Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(i B trd, deo.ea* d. thai 'hey be ami np? iieur before me in tlie ouri of Pro*, ine. lo tie heitl at ' alio utpr I f-I I on Wednesday Ji?n 17 n**xi,Hft"r pull J Ii -nti ?t? thereof Hill o eiock In the o f iirtiiooii to 'how cause, if any they; iiave, wliv the eaitl \iimiiiiet raiioa ?l oultl no ti' cranle 1. diveuunoer in v- H ?n>1 and *-??! thl* tl 2d ay of .la ii ry, Aimo Domini. 0| 1900 . , I'M \s. L? JON KM, * *' Pro'.Hle Jlld|?e. T. W.S^C^S', SU VlYOft, CH Koi. < lf, I fully tquip e l, ami qua ifled a?i<l (j( ao loi a \tiu' eiirveyne _ fli NEW ^ -MEAT MARKET - , ,c I ??s|iectlfully nn<?un?*? thai I have 4>|ifiMHt a new Meat Market on the Corner of Mxin and Dun lap *'reet?? ' oi p miie # utiiitoifhNra Ho.ne Hotel, ?? where I wil be ptea*ed to w ?i*-oii my hi <nHi-?naer? oiil ami new with tlie beat lie m ?rket oai a(f ird CtT T x<S5t> hKE MR OR lh A I 'L 'PHONE No HO and c? yo r ortleramIimII reoelv,-th- p ompte-i tie tton 01 f^~Norf ?lk Oyster* every Friday G Reepec'fully. ^ A C PkllCtT RIM'S ,SAL?- ': tl FT\TE o -oUi'H AROLINA, O COUNTY OK LANCA8TKK. ^ Ik the ? omiiion l'maa The British and American Mortjja" *' Company i.imibd Pi oet.ir. <></ain*t tl hariotle R ater, The i tioma- I' Himth Melver i o , and J Harry ?> Foster, I)ef ndanta (j BV virtue ol all Onier made liie ?U)ve nine l>y Jud^e D W Buchaiian, dated t tetober 27 I wi i _ sell at pontic auction at i.Hnca-liii Court hou?e, witiiin the lejtn hours of sa e. on the Fi*rt Monday in February, 1JHK). the alowtn lie critieil lol?, parcels or fi truva ol la> <i to w|i; / +t Ali that piece, pa roe or trad Al of land in (lie county of n?? a?ei anil wtate aforesaid, Ciulaiuln. 44!i acrem, m ?r< ?r I'HH, conveveil in ioe |> n fen lant, Fit*'I -tt It Ko-ter i?y dary It ?a-ael*ine. Fannie \V ''melon ami E zx E Brow bv deed d-ited Feby i a 28 1*78. 2'l. All thai piece, parcel or tract of I t( laml in the onnty of Lane* or and | Htat aforeaal containing '49 i arrrn, \ more or ret**, conveyed t - ilie I>e- | p fe mailt, t'bariotie It Foster, oy Kdsa | E Brown by do d ila ed Kehy 27ih 1879 I o I'll* fillOVH I rm*lM pBliitlilll 44 Alii acre*, more or leas lying being nn<l e.ltuate in the county of l.aocuaier ? <1 < Siai- of South ('ardloa, b untied on I the North b_v lamia of H H Goooh, lamia now owned >>3' K li Howell ami j Hath, Springs A t'o hut formeri\ I fcl owned by J B Erwin -.r biH wife, Alary j B Erwin, on the Ka*t by lauda of J K j Maeey, Jr , 'ormerly ihe (J T Wml fi jCae on the "outb by ImimIs of W I.) Jinddey A o, formerly owned b, I) 1 " Jill Dumlap. ami lamia f nnerly be b nging to the eetate of M ra T P Blown ' now Known hh the Dogdale place, on ! e tin- VVeat hy lamia of VV L ftoddey A | 4/V formetly owunl hy D Eli Dun ap. I? ami other*. | ^ PtaiH of each tract will lie exhibited j 011 day of sale j |> Terina of Sale; one third cash, the | balance to Ite paid in ei|ual inatals 1 ? incnt* of one am) two year*, with in g tereet from day of aale. The credit itortiotia of the aale are to be aeoured l>y tlie bond of the purcha* r or pur- f] chaaer and a mortgage of the premises The purchaser of the 226 acre I tract on whicti the four?room cottage . stands ahall insure the name in some good reputable Kire Insurance Com- 1 puny and Raid policy shall la) assigned to the Clerk of the court an additional eecurlty for the credit payment*. l'ur> _ chatter or purchaaern of either tract will have the option of paying all in t CAfth. The purohaaer or purchenein . muet oomp'y with the terme of sale '' within 80 minutee or the laud will be Immediately reeold at the bidder'* n*. ii MT Purohaaer to pay for all neoee ary papere including revenue etampe. c VV. S. L. PORTER, , C. C. C. P. L. C. t B. Hi. Wylle, PlfTe. Atty. B K9T your Mfc#cripiton to <] . *5 t ' i \ < KMPEKUK WILLIAM MAD. SE1ZUUE OF SHIPS. I! . J1 mgland Must Apologize. Germany ;n a Verv Warlike Mood. 'V ::?s . S Berlin, Jan 4?The Imperial rj itil steamer General has Ween y Btained at Aden and occupied W> Ci ritinh tronp% with the object of mrching her cargo, which in to P e dincharged. The General is t,t vrned Wy the German East Afri- si in Line, the owners of the Ban- u ssrsth, previously captured Wy ?( ie British cruiser Majicienne, t( [I Delagoa Bay. J is The seizure of the General has at 4 >n*idt*raWIv n?(?r?V)itwl the uitno -r.n ---- ...v.... j on hero$ and the indignation j. :ainst England i.s Intensified. The ivernment is still earnestly en* Mivoring to preserve correct of ial relations, hut England will 3 well to hasten to make the nende honorable to Germany. On absolutely reliable authority ^ le correspondent of the Associa i ' 1 e< id Press learns that Emperor j William is now thoroughly aroused ^ y the repeated seizures of vesI W sis, not one of which, he has tit sen assured, has been guilty of irrving contraband. Ilo regards | f>J te seizures as hitrh handed pro-; ladings which England would i>t have dared to undertake if the ^ n< erman navy wore more power it than it> is. ^ His Majesty is said to ho par l( cularly incensed because infor- cj lation has reached him showing lat the seizures were not due to g| _ 1.1 1..:.. nf D.ltl.U ' . jr? UIUIIMUI iij^; ua a# itiau tia?? at j *j flicers, but to strict orders from j ea<lcjusrters, which the officersi re merely carrying out. He has lerefora instructed Count Von (| iulow, the foreign secretary, to pp. ernand exact and full reparation ir the outrage done to the (icrisn flag. a No answer that was considered t< itisfactory has vet been received * rum London, and according to il vices here none is to he expected tl >r several days longer. Today's k ew?, however, induced the (ic fi tan government to wend another t! nd m >re strongly worded protoat ? London. ti ^ I <> KitlTING AT COLLSBL'KG. , n a Iritiah Wildly Welcomed by ri People of a Captured Town. f? ti London, .Ian ?From Stork " toem and Naawpoort Cape Colony 01 I rices indicate a renewal of hos i1 .... o ilitiea and lively work on the i 11 h around Colesburg The Boers [ lubhornly resisted the Biitish at h very point but gradually retreat d. A dispatch irom Modder Liver intimates that Sunnvside ^ n riaoners will not be treated as risonern of war but as British objects caught in open reoellion. i* ;. -* n.._i ?L-. I Ik 1.7 IO|lUI|QII HI 1 '111 11*11 111*1 (i ho captured Gorman steamer i ^ lundesprath had on hoard fire, a ig gnns, fifty tons of shell* and h 80 traine<l artillerymen. I P A dispatch from Storkstoem anounces the death of Swaneleff, c ho Hoar commander at tjiorin- n org. ( Douglas, Jan 3.?Tha loyalist * nhabitantu a* this place re- t eired Colonel Pilcher and men A rith extraordinary domonstra- ii ions of delight. These demon* n trations were doubled whan it c | ras ascertained that the Cana* ^ liana and Australians had taken f >ert in the,engagement. it ? BLUE DAY FOR BOERS. Iritish Seem to be Winuing c^c Gaining Strength. Camp Chieveley, Jan 2.? trong reinforcement* have ar ived from Esticourt and Mooleyer. These make fuller a pour rfal army. ' Cape Town, Jan 2.?Colonel ilcher has completely defeated le Boer commander at Sunny de, .near Belmont. He cap ired the laager after the Boert iffered heavy losses Pilcher >ok forty prisoners. The Brit b lost three Australians killed id a fow wounded. i nwn tr. rwv iikciccipdi M V , I T ' 4 \ / I fc & I > >M l? lliibe Great Chicago Drainage Ca nal Opened. Coat $33,000,000. Chicago, Jan l2.?At 9 o'clock lis morning the water was turn1 into the thirty-three million liar drainage canal and began to >w toward Lockpoit where it ill fall into the Desplaines river id thence through the Illinois id Mississippi rivers to the Gull f Mexico. What is termed by canal en ineers the collateral of the cbanel has for some time been com leted from the Chicago river in le southwestern part of the city > within fiteen feet on the main hannel of the can&U This tif i ?n foot wall of earth, with tw< luire gates behind it, has bern n!' nit kept the Chicago river and iake Michigan out of the canal. At 10 o'clock Monday night u team dredge began to cut away le wall of earth and in a few linutes before 9 o'clock todav the 1 ater ??f the collateral channel wan gainst the sluice gates, and only few inches of timber remained > be removed before the cans! mild be in operation. When the utcr began to back up against ih sluice gales the timbers were nocksd away and the first water mil the Chicago river ran inic io canal. Engineers of the sanitary dis irt cut the channel to carry cubic feet of water a rinute, but today the water wa> Mowed to flow into ths canal at a ate of only tifty thousand cubii et per minute. The effect ol rrning 3< ?0,000 cubic feet ol ater a minute into the empty mial would be like the bursting f a reservoir and could tear aw?\ very bridge over the canal and ll.. ?- II rv mo uoilirniling t.orK* *1 ,ockport. Therefore the watet ad to bo turned in gradually. Probably a week will elapse heire the canal will be full of watei nd is carrying away sewerage thai on flow* into the Chicago river, II IS MKK W tss \ VKI) Mr. .1 K Lilly, a prominent itizon of Hannibal, Mo., Intel) ad a wonderful deliverance fron frightful death. In telling of it o nays; ,4I waa taken *yith Ty hoid Fever, that ran into l'nou tonia. My lungs became hard' ned. I waa so weak 1 couldn't ven ait up in tied. Nothing helpe< ie. I expected to soon die o: 'ooHumption, when 1 hoard o: )r. King's New Diacovery. On? Kittle gavo great relief. I con in tied to use it, and now am wel nd strong. I can't say too mucl n ita praise." This marvelous nodicine ia the surest and quickes ure in the world for all Tbroa nd Lung Trouble. Regular size 0 cents and $ 1.00. Trial bottU ree at Crawford Bros' Driij itore; srery bottls guaranteed. fc SENSATIONAL CASE IN {s SPARTANBCKG v I j o Cora Jenkina Accuses l*r??f .1 C f Meare* in Court Had her ti Child in Her Anna a ,k ? Special to The State. tl , Spartanburg, Jan 3.?The pro coedinj;s in sessions court today ' were taken up with the hear in tr \ I S of the case of the State ? J C ' Meares. 1 a I There was unusual interest de ^ eloped in the case, and the court room was crowded all day long. ^ The attorneys were: Solicitor L Sense for the prosecution and J J j Burnett anil Duncan & Sanders for the defendant. ir The toliiiwine is a collection of ^ facts ro?ardin? the case: Aho?. 1 tl tive years a^o, Cora Jenkins, * 13-vear old white pirl from an ^ orphnnajre in Abbeville, N V, (K came to Spartanburg to make her i homo with the Mieaes Morris, two; ' elderly maiden ladie*, who livej 1 near Cedar Springs. She re T 1 mained at the home of these ladies 1 for two years, at the end of which j time she went to the homo ofjtl 1 l'rof J C Meares, an instructor in ' tl the State Institute for the Deafici and Blind at Cedar Springs, to i i? accept duties as a domestic. The! ' girl was received witli good rec- ai ominendations as to her character u ' and industry at a worker. She ' I remained at the home of Mr it 1 j Meares for nearly two years. 1 ; When the condition of the girl ti ' >vas discovered l'rof Meares im* d j*iii"diaiely slopped her from his tl house, and she drifted to the' county parish, where she gave * k birth to a child. After the hirth * of the hahe, the young mother p asked l'rof Meares for the sup I c? 1 port of her child, claiming that he tl ' was the father, and thut he had o taken advantage of her under hie o own roof, l'rof Meares refrain -1 c< ed from having anything at all to d 1 do with the matter, at the tamo T time protesting his innocence. w ' Immediately after theno charges b the otlieers of the First Baptist I tl 1 church, of which l'rof Meares is; h a niemier met and investigated 9 the case thoroughly, and com tl ' pletely exonerated the professor ^ from the charges. ? ' The young mother, Cora .Jenk " 1 ins. however, strenoualy asserted ( c that l'rof Meares was her seducer n and the father of her babe, and I 8 ^ about two weeks ago the case wra 1 investigated in Magistrate Kirby'aj | cou:*t. As a result, l'rof Meares I was bound over to the court of t general sessions i i the sum of; ( $.'iOO bond which was given. I \\ hon tho proceedings tirnt j , smarted, it was a sensation of the j \ ! lirst water in and about Spartan c , burg, l'rof Meares is an albino, t 1 4 3 of age, and haa t>een11 niarria-' for twelve years, but has r I no cbi'dren. He and his wife'c r1 have been teachers in the Cedar t ' ; Springs institute far the past ? ^ eight years, when they voluntarU , 1 ! ly resigned their positions, as the ; ] I professor wished to face the * [ charges with no encumbrances * i! In tho testimony today l'rof t ' Meares stated that ho had noth- i ^ ing whatever to do with the i young woman, and emphatically I I denied having ever been criminal i ly intimate with her. At this s point, Cora Jenkina, the girl, 1 shouted out from her aeat in the 1 courtroom: "You are a damned * liarl*' 5 Judge O W Buchanan told the young woman that a repetition of ' ' w uch h scene would mean that she rould l>e punished for contempt f court. This was the warmest j eature of the trial Mrs. Mcares 'Ore out her husband'* testimony ij nd indignantly denied Co a den Ij iu'a atnrv of the home life at , heir house in almost every par I, icular ( The voting woman, aged 1S.| ears, whs then put on the stand. ] he told her story of the affair in ! j very creditable manner. She in ; | fa vary comely person of the;, runette order and slender huild L ler features, while n it classic, !, ick h gtcnt deal of being irrogu- | ir .She stated that Professor L teares had ruined her, and that f tie could not lie in regard to the ,, latter At intervals during the ( j Hstioning to i itiim-iptest inning ki \oung wept, and she i , aunt other t iiii<<? (mh vm Ihoi| with | motions She exhibited her', aby, h boy, three mouth* (kid, i hich wan a decided Monde . P. H. F. \\ HIRTY SEVEN HOURS AND STILL NO ( I VERDICT it I SpartMnhui g, Jan 4 ?VVhenr ie court of sessions convened'1 lie morning, Judge Buchanan j * died out the jurv i> the soduc 1 on case of the State vw .1 < ?'? lea res, and asked if they de> dred anv additional instruction 1 pon the law or the reading of 1 nv of the testimony. The fore 1 tail answered in the negative : * he judge then urged the iinpor- f incr of reaching a verdict, audi 1 ireMcd them to again retire fori ' tie consideration of the case. At n o ciock p ni, the foreman ! sked to mukc a statement, which ' 'as granted fie said he saw no j * ossihilitv of the jury reaching a 1 inclusion. The court stated lat he must retire and make an a ther effort. Tonight at 11 ' 'clock Judge Buchanan went to,* nurt house and awaited the ver |i ict of jury in the Mearea case, ! I 'hev had not agreed, and as there * ras no probability of a verdict ' eing reached immediately lie sent,1 hem >tack to their room, sa\ ing 1 e would he in the court house at, 1 o'clock tomorrow to leceive ' heir verdict. This jury has heen out since Yedneaday afternoon at 5 o'clock ?37 hours?on this remarkable ase. The greatest interest is | nanifesled here. It is safe to ay no verdict w ill be reached unit tomorrow. P. II. F. SLAVERY ABOLISHED. 'aptain Lear" Prohibits Slav- j cry in the Island of Guam. Manila, .Ian 2.? A naval otti-j or who arrived here from Guam I his morning, brings a proclama>| ion issued by Captain Leary, the taval governor of the island, de- j daring absolute prohibition and otal abolition of slavery or peonige. The order took effect on Dec 22. Tho prologue of the iroclamation declares that the j Spanish system of peonage, | imounting to slavery, is a.menace ,o popular liberty and in direct notation of the privileges guaruteed by the American constitution. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tit KM You Hni Always Bought | For '1 he Ledger. The Ideal \V >mnn. Dear Editor:?lVrhapa I mn in eorne r< spects :i very old fashioned animal. The ideal woman enshrined in ray heart today is a k fac-.-imile of the will-o-the wisp creature mv progenitors have loved through all generations. Perhaps I'll never find her, for deal women do not glow on ever >tiwh?nor ideal man for that mater. But, however fair the subititute, 1 may put in her plaee, here is a little chamber in my leart sacred to that "not impossible she" who?e dream image undes through the smoke wreaths ?f mv evening pipe, or glimmers n the rosy caverns of the lire. \nd what is she, this ideal wo iihii? Beautiful a* \ >nuv or a Helen of Trov? Strange a* it nay seem 1 have had no clear idea >f my ideal's physical attractions. She may We dara or fair, short or all, hut above all pre eminently oviahle, and to Wo loveaWIe in a nan's eyes means many thinge, nit not of necessity any extraorlinary beauty of face or form. S'ot certainly any overwhelming ;levern?feH. Clever? Who want* i nwoma to We clever, if she ! ? ;entlo and eweet '( A loveaWIe voman is gentle, tendc-hearted, ind sweet-tempered. Her voice s low Hnd has a caress in its amplest speech. Her eyes look, straight at a world that seems iieautiful to her. She is not wholly ignorant of its hidden byways and the faults and follies of poor human nature, .vet in her iweet charity she lovei the sinner ;ven while the hates the sin. Her religion is a very real thing to her ?she never makes a parade of it iny more than she do?s her love ? , ia just'H part of her daily life; itsd careless tjioonh he may We limseif in such matters, this is no ler least loveaWIe trait in a man' syes. A woman yvlio speaks lights y of sacred things is abhorrent toi ny man. She may We a- illogica is she likes, as sweetly unreasonible as she thinks tit, yet neither will make her loss loveaWIe. 11. IV \V. !5I*>I IK K* * I UON N ?- It V > Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and how els are out of order. If you want these ?pialites and the success llioy Wring, use Dr. King's New Life l'ills. 1 hey develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c. at Crawford Bros' drug store. McLaurin Chosen. Jackson, Mis*., .Inn I.?Tii? Democratic caucus bore tonight unanimously nominated ox-Gov. A J McLaurin for the long term of United States senatorsinp. It has not yet heon decided when the election of the abort term Senator will he brought before the joint session. DA8TOHIA-. TWr. th? Kind You Haw Always Bou?lt rr Six Hundred Killed. St. Petersburg, .Ian 3?The latest reports from Achalkalek, iu the government of Till is, shows that eix hundred liven were lost [during the earthquakes which I visited that district Monde/.