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THE LEDGER Ttiurlow S, Carte EDITOR AND MANAGER SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. 1S{>8 ?Mr J S Mooro of Plains, is visiting friends and relati here this yvoek. ? Mr Sanvel W Rhea of ( uinbiii, and Mr S .1 Kimbal Rock Hill are in the city. At Rock Ilill, Mr Pollock, of the congressional candidal asked I)r Strait if the newspaji had represented him correctly saying that lie claimed that he not support the resolution ado cd by Congress < in reference wan because it did not go enough. Dr. Strait denied t he had ?aid any such thing. The Rock Hill Herald is of i opinion that The Ledger in: the report concerning which C< gressnian Strait was <picstioncd .\ir l'oiiociv til ilie congressu til campaign meeting at R< Hill last Monday. We have < atnined the tiles of The Led< and the following is all we i liml in theni concerning DrStrai vote. As will he seen it v taken from the Lancaster corr pondeuee to the State. It appei ed in the Ledger of May 4th: "Congressman Strait infer the Lancaster correspondent The State that ho was in favor both re/ognition of the pres< government of Cuba and int vention by the United States, a for this reason voted against 1 resolutions that passed the Sen: and House. In his opinion 1 resolutions that passed were I indefinite and uncertain.'' The Tirznh Dispensary. Rev J S MolTatt, in the CheiLantern: We have objected to manner in which the dispens is being run nt present. H?r what wo moan, for one thing, dispensary was established ntr. zah, York county. Was it there for the good of the c< luuuity. { Has it been a m< blessing to the community? it has proven a source of debai ery. All the people in Tir but one, and that was the disj ser, signed a petition to the S board of control asking that dispensary be discontinued. \ t granted? No, the disponsar still there. The present law not being administered in the tcrest of temperance and 1110 ity. And it never will he in present shape. The IVoti'aeted Meeting. The protracted meeting in Ikiptist ehtireh closed Sum morning. Kov S X Watson, i^aneaster, who conducted meeting, labored earnestly dur his stay hero and did some g< work. Some of his appeals w as strong us we have ever ho and while the outward nianii tat ions were not as numcrom jfeL might have been expected we i k confident that his labors have lieen in \ain. lie went to tie pi| Spring Sunday afternoon to tm sist Rev J S Croxton in a m< ing beginning tlie same night Keishaw Era. l r.AQmDi/ ? -w r~% I II I f ^ For Infants and Children. > The Kind You Have Always Bouj Hears the /^_JsVS7TZ Signature of L&t^TXJ-CCAcJu In old Rome it wan the cunt to wrap a monk's conl about 'lend body to insure the safe p sage of the soul to paradise. J3TSU TO THE LEDGE L HOSTILITIES f ^ SUSPENDED i< Miies, Shatter and Merritt Or-! sc dered to Stop Fighting. ivos No Further Movements to be * 'ol- Made Against the Enemy? I * ] ,,f Miles to Inform Mucins r of the Truce. j J ! ii one Washington, August 11?The 11 tcs, secretary of war has cabled in-1 v ers struct ions to Miles, Shafter and w ' in Merritt to make no further move * did nient against the eneinv. Miles 11 i ? pt- i has been instructed to inform th*? ,l to Spanish commander in Porto Kieo u far ; of these orders. : SPANISH ARE SATiSFiED. ? the I | ule PEACE PROTOCOL, AtX'EP* 11 )n.j TABLE TO OUR ENEMIES. (l ,)y ' . L ,n_ Cambon Will be Authorized to . >(.j^ ! Ailix His Signature on Be lv I half of Spain. > t! ?cr h ,ftn Madrid, August 11. ? In ollicial circles the reply of the United j' rus States to Spain in the matter of ^ 0R. i peace negotiations is considered as I ttl.. satisfactory. Sagusta donies that * j he authorized the French ambits r 11H sudor at Washington as a repre-1 ' ()? sentative of Spain to timke changes 0f in the Spanish answer as regards | ,nt . certain conditions which might 0r_ create dithculties during the course n(j of negotiations. Sagasta adds that ( if any changes are to be made, 11 the government itself will make J them. The text of the reply of v j()() the United States will not be ,n detinitolv lennnn unfit ?l>o ! 11 coming cabinet meeting. t J ^cr London, Aug 11. ? A dispatch " thc from Madrid announces that the ' ary Spanish cabinet regards the pro- 11 e ,8 tocol promulgated by the United i \ States as satisfactory, also that * pjr_ authority will be at once tele- * put ?raphe<l to Cambon to affix his * Mn_ signature. It is expected that ' >ral hostilities will cease immediately. I No, j ^ j' ich. ! Washington, Aug 11.?Ad jf zah yiccs have been received that 11 )cn. Spain is satisfied with the proto. j i tate co'? also that a formal approval 1 the w'" cabled Camlion today. rVas ^'"er at 11 denied that instruct- ! v js ions to stop lighting had l>een ; isjsent. j, ral- i '"or those who do not know it : its 'H Nvt'H t? explain that protocol 1 in diplomacy means the first 1 rough draft of an instrument or transaction. It is the preliminaf-y the j opening such transactions. The lav words come from the Greek words "v ^ , I ()f protos, first, and kolla, glue; on the J the page glued to the title page of in<r j a book. A document signed by )' ^ i >0,1 friendly powers to secure certain ere ends by peaceful means is also, nrd called a protocol. In the ease at p,.s hand, for instance, the concise ' ^ !ls statement in toruis of what the fet.j I nitcd States have to say in an- ' not sw*r t? Spain's overture will ha ( .,n. I the nrotocnl .llm i-.m.-K <1 i'?a f Itvii --- 1 ? " <11 ?'l of :i subsequent treaty of peace. !' iet- ^<r *nr the Spanish government1' has said what it would do, speak- * in# through the French ambuss-' * ador, whereupon thi I'nited States ( . submit a protocol for Spain to \ sign in the regular, official way. ( That being done steps may be * jht taken to end hostilities. The act- p ?? na 1 fighting will not stop until the!1 ^ i'nited States are in actual poss- * ession of the points of vantage 1 om ^u'y forth in the instrument * the named. Other uses of the pro- * tocol will lie explained from time ' to time as occasion demands.? p The State. !lo-To-IU? for ritty C?nu. ' luarinUMd tohwro h(h(t eur?. m?kM weak men atronc, blood pure. MM *. All 1 K No morphine or opium in Dr. Mllea* Pais * PtLU. Oom All Pain. "Ono coat a done." ' EARFUL DENOUEMENT OF THE ORR ASSASSINATION. )rr's Wife Suicides in Her Cell and the Five Negroes, Meu and Women, Have Been Lynched. Little Rock, Ark., Aug 10.? "ivo negroes are hanging from ho limbs of trees near the rail ond track and the widow of .John 1 ? Orr is dead in her cell. This s the tragic denouement of the ssassination of ,!olm T Orr, a irealthy merchant at Clarendon few nights ago. The wife died rom a dose of poison, self-adsinistercd, while the negroes, her ssociates in crime, were strung p by a mob of citizens. The report of the lynching was rceived here at an early hour liis morning, after telegraphic ommunication was suspended for lie night, {ind only the authentic etails of the affair come from a uilro *d telegraph operator at llarendon, who saw the lvnehig Four bodies, two women j nd two men, are hanging from lie limb of a tree not far from is office and a few pace* away, angles the body of another lie- , ro woman, former cook in the 1 )rr household, Miss Morris, the ewess implicated in the sssasslation, was not hanged, she liavig disappeared last night. 'IM.? I I 1 *l I l iiu lyni'iiwi are; rnanz i^asue, )ennis Kicord, Subie Jacob* and V i 11 Saunders. Last Saturday ?ight John TI )rr was assassinated while making1 glass of lemonade. He had ust returned from Christ church, irhere his wife was organist. The flair was shrouded in mystery intil Miss Morrin told somebody hat she knew wio fired the shot. V coroner's inquest resulted in the irrest or tne five negroes and Mrs Orr, and a warrant for the irrest of Miss Morris. It was harped that the wife had hired he negroes to do the murder. Drr's lifo was insured for $.'>,000, )rr and his wife lived unhappily. Mr Orr was formerly a theatrical nan. In 1890 the couple eloped 0 a summer resort in Wisconsin ind were married. Later they icttled in Clarendon, where Orr >ro8pered in business, lie ?*a? jonsidered wealthy at the time of lis death. % T ITK <>K Oil l<>. C ITY ?>K T<>LKI>0, > I il'CAS OlTNTY I ? Kiu^k J Chknky makes oMih Hint lit* is ili?* senior purtimr of the (lrm ??f K.I rilKNK.Y A < l> , dnil?|? bu*il<e?<s |ti lit* City <>f I'oledn, < otiiilv hihI Stale ?roit*Mj?id. and thai ssid firm III j.-iy of ONK HUN DKKD DOI*. /yAUS lor each aimI every < ??? t.f a I.triti tlnit itnnot Im* i*iirt*d by the u?>? if llAl.l/s ('ATAKH1I t'lTRK. KH A Mi J I HKN KY, , ^ A WUI.K VSON, nkai.. Notari! hub!in. 1 I Hall's Cninrrh Pure is tnk'-u interinilly and arts directly on tli? blood tml iiiu -nus snrfio*' M of ti e system. Send lor t'stiinmiiitls JfVee, Addro?s, ] ' J CHKNKY 4? CO., Poleilo, I). Svagr-i'.cI by Drnpit'sts The. Carolina's First Hale. Special to The State. Barnwell, Aug 9.?Col Mike llrown ships to the Charleston Jot ton exchange, care T A Mc* rnfmn, Charleston, SC., Barnvoll county's?or South Caroinn's -tirst bale of new crop colon, in round bale or cylindrical ihspe, raised, ginned and pressed in his own farm and gin plant. Col Brown has the only cylin-. Irical press in operation in South .arolinn, his lieing of the American Oitton c onpany's style, which s different from any other round>ale press, as they put up bales uuch heavier, weighing from 450 o 700 pounds, of which three to ivo timet* ns many hates can be >ut in a carload than the old atyle w|iiare bale. fWrn't Toktff# apt* u* Imm Twr life Away. To quit Uibarro eaaily and forever, be mac telle, full of life, nerve and vigor, take Na-To*ae. the wonder worker, that make* weak men troaf. All drueslAM. fdawr9I> Care rxaraaaed Booklet and earn pie free. Addreee Merlin* Riwily Op, Cbleaco er New Toa? Hon. J ,J McMahnn?His Good Qualities. jjj A friend of Hon J ?J McMuhau one of the candidates for State Su|?erintendent of Education, \vri~ meanai ting in The Augusta Herald, among other things, has this to ??"?? ... ^ liaoom say about him : snore 4tMr McMahnn is a young man, J^poin perhaps not 35 vears old, hut he 111 iti i ? o wromiio lias had a great deal of experience, mother Ho is a graduate of the South Carolina college, has held tne po- i ... nonma sition of assistant professor of intend! English in that institution for a ptrSo* number of vears, avss a prominent this wo 1 prepart member of the constitutional y c o n v e n t i?o n, is an able MQIIll and conscientious lawyer, a brave, 1 Frism fair minded, intelligent man, of whom all South Carolina may well ZQt feel proud. m A friend of the* poor, the dis. tressed and the needy?educated, vvtf courteous and refined no* braver, ft' nobler man could be elected to />?0 the high ollice to which he as- X57 pires. South Cai olina may well feel proud of John .) McMahan, J who, in common with his State, subscribes to that lofty motto : 'jWl 'Diiiii spiro spero.'* //'j All/... At~?t~ iiuvil iHVl It". I Treuton, S. C., duly 1898." j LIVELY AT LAURENS. **I*U with pr Barney Evans (Jock for Thomas? y,'?r*w' Featherstone Roolies to a ., {oe""iI Vl piles an iUMIlor. C H. Laurens, S (J., Aug 9.?Mnjor ^ Barney Evans jumped on Railroad mW Commissioner Thomus very vigoroutly at the campaign meeting here today, denouncing his statement as false. liooo, rit Fentherstone wus overwhelmed with flower a and app auae. He made a jxjrsonal statement, de- ^ daring totally false a rumor that he had drunk liquor us a hevoi&se Tj during the last livo years. He acknowledged having bought brandy from the dispensary when there wkm sickness in his family, ? stating that the balance nf the brandy was still in a liottle at his WMVI home. }f Colonel Watson replied to Governor Kllerbe's Newlierry * statement, declaring that if he were not a bigger man than Kli lerlx? he would not have the office. V.Vts was well received by the of III I people of his home. haw j1 I The crowd was large and inter large ested. pirk ?, _ on a ITVIMIOID HAD AS YKLLOWj ,,A(K- j^'j Five Deaths at Fort MclMierson Yesterday Four Hundred Cases. Atlanta, Aug 10. ? Five oriIt * vates, all volunteers, died today j of typhoid fever in the general suits hospital at Fort MclMierson. ' ? 'I hero uro now i 1JS pat ients in the l?ig hospital here. Of these ' 400 are i uttering from tj'phoid ! ! fever. Tampa has sent 250 ty- lh< | phoid patients; l.?H came from ! Chicknmaugn and 100 from For ' i>< jnandinn. ! ^ Hundreds of Lives. Yokohama, Aug 10.?Violent storms and Hoods it is announced 'in advices just received here from i the island of Formosa, hnvo re- (?ents i suited in the loss of hundreds of <*? lives at Tai Poll, that island. < Great damage was done to prop Hoy* erty thoro. wRaile DK! Wild troubled me for a long tiro*. They were . I large and painful. I triad many eo-celled from | rented iea, but nothing helped im. I waa of| j |( I completely cured when, by recommendation of my druggiat, I need ra*n? ? m2. J si oarsaparlHa." W. K. RICHARDSON', Eureka, fla. ?????????? omii3ft42)j [>ftln, danger and ** JL < s death for no mo \ ) ^ For others it practically no A^ftW i fort at all. Idiere '.V"VJT v ason why child- rf OT tould be a period and dread. Sev. It ia a onths before a liniment becomes a to be apshe should plied ex? herself for torually. tical ordeal. It relaxes s a prepnra- the m n-sido which is ) dee and re*1 for this lievos the a alone. distension, name of giveselaatici nderful ty to every ition is organ cont corned in childbirth, and " ? ' takes away all J danger "and , noarlv all suffering. 1 lest results i follow if the j remedy is used j during the whole I period of preg- ' nancy. It is tlio 1 X?V . ? only remedy of the &?& ry kind in the world i A] that is endorsed by j raFy /*y physicians. $1 per bottle at all | \ drug stores, or sent I \ by mail on receipt of price. A // Fhkb Hooks conty // tnining invaluable information for all women, ifilsiuV w'" sent to any adIII M ?\ dress upon application to I j *A Tbo Bradfioid Regulator Co^ ' Atlanta, Ga. ILES dVrnd (lie lortarm of the damned ntrudliiK pllua brought 011 l>y conatipatil which I wax afflicted for twenty I ran across your t'ASCARKTS Ih the Me well. Ia. and never found any thine 1 them To-day I am entirely free from d (eel like a new man." Kritz. 1(11 Jonaa St., Sioux City. Va. aCANOV CATHARTIC TNAOI MANN I^OatlMO int. Palatabla. Potent, Taite Good. Do aver Nleken. Weaken or Orlpe. We. ?e. 90e CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Ua>4| n?|ll), (Mmi*. IhImI. ( ? let. Sit )-?*c 'ig^iewcs&^ssargains I 'e arc slill rec< ivery train ant ed to make ro In order 10 do so we are goinj; Kill PRICKS. Our buyer, > jst rcl urnetl from the Northe r dortion of bis time t^ere, wi up stuff at almost bis own prit few tbiu^s : EN'S'. YOUTH AND Bj tV/" Tbe CHEAPEST ever Mrn'c Soils at S.*>. Men's #.'l 2.r?. All wocd Clav Worst Bov's Suits from 2b cents upt * For *2 suit of clothe* .MW" Standard B ;> cents kind 3rss dial lies i rd. Come win Poublc-width Dre>s Novelties SHOES, Men's pood Sunday shoes U'.\ r Ladies line lace shoes 40 ct nts. Children's shoes from 1 Overall oants nt 2*4 rcnta i knee panta 18 oetita jht pair. We also have a nice line of 5S 800DS, SILKS, SATIN! THAI JUST RECEIVED ! 2 soli.l 3* centa to $3. Another nici e fl.OO, among them a nice 1< facfurera coat. f^T" We have many other liar J mentioning. Come to nee u aunter. Respectfully \ our Shannon-Fi Simon Hailstock Cut John Payne's Throat Fiom Ear to Ear Killing Him Instantly?The Cause. Special to The State. Saluda, Aug 8.?Saturday evening on the road from Saluda to Chapjjell's, near Chestnut church, this county, Simon Hailstock foil upon one John Payne with a ra/.or and with one blow cut his throat from ear to ear, severing the jugular vein and killing him instantly. Both parties are negroes. It is said illfeeling existed between them, which arose from John Payne having thrashed Simon's uncle recently for "examining and sampling" his watermelons in the night time. Simon visited the Saluda dispensary on Saturday, and it is said loaded hitpself with 80 proof, .lust boforo slaying Payne he attempted to shoot a negro on Mr E A maker's place. Simon was arrested yesterday afternoon. T? r..r? I . 1 mr Tiko Cwi nrcln Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. It C. O. C. fall to euro, druKKista refund money. <?riv.? inwummiinrj umaawwWM* SUMMER CLEANING out of stock now going on at greatly reduced prices. Now is Your Chance Again. MR BRANDT is now in New York buying a now stock. EVERYTHING NEW AND UP TO DATE. R BRANDT, The Jeweler, Notsd for Reliability Chester, 8.0. Under Town Clock. ? t bargains! * eiving them on il are compell>om for them. : to knock the HOCK bottom ont rlr. T .1 Shannon, of Monroe, N. C., rn markets, and, spending the th the s|>ot cash onah es him to ce. Wo quote you p. ces below < !S 3YS' CLOTHING brought to Lancaster. _* all woo! Suits *2 75. Men's plaid cd Suits, *3 75 0 *7.00. i, nice pair of shoes and hat. 1 prints 3 cents. I. All styles of 2 3-4 cents per ile it lasts. , at fl cent*, worth 15 cents. ' SHOE o h ents. Ladies tin (.utton shoes 45 mts. Old Ladies ommon Sense O \j ucujitrr juiir ll|). tain Overall suits only 45 cents. S, ETC., CHEAPER N TOO CAN BUY ELSEWHERE. . caaea Uuhrellaa at prices ranging 0 lino of Sample lints at 50 oonta it of Stans. Vonrs at lea* than gaina that time and printer's ink ? and let ns quote you prices over mderburk Co.