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II / II '' ^ wubjlow 8 jakter, ( yl Family Ntrwrpaper : Fit the Promotion ?/ the Political, Snauxl, Agricultural and Commercial Interest*. ) terms. ci.60 a ybajc rlhtob anl? flabaokb. > _ > pajtajub ln \l>tknca. I Sht?tt-WtfE^KLY eUlrION. LANOASTKK. S. ({.. DEC. . 21 1*118 FSTTBLI: HbO ?852 a a a mon mnr? timiai r? n i nmn ^ ^ Aoaindi inn wBULL LAKin DEWEY SAYS HIS FLEET CAN HOLD MANILA The Admiral Camo Ashore and Have Out a Short Interview? j Filippinos aie Becoming Conciliatory? Fears No Trouble. Manila, Dec. 1?'?. ? Dewey came ashore today but refuted to be j interviewed. He turnad to the interviewer and said that ha waa glad t(? learn that the inaurgenta . i were releasing nick Spaniah gol- ] dier prisoner*, notwithstanding their former refusal to do so. j This proves that the insurgents ara conciliatory in spite of their t defiant talk. Dewey always hollared that the insurgents are friendly, ex- ] <-?pt a few amhitioua Filipinos who in au ambitious attempt at j self advancement are clamoring for independence, though unable j to reali/.a ita true meaning. 'l'he admiral believes there will j be no conflict, aa the friendly! feeling is increasing and the newa- i papers are aiding this feeling. Dewey suys: "Prior to the arrival of the monitors 1 felt uneasy, but now I am ready to hold this position against the whole earth." He expressed the opinion that it would be advisable to pay the insurgent troops overdue wages; the whole amount won id be a trilling sum, which might have a valuable effect and may save in calculable trouble, lie is strongly convinced that the insurgents deserve acknowledgement. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Ibt Kind You Haio Always Bought Signature of _ I Senator Tillman hae introduced a bill in the Senate to grant a pension of ffiO per moath to Mra. Relle Ahton, widow of tha lato Col. Joa. 1\. Alston. - ?Two largo harms tilled with grain and hay and the stables of Mr. M S Cantey, of Smnmerton, j were burned Thursday night. Two | nuilaa, a cow and a horse (tha latter belonging to Rev. A It; Watson) perished in tha fl atnee. | 1 .... I r . V u .> > insurance. Itrnuly Is llloort D rep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No vMiity without it. (iiKarsU,CandyCtllurfc< clean yonr blood and keep it ck*an, 1>> i Itirring up tho lazy liver and driving all im i juntos from the body. llegin to-day te i Minixli pimplca, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cam arcts,- beauty for ten cents. All druggista. satisfaction guaranteed, iOc, 25c, 50c. ~ SAY ! DON'T DOIT! Don't ?ond ofT for jewelry, watches, clocks, silvurware, or for anything in these iinea, for ! he identical thing can he obtained from U. Brandt for the same ; money and oftentimes for less, besides y<m know how often one ; is deceived. Did you over think of it, that K. I Brandt has uisdw a itmlv nt r?r.i??.-i...? I J ... ||>PS I each ttiiag* for H yearn. and that lie j certainly knows bet<e where to order 1 from than you who eccanionally read an advertisement or receive a catalogue Iteuiember all jawelsrs are net so well posted, IJring your cata | logue along and he will demonstrate ' what he says. Now.tr., it, he wants i yeu to d-> it. Our pri es are low and a 10 per cent Haduelion makes there a great deal lower Writs for oirculars. B BRANDT, For you a asoney saving Jeweler, Chester, 8,0. A ur.a111 i"k').m riior<in iLKSSN KSS. Itidgeway Man Accidentally Fire* a Trap (inn lit* Hud Set for the Ben tit of Thieves. Special to 1 ho State. Kidgoway, Doe. 14. ? A fatal accident of an unumal character occurred today near Blvthewood, and hat brought grief to numbtra of the good people at' this section. Mr. John Haithcock, a young muu of prominence in hi* neighborhood, hat I teen recently troubled hy thievith visit* to hie corn crib in the night time. To alarm the rogues, ho set a rudely con strucl'cd spring gun and connected it with the door of hi? crib. This morning he thoughtlessly opened the place without releasing the attachment, and, in consequence, received a pistol hall ia the region of hi* heart, which caused his denth in 15 minutes. Ilr. llaitbeock wa* the graudson of \V asbingtou llaithcock, one of the most highly esteemed citizens of Fairfield, and married last year a daughter of Mr. Thus. J. Robertson of this place. In tha sorro/w of these bereaved families, the entire community shares. John Haiper, Colored, Dies on the Gallows. Special to The State. . Cheraw, Dec. 16.?John liar* per, cDlored, who killed Sandy Campbell last spring and was convicted of murder at the spring terra of court, was banged at 2 o'clock today at Chesterfield court houae. Quite a large crowd gathered near the jail to witness the execution of the sentence. The condemned man showed a AVPAf . Li 1 ' ^ ?1 <I\?I *>i Hmin t , in re 1111 g death without flinching. lie wan taken down in 15 minute* after tlia drop and pronounced dead. 11 o made a short speech to the crowd of 4 00 person* present and said that lie did not intend to kill Campbell. After hi* talk he opened & hymn book and read the hymn. "I Heard the Voice of .loans Sac" and ask''d the crowd to join w'th him in singing it. Several did so. He then knelt down and pravod, after which lit* told the sberitT lie wh? ready. He never llinehed while tho entire preparations wore going on. Ho i* the (irat person hanged in this county in about f>0 year*. Six hilled in a wir.k on tin; Florida Central >> Feninsular. I I- I ?- I - A passengwr train on tin- Florida Central ?Nc Peninsular Kailr?>a.? 1 win wrecked tliik afternoon near Madison, caused l?y s collision with cattle on the track, although the engineer made every eHWt to top the train. Six people were killed, ns follows: K 11 Chandler, engineer; James Evaia, colored, tiraman; John T Sullivan, of St. Augustine, attache to the army; Iiov. S 11 Coleman, a colored preacher of Jacksonville: .Ino. A Rhodes, of Pensacola, and Alfred Austin, of Chaires, hoth colored. Hi THmn *? INI I-M> Inf. T* *?H ton*** *?4lly f?r?T?r, M lis. full W life. ?>- *n*c, Hkt N* T* m, tht wNlir tvliir. Uial atkM ?*?k mm rnf. All ArncciaM. *r II. Gar* r?ara? MM iMkltt ? MaipI* Ira AMtmi lull? *5 V 'ikiMft ?r W*w Tar? CaWin S Brice, former U. S. Senator from Ohio, died of pneumonia, last Tburaday. JAS. B. A'lLIJAMS MIST DJK. Sentenced to be ilanged Ncx' Month ant] the Judge Says ho is a Doomed Muu. James B. William* w,* son ' to need yesterday by Judge Klugli , I to Unhanged ou Friday, January ' j'JTth, for tlie murder of Charley j ( Pott*, in this city, and the judge 1 added to the aentenuo a warning ^hat there was no escape from it ! ami that the priaoner would eoonci 'or later die on the gallows. "You are a doomed man. Your 1 day* are numbered You should 1 make your peace with God" were I among the lolemn sentence* thai Judge Klueb spoke totSe prisoner. ! | The judge said he was glad to | kaow that an appeal would be II- . ? a: i*_ . - ?? n il. 1 IV ttbs **iisnr<i me vcrdiet of thejury would be sustained *ud he did not believe that a cane | could It* made which would induce the govenuor to commute I the sentence even to life imprison ment. Public sentiment generally ap | proved the utterance* of the judge, i I hut the general feeling wn that Williams it? suffering now for two 'deaths and that the killing of ! Major \Y. A. Williams, for whieh | he watt tried and acquitted nearly eight years ago, is being avenged now.?Greenville News, 16th instant. To Care for Confederates. I _____ i Washington, Dec. 16.?Repre! sontative Kixey of Virginia today introduced a hill for the al, mission of Confederate as well as | Union soldiers to all soldiers' homes and government institutions I maintained by the government. The text of the bill is as fol- ' j lows: " That after the passage of this act all aoldiers homes and ! other institutions maintained by j the government for maimed, crippled and needy soldiers and sailors of the United States ?hall bo open j 1 to all soldiers and sailors of the j ( oiviI war of 1861-65, upon tho eame terms, aud without disorimi- J nation as to whether they enlisted noon the side d the Union or the , Confederacy. ? 1 BK ATS TIIK K CONDI KK Mr. A. C. Thomas, Marysville, lex., has found a more valuable discovery than has yet been made in tho Klondike. For years he suffered untold agony from con- ; sumption, accompaaied by hem i ? i . . <>i i iiti^us: iiiii wan absolutely cured bv Dr. King's New 1 >i ! eovery jor Consumption, Coughs and Colds. tin declares that gold is of littlo value in comparison with this marvelous cure: would hare it, even if it coat a hundred dollars a bottle. Asthma, Bronchitis andsall throat and lung af fectione arc positively cured by Dr. King's Few Discovery for Consumption. Trial bottles free at Crawford Bros' Drug Store, j Regular sizo 50 eta. and $1.00. I Guaranteed to cure or price reI funded. Gold in Kershaw. ' Special to The State. ! I Camden, Dec. 17.?It is reported that gold has been discovered >u the place of ilr. J. N. MoCaskill, near Shamrock, in tha uppor portion of this county. It is saul that particles of gold as ! large as grains of wheat hare 1 been found, and it is very likely that it is a rery rich rein. fifty CmM. QurMMtd tobtooo htblt re, biIim ?Mk etroac, Mo*4 pwrr M* SI. All 4r??fftal* COL. BKY AN STILL SILVER'S : CHAMPION. Sa\s It is to be the Main Issue ia ;( Next Klt:ction. .. i I 1.-VT ^ ork, Dor. 17. ? The World nill tuinoirow publish the followin?i. \S iliiam J. Bryan is in town. lie was found la>t ni<rht, ' * t (Saturday i at the Burtholdi hotel, j. Col. Bryan dec-larad himself an j uncompromising opponent of the | MeKinley policy of expansion.. Ile said: lllt i? too eurlr at this time to J discuss party politics for the! presidential election of l'JOO, but . 1 think the issue* will tlien be free . .. . . . . ' i silver, anti-expansion, anti-un- I parialiam and the rights of labor. "i ha?o already expressed my self against imperialism and ter- 1 ritorial e.xnanHion Th* nniin.??i to adopt the colonial idea of European nations is fraught with the grea!a*t danger. 11 What will he the fate of the ^ treaty in the senate I do not cure; to predict. While 1 was in Wash ington, 1 sought nil the informa f tion I could get. I cannot aay that I learnod auflicicnt to warrant me in expressing a positive | opinion. "Do I think free silver will be | ^ tha issue in 1900* Certainly. It ' will be the main question, flow,' about the labor problem? I am , | not prepared to answer that question." FREK PILLS Send your address to H. E. Bncklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will con-|l vioee jou of their merits. These i pills are easy in action and par-1 < ticularly effective in the euro of , Constipation and Sick Headache. ( For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved inval uablo. They are guaranteed to be perfect 1 Iv free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vege- j table. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to the atomach and nowela greatly i invigorate the system. Regular;1 size 'J5c. per box. Sold l?y Crawford Bros Druggist. Prisoners Escape From Greenwood's Jail. Special to The Slate. 1 Greenwood, Dec. 17.?Mill Logan, llatup Satterw hite, Cy Adams, Sam McGrier and Sam Bradley, colored prisoners at tke county .jail, escaped l'huraday night by overpowering .Jailer Me-, ('a*'*!) ami a 4ltru*iv." Sattorwhit* ??s recaptured in town. SluMitr McCaslan otrerw a r?w(\ni of $25 ca<-h for tlie return of the <?t her four. Important Notice to tin- I'lililic All parties indebted to Stevens^ j Heath & I'd I lot t or to I loath ^ Klliott. Ml'STconfc forward and I pay up or make satisfactory at--: rangements with the undersigned on or before Saturday, the 24th | day of December. I loth of these I ' firms having dissolved, it is aliso- j lutcly necessary for all outstanding claims to bo settled up without further delay. Now please remember the last day of grace?Saturday the 24th. 1 ? 4-*. ' * ' - i i uriiPH disregarding this notice nill find their obligation in the hands of an officer for collection after that date. J. C. Elliott. tST Subscribe to Tka Ledgsr. 1^" Subscribeto Tnis Ledges Aian^Mial D?. ISM' R?tt? s K WI OI MTCOV KK N M KN 1" LAW. )rangeburg Times and Democrat. ! It may not be generally reniscn srcd that tbo Stnto will have' practically a new county governneut system nsxt year. The law providing for the change of sys-1 cm it not in the Statute books, t will not bo printed in the stat itcs until the acta for next year ire published. This happened in his wav : The general assembly it its last session, passed the ?cn ounty government bill, and provided that it should go into stTert n several counties shortly after s ~ - .1 4: i> ' is ;iii(i|)iion. ivrpresemanons were made to (iov Ellerbo that it would not he well for the new sys in to go into effert duriag last spring and hist summer in the .'ountion indicated, because of cerain work then in progrese, which might be jeopardized by a change >f officers. The Act was "held ip." and it does not go ieto effect intil after the a^aemblini; of the 'eneial assembly. It has neither been approved or disapproved by jrov. Ellerbe, but simply goes into effect by the operations of the x>nstitutioa, three days after the session of the genoral assembly begins. The Act will no doubt ?o into effect on the 1st of February, when the new commissioners ire to begin their term of office, under the provisions of the bill. It may be that the machinery can bo started before that time. The Act provides : Section 1 provides "That the ufhee of county supervisor, as now provided by law, shall continue, and the successors of the present supervisors shall be elected by the people ut the next general election, with a term of office fur two years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. * Section 2 provides "Tlist the governor shall, before the tirst day of February, lsV*b, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and before the 1st day of February of each succeeding two years, appoint upon the recommendation of the members of the general assembly from the several counties or u majority of them, two persons from each county who shall be kt.nwr as the commissionera of the county, and who shall act with the supervisor in the gov ernmuntal matters of the county, the >aid supervisors and commissioners together to constitute a board to be known as 'the hoard of county commissioners.' The su per v is or shall hi; chairman of the hoaid of county commissioners *0 to l?o constituted." faction 15 provides "That on the tilbt day of February 1MW, tlie otlice of county commissioners anil township commissione*s, as mm provided to la; appointed hy thu governor, shall he abolished, as the jurisdiction, duties and powers now devolved by law upon tin appointive hoards of county am township eomiuitsioaers,ure hare : hy devolved upon the board o county comniasionei a herein pro vided for, to eonnist of a county supervisor and two commission ' ers." Section 4. "The board of coun ty commissioners and townshi| I commissioners now appointod b; the governor after the appoint nient and qualification of tho coin misaionara provided for in thi Act, shall continue in office a county boards of equalization ant township boards of assessors unti 0 their successors shall ho appointed, and the governor of this Stat# is hereby authorized and empowered, on the reeommendatioa of a majority of tbo members of the ueneral aesetnhU of the reapactS ive counties, ircrv Un years, to appoint such county hoards of equalization and to ninth ip hoards of asaessors as are now provided by law for the appointment of county commissioners and township commissioner*.'' Section b. "That -actions 1 and 1 2 of an act approve -1 March 1 Mo; 'entitled ''An Act to amend secjtioua 2,375, 2,37?! and 2,4 ?2, reI vised etatutes of 1 S'J2 he, and tUw I same are hereby repealed.'' Suction ti. ''"1 be county boards of commissioner* sliall have the same riuht and duties with reference to the preparation of jury i;^ .. ... - i... . i- i - ' . ....lij m.m linn IICMIITCU !> I !l TT ; upon tbe piesent county L>???id of ' commissioners.'' Section 7. That til acts ami parts of acts inconsistent with this 'act bo, anil the same hio hereby repealed.'' Section S. "The provisions of this act shall not apply to Bamberg, Barnwell, Chester, Fairfield, Hampton, Spartanburg, Kershaw, Charleston and Cherokee conn1 ties." A HOKK1BLK CRIME I | Two Men Commit Murder for Money in Alabama. J Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 18.? ! Telegraph advices from Banks. Ala., tell of a horrible crime at the Myer'a plantation near Josie postoflice, eight mile* from Banks. Mrs. Ida Myers, a wealths widow, and her daughter-in-law. i M re. K. M vers, also a widow, conducted a store, and it wa^ known that they kept a amount of uioney in the dwelling 'across the road from the, store. A young man named Cook was employed to superintend the farm, aud he occupied a room in the house. Some time between midnight and day Cook was aroused by a noise in the room of the older Mrs. Myers. He sprang out of bed and ran to the door of the | room and *aw Mrs. livers struggling with two strange men. lis rushed to her assistance and wai knocked senseless with a club. When ho regained conaciouanes* i he .found the house on lire and the elder Mr*. Myers apparently dead on tin- lioor. Dragging hei from tho lire ho wont in arch of the younger Mrs. Mvera snd found her dead in her room, lis: 'brains having been beaten out. He rearued lior bodv ju*t in tine ; from the (lames He then rang (the farm hell *nd aroused the r i neighbors, who came in grs&t 1 num.?ers, but who v\are too late i 1 I to save tho house or any of the * I contents. 51 It. is believed that the robbers I ,obtained about $3,0o0 in cash and evidently they thought thrv I had killad all three parties and . I tired the house to cover up their j crime. The neighborhood is 'I greatly excited and scores of men aro out searching for the miscreants. who if caught will doubti*) I ! leas he lynched. At last accounts 7 no trace had been diacoTored. The condition of tha elder Mrs. Myers is critical. a ? OAMTORZA. j BMntkt Hn? r