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THE LEDGER. Th irlow Carter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. SATl llDAY (K'TOHKlt G, 1000. .1. 11. W Hydride and Wife Driven Down by a Negro. Special to The State. (hangehuri*. Oct M? A ?-a 1 and deplorable accident occurred near lvcrntt'a mill, in this county, on last ^un lav afternoon, resulting in the death of a most estimable gentleman, Mr. .1 11 YY Ilydrick, and the painful injur y of his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Hvdrick wore returning home from church in a bu_gy. lit tie dreaming what an awful fats in afore for them, w!im suddenly, from tb? rear ami without any warning whatever, thev vrero driven into by a negro driving at a fearful rate of speed, hi-, horse an I miggy literally tearinn through Mr ll'drick's turn out. Mr. Ilydrick and his wife we;a thrown a considerable distance, where thev lay some tinae before receiving fid The black perpetrator of thi* dastardly a't continned on his way without even stopping to inquire into the condition of his victims. The injured parties wore taken home as soon n- possible, Mr. Hvdriek !> hilt unconscious ami remaining .almost wholly so until hie death, which occurred Tuesday afternoon. Mis. IlydnicU, though painfully injured, will recover. Whether the negro's home became unmanageable or not i* not known, but if such was true he gave no word of warning to the unsuspecting parties ahead ofhnn, and to all appearances it was a diabolical outrage,emanating from the brain of a liend who regarded not the laws of man or God. i <\ r\ r. > I i I ? I >1.1 >1 III A I"( ) It SA I 'F. K F.r.i'iMs. Orangeburg, Oct 4? Bill Wilson. the negro who drove into the buggy containing Mr. and Mrs. .1 11 \V Ilydrick, on l*>t Sunday afternoon, causing a fearful accident, resulting fatally to M*\ Hvdric.k, has haon apprehended and was kept in jail until this afternoon, when, owing to rumor* ol Ivnching, Sheriff I hikes deemed it advisable li remove the prisoner to Columbia. Wilson was sent in company with a deputy, the parte leaving here on the Coast uii 9 ti si 111 ;u i ills afternoon, going via Sumter. Whether or not there is any Iruth in th* rumors is not positively known, though excitement has been at a high pilch near the scene of the tragedy. and there is no telling w 1 at might have been attempted, owing to the prominence of Mr. Ilydrick. However,any attempts at lynching will be frustrated by the prompt removal of the pri- ! s; ner. L II W, Jr. The Society for the coming Fair offers $1,000 in county dis~ : plays?of $400, $.'>00, $200 and ' $100. It will he wall for the : various counties to arrange at (.nee in an effort to secure one of these prizes. The Society will pay the freight on all exhibits raised or produced in the State shipped by railroad, released. The premium list shows an in - I (Tea*? in the number of Premium* ami a decided increase in the vulu? of the Premiums. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears th. +-?" Signature of V Abduction Reported From Florence Thirteen~Year-Old Hoy Taken From Hi* Home by a Man ( Who Peddled Clocks. Special to The State. Florence, Oct 4. ? What looks ^ like a treniiine of abduction i>.u ?.. i: -1-^ i n'uir ??? ii^'iu in r inrcnce j county. Last Friday morning < John llevwuud, a l.'Lycar-old hoy, disappeared from his father's | home in the FJlin<*ham section. Mr J K llevward, the father of , the lost l?oy, had bean told 1 ?y , responsible parties that he was . seduced from his home l>v a man named Simmons, a pretended : clock peddler and tinkerer. . Nothing had been seen or heard of Simmons since Friday. It is , thought that they went in the direction of North Carolina. | Simmons had been at Fdlinghatn , for several weeks and the people , believed in him. Mr K Hatchel! knew of the matter, but at the | time thought nothing of it. It seems from what he says that ( Simmons had promised the boy to take him to Florence and leave him there, so that he nii?jht re ' turn 111 the afternoon with his father, who was in town. Mr j I ley ward is nearly heartbroken' over the disappearance of his j child. 1 le has made extensive inquiries with no success. Miners Midnight Parade. Thousands of the Miners With I Their Lumps Trimmed and Burning March From Town to Town. Tower City, Oct It. ? The striking coal miners of this di* trie! completed the tie up in the west end of Schuylkill count? l?y a grand torch lij/ht procession at midnight. Ahout a thousand miners with their mine lamps burning made a tour-mile march to the top of the mountain. The spectacle was viewed by thousands in the valley. The parade, head cd l>y a l>un<l, marched from vill- I age tc village and at all points wu.joined oy non-unioni?ts, who agreed to <piit work. Tonight Anotker lug torch-light parade takes place on the inonn tain top, when a thousand striking miliars will join two thousand of this district and march to Willinmston to cloao the big colliery there. Then no coal will l?e mined in this district at all. 400,000 Hales Lost. Fort Worth, Texas, Oct ? The latest report estimates ihe loss of cotton !?y the recent floods at four hundred thousand hales. "Unfortunate Shooting Scrup." A correspondent at Kingatree, in wil ing the Recount of a killing in Williamsburg county, speaks of the event as "an unfortunate j shooting scrape.*' The unfortunate shooting acrape i consisted in one man's emptying i hoth barrels of u shotgun in the i hack of his retreating neighbor. I It was an atrocious murder; but i the taking of human lift is so ; common an occurrence that it is i not unfi trjuently spoken of as 1 simply "unfortunate.1' and it is t usually mi treated when it goes i before * inrv 1 - J-J' I" Tli? State Fair authorities in Columbia have been unable to ul>- t tain ii? pood rates for the Fair as they had hoped. The railroads ( piTe for individuals a rate of one first class fare for the round trip , plus fifty cents admission to the Fair Ground. Military companies and braes bands in uniform pet: one cent per mile. Republican Contention. l'he lirother in Black Controls the Organization. Jolumhia Koeord, 41li in*t. The*colored delegates took full ontrol of the ltcpnltlican convert-* ion last nioht and thr white men acta not much in evidence. Th re ivere not moro than fifteen or wentv of them altogether, hut .hoy took no ]>nit to apeak of. n?? ......v i;?~ #:..u.i.. i . ..v, \ \? ??i > nil >Tn-> ll^lllIN III awn, nit after negroes secured control >f t in* ftf^Mlliznt it all t ho X i ivhitc delegates some positions on the executive committee ami elec toral ticket. K H Denf, the "Duke of Darlington," n bright mulatto, wuh elected chairman of the executive committee amid-t jjieut enthusinmin and Kooort Small* was similarly chosen vice chairman. K R Tol11*11 and K A Webster were eltoLed mombeis at lar^eof thoe.xecu Live commit tee. The follmvinj* is the electoral ticket: Dr. ('turn and L W (J 1 Hillock, at lar^c; first district, I a i Holmes, <>f Iteaufort: semnd, T A (Mom, of I'Mwelichl; third, ,1 W ToM??rt, Ninety Six: fourth, H 11 h'elton, (ireenville; lit'th, li I' Roberts, Cherokee: sixth, M K 11 o 11 o e a v, Marion: seventh, (ieorjm \V Murrav, Sumter. Small* made an etl'ort to have a complete tnir lit hot nominated, l?ul, though he received soui? sup port, the convention wa* overwhelmingly opposed to taking audi n ii*e!?i>* action. Georgia Stale Election. (iovernor Candler and Other Officer* lie Klect 'd fi?r h Second Tern*. Atlanta, Oct Jl.?The (ieorgia State and county election* were held today, (lov Allen I> Candler and other State otli.Mal* were elected tr? euccted themselves by i . ' ? > ? >n!y playing with the trap. Mr. Stone would like to know if any nan ran beat this. The story can >e vouched for by the neighbor*, ,vho saw the snake in the the trap rhursday morning. PASTOniA. Bun tb? /) Kind You Have Always Bought :i i :i r?;f toic, I its lor lll(? l'Opullst candidate for Governor, lecnived only * small vote. Out of tlie 1 :;7 counties of the State there wore prohahly *j0 , where the is?ue over the county ollicea, between Populists and Democrats, was douhtful. In these few counties the election ! was a spirited one, hut in most of them Democrats were elected. The constitutional amendment to increase the pension appropriation of the Stale was prohuhly carried. The amenrtinnit pro- j vides a pension for the indigent widows of confederate veterans. I he annual pension appropriation is over Shr?0,hoO. It * estimated that the addition of the new { eix-s of pensioners contemplated in the amendment will run theans niihI appropriation up to anout $1,000,'000. A Snake in a Hat-Trap. Lamberts Point Correspondence Norfolk Virginian* Pi lot. Mr. L. N. Stone, who resides it the corner of Lambert's Point road and Milestone street, owns a rat trap that breaks ull records for faithful work. In seven days t has caught ten rats, one chicken ind a poplar-leaf snake. You can magine Mr Stone's surpaise when le opened the door and saw a make instead of a rat. The trap was baited with cheese. It is not cnotrn whether his snakeship wm :ond of cheese 01 not, or if it was ? < < r * ? Mi , Hester's Report A Decrease for the Month Com pared Wit'i Last Year of 2?'H>,000 Bales ?Mi. Taking?, Exports Mid Stocks. Now Orleans, La. Oct 2. ? Sec*!' retai v Hoelc''* Nc?* Orleans cot-'1 t< 11 exc jatiire statement issued to* day, cover* the monthly move* 1 merit to the dose of September. 1 (' - i i i- i v.t mi iif?i >>iiii him vcar i? kiiows a decrease fen the month in round figures of 2.'h',0(Ml hales. I lie statement shows receipts at ports for the month ? 1 S>, l#St? hales, against 7sn,*12S la-t \?nr: net shipments overland 22,532, ??*iiiiisi r,;?,2s'.'> last year: Southorn mill takings, exclusive of con - u m |> ion at Soul hern out ports, 1 13,737, against I last year: interior stocky in excess wf atiioun** held Sept 1-.t, 123,081, noaiii.^l 13?>,345 last \ear. American mills have taken dur* ing the month 15.r>,2<iO hales, against 230.454 last year, of which by Northerr spinners and Canada overland were against log 7'.'2 I-o reign exports for Septcmtier 544 *?. 7<t:?, show ing a decrease under the Mime period hint year of loO,842. Stocks at the seaboard and the 20 leading Sou1.horn interior mar kcts at the closs of Septeniher were 100,0*8 against I,?'ad,.'14 1 Inst year. IDeluding stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop anil the number of bales of 1hr urn crop brought into aiirht during September, the *up-? ply to date is 1,001.S?;| bales, against l,7o7,bl* last year. Negro Rioters Arrested. Georgetown, S (!, Oct 4.? At the institution of Mayor Morgan, several arrests of negroes have been made in connection with the recent riot hare. Fourteen of the ringleaders hare been placed in jail, on various charges, among them seven women. South Carolina KnternrC* Special to the < *I'ceil iIie Nowk, Columbia, S. C Oct. 3.?'I'iio eecretary >f stale lias issued a commission to the Cetsraro Mills company oi lied Bluff, Marlboro county, which is to operate a (otton mill, Hit? capital slock is to l>o $30,000. A commission \r:t? also granted to tlx* Mullin* hanil Improvement company. The capital stock is to lie $20,000 The Pendleton Telephone company 1ms been commissioned with a capital of $t>00. Oak Building and Loan association of Charleston wa? commissioned with $12,000 capital. The Citizen's Bank of ilonea Bath was chartered; capital atock $ _'.">, 000 capital. A charter was granted to the j Major-Bnssey company of Pied 1 moot to do h general merchandise business; capital $.5,000. William Langston the young white man who wh* arrested in Columbia on the charge of being accessory to the killing of I Inward ... ' Allen and aiding in the eacupe of Smith has been released in Cohan-| bia for want of evidence. II K tOOLKI) Till!; SITIIOM)\S All doctors told lteeick Hamilton, West Jefferson, ()., after suffering 18 months from Kcctal Fislulo, ho would die unions a costly operation was performed; but ho cured himself with five boxes of llucklen'e Arnica Salve, the surest l'ile cure on Earth, and the beat Salve in the World. 25 cents a box. Sold by Crawford llros. Druggist. t Last Report of the Crops Issued | Remarks* I'pon the General lteault of the Season's Farming Operations in South Carolina. 1 i The following is the final report , of the season of the weather and i. crops in South Corolina issued j Tuesday oy Hi rector Bauer of the South Carolina aec'ion of the1 climate and crop aervice of the (1 I'nited Stales Weather Bureau: Tha week ending S a m, Mon- j' day, Octohar 1st, was again very j1 hot, the temperature averaging ' over six degrees per dar warmer than u>ual, and had a maximum of y*, and a minimum of 55 dej . grees, tha former at Blackville, the latter *? Cliei aw. The wrek wa? rainless. The ( ground has again become too dry for plowing, and hut little oataor wheat seeding has been dona, the M I i work awaiting more favorable conditions ior preparation and germination. The weather was , uninterruptedly favoralde for gathet iug crop*. Corn ia being houaed. and now 1 it is certain that !a*s than half a crop will lie gatheied. Late corn ia a complete failure. Cotton picking made favorable progress, and from hull to sevenright* of the crop ban been gather eu. \ iei<s* nre estimated at from half to nearly three -fourth" an average crop. Many correspondents ?tat" that picking will oe ! practically completed hv Oct 16th, which in unusually early, *lue to the continued abnormal heat and drynes*. There will he no top crop of any account. Sea inland yields are also light, and half has been gathered. IVrs, swoct potatoes, upland rice, i-ano and hay crops are unusually poor, in many places failures, except that a few localities report an abundance of grass for hay. Karlv rice harvest is finished, and June rice it ripening. The rice crop is the only tine ono cultivated this year. Birds are destructive in the Georgetown dis- | tricts. Turnips are coming up poorly, and in muny places no stands have heen secured. Stock water is scarce in places. The *\. I I - I - * i.>ii i>?-;>u nop oidtt iair i<> ho it partial lailure. Notice. As the staple crops' have reached maturity and minor crops sic either ripe or cjathored, Mnd the prohahle yields no longer snhjoct to weather influences, the issue of these bulletins n ill he I suspended with this number until | Lhospiing of 1?01. Correspon. out- will plea-o accept the thank* of the weather bureau in appreciation of their valuable weekly reports. Pay your oiibcription to L KJlOKRt jjr \ owt. 1 a HORSES I HORSES I MORSES! \Vp have Just rtoeiwd a carload of unmber one Itnrse* from A t lain a,every a it i ma I having i>"t?n carefully nelec ed in person Ity our Mr. Klliott. In the lot are pome of the llne-t hereon ever IiioukIiI Luilib market. If you want u good Haddler, or a good Ihivor, or u Kood combination how, now it your time 10 get it We now luvejuit what you want and need ( ail and *ee for yourself. We take pba-uire in exhibiting our stock, an well as Vehicle*. ft A If will either nell or *w?p, and kHLs fi will aell either for the caab ?w W or good paper. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD! I .Se PER ANNUM York County Planter Dead. Special to The State. Hock Hill, Oct 1.?Col Frank II Brown, one of York county'smost influential citizens, died Saturday at his home near Tirzab and* yesterday afternoon was !a:d to rest in Kbenezer churchyard hi this church he had been for many yours an elder, and the funeral services were conducted by t ho. pastor, the ltev .fames II Thornwell, 1) 1). Col Brown was in his 71st your and leaves a family, nil of whom hare arrived at mat urity and have families of thei* own. - - - - WaNTF.D ?ACJTIVK MAN of go< ri rliuracl^i' to ?!* 11vt r and colleiit in South <'nroiitia for old ?Htahiish* ri manutaetoi ihg w I, olo?aU* hoii>e ?!MiC h yt-ur sine pa v. H oncst \ moit* ilnti) ixperi.ine itipiircri, Out reicrt-nce. any bank in an\ city Kueloae selfarid resnori h( it in pot oDVf lore Manufacturers, Third Floor, I04 Dearbori St., Chiou|io ~ CLERK. S SALE. ST A IK OF SOUTH TAHOLIN/^. LA NI AS IKK COUNTY I it the- ('omm 'ii Plea* Surah Rebecca Com key, <( at, Plairl ill*. a (ja in tit Jasper N, Oaskey, at , F) fenrinnjK.I > V virtue of an Order marie in th? 13 ab >vc ca*e bv Jurist* J <" KIiiltFi, rial I'd Se t. 2l. Will, I will sell at | ulilic auction at La-icash r court house, within the loyal bourn ot sale, on tilt Fir*t tr.iiol,/ji v,,.. ...i * All 111ut piece. pmcpI or lra< I <>f Intel heimj, Ivinj? ami ait uete In < ane ( reek" Township in tlie r<niimy of Lancaster hi tlie Slate of South Carolina eon uilliHk' 'JOO Acre*. Mori or /.oi?. anil I?>u11 1<m1 North hv iiihIm of i ero\ ^primj.H. (f riuerly the Kwin InniUj, h.it| by html* of li N Sowell (former* iy Wi IhiuiH1 laixl i South by thepuhl/t roail leadi ? from lirown's Kerry on the* utawln diver to Liiucamer eon rt house, mill West by lands of J I! Sowed (f ?i nieily the j M (ireen lands ?the same being known hs the Juo. I) ankey home plaew tret' Terms of Sale: CASH. Piirehiwer to pay for nil leeensnry papers, W S I, POKIER C. O. C P 1, c. Green A Hi ties Plaintiffs' Alty Notice to Ik'litorN and Creditor* of 1*31 IMylor, l>eoouscd \ i.l. Peisons initebteil to the estate .if I*. M. I'tyler. deceased will I'liirn1 r<>rwar l at oihy and make settlement wi h the undersigned 1't-isoi s having claim* a.aihst n?id ut?* v iii present them, duly voided, to tlx underidgntd, W H I'LVI.KU, (i?e. W. ]?l YLUK Mxh it'ors. ?* To the taxpayeis of Lancaster county. The Trt'SHiii'i'lh office will he open ft>r the enllection of taxes lor ll-e tinea 1 ear I1MK), on the 1-jih tiny of (Viols, r and will clone the ;tl?t day of Decern her, 11*00 TIIK I.KVV IS \H HOI.I.OWs, Htate .S mills ' (Mintv " ^n eial ICAI'll H) :i " Sinking Kuii>l | tv <' I! 11) if " Constitutional Hcho I Tux " Total 1*?J lata'A I. I.KVV. Cane Creek township (' ?V c li It) (tills Creek I'ownahip (C I A c it It) ol !>l^ooo .. . u:i ?n ? - . . ..ont'i' ri III I OW[lMIII|l ' (' tV r It It) .$ 44 LOCAL I.HVV FOli S< llooL DIb'l KI(T*.? IjHIlf'H-lt-r 1 " Junes X KOHIIH l! 44 Heath Spring '< "" Oakliiir-t l 44 TOTAL LhV V IIY DISTRICT* Imlian I<nml 10j 44 Wuxlmw |ti^ 44 ( a lie ('reek l!l J 44 flrmleil vc|io->l 'Jf>\ *4 J'Mica X KOKIH 2MJ 4* (Jills Creek il'2, 44 (?ra<le<'Hi'honl ^0 41 Jones X Hoail.t '! 4 Bufonl 1?3 " Flat Creek Mi M * Keisliaw M^ " I'.oasunl Mill M{ " " , Kernhaw M{ ' " Heath ripi'lug " " Oiklmr.Ht " " J one* X Koadn " Cedar Creek M,- " ' " Jone* X Koitdi* M} " Ke*|>eet fully, \V c.CAl'lHKN, ? o Treat* urer. HEADQUARTERS For Best Virginia Lime, Cement Plaster Paris and Plastering Hair T. H. DAVIS' LANCASTER BAKERV Sub*cribeto Thk Lkdokk.