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THE LEDGER. Th irlow S. Carter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. WEDNESDAY, .IAN. 4, 1899. The Hon. E. J. Kennedy, of Chesterfield, who will he remembered n.> ii candidate for congress last summer, died suddenly Christinns dav. He had been suffering with a slight attack of grip, but was preparing to go to Sunday school, when ho concluded that he whs too unwell. It is thought that ho ha I ruptured a blood vessel while coughing. -f s Capt. O Barber, father of Attorney General Barber, died at his home in Chester on the 24th ult. He was 60 years of age.? Capt Barber served through the Confederate war at the close of which he was Captain of Co B, Regiment in Gen M C Butler's brigade. + fMa] or David Hemphill,of Chea' tor, died in the military hospital of Camp Poland, near Knoxville, Tftnn M v nlf A V > I . J Kk \/tlv?l? r f Ji VIU wit. J MA IC I an illness of several weeks. Ma jor Hemphill had resigned from the armv a short time before and his resignation took effect on the dav of his death. IIis remains wpr<> brought home and interred. S h Senator I lour, of Massachusetts, mad" an address at the T'.Mh An niveisnrv meeting of the New Knjrlund Soeietv in Charleston last week. His address was in the main historical, but in its up plication to present conditions it looked to obliteration of sectional ism and all geographical di visions of political parties. One country, a united people drawn together by the love of liberty, should be our watchword. -mHon. Justin S. Morrill, United States senator from Vermont, died at his home in Washington City on Tuesday morning, in the eighty ninth year of his ace. ? " c" ? aftor an illness of less than a week. lie has hoen in congress for fifty years, and has been aptly called the "father of the senate." -f S Kthan A. Hitchcock, of Missoon, has Keen appointed Secretary <>f the Interior to succeed Cornelius HILs. resigned. Ho is at present ambassador to Russia. Hofore his appointment in the diplomatic corps, he was a prominent business man of St. Louis. He i> a grandson of Ltham Allen of Revolutionary fame, and was t?orn in Mobile, Alabama. -t t11v 1 lie ret i pcijwnt it . . .? \>i . I'liuii m I In nor* on account of the age limit, lu-t Sunday, A dmiral Powey bus become the sonioi officer of the American navy. Unless congress makes an exception in hi* case, Admiral I)ewey wi'l be retired on Pocamber 20, next. -? Tho t mil of Houston, Texas, received two million bales of cot- j ton up to Christinas day this year. No interior town has everj reached that mark. It would re- I quire $50,000,000 t?? move that many bales. 'They expect 600,00" bales more out of this crop, s * The Abbeville Medium tell* about a woman in that county who literally "kicked the bucket." She stood on a bucket while she ndjU8ted h rope to hane her?clf, then kicked out tho bucket and strangled to death. + h Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discloses them. Fortune does not change manners, it uncovers them. ? ;?" Subscribeto Tiik Lkdgf.r. ^ * . Mian Mercedes Garcia, daughter of the late general, died at Thomasville, Ga., last Tuesday. HThe American National Bank at Lima, Ohio, was robbed of $18,182 on Christmas day. Policeman \V S Orr shot and killed Miles Biggers, col.,in Charlotte Christmas morning while trying to arrest him. -cs The treaty of peace between the United States and Spain was delivered to President M< Kinley by the peace commission Dec. 24th. Hear Admiral Schley was presented with a aword, scabbard and belt, which cost $4,200, in Philadelphia last wpolr 4 Nearly 8,000 U. S. troops nailed from Charleston to Cuba last Friday. -MM re W m Tansear killed bar 6monthe old baba at Oakfisld, Wis, on the 24th with strychnine and then cut her own throat with her husband's rasor. -f Wm Sharer of Artnfleld, Mo., shot his wife four times and then killed himself on the 20th ult. -f John L Burnett of (iadsdon, AIm., will ba the smallest repreI tentative in the next congress. He weighs Ofi pounds, being 4 pounds I lighter than Uen. Joe Wheeler. 4 4While out gunning Tuesday with three companions about bis age Oscar Smith, age 13, was ue eidentallv shot anil killed with his own gun in Greenville county. I * *" Atlanta h?<t a riotous Christmas t l**e people^ were shot dead, h I cotton mill man w as wounded and j the police made orer 200 arrests on christmas day. +f Alexander Allen, col., at Kaleigh, N C, reported his wife dead in bed on the morning of the 24th Investigation aw to the cause ol death elicited the tact that Allen I had hanged her and laid her in the j bed. 4 <Texas people estimate the cotI ton crop of that statoat 3,400.000 I oales,the average being 3,ti43,300. I ru?: - ... * ... i I i nun gu**ss l()i" me WlldlC : crop is 11,314,4 "0. ! ! The Mormons have made cr.ni mderable gains near Yanceburg, ; K v., and their converts arc at tending their services carrying i shot guns as there have been threats of lynching them. s s A butcher at Belvidere, N. V., recently killed a hog weighing l,01d pounds. The hog was so heavy on its feet that it was al most unable to walk. Its immense hide was sold for football covering. s s The Washington correspondent of the Now# and Courier *ny* that Senator McLaurin has succeeded in getting through his hill pr< vid ing for a [amnion for Mrs Jos. K Alston. The bill, as it became a law, calls for a pension of $80per month. 4 J* 'I'll? Greenville News saya that (inly one men in that county has made ? return umler the State income tax. Anderson can heat that, aa our tax hooks show that thare ara ei^ht persons here who will pay an income tax. ? Anderson Advocate. 4 tSix miners were killed in a cage aecidant in the Lake Superior mine at Ishpoming, Mich., Saturday. They fell a distance of f>00 feet down the shaft. l-^T" Subscribe to Tho Ledger Tbe C F & Y V Railroad was sold at Auction in Fayetteville, N C., last Thursday and wan purchased by tho Coast Line for $3,110,000. - ?llonry Clintock van shot aud killed by Sam Peterson, near Colunibia, Tuesday night. Both are colored. Peterson escaped. I I In an accident on the A T &f t Santa Fe Road,near Trinidad,Col., | Wednesday morning twelve peoj pie were injursd and fofir cars and a corpse were burned.1 + * (Inly ono killing occurred in Union county during the holidays. ; A negro boy named McCrJiry was 1 accidentally shot by another nam jed Porter at Jcnnsville.m* : Mr Henry Miles wag run over and killed 9 miles Southl'f Columbia, Dec. 24th, by a^lrain on the FC&r Railroad. 44 Six citixens of Chester have headed a subscription with #20 each for the erection of a confoderate monument on the public! square in the city of Chestei. Private Frank Smith of the 2d Tenn. Regt., died in Columbia on ! Wednesday of typhoid fever. His : remains were sent to Memphis. This is the first death to occur in the Columbia camps. I 4 4 A brief story of love, murder and suicide comes from Sioux city Iowa. Harry (iarvey went to the 'school house and killed Mi?- May Thomas, a teacher, because she ii declined to receive further alientiou from him and then shot himself. I Under t^a l^esidjaaj^Epcently I issued order, the thir'rNorth Cari olina and the Sixth Virginia, tha two regiments of colored troops which have heen so troublesome at I Macon, arc to be mustered out of the service. I 44 A Memphis special says: ,! M i llorton, the richest negro in TenII nessee, owning 7,000 acres of cotton land and 5 general stores, ; has been convicted of receiving ' stolen property and sentenced to i nvimi tvuin 111 |iimiMi. r uiecn ! year* ago Ilorton was ? farm !, hand, earning flf? n month. John Ta\lor an<l Major (ireen, the other two negroes implicated in the robbery and tn wider of Mr Paul lint*, rear Fort Motto, in Or angehurg county, worn enptured at Manning la?t nvek All four of tho neuron, are in Orangeburg j jail. I . . Christmas casualties in tlie vicinity of Charleston >vero DinnerI ous and the coroner and physi ciuns wore kept bu ?v. Three men were killed in alTn.ys, one was killed hy a constable, several 1 ware shot and several cutting scrapes occurri d. ! ! 1 . I The agri- r.ltur <1 '.nil l?tii! ii;??5, r? r- * which for a numh* ?f yc;?rs wa the bead iq muter* of the State dispensary, is hob,,* remodelled and will he ia^hioue 1 into a hotel, i and will ho mana<od hv Mr. N M Brooker. tRev \\ rn A Keily, a Methodist minister of Sumter, who married a daughter of Rev ,J A Clifton, ha* wandered oH ami his family and friends are anxious to Hscor tain his whereabouts. Hard study , preparing for liin (iiihI conference I examination brought on mental aberration and in this condition he wandered oft from Charleston last woek, where with hn wife and child he had g ?ne to spond the holidays with friends. ' Wo morphln* or milnm In Dr. MIlon'TAm Pii.icuik All r.m. "OuocoQiudbM." One of His Murderers on the / .Jury of Inquest. c Sain Simril. an old colored man I was shot and killed near Hock ,1 Hill on the night of tho iidth and 1 robbed of n jug of whiskey. Ed '1 Young, West Eastis and Jess c Wright, all colored, have been r proven to be the murderers and are now in York jail. Jess \Yright, I one of ihe murderers, sat up with the corpse the night of tho killing , at the homo of John Moffutt and ^ was assisting in putting the re- j mains of Simril in a wagon to he sent to his home at Hock Hill tho c next day when arrested. West j Eastis, another of the murderers, ^ had been empaneled on the ^ coroner's inrv unrt ?? Bittinr* J J - """ft f the jury of inquest when facts ^ were elicited which led to his arrest. t Restraining Order Issued. n h As he construed the constitu- c tion, Comptroller General Der- t hain would on January 1st hare Y distributed $00,000, profits from J tho dispensary, Riiiong those counties whose per capita tax for d Bchoels wai less than thr ee dollars, i Richland county's hoard of edu- ,1 cution has protested and demands a that thia fund h* apportioned $ among .all the counties. Judge I Mclver has issued an order re- I straining the Comptroller (icneral t from paring out any of this money until the case can .?e heard by the supreme court, January 0th. Mr. .1 l?ratton Cowry, while li acting Santa Ciaus at the Christ- o mas tree in Yorkvillo narrowly c escaped a horr;hlo death. His costume caught fire and in an in- o slant ho was blazing from head to \< ^M?t. He waa badly burned v about the face. Mr. m c Willis ] was also painfully burned on tho f hands while assisting in smother * ing out the fire. f - * I Private Harry A Steele, 2d W. r Va. Vols., was accidentally killed i at Greenville Sunday morning t by Emmet Kane. It was the old * stoiy of an unloaded pistol. t - *Ooii'I Tobnrrn K|<lt unit Suu.Lr Your l.lfe Ai?*y. Y To quit tobacno easily mid forever, be nuis neiie. full of life, nervo urn] vigor, tnhe No To- ' line, the wonder worker, that makes weak men > fctroug. All druggiiit.s, SOc ?ir fI. Cure guaranteed tlooklot ami k. -wide free. Address . Sterling Itemed" f 'hicnv'O or New YorIP ( To Executors, Admioistrators, 1 Guardians and Trustees, i f WOUK t\ I I I*; "s I' I ON 1 - HKKR- ti lij' Cli ell In ll- it t 'lial it i< my i'U'), in tic- 'll ':iw, t<? c|:i y<iu in I maUc i i ii - .<f \ i> it t'li -k!- <ml ilit in; s n t Keen nrs, A<1 ini i iI'itinrs, 1 tiiiJiollrt s l iu ti cs. Tin-c r.. turn* iniMl ti < <1 Willi 'in1 lUirlli^ 1 llit' mm.II * f J i nary ii>* FeUru try. j OH a ?*!>. JONIi"*, J u gf ol' I'r b i>e. 'I'llis J?? . 12. 18^0 TW-V3W2?W! J. .'!XltnCKaQ?JHK t!^iLSSimCLI3 (J 11 A ! I.K !) .!()> KS t A I'.'OKN KY A I LA ?v ,? t S. IPTICIt. SC. i f Oflico in the Court House. I I Will practice in all 1 lie Courts. * Prompt nttention will he given all i hiiaincas with which entrusted, j (Collections a specialty. ( 1 ?iw><c -j* K*.\ . fiy^ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA C O U N T Y O r r.ANCASTKK, r. tn (lit* i curt of Probate V By (,'Iihb. I) Jmt^e of Probate. * witfkkah, It I. Blaeknioti, lias (] run IOIIII! I<> Krttlll llltn I8 | J of Admini*!raiinn <>u the estate of aid ; t-iroctn of W J. Bluckmoti, deceased. ' THKSK AKK THKKRKORK to Cite arid I, admonish all and em^i'lar the kindred ami credliora of I he aald W.J Black* inon, deceased, ihat ihey he and appear before me, in the ('ourt of Pro t hate, to be held at bane tater, <\ H , <j on Jaoiitry lie 17'h next, after pub liention thereof, at II o'clock in the forenoon, to diow cauae, If any they * have, why the eaid A drnlniHt ration v should no; h?? grade I. a Given under my hand, tlila 2nd day of J unwary Anno Domini, iKfiih CHArt I). JONES, c Jii<1 Ke of Piobate. A I Coining Mnrrlngo Curds have been issued announ j ing the coining marriage of Miss losa May Jones, daughter of ' lodge Ira B .Jones, to Dr. Paul ' 1 Marion, of Lewisville, 8. (3. Phe ceremony will occur at noon 1 >n Wednesday, Jan. 18th, at the esidence of the bride's parents. 1 tilling Near Kershaw. On Monday afternoon of last ' reck. John McCaskill, col., was ' tilled by Emanuel Catoe near ' Cershaw. McCaskill was drunk ,nd was throwing rocks at a coined woman at Mr. Gardner's, le was told by Miss Gardner not o outer the yard. Young Catoe tad been bird hunting and was musing through the yard with his ;un,seeing the negro paid no atten ion to Mi?s Gardael-'s ordors, ho old him to behave himself when j 1 I... ?I. ? ?.u? it? nan mnarvuu ny HUU ,t temp tod to take tho gun from iim. In the scuffle for possession if the gun, it was discharged and 1 ho negro foil wounded, and died 1 eforo medical aid could reach iim. Young oatoe came up Thurs- . lay and surrendered to the Sher- J ff. He was taken before justice tones on a writ of hiboas corpus nd granted hail in tho sum of 11.5^0. Ho readily gave the iond and returned to his home. ? D Blikonoy, Esq , represented he prisoner. < 1 arriuge of a Former Luncus trian. , ( The Uainsvillo ( Texas) liigiser 'otsins the following account f theumrriago of a former Hhiij .'iKtriitn : The-home of Mr. Weatherford n the fifteenth instant was visited ?y a goodly number of friends to yitness tho marriage of >n\ W It '! t 'ortei- to Miss Emma Weather- 1 ord. Notwithstanding the mud, 1 lush and snow on the roads, all elt glad they came to this do- < ightful occasion. X tip top din- ! ler was served. On a long table ' vus spread, in bounteous quanti- | ios, the nicest and the host of ( nt allies. No one can over forget his feasting. it greatly added to the other vise joyous time. But in every narrage there are sad features. Tis sad to see a mother and father rive up thoi'* lovely daughter to mibraco the cares and manifold 'osponsihilities of wedded life, liss Kimna is a beautiful young adv, and no doubt Mr. Porter is 'ortunate to win such a companon. Mr. Porter is a bright, iromising and prosperous young nan. A long,happy,useful life to hese so well mated. li. R. (lAISF.S. Pay All You Can. One of the best cures for <lull iices is to keep money on the novo. Let all the people who >we small bills they can pay at my time, pay them now, and let )Oople who have tho cash pay for vhat they buy instead of charge n<r it. It is astonishing how the C5 O iresence of a aufficient quantity ?f circulating medium livens up rade. Smith pay* Brown, and bis enables Brown to pay Jones, j nd Jones in turn pays .Villiams vho passes it on to Johnson, and ' o it goes on ami on, getting one lehut after another and iinpmv j ng tho gener al condition of Imsiicfls. It is is astonishing how nany obligations in a community an bo cancelled with a hundred lollars kept actively in circuit- | ion and going from one to an- fl ther. Now is tho time to pay 1 'our small obligations and enable v s many poople as possible to * ripo out the slate and start debt' (i rea on New Year's. The above f rom tbe Augusta Chronicle we <1 ommead to the consideration of ii. i rhe Dixie i amp oi'ConfederateVeterans. Pursuant to notice published in jur la.'t issue, the Dixis Camp of* Confederate Veterans tuot in theCourthouse Monday and perfected their organization. Mr W G A Porter is the commander and !?r, Cleo W Jones adjutant or secretary. The following is a list of themembers enrolled, with the company and regiment of each opposite his name: Aaron Adams, co. k. 22nd s. c. iteg. t Murrowcautheu,co.n 2d s. c. Reg_ vv j Hunter, 44 g 4 4 4 4 4 4 ueo w .tones, 44 i> sc Reserves. r it craig, 44 i 12th s c Rog j b shehane, 44 44 44 44 44 \v r Steele, 44 K 1st 44 44 w m Estridge, 44 e 22nd 4 4 44 m n Johnson, 4 4 4 4 1 2th 44 tc w a Marshall, 44 i 4 4 4 4 t4w a a porter,sergt 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 i w a potter, 44 b 1st 44 \ t Ferguson, 44 h 4 4 4 4 4 4 L H unwell, 44 a 44 4 4 4 4 l j perry, 44 ? 17th 44 44 w b Twitty, sergt 44 i 12th 44 4C t Montgomery caskey, co b 6th 8 c Reg. k c ninRon, co h 4th s c Reg> wilson crenshaw,co i 12th 4 4 4 4 i .T a<lkins, 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ' 44i r Knight, 44 f 26th 4 4 6tw c Gardner, 4 k s c Reserve* i li Flvnn, 44 i 12th sc Reg. w <> Moore, 44 o 2nd 44 iL m Knight, 44 e 22d 44 1 *\ small, 44 i) 1st 4 4 4 4 * K HdtH'I'ts, ' e 22'I 4 4 4 4 'harlin i. wilson, 44 n 12th 44 4t \ f Roberts, 44 k 4 4 4 4 4 4 i u Ulcus, 44 it 2nd 4 4 4 i*xm I Barr, 4 e sc Reserves* i i. iiicklin, 44 A 44 '4 i R Knight, 44 c 1st s c Regit is timo to atop when you can in to .in opera house and witness the great battles between the Nations in actual motion. ? States- k title Landmark. fto real was the battles i?nrr? luced horn on last night by the S[?at lab American War aid Co road v Co., that at times you could iicnr the ladies scream and scraiu hie to get out of its way. ? Oxford C) I lines. r. u?mm??I M???? Chronic Dyspepsia Cured. ill *7\7 FTER suffering for nearly thirty year-? from dyspepsia, Mrs. II. F. Uugdale, wife of a prominent business man of Warsaw, N. Y., writes: ''For 2k years, 1 v .w a constant sufferer from dyspepsia and v weak stomach. The lightest food produced! distress, causlnp severe pain and t lie form i tion of pas. No matter how careful of my diet I suffered ugonizin;' pain aft-T eating 1 was treated by many physicians and tried numerous remedies without permanent help. Two years apo I be pan taking I>r. Milt ;* Nerve and Liver Fills and Nervine. Within a week 1 commenced improving, and persisting in the treatment I was soon able to eat what i liked, with no evil effect* 1 keen t lieii) at hand mi'I a single dose disneI any old nvmntnms " m m *?? l>r. Miles' Home die- Or ' ^'^*1 aro sold by all urug- l&jv. __.. * , ^Sa gists under a po-itivi > O guarantee, flr-t bottle *v?-?Crvin? ^5 benefits or money re- Ifc Rft?tor?? TV funded. Book 011 d is- ft. f M ... CaB eases of tho heart and / g,g nerves free. Address, I?R. MlLKd MEDICAL <>?>.. fclanart. lnd. Dr. Milee'Mrln #*/!# are guaranteed tootof* tfeaittirhr lo '.'0 minute*. "Onn cent a do- e TRESPASS NOTICE. A LI j l'KKSONS iiro hereby turned not to trcMpans upon my and* in Ihiford ioii;ii?ii!? ... . ? .. ...711 |'9 ttlMMT li the Fnnderburk tract, the ,'lyler tract and the home tract on vhioh I reside, either by fishing. Minting with dogs or withont, ithe.r by day or night, or in uny tlier way. The law will be enbreed against any and all personli.-rcgarding this notice. Geo. VV. Plyler. )ec. 10, 1808. Int.