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Juries Drawn in Laurens are Dis- | BOlERS OVER THE RORHFR I war with Groat Britain are cruillv l-the saim* in ?iw>
misseu.
S|>ccial to The State.
Laurens, Oct. 10.? Judge
Watts, presiding at the present
term of the court of general sessions,
convened yesterday morn
ing, dismissed the jurors this aN
ternoon on the ground that the
seal of the clerk of court was not
upon the writ of vonire directing
the sheriff to summon the jurors.
Judge Watts consulted the bar
upon the matter and all were
agreed that the absence of the seal
xnudo the writ void.
The challenge was by Col .J L
"M Irbv, on the motion in arrest
of judgment in case of the State
va Boyd, colored, who hud been
convicted of "housebreaking and
1 arceny. Several others were
granted new trills on the same
grounds.
.NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
ON ACCOUNT OF YVUF/rOHED
health fm the past lew mo..ilis I
;ain oomoelled to b? absent front l.an oaster
for treatment for Home weeks
.1 leave my books ami accounts with
Mr John Crawford at Elliott <Sc Craw*
To ?i's stwb'es He Is duly autliorized
to eo1 feot for me, ami I will be glad
/or ail my friends who are indebted to
me to call on bim and settle at their
eniliest convenience I will uecessariiy
need money in undergoing treats
meiit and I will appreciate your
jprompt settlement.
Very Respectfully,
VV. M CHAW FOR I), M D.
'Sepl 29. 1899.?l>w.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF LANCASTER,
In the Court of Probate.
\r>y i/iian. i?. jmiw, J udge of Probate.
wjikkkas, George H. Grifllu Iims
made Huit to me, (o Kraut him Lette.e
of Administration on the estate of and
efleetM of Win S. (tiles, deceased,
TI.TK8K AI(K THEREFORE to Cite ttlltl
admonish all ami singular the kindred
and creditors of the said Wm S
-Giles, deceased, that they he and ap?
pear before lue, in the Court of 1'ro
bate, to he held at Lancaster, C, H ,
on October H'.h next, after pnh
lication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the
forenoon, to show cause, if any they
have, why the said Administration
should no; tie granted.
Given under my Maud and Seal this
?Jd day of September, Anno Domini,
JHhf)
r. w , CM AH. 1) JONKS,
L'" ' Probate Judge.
.Buggies Buggies; Buggtea galore ?
Buggies good, Buggies better, /iug>
?.U<. ?
^icn nrRi
Ruggies Buggies little, Buggies
on e\ery Htory?
Buggies for comfort and Buggies to
lllFt,
i;rn WE HAVE
I t k BUGGIES
lBjil ALMOST Wl lllllJkT|
OUT NUMBER,
Of nil grades and at prices rangir.g
from *30 for n good top boggy
on up. In fnet, just nt this
season wo are making a specialty
of BUGGIES. Our largo weekly
sales is tho secret of our l>eing
able to soli a good BUGGY for
SO LITTLE MONEY.
o
OITD CONTINUES TO GROW
U U II IN POPULAR FAVOR.
I IUI?D V 000 L GENTLE
LI lull I HORSES.
WRVIPP STY,'ISH
dOCjillluIj TURNOUTS
AND CAREFUL DRIVKRH.
Pleaty of Wagons and H aniens, too.
<"*11 and tee us.
ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD.
l'ay your aubBcripiton to
fjUDQMml
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' Said to Have Crossed the Natal
Line in Strong Force.
Both Sides Apparently Eager to
Fight?Transvaal Represent?!
tive Has no Hope for
Victory.
London, Oct 11 ? A dispatch
from Pietermaritohurg, Natal,says
intonso excitement prevails there
owing to persistent reports that
Orange Free Stato troops have
already crossed the border of Natal
and are advancing upon Lady
Smith. A later dispatch from
Pietermaritcourg says the invaders
entered Natal by the important
pass of Cundy Clough, thirtyseven
mdes southwest of New
Castle.
Montague White, the Transvaal
consul general, when leaving Lon
don today, said to an Associate I
Press reported: ''The expected
has happened. I only hope the j
hellishness of this prcmediated
| crushing out of the hardy republic*!
its now apparent. Let mo remind
America that the onus of the war i
lies not upon those who tire the ,
first shot but upon those who compel
it to he fired."
Mr white seemed much distressed
over the rupture and evidently
did not entertain the
least hope of Boer success, lie
said the Transvaal agency in Brussels
would he continued as the
European headquarters of the
government.
Continental opinion appears to
remain largely anti-British. Popular
sympathy with the Boers is
shown in various ways in Germany.
The foreign office confirms
the report from Washington
that Great Britain lias asked:
the United States government to
empower the United States consular
authorities in the Transvaal
to represent the British interests'
there during hostilities.
William T Stead, editor of the
Review of Reviews, in an interview
says: "1 maintain that this1
I war is being forced upon the Boers i
by men who have never forgiven!
I Majuba Hill." lie adds: "OwI
ing to Great Britain's unprepared
| nesH, hostilities during the next I
two months will resemble the in-j
i ternational yacht race oil" Sandy
[look." But be says that long
before Christmas "the fool fury
of the jingoes will have evaporated."
There was a great scene on the
floor of the slock exchange at 3.115
o'clock today, the time of the]
expiration fixed in the Boer ulti
matum. The memtors gathered
and began singing 4'God Save the
Queen" and "Rule Brittania."
I The large crowd outside took
I up tho strains and the singing and
! cheering spread from point to
point in the neighborhood until
the whole district was alive with
enthusiasm.
Volkrust, Oct 11?Tlie entire
first draft of the Transvaal and
Free State Boers has mobilized.
The Laager was shifted to better
the position for water and grazing.
The general, commandants and
field cornets have inspected the
various strategical positions on!
the border. j
Cape Town, Oct 11?Sir Alfred
Milner, governor of CapeCo'ony,
and British high commissioner in
South Africa, baa issued a proclamation
declaring that persons
abetting an enemy in a state of
o ^
| of high treason.
The Boers expect to occupy
New Custlo by tomorrow morning.Conyngham
Green, British diploJ
matic agent in transvaal, is ex?
pected to leave Pretoria this eve.
i ning.
Pretoria, Oct 11?lu the course
of the morning, while addressing a
body of burghers, who called immediately
before setting out for
the frontier, Kruger impressed
upon them not to trust in them
j selves, but they should place all
reliance upon God who directs
i ever v bullet.
<%You must keep up your courage,"
he said, <kand remember
that in former days, although
your enemies were numerous,
comparatively few burghers fell."
The burghers departed singing
Boer national airs. The German
detachment bus placed a big gun
OTl llifl \'ilnl ! #?? ?:
~ ,,UiUI .iwiuci 111 [iiiaiiuilJ U? I
aid tho Wakerstroom. Five hun I
dred burghers assisted in hauling
the gun up the steep and almost
inaccessible proclivity. Kxpori-I
meats have shown that an armored ,
train can be pierced by creosote!
guns.
The Possibilities of the Transvaal
War.
J Charlotte Observer, 12th inst.
The war with the Transvaal :
I
will probably bo the bloodiest!
Groat Britain has fought since the
Crimea. The sturdy Burghers
I of the Orange Free State and Nn
l tal will doubtless cast their for|
tunes with those of the Transvaal,
swelling the grand aimv of the i
. * i.'
Boers to perhaps 50,000 men, all
told. Before the war is ended j
Fngland will probably have landed ;
70,000 well trained Red Coats in
South Africa. Tlio war wi.l be I
more like real fighting thai* the
recent contest in Cuba between
the Fluted States and Spain, and!
it will perhaps be more prolonged
though it will, nevertheless, be|
short, as all modern wars must bo (
hereafter, because of the swiftness
in destruction of modern instru-j
moots of warfare. Fngland has
learned a great lesson in the Sou
dan campaigns and that is never
to tight until thoroughly prepared
The present war, in South Africa,
will proceed upon the model of
tho last war, in North Africa,
when (ion Sir Herbert Kitchener
moved his British squares onward
like clock work. But tliore will
be difficulties in the Transvaal
that Kitchner did not have to contend
with. He fought in the
sandy, desert levels. Gen Sir
Kedvers Buller, who is to command
tho British South African
forces, must do his lighting in a
l,:ii -- i
nut uuu mouniftin country. The
Boers will undoubtedly resort to
guerilla tactics but that means i
more in this case than it usually j
means. While they are not drilled
as the regular troops of the
world's warlike nations, to move
in great bodies of death dealing
human machines, nevertheless
(they are trained tighter#, in one ;
sense. They are the best marks j
men in the world, and their aim
is always first at a British officer.
They know that British strength
lies in organization, and that when
you kill the officers, you break up
the directing, organizing force of
an army. In the 1880 war, in
tho tight with idol Anstruther on
the road to Pretoria, the Boers
picked o(T the officers first and
surrender soon followed. It was
... .I1V I'llljlllFU J.11II llglll
?which was the King's Mountain
Of the Transvaal. Sir George
Col lev, the British commander,
.was among the lirst singled out
?>r death. This fight, hy the
May. shows that the lioers, while
$ w
guerilla fighters, taking advantage
of every crest and crevice, rever
tbeless do not merely shoot and
run away. They charged in three
storming parties, in this hattle, up
a precipitous ridge, the British
| being entrenched upon the top. I
Like mountain goats they leaped
from rock to rock, hiding long
enough to escape a British volley:
and pick off some British head,
expiscd above the ledge, and then >
.. '1 ? -I- ? ?
ujaatu- ii uiiMi ior hoihc nirincr
cii^cr higher up the hill. In all j
the five tights during that war
with the Transvaal, the British
were defeated, though they invariably
had superior numbers.
The longer the Boers ran prolong
the war, the greater the hope
for their cause. They already
have many sympathizers among!
the English people in England, j
among them such prominent men :
as Mr .Joan Morlev, Sir William j
Hurcourt, Mr Frederick llArrison,
Sir llenry Campbell-Bannerraan
?the latter being the Liberal
leader in the British House of
Commons?and Mr Leonard H
Courtney and Sir Edward Clarke,
the last two being prominent
Unionists. In Cape Colony, the
most thoroughly Britishized of
the . English South Africap
States tin; Boer sympathizers are
very numerous. This will render
necessary the keeping of strong
garrisons of English troops in
this'colony?and the same is true
of Natal and other English dependencies,
so that not all of the
British troops can go to tho front.
By delaying the issue of the e, 11
diet, the Boers will, doubtless, see
an increase in English public sentiment
in their behalf, which will
certainly make the final terms of
[leure more favorable to them ?
me Boers.
It is said that there were not,
at the beginning of this month,
more than 12,000 English troops
in South Africa, 10,000 were on
the way from India, and an army
corps ot no,000 was being formed
in England. If the Boers can succeed
in defeating the British ar
mies piece meal, the , Afrikander
element in all South Africa will
take coinage and llock to the Boer
standard, and this will render
necessary increased local garrisons
and diminish the numbers of British
troopers on the firing line at the
front. It is possible, though not
probable, that such success on tho
mart . ..11 1
,/.?i v wi me imri m w i hi hi create ji
diversion in their favor in the
British Parliament. The chances,
are, however, then the Transvaal
will he obliterated from the map
by a high tide of blood.
A well known preacher who
has boon gathering data relative
to divorces in this country, with
a view to promoting uniform marriage
laws in the several states,
has learned that the Dakotas are
not by themselves in the mutter
of great numbers of divorces
granted. He finds that in one
county of Illinois there havo been
granted in one year 833 divorces,
and in one county of Massachusetts
in the same length of time
800 divorces. New England, as
a whole, has a record for the 12
months of 2,113 divorces, and for
twenty years upwards of 20,000
divorces.
mr, ivii>1jIN(i OK JUDGE I
J,A PLACE.
A Woman at the Bottom of a <
Sensational Affair in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Oct 11 ?The kill 1
iog of Judge Brazil La PI ace was *
one ??f the most sensational which l(
has taken place in Louisiana in 1
years. The report in the vicinity ; *
is that a young lady was involved. 11
Her father was connected with 1
the plantation and loft there yes *
! terday, seeking to take his daugh-!(
ter with him. Sho escaped from *
him and remained behind. ' *
About 10 o'clock at night some *
one came to the door and called jr
for the judge. He came out and I
while walking down the high stair ^
way to the road, a mob with white v
masks suddenlv rns#? nmnn.i ! ?;in Hi
seized him and pinioned his arms. ?
llo was led some distance, when c
the crowd halted, one man placed 11
a pistol to LaPlace's hack and 11
fired a bullet through bis kidneys,
killing him instantly. 11
'I'ho body was left in the road. IP
Rain fell upon it during the night ''
and it was rescued from the mud n
by relatives who went up from 11
New Orleans this morning. These ^
relatives aver that the killing was 'vv
political, but the woman story is ?
generally known and the mob's
action was bated upon the fact ^
that the judge is a married man, 4
his family residing at La PI ace, a'1'
few miles away, named after his 8
distinguished father. Judge Host *
has called a meeting of the grand ^
jury of the parish for tomorrow. | * '
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A V KR AG E OF CO P IX)N F A LLS .1
SIX POINTS. d
t(
Texas Loses Five Points, (ireat
Corn Crop Indicated, Average
Being Higher Than for Years. \
Washington, Oct. 10.?The October
report of the statistician of
the department of agriculture w
shows the average conditions of \]
| cotton on Oct. 1, to have been j.
02.4 as compared with 68.5 last |,
month, 75.4 on Oct 1, 181)S; 70 c
at the corresponding date in 1S!>7, i n
and 73.5, the mean of the October e
average for the last ten years. |
The decline during September uf- i v
fected almost the entire cotton a
producing region*. being 7 points x
in North Carolina and Indian ter-1n
ritory, four points in South Caro* \
lina, live in Georgia and Texas, j
ten in Tennessee and eleven in Yir-lg
ginia and Missouri. In Oklaho-|
ina the crop hold its own and in |
| Florida thero was an improvement j ?j
i of two points.
The averages for the States are n
j as follows: |t
Virginia 66; North Carolina
and Tennessee 60; South Carolina
'62; Georgia 64; Florida 70; Ala-|
j haraa 70; Mississippi 60; LouisiI
ana 68; Texas 56; Arkansas 53; (
j Missouri 74; Oklahoma 60; In- i j
dian Territory 46. j \
I The average condition of tho i
? i
corn crop of Octol>er 1 wan 82.7 j'
an compared with 85.2 one month
ago, 82 Oct 1, 1898; 77.1 at the J ^
corresponding date in 1897 and rj
81.9, the mean of the October j
averages for the last ten years. 1
No marked change in condition oc- 1
curred during September in any
of the principal corn States, but, |
except in Iowa where an improve- j
ment of two points is reported, t
there was a slight impairment.
Have you forgotten to
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NEW YUliK'S MIRDER MYSTERY.
\ Boy Finds a Package With
More of The Hacked up Body.
New York, Oct 10?Interest in
he murder mystery growing out
>f the finding of the left thigh of
i woman's body in West Seveneenth
street last Saturday had an
ncrease today by tho recovery
his morning of what is believed
o be a portion of tho same body
>n the beach at the quarantine
Yation of Station Island. John
leineman, a boy 12 years old,
ound the package wrapped in
lewspupers and Manila wrapping
mper. When Ik; opened it he
ound that the cuts in the neck
fere jagged, showing that the
iead had probably been hacked
tl, and tho arms were cut ??fT
lose to the shoulders in a clumsy
lunner. The police were notified
n*l took churga of the tin< 1.
The tlosh was taken to the
lorgue for comparison with the
aits of the worn nil's body already
mere. The parts of the laxly
ow missing are the head, the
rins, the legs from above toe
nee down, and the right tliitrh,
hich was found but was carted
tr to the city dumpy.
A natne that looks like "d .1
luman," and the laundry mark
k.I .1 N 1S3," was discovered
liits morning on one of the white
kirts in the bundle of clothing
ound in the basement of '210
Vest Fifteenth street. let- ?
ers forming tho name are not
istinct. They are partly washed
ut and a little blurred. The "?J
N" of the laundry mark is very
istinet, however, and is expected
o lead to the identilkution of the
wner.
Vill of Mr. Converse Probated.
ipecial to The State.
Spartanburg, O t. 10.?The
rill of 1). E. Converse was pro
ated this afternoon. His estate
< to be divided equally between
is wife, daughter and Converse
olloge. A conservative estimate
places the valuation of the
state at *500,000.
To his nephew, A Edgar Conerse,
of Veimont, he gives *5,000
nd to his niece, Louisa \V Concise,
*5,000; to Edgar Bomar,
, relative and a clerk in L M
\ barton's store, this city, *500.
His wife, who is sole cxccutt ix,
;ets the home, valued at *25,0u0.
In addition the wife and (laugher
will get under the will about
*167,000 each.
The minor bequests specified
ibove are to be deducted from the
lovise to Converse college.
Win Banks.
LOU IOIJS \ KWS
Comos from Dr 1> B Cargile,
>f Washita, I T. IIo writes:
4 Four bottles of Fleet He Bitters
las cured Mrs Brewer of scrofula,
vhich had caused her great sillierng
for years. Terrible sores
vould break out on her head and
ace, and the host doctors could
jive no help: but her cure is coin*.
)'eto and her health is excellent."
rhis shows what thousands have
iroved,?that Klectlic Bitters is
he best blood purifier kno^n. It's
ho supreme remedy for eczema,
etta, salt rheum, ulcers, boils
ind running sores. It stimulates
iver, kidneys and bowels, expels
>oisons, helps digestion builds up
he strength. Only 50 cents.
k>Id by Crawford Bros' Druggist,
guaranteed.
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