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Br. lines' VruTi: Pt.AKrr.K8 cure KIIEUMA- ; ^BttKL WEAK HACKS. At <lruKKlHt?. only 25c. fKARi's An A?a;. . ibte La vc and N EH.VE TON IC. nt?* brr TTir^l* sent by mall. 25c., 50o., ??.lr* j*? prr i?> -x,^<o. Samples frtx*. f y\ KM f\ ftae Favorite T03TE POWDlf U ? the Ti*aU and Ur-jatb. Want&d ftn Idea SSSl ?rr**c> kl<'R"; they may brln# you wealtl *rl?r j/.i. . WEUUFRKDKN A CO.. Patent Altoi ^HjES T 0ihlnitWJU, D. c., i->r their gU^ai prise off* THE MUTUAL LIFE INSU 1AHCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. BIPHABl) A McCUKDY, President. Aaort- >ver $ 253,000,000 00 tw over 85,000 OoO 00 fin force, over 936,000,000 00 INCOMK 1897. IVAal Ir<i>me 1S97 $54,162,608 00 Itiuotmrj'r week, over 1,000.000 00 Imodijv each working day 180,000 00 X?MKvne {**r hour (,Banking hours) 36,108 00 lwunrxo in force in rt C Die, :<4st, '97 $8 875,816 00 fmtim'yoe written anil paxiforlnS C in '79 1,205,493 00 Pirem nrns received in .S (3 In'97 2?4,057 84 Oe?;' ? 0>Mses paid in 8 C in W. 116,477 The kindest and West Company * ?e world. Paid Policy Hold . ntfin iSH>7, *2ti,992,055. EC- a. McILWAIH S 1* R C I A L AGENT, Lancaster, S. C. -THI K ( - 50 ? TSI ST - 50 c< F By paying your subscription tfae above poj ular papers at prices w sa Attn WOI7 IN ARREARS! yt so, you can give us your note > %?*>< due December 1st, next, for ywi^ indebtedness to date, and pay p ymw sn ^cripiion one year in a<lratar and get the benofit of above / 0 1 f ! i Address all or<l T. \ .|V? Dlir?ir? of the Blood and Nfrrct. No one need suffer with neuralgia. This I disease is quickly and permanently cured hy ltrowns' Iron Hitters. Every disease of the Mood, nerves and stomach, chronic or otherwise, succumbs to lirowns' Iron Bitters. Known and need for nearly a quarter ol' a century, it stands to-day foremost among our most valued remedies. Browus'Iron Hitters is sold bjr all dealers. LANCASTER AND CHESTER RAILWAY. BETWEEN CHESTER AND LANCASTER. Schedule in etfeet Daily except Sunday on and after Hept 11, 1898. WESTBOUND I EA8TBOUND. No's. 14 and 16. | No's. 17 and 15* A M. P M. A M. P M 955 5 65 Ar Chester Lv 11(H) 7 00 9 07 5 07 Rich burg 11 38 7 45 8 55 4 55 Bascotnbville 1162 7 55 P M 8 33 4 33 Fort Lawn 12 12 8 15 < 8 00 4 00 Ly Lancaster Arl2 50 8 55 I Connects at Chester with Southern Roiiway, Seaooard Air Line and Carolina and North-Western Railway. Connects at V aticaster with the Ohio River & Charleston. Leroy Springs, Pres., Lancaster, 8. C. J M Heath, G. P. A., W H Hardin, V P and Aud., Chester TS I Msl I IUAICU because I pain. I can do the same for y< effects result from my extrao pleasant ness and satisfaction ii I've the experience, the "kno doing all branches of scientific <1 Special attention given Work. No charge for exatnin Or J. E. Rullet LANCASTE IW ISM WO! Three Times Each TVcek 4 cents for one yei If S f tfWSOT A^ii Atfs Q A ora Cafb? A A Sixteen Pages Every Week ents for one } mi ms m ree for one year to Tub Lbdoer one year io ad vain e quote above. aaaaaaaaabdasias Cheap Enough. The Lodger (Semi weekly), The (ew York World (Tri- weekly) nd Home and Farm, all three pa- H era, one year for $*2.15. E The Ledger (Semi-weekly), The c Ltlanta Constitution (Weekly) and lomo and Farm, all threo papers ne year for f 2.25. The Ledger (Semi weekly) and lome and Farm one year for $ 1.50 Or, all four papers one year or f3.00. vjsrvnamna ?*? ? lers and make r< IRTER Vab't, Notice to Road Overseers. ALL OVERSEERS OF PbBLK roads in Lancaster county are hereby notified to call out their road hands and work their at ctioua of road at the earliest day possible. M C GARDNER, Co. Supr. aud Chr. of Bd. Keby. 24. 1899. Notice! To the Debtors and Creditors of Kvan lioflititfs, Deceased. Al'b PERSOS INDEBTED TO Evan Rollings are hereby notilietl to sett'e theiy indebted nees at once and all persona having claims against the estate of the said Evan Rollings, deceased, are required to present the same, properly verified, to the undersigned at once R. E. ROLLINGS, Executor. Oakhurs*, 8. C. tSTSUBCSRIBE TC rHE LEDGER 0* P?y tTp. Pay your subscripiton to Lkdgkk! extracted his tooth without in. Neither pain nor after ting. My methods suggest n stead. iwhow" and .ne facilities for entistry at the least cost, to Gold Crown and Bridgo lations and estimates. Ige, Dentist, It. 8 C. ) ar TOM, rear. - 20 wo will send'you any ono of 3 SUBSCKIBE NOW! If you are not already a sub cribor to The Ledger subscribe low and get the benefit of our lubbing rates. I omittances to , i edger, incaHter, N. C? <1 > . . - p *. ? \ e * Census Supervisors Will Appoii Enumerators. (Iroenvillo Daily News. Columbia, S. C., April 22.The congressional conference as 1 census workers did not do anj tlrng. The delegation seems I have assurance that mcu are to t selected on merit regardless < polities. Supervisors aro to 1 appointed from Washington an all enumerator* urn nomn.l *v V M ? UVU IWJ VI supor"isor8. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Oascareta Candy Cathartic. lOo or tf C. C. C. fall to cure, drugKlata refund mone SlOO RKWAKI), #HlO The readeis of thin paper will I pleased to learn that there Is at l?a one dreaded disease that science In been h le to cure in all its stages an that is f^ttarrh Hall's Catarrh Cui is the only positive cure now know to the medical fraternity. Catarrh b it?H a constitutional disease, requires constitutional treatment. Halt's Ci farrh Cure is taken internally, actiti directly upon the blood an i inucot sufraces of tlie system.thereby destroy big ()>c foundation of Ihe disease, hp giving the patient strength by built inn up the constitution and assistit nature in doing bs work The pr prietors have so much faith in i curative powers, tha? they otter Oi Hundred Dollars for any case that faili- to cure. Heud for list of test montala Address, J V CHENEY A CC Toledo. O. AgrSjId by Druggist 75c. \ llig Otter. One pound of tho Africt Limbless cotton seed, The A lnnta Journal, a large eight pagi twice-a-week paper for one yea and Tho ledger, twice-a-week ft tine year?ALL for $2. whit must be paid in advance. Thin of this ! 20C papers in a year, an one pound of tho African Liml ess seed, enough to plant ot tifth of an acre, all for $2. T pound of seed alone sells for $! The Journal for fl., and Tl Ledger for $ 1.50. l#r The Journal and Tt Ledger, both papers semLweekl} will be sent one year, without tb seed, for $1.75. HEAPAOflErured In 20 minute* by Dr. Mil* Pain Pill*. "On# cent a done." At drujuttet HCH KIXII.K IN FROM OCT. 2d, 1898 ? First Clas.1, Dally. ? Weet am u tn Ea Leaves 7 10 Charleston 8 00 arrivi " 6 20 Augusta 10 45 " 0 20 Columbia 5 20 " " 10 10 Kingsville 4 28 *' 'NORTH CAROLINA DlVI^IOfr ? Daily. Except (Sunday ? 75 77 78 7 am. ? m. 1 eave Arrive p m p i 8 20 11 40 Camden 3 00 4 1 lo 10 12 40 Kershaw 2 15 3 10 30 12 55 Heatii (Springs 145 2 10 40 1 00 Pleasant Hill ' 40 21 11 50 1 20 Lancaster 1 20 I ! 12 15 125 Riverside 1 <*5 12 1 60 1 50 Catawba June'n 12 50 II ! 3 10 2 15 Rock Hill 12 25 9 1 4 40 2 49 York ville 11 52 7 1 0 20 3 65 Blacksburg 10 45 6< No 81 No) 7 40 Blacksburg 7' 9 00 4 25 r-helby 10 15 6 1 11 00 5 34 Rutherfordton 9 00 3 1 12 3-5 6 30 Marlon 8 lu 2< p m. p m a ill p i QAFFNEY BRANCH ? Daily, Except Huuday ? 85 83 84 8* p m am Leave Ar ive a m. |- i 4 10 5 30 Blacksburg 7 30 6 f A oe e FA /?. ? - t .xj oui i;neroK<-e Kal h 7 OS 6 I ft 00 6 20 Gutruey 6 40 6 4 Train No 77, going West makes da light connection at Lancaster with tti L A l) Railroad, at Rook Hill with th Southern Railroad, going north, ? Rlackaburg wiih the (Southern. Train No 78. going eart makea cor nection at Marion, N C with th Son hern Railroad, at BlackHbur with (Southern and at Lancaster wit the L A C Railroad. Train No 81, going east makes cor nection at rtlielby# N C with tlie rt . I, Railroad, going eaat. Ail Local freight trains will carr l>a*sengers if provided with tickets. L A Kmernon, h H Lwmpkin, Traffic Manager. Div. Pass Ag CASTOR IA Tor Tnfrnts and Children. Tki KM Yd Han Always Boatf ?=? C&tfgZS* oaVtorxat"" I 1 IT."- f'< (i i t Young Woman's Body I Found In Flint River. !c _ Discovery Reveals a Shocking Crime. A Deacon Charged ^ , With the Girl's Murder. 1" w to T CI >0 W noisy, (In., April 22.?The j finding of the body of Mi&s Pearl . Knott in Flint river, near this . TV l(j place, has revealed the pcrpetra . JO tion of a shocking crime. The ^ body was weighted down with ^ plow shares, axes, trace chains, , ^ and a bullet hole was discernible a| 1 between the eyes ? The coroner's jury returned a ^ ._ t tU.il -I- - ' vuni. hid ucceuseu came to ^ al her death by a wound in the head ts _ * id from a pistol in the bauds of ? r? George W. Kerlin, a prominent ^ e and wealthy farmer of thib plice. tt. It was brought out at the inquest by a sister of tho dead girl that ^ f- Korlin came to her house on the 111 i i. 13th of this month, between 7 1 ' w j* and 8 o'elock in tho eveuing, and ^ t* that her sister was there at the * a* it time. Poarl told her sister, Mrs. ^ 1- Wilson, that she was going with (| George Korlin to marry his son, 9- and Mrn. Wilson swore that KerBfl lin and her sister left her house ( , togethor in a buggy. This was in tho last seen of tho gill. One witness swore that Kerlin ?? offered him $'25 to swear that he r' saw him on the night of the 13th about one milo from Kerlin's homo, with a sick mule. This w witness, W. ,1. Stuhbs, asked Kerlin if tho woman would erer ^ 1 be produced, and Kerlin said: "1 in 10 don't think sho will." Stuhbs ^ told Kerlin that ho would not ftI swear that way. 10 Kerlin is 49 years old and a ?* deacon in the Baptist church. He cfi ie has a family of eight children and ^ is a grandfather. P1 10 CAKK1F.D HIM TO ATLANTA. ^ Atlanta, Ga., April 22.?G. * W. Kerlin, arrested today at J Woolay, Ga., for tho murder of Pearl Knott, was brought to At- ?' lanta tonight and lodged in jail et [ for safekeeping. The feeling of ^ the people in the vicinity of WoolI, sy is so intense against Kerlin it that it wuk fnni-n'l i.? ..... tvuiw.. IIJUI no W1HIIU he lynched there tonight. K ?' AFHIOHTFUMlhUNDKK th 98 Will often cuttso a horrible M Burn, Scald, Cut or Bruise. Buck- ^ len's Arnica Salve, the best in the T W ' world, will kill the pain and promptly heal it. Cures Old 4 Sores, Fevei Sores, Ulcers, Boils, m Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptions, at W Best Pile cure on earth. Only J" 25 cts a box. Cure guaranteed. w hi Sold by Crawford Bros1 Druggist, in _ c! i fi _ . w in Col. \1. Lewis Clark of Louisville, Ky., committed suicide by . to shooting himself Saturday morn- 10 ing in a hotel at Memphis, Tenn. 1,1 in Ho was a noted turfmun. M? ????i < - NOTICE OF DICHARGE. " NOTICE IM HKHKHY OIVBN t tlihl wh, as Exe utors ??f the per \t sonal Estate of Mrs Eieiera Meynar- of die. deceased, hive ihls 15th day of . . (6 ipru ixyo, made final aettl-ment with 1,1 lo the Judge of I'rohHV of thia count , mimI iiuvm fll?-d ou> flnal return. and ' * will apply to the JU'lv f Probate of hf i. this county in hi* ttlc-e at Lancaster, lt, on the Iflth day of May next ? 12 m o'clock to grant iim flnai discharge lt v (I rehase of liahillty mh audi executors. na Kf/orrli.a M. Huntkr Mary K. Thomas Executor-. 8 it ^ MMMDPrMWMIr *vr* ?? Notice! ? to A M To the Dobtorn a ri Credttorn of y W. /. If tar ktnon, Deceaned. m ALL PEBSONK II \VlNO claims against the Kstal- of W.J. H aok- ? t. inon. deceased, are heret>y not'fled to m ti e fame duly approved with the un* dendaned at Kerahaw aa administrator of the eatate of said W. J. Black mon. on or before the 1st dav of May rl 1809, and all peraona indebted to *" said Eatate are alao notifled to a-ttle be A up aame on or he'ore the said lat day re| of May 1890. Pavrneot of amounta , . m due aald Eatate can be made t? T Y. ' Willlama, attorney at law, Lancaater, f H. O., or to K D, Klakeuey, attorney da at law, Kerahaw, H <\ M(| * Kuban Rlackmon, B. L Hi.ackmon, 1 Administrators Eatate of W. J. C Biackmon. Deceased. La Kerahaw, 8. C., April lat 1899. 1 Wire Fence l aw. hester Lantern. Wo print below a copy of the resent law in regard to wire mces along public highway*. It ill be seen, notwithstanding the imbersome language, that it aplies to wire fences within fifty >et of any public highway, hether along a railroad or not. idced the meaning would be lainer if there were no mention f a railroad. The old law apliswl nnl.. t.. l:_i _ i.cm yjuty w uiguways running ong railroads. 11. B. Caldwell, sq., county attorney, approves lis interpretation. Following is le act: 4 Be it enacted by the General ssembly of the State of South arolina, That from and after the assage of this Act all persona or irporations building or using a irbed or edged wire fence withi fifty feet of any public highay, were said fence runs paral1 with or within fifty feet of a lilroad truck or public highway, mil nail or place a plank or pole i or near the top of said fence so r as said fence runs parallel with kid railroad or public highway." Approved 21st of Feb., 1898.) Witch Doctor's Sentence. cwton Enterprise. The witchdoctor, Chris Dettcr, ho has had quite an extensive inoduction to the people of North arolina, was sentenced last week i Lincoln court to four months uprisonment in the county jail, id required to refund Martin uiith the $G5 he cheated him out !, with interest, all costs in the ise, and Smith's fees. It is said lat Detter is a man of some roperty and will be able to foot le bill. Itoa't TofcMfo Spit i*4 Smoke Tnr IJIfc Away. To quit tobacco anally and forever. ba M| tic. full of Ufa, nerve a*d vigor, taka No-Toic. the wonder-worker, vket make* weak Men roog. All drugglata. Mo or SI. Cure guarannd Rook let and sample free Addrrxa erllng Kemady C* ihicage #r New YoHS Child Fatally Shot, eowoe Courier. Washingten, April 19.?Roy, le two year old son of Mr. J. !. Collins, was killed last Friday y being shot through the head ith a pistol. Collins and wife id gone to the field to work, aving their three little chi'dren ; the house. Their oldest child ;ed three years, whom it appears ns the only eye witness to the acdent says the weapon discharged hilo the little follow was playing ith it. The weapon was kept a trunk and the trunk was ioft docked. No-To-H?? for Fifty Cants. ' uarauiAwl tohnoro habit cure, inakca weak sn stronc. Mood pure. 60c il All druvumU. The State reports counterfeit Ivor half dollars of the "vintage" 1 1870 in circulation in Colum-> a. The coin is perfect in apt arance and a numlier of people ive been "faked" with them. Congressman Baird of Louisiai died in Washington Saturday. rarti wltk row wtiWir yaw witUiM rvs-kiJlln? lobaero habit. KMV'MiVflMI moves the desire for lobar* o. tttt^ewl MHfyj t asrvous tlialraas SiMltlM^Tl i ITIS^ is, purtSas Mis blood, rsv^ktl Ilk I il. >re? lo?% manhood. ->sd'li 1 ,W?? w? mkXswfig ?**?> M ilTio toi17?3 " vfllBwl^ios owa druyrtoi. vtto xfi |1 ^^^^Wlllrosrhfsrwa. TaksMwttfc f4| V | ?11l patiently, persistently Oso Ltt b<i? SI ui'isllf rural. I boiss. M tisrsalsid to cars, s> ws rsfaad mt. Ihmf . t> Co., IHiin, isinsi, kew 1?4. REGITRAT10N NOTICE. iH K PURLIC? WILLTAKE notice . that the Kcgletratlon Books will open, at the court house, for the gistrstion of partiee entitled to reger under the Cooatitutlou, on the I Monday In each month, until 8ft ye preceding t e next general eleo* n W 0 A PORTER, chairmen Board Regietration L O moaater. 8 C Deo ft 199ft.