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J/HE Li.DGEK. Thurlow S. tarU-f, EDITOR, AND MANAGER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1000. Court Proceedings. The court of General Sessions convened Monday morning with his Honor Judge Aldrich presiding. Solicitor Henry and Stenog rapher McCaw were both on hand, and the wheels of the court were soon in motion, the grand jury having brought in hill a promptly. The tirst ca*e tried was against William Rutledge for larceny of cotton, and resulted in a verdict of guilty. He was sent to the chain gang for two years. The case against Frank Thompson for house hreuking and lar~ ceny gave the chain gang another hand for two years. The case against Peter Dye and Richard Raskins for larceny was continued, and that against James Wbitaker for larceny was thrown out by the grand jury. The case against Thomas Knight for selling cider and breaking the Sabbath was remanded to the Magistrate. The following cuses were nol pressed: The State vs Gilmore McDow for larceny ; against Thomas Knight for violating the dispensary law ; against Adam Kirkland for obtaining goods under false pretenses ; against Steven F Hough and Frunk Hough for disturbing religious meeting ; N N Phillips for disposing of property under hen ; against J ('authen for assault and battery and carrying concealed weapon ; against Alexander Blackmon for assault and hatterv with intent to kill; against Lum Truesdell, Ed rruesdell, George Patterson, William Curry, Wyatt Duncan, Joe Williams, VVm Reeres, 7 Thomas Bailey and Charles Jackson for assault and battery with intent *o kill : against Sam Boyd j for violating the dispensary law ; against G F Ferguson and Gilmore McDow for malicious misI chief in cuttinur trees. \ The grand jury made a special presentment against Philip T Cauthen, Magistrate at Ileath Spriags, with being implicated in the stealing of J .1 Brider w' cot r * -v toa last fall, he having had in his possession one bale of the stolen I cotton. They also recommend-1 ed that P T Cauthen be removed from his office, and II W Mobley be appointed to 611 the racancy. On motion of the Solicitor, a certiHod copy of the presentment was forwarded to the Gofornar whose duty it will be to carry out the recommendations. As we go to press the court is engaged in the trial of the case against Richard Mc.M an us charged with murder. The grand jury was dismissed yesterday afternoon, and the court will probably wind up to day. r m . r r Death of Mr. Sam II. Brewer. On Wednesday last, Mr. Samuel II Brewer, an aged and highly respected citizen of the Flat Rock section, died after a short illness. He was 83 years of age and leates his wife, and one son. Mr. VV K Hrewer of Kershaw, surviving < , " him. Ilia remain's were interred at Kershaw. Twenty Days For Not Paying Poll Tax. Hen Hillings and Joe Thorop* son, both colored, were convicted before Magistrate Caskey last week for failing or refusing to pay poll tax and gent to tiie chain gnpg ior 2p d^ys each, friUng to pey the fine of 120 each imposed by the court. . f j [i MURDER ! MURDER ! .t MURDER! t c Sensational Story Precisely as 1 Told by an Esteemed and Well ? Meaning Contemporary. .1 1 Chesterfield Advertiser, 15th. 1 MURDER ! MURDER ! MURDER ! 1 C Yesterday morning, news of one of the foulest crimes that has r ever been committed in Chesterfield county reached this office and was brought by a gentleman from > the scene of the crime. j On last Monday night, Cassie j Boan, a white woman of very ; qestionable character was cut and burned to death in the woods, about fire miles south-east of Jefferson. The woman wrr cut in five different places on the ] body?each cut being a deep flesh i J HM I % - wuuuu. ine games ranged from j< 4 to 12 inches in length. This < not satisfying the perpetrator or perpetrators of of the deed?the poor woman wastset on tire and all clothing was horned from her body. This crime is shocking in every , detail. A helpless woman cot and !, burned to death in the dead hours i of the night in the woods, nearly i a tn'le from any one's house. Her \ screams for mercy sounding on < the night air only led to the die- < covery of the deed. The onfor- ] tunate woman lingered until noon j on Tuesday when death came. { The coroner is now holding an in- < I ? 1 quest over the body. j j Ah murder most foul ! K \ j blacker crime cannot ha conceived. 1 j The very thought of it sickens a . a civilized people. Such a crime will not and must not go unpunished. 1 Our civilization demands that ^ | the perpetrators be brought to f j list ice. The law of South Carolina must be upheld and the tiends who | i took a womauh' life in the dead of I I night in the lonely woods must not escape. The verdict of the j coroner's jury has not yet been rendered. Drs. D T Teal and G \V Gregory made an examination of the Wounds. Rolls of Honor Lancaster Graded School. Second quarterly examination SCHOLARSHIP. I Highly Distinguished: ? F.stellw nuke. Distinguished: ? Eunice neaty, connie Davis, nennie clyburn, Rob cherry, ola oregory, carrie Howling, Maggie culp, Bessie MCManus, Agnes Taylor, Meta Moore, Lizzie crenshaw, ivy crawford, Eddie cook i.uella cole, Nannie Johnson, Joyce dark, John i) wylie, Ethel porter, Robbie porter, i.ee skipper, Maud Crenshaw, May cook, Margaret ourant, Lilly ureen, nleeka iiinson, Mary iiood, connie porter, Fay Flynn, jeanotte poag, Dora Denton, Thomas neaty, 1 Mart Cunningham, Eugene Elliott, ? john Maker, willie Harmon, Everette Taylor. attendance 100 per cent. t Nellie Hough, Blanche Moore, f Ellen Jordan, nob nelk, susie nunlap, Joe Foster, Nannie Mcoardell, ul*ni<h? rnno?r 'fL. ???'! - -14 W*|?I ) J uni nccl J , I >KIIH oaris, John welsh, Maggie oulp, charlotte Jones, Kelly cunningham, Arthur neal, Ada .Robertson, | iiowell oregory, Mary oaris, Krerette Taylor, Frank noldridge. DEPORTMENT 100 PER CENT. Nellie Hough, Margie mcdow, i.ula Mcilwain, Eunice neaty, Ellen . Jordan, Bessie Jordan, cornelia 1 Elliott, irene swaringcn, Robt 4 nelk, Kttelle nuke, nennio clyhurn, Lewie Johnson, itessie >vcIK)w, F.unice r.ong, Blanche cousar, Theo Reed, carol Connors, willie l-oorey, rearl Miller, t.ena Amos, j-a ee e < i ik - - uanita wylie, Julia oregory, iiatie Taylor, ola Gregory, Maggie ulp, Bessie McM&nus, Apnea Tayjr, iiazel MCAteer, Essie connor, ' mrgi? connor, F.ula Moore, Louise ohnson, carrio Gregory, Mary >?Tis, John i? wylie, win mcdow, ra b Jones, Klfreida roag, Ethel orter, Robbie rorter, Fay atroth- S r, Kate MCKineh, willio cousar, ate MCManus, jeanetto roag, con- j lie rorter, Mary Hood, nleeka . linaon, Lilly Green, Margarette >urant, Maud crenshaw, Fay cook, eolo cherry, Marie clyburn, Fay , lynn, Jessie willing, jim neath, ohn Boldridge, rail Bennett, irthur Magill, Manly nlackmon, .eroy sappa, ira k?&I. MCDUFFIE LITERARY SOCIETY. The officers of the McDuffie Liiterary Society for the ensuing piarter are Maud c.regory, rresilent ; Eunice Beaty, vice rresilent; Cornelia Elliott, .sec and [ reus ; Lizzie connora, critic. The Canal Sold. J E McDonald, Esq, and associates have bought the Catawba canal property from the state linking fund commission. The irice paid was $2,000, according 1 o our information, with the conlitioa that improvements to the ,-alue of $150,000 shall be ?stab ished within five year's, or failing o that, the purchasers shall pay ^2,000 a year after the expiration >f that period. We learn that hey have some property which ets them into the ri"er, also a urge tract on the Lancaster side. ?Chester Lantern. f-OTTON PLANTEUS' vho are interested in high prices or cotton next fall can hear of omething to their advantage by j ending a postal card at once to TH E A1)A M8 COTTON CO., | Charleston, 8. C. Where E - THE ( New Dress Gooi Net s s 3 T ? BLK LINENSpecial bargains in bleached lamesk at 25 cents. ? o LACK CTHTAINS AND CURTAIN hCKIM. Very select stock. Scrim 4 A to 0 cents per yard. Curtains 50 ' ents to $2 50 per pair. REMNANT PRINTSGood quality .'H ctsand 4 cents, lest shirting and Indigo prints, i nil pieces, 5 cents. 1 1 Pioi/nil l Over 1,0( ectlit 50 cents c ]ome quick and I f) 1 ? a . *t ? , '[ r c< THE G i?>* 4-fif # FOUR CHILDREN BITTEN BY , MAD DOG IN SUMTER. The Father in Attempting to Rescue Them, Also Bitten. Sumter People Raise a Fund to Send Them Off. Special to The State. Sumter, March, 18 ? Mr Samuel E Shaw who liven near St Charles n this county, while attempting to rescue hi* four children who j were all hitten by a mad dog last j Tuesday morning, was himself badly bitfen before the brute could be dispatched. Just how it occurred is not known, but the fact that he and his four children were bitten caused widespread sympathy and excitement. The people of Sumter became interest ted and the matter ever since has been the chief aubjeet of conversation on the streets and in the ' homes. While others were talk ing Mr. W B Boyle, a citizen of j Sumter, was expressing his smvpathy in a more tangible way. He knew that Mr. Shaw could not boar th? expense of a trip to Pasteur Institute in New York and laying aside his business started a subscription list to send hi n and hischildren to New York. The people needed no )>ersnasion and within two days more thaD $400 was cheerfully given. Saturday night Mr. Shaw and his children left for Now York to enter the Pasteur Institute where everything will be done to arrest the malady. This act skaeds well for Sumter county and is keenly appreciated j not only by Mr. Shaw but hy his numerous friends and relatives. F. P. C. Kvery gem known to the lapidary has been found in the I'nited States. MMUIHAMBI IMi IlllWII?g3M / IVERYBOD' iANSON" ds! New Whiti it Embroideries ^ ^ niJC K RKMtf ANTSAbout 4,000 yar<ls at 5 cents. This is a great burgain. ? o l"FRCALKS& OINGHAMS New goods, pretty stylo*, low prices. Finest Sea Island percales, at 10 cents. ,7 * n 0 IMtiUK WRLTS At half price. Full case of abort lengths at 9 cents, worth twice the price. ~r~.- ^ r. ff*- fT " ' ' Up at a ( t . *> P?ir? tn the dollar. ?? are! the beat aele< SANSON I v There is Ihe brightest prospect y y of a big cotton acreage this year, j ^sine cents cotton, like some pretty , girls, will fool you. Remember solic! the story of the old darkey's big catfish?it 'swank.' Cotton may m\m not be worth so many next fall. ||| Plant something edible. ? Clinton J'I Guzette. 1 1 How much harder it is to en- C dure tiials that we hare brought upon our ourselves, than to bear folk ' up under those fot the coming of which we are in no sense respon.. J 1)unl sible. THI CASTOR IA '*" For Infants and Children. ? Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought A Be.rs tho //,? Signature of pi |^T" Have you forgotten to Ul pay your subscription to Ledger? ELLIOTT & Al t CRAWFORD. 1 Mules for th* money? ^ Mules tor n;ood caper? Mule* auy way you want'em ? Th Mulee to work or uaulee to caper. *pr? two If PA WE NOW HWEIN IF ! ^ our s'ahles every coo- ? I L* w J ceivable kind of a mule ? From the quiet and docile to the un,<l festive and frisky?from the domestic KEi plu* to the mperh young Wet-tern mule Another car load of the latter kind received last week HA' Remember, we sell either for the ca*h or good paper. Our present stock of Horses cannot he . eat Some number one saddlers SEC and bar uess animals ('all and see our stock of all kinds Ht'*r? We'll also show you some of the best y?ur J retur and cheapest Huygit-s and Wagons y?.u ever saw. CHE ELUO'T & CRAWFORD.! y Finds Ba CASH ST( i. *' T oT * e Goods ! ! Read Our f pec ^5 q q FINK SHOKS Si OXFOKDSl For ladies, just received a new Ni line, ktrictly np to date, made tan i socially for us by Drew, Selby anfj & Co., at *1 50, 00,'$2 50 and ' ' ' prtct $3. The latest is a patent vici kid Oxford. We have them at $3. TC SOFT SOI,E SHORN I H< for infants, in button, lace and on l' strap ties, black, white and tan. *"d Price 50 cents. to 1J j reat Sac and fine Pants, si old over lfiO pair Qtion. CASS ST( \ vi f * 1. SECREST, SURVEYOR, OS? EOLA. S. (!. *nlly equipped, and qualified, and ta vour surveying lie k 1 )r call at Dufft'a Market for a t <?r *teak or some good Sausages tlrst clans Fry of Slew of NorL)>s'ers and be convinced that it'a 'hlnggo.d you will get from the let on :he < nrner of Ma<n and lap st recta. I RESTAURANT fou will find supplied with the Norfolk Oytiters every Wednea? ind Friday. Respectfully. .F. DUFFT. HESTER MACHINE NO LUMBER COMPANY. * 1 H I JHESTBB, S. O. 0 ie Chester Machine Co. and B. M. tt A Co , have consolidated the p'anta, and now ready to furninh hitig In the Machine and Luiuher >, with a Well equipped Foundry Machine shop, and Door, H?ah Blind Fac'ory cur facilities are lualied iu this part of the State. TIlHESt] RKs, GINS, ENGINE* SAW MILLS, if AND CO I TON PRESSES, \RROW8. CASUNGS.KI'C. ALSO !0ND HAND MACHINERY. r Bills complete for Dwe)liuf?. i Ri>ome, etc. Send un lint of wants, and we will answer by mail Respect ful I v, STER MACHINE A LUMBER COMPANY. RGAINS I )RE! ial Offerings! ^ 5} 5} MEN'S FINK snni-N bw line vici kid $3.00 shoes, ind black, all the near shapes toes, we offer at the very low s of $2 25. WKLS ANI> TOWELING, sst and largest 10 cent towel tie market, a good line cotton linen toweling from 3 cents 5 cents per yard. piffoo t? igbtly imper?In two day. )RE. >>