie?. 3,000 head of sheep gi vere burned in one flock. An w irea of 400 square miles was * turned over and farmers lost all ? heir winter forage. ,t Pursuant to the suggestion of < v .he recent cotton growers' con- j> mention held in Columbia, Presi ,v 1 H lent Wilborn of the State issocia |-? :ion, has issued an address to the n cotton growers of '.lie South callng a convention of deleiratos from i ill the cotton growing States to ( iHsemble in Atlanta, Ga., Dec 14th. next. He has also requested , lov hllerbe to have the (Jovernors " ?f all the Southern States appoint n lelegates to this convention from heir respective States. Stive I' our /.'/- V Hv u*lll? " I'll K CtHKAI' Snl'TII VMKKICAN KlDMKY UK*. m TnUij. u* m r?*m< ?ly ? ii ?-m t h - is** on a * 1 mini fit.? i'Xf' '<1 i; "mip't i viifviiw in ihi* K <1 1 It, '< mi) It r -t 111 i.l. I ill lit* i If , i"Vf<i ? fiitinn <?l v\*ii .? > !>?i i>hh-ii iu n mIiii ?i nnni ilimf.y ^ Miur-Hiv^H ?>v ii-|iii? 'i?< in <rv?-ii u ur?'. It- m-c wilt j?iu* ii tii/i in ?*qu?nf * i" a no-! . .* * l? If. : ii Hi hIII-i ilvo B'i'l i " I.ii?> ?i *ol i iiy J / ' .M ?fke\ o , J* oaitoi t ChritCannon has I men senti meed s o l)o hanged at Spartanburg dan ^ th 1898. ' I "ih'ldrw Or V Ditcha-J" Ganoria. 5 Undersoil A?! Osiers la r% r\ a vJiOv/OlJCbt I j 3 ^ ' ii' i x 7. poilt-slx : f. ii- ! fui | >i>i 1 t: )i i* row 11 .-u:;;:r 1 (Ml I Wc h:i\c the < I iim* ( hew ; i -Mil Sue . town. Also wtr' jutv nice line N -t i<?ns. - !(i. is : !(livs* :nxl (Jen? s" II-isi , , i.-i. J. < Is ?* ?. ' M )?>J> V*< V / I v 1, i 11 \ O O W j . . r. ?:T.P i"f -!i n , '>rn i'v or lan< \s ("our* of Co.i: ill!-- r'. o;<i i : 'M,,;. !-. , I: -I. iM.o ii' . :111?I oilu-r-. 1 > * i:'i > V V IP! 5' i :i I < IVC >' :!l Oil I i .(' liiM'i'l <>;i s h (ia\ < i' i i.-'oM r 7, I \v i I ex j HM-i?xN*r i 'in.ri I (oil -1 . in - i o v,:tli' I ('inioi \ a' I In- ( (('! ; iliio (11 I- v. 11 luiiiri of o.i Hi. xi MoimIhv io Ii#*(-(-nili#'. \( ? six 11* ila? f I In- 11i"ii! Iii- I , iiw (J (Imxi-I jlit-il I I'll ??-?' ri|, li-ir.l-O.... . I i . ..... . r .,. ...... in- I.I l 1111 I. I I i ..Jfd wn-hip, i'onmy of I jam-a-ier .? <1 ate of South Carolina, ami oi.ntait;mi I i iiii.li* 11 ami sixty-seven ( '4H7 I Aeres, more or fe.ss, I is hounded on the North l>y landT KtiU'line llarher; Ka-l hy laiidMth. <' V. Mill-r ami .1 S Miller: mill hy land* of J I' Kailesand Wes* r land* of.I 1* Mailpi ami .1 1' liutris. Seeond. '1'lie other txaet enntjitis I^liteen ( IS) .teres, Mttre or !, ss. id lies in said Indian I.ami Towniip. I ounty ami state aforesaid ami hounded oil Hie North hy land- of it Stevenson; Kast l?v lands of J T ell and Nor h ? ai'duia line; Souit > land.-, of.) S Milter and West by lids o John White. 8r?f"" Tertns of Sale. O ASH. /'urlaser to pav for nap >rs Tula .>ii? da\ of ,\ov. ,Jmi7* \Y. S. 1 j. l'ortei. C. C. C. L. C II I-'. Wylio, lMaintill's Ally. TATK OF SOC Til CAROLINA <" ?> l N T A Dl" I.ANt 'AM K , Court of Common l'leus. unpom S Gray, IMaintlll, against / I) Therrell ami W F Ha-rls De? temlants. )Y VIltl'l'K ??f a decretal oro~. in J above stated case, made by Judge Mines Aldrb'h, on 21st day of June (1(7, I will expose to pontic sale at laneaster ('ourt House in said Coun1 ami State, at the < 'ourt House steps, 'ittiin the legal hours of sale, on the irst Monday in December next (beiK the sixth day of the month) the blowing described property to wit: All that niece, parcel or tract of laud tuate In the (Jaunty and-state aforet'd, in Indian Land Township, coiilining One hundred and flftv Acrm, More or Leas, ml hounded as follows: On therSmith y land- of H M Miller ; on the Last ? lands of VV F Harris; Nortli i?y inds of I) O Palts, beginning at a Valiitit tre? on the Kast hank of Big ugar ('reek and runs South 80 Kast it to a Post Oak Thence North Itij Vest in ('.(I to a Bhnk oak Thence ' nth 14 West II 7(4to a-assafra-stake i D O.Potts line rhence Hoti h 74 Vest -J'i 8n to a ItlHck oak Thence iorth 41' \V ?t "2I to a incptc I hence lortn 40 W - 6 NO t? < ~i i- ? Th? noo louth X2 \\ e- I fi'l to ;i \Valllllt. 'hence or It S'i W' - t '? i to a hi ick o the hank of Big >ii ?.ir t rm k. heme'town the meander! g- of saiil mek to the b* g'hi>< tig eonrse I' -e De'enda t WD I'lierrell hav' gemiv ?? I mi j i tothe mortgage PI dotifr, to ids co defendant W F 4arris, a part of the above-it nscrihed ii r<nave I lands, ih-serioed as follows.* i'/.: Twenty eight (2*M acres and oonded n the xo th hy lands of the aid W li Then-ell Hint I) (> Pott* 0 till by la i?N f K \i Mill -r and tin lie Km ii'ttl VVpwt l#y lands (if J F 1 rris hihJ known at a part of Hie V>liiam - Komi* Irn ! I'll? mi <1 will lie sold lawt, f Hie rental nler <?( lite above land it-t to bri >k <* in i *li (in e niortaifi? ?' M. i i r--?, ?v - and po-??. > i' said . re- will tin > b exp sed > t e erma of t;de ? A>i( l'i dm-er 10 a\ foi p ? '? ! h Fhia 5tii il.iv of No hiii1 I >117 I- v? Id'HUltV, s i,. rr. I ! ; Wytic, PI At . ~*m*n *.miUBM rhfn Tililiy w HO M' u, We |;i In r f < I r iv. Vhen aha ?us a ChiM, hKo ci : I r .r C t .rU, Hwn aho bocamo Mixa, alto citing to < ..-lorta. V'heo ah* had Children, aha cave tliera I uitoria