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, - V > ' .? ** | U Family Newspaper : /*wr Cfc? Prxrmotiau ef the PoliticxJ, &bmai, 40/ outturn.* aW CbuwMjroiai hUereeU. j f ^ ??. i w E,,KLV L A N *: A ii T K K C . ' .? A .\ U A K V l? I9"u ? s I a hi.Is TTH i*->z STATS' nu ?r?!TTU / VU)/ ?i IV ? 11 i. u v_^ jl' vjv/ vj in V/:\ iv\ / lil ^ A COUNTY OF UANCA8TF.R, In ti e ' 'oun of Prnbiti*. Bv ('lias. I) Jones. Jud^e of Probate. wukhkas. Mrs M (' Hint lias l? ade suit to m?? to grant her Letters of Administration "ii tin-estat e of and effects of U?orge D Bird d? c as?d, TIIK8K AKK THBRKFOKK 'o Cite and admonlali ad and singular the kilidri d an t creditors of the said George I . Bird, deceased, that 'hey he and ap* | pear before me. in the ourt of Pro* J t>a'e, to be held at Lancaster. tH j on Wednesday Jan 17 next,after pub | Ib-nthm thereof at II o'clock in tl.e forenoon to how cause, if any they have, why the said Admi n intrai ioa mould no; b- vrante I. (Siven under my Hand and ^eal this 2d ,iay of Janu- ry. Anno Domini, 1900 r, jj -I CM IS I) JON K-i. * *' Probate Judge. ' WaMMMMSHMI tBHrMMSSMM I II ? W I T ill oronrot niriiriiAt i? n. orunroi, dunfiiu O*' EOIjA, * < . fully ?qufp ed, ami qua'ifled so mils \ou? Miirvt-yi!!> NEW -MEAT MARKET I respect!fully A'Dmumiv tlml I hav opened a new Meat Market on the (ornerof Main ami Duni.p .iiroet* oi p >she uiininurhani Hojae Hotel, where I wit- be pleased lo w .if on m\ Cim >mer? o'?i ami new, with the be?t Jj ,? ??? tejrof <iu?i u(f if<l p \ I I vM? *EE ME OR KJ "V 'PHONE No UO.an.i jo r ordershIihII reiirlv tin p oinpte*t aiteotion f?r-.Norf>lk Oyster* every Kiiday Respect ful' y. A. F. DUFFT.i B ClMJjAL' STATE o -oUl'H ? AROLIN.V, COUNTY OK IjA N'CAttTKK. I the i Oil)moil Pn as The British ami onoicin M<?rfira Company i.iniit. d I'i.i. t II* if/aiimt j nariott- R ster. The J hoinx (' Smith Melver o, ami J Hari\ j Foster, I)ef nilaiits HY virtue ol an Ouler II a?le i.. tile | ahove ease l>v Judae ?? W Bu- j t;mi nun, ii IUMI ?icitnii-r-i IVIH i wi tj h> I Ht p'Hiiic Mticiioii at i.ai ca-ici ! court bou-e, wituin the leita Iiouis ot | 8U e on the Fi*rt Monday in February, 1900. the ' ?nowi'? ?t?- i-riheil lot-, |mrct* aoi i 11 tcs ?i hi it tii \Vii: I "t Ali that pieee, puree ?.rtr??e? of I iml the eomiiy of I. s-ei' a ! j at <;e aforesaid, c italiiiu '* ' "> ncrr*, in >ic or t m?, eoiivevetl l> ft* i taut, ? "11 i -It K K'i-ler hy ?1.?ry It la>?*i>l'iiie Fatiule *V ''utetnu ami K zt K ilmw h> <iee<i tl iteil Ket<y j St IH78 'i I Ml thai pieee, p ireel ?T traet of i Ian I io th ' ? ??nty of La' > ? t? r ami htate afor?-Mni Ciiiilanili'K '*9 t arret*, more or tens, conveyed i the !>*--, fe iaiii, t'hariotle it Foster, ny F'iza K 'iiovvn I>y tie d tla <m| Fetiy 27111 | 1870 t'lie above trat;in cooatitu e 619 c aires, in.re or less, lyiior being ami | situate in the county of I .i^eaaier r d Hiai- t?f South l ar ilina, b'iiutieii on I tin* North hy lands of li li (1 mcli. lands t.tiw owned hy it It Howell Mini ' ii ath, Springs <Sc to hut foimertv I owneti iiy J It Krwin r his wife, Mary ji f.rwin, on the Fast I?y Sands of J It MH^ey, Jr , 'ormerly ihe (I I' WhiI j> ac on ilie **oulli l?v land* of VV 1.1 IVnliley A o, formerly owned b.? D Kli Dumlup. ami lamia f rmerly be b rging t<> the estate of VI rs T P Biowii now known us I be Dngdale place, on tlm Went by lamia of VV I* Kodiley A fnrmeily owned by I) Ell Dun ap. ami others, PUta of each tract will he exhibited on day of aale Terms of Sale; one third cash, the balance to be paid in equal instals ments of one and two year*. with in | tereat from tlay of sale. The credit ' portions of the aale are to he aecured ! by the bond of the purcha*< r or purchaser' anil a mortgage of the premises The purchaser of the 225 acre tract on which the fnur?ronm cottage Rtanda shall inaure the name in some good reputable Fire Insurance Company anil auiil policy shall he assigned to the Clerk of the court as additional aecurlty for the credit payments, Pur? chaser or purchasers of either tract will have the option of paying all in cash. The purchaser or purchasers inunt c<mii|i y wiiu me lernm 01 naie within 30 minutes or the laud will lie immediately resold at the bidder's risk Purchaser Co pay for all necessary patters Including revenue stamps. VV. S. L. POKTEli, C. C. C. P. L. C. R. i!j. Wylle, PICTs. Atty. Pay your subsoripiton to Lb d?bi! i UKKVTBATTLK RACING ALL AROUND LADYSMITI1. Boers Attack Vigorously With All Their (inns. Coinmuniea- J tion With Whit* Cut off Since 3:15 p. m. Saturday. London, .Ian 7. ? Gen Blillet- I has wired the war office the fol-j lowing dated ,lan G, from Frere Camp: "The folh win?; mesnH^e received f'om Gen Wh:te at 1 p in today: * 44 Man >, 11 a tn.?Attack t continues nnd enemy has been ro- n inforced from the south.' T ' I he following whs received at a 4 this afternoon from (ion White: t 44 4 J an 6. 12.45 p m.?Have y beaten enemy off at present but li they are still around in great a numbers, especially to the south e and 1 think renewed attack very probable/ ,] 44The sun has failed and I can- { not get further information from f Ladvsmith until tomorrow." I (ien Duller sends the following t from Frere Camp: , 44This from White, dated Sat , urdav, 3:15 p m: 4Attack renew L ed; very hard pressed.' " * 44I have absolutely no more f news aud there is no sun. There t is a camp rumor that White de- l fe.ated the enemy at 5 this after t noon and took 400 prisoners. j 44I sent nil available troops yesterday to make a demountration at Colenso. The trenches j there wsre all occupied by the j enemy." ( London Jan 8.?The Daily Mail has the following dated Jan (i, at noon, from Frere Camp: 4'At 3 o'clock this morning * very heavy tiring began at Ladysmith. It lasted fully four hours . and must have meant either a sortie by the liritish or a determined ' Si attack on the garrison by thr Doors Our shells could be wen falling on [Trnt>iilvvlinii Inil and the enemy were replying Deside the cannon reports there were sounds indicating smaller pieces of artillery in action. The ( lighting must have been at closer range than has bwrn the case up> to now. "Our naval guns at ('hieveley j sent their usual tiro into the Doer trenches there; hut there has been no further movement here." London, .Ian s. ?The Daily ' Telegraph has the following from ' Frere tump, dated Saturday, Jan (>, 10:35 a m : ".\ vary heavy:' bombardment ?vent on at Ladv-'j, smith from daybreak until e this v morning. It is believed that an J j action was in progress, for musketry tire wa- heard. It is po?aihle the garrison was making a < sortie, for the Doers at (Jolenso ( hurriedly left their trenches and j rode toward Lad\ smith. . "Our big naval gun at ("hieveley t camp tired Severn I rounds at the enemy as they were leiving their ' Colenso lin??. (ien Buller has ridden on to Chieveley with his staff." London, .Ian K. ?A special dis patch from Frere Camp, dated Saturday, .fan 6, 7:20 p n?, says: Gen White heliographs that he defeated the Boers this morning. They crept up so close to tho de- j fending forces that the Gordon , Highlanders and the Manchesteis actually repulsed them at the point of the bayonet." 1 London, Jan 8.?A dispatch | to The Daily Chronicle from j Frere Camp says: Saturday's bombardment of Lady smith was the heaviest yet recorded. All j the heavy guns were working and the Boers seemed to be pouring ( in shells from every available I lighter gun." ; BOER ATTACK BEATEN 1 BACK. Iloody Repulse of Attempt to l storm Ladysmith, jondon's Fear of Disaster Relieved l>y News of a Substantial Victory ? Rumor of Another Success. London, Jan 0.?The British ' .uthorities anil people braced ( hemselvea yesterday to receive ' ie\v? of the fall of Ladysmith. I rhei efore today's news that the ^ ttenipt of the Boeis to capture he town has been decisively re- ^ nilsed and that, the enemy lost1 icavny cause* a joyful reaction nd more happtness than the hoc- t ess itself jtietities. It wns a Imcl Sunday for Lon- ^ Ion Buller telegraphed from r ho Tugela that his last ineasaga k rorn General White, shot in i * \ ^advsmith, fluted Saturday was 'I am being hard pre'sed:" Its' ra* evident that a general action! *as in progress. The explana | ion that the clouding over of the j ' ky prevented the heliograph from 1 urther work wa? accepted akep- j it*7i 11 y - Everybody believed that * ,ad\?mith had fallen and that ho new a of the disaster wai be- ' ng held back. i 1 This morning the war ollice ;avo out a dispatch from General duller, dated today, aaying: '-The ' 'ollowing is from General White. latcd at Eadysmith Sun 'ay Hfter 1 loon: "An attack was commenced i osterdav on my whole position, ! ^ mit chiefly against (.'vanur's camp. Mid Wagon lull The enemy was n great strength and pushed the ittuck with the greatest courage ind energy. Some of our en t r nehmenta on Wagon lull were j hree times taken by the enemy iml retaken by us The attack i oiitiuued until 7 o'clock at night. 1 ? At one point our position was ccopied by the enemy all day, ut at dusk, in a heavy rain storm, I l | hey were turned out of the position at tile point of the bayonets n a need gallant manner by the !>evoiis, |rd by C'??I park. i j " I'he troops have had a very ! I tying time and have behaved ex-I ollentU. I'liev are elated at laving rendered this service to I he ' pieen. The enemy repulse<|| 5very where with vny heavy Ins-, j rreatlv exceeding oura, which j v i 11 t?e reported as soon as the ' ist> are completed." 1' rere ( Minn .Inn 7 lfni..n-i? I ?" I"" ' vere receive*! hero today that ion Whi*e hud captured 4<?0| iritfonern in the Boor attacks on j Ludy smith yesterday. Besides; ho prisoner* the Boers lost hesviy in killed and wounded. castoria! For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought s i ^anderhilt (fives Yale $100,000. New llavon, Jan 0.?Cornelius I'anderhilt today sent Yale coU 1 e^o one hundred thousand doU are. 1 The annual re[)ort of the State Phosphate Inspector shows an iri yreaso in royalty the past year of 115,520.10 oTer the preceding pear. ' i . WHITE MAN LYNCHED AT NEWPORT NEWS. iV. W. Watts Victim of Mob. said to he Well Connected in Virginia. Waa Shot to i)eath, Lyncher* llavintr no Llop?. Newport News, Va, Jan 5. ? 1 lie death of Wni \Y Watts at the lands of a moh between the hour* >f A and 5 o'clock this morning narka the firs* aitting of Judgtt Lynch in Newport News. His aking off alao aignalizes the ini ial execution, legally or other\iae, of a white man for rape in Virginia. The critno that invoked moh engcance was peculiarly utrociomi icing blackened by the basest ingratitude. The victim of th? i\retell upon whom justice was s<i ipeedily visited win the henefac ros* df her assailant, having fed lim, a stranger, at her door, when io lust appeared, begging for haritv, three week* ago, aftei eaehing here peunilesn from Lynchburg, whore his father is a loliceman. Watts was 28 yean Id, unmarried, a professional ;ambler and comes of a respect ible family, with extensive relaionship throughout the State. Yesterday afternoon he visited he house of Mrs Thomas M Simp <on; who hud befriended him whei io was in destitute circumstances oiling the ladv ho was aoout t( euro the city and stating that In Wired to thank her before goinf iwuv. Watts hud made a stukf it his calling during his nojourr lero and Mrs Simpson failed t< ecognir.s in tho well dressed niur ho miserable mendicant upoi whom alie had bestowed alms threi weeks before. Her interest ii he man being awakened, >h< . unversed with him for a frr ninnte- at the door. W hen sin retired into the hallway ho follow ?d Irer, seized her by the throat forced her into the sitting roon in 1 overpowered her after a des peratc struggle. Watts vHt captured fin boar< ihe special ti'aiu of l! I* Hunting :on when it was leaving the citj for Kichmond yesterday after loon and lodged in jail. Three masked men entered th station house at 4 o'clock till morning and forced the jailer, a the point of pistols, to surrende Ihc keys. Four companions o tlio men received Watts when li ini earricd out and hurried away [lrht to the house of Mrs Simpson who identified him, and then t outskirts of the city, where a mo! ?f several hundred mer were con jregrated. He was hound by th wrists to a sapling. His bod; was riddled with bullets. It hm been intended to hang the man but the only rope with which th party waa provided proved to ihort to go over any convenien limb. The rope with which the bod; of the victim was found waa cu up and distributed among the on lookers. The identity of the lynchers i a mystery, and there is little proa pect of anyone connected with th affair being detected. The polic are making the usual inquiry int the case. DABTOHIA. Bmm tit* Kind You Haw AI wars Bou| a 1 JUDGE BUCHANAN'S CHARGE ON "FACTS." Gives the Meares Jury Whole-! | some Raking Down. THR MISCAKRl AGK OF JUS | TICK. I ; In South Carolina Caused hy j .furors Disregarding Their Oaths- \ Mini rial Ordered. ,i , Special to 1 he State. i. Spartanburg, Jan 5?A short session of criminal court was held this morning Everybody was 'anxiously awaiting the verdict in the Men res ea-e, and while the > . . ^ majority of people looked for a mistrial, there were many who ( thought that a jury which hud j t?oen out from Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock until Friday I morning until 11 a m, could sure l\ reach h verdict from ttuch I lengthy deliberations. But not , I bo. Judge Buchanan called the jury out of their room nt 11 o'clocn yesterday morning and . when they announced that there wan no possibility of reaching a verdict, ho began to speak to the jurymen in a very novel and plain spoken manner in regard to . the case. Their inability to agree, he stated, wa* a matter of much j regret, and that nothing brought Iso much reproach upon the ad ministration of justice rnt a mis- ' I trial. The jury had spent three or four days in hanging < ut, and had cost the county about $4.00, whereas even a verdict against the i defendant would have put upon him a bond for only that the jury had spent more money by hanging on and fooling around a I than the amount that would have been exacted by a conviction. 9 j .... ''Ton, gentlemen, ' said the judge, "probably will be the tirst to speak lightly of courts and to say that justice cannot ue gotten: that the 11?vyers fool aioiind in the courts and delay justice, while the truth of the matter is the lawvcts, the solicitor and the court do their duty, and you men j have not the manhood to do yours. Vein have no one but yourselves to blame for the miscarri?ge of I justice. The State and the do ? fendant are entitled to a verdict h and you have acted like a set of I school hoys locked up three or I four davs, when you should have f agreed upon a verdict If the R public would cultivate a higher ' ! standard of obligation and men ' were to understand that when j " ; they take an oath to do their duty, they should do it honestly instead I of frittering their time away and vaecillating by reason of a feeling ^ j of kindness for a neighbor, or ^ I some fancied thing in the evi' deuce, more exact justice would , be done and there would be I more reproach upon the ndf 1 mlnljf rallAn lntlwa I It Ill I II 1 vl rtll' ?ll "* JUOllVU VUl WII^U | the neglect of tho jurors to do their f ! duty. They seem to think it is a * sleight of hand thing when they l' should go on a jury. A man tak ing an oath to perform a duty on s the jury should meet his obliga i- tione an he would hia promise to e pay a note. Jurors don't do it, ? and because of the fact that we o have to have iurora to try this sort of cases, justice is not done. "I want to burn that idea into you, gentlemen, thftt justice has miscarried in this case, because you did not have the manhood to carry out the law and tlu- obligation you took. An I I want \ou to know that 1 know it, an I i want, every juror to understand when He cornea into tin* court where I am to preside, and take* in obligation to decide a ease ami does not do it, that 1 intend to tell him about it and intend to make it hot for him. "Another jurv may hnrn to do over this game thing, because of your lack or rannhood and nothing else. It is because yen all did n it understand your own oath and did not keep it to decide this case according to the evidence. I want \ou to understand that I know it, and everybody else knows it, and w hen it b 'comes a matter of opprobrium for juries to tnake a mistrial everybody wilt reproach them for it. because they did not keep the obligations they took to ajjree on a verdict and furtu<*r thr administration of justice After this address, the jury was dismissed and thr court adjourned for the term. It comtx from tho most reliable authority that the jury stood: fi for conviction and 4 for aerjuittal. AM ERICA N PRISONERS FREE Stoiyof tho Release of (iilmore Confirmed?Insurgent St conchoid Taken. Washington, dan 6?There is official confirmation both from Otis and Watson of the release of American prisoners held bv the Filipinos many months. There is no longer doubt that Lieutenant (iilmore, o thr Yorktowu, is among the number rescued. Manila,.Ian C> ?Three eompanirs of the 24th regiment captured the insurgents' stronghold at Couiache yesterdav. three Americans were wounded lie loss of the enemy is unknown I'hreu members of tlir i'th and two ol the 12th, whom the insurgents held paiaonors, were shot and horribly mutilated I'hree of them are dead. Ihe other two are recovering, Capt Mauser set tire to the barracks and town. Had Some Bloody Work in ( a vite Province. Manila, .Ian 7, 11:40 p m.? Reeonnoi-auce out of linns, Cavitr province, this morning, resulted in the I I 1 h8 * f three A neri can* killed and 2'* wounded. 1'lie * enemy's loss is estimated at CO killed and NO wounded. (Jol Biakhimer, wiih a batalion r .I... r~.?.. .. in 11 in i nciu> vtiiiiiitm i infftntrv, advum ed toward Novelta. Maj Taggert, with two battalion* of tbe *>:me regiment moved toward Feres Da* Marinas. A part of the Fourth infantry was on1 south of Iiuuh. 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