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K\cry disease of 1 i . .1 oh ni.'i s nnudi, ?amnio 1 rt|t>.-r\vi < , sueeainbs to Drowns' Iron .Hi-, known nnd ?:? ?! lor nearly a r of a oei.tury, It. stands to-day fore* , >?t iinioii!; our most valued remedies. Irowns' lion ititlers is sold by all dealers. % h:A': i "?' * *T- ' ** ' ANCASTER AND CHESTER RAILWAY. KTWKKN fHK-TKIt AND I.ANl'A-'J Kit liedule in effect Daily except Kuuda\ on and after Sept 11, l.SDS. WESTBOUND I EAST BO UN I). <>'?. 14 and 16 J No's. 17 and 15* M. P M. A J/. 1' M 5% o trv") Ar Chester Lv 11 00 7 00 07 5 07 Kiclihur# 11 3S 7 45 55 4 55 Bascombville 11 52 7 55 P M .13 4 33 Fort Lawn 12 12 S 15 > 00 4 00 IjV Lancaster Arl2o0 8 55 i Connects at Chester with Southern j itit'way, Seaooard Air Line and Car ] Ona and North-Western Hail way. Connects at ' aneaster with the Ohio liver ?fc t'harleston. ieroy Springs, Pres., Lancaster, S. C. j M Heath, O. P. A., ' I V 11 Htrdin, \T P and Aud., Chester Tickled i pain. 1 can do tho same for y cfleets result front tny extra* pleasant ness and satisfaetion i I've the experience, tlie "kn< doing all branches of scientific < * Special attention given Work. No charge for exatnii uyJ. E. Ruffes LANCASTF vqi jfto-c tp /p, q-m rors <P ,fF 3 % &S Al'tiftSt&lli In'ce Times Each Tl *celc. cents for one ye; s p \ ?ri p s&mr.A-lfiV UOLldAI Sixteen rages Ever;/ Week itts for one 1 rarp/pxrprrj p rrn * enj p s uynA ii.iiy ee for one vear to I'iik IjK!>:ikr omo year ie a Ivan i quofco above. Cheap Enough. The Lodger (Semi weekly), The uw York World (Tri-woekly) id Homo and Farm, all threo pa- } ;r?, one vear for $2.15. 1 Tho Ledger (Semi-weekly), The ( tlanta Constitution (Weekly) and omo and Farm, all three paper* io year for $2.25. The Ledger (Semi weekly) and omo and Farm one year for $1.50 Or, all four paper* one year ?r #1.00. aat y ?a cva ??ra> v s?*x-v<i ers and make r RTER * 4 .* h. DRIVING T1IK FILIPINOS. Pasig Again Taken uiul a Force of n D 2,000 of the Fnemy Routed With Loss. Manila, March 15. ? General Lloyd Whoaton. commanding the Tinted States lly'ug column, attacked and defeated a force of 2,OOo Filipinos at Pasig this afternoon, inflicting heavy loss upon them, 'l'ho American loss was slight. The Americans captured 850 Filipinos. Many 'todies of rebels killed in the engagement are floating down the river. Manila, March 15 ? Pasig and Tagnig were again taken this morning after a desperate fight with the rebels. Several hundred of the enemy were killed or captured and the forces put to route. Paterous was occupied during the night by the Washington volunteers. They attacked the enemy at night; one man was killed. Gen Otis says the victory is the greatest since Fel> r?tli. extracted his tooth without on. Neither ]>ain nor after ting. My methods suggest 11 stead. ?w how" and .110 facilities for lentistrv at the least cost, to Gold Crown ami Bridge mtions and estimates. Jp, Dentist, :r. s c. SI? . rt-JLiij ) \\v a a, a f ear. 1 njr, rp riJAj s 00 wo will sond you any one of a 1 SUBSCRIBE NOW! If you are not already a nub icribor to Tho Ledger subscribe low and get the benolit of our dubbing rates. omittances to ledger, anountor, N. C, FIERCE TORNADO. It "Tui'f Things I p*' at Avon.' dale, mi Alnhami Town. A i Rirminghun, Aid., Mar. 15.? Tho fiercest tornado ever leu own in this vicinity visited the town of Avomlule on tho eastern ont- I skirts of the; city at 5 o'clock this ? h morning. Il came directly from v tho south w ith rain and lightning. ii Passing immediately in front of t tho Avondale cotton mills it Idew v down tho negro Metho 'ist church r and utterly demolished it. t Three new frame houses and a v second negro church a short dis t tance tiwa) were next des'roved. t Mrs R C Foster was ill in bed [ and her hushaud was watching at i her side. The house was taken ii from over her head and the bod- t stead blown a hundred feet away, j; Strange to say Mrs Foster was j ; not hurt. I The negro school house and no- < gro Baptist church were torn to t pieces t Mrs. Annie .Johnson was t buried under her house ami Mul to be dug out. She is badly cut I ami bruised and is in it critical I condition. t Arthur (). Iludgius, a white it boy, was also buried in the wreck- ii age of liis father's house. I lis 1 arm was broken and ho was seri 11 ously injured. At this house then four walls were blown away and a t betl containing three children left . iu the middle of the roopi. The 11 children were not scratched. The ] injured bov was in an outer wing i and the main building crushed |< this in. 11 WANT TO JOIN US. ; t English West Indian Colonists i Petition the Mother Country J i to Exchange Them for the Philippines. ? t Washington, March 15?News t has reached here that English sub- c jects of the West Indies are sign j ing a memorial asking the mother ^ country to transfer the Islands to United States in exchange for the ' Philippines. The people are becoming ?iis- t gusted with the apathy and utter 'j indifference of the British govern- | ment, and believe they will be better off if the American Hag is f floated over the islands. SOU KIlCI.K IN KKoM (i(T. 2d, 1S11S ' ? >*"ir**i i'Ih-.i, Daily, ? I IV rv I a in |> ni KaS? 1 Leavi-s 7 li> "ii.irli**l!)ii 8 <mi arrives " 20 Augusta 10 4.1 " * 9 2') 1 ?? nubia fi 20 ' 10 10 IviugsviilH 4 2S NOliTH UAKOI.INa DIVISION ? Daily. Kxuept Siimlay ? 7.? 77 78 74 u m. M in. 1 t'ttvn Arrive |> mi p in 8 20 II 40 annleti 8 00 4 3' IO JO 12 40 rshaw 2 l.r? 8 1(1 10 80 12 65 Mealll ."sjuliign . 45 2 1 > 10 4u I <N1 I'ieasaiit Hill '.40 2 (Hi 11 Ml 1 20 i.NfieaHter 1 20 I 20 12 .6 1 2< Kiversnle I u6 12 l.r> I 60 I 60 I 'at a + l?a J une'n 1260 l> 2u 8 Hi 2 16 Itni'k Hill 12 26 9 60 4 4 * 2 49 V n kville 1162 7 60 | 0 20 8 66 Iliackshurit 10 46 0 no No si N<> 82 7 4o lllackslnir^ 7 26 i 0 on 4 26 -lielbv 10 16 6 30 1 1 mi Ii ii.... - r _ i. .. ' .. ,. > ituiKcuurinxu ;i mi ,s .el 12 3) ti 30 Marion 8 10 2 <81 \ p n:. p in a in p tn gaffnky brxnch ? Dtily, Kxcept Sunday ? 8.r, 83 84 80 ' p in a in Leave Ar ive a m. p in 1 | 4 10 6 30 141 km!?ii rg 7 30 0 30 4 35 5 50 Cherokee Fal a 7 05 0 05 | ft (8) 0 20 Galtney 0 40 5 40 ' I'r-iiii No 77, going We?t makes day j light connection at Lancaster with the h & (' Railroad, at Rock Hill with the Southern Railroad, going nortli, at i Hlackshurg with ttie Southern. Train No 78, going eait makes com neclion at Marion, N C wltii the ' Southern Railroad, at Hlackshurg with Southern and at Lancaster with the L A C Railroad. Train No 81, goiug east make** con> ' nection at Shelby, N C with the H A < L Railroad, going coat. ( All Local freight trains will carry J passengers if provided with tickets. | L A Kmerson, b B Lampkin, , Traffic Manager. Div. Pasr. Aft. , ANOTHER lAJKTlilKT AE. | 1 fair. |t11 k C'nicilgo Sails:!M il, r'-. l> , (1 \V ? All Awful Story i>f ii Murder committed Lust Januui \ d4 | W Chicago, March 1', August j leeker. the sausage maker, wuo| ' \v ias been under irrcst for four reeks on a charge of murdering i Tl lis wife, made a full confession I o^night. Ho saitl that ho cut lus '^ vile to pieces ana burned the re- N nains in a stove. Becker, when irst arrested, admitted killing his vife, 1 mit declared he pushed her dl liandolph street viaduct into 1 B he lake and she wus drowned. j The police have never placed l11> reiiauco in the drowning idea U md have kept up their work on he theory that Booker killed the ? vonian in his house and made way i ivith the hody. The finding of a T >ortion of a human lung three 1 lays ago in Becker's Barn put r.. strength in their theory and late a .onight they induced Becker to T jonfess. ! '1 Iii his confession, Becker said' 10 !i:i<I killod his wifo hy striking let' on the nond with a hatchet in , I pi lie kitchen of his home. He then l??i lit the body to pieces and boiled I, t in a largo kettle. Becker says ^ I to ic took what romniucd and burn-I in ill it in a red hot stove. The bones I ^ which would not burn he buried I'll in the prairie near his home.? i! lanuarv 27 was the date Becker'*' lays he committed the murder.? ; in lie asserts that the murder was | lot premeditated, but that he' (H piarreled with his wife on the af. m ernoon of tliat day, and in the leat of passion ho struck her on 7*r lie head with the hatchet. The j lieces of lung and the portion >f Calico which wore found u n- j 111 ler the burn, and which the U lolice believed to bo strong ividence against Becker, ho says sou Id not be any part of the body ^ if his wife, as he is certain that ie destroyed every particle of j lesh and lie maintains that the Iress which she wore was entirely j ^ nirned. The police will look for he woman's bones tomorrow ? riioy refuse to tell at present tlij ^ ocation of the spot where Becker i lays they are buried. Chicago, March 15. ? August IC'cker, the sausage maker, today I Q. ,ouk police otlicers to the spot in lis yard where he had buried the dial led remains. Two baskets of mrned bones were found, and Mr Dorsey tonight identified a por.ion of them as a human shoulder p blade. A small piece of the wonan's dress was also found. ? ? An Oltl Mra. ^ Every dny strengthens the belief of end- | nent physicians that impure blood in the j HI cause of the majority of our diseases. i 1 wcnly.fivr years niro thin theory wan used I a* a laws for the formula of Browns' Iron Bittern. The munv reinarkalilo cures shorted 1 * hy this famous old household remedy are .. sufficient to prove that the tlieory is corree*. tiro* ns' Irou Ltliters is sole by all dealer*. \ It if? Oiler. i j| One pound of the African Limbless cotton seed, The At- no I?t111:t Journal, a largo eight page, , twice ti week paper for one year, j ih<i i no 1 ..edger, t\viee-a?wook for I [)iio year?ALL for $2. which I in11hL he paid it) advance. Think Ic >f tliis ! 20i? papers in a year, and 01 >ne pound of the African Limb less seed, enough to plant one tifth of an acre, all for $2. Th j |K?und of seed alone sells for #1. r The .Journal for $1., and The Ledger foi $1.50. j J i'L The Journal and The I* Ledger, both papers semi-weekly, will he sent one year, without tho t, leed, for $1.75. Mother?Jane, you must choose >etween the two. Will you mar- ? :y the man who loves you, or ? .he man who can dress you ? Mamma, as an up-to-date girl, I lust reply that although lovo is i very desirable ihing,clothes are in absolute necessity." 0 blER TEN COM VI AN DMENTri. ie*e are the new commandments ten, hieh w ives now make for married men. 1 miember that I am thy wife, bom tbou innyt chi rhdi a>l thy life. 2 lou shall. lint stay out late at night, lieu lodges, friends, and clubs itivile. inu sluill not smoke indoor or ill, * cliew tobacco r und about 4 iiou shall with praise receive ,ny pies, or pastry made by me despise. 5 y mother thou shalt strive to please, ud let her live with us in ease. 6 emember 'tis thy duty clear, a dress nie well throughout the year. 7 hou siiait in manner mild and meek, lve me thy wages every week. K hou shalt not be a < 11 i11Uink man, ui live on prohibition plan. y lion -halt not tlirl, Inil must aUo.v, liy w ife such freedom anyhow. 10 hou shalt get l,p when bali^ cries, ltd try the child to tru:iquili/.e. hcse my commands from day today, liplicitv thou Hialtobey. $IOO liKWAKI). $100 The rollers of this paper will lie eased to learn that there is at. least le dreaded disease that science has en a It? to en re in all its stages and nit is t'atari h Hull's Catarrh ( 'lire the only positive cure now known > the medical fraternity. Catarrh beig a constitutional do case, requires a institutional treatment. Han's fa,irh (Jure is taken internally, acting ir?-ctIy upon the tilood an i mucous i'races of the system.tlierehy tlestroyiglhe I.,initiation of fhe discus-*, and iving the patient strength by bulld>g up the constitution ami assisting autre iti doing i<s work The prorietors have so much faith in its unlive powers, tha' they offer One ii mi red Dollars for any ease that it iir to cure, ?Seii for list of lealilonlals Address, J K CHENKY CO., oledo (). Bias'sjld by DrUggists, >c. A bisvip was traveling in a lining country, and encountered i old Irishman turning a wind.88 which hauled up ore out of a laft. It was hia work to do this I day lonjj. His hat was olT and to sun poured down on his unrotected head. "Don't you now that the sun will injure [?ur brain if you expose it in that unnerf" said the good man. he Irishman wiped the sweat oil is forehead and looked at the ergymun. "Do you think I'd bo * doin' this all day if I had any rains!" he said, and then gave le handle another torn.?Citieiniti Post. As Described By An Observer. Attorney (eross examining a witl?ss for the other sitloi ?You say nit the moon was shining bright' at the time? Witness?It was. "You are perfectly familiar itil the appearanco of tlie moon, re you? 'Aes, sir." H/l.. 1 11 can ion a moon as far as you in see it?" 441 think I eun." 'Have you ever seen the man i the moon?" 44Tve t?een what they call the tan in the moon." 4'Often?" 4Many a time." 44 What does he look like?" 44 Well, to tell you the truth, ho ioks liko a little, two-for a-cent He-horse lawyer." REGITRATION NOTICE. pHK PUBLIC WILL TAKE not Ice I that tin* It'xiitratlon Hooks will s open. at the court house, for the igistrttion of parties enl itled to regtpr under the Constitution, on the 1 Monday In *h?Ii month, until 30 ?ys preceding toe next general decern WO A PORTER. 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