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local Matters,. Cotton brought OA cents yes* terday on this market. Mr .1 H Connor had a good cow to die Thursday. .lust received 1000 pairs of punts, slightly damaged, at 50c on the dollar. l'orter Bros. Mr Lonnie Coiner of Van W'yck, I -- I umu'ii ms irienu, Magistrate W ' I' Caskey, tins week. When you want shoes bring ' your feet to us. Porter Pro's. (.'apt H.J Witherspoon represented the Lancaster laxlgo knights of Honor at the meetm;* > I ing of the grand lodge in Colum- ! I)ia this week. Have you seen those tine ties a Porter Bros? mmm Charley Thompson, eol., was; convicted before Magistrate Mob- 1 ley lor non-payment of poll tax and paid $10. in lieu of serving j 'Jo days on the chain gang Wo can stilt dress a man at both ends?hats and shoes. Porter Bros. ' l)r L L Gregory is visiting relative* here. We understand the Doctor will put out his shingle at lvershaw as soon as he appears before the State hoard of medical examiners. Success to him. i Novelties in tine rugs of all kinds at Porter Bros. M r. and Mrs. K D Blakeney c>f Kershaw, have the deepest sympathy of their friends here in the death of their little daughter, aged about 15 months, which oc? curred at their home lust Tuesday evening. If you wunt something it must he one of those lino tics at Porter Pros. Pr \Y ?F White has purchased the lot and residence at the corner of Cuttiwha and Meeting Streets from Miss Lulu Lindsay. Miss Lindsay reserved half of tlio original lot and will build next to Mr Purdue's. fYaxhuw Democratic club will meet at Van Wyck Hall, Saturday, April 2Sth 1900, at 2:90 p 111 for reorganizing, electing delegates to tin- county convention and electing an executive committee man for Wnxlmw Township. .1 M Voder. ? I Frank, tlio 7-year-old son of Mr. \V I> Cauthon of this place, | had a narrow escape from drown- ' ing last Wednesday afternoon. ) After the big rain ho started for tho cows and in crossing a branch j he fell into water over his head, lie caught to the limb of a tree as he was washing down stream and pulled himself out. Presence of mind is what wived llio little fellow's life. An exceedingly heavy ruin fell here, and so fur as wo have beard, throughout the county la-t Wc<K nasday afternoon. A gentlemen from Bufordjtownship says that upland new v plowed ground is severely washed and badly dam aged ; that the fertilizers which had heen put out are h complete loss, and that corn planted on bottom land will huvo to be replanted. The same is reported from other sections. The rain continues and it looks as though the big freshet of 1K65 is to be repeated this April. Pay your subscription. A I *i(iiit'nl Accident 1 Last Tuesday uftei noon, Virgil Klliott, 11 little nephew of the' 1 Musses. Klliott, carpenters, met ; i with ii puinful accident Ho i picked np, in the yard, what he i supposed was an old cartridge cap < and begun filing the end of it otT, ' when, being a dynamite cap, it 1 exploded and knocked olTthe end 1 of his left thumb, mangled two'' . fingers badly and burned liiin j J severely on both legs. A physi < cian dressed his wounds and lie is L getting along all riglu. Tlios .1 Marshall I'asses Over (lie Itivor | l?\,r . - M - '**?- ' ' .... ) till B .HI IIKIS . I Marshall of Pleasant Hill has been ' in wretched health. lie has been 1 sulleiiii^ from indigestion and, ! more recently, of lung alTeetion. ' His sufferings were ended Thurs | day for the Death angol came and ,1 summoned him to liis reward. i( l. Mr Marshall was ahout 57 1 years of age, and was a clever, 1 kindheartcd, genial man. lie < served in the Confederate war and ' made a good soldier. He mairied f shortly after the war, Miss Ivirk, t sister to \1 r M l-~ ' *?. in i v 11 r\, mm hue v with seven children survives him. t Ho was u member of the A K l1 church and like most men of that ' denomination, his word was the same as his bond. His remains t were interred yesterday at St * Luke church. We tender our L deepest sympathy to the bereaved family. ' j I>catIt of Mrs Harris, tlio ronton- ' arlau?150 Deseciiriaiits. ' Mis. St sanna Harris, the old i lady at the cotton mill who cele hrated her 107th birthday on the lltli of last month with a family ' reunion, died last Wednesday, < ? f.? ~ t 1 ;n_ - - - ' nun iisiiun umess, iii me Home | of her daughter, Mrs. Sander*. She was a Miss Snipes before her L marriage to Mr. Harris, and was | born and raised in t ho on stern I section of this county, near' Lynches River. She leaves five! children, four sons and one daughter, surviving her, agvd i respectively, 80, 73, 00, 02, and 5S years. Including her children, i grand-children, great grand-chil.. dren and great -great-grand children, she has 151 descendants nowliving. The remains of the old lady were taken to Spring Hill > church, near irudesville, for interment Thursday. 3Iarrie?l at Newberry. Mr. .) Webb White, a promi- I nent mill constructor, son of Dr. h W J White of this place, was married in Newberry at 10 o'clock a m on Wednesday last, to Missllattie Hawthorne Hawkins, daughter of1 Mr. L A Hawkins of tint citv. The ceremony was performed by ' the Kev. \V W McMorris, at thej bride's home in the presence of I relatives and only a few friends. 4 The Attendants were .Jack C White, brother of the groom, with Miss 1 Grace Bedenlmugh, Henry Hoiloway with Miss Eunice llalfacre: ,J It Bedenbaugh with Miss Mary Cofield. ? ' The groom and his lovely bride arrived at Lancaster on the 0 o'clock train Wednesday night uud are spending this week with the groom's parents. They will return to Newberry tor spend a ^ week or so before going to Atlanta, | their future home. j t It in very remarkable that the bride is only the third fsmale to be in the White family in one hundred years. The late .Jus W White was born A. D. 1800. His'j children were all boys, only one j < of whom, Dr. NV .1 White, has ever married. The Doctor has , two sons and no daughters. So | * the late Mrs .Jas \V White, Mrs. | W J White and Mrs. J Webb White are the only females that haVc been in the family for a; , whole century. Death of I>Ir II. L. Connor. Mr Henry L Connor, superintendent of the Gregory form, a mile northeast , of town, whoso serious illness of pneumonia, w?is doted in our lust issue, died nt 2 I'clock a m, Wednesday. He was ill only uhout ten days. Had le lived until the 5th of next Sep[ember he would have been 50 years of age, having been born Sept 5, 1850. He was married Jet 15, 1SS2, to Miss Laura J vtiains, uaugnier ?>t tin? late Samuel Adams, and his wife with j Pour small children survives him. He was a member ot ('amp Creek Methodist church and his remains were interred there la>4 Wcdneslay afternoon. The bereaved wife and children have the deopest sympathy of their friends in their ?ad hereavement. Mrs Connor was also confined to her bed with pneumonia all luring her husbund's illness. She s improving but is not yet able : o sit up. A little son, nine years jld, is also (juite sick. Mrs Con* lor requests that we thank her jood neighbors and friends for heir kind and untiring attentions luring the days and nights of heir sickness. Death of an Ag**d laid.v. Mrs Saruh Walker, widow of do lute \i i)i Walker, died at her oil's at Jones' X Honda Thnrahty night, after a short illness. 1 She was a limit lid veurs of age, ind loaves only one child surviv-j ng her, Mr John Kirk, a son by lor first husband. iShe was a consistent nicnihcr of New hope Baptist church and her remains iveie interred there yesterday ifternoon. In the State Supreme Court Thursday the appeal in the case of Uertrude Foster et al, vs. R L Crawford, et al, from this county, was argued. .1 T Hay and .1 Harry Foster were heard for the appellants, ami Krnest Moore, It K Allison, Chan D Jones and T Y Williams for respondents. SPRING - B SHEATH -] FOLK MONTHS A(iO We n eventually wo would have the "Lie Our exhibit of Trimmed Hats outri icre, the original conceptions of 01 Stock of Children's Trimmed Hats, RICH AND ELEGANT SPRING! Ciowds of ladies around them ng them, hundreds are still coming GREAT E Buying in such largo qnanti .vays gono as soon as they aro unps shades and new patterns. Our stores a novelties of ever departments. ( We used both. 5! success. Our pri trade here. -Heath I Moil to Take tlio Census?lOnu-J monitors for l.niienstor County. The enumerators for tliits census district ..have heen appointed hy Supervisor Cunningham of Chester. A number of the ap- ' pointees for tins county have re- J reived their commissions. They 1 will begin taking the census dune | 1-t. Jt will greatly facilitate' their work if you will make a j note of ull agricultural products; I of last year so as to be ready to 'give the necossarv information to I the enumerators when they call luring that month. 'l he census I I Act provides, "Whoever shall | wilfully fail or refuse to render I such true account in the various 'particulars required shall l?e , guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall he lined a sum not exceeding $100.'' The appointees for this county, will) the territory in which each is to gathers statistics, so far as we have been ahle to learn, are as follows: (Jills ('reck township ? J 1'! Hunter, B Cunningham. Pleasant Hill? W B Bruce, l> j N Maekey. Buford, W D Gavle, Walter i Carnes. Flat Creek?John K Faile, M i A Connelly. i :mo i reck?#1 M IVrrv, Unfits (' ('rockett. ( Vtlar Crock?C F Tillman. Indian Land?L Shurley. Waxhaw? \V .1 Crenshaw 1 ? ? i ? Announcement , FoU SUi'EKlXTENhENT OF EDUCA I ION T<> the Voters of Lancaster County: j Willi many thanks f n past favors, ami at the solicitation of friends I . hereby annou. ee myaelf as a eatnli- , (kite for tin office of Countv tMii?eriu- I fendent of Kdil'ation, subject to the I rules governing the Democratic prl-* ! inary; and if elected my time and energies are yours for the best intercuts .J E HI-A( KMON ARRIVAL IT H ' A S bankTng! FOURTH iude our initial how to an approeiati >n's Share'' of the trade, hut we ha< WAS OUR V/ xii3i3 ? Acknowledged hy f vsilcd any to l>e found anywhere, ir Miss Thorn lias no rival for Beau , stylish and dainty, pr'ces cheap. SHOWERS OF GREAT VALUE 1 all the time. Entirely new, so I for them. iflTHERING OF \ ties for our nine stores, Yorkville, icked. Do you know that we ur< re literally spar! v kind. Take a ood judgment ; Ik m *. % n I I ?? ? ~ ? 'man |M oiu? on ( ices are so tempt Youi Nanking * * \A ri 1 ' V V /I 5 rmv^T '1 A JL JOs-.^L i*i IM NEX FO! ADVERTIS POUTER a x s n _ 5 _j f g t s fROwnir SK RKADY. iMERGAMT MONTH. vc public that has since showered us \> 1 no idea that we would command it so MILLINERY OPEN ririids :ina Kio, :is noillg tlio host (lisp An I tho rarest Foreign and Now Yo ty anil Boooniingncss. Ol'lt PKIC1 Mourning millinery for Spring. N FEW SPRING GOODS. cheap, so pretty. Hundreds havo ti WONDERFUL BAB Lancaster and Kit haw, and selling so < HOll ill <r Ill'l'C /.I 1 If. -J f I '.^'1'' nn.l \\r..l ^ j-.?* - \> a i 'i v on vJiuwMT ?u?i ff til c <liii& with newness rip around our clc uid cash dictates i lianj sates, is llie ; in-lv tow. that it it *m respectfully, k MERCAN' *i.ou I'J-.iv 1 i 1 'Wr /ui1 JOE :t issue R raw ;ement. ; BROS. US! - IB ILE GQ,3>? ,itli its favors. We knew that so<m. 1IN6 MONDAY lay ever shown in Lancaster.!? rk Patterns arc to? l>e produced r:s ARE VERY LOW. Big I ought them, hundreds are wear GAINS. close, because the <*ood? arc alst Silks { W e have the rare s in notions and <r :im5 lilifto ' r? ;arly purchase, guiding star to s a pleasure to TILE CO.