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I1K IXihK. 1 45 a <' > KOITOR ? N I> M \N MUK. <r SATI"ltI>AY AI'KIT. 7, 1000. When the present veur *~nds, Rock Hill mills will he equipped with ;ts,OS 1 spindles, 1881 looms, j will employ 10110 operatives, to whom will he paid $18,100 every month, or $217,000 annually, and the consumption of cotton will bp 1 0,900 bales. This amo'nt is mo o cotton than was produced in Hock Mill's territory durinir the last year. Indeed, it is about as much as ever has been produeed, so that the year 1901 will tin'I Hock Mill consuming every bide of cotton that the farmers in tbw section of the county can raise. - Rock Mill Merald. It is the conviction of this writer that this yeai the voters will ex prc-s their desire to give prohi bit ion a trial by eleetitfg a than for governor representing that idea. < *f course a great deal will j deoi'lld on tbn *l.~l , - I '* ?.J V>1 U1U man who is put forward to hear the standard of prohibition. Our own belief is that Mr. Feather- ! stone, who, in spite of the fact j that he ha I to hear the-'fcssaults' of . those opposing him on that issue, j made such a clean and manly race ; two years ago, is the most uvaila- [ hie man. It was the tirst time that a thorough canvass of the State bad been made on that issue; , it was the first appearance of Mr. j Featherstone in public life but, ! not withstanding this, he only narrowly missed being elected. In ( his rounds he made many friends, however, who did not vote foi him in his former race who would ' vote for him if he ran again. They , admire him and they admire his manly stand for what he conceives to be right, and they believe that ho would make a good governor. ?Kershaw Era The Way of the World. Because Senator McLaurin a<> knowledges William McKinley as president of these United States and respects and honors him as j such, he is called disloyal to hisj state and a traitor to his party. 1 Senator Tillman aids and abets in | this sentiment ; but "'at the same time he says of Mr McKinley: "I am always willing to trust William McKinley. * * * Left to himself, 1 bolieve this aspirations and his purposes are patriotic and noblo " McLaurin has never tie stowed greater praise than that on the president ; tint he has to he called a traitor by little Whipper* snappers, coat tail swingers, political shadows and the like.? Spartan burg Spartan. NO It I OUT TO IJGMNKSS The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will lie nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched c< mplexion. Electric Hitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach,liver and kidneys and to purity the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good looking, charm ing woman of a run-down invalid. Only 50 cents at Crawford Bros' Drug Store. If every Judge in the State would attack the concealed weapon liahit n? Judge Benet did yea terday and if juries would not be lenient willi persons charged with homicide, South Carolina's criminal courts would soon have fewer homicide esses on docket. Columbia Record. Solar Eclipse Next Month. ?) PATH OK TOTALITY PASSES THROUGH SOU TH CAfcC^ UNA. > A Letter from P,-of. Young on the Path Across This State ? How to Make an Observation Glass. Charleston Post. The occurrence of a total ?ni?' eclipse is as event of ouch extraordinary rarity that it attracts the widest interests The sight is one of the grandest of natural phenomena and few persons have had the good fortune to heaold it. The coming eclipse occurring as it does in a convenient and accessihle region doubtless will ho carefully watched by a largo number of people For the convenience of those who are already making prepara tions with a view to witnessing the eclipse the following letter written by Prof. C A \ oung, director of Princeton ousorvatory and one of the highest authorities on astron- j oiiiical subjects to Dr. TN Roberts' of this city will he read with in teresl. Dr. Rooerts wrote making inquiries as to the line of totality of the eclipse and other maters and received a rcnlv as- i follows: Princeton, N J, March 27, 1000. ! Dr. T N Roberts: I)?*ur Sir ?In reply to yours of 24th I would sav tirst in "011th j Carolina, Newberry, VVinnsboro, 1 and Lancaster lying near the central lina of eclipse. In Georgia, Washington, Greensh ro, Monticello, Forsyth, Thoinason and Columbus. In Georgie, West Point and Elberton lie on the northern limit of the shadow track, a'nd in South Carolina, Abbeville and Rock Hill. Laurens, S C, and Covington and MeDonough, Ga., are just outside. The southern boundary o; the i ?(11 >1 d rt U' l\iiaiin? .--U < ? -- , ..... |/?iiov> uiniu^ii v^wseiH, Macon and Thompson, Ga, and through Lexington and Bennetts* ville, 8 C. Laurens, S C, is just outside the track 011 the north, ami Columbia on the south, frd^etield, 8 C, Greensboro, 8aluda, Camden, Chesterrtehl and Chester are all inside tho track which is from Hfty to fifty two miles wide, widening towards the northeast. The duration of totality at Winns horn will be about 85 seconds. I do not know at present of any astrononrcal parties that will 1 take stations in 8011th Carolina, ' l 1:1?1 - - - *' .u./ugii i liiiiik iw iiKfiy mat ? inns-. borro or Newberry will lie occiu pied. The weather chances are better in Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama urn! parties will go there. My own (Princeton party) stut'on will lie at Wades boro, N C, which offers better weather chances than any of the other stations which are not a good deal more distant from ns. As for a shadow glass w:th which to look at the sun you can easily make one for a few cents. Get a slip of good window glass about 14 inches wide and 3 or 4 i inches long, smoke it largo as a , large pea will be enough if right | ly managed, and cover this with ' annlU^ ..f -I ' .. wu.ui n111f >>i 111 uiu siiine size, the simiked surface between the two glasses of course. Tie the two glasses together or bind the two edges like a lantern slide. If you try to use the smoked glass unprotected you will probably smudge your face and hands and spoil the smoked surface. Yours truly, C A Young.' The suggestions set forth in this letter will he of great valuo to those desirous of witnessing the eclipse and thev will doubtless he followed out. PA8TOHIA. ^ lbs Kind Yw Man AlasysBMifiK *7" I * . Irk For The Ledger. Enterprising and Progressive D wight. t Mr Editor: ? Ah wo have seon nothing in the columns of your paper from Dwight in a considerable time will you allow me space for a few items? The peoplo, not only around Dwight, but in general seem some- i what dull. Some think that wet j weather is th? cause, but I at I I'ilinto it Si fli* v v? 11 iu\) mi t iiuu uiuy have -had n?n? of Dwight's "cream of life'' to make them shad their winter coat and put on their new ornamental spring suit. Some are beggilining to plant a little with a ten cent smile on, but if they had a little insight into the enterprise and progress of Dwight they would wash their faces, comb their heads and go forward with renewed courage and greater zeal to accomplish some thing. They would "be a hero in I ho st r i fi> " Our people generally speaking are in good condition: that is they lire at home* They have all the necessities of life that tend to make the home happy Who is it that cannot he prosperous and en joy life when they live in the garden spot of the county if Men who have canvassed the county 1 say that we certainly have this. We like to talk of L)wight's resources ami her fertile lands, hut we do not over estimate theui. Hurrah for i)wight! She is not dead if she has had the mumps. It takes something more than tho mumps to kill her out f it takes high taxes and low prices for cotton. Bless your life, since cotton has gone to It J Dvvight has heen building like the trees in spring time. She has three store* ami a fourth one talked of and a phone line. A railroad and a cotton mill is all she needs to insure her success. Another substantial sign of Dwight's progress is the public spirit that her citizens are manifesting in the shape of good roads. Mr Editor, were you to puss through our neighborhood you would think that the chain gang had been with us all winter. Keep kku move on"' Lancaster? don't let us get a head of you! Our citizens are paying much attention to education. Tliey are building u cotmnodioiiH school hou?e which we hope to .see completed in the near tfnture. Our school is in a very prosperous condition. In connection with tho school we have 11 literary society, in which the young men take an active part. Any one desiring to attend our meetings and hear our young men display their eloquence will receive a hearty welcome. The society meets every Friday night. We have a religious community. Our young people are of a strictly high moral tone, ami are the pride of the ueighboi hood. They neither smoke nor chew, nor do they take 011 any spirituous liquor*. Tboy disdain intoxicating drinks. Misses Minnie and l'earl llluck mon paid Dwight a visit recently. Their stay was appreciated very much, especially by some of the young men. 'I'ho young men of Dwight are vei y social and considerate, and young ladies if you desire a pleas* ant social time just pay a visit to Dwight. Guess what young man called upon a young lady but .could not face the old folks? Then guess | what he did? "Invited her out to her .grandma's, 1 suppose!" Tne air's are beautiful. The girl* are sweet, The boys are as sour Asa'pickled beet. Aliquis. Dwight, Apri' 4, lJiOO. # Will Tolbert Be Fired ? i DEVELOPMENTS IN CUSTOM HOUSE TIGER SCANDAL. Watchman Resigns and Mysteriously Disappears f??r the Suj> i posed Purpose of Shielding Higher Officials. Special tv? Greenville News. Charleston, April 4?There were no new developments today in the custom house blind tiger scandal. Watchman O'Brien, of the custom house, resigned last night and has mysteriously doparted, leaving the inference that he was the man guilty of keeping liquors stored in the building. O'Brien's resignation is not ac cepted in good faith and according to the general talk it is believed that it was a part of a plan to shield officials higher in authority. In fact there was a persistent rumor afloat this after noon that Special Agent McAtee would recommend the dismissal of Collector Tolbert and Deputy Ostendoff The investigation however, is still in progress and the results will not he made known until the official report is sent to Washington. STEVE HOWARD PARDONED. One of the Mm Punished for Killing Pittman in Greenville. The State, 5th inst. Gov MeSweeney yesterday afternoon pardoned Steve Howard, a young white man from the Glassy mountain region of Greenville county, who was sentenced to !if?? im risonment in March, 1895, along with a cousin, who haa since died in prison, for the killing of Pittman. The ci renin were iliUlganng. i'lttman had beaten an a?*ed uncle >f the hoys and had made the old nan's little boy drunk. I'ittmun was drunk at the time. He was a powerful man. The young men came up and ho had both of them down when Howard'" pistol was tired, Howard never knowing whether he had i out or not, and Pittman fell dead. Judge Buchanan at the trial said he would recommend the pardon aftei a service of three years in prison. This he did, though Howard has served tive years. Solicitor Ansel also recommended the pardon. Since he has been here Howurd, who is a manly looking fellow, has made, so the officials say the heat of prisoners. Ho has l>een running tho dairv department near the institution and has never required the presence of a guard. He now goes hack to bis aged parents who are living on their little farm on Glossy mountain. A I'OWhkH >1 I I.I. h XPI,OrflOX Removes everything in sight; so do drastic mineral pdls, hut both are mighty dangerous. Don't dyna nit? the delicate machinery of your hodv with calrimnl oM/in oil or aloes pills, when Dr. Kind's New Life I'ills, which are gentle uh a summer bree/.e, <lo the work perfectly. Cures Il^udache, Constipation. Only 25c at Crawford Bros' drug ntore. The State Democratic Kxecuti"e Committee will meet in Columbia next Wednesday, 11th of April, to arrange for the May convention. CASTOR IA Por Infanta and Children. The Kind You Han Always Bought B.?r? th. ST?' ' Signature of % s Lee Not Now a Methodist. THE QUARTERLY CONFER ! ENCE ACTS. I Expels "The Irish Evangelist" 1 from the \1. E. Church, South ?The History of a Had uian who Wore the Clonk of Religion. Special to The Observer. I I Greenhorn, N C, April 3?The Quarterly Conference of West i Market Street Methodist church met last night to consider charges i of immorality and abandonment recently brought against Evangelist .1 W Lee, a member of the congregation The evidence was considered conclusive and the ac cused was deposed rum the min I # 1 istry and expelled from the | Methodist Episcopal Church, I South. The evidence established the ; fact that since leaving Greensboro, I after the whitewashing given him by this same Quarterly Conference last fall, Mr Lee has been in Washington City, living unlawfully with the young woman whose name was mentioned in connection with the former charges. At I he trial last night the principal evidence introduced were two affidavits from different land-ladies in Washington fron whom Lee rented rooms. One of j the affidavits stated tiat the rooms were rented Leo with the heiiwf and undei standing that.he was the uncle and guardian of the young woman. They hud not occupied the rooms long, however, before their illegal relations were discovered, and it is stateo that Leo made insulting proposals to the landlady, when : he and his paramour were driven from the hous ;. The other afliant bay o t hut Lee ??d the woman I represented themselves as being I husband and wife, and with this understanding she rented them a room. While they remained in j this house their relations were those of husband and wife. During all this time ho represented himself to he minister of the Gospel, and wus very active in doing ctty mission work and im j ,-osiiig on iho good church people j of Washington. No evidence was needed to support the charge of abandoning his family. His wife and three children live in Greensboro, and it is ( well known that for the past few months he has contributed nothing j to their support. When the billi of charges was drawn against him ' a short time ago and a copy sent ' him lie forwarded his family $5, the only money they hare received from him since he has been in W ashington. This fellow Lee in what might be termed a "smooth article," apparently a ^scoundiel of the deepest hue. For jears he has been roaming over the country, preaching and raking in the cash, special attention being paid to the latter. After managing to be invited to hold a meeting bis habit was to inform the minister, or those in charge, that, while he expected no reward in this world for his services, there would be certain neccessnry expenses attached, and the amount named was usually a neat little sum. ii- - tin caueu iiiiiiso11 tho "Irish ' Evangelist," und the "Paddy | from Cork" mark he hore was: about tho only genuine thing ( about him. After coming to America he lived in New York, ! where he said he was a dalesman. Professing religion, he emigrated to Virginia, where ho held a number of revivals up and down the eastern shore of that State. Some eight or ten yours ago he moved his family to Greensboro and pro* reeded to "do" North Carolina. Since his residence in this State he has been prominently before the public. While many doobed his professed piety, no open charges were brought against him until the Atlanta affair of last fall. This was the beginning of the end. Run Into by Tiain. Special to The State. Union, April 3 ? At 10 o'clock last night, Mr. John Carroll, a contractor on the Buffalo siding hero, had his team run over by a southbound freight train. The horse was killed outright and the buggy was demolished. Mr. Carr >11 was in the buggy, but wae only slightly bruised. VObi A NIC ERUPTION? Are grand, but skin Eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, cures them; also Old, Running and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Chapped llands, Chilblains. Best Pile eure on earth. Drives out Pains and Aches. Only 25 cts. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Crawford Bro's Druggist. S. U MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The Semi-centennial Meeting of the South Carolina Medical Association will tie held in Charleston April 18, li?00. It is proposed to make this event the occasion for u general reunion of all the physicians in the Stute. Invitations will therefore be sent to every doctor in the State, requesting him to be present. A public reception will be tendered to the physicians by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Charleston: Fxcursions to Isle of Palms and other entertainments will be offered by the local profession. Dr. Hoburt Amory Hare, of Phila delpkia, Pa, wdl deliver the An...... I A .1.1 ? ? * /vmicMi. nouro in me city can l>e obtained at $1 and upwards at the hotels. Redi eed rates r?f fare will he on sale on all roads lending into the eitv. NV 1' PORCHPjR, President. T 1? WHALEY, Secretary. lm-8. T.W. SFCRFST, SURVEYOR. O-x'KOLA. S. t\ ! faHy >qu!n'?<l, ami quaHfled. snd noliciiM * our Hurveync CHESTER MACHINE AND LUMBER COMPANY. - n _ CHESTER, S. O. Tlie ' he-*ier Machine ?. am! B. VT. .** | ?r ? t ? ?< - ImVK LOIIOnH. t. > . 1110 wo p m tn, ard now many lo furniwh r?i >*111 i?>fr " tlx* Mio Ihio and Lumber I ne<, with a well equipped K in.dry ttni Mai'liitie "hop, and Door. -*a?h t< d B'ind Fac'nrv ur farilitiea are nil quailed in tl?i- purl of the Htate. KKAPER" dOWEKrt. ' H KK-HKH" GINS, ENGINE* - A V MILLS, I vY AND CO ON PRESSES, ?? A KKO ? *. ? A"' INGS. K O ALfO StCONO HANO MACHINERY. 9iair Mi' - complete f??r Dwd'l k?. o r?* K>>o111-, ell! -?mi.i iiu* wiiuIk, miuI we will aim w r by ? hu m m il Re?l'i"'l fit 'IV. ';hes(ir Machine & IIIMBf-R COMPANY. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD. Mu't-M for th? money ? MuIph lor goo I i aper? Mulexuny way y >11 want'em Mn lento work or mulen to caper. W p ft WE NOW HAVE IN W ? ^ our H'ableR every eon~ I Sw W J eeivable kiml of a mule ? From the <|Uiet and docile to the fen live and fr.aky?from the doroeaLlc plug to the superb young Western mule Another car load of tiie latter kind received lant week. Kememtier, we Hell either for the caeh or good paper. <)ur present ntock of Home* cannot t?e beat. H?m? ~ uhuiuvi UU0 HHUctlerrl and harness auimalH. ('all and nee our atock of all kinds. IVe'U a'ao show you some of the heat and cheapest Buggies and Wagons you ever saw. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD.