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THE LEDGER. Thurlovy S. Carter, EDITOR ANI) MANAGER. 8ATI'H1>.VV, N??V. 5, IS!) 8. Van Wyck Items. Mu. Knrroit:? Snmo of your readers no doubt have Leon watching for some one t > write Optimus' obituary. Hut lie is very I much alive vet, although lie has . been very dead to news ?rathorin?? j for several months. We have | been very busy otherwise, and j have been waitinc for snm? nf mu old bachelors and handsome young ' maids to givo ns a news item j worth reading. Thus far we have heen disappointed and must look | to other sources for news. Tilings have been very quiet around Van VVyck all fall. Our merchants cotuolain of small sales and light collections. Our cotton i ginners estimate the cotton crop ' several hundred hales 'ess this \ year than last year around Van ' Wyck. The short crop and low prices has a Impressing effect on j our people, hut they will learn an j instructive lesson or more ap- J propriately a destructive one. Some of our young Nimrods i have heen having some tine sport ! bagging birds. Three of them brought iu 40 one day. Misses Sugar Tillman and Sue Voder gave a pleasant llallow-eve party to a number of friends Monday night. Dr. J. Douglas N'isbet of New York is on a visit to his parents and Van Wvok friends wlw> ?? ? always glad to welcome him hack to his uoyhood homo. Rev. J. Barr Harris visited his Van W vck friends this week and attended the Mallow eve party. Wednesday night burglars entered Massey Bros' Store by priz? ' ing the front door open with axes and crowbar. They took about six dollars out of the cash drawer, some pocket knives, owelry and clothing. A colored boy was caught the next morning thought to be implicated ? when caught he had three negligee shirts on, three new vests and a pistol. "Oitimus." j Dispensary Closed. I i The Tirzah dispensary was closed yesterday in accordance with the recent order of the state hoard of control. Since the date of the closing order, Dispense** Allison has not been trying to keep up his stock:hut rather to get rid of what he had on hand. The stock now, therefore, consists of odds and ends, and not a great quantity of these. The freight bill on the stuff that will have to lw> ...;n - : ' i ? I >/v oiiii/ut M, *>111 UIH uu Uh|IU('llll I y 1 heavy.?Yorkville Enquirer. Gen. Leo's Mother Dead. Fredericksburg, Va., Nov 3.? , Mrs Annie Maria Lee, widow of the late ('apt Sidney Smith Lee, and mother of (ien. Fit/. Lee,died ] at her home here today. Gen. ! i ... | Lee was with her. She had a se- < vert; fall on Sunday at the home of her son, Capt. Dan M Lee, in < Stafford eonntv, near this city < which resulted in the breaking of \ her left hip. Mrs Leo was nearly J '. 0 years old and totally blind. j Col VV .1 Bryan has sufficiently | recovered to he out of his room but is not yet strong enough to go into camps. VA l?r Subscribe to The Ledger. A Wondfrf-il Dlirovrry. The lost onnrtpr of a centum I tuny wonderful discoveries in medicine, hiK, none that have accomplished more for humanity than that sterling old household remedy, Browns' iron liitters. It seems to contain the very elements of good health, and neither man, woman or child ran take H without deriving the greatest benefit, f.rown'' ' ''Uters is s<*lrl by all dealers. f3?7~Stil>8cribe to The Ledger if. v. am urn n*?i i>liss IMlZHDCin | Beckham to the ultar, and for tlmt manv yours they have lived j happily together. From place to j place they have gone in the prose- I eution of their duties as Method-) ist minister and wife, and^in all sect:ons of South Carolina they are known and loved for their , Christian work. Mr. Cawthen has I tilled a large number of the most important positions in hi* church j and has filled them well. He is a man of great influence in the con 1 fcrenco, and is held in the highest! esteem by his brother preachers. ; For the last four years he lifts j served the Spartanburg district a*' us presiding elder, and the church j i has prospered under his adminis- ' tration. In all his duties he has had a valuable helper in his good wife. j1 Yesterday a number of tho|* friends of the family visited thoil home and extended congratulations and offered beautiful and costly gifts in gold. Among the number were tho officials of the Central Methodist church, who went in a body with their wives. Short j ^ speeches wero made by Dr. Car lisle and Mr. Cauthen and prayer was offered by Rev. Chas. B. Smith. At the conclusion of i these exercises the large party of ladies and gent'emen extended their hands in congratulation, and then Rev. Mark Carlisle, pastor ( of Central Church, in name of the official board of Central, presented a magnificent tea set in silver lined with gold. The great1 waiter had the following appropriate carving: fl "Presented to Rev. A. J. j Cuuthen and wife on their golden wedding hv The Official Board of Central Methodist Church Spar-1 tanhurg, S. C., 1898." The ten set was put chased at the well-known jewelry store of f( ; y L). C. Correll and the engraving |. work, which was executed with highest skill and taste, was done I w I (' hy Mr. ,J. (1. Thompson and could | ; scarcely he improved on. ; ^ After a delightful half hour the party left and the homo rejoiced C in the kindness and thoughtfulness (1 uf its many friends. f Besides the officers of Central h ffiurch the faculty f>f \V<>tTord',) [JoI lege was present ,J dioit blryclo skirls tha women don ( If wrong might still be wronger. Women look shorter with Ihem on, I (] Hut then the men look longer. -Judge, j ? s "for colds and " Throat Troubles I our regular standard medicine ia p n Ager's L Cherry Petiorai" ' J. HEY WOOD, A.M. Professor of Mathematics, Otterbein Uelrersity, Westerville, 0. HALF-SIZE BOTTLES, soc. ,, e?#W THEIR GOLDEN L WEDDING 1 Rev. A. J. Cauthen and Wife _ Presented With Silver Tea Set By Official Board of j" Central Church. THE OCCASION PLEASANT AND MEMORABLE. A Largo Party of Friends Pros- , ent at the Parsonage. Spartanburg Herald. Yesterday was a happy day at j j the homo of He v. and Mrs. A. ?J. j ('jlllflmn '>1 1 Vni'llt f I....... I. 1 - A'VM III V 11 VI I V 11 | street. It was the Fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Fifty ' years ugo, in the historic old to.vn of Lancaster, Rev. Andrew I I r?ntl?... l,..l M: 1 ? Romped THE PEOPLE IHfYJRIS* WE_ARE_ ALL 0 There is no ir ing a quiet talk (hem; thej are WHY, We have KET in the Stat erybody, and w Did You ever h We are the "j is the praise ds farmers of old |? fion then hy |>rin f* bale without fe H i' n il! in it f "mute to cull his own VJVc w, tine. Ion mil slop BRING US buy yc And, ahove all >f the fanner. fllllimOf IH milium ill NOTICE ! To the Taxpayers of Lnncnster county. The Treasurer's office will lie op?n >r the collection of tuxes for fiscal ear 1W5H, from the 15th ?l?y of Ontoer to the Jltst nay of Decemher, 189S. The levy is us follows, vis: tate, "> mills I bounty, o " i a c. r. it.: { chool, .'{ " | I.OCAI, I.KVV. i. It A (!. It. It., (Jills Oreek 1; mills, i It A (J It It . Pleasant Hill :t " ? It A (' It It , Cane (.'reek, 7 " iaii"AHter (traded School, 4 " I [ershaw " " 4 " >akhnrst " ' 4 " (ilit h \ Honda" " 2 " TOT A I. I.K V Y HV I) I.STRUTS. iidian !-n11d, Hi ' Vaxhaw, 10 " ane C'r ek No, 3. 2.3 ' ane Creek Graded. 27 " ane Creek Jones X Roads, 2o mills (ills Creek Graded, 24J '* lills Cieek Jones X Roads, 22-j " Hi ford, H> " lat Greek No ?. Hi " lat Creek No9 (Ktrshaw), 21) " leasant Hill, No9, Kershaw,19 ' leasatit Hill, No 7, 19 leaaant Hill, No. 13, (Oakliurs*), 23 mills, learant Hill. Jones X Roads 21 ,, edsr Cre.ik, 10 ' .'edar Creek, Jocrs X Roads,18 " Hen; eclfull.v submitted, J. E. HLACKMON, Co. Treas. ' No morphine or oulntn In T>r. MIW Pals ilu. Ouri All Pnfn. "UMctittdqa" tion hi i ARE WITH US. IQWING THEIR Li SELLING MORE F THE TOWN Pll ne of taking the bo with them. You going to support tl got the BEST C( Sr Who said so hat do you suppo ave it before ? Ailk in the Coco? m. We are fi ancaster. Show j sging us our Cott tting us see it. MMMaMBaMMIMW Tim PU kill PC ll! Iknllllilt waiting on t [irking night anil tlav. \\ c are for tli ||lA 111 T11KY recogn i ze 11 s nil ill.w,mis itist,,f YOUR COT! )UR GOODS , remember we a Invalidates a Verdict. By Telegram to The Daily News. 10 Columbia, S. C., Oct. 31.? ? The supreme court has decided | , ICf that objection can be made to a jury after the verdict and that a ! , verdict is invalid where all jurors arc not qualified. Some men pray for their daily I . bread and hustle for their nightly chickens. I J" ho SPECIAL L Although it. BRANDT has a larger stock of hotter quality and greater variety nt much closer i _ prices than ever, ho has decided B1 on account of the scarcety of a a money, to make a , jJ*1, 10 PER CENT. REDUCTION. s oil the entire stork, thus handing > back to you still more change M than any other jewelry store any- j W where. K. Jirandt's supplement advertisment s are money savers to you. u? R BRANDT, S The Jeweler, Chester, 8. C. w? ai i zed! l i OYJLTY. f GOODS THAN!' IT TOGETHER.!: ys off and hav- c ( an,( nlianvA I leii own cause. ' JTTON MAR-f ? Why, ev se caused it ?!, NO! Why, SMIt." To Us!; ghting for the 'our a|?|veeia<111. Don'ts<'ft , < i1 )U SOME 1'KICKS that will ? is of our eotupetitors. lint at I v man in the s ore is m> busy (| he trade that he has not not a e people, first, last and all the ti A as their friends. THEY AUK j sir tight as well as ours. on, |; from us' re the friends [ i'i i Will III, ( General Gordon has fixed the 1 th, 11th, 12th and 13th of May ' next year for the great Confed- | ate Reunion to ho held in Char- ] I (ton. There are now 1 1 70 Camps Confederate Veterans in the nith,and application has been | ido for two hundred more, mrleston will he equal to the ( anion. Already $30,000 is in ,'ht for the erection of an audiriun;,in which the Veterans will 1 Id their reunion. ? Pay your subscription to the idger. BAD 3REATH >1 hnvd hfpn utlni ( .INC.l K 1'TI und ai lild and effective laxative they are tdinply wonfnl. My ilaiiyliior and I were bothered with It stoma-It and our breath was very bad After [ inff a few dosea of Cafccnret* we bare improred i uderfully. They are a (treat help in the family ' Wll.ll t'l.UIV a Maori.. 11-17 Ulitenhouse Si.. Cinclnnutt, Ohio. CATHARTIC jk PCM TRAD! MARIt W?OI?y?l?tO^^^^^ lt>a??M. Palatable. Potent. Taut* (Jnnd. Oo Jd, Neyer Mleken. Weaken, or Oripe. the. jf*. M)e. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... I n. ? H.m, a, r?mpmmj. ill.... a, . r?t. ma | I.TO.Rin ?<??*? and guaranteed by all dru?! I U'DHU atau to ?*T K Tobuoo Habit. Subscribe to The ledger. at stop* Neuralgia? C*. MUee' Paia Pilie. Local Matters, ?Sec important notice of T. d. Fitzpatriek & ltro. in this ssue. VA Mrs W A Blitkencyof Kershaw, s the guest of Mrs .1 W Porter. !/A M iss Cora Welsh of Eongsville, s visiting her sister, Mrs. T. S. 'arter. VA Mrs John J Bowers of Kerhaw, is visiting Mrs. John A ,'ook. //. Mrs M M Welsh of Kershaw, h visiting her niece, Mrs T S 'niter. VA The Cams' school will open donday 14th . insl., with Mrs. i()ii E. Riddle as Teacher. YA Our friend and neighbor, Mr V F Oarvin, has our thanks for , moss of fine fresh pork. VA 11 E Wvlie, Es<p, visited Fort dill this week on professional msiness. V7. Mr .1 C MeDow has moved rom East End into the residence ?ti Dunlap street recently vacated >y Mr (iarvin. VA l)r R M Galloway has moved rom the Moore building into his lice new dental office over the Janson grocery. vy. Mr .J A Caldwell lias completed lis wood-work and blacksmith hops in rear of the Farmers' tanking & Merenntile.Co's stores, nd is about ready for business. VA Mr Frank Pittman and family nd his son, Adolphus Pittman nd family have moved back to 'dorida after a year's stay in this ounty. SherilT Williams of Camden nine up Thursday and got Nathan 'arter, the negro who was nrested here last week for stealing . cow from another negro in Cershaw county, VA Messrs. I W Williams and evoral other members of the 1st iegt., are at home on furlough, rbey are to report back in Counibia by the 10th inst. when ho Kegt. will be mustered out. VA Misses Charlotte nnd Isabella Irwin, of Washington, 1>. C., lauuhtors of (Jen. J. B. Krwin, r ( ' formerly of this county, urevisitng Mrs b. \V. Heath.?Kershaw Kra. Chronic Oyspepsla^ FTER suffering for nearly thirty yearn A* from dyspepsia, Mr*, ft. E. Dugdale, wife of a prominent business man of Warsaw, N. Y., writes; "For 28 years, I was a constant sufferer from dyspepsia and a weak stomach. Thnliffiit?.> -? ..n...v? iuuu yruuuceu distress, causing severe pain and the formation of gas. No matter how careful of my diet I suffered agonizing pain after eating. I was treated by many physicians and tried numerous remedies without permanent helpTwo years ago I began taking Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills and Nervine. Within a week I commenced improving, and persisting in the treatment I was soon able to eat what I liked, with no evil effects I keep them at hand and a single doSe dispels any old symptoms." Dr. Milea' Remedies Dr. are sold by all drug- BV gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle K. n6fVin6 9 benefits or money re- Jfl funded. Book on dieBases of the heart and serves free. Addrssa HWfllMH DR. MILES MEDIOAb OO- KUbarV L*L