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THE LEDGER. THurlow S. Carter, EDITOR, AND MANAGER. WKDNRSDAY, MAlU'll 20, 1S99. 4'The management of the South Carolina penitentiary according to the methods of Col. Neal, is a picnic. A man could have all kinds of fun at the job and make friends as fast as he could count. The governor had his washing done free of charge, a senator got a carload of bricks, a railroad commissioner got some worthless brickbats, the secretary of state got a bookcase, somebody else got some hams. Neal was more than a Mark Hanna; he was a Santa Claus.1'?Charleston Evening Post. Several State papers confuse l winlv/ii nai j i-'i i W/ivi vi ai I in TV 1111 Railroad Commissioner Garris. The Charleston Evening Post in particular makes the mistake of accusing the director of appropriating the famous Beckroge trunk. Be it known that there are two Garrison, father and son. Mr. Beckroge Garris is the railroad commissioner, and the son. ' Mr. Brickbat Garris is the penitentiarj director, and the father. The family motto, we understand, is 4iAny Old Thing."?The State. Brilliant Orator Passes Away Peacefully in Charleston. Special to The Daily News. Charleston, March 24.?Judge Samuel Wickliff Melton died at the home of hia son, Marshal Lawson D. Melton, in this city, at 7:45 o'clock tonight. Judge Melton had been in a critical state of health for weeks, aad his end cam* peacefully and without pain. He was born iii 1830 and he and his record are known throughout the State. TO MEXICAN WAR VETERANS. Information of Special Interest to Palmetto Regiment Heroes. The following has been issued to the veterans of the Mexican war in this State: Comrades: The united Con federate veterans have invited us to attend their reunion, and the Washington Light infantry have kindly tendered to us the use of their armory and reading room. I therefore extend the invitations and call a meeting of the Palmetto Regiment Survivors' association to t>e held in the Wash ington Light infantry armory, Charleston, S. C., at 10 a. m., Wednesday, May 10th, where they will register name, eomjiaoy, postoffice and domicile. Business pertaining to the association will be brought up. Comrades are requested to noti fy me a? soon as practicable, whether they will attend, and those attending to bring with them their medals given by the State. Comrades L. F. Robertson, T. II. Thayer, ?C. H. Rivors and O. H. Levy, Co. F, are appointed a | committee of arrangements. The old -flag and the Andrew ^ Jackson vase will be carried to the reunion. A uniform rate of 1 cent a mile has t>een granted by the railroad* J amen I>. Blanding, Pres. Palmetto Keg. Surv'r Ass'n. Sumter, S. C., March 20, 1899. The Assistant Attorney General has filed an opinion in regard to the school law in which he interprets the law to mean that no supplies can tie Uuight daring one cbool year and paid for 6ut of the funds of another year. Thife-mMy lead to the rejection of a number of the school chart claims. * 1 * Jt * i Mrs. Hughes Released on Bond. In the case of Mrs. Hughes L tried at Greenyille the past week JL for the murder of her husband, the jury failed to agree on a ver- % diet and a mistrial was ordered. The jury stood or the first ballot, 5 for conviction with recom nen dation to mercy, 6 for manslaughter and one for acquittal. This case has excited more interest thun any murder case tried in tho Stato in years. The defence claimed that the shooting was accidental. The faets testified to at the trial were substantially the same as were published in this paper at the time the killing occured. Greenville, March 27.?Tonight T for the first time since she shot to * 1 I I ii--. v? uruni um uubonnu list *>ovemoer, Mrs. Mnttio Hughes spent the night outside of the prison bars. This afternoon upon the applies- fl cation of her attorneys sho was W released on bond in the sum of I? i *1,0C,0, which is considered an Ik.' unusually small amount. crThat gubernatorial convict ^ farm matter is the highest hurdle ~~ of all, and we don't see how it can be jumped. The others may perhaps tie stumbled over somehow, but this looks like a barrU cade, No absent-mindedness can account for it. Forgetfulness won't avail. A ten or twenty ce here farm is large enough to see. Its cultivation by three governors in three terniH of two years each at the expense of the State betoken* that it and its economies Ik and its profits were borne very steadily in mind. There was clearly no intent to pay the penitentiary for ihe convict hire and ^ the mule hire or there would have been some symptom of it. Tho Ch State's labor, in guards and con victs and mules, worth money in the market wa? given and taken ^ without even a charge on the m books. These transactions by the thrco governors were on the same plane as Superintendent Neal's transactions. They were fully as bad in effect and probably worse Pri m intent?for Neal, we believe, we hoped to be able to pay up some day, while these three governors U could have paid hut didn't mean jjF to do so. ?The State. I Put Your Finger on Yoor Pulse . V You feel the blood rustling W i I But what kind of blood? I I That is the question. I s Is it pure blood or impure I . I blood? 1 1 If the blood is Impure then I j I you are weak and languid; I your appetite is poor and your I fre I digestion is weak. You can* I I not sleep well and the morn- I 8ce 1 ing finds you unprepared for I ifhii I the work of the day. Your I I cheeks are pale and your com- I wai I plexion is sallow. You are A ,.. I troubled with pimples, boils,tvn I or some eruption of the skin.W | I Why not purify your blood? T ,.VGpp ^ will do It. Take ft a few days | iJ^j, ana m?n put your nnger on I your pulse again. You cap i?? I feel the difference. It It Age stronger and your circulation I better. Send for our book op Impure fclood. _ i! I If you are bilious, take * I I Ayer'a , Pills. They greatly aid the Sarsapatflla, They Xw I cure constipation also. ^ vf?i , as i I ^ W j , i1 :Bit 1 WrJVtt?Mr0Mt*M. V |" 1 f \T. WrHottMn froolroU tbopartlrolara la TNt MS, Tta a*H ? *'.? a Br< prompt roplT, wttboat XMt 1 . 1 B ILMOST ? that is the matter u and ./Mercantile Co ? u A are saying about m tore in the "Histor marvelous sale tak out us, but iu? long as ?ve arc satisfied and 1 jy kick. - SIXTY I>. HE KNIFE COTS DEIPT* Ay a Little Mc ^ A lot of L. M. Keync ? Shoes price $1 75 now 9 j m urn and ?trap Sandals, ill III II double the money. To i 'IHFU^f I the purchasing public so y aboil*, we have added two new und compl MILLINERY! Jits 1 most emphuti m ag rious success. A M II Department, most attractiv JA gg ,gg - Sailor or Pn 1 II D m f turned from ] V W V to styles, etc. and strictly U| nts. Beautiful line Childrons' Lace, Lav OUR JOBS AB IO OLD ODDS OR ENDS ? Men 75. Roy's suits, 14 to 18 years, Fine W< 18 years, worth $4 50, our price $2 25. ild's suits, 5 to 14 years, worth $3 00, ou fH&f Miles upon miles of Calicoes, fast < r Lawns aoM. Shirting Prints wor Good Percals, worth 0 cents, oi Yard wide Percals, worth 10 ce Wide India Linens, plain white, Cheaper India Linens, 3$ cents. Thousands upon Thousands of yards of f nted figures, beautiful goods, cheaper than have not space to mention. r Remember the place, Cloui WILL RE CHARGED. Eve Always bear in mind Our Mi UNDER BUY, UNDERSELL nil' in P. S.?.lust Received 300 Ladies' FineS Percals, Dimities, Organdies, Mohair Silki V4r George King's Horrible ! IT IS N Death in Florence. The Total cial to The State. Gf i\ Florence, March 24?The old ight and shifting yard wa? the New Y ne of another horrible accident fragment* h morning, in which the lite found in t t? crushed out of Mr George W today, ag, who was acting as switch- j The toti n for one of the shifting en- two, the i es. ' ing elevei Mr King was run over by the twenty-on der. In attempting to climb ig gtill \ it no toll under it. His skull [ about fort h crushed in on tho left side of jured ha' hoad near the temple, and the been diach iins had oozed out on the track. a)g. 0 liowels were fearfully torn ? 1 lacerated hy the wheel* and Narrow right leg was completely torn From a 1 m-froin the hip to the knee.? e shoe was torn from the left Chicagc t. He was about 22 years of stroyed tb i. and Felt * m m *,* and Ben so Ifmrr d*T trertffthtm the belief ?f Wi- * P*?|Wtj ?t phjWirtM* that 1?^^ blood w !* 000, injui ft" rwm' Irmjjfcni,P44fr T. Car sectorsiaa.wawsf?sr? u*".as; caws edt Jt tt >& ifB wo l?etj' I V I N G O O O I] itli the Farmei ?" That is wh i and it is true, j of Lancaster" en place ! ot,hte?n"i' the jKJople nre reaping the benefit 1YS LONG 1L0UD & ALLISON'S STOCK THAT TIME. MANY Qfl ire Than Half Id's $2 shoes now $1 20. One ci 0 cents. Big lot of Ladies', Mis $1., 75, 50 and 38 cents. All vc make this closing out sa'o still mc mething to laugh about, and our ote departments?both up to dab wish to bo extravagant in our stf way, (that is not our way of doii (ally and earnestly, that our Mill Everything that is pretty and i in fact it is a world of loveliness efeatures is the unusually low pi tty Hat. Our Milliner, ! Baltimore wheie she has thorough Miss Hasscltinc is one of the fu p to date Nice Sailors, worth 50 vn and Silk Caps and Hats, very ? WORLD BEI ut the very l>est clean goods pick uold cash while in the Eastern ma Men's Suits, worth #12 50, s, worth #10 50, our price #5 75 price #4 75. Men's Suits wortl i'r Suits worth #4 50,all wool, ai orated Suits worth $8 00, our pri Child'* Suit, 7 to 14 years, worth r price #1 75. colors. th 5 and 0 cents, our special pric ir price 4$ cents. >nts, our price 5 cents, worth 10 cents, our very social ino Dimities, Organdies, Welsh 1 i we have ever dreamed of l>efore 1 & Allison's old stand, and ren rything in this place is SPOT C.* )tto : Of the People, for the People id k wii ?hirt Waists?lot closed for Cash, i and Satines. OW THIRTY TWO. to Date of the Victims w be Windsor tire. 1 ork, March 37.?The of thre* bodies were he Windsor hotel ruins An apt adage Clares t nl of dead now is thirty- womai dentifiod dead number* done. 1 n and the unknown dead touarv^fi e. The list of missing inandfo'd ties and yery large, numbering prosima y, but most of the inye recovered and have whoworl larged from the hoepit- fe^andst i and half lni&ht Rscape of Employes . "r J Burning Hair Factory. J clothes*; ruea^re i >, March 27.?Fire de- *??d the re pecu ie Armour Curled Hair atwtin rorks, Thirty-first place n street tonight, caused r loaa of nearly $400,- m ed 11 employees one id endangered the lives sici*a*M others, who escaped iq blinding smoke. tory, will n . a,, i rect the i ro?f?, ^ ?tt CundT CatharUe. Ms or Mo. ??* <~111 i lo oere. drussiote ro<w4 ewwy. able boo MsUseti . 'Tp A W A Yf IS. rs' Banking at the people ! Never be- 1 has such a' srchants don't understand 1 say some unkind things , we dont ca**e how much j ] i ER. MUST BE CLOSED IN ! IEAT THINGS LIFT Price. ise Ladies' Fine Dongola ses and Children's Oxford >ry tine goods and worth ire attractive and to give < competitors something to adements, or to mislead the 1 ng business) but we do say inery is a Grand and Glo^ attractive is found in this , in itself, and one of the rices wo charge for a Neat 1 Vliss Ilasseltine has just re i ly posted herself in regard j nest milliners in the South , cents, our special price 19 ^ cheap ?10 cents, up. ITERS. I ed up by our buyer, foi i rkets during the two weeks , our price $6 75. Men's j Men's Suits worth $9 00 i $5 00, our price $3 50. id guaranteed, our price ' ce $4.00. Boys Suits, 14 1 ? $1 00, our price 60 cents. 1 1 ! e, 3, 3^ and 4 cents. 1 I price, 5?, "Great stuff." 'iques, in plain woven and . Many other good things lember that NO GOODS 1 SH first, last and all the time. Biggest values on earth I F. R A M Tin 1 f 1 'OMAN'S: WORK. 1 oicf ' T r- 1 r? ' \ rver rhia , the I do- ' tl*i i( 12^nK^W^I 4 lda i\ ( tor" 3 A Vmm J <^^I^Hfl i ores t I 7/* f ^HBH 11 V?l/ 1 nd i*n W? r aewing for other* topatch out a 4 income. Women woo ere loo . their fcoi, or who ore nnebt* to retrain of overwork and wor?", C Harly auaeeptlble to the wea.d irregelaiibee the! are the bene nkind. The avmptoma at each tenia are insufficient er?roaaaiv? tiox, headache, backache, aeuucorrhcea, displacement* and exlyeteria. The uae of morphine i* a and examination* by mala phj- 1 ? naiaful and unplaaaaat. a lfTa Female Regulator, the a for a quarter of a een- t J?iSrSES.%?!:. tgalator ia aoid >r drugfMa at _ x a bottle. Intending ana vala- J ka for noma* aaUal Aw aw I ml* waauiii *? ANOTHER BLOODY EDGEFIELD TRAGEDY. k J ??l rwo Negro Boys Shot by Mill Operative*. Special to The State. Edgefield, March 26. ? A jloody tragedy was enacted here it about 10 o'clock last night, in which John Webbacd Will Toney, legro boys about 18 years of ago respectively lost their lives. Robert Toney, a| brother of Will, received a flesh wound in the arm ind Wilkes Barrentine was dangerously if not fatally wounded. Soon after the shooting, upon a warrant sworn out by Chief of Police R. T. Scurry, the following parties were arrested and placed in jail as being the perpetrators of the deed: A. J. Coile, Addie Corley, Will Howard, I>an Uoward, Milledge Reese and R. L. Burnett. A coroner's jury wasempannel ;<l at 10 o'clock this morning by Magistrate Hell and has been oc^ 3?pied all day in hearing the tes? timony. Arthur Nobles, the chief witness, testified in elTect as follows: That ftiKiut 6 o'clock yesterday ifternoon he was going home and met two of the defendants, Coile ind Corley. That he was singing ind one of the parties, cm sing Lho witness, asked him what did le mean by making so much misc. Witness replied he meant 10 harm. Coile or Corley replied, 44We don't want any of pour jaw, we will settle with pon." After witness went home le came up the street <nnd stated hat some of the defendants hunted lim with gnus. That he reported ' ;his to Policeman Scurry, Who :old him to go home as the parties lad left and woukl do him no larra. Soon after this witness, in company with the dead and wounded parties and some other xiys, went borne, and witness en.ered the house. At this time the jrowd was fired upon from behind mother house, some 40 yards disant from his, with the result ibove mentioned. Before witness ind his crowd left town they weie preceded by a number of persons, lome of whom had guns. About 13 shots were fired, the weapons used, as disclosed by the lestimony, lieing 16 shooters. Sight shots penetrated the house n which the witness had gone, >ne ball passing through-the t*o niter sides and a middle partition. The parties who were killed and vounded were standing in front if the house which the witness lad entered. All of tho defendants .are white ind are employes* of the cotton 'aetory. Two of them, lleese ind Corley, are mere hoys, scarcey over 16 years of ' age. Croft ind Tillman have been employed o represent the defendants. Here Mules and liott** Our Mr J M Hood has gone !or another car load which we ex>ect to arrive hy Thursday or Friday. Think of it, three car oads in less than ten days ! Don't bink of buying before seeing our ast lot. Rememlier you tnke no chances when you buy from us.? Join petition don't cut any figure vith us. We always do what we iromise. Remember we have in ill our connections five or six Kindred head always on hand.? \i?y kind you want ami price to ;uit. Some extra fine ones still m hand, both mules and horses. fakmkkm' ranking and Mkrcantilk Company. Rev J?m*"Boyoe of Hoofers VPVIMWtftteA pvesihot of Pue \Vest Female College rif^TWfc'B Toda, #tff> ha* re. iiraad on aoooont of bad hoalU). . ' ^ '