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thUBLOW S. CAK TKR, # ^ Family Newtpaper : Fur the Frumotion of the Political^ Siftnal^ Agricultural and Commercial ItUerr-tts. 5 T.CRMS: 51.60 a irxtz, KDITOB AH1> iIaIUQBB. 1 ^ PltiBl.-! IN A iiTAMfii ^/U-iA/LEKLY t LI I UN. : LAN OAST KK, S. (L DEC. 7. im*8~ EST MBLI Hfcrilt52 NKGRO DKSl'KRADO KILLED i DKNOL'NUK TllK I to .vmwv., ' . I Laid Low by a Charleston PoliceMan Whom He Ilsid Shot. IV Special to The State. Charleston, Dec. >.?A des- 1 Derate duel Iwlunnn ? nolnrinnu ' negro burglar named Charley : Mitchell and Policeman Burton o inKing street lust ni<?ht resulted j b . * in the killing of Mitchell and the tl wounding of the olGcer in a fleshy o part of his arm. The officer i v caught Mitchell in the act of rob- ' n bing an unoccupied house and at- ] l'< tempted to arrest him. Mitchell j drew his pistol and tired two shots i< at the policeman, the second shot p taking effect as above. The offi-1 ti cer returned the negro's tire with N two shots, one of which struck p him in the head killing him instantly. Policeman Burton was b sent to the city hospital for medical attention. His wound is not f< serious and he is reported today p as being convalescent. p Coroner Rivers hold an inquest c II !a - I. - I I over iviiiciieu s remains at I o'clock this afternoon. The jury a found a verdict of justifiable b homicide, exonerating Burton g who was discharged from custody. t( tl It is always best to avoid controversy with two kinds of people; those who cannot understand you a and those who will not. f, Many a man who is looked up to by his neighbors never chopped m a cord of wood in his life. He leaves it for his wife to do. ^ O Dcaatr la Blood Deep. b Clean blood means a clean skin. No .1 veouty without it. Caacareta, Candy Catharke clean your blood and keep it clean, by ^ Itirring up the lazy liver and driving all im )urities from the bodv. liegin today to tl vanish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking tl Cnscsrets,?beauty for ten cents. All drug- 1 gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c. 25c. 50c. i ~ SAY! DON'T DO IT! L" Don't send off for jewelry, <1 watches, clocks, silverware, or t< for anything in these line*, for ; ^ he identical thing can he obtained from R. Brandt for the same ! money and oftentimes for less, ; 11 besides you know how often one p is deceived. Did you ever think of it, that It Brandt Ims made a study of ordering n such things for S .years, ami thai lie certainly knows hette where 10 order ^ from than you who eocasionally read ,o an advertisement or receive a cata- . Iorum. Bene mher ell jewelers are d not ho well posted, tiring your ca a loifne alonit and he will demonstrate what he says. Now, tr.? it, he wants 41 you to <1 > it. Our pri esare low and a 10 per cent ' R-jiiueturt) m tkes them a threat deal () lower Wrile iraui 8 BRANDT, 1 P For you u money Having Jeweler, Chester, S, G. | i i ?UHUBOMM??V T' e| CLERK'S SALS, i: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA * COUNTY OF LANCA8TF.lt, i'ourt of Common Plcan. ? Ti.iM.tn I> 1>- ?. HI. l-ilil' t/cinaic a lit* rv X 1 Ul III 111, VH. William P. Ii?*lk,Defendant. I >IJ KSIJ AN I' to Mil Order of court in ; L the above case, signed l>y Geo. VV. Gage, Circuit Judge, Oct 6, 180S. I will Hell at Lancaster courtxhouae on The. Firht Monday in Dcccmhe.r, within the lesal hours of sale, the fol- | lowing described piouerty, to wit: All lhat i raet of land in the county of Lancaa er and State of Sou h Oaro- ? linn, containing I'Zi5 Aercn, Mure or I.ette, bounded, Nortb t?y S J Htaniex and J H William*; Sou h, by estate lands of ... H It W Helk, deceased: East. bv lands of Margaret HIiihoii ami I) A Funder- el hurk; West, by estate landa of H K VV . Belk. f( WOT Terms of Hale, CA**H, or oi??' O. half cash and balance In one year, to be secured by bond oi purchaser bearing eight (8) p-r cent luiereet from date which shall he secured by a mo't- * gage of the premises Purchaser to j> pay for papers. h W. S. L. Porter, ? C. C. C. L. C. ? R. E. Wylie, Plff'g Atty. e GOG UBS. ! V'hat the Colored People of Bradley, Greenwood County, Say. 'o the Ivlitor of The Index: The colored people of the town f Bradley, Greenwood county, i eg a little space to put on record i loir utter condemnation of Home I f their raco at Phoenix on No- , cm her 8th. They desire to * lake this statement as to their selings and intentions: While \re deplore the reckless ; jnoranee of our raco in the j 'htrnix affair, we at the same j ime dislike to see the entire race rraigned in the public prints as a iwless people. ?Ve inveigh against lawlessness. y whomsoever committed. We te endeavoring to footer the good seling between the races. We ave striven for this end in the, ast, and shall continue this1 ourse in the future. W e can hut deprecate the folly i nd ignoranco of those who I lindly follow the lead of dema-; ogues, who would hurl them ini turmoil and strife to carry heir own infamous purpose ?and aen abandon them to their fate, j All good citizons, both white: nd colored, deplore the sad aflir at Phoenix. We are sorry that some of the ! 'bite Republican leaders did not I se the mistakes of their relatives! 0 years ago, or even one month ofore the last election. Probably aere would have been fewer} udows and fatherless children arown out upon the charity of; lis hard world. It has been said that one white | aan can easily lead one hundred egroes his way, while with great itliculty a colored man may draw 3n after him. If the white man j?? un-> grwm iiiuuence over tlie egro he should use that influonoo i leading the negro to pence and j rospentv. The colored people Inve gotten othing for following these dcma* ogic politicians hut widows,! rphans and contempt, while the' amagogues got the otlices. We have sworn our eternal No" to support politicians hose greedy end is money and tCco The negro should hy this tno see that their votes have nly been used as eatspaws to nil political pindors out of the re for these demagogues to crack, here are hundreds who have not owed their knees to Baal. Let titers say and do what they will r may, we and our house w ill ?rve the Lord. W e are going to economise, get Robt. li. Bradley. Bradley, S. <\ CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. he Kind You Hate Always Bought illiuuturo of Admiral Sampson, in his officii I sport of Santiago operations, sarply rebukes General Shafter >r ignoring tho navy in the terms f surrender. A Wondtrfil niMOTtry. The 1r*? quarter of a century record# tany wonderful discoveries in medicine, in none that have accomplished more for umanity than that sterling old houaehold medy. Browns'Iron Bitters. It aeems to >ntain the very element# of good health, lid neither man, woman or child can take without drriving the greatest benefit, rowns' I ;titters is sold by all dsakw* n/ KMMbl >V HjMUMi lUi\ CITIZKNS. District Attorney Bernard Dire ted to Prosecuce the Men Who Drove Hunting ()i:t of That City. Washington, Dec. ki.?The At-j torney General of the United States has written a leiter, direct-j ing United States District Attorney Bernard, of North Carolina, i to at once proceed to indict the men who drove United States Commissioner Bunting from Wilmington. Bunting, together I with ex Chief of Police Melton and a man named (till, from W ilmington, are now in M'uAi-1 i ington. The plan is, that if hills of indictment can he secured, Judge 1'urnell.s shall issue hench war-! rants ami have the men taken to ; Raleigh immediately for trial at , the term of United States District j Court, which begins next Man -, day. It is the purpose to make the proceedings the same as in the Tolbort case in South Carolina and to have Bunting, Melton . and (iill at Raleigh as witnesses. ' Verdict For $33,754.77. State, Friday: "In the United States district court yesterday, there was a case for damages brought up resulting in a verdic* of $33,754.77 against the Carolina Sulphuric Acid company, of Blacksburg, anjl in favor of the Durham, (N. C.) Fertilizer company. Tho suit was brought to recover damages from breach of contract, in that tho acid works : failed to sunnl v th? f?rtili??r nnm. I rrv .w. vv',M pany with acid as contracted for. Major James F. Ilart, of York i lie, represented the Durham parties, Messrs Duncan & Sanders, of Spartanburg, represented the, Blacksburg concern." This judg ! ment was under the 5 per cent, liability provision of the South Carolina incorporation laws. The Durham Fertilizer company will now jump the stockholders of the , Carolina Sulphuric Acid company, j as individuals, for 5 per cunt, in cash of the face value of the stock held by each. The Carolina Sulphuric Acid company, as such, is insolvent; but many of the' stockholders are <piito wealthy. m _ n A farmer tent one dollar for a lightning potalohug killer, which he saw advertised in a paper, and received by return mail t wo block* of wood, with directions printed on it as follows: 'Take this Mock, j which is No. 1, in right hand,place tin? bug on No. *2 and press them ! together. Remove luig and proceed as before." KOisiiKi) riiK aa v v A startling incident, of which I Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: "1 was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite ? gradually growing weaker day by ,1ft V- Thl'I'H nhvuiniunu l??.l - ?j ? I "'J urn. ^ivrilj mo up. Fortunately, a friend ad'1 vised trying 'Klectric Bitters:1 and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. 1 continued their use for throe weeks, and am i ow a well man. 1 know thoy saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No ono should fail to try them. Only 50 cts |>er bottle at Crawford Bros* Drug Store. Subscribe to The Ledger. , a ml in lA LH? OCR KMPJUK. (i The Kxtont of Our Colonic*, (i Their Population. - ? From the Now York World. 'A uo inlands *re take nunihcr j more tlmn Sf.bOO?they have | w never been counted, and still less have they been accurately sur- T'1 reyed. lint the best statistics available yield the following re-j^1 suits as to area- in Mpiare miles: ; Jc i tli Cuba, 4n,000| Porto Rico, o,5n0 j Hawaiian group, 6,<510 The Philippines, 114,000 1 l He ftulus, 1,000 1 ^ The Carolines', 1,000 | k Guan in Ladrones, i>00 i 111 Total 171,000 Cuba is about the size of New York, Ohio or Alabama. |a | l Porto Rico is a little smaller than Connecticut. I n< The Hawaiian Islands are some- j what smaller than New Jersey, ol the largest island, Hawaii, being j w about twice the size of Delaware, j The Philippines cover a land j space about as great as Ne w ; York and the New England states together. Luzon, on which Ma- "l nila is situated, is not much smaller than New York. w All the new dependencies to- ri gether are aoout equal in area to r< the New England States, New , G York, Pennsylvania and New w Jersey. |,i BRYAN OPPOSES EX PAN- ?< . S1UN. ! *>' ; fc Fears Militarism Will Make the i Lot of the People Harder. Lincoln, Neb., Deo. 3.?Col. ! William Jennings Bryan, who lleft here u day or two ago to join sc his regiment expressed himself to t< friends as opposed to expansion , tl and has baaed his opposition large- j ci ly upon the same ground as Sena a tor Hoar?that the acquisition of In the Philippines is the purchase of di sovereignty, and that the genius, tl of our institutions is opposed to tl the barter and sale of sovereignty; c< and that the annexation of these hi islands means the inauguration of Ji a governmental policy of militar* is ism that eventually will press up-1 on and make harder the lot of the ' common people. Col. Bryan has, however, persistently refused to S i?e interviewed on tin* ({motion, giving as his reason that, while he i w wears his unifoiin it would l?e in j p ha*' taste to criticise the minimis- ^ t ration KI: U tilk l 11?* hi K ?,S? II A-1 ft Mis. Michael Curtain, Plain- tl field, III., makes the statement, a that ahe caught ctdd, whieh settled p on her lungs; she was treated for , a month hy her family physician, ! ^ Imt grew worse lie told her ' she was a hopeless victim of con- n sumption and that no medicine |n could cure her. ller druggist1 a suggested l)r. King's New l>is-| covery for Consumption; she bought :i bottle ami to her <leIi^rht found herself lienetitted from | first dose. She continued its use i tl and after taking six bottles, found ! herself sound and well; now does! w her own housework, and is as [ wed as she ever was. ? Free trial bottles of this Groat Discovery at * Crawford Bros' Drug Store, tl Largo bottles 50 cents and $1.00. tc DmI T*birr? Spit iad tawkt Toar life Away. To quit tobeoco easily and forever, be mag netle, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No ToRae, the wonder worker, that makes weak men j strong. All druggists, Me or II. Curegueraa- . teed. Booklet end seniple free. Address ' Sterling Remedy cr Ihieege or Hew ToHr OV. TAN N Kit 1ND1CTKD. rnnd Jury \censes Him of Neglect of Duty in Failing to Protect Negroes at Verdin. Chicago, Dee. 2?(lov. Tanner, j ho was indicted for omission of ity by the Macoupin county j rami jury, in connection with j le Virden Coal Mine liots, re-i ised today to talk on the sub- ( ct beyond stating his belief that ; 10 whole a Hair was nothing but j political scheme. Blood Shed at Carlisle. pecial to The Stute. l iiion, Dec. d.? Deputy Coroiv Gage was summoned to (Jarslo this morning by telegram to >ld an inquest over tho body of negro man who was killed there[ st night in a tight with another I sgro. Pistols and knives were | sed freely and one was kiMed j itright and tho other so badly I oundod that ho is not expected | ) live. Negro Buried Alive. pecial to The State. Wh'te Rock,Dec. t.?A colored 11 digger, named Walter Hars, cam* to bis death by his trade icently. He was in Mr. Day id lenn's well near Broad river, ben the wall fell in on him, and uried the nogro alive. The well aR 85 foot deep, ami though the ;cident occurred Monday, his ody was not exhumed until the dlowimr Fridav. Cotton to bo Plowed Under. A dispatch from Alexandria, I a., say*: "The weather has been ) unfavorable for guthering cot- : >n throughout the entire season mt a considerable portion of the op yet remains in the tield, and continuance for several weeks ?nger of this unfavorable conition taken in connection with ic low price of the staple and I ic exorb'tant wages demanded bv >tton pickers, will probably re- j lit in the plowing under in auuary and February of all that unhoused at that t ime.'* Chihl Killed by a Large 11 <??*. pecial to The State. Orangeburg, Dec.3?A colored oinun living oil Dr. Stokes1 I lace a few miles below her?, left er young baby in the ya'd while i? attended a call atth dwelling, j nd when she returned onlv a n- minutes afterward she found nit the baby Inn! been killcil t>y largo hog which hud the run of , ? 10 yard. The body wis horribly j uitilated and the child survived ut ft short time. The hoi* is h 1 otorious "chicken eater," hut , o 0110 supposed he would attack ; child. A Patriotic Toper. "John," said a Topeka wife to | iw husband, "I will <|uit drinking a and save tho war tax if you | ill do tho same with beer." "Woman," responded John, ith cohi severity, "do you link it is the part of patriotism > abandon your country in its me of peril?" Bt?n tk? yf Tin KM Ym Hjw Ahnji Bm|M Two blind timers wers arrested Friday night trying to retail liquor to the soldiers at camp Fornanco in Colombia. VA . Applicants for admission to practice law in the courts of this State will be examined before the Supreme court Thursday, Udth instant. VA ;Yn eight-pound tu nor was removed from the jaw of Mr .1 A Back man of Swansea, by l)r Kondriek in Col unbia last Friday. VA Friday night burglars made a futile attempt to enter the safe in Semi's store in Columbia. VA A ? ...x 4 U/\ A t?_ I !?-M n i v;v_, r\ wu LIIVJ A V> <X IX till* toad occurred near Denmark last Friday at the South Edisto bridge. Nine freight cars were thrown into the river and completely demolished. Two tramps were injured?one seriously. VA Five negroes were captured with contraband whiskey on their way to Yorkville last Tuesday night. Two mules were also taken in custody. nK A party of Northern capitalists were at Kock Hill the past week aud will purchase tho property of the Bock Hill Cotton Factory Co. Big improvements will he made. vr. Chief State Constable liahr and and two ass'stants have captured a seventy live gallon copper still, and two moonshiners in Orangeburg county. A LETTER FROM DEWEY. He Writes Feelingly to the Widow of ()no of His Men. (ireensburg, I)?c. 2.?The following is a letter received from Admiral Dewey bv Mrs. Noss of Mt. Pleasant, whose husband .Jessie Noss, was killed in the battle of Malate, July Hist. Olympia, Flagship, Manila, Oct. 23, Mr Dear Mrs. Noss: 1 wish to express to you niv deepest sn inpath?. It must lessen you sorrow somewhat to know that your young husband fell lighting bravf Iv for his country, the noblest death a man can know. From the Olympia I watched the light that fearful night and wondered how many American homes would be .....i.i i i... .i... ..< ~w it n Iix * 1 ? > i I v> i 11?11 I \ 1 ?in 111 mi i fered by our bravo men, and iny sympathy went out to each and cvhi'v one of them Your loss has boon sadder than the others, and I am unable to express the sorrow 1 feel for you. Tears tamo to rn v eves as I read tho sad story of the father who never saw his child and then tho loss of all that was eft to the brave mother. It is hard some timo to believe, but our heavoaly Father, in His infinite goodness, always does things for the best, and Rome day father, mother and :n u. : l ? 111 i;c juiiini, nt'>ci IU be parted. With my tenderest .sympathy believe. Your sir cere friend, George Dewey. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nosa was named for Admiral Dewey. Tonr Ho?tlt With CmmkU. Candy CattaartU, ewe eonntlpatton forever. I Ma, Ma. K C. C C (til, rduiu) ?oo?T>