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1'HF, LEDGER. Th iHow S. Carter. FDFTOR AND MANAGER. WKDNKSDAV, l>EO. 7, 1898. Congress convened Monday at ] 12 o'clock in, and after roll call the President's message was read It was a Icngtliv document, and tilled 18 columns in The State yesterday. It is a history of the recent war with Spain. The President wishes Cuba's independent government established at once, but doesn't undertake to handle the Philiuppine questions. The North Georgia Methodist conference, in session at Augusta, adopted resolutions strongly denouncing the hook agents and demanding tho return to the government of the money allowed by the I'nited States congress on tho laim of the hook concern. Tho wets carried Bibb county, (la., including Macon city, by 1,33t> majority, despite the attendance at the polls of women who prayed and sang for the prohibition cause. Sam Jones, who spoke for the ''dry" side, is said I to have cost it many votes. ? ? I West Virginia politicians at last figure out the legislature of that State ami a democratic ma joritv of one on joint ballot is found. This menus a democratic successor in the Inited States senate to Senator Faulkner. The Augusta cotton mil! striker* seem to be in u fair way to win. The Warwick mill has yielded and taken hack its hands at old rates and Sibley and King mills are closed for lack of help. At tho result of a very eloquent appeal made b\ Dr. Montague to the Baptist convention $-1,000 was raised for Ftirnmit University Friday. Greenville county has had much more than its share of crime recently, but if it continues to draw juries like the present ones that unpleasant prominence will not not last long. The court now in session has made a record for convictions which we wish could be rivalled in every county. There arc men enough all over the State to do full justice in our courts ? the trouble is that they are. not often drawn, or, if drawn, are too often excused from service. Jurors should be picked men, the best men: they are frequently, however, the refuse of our cit- j izenship. This is the case nil over j the country. Wr speenlate much as to h??w crime may ho reproaa- j ed, hut there is only one sulu | tion: to draw none but the host i men for service as jurors.?The1 State. Aguinald > is becoming more conciliatory to the Americans since the news of tiio sale of the ' Philippines to the United States Iik~) hecomo a certainty. A very j general sentiment exists among ' the insurgents in favor of independence, h it the commercial , classes gladlv welcome the authority of the United States. The Walker-Gaston Camp Confederate Veteran* of Chester will have a grand rally on the 20th of this month. Col. .James Armstrong of Charleston and General K. It. Hemphill of Abbeville will deliver the addresses. The selection of Col. Armstrong assures the camp of a brilliant talk, sparkling with wit, and rndiajting with pathos and partriotism. Mrs Stonewall .Jackson has J?een urged to visit the veternna ?rut if i? pectet? will l>fi present. . ?_ ? ........ J GREENWOOD MURDERER, j On tho 9th of October last j El.iott Butler fatally wounded j Henry Ligon, in Laurens county, \ where he died. Subsequently the J grand jury of Greenwood county , found a true hill for murder ; against Butler, who is still at largo. \ Gov Ellerbe was induced to of for a reward for tho delivery of Butler to tho sheriff of Laurens' count}*. Yesterday Sheriff Mo- j Cravey of Laurens wrote to Gov. Kllcrhe stating that ho had Butler I under arrest and wanted to know : if he would deliver the prisoner 1 to tho sheriff of Greenwood coun ty. ^ j Gov Ellerbe replied that it was; Sheriff McCravy's duty to have! Butler arrested, and ho was not 1 entitled to the reward anyway. Still there is a pretty legal point to be considered. Ligon was shot in Lauren county and died in Greenwood county. A BOY BEHEADED. Caught Under tho Wheels of a 1/ / > :ii on 11 I III U 111 \ II t l -11 V 1 I I fT . Greenville News, 2d inst. Harry Jatnos, tho 13-year old' son of Dink .lames, an opemtive in tho Mills mill, was run over by a switch engine yesterday at noon and was instantly killed. He was j stealing a ride on the online after he had been warned against the danger and after he had been or- : dered away from the tracks by ' the engineer. The top half of the little fellow's head was mashed off by tho wheels and his brains were I scattered several yards along the track. A REVOLTING CRIME IN j UNION. A Negro Almost Decapitates 11 is Wife and Leaves Iler Body in tho Woods. Bloody Evidence. Special to The Sate. Union, Deo. 2.?Tom Dratt, a colored man was committed to jail yesterday charged with murder of his wifo. The facta as wo have hoen able to obtain them, reveal a most heinous crime, and one revolting in the extreme. It appears that the murdered woman left home early Monday morning to mail so no letters at the postollice. She was not seen afterwards until her m dv was found in the woods Wednesday morning bv dark Glenn, a colored man who was out hunting. When found her throat was cut from oar to <ear, nearly severing the head from >he body. Tho body! was somewhat mutilated l?v buzzards, having boon musing since early Monday morning. A let-J ter was found on her person addressed to her brother, in which she stated that her husband and herself had had a quarrel, and that ne had told her that he was < ' tired of her and her children and that he would break her I neck."' A warrant was is-ued for Pratt, ' ' , i and when arrested his clothes j were stained with blood. He was , sent, to jail yesterday morning, I and the evidence against him is j such as to almost conclusively establish his guilt. Further inves-' tigation will bo made and all the evidence obtained that is nossih'e. ' tDandruffis ^Disease The beginning of baldness h dandruff. Keep the scalp clean and promote the < grey 10th of the hair by the use of flyers JllairlSiydr i - Sold Oi - 3 Hie Fanners' The P.ntire Stoc Amounting to Over On Sat W e will hurl, lil skj. this Entir Shoes* Cloth -At 50 Ce i There were bidders : t the Sin ilid the work, and \\J0 HAD IT ui would like to offer these goods for for it will take at least one week t< This mammoth Sale *ill begii that dav, for it will he impossible lars worth and they can't he sold 11 Let the C?la<! nook and cot nei The Fanner'? ?re giving $ I O1 tliein. rt his is i naked truth, we stoek 50 eem you $1 (IO anv v SATUIUH ihaiietal Undersell. First, * THE PASSING OF.A FAMILY. End of >i Tiagic Series of Event* in Picken*. Special to The State. Pickens, Nov. 30.?Tiie remains of J li Burdine arrived at this place lust Saturday. 11< died in Atlanta the day before, and hud been ill for some time. The funeral was held near his place ten miles north of Pickens. He was buried by the side of his father and mother, whose tragic death by the hands of the father was recorded in The State some time in March. He was the only son and survivor of the family. The papers way that John Kellett, of Fountain Inn, S. (J., has made ten bales of cotton on three and three-fourths acres of land. REGITRATION NOTICE. rpH K PIIBMC WIM.TAKEno'lcfi I that the K?-ki"4' rat ion Bowke will he open, at the court limine, for the rexiHtrtlion of partien entitled to rej<ieter under the Conailtutlou, on the 1 at Monday in each month, until 3d ilaya preceding t e next general election W O A PORTER. Chairman Hoar?l Regint'ation L C Laiioanier, H O Tec 6 189*. ??- , ilfc Krfr nt By The ! Bought By k of T. I). Rhode lKn&rs FvxctT~~'-~r~n - . . - ,v;urday, De? lie a Tlmndei'hol c Stork of Dry Qt m TjI-M- -- ?" * ? mil/* oil I HIS ;nts on the enff's Sale of this Stock from nil ovei ill got the goods, NOW, YOU Ri sale before Decnnher lOtli, but it ;s ) unpack midget the stock arranged fi 8 E 1 Jlfllflflil flfl' i promptly at S o'clock, Saturday, lb for all to get wa'U'd on lteinemh 11 a day, so you are sure to get some < 11" irffinraiiiWr?i>TiniWM ntvi Tidings be jtntcla * ol old baneaMe i Banking Mi t> for every 51) ci no bombastic ass ?ill give out of Is worth of'goods i'he re else. Dou'l V miC ?er Ollli MOI T* the People. FO out, and . //>/> tin llibilC I Ullli I.IRS l!8 *.\ .111411 I >l POUT A \T \OTM I-; : Having m?M out our iiMicuntii> | bus/m s- ! <> i In* Farmers' I Sit" i k i 11 if mi I Mi n"t 111#* 0? \ I i I lilt Os t ll Hi mA'I1 j us must i'oiiii for? ar<t Mini settle up, jus wt- |i?wj'ivf y on t mi r> ??vi r any ! SirC' Hilts ' 'lis mil 1-0 II >|i II S til III' who iWt* us T. M. Ft rzi'.vTKiCK it Buo. ' I 111 < 1111 \ I jjloiiey to Louis. IIS V V K M \ PF if iMi.^i-inmi swjtli < broker* " Nett V- lU ily though ( wllolll I Mill able t . | 'tire loans i-chi- j. leil o\ a Hi t mnrgupe o? improve*] cotton r? i tils, for six \e?r* time pay hi- In insislinentk a' thera'eof 7 pi r t cent per in iiiim Ttie nrokerage Mini . t e rliurjfe for iit'?truiM iitul iiispecttoil are sin a" i an t at tin* eXeriisn of the t hurrower, P l<] WYI.IK, 1 ! Atl^ at I aw. i Nov. 4, 'tin, ' i BAD l BLOOD i: "IIAHCA HI.TI do Mil rlnlniril for llirm / and are a truly wonderful medicine. I hare oiled wlabed for a medicine pleasant to take and nt last ( liavc found It In fanoarris Hi nee taklnu I hem my , W??xl Iiuk been perilled and my complexion lias liu- ( proved wonderfully and I feel much bet lei In every I , way.'' .Mite, hai.i.ii. K. Hh.laiih. L'JUrell,Tton. ( M f\jl CATHARTIC TRADE MARK MtOMTBMBO Pleaaant. Palatable. Potent. Taste flood Do i : (food Never Kicked. Weaken, or Gripe. lOo.StC.flOe. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... < mediae KmH) f.*M*f, I kltw., Ra.lr.al, R.. Tart. Jit I KA.TA nil* Hold and auaranleed by alldrug1 nU'lU'DXb lUtato IT K K Tobacco Habit Pr. VJUm' Nnfl Pt.aRTWBa nirs RIIETTMA< tihm WRAK RAOKA AtdrMrtsts. onlt 9V. WhMt S?9t* Raurwlrbsr MtW Pmln Pltti. p Sheriff imiiifi IV s of Florence, b. 10th t from a clear nuts. JYolion market at Dollar. r tlie State, hut the SPOT CASH BAP THE BENEFIT. Wo i just impossible for ub to do bo [>r sale. ' .'comber loth. Don't all como er there are Ten Thousand DoU >f the cream. imcd in every s* County, that srcaniile Go, ents you bring ertion but tlie tliis liankrupt that would cost t forget tlie date ER lOTH. | I* : ! ndesbuy, itf the ) fT| 111 -o jmNOTICE ! To the T;tX|?ayersof li'ineaHter county The Treasurei's < nice will he ojurn or the collection of tuxes f.?r fiscal ,'ear from the 15th titty of (Jointer tt? the .'(1st tiay of Decern her, 18!'S. The iev\i is as follows, viz: 'late, ft mills, 'ountv, ft " ; &h. R ? o School, 3 " J-OCA I. I-KV'V. ) It & C. It. It.. (Mils (Jreek 4] mills. 4 It (' it It . Pleasant Hill 6 ) It C It It., ('ane Creek, 7 " I.an aster < Jruth il School, 4 *' {ersliaw " " 4 >iikhurst " " 4 " fonts X Heads' " 2 " 'IOTAI. I.KVY BY DI8TKICTB. nilian I,sn<l, 10 " rVuxhaw, 10 " 'ane Cr ek No, 3. 23 " Jane Creek (Irailed. 27 * 'nr o ''rt*ek Jones X (toad*, 25 mills. Villa Creek Oracled, 24} " Villa ('reek Jones X Itoads, 22} " Ju ford, 16 " flat Creek No ft, 16 Hal Creek No 9 (Krrsliaw), 20 " Meassnt Hill, No9, Kershaw,19 'leasant Hill, No 7, 19 " >leasant Hill, No. 13, (Oalchursl), 23 mills, 'learttnt Hill, Jones X Roads 21 ,, YderC'rek, 16 " >dar Creek, Jo rs X Roads,IN Res| eetfully submitted, J. E. pLACKMON, Co Treas. No morphine or oplnm la Dr. Miles' Pao* 'iua ooaa All data. "One esa* a dosa." local Matters* Cotton brought .*>A cents in this market yesterday. <U/2 Miss Rebecca Morgan of Cheraw, is the guest of Mrs ?J Wylie Porter. Porn, Nov. .'30, 1808, to Mr. and Mrs. A. J Evans, a son.? Rock Hill Herald. VA M r and Mrs W H Long, of Concord, N. (3., are on a visit to the former's parents at this place. VA Sheriff Clyburn went to Camden yesterday for J E Pace who has been arretted on a charge of obtaining good# under false pre., tenses. ~/A? Mr J A Kstridge requests or to say in justice to the Waxhaw cotton market that it is pulling up and kept up with the Lancaster market the past week. lie sold some mora cotton here last ireek. .links : 44Where would you advise mo to go to buy a good gold ring for my best girl ?" Frank : (exhibiting one he had just purchased.) 44Why, to B. C. Ilough & Co's, of course." VK Married, by Rev. T A Dabney, on Thursday night, Nov. 24,1999, at the residence of the brido's father Mr. F M Lowry of Taxahaw, Miss Annie Lowry and Mr Win. J Belk. w. Married, by Rev L L Boden baugh, at the parsonage on Tradesvillo circuit, on Sunday last, Mr James Clifton and Miss Alice Carnes, daughter of Magistrate W A Carnes of Buford township. VV3 Keep your money Ht home, when you can do as well as you can abroad. Wo offer for your inspection the best lin? of Silver ware, both Plated and Sterling, that has ever been shown in upper South Carolina. B. C. Hough & Co. <V7* Claude Hancock, a 14 year old lad from the western part of the county, concealed himself in one 1 lw. o?,....... . l.~ I.' ? wi piwi un in 111o r nimuits Hanking mihI -Mercantile Co., Saturday evening and after the stores were closed helped Ibinkelf to knives and razors and made his exit l>v the hack door, . Icaviug it open. He has been arrested and lodged in jail to await trial. Miraculous Benefit RECEIVED FROM Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure. i ' V 'J> g^iui r. n/vniAVl-n, OI AVOOa, IN. Y., & j veteran of tho 3rd N. Y. Artillery and j for thirty years of tho Ilabcock A Munsel Carriage Co., of Auburn, says: "I write to express my gratitude forthomlracIoup benefit received from Dr. Miles' Heart | Cure. I suffered for years, as result of army j life, from sciatica which affected my heart In the worst form, my liutbs Rwolled from the ankles up. I bloated until 1 was unable I to button my clothing: had sharp pr.lns | about the heart, smothering spells and : shortness of breath. For three months I was unable to lie down, and all the sleep I got was in an arm chair. I was treated by the best doctors but gradually grew worse. About a year ago I commenced taking Dr. Miles' New Ilonrt Cure and It saved my life , as if by a miracle." Dr. Miles' Remedloe are sold by all druggists under a positive Kc* *v?ll#Ji 1* guarantee, first bottleKwMtttClttH benefits or money re- MfjTRaotor^m ,j| funded, book on dls- WEf eases of ths heart and nerves free. Address, HBftUdUtllHH DR. MILK3 MEDICAL OO., Elkhart, Ind. Dr. Mllss'Jtsiss KWsare guarawtssd to Mm Mssderhs in 10 minutes. "Owe osnt a diss.