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ino rsew lorn iresnyterian;
synod officially endorses Bishop ]
Potter's stand on the divorce
question, refusing to recognize di- i
vorco except on the New Testa-1
inent ground.
NOTICE.
PERSONS HOIiDING claims
-1? against the estate of H Jackson
Oregory, deceased, arc hereby otified
t<? present the same July verified ami j
those iiidet>t'd to said estate must come I
forward at once and settle with the I
undersigned
It' T Oregory. Ailmr,
Ori'en A Mines \ttys for A'/uir.
Hq>t. 30, '09?3 weeks.
IMPORTANT NOTICE. :
1 WILL BE IN L\Nr\-TER for
J. ? short tntiM to settle up the ac !
counts due T. M. Fitzpatrick A Bro,,
all parties owing the above firm must .
sett'e up at once When I leave all ae-? I
Counts unpaid, will he placed in an
officers hand for collection, /loa't
fail to heed this not ice a* it \vi I be!
positively tile ia*t time I w'll he here. !
J . H FITZP aTRIi ' K I
Oct 9, '99
n t\ h at r it a m v n r? ?
bfKClAL NUT1CIS !
A 1,1/ PERSONS INDEBTED TO,
-? ? its, either by note or account,
^liuft come forward and nettle prompt
|7 We have Hold out our mercantile
DusineaH to the Lancaster Mercantile
Co , and it will be impoMdble for iih to
carry our customers anv long r Ah
you well know, we 'uive always tried
to be verv indulgent hihI acc nmio*
dating to our cu tvomers and have
never pressed them unnecessarily, ho
we hope they will appreciate the fact
U'?w that we are going out of business*
and will come forward promptly and
make aettleiueut. All notes and ac
eouuU will be due by the *1rst of No
vemherand we will expect settlement
in full by that time.
Titan king our ft iends and tbe public
jfetterally for their liberal patronage in
the past, we are,
Very respectfully.
HEATH, HPRING8ACO.
Oct. 3. 1895) -int.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
ON ACCOUNT OF WRETCHED
health for the past few moutlm I
am comnelled to b*? absent from Lan- j
caster for treatment for Home weeks j
I leave my hooka and accoutitH with |
Mr John Crawford at Elliott A Craw*
fo d's stwbles He is duly authorized
to col feet for me, and I will be glad
for,-it my friends who are indebted to |
me to call on him and settle at their ;
ear li?*Ht convenience I will necessarily
need money in undergoing treats,
meut and I will appreciate your
prompt settlement.
Very Respectfully,
W. M.CRAWFORD, M. I).
Sept 29. 1899 -tlw.
Itucgies. Buggies; Buggies galore?
Bougies good, Huggien better, Hug>
gies Best
Itnviries hie Hiiiririo H?tl? itmnriuu
on ? "oi ~*no" wj **<a^^>,VD I
on c\ery Htory?
HuKtgto* for comfort and HugKieH to
iHft,
mVVE HAVE
BUGGIES j
ALMOST WITH I
OUT NUMBER,
Of till grades and at prices ranging
from for a good top bug*
gy on up. In fact, just at this!
season wo are making a specialty
of BUGGIES. Our large weekly
sales is the secret of our being j
able to sell a good BUGGY for]
SO LITTLE MONEY.
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flllD CONTINUES TO GROW
UUn IN POPULAR FAVOR.
f 1 UPD V 00 41 GENTLE
LIVLJUI HORSES. I
WRVIPt? HTYIIStl
OLJII I IUU TURNOUTS
AND CAREFUL DRIVERS.
Plenty of Wagon* and Harneaa, too.
<Ja|1 and ?e? ua.
ELLIOTT & MEORD.
A FIENDISH NEGRO BURNED
AT THE STAKE.
His Crime Unparalleled for Its
Merciless Barbarity.
Tied Mrs. Gamhrel and Four
Children to Floor, Saturuted
II ouse With Oil. and Applied
Fire.
Me mphis, Tenn., Oct 20 ? A
special to The Sciinetar from Canton,
Miss., says:
The little town of Saint Anne,
20 miles east of Canton, in Leake
county, was last night thcs scene
of a tragedy?ft sequel to the burning
of the Gatuhrel family the
night before. Joe Leflore, a no
gro, who was captured by a posse,
confessed that he, in company
with othor negroes, had tied Mrs
Gamhrel and her four children to
the floor of the house, saturated
the surroundings with kerosene
and burned the people alive. The
negro, after a confession of the
crime, was promptly roped to a
stake and burned to a crisp while
the citizens looked on in silence.
Another negro, Boh Smith, was
saved in the nick of timo, as there
was doubt as to his guilt.
The Gamhrel tragedy occurred
Thursday morning, and it wa?
first thought that the lire was the
result of an uccident. A casual
investigation revealed circumstances
so suspicious that a more
searching investigation was made,
and it was soon established beyond
doubt that the family had beer
murdered and the house fired.
Posses were immediately form
ed to scour the country and followed
every possible clue Bo
fore the posses loft St. Anne il
was discovered that .loo Leflore, f
negro who lived in the neighhoi
hood and who had heretofore
borne a good reputation, had disappeared.
Early last evening
Leflore waa captured several rnilet
from the scene of murder. At
first the murderer denied nnv
knowledge of the crime, but finally
broke down ami confessed thai
he and Bob and Andrew Smith,
two other negroes, were guilty.
He hoped for no mercy ami told
with a brutal frankness all thf
details of the crime. In the yard
where the Gamhrel residence had
stood Leflore was tied to a stake
and burned alive. No one sent n
merciful bullet into his body t<
kill him. Andrew Smith escaped
from tho mob while Leflore wa*
being burned and has not been
captured. Bob Smith was tied t<
another stake and a tire started,
though ho was finally released rk
there was a possibility of his proving
his innocence.
Andrew Smith will be recap
tured, and if it is proven that he
and his brother Bob are guilty, it
is thought no power can ssTethon
from a similar fate meted out t<
Leflore.
The sheriff of Leake count)
went to the scone of tho traged)
this afternoon and took tho negro
Robert Smith and three negro
women who were implicated h)
lx?flore and started to Carthage,
the county seat. It is not thought
the sheriff will leach Carthage
with his prisoners, an there an
about 500 men gathered about the
scene of the crime, and tbey seen:
determined to let no guilty on<
escaj>e their vengeance. Tele
phone communication is ver)
limited, the nearest connectioc
being St Anne's, about four milef
distant from the Oainbrel place.
ONE MORE LYNCHED.
Leake County, Miss., Aroused l?
Fiendish Murder of Cambrel
Fiimily.
Memphis, Oct 21 ? A special f
The Commercial Appeal froti
! Carthage, Miss., says: Forth
fiendish murder of the live mem
l hers of Hie Cambrel family a
St Anne's, in this (l^eake) county
two men have paid the deatl
! penalty?one by burning at tin
! stake, the other by hanging. Tw<
j negroes are under arrest hcyom
11h<? confines of this county and i
I posse is said to be in pursuit o
i inn vvmie men. i 11 is Inst state
| menu, however, i? cotitrudictei
j from another point, ami develop
t ments must he awaited.
Last night John Oliver Gray, i
negro, was captured after heinj
chased for miles in the swamps
, He confessed that he was one o
i the party that did the nmrdcroui
j work, and the posse made shor
work of him. He was hungc<
and his swaying body riddled witl
bullets. Gray in his confessioi
implicated two white men, am
these men, according to report
are being pursued, having, it i
said, left the neighborhood.
' BLACK ON OUTZS.
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Language Which Seems to Invit
an Immediate Fight.
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Special to Greenville News.
' Columbia, S C, Oct 21. ? Ship
' ping Clerk John Black today gav
out a card replying to Ouzts*
charges. In brief, he says thii
ho has been connected with th
dispensary since May lhl)N, an
L that no one ever found fault w it
1 him except Ouzts, who basal way
disliked him.
When Douthit was elected com
missioner, Ouzts, Mr Black say>
' was as near heaven as ho wanto
4 to ho as ho then thought that h
t :
would have a say. He at one
started to run the whole thing.
J "I found that ho was goin
through my desk," Mr Bluck say?
| 4'and told hiin if I ever caugh
I him stealing from me again that
I would blow his head off."
) I
I Mr Black admits that ho mad
I mistakes and shows that Ouzl
. I made mistakes also by soveial al
, j fidavits from Wohh and other.'
( 'There is now locked up in Ouzts't
I desk at the dispensary," he says
. "twenty one tiottles of whiskey.'
. lie says that Ouzts visited north
1 .
icrn whiskey men last winter an
' i #
insinuates that they paid his e>
. pen .sea.
Ho says that ''Young is an 01
: phan hoy working hard to suj
.port his mother and aunt" and i
J conclusion declares that ()u/l
t . was turned out for dishonesty an
i violating orders "and my opinio
> | of him is that he is a thief, scour
i drel and liar." llo is severe i
r his 'anguage against Ouzts an
r says he did not want to let go tli
, joh of shipping clerk, insinuatin
, he made money out of it.
' A FRI?IITFUI<, II Is US
t l)EK,
Will often cau?o a horrihl
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5 nurii, ocaiu, uut or Bruiai
5 Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the l>ei
i in the world, will kill the pai
> and promptly heal it. Cures Ol
Soros, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boili
r Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptioni
i Beat Pilo cure on earth. Onl
i 25 cts*a tK)X. Cure guarantee*
. Sold by Crawford Bros Druggist!
BOERS BEATEN BY THE'11
BRITISH. '
V j
i First Serious Battle of Cam-jf
paiga Fought at Glencoe. a,
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11
? Si^ht Desrribod us Grand Kxhihition
of Coura?ro ? Boers Fled
t ?British Loss 250; Boers,
,1 son. *
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[> j Glencoe Camp, Oct 20, 2:50 pj
' j m.?Aft^r ei?;ht hours of continI
i ~ ^ ^ j
1 j uous heavy tightinjj, Talana hilljK(
1 was carried l?y the Dublin Fusi- ?i
*| leers and the Kiel's Rifles under
* I cover of a well served artillery by w(
i
the Thirteenth and Sixtv-ninth ' ?
batteries.
Tho Boers, who threatened tho j 11
British rear, have retired. The I
r
* fight was almost an exact counter 1p
^ part of that at Majuha Ilill, ex-^ |(
cept that the positions of the Boer , g
and British forces wore reversed. |
t
j Gen Sy rnons was severely but b
^ not dangerously wounded. . t<
Afternoon?The Guttle today ;ii
j has been a brilliant success. The jo
Boers got a reverse which may e
a possibly, for a time at any rate, si
check all aggressive action. n
The British artillery practice in f<
tho early part of tho day decided o
the buttle. The seizure of Dun- a
deo Hill by tho Boers was a sur c
prise, for although the pickets had N
been exchanging shots all night, it
was not until a shell boomed over F
the town into tho camp that their r
> presence was discovered. Then 8
e the shells came fast. The hill
s was positively alive with the
it swarming Boers,[Jtill the British
o artillery got to work with magd
nificent energy and precision.
h The batteries from tho camp 5
I
s took up positions to tho south of
the town and after a quarter of "
, an hour's magniticient firing, silencod
tho guns on the hills,
d The correspondent could see *
o shells dropping among tho Boer
o pieces with remarkable accuracy
and doing tremendous execution, for
tho enemy were present in
. | very large numbers and in placos
^ I considerably exposed,
j i By this time the army held the '
whole of the hill behind Smith's 1
i Farms and tho Dundee Kopje,
0 I 1; ,
. rioht away to tho south, in which 1
. direction the British infantry and 1
rcavalry
moved at once. '
The fighting raged particularly i
1 i hot at tho valley outside the town. (
,! Directly tho Boer guns ceased fir- 1
( I ing (Jen Symons ordered the in
j 'fantry to move on the position. 1
j Tho infantry charge was magnifi- I
cent. (
The storming of the position by 1
the King's Koyal Initios ami the 1
' ! Dublin Fusileors was one of the *
n j most magnificent sights ever wit- i
^ S ' 1
" nessed. The tiring of the Boers 1
was not so deadly sh might have i
11 been expected froni troops occu 1
1 pving such an excellent position; 1
n but the infantry lost heavily go- 1
( ing up the hill, and only the con- (
ie snmmately brilliant way in which
" Gen Symons had trained them to
fighting of this kind saved them 1
being swept away. Indeed tho 1
hill was almost inaccessible to the
storming party, and any hcsita 1
lo tion would have lost the day. The
* enemy's guns, so far as the cor- 1
^ respondent could see, wore all
(| abandoned, for the Boers had no
), ti?e to remove them. A stream
?. of fugitives poured down the hill
y side into the valley, where tho
1. hattle went on with no abatement,
i. Gen Sytuons was wounded
I ,
arly in t ?? action, and the comnand
then devolved on Gen Yule,
t is feared Gen Svmons is fatally
uirt.
'l'ho enemy as they lied were
ollowed hy the cavalry, mounted
ufantrv and artillery. The di
oetion taken was to the eastward.
it the hitast reports the cavalry
ad not returned.
Some say that four and some
ay tive guns were captured. The
loer artillery firing was weak. A
>t of plumed shells were used.
Although the enemy's position
uis carried soon sfter 1 o'clock,
mattered firing went on almost all
le afternoon.
The British losses are very
?vore, hut those of the Boers are
inch heavier.
The final rush was made with a
numphant yell, and as the Britih
troops charged to close quar?rs
the enemy turned and tied, j
?aving all their impediments and
uns behind them.
While this was going on, one
attery of artillery, the Eigh.'enth
Hussars, and the mounted
lfantry, with u part of the I^ei-;
ester regiment, pot on the
nemy's Hank aud as the Boers
treamed wildly down the hills, ;
taking for the main road, they
nund their retreat had been cut
fT, but they rallied for a while
nd there was severe firing, with
onsidorahla loss to each side,
lany of the enemy surrendered.
A rough estimate places the
British loss at 250 killed or
rounded, and that of the Boers at
100.
The British Casualties.
London, Oct 21?The war ofieo
announces that in the lighting
'estorday between Glencoe and
Dundee, in Natal, 31 non-comnissioned
officers and mon were
tilled and 151 wounded.
HOHTIXG CONTJN'UES NEAK
GLEXCOE C.AMP.
d eagre Dispatches Tell of Engagements
Around Dundee.
n
Cilencoo Camp, Natal Oct 22.?
Ieavy firing is now in progress
o the northwest of this camp.
London, Oct 22. ? According
O a special dispatch from (Jlen
roe camp the British cavalry while
>un?uing the defeated Boers, were
mgaged I?v a strong force of the
tneiny <>n the north road. Firing
s now in pi gross.
Cape Town, ()ct 21, 10 a m.?
It is reported here from (ilencoe
hat the Boer force under the
'ommandant, Gen Joubert, has
ittacked, or is about to attack,
:he British entrenched position at
[ilcncoo.
3 i) in. ? It is now definitely
known that Glencoe was attacked
yesterday by tlie Boer main northem
column. Our forces are entrenched
in a good position. The
situation there is not yet fully
clearod up.
Cape Town, Oct '22, 2 p in.?
A. dispatch has just arrived announcing
that tho Boers are shelling
Dundee, east .of Glencoe, at
long range, but that their tiro is
ineffective.
Lourenzo Marques, Oct 21
(delayed in transmission)?The
town is fairly ?run over with refugees,
among whom aro a thousand
persons released from Transvaal
jails. Thousands of natives,
men and women, are huddled together,
and there is a large representation
of Johannesburg
j roughs, Malays and Indians, who
speaking different languages,
'create u perfect pandemonium.
A transport has been ordered
to take the British destitute away
immediately.
British Arms Win After Fine
Fight.
Glenco, Camps, S. A, Get 23?
An uttack made by the Boers on
the British position Saturday enabled
the British to secure a si<r
mil success. The Boer column
was driven pell inell over the
nlttinw lusdnnr ItHO in L-ill..<l on.l
wounded. In addition tlie British
0 iptured several hundred homes,
and made many prisoner*.
THE nOEH CAKl" A1.T1KS.
London, Oct 23? An official
dispatch from Ludysmith, gives
the list of casualties among the
Boers at the hattle of Elands
Laagte, among whom are, Gen
Villjoen, killed; (icn Kock,
wounded and captured, since died;
Gen Rock's son, killed: Colonel
Schiel, a German officer commanding
the artillery, wounded
and a prisoner. Several Boer
standards were capt.ired.
THE IlItlTIMI LOSSES.
The official list of the British
casualties at the same hattle shows:
Colonel Scott Chisholm, killed,
and one colonel, one major, oiulit
captains and eleven lieutenants,
1 wounded; thirty-seven non-commissioned
offces and privates kill
led and 130 wounded.
I BIG TRESTLE BURNED.
j
Over Broad River on Air Line
Road. Take Week to Rebuild.
Special to The State.
Blackshurg, Oct 31.?The
j bridge of the Southern railway
across Broad river, three tniies
south of this place, was burned
last night The entire trestle
work of the east end ami all of
the wood work on the bridge was
entirely consumed, but the bridge
itself, which is of iron, is lelt intact.
The bridge proper, besides
the trestles, was four spans, or
j 592 feet long, The trestle will
soon bo rebuilt, and it is thought
that trains will be running over it
in one week. In the meantime
Southern trains will pass over the
j South Carolina and Georgia Extension
road from this place to
Gaffney.
Dewey Cannot Fill llis Engagements.
Washington, Oct 21 ? Admiral
Dewey, on the advice of his
physician, has cancelled the dates
for his visits to Philadelphia and
Atlanta and will accept no more
(invitations of this sort before
next spring.
i Funston Ottered Commission as
General.
i
Kansas City, Oct 24. ? A Star
j special from San Francisco says:
Gen Fred Funston today received
a telegram from the war department
offering him a brigadier's
command if he would return to
the Philippine islands after his
former regiment, the Twentieth
Kansas, is mustered out. (.Jen
Funston accepted the offer.
I To Car* Cooat Ipatlon fonter.
, I Taka C***ar*ta Gaudy Cathartic. 10c or *.
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