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Paid un "Values ?nd % extended Insurance Written in Policy CONTRACT. # * y ^ r W u.il O ijt/O '"' J /'is a s a an* 5 - tlHliSfj Kosidciit VjTMit., I i Or vvritu to L ? Mi'ter, ? ' < iciUM'Jll v\ JHIlt. 1402 MAIN STKKKT, COLUMBIA, S. C. s MONEY TO TO AN. I HAVE M ADK arrangement with brokers in New York t'ity through whom I niu able to plane loans seeure?l by it first mortg ig on improved forma for flveyeur time, payable in ( "(allme' ta, at the low rate of 7 per nt Interest per annum. The broker u*n ami ilui charge for t anil Inspection are small and at the ex* penae of the borrower. R E VV Yftl E. Atty at Law. Cdicat* Toar >i?w?l? With t imcnrom. Oaadf Catttnrtie, eure oonHtipatlon forever lOo. Ac ir (i c. C fail, (,?>wr4.'tKtK refunti <noney. OAHTOHIA. S?ar, t*? />1 ^ Kind Ym Hart Always BoufM jBJts I For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have AllMOI'C L-tiWVUJO Bears the $ ?. Signature / fk'jy>' ti Jr 'n ftr ^SB I/ For Over Thirty Years - V ! THE CENTAUR COM 7F?V, NEW VOUK CITY. rsibse:: ~jmwES&am j&Us. -r**. > r-Mf?a:ir LANCASTER AND CHESTER RAILWAY Schedule in eff'ct Dee iT, IS'.*!). ( Daily except Sund ? ) WKSTBOCND I EASTIi t N I). No's. 14 and 1G ! No's. <. and 16' A M. P M. \ I' M T 67 Got) Ar Chester Ly 1" 3 h 1(1 7 *21 6 Id Kichliurs; 11 0 17 7 12 4 6H Baseonibville 11 HO 7 (5 67 4 3d Fort Lawn 11 60 ; P M d 30 400 Ly Lancaster Arl2 30 0 1 No. 14. Having Lancaster (5*30 am. ninkes close connection ui Chester with Souihem Railway No 3d for Charlotte and points north; and Sea board Air Line ' Atlanta Special" for Atlanta and points west Also with Carolina and Northwestern Hallway No. 10 for cnoir N. C and intermediate points, and southern Kailw? I. V.v ? > r ?- I ....j >.> iui v oiuium: ui <1 points son i h No. 17, leaving Chester 10,30 a ni connects with Southern Railway No .1(5 from Columbia and ??oinlw south; Sea hoard Air Line "Atlanta Special" from northern and eastern points and Southern Radway No 33 fr in Northern and eastern points, an ? a Lancaster with C O ! } for Rlackshutc No. 1(5, leaving Lancaster -1 00 p ni connects at Lancaster with 8 i' A O K fiom ( aimlen and Marion. and Southern Railway No. It at Chester for ( harlotte und points north. No. 15, leaving Chester fi.10 p in, conn ris ut < heater with Southern Hull way No. 84 from "ohiu)t>ia ami pointa aotith. Ja"> M. HEXTH, Gen Pass. Agt LKItOY HPltlNGrt. President.. Notice to l>ehtors and Creditors of IV M. IMvler, Deceased. \ LI. Persons indebted tottie estate IV of 1* M Pi-ler, deceased will come forwaTo at once and make settlement w ith the undersigned. Persons having claims against said estate will present them, duly vended, to the undersigned. W. H PLYLEK, Geo. W PLYLEK. Executors. CJ ? _ I Jf- IT?I ? ? y B -r, r. =3 i ? I C/3 "Z -T - ? VsX r~ V 3 <y. o ! " %\ ia8&8 ? mr-s-l ? u n x a 3. C- C ^ IT ^ X. O S S. ?i ?!5o=r? I a ** 2 S- m ?> 1 > ** g? cr. ^ ? g\S ? o* ' ? C ? 2 ? ? 8^ 2 $ > mmSm * *3. F ~ 2 M. C , h C? E (t ft ^ 3 ^ w iri_ B' 3 <&.? s-8*2 ~ pt ** ? K ^ J J1 3 p, = o ^crq 5-? |g-|<g * n *** v> - *_ x* sr i S c- o ? p ts -? rj: ^ *mmcm a> i <- ? ? ? g. ? X. ? 2" ?_ B "? ? C. 3 ? b r& ^ 3 3 = ?i ?S 8 S |g|? s.5'1 a ? w B . co ' w 3 &; g s * ai^h C* ? ft. fio ?.* r* s-f-.BR.scf ? !fg ? ?1 ft 1 ff I ! Floods Are Frightful, "MISSISSIPPI AND \LABAMA TOWNS CUT OFF ENTIRELY | Birmingham Slitters Heavily anil Several Kail maris Stop Trying to Urn Trains. I Birmingham, Ala., April 17 ? Nor'ht rn Alahama has experienced a flood exoooriin!* anv over known ' before. Vi\c miles of the South-! tin's track near York is under ' water, and two miles of the Ala banitt Cireut Southern road in the ' ... . , same vicinity is washed away. All trains havo been abandoned. The i \\jS. N is under water near Bangor, I ! north of here. The K C., M & i 11 siitiered considerable damage. I . . . | Nearly all trains coining into . I ! Birmingham are delayed and many trains havo been annulled. The mines are tloodcd and at some work cannot be resumed for a week. A number of in lustries will be 1 crippled. Meridian, Miss, April 17 ? Seven inches of rain has fallen here since Sunday The estimated damage is $200,000. Two futalities are reporte 1. The city is surrounded on three sides with water and all trains are indefinitely delayed. Memphis Reports from Northern and Central Mississippi today arc meagre. Telegraphic and telephone communication ate beriouslv interrupted. The heaviest rains those sections Imve known in years haye fallen within he past two days. Travel j and traffic are suspended. Reports from .Jackson state no; trains have passed through there since the southbound passenger; train on the Illinois Contial yesterday morning. Washouts arc reported in all J directions. iiie "ijiillu ?J." road , and Illinois Central trucks are under water at several points. Reports from Crystal Springs and Madison say the cranberr*' and strawberry beds are under water and the early crop entirely itisi. 1 ><*111 cotton and corn crops J will Imve to lio replanted in many 1 places. Meridian, 4 p in?The Hood , situation has reached frightful proportions. This city is cut oil from the outside world except I?\ three telegraph communications on the Western t'nion wires. All trains arc marked annulled for an indefinite period. The Atlanta & Viekshurg pus- i >???'- ' ?M.-<CMk. T. W. SECRESf, mvtvon, o-u kola, > ? Ir fully <*?)iti|>?I, ami qualilieii, ami i solicits \our surveying. CHESTER mama AND LUMBER COMPANY. _____ A ________ CHESTER, S. G. o The ( hester Machine Co. ami R, M Spratt ?fc ( o . have cotisollit:it>m| tht two pant*, hpiI now retuty to furnish I anything in the Machine and (nimhe! line*, with-a well eqnipptil K >uii?lr\ ami Machine Chop, ami Door, Kush aild Blind Fac'orj < ur facilities art | ui)i<|uaile(l in this part of the State KKAPKRS MOWK1K THRESHERS. GINS, ENGINES SA ?V MILLS, i HAY AND CO t I ON PRESSES. I HARROWS, CASIINGS, ETC. ALSO SECOND HAND MACHINERY. w Mi I In complete for Dwelli^s Ht'?rn Hooin?, etc. heinl um lint of your wuiitfl, rimI we will aiiHWt r 'jy return until Rexpeotfullv, CHESTER MACHINE & LUMBER COMPANY. ?7" Sabicrib? t? Tub Ledokk. Clrto w>iM one act. wary m4 mSmh Di. Bin' RuBuHti Ntrtm toiaga mc scnger, due hero at 12:.'?0 o'clock yesterday, has been water bound twelve miles from the city twentvfour hours. The passengers arc without food, the train being unable tin'omc forward or g> l>ack. The damage to the Atlanta & X icksburg, A lal>aina G reat South, ern, Mobile *Sc Ohio and New Orleans ?S: No'th Kastern railroads reach $50,000 i 11 tracks and tres ties swept away by the flood. Twenty-five percent, of all fertilizer on farming lauds throughout the State is a total In..* nn,l ?l>? truck plantations in a radius of ten miles arc submerged. Three fatalities are reported, the victims being negroes who lost their lires trying to save cat tie. Their bodies have not been recovered. Hie rain has ceased and the waters are receding. Mobile?All trains on the Mobile Ohio railroud between this place and Meridian, Miss, are abandoned and no train has left here since yesterday morning. New Orleans?The rait storms here are almost unprecedented und railroad traffic is seriously affected. Much damage lias been done to property. Eight inches of rain fell at Amite City, Iowa, in 24 hours aim over nine at Yicksburg. The Illinois Central road is tin able to move along the main line. Much damage has been done to the crops. Heavy winds accompanied the rain storm and telegraph and telephone wires are down all over the State, while bridges are washed out and muds delay ed. ., ? rr^Ttrr "i?iinar Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. Ail the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes. . ,3>2jj ^ The kidneys are ycur C;- fi\ ,,J'lu,Jd pui ifiers. they fi! i ') tcr out 'he waste or JFpjjyftyx >i, r impurities in the biocd. ' r~: . r "7^1' If they are sick cr cut ts ci or<*er' 'hey fail to do J>^ ^ c y>\ their work. Tis/W'/r | l Pains, aches andrheu/ fjj l mattsm come from cxJr4 cc::s uric aci<*in '^e wiuuu, uuc to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart teats, and makes cne feel as though they h.id heart trouble. Lecause the heart is over-working in pumping thick, k.dr.eypoisoned blocd through veins ar.d arteries. It used to le consider; 4 that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that i.caily all constitutional c.leases have their beginning in kidney troubie. IJ you are sick you can make no mistake by f irst doctoring your ki .'neys. The mild and the extra ..i.ary rf ecc ci Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the j reat kidney remedy is soon realised. It stands the highest fcr its wenderf .1 c .res of the mcst dittre: mgcases and is sold on its merits ^ cent and one-dollar u es. You may have a sample bottle by mail iiom? or swunp-Root free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have k.dney cr bladder trouble. Mention th.s paper when writing Dr. Kilmer fit Co., Binghamtcn, N. Y. 1- M. SEVEN RUNNINC B' Johnston's ! QUART E THE GREAT SPI JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA as greatest SPRINQ MEDICINE ever disco1 heaven to the worn out," the run down, the feeling." those "sinking spells," the languor a Ished nerves, from thin, vitiated blood and soell. The wecxines* laccitnHo or,A time and the heat of summer, are conquered neurasthenia, and all ailments of the brain an generally, it is almost a specific. It furnisher tissues. It feeds brain, nerve centers and nei makes rich. red. honest blood. Newness of ful use. It makes the weak strong, and the c It was the antiquated (but now happily et treat .Salt Rheum, Scrofula, Cancer anc BLOOD TAINT with powerful alteratives, a agents. It was expected by this treatment th was left to course through its channels holdir disease. But in this way. every part of the ing can be more terrible than a horribly tiestt lently the different structures of the body, b and destroyed. It often seeks out the nerves cay and death to some vital organ, as the kid scientific method for the cure of blood taint, of tie blood must h? r*mr>v*.A thmi.ffh th- ??. liver and skin. " First pure, then peaceable, vitalizer of the blood. JOHNSTON'S SAR: haustively removes the taint, but also r?mov< and fills the veins and arteries with the ruby, the life." Good heaith means pure blood. 7 SARSAPARILLA, is universally regarded ered. This fact is now established beyond qi HI.OOD POISON CUBED H W .14 Williams Davis. Brookf & Co.. Detroit: Gentlemen:?In Apri' last I began using JOHNi by an amputation of one of my arms. I had SEVEN nU was entirely cured. I know it Is what cured me aetosxio-aviv nnuca com r'rawfont Bros, Lai.catit-r H. O. I ' F Mackey A Co, Laocaa'.er, H .C Suicide With Dynamite. J .F Newman, a wiuely known miner, comnrtted' suicide l?y blowing himself up with dynamite in a house near Dutch Creek mine No. 2 near Salisbury Tuesday morning. The act was deliberate and he left several letters to friends stating his purpose. The building was blown to pieces and tho body much mangled. Newman was a brother of Walter (Jeo. Newman, of the I'nion Copper Mining company. $100 r: v:\v v i< i) Shm>. Tin* lead' is of 'his piper will l>?* |i eu-td ( ? 1 cm 1 ' Hial lucre if :il lea>( one dreadol iiisea?e that science naheen ab'e In cure in all i'? si t is an-l ti-Mt is f'uiniiii Mall's atari 11 I'ur i * I lie on y po* it i ve rinc kno vn 1 I ne tin (Ileal Intei inly ' alarm i-e'n ^ a coll tiilltiollai disease, n (jilircs a eon stitntimial 11 eat nieiii, Mall'.- < atarrh < lire is t ken interna:ly, iietimr ill reetly upon the liluiul and 'UU 'ous surfactant the system, lliereh\ destroy i 1 ir the found illon of the ills use and Hiving the pa'ient strength hy hiiilds in npthe on.-tim ion a >d a-.-istinir iia nre in (i'iiic i s work '1 tie t-ro prietors ha\ e so mm h (aim 1 i seiiru I i V' p 1 we is, t hat they olt'-i < hie I 1 U'l tired Dollars 'm any ease that ii Ihi s to cure "fend for list tf tesiiiuoni'ils. \(hires* K. J it !t I'.N ?2Y vV: Toledo, O. aBgfSold by Druireists. 75*. Hall's Kumily I'iils urelhehe-t. A Chance toltuy )'on a Home. Any party or parties desiring to purchase any of the real estate of T M Fitzpatriek & liro., in the town or county, can get prices and terms by calling on the editor of The Ledger. The Messrs Fitzpatriek have so no very desirable farms tnd valuable improved town property and their being on the market gives men of moderate means a splendid.opportunity to purchase a homo. ? I Ten Men indicted for (joebel's Murder. Frankfort, Ivy, April 17?The I Franklin county grand jury thi^ I afternoon returned indictments < against 10 persons, charging them < with complicity in tiro tm ider of 1 Win (ioehel. The principals ! named are Henr y K Voutsoy, , i lames Howard, llcrrv Howard, j J ilailund .V blttakcr and "Tallow J Dick'' Combs icolorod). Those' i indicted as accessories heforo tlio i 1 fact are Secretary of State Caleb! I I Powers, Cant .John T ^'harton.i Colder.. In the indictment, re-! < latino to tho alleged acre?otic-, three other men are indirectly re- j | ferred to r.n accessories, thouch I no indictments were reported i louinst them. The)' are (iov W S Tayloi, (Irecn Golden and Cajd * John Davis.* j ( fiSH Have you forgotten to ' |)iiy your mibsri ipt ion t?? Lc?i?er? ' dMMc/.vlA^Kn-' - V ."Ml*JjCUM i SORES CURED ? SarsapanlSa lOTTLES. ( ^ I INCi /WEDICJMC. a Blood Food and Nerve Energizer, Is th? vered. It corr.es as a rich blessing (rom 5 overworked and debilitated. That " tired ^ nd despondency which arise from badly nouran underfed body, vanish as if by a magic ( prostration which accompany the spring, and banished at once. For every form of 2 d nerve, insomnia, hysteria and nervousness 5 the very elements to rebuild worn-out nerve o rves. calming and equalizing their action; it life, new hope, new strength follow Its faith lid young again. tploded) method In the good old times, to i other troublesome disorders arising from iuch as mercury, arsenic and other rninera' at the poison could be killed while the blood J ig in its circulation the r-eciftc germs of the body became more or less diseased. Nothuctive blood taint, it not only attacks viruut many times the bones are honey-combed and spinal cord, and again it will bring deneys. liver or stomach. There is only one That is. PURIFICATION I Every particle tcretory chann Is, the lungs, kidneys, bowels, 1 " The great restorative, reconstructive and SAPARILLA, not only radically and ex- ? :s all mercury, calomel and other minerals, L glowing current of vitality. "The blood is m he old and reliable remedy, JOHNSTON'S j as the greatest Blood Purifier ever dlscov- J lestion or cavil. i * msiTOX * RARIAPARILLA. 4 Byron. Mich., October 31, 1894. 4 JTON'S SARSAPARILLA for Blood Pofson, reused * RUNNING GORb.S on my legs. I used two bottles 4 Yours truly. G. W. LUTHER. vAmr. DBTnoiT, auolit j )anlel A, Hick*, Fo.t l.awn, H. C . D H Jordan, For. Lawn, H. C. 41 * ?- ' ~~ ' X AFRICAN BATTALION ATTACKED A T DAYLIGHT. 1.200 Tn^alos Swoop Down on Fart of 40th Uc>;iinent at Cagayan. Oar Loss 15; Filipinos 80. Manila, April 17 ?Twelve hundred Taoulos attarked Casey's Imtlalion hoail?|n triors of Iho Fortieth p#?rri iiw?n !if C.i.Tiii'.ni I I..... I ' ..V v ill, 1>I!IIMI <>1 Mindanao, <>!i 1110 7th. Tho Americans hail lb casualties, while of tho attacki force 7>0 were killed and .'50 wounded or taken prisoners. The enemy, nmnherinix l.M? lillemen, the ro.? nmindcr bein<? holomen, archers and mounted spearmen, swooped down in a howling mass, at daylight, surprising and killing three of the sentries. Thoy swarmed tho streets in small parties, some bearing scaling ladders, l?y means of which they attempted to enter the house#. The American"* tumhled out of the barracks and formed in the plaza and com panics j><w:m sweep-, injj the town. The subsequent street tijjhtin?r lasted minutes. Twelve of the wouud< <l Americans are now on board the hospital ship Relief. 1 Itn ?? ...1*1.-1 J 1 1 ...v/ vin.ui > ^iiuurcw to Ine mountains in great confusion. CASTORS A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bougiit Signaturo of A Filipino General Surrenders. Manila, April 17 ? (Ion Monengro, one of the insurgents' est tighter*, has surrendered lo :\?l Smith in the mountains near Jamaling, in the province of the I'angasinan, where, with General Maeuhnlos lie had liecn trying to eorgani/.u the Filinino arm v. (VI J ' x"" Smith, with live companies of the Seventeenth regiment, nearly surrounded the force of Montenegro, ivho, discouraged by the impossi>ilitf of making his men stand igaiust the Americans, surrendcr;d. Macuhuios escaped. hi: Fooidd) tiik sriiii KO \ S All doctors told Uenick Ilamilon, of West lidferson, ()., after .idlering i s months from Rectal Vistula, he would die unless a ostly operation was performed; ?ut he cured himself with live llixes of Burkina's Ami.Ml - . .. .V.% % jim * lie surest Pile cure on Karth, and lie hest Salve in the World. '25 ents a l?ox. Sold hv Crawford tros. Druggist. !cli{,rii)iis. The appointments of Hov. 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