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T H E LEDGER. Tli ?rlow S. Ca.rt.er 1 DfTOR AND MANAGER. WKDNKSDAT. OCTOHKR, IT, 11?00 Ail good farmers will have i good deal of gram in before thi month is out. Outs ought to h in the ground now. But watel the thriftless farmer. He wil let October pass without gettin, anv grain sown, likewise Novem her perhaps. The chances ar thai ho can sow but little in He cemher, ami if he gets it sown i will make little or nothing. The hear the excuses he will make, al of vhieh amount to nothing bu inexcusable neglect. One wil say he was afraid "the fly" wouh eat his oats if iliey came up befor freezing weather; another that i doe* not pay to sow oats in th fall, they get killed out so badlv another that January is the hes n o ill to sow. therefore he sow in Match?and wastes his seed All arguments for late sowinj are contradicted by the best farm ers and by experience, at least o late \ears. Nearly every bushe of oats bought for seed grow from seed sown before frost Farmers who sow in December January, or later, don't sell oats Thev nearly always buy theii own seed.?Chester Lantern. We note that tho Gaffney Led ...... i. i?:. i _-i ucfiuni iu increase 11 subscription price from $1.00 t< $1.50 per year. The Ledger i one of the best semi weekb papers published in the State, and ns we have often said before, i paper that is worth anything a all is worth a great deal mon than $1.00 a year. The Ledger for instance, aends out 104 issue during the year, and at the for 111 or subscription price the ralut of each issue would bo loss thai on? cent. Since the increase ii price of paper, what little proli there has been in the publicatioi of weekly and semi weekly paper is greatly reduced, and wo tbinl it would be a wise move on tin part of other contemporurie similarly situated to follow tin example of the GatTney Ledger Their subscribers should bo will ing to pay wh it the papers ari worth. ?-The State. mi? n?i. : u^> iiic nuipmg ine rtinners For tho past nix or eight yeari there has been a cotton seed oi mill at Greenville. The mill alsc owns and operates a ginning system. Several years ago tho coin pany joined the trust. Last sum mora number of citizens living ir and around Greenville, conclude! that they would chip in and hi:il< another mill and also opera to ? ginnery. They had their plant ready for business when th<; sea soil opened last month. The old concern declared war at the outset, so far as the ginnery was concerned, and advertised to gin cotton at 75 cents a bale and include bag ging and ties in the price. The new concern met the cut, and as a result both plants were kept busy, cotton to them from a distance of 15 to 20 miles around. A few days ago the trust people cut the pi ice to 50 cents a bale for ginning bagging and tics, and advanced the price of seed from .'50 to 32 cents a bushel. The new concern met the cut and advance, and it is said that the end is not yet in sight. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tlw Kind Yoi Have Always Bought Apathetic Democrats. The Charleston Post has no I # .i i% -m raun in uryan. tier* is an editorial from its columns: "Of course it is nothing to us that Mr. Bryan's followers in Charleston do not contribute generously t>? the campaign fund, so sorely needed to assist his election, but we cannot help feeling rat *r ashamed for them that tliev have j been able to raise but toward i what tbev profess to consider a ir ! # t j holy c use. This niunincent 'amount is contributed by two i men. Now, we have personal 'acquaintance with three Bryanites | in Charleston and have suspicions of two more. The three partisans are not only outspoken but vociferous in their support of the ^ free silver candidate. They profess to believe that the defeat of the No' raskan will not onlv mark the end of Republican institutions 0 t in the Cnited States, but will de' stroy the individual liberty of every citizen of the republic, s particularly their own, of course. Now, what are they doing to avert the pending calamity 1 Talking with all their might, just as their leader is doing, but to smaller audiences, consisting cbieflv of 8 ? themselves. It seems to us, from I ' an nnti-Bryun view point, that 1 wore we persuaded our personal liberty was threatened we should make some other than vocal exertion to escape the clanking chains, but the Bryanites seem to figure otherwise, if we felt as s they do we should scrape as much > money as we could to give to the K cause, just as we might pay a 7 tine imposed by the court in prefer i once to going to prison. Of course a we do not expect the Bryanites to t be as free with their silver as they p want the government to be with i everybody's, hut ttiey might chip s in a tifty cent piece or so. At - least they should raise the cons tribution from Charleston to an 11 even $10. They might get that 1 good Bryanite, the News and t Courier, to start a subscription 1 liwt t c\ mol'o ??? w*?) *1' v?/ inanu >i|> mo Tw IIJOJ are s short of this sum." ' Whiit the Post says of Charles* s ton can, with slight changes, ho s truthfully said of practically every 3 other county in South Carolina. As the Democrats of this stato are - not stingy, the unanimous indiffer3 encc to the call for funds to help elect Bryan must he attributed to an apathy caused by a feeling of . inditFerence to his chances of success. South Carolina will rote i for him because he is the DemI ocratic nominee, and it looks as if > that is about all South Carolina will - do for him. Indeed, The Record - has been informed that a number of people approached for eon* ) tributions to the Bryan fund have 1 said they would vote for Bryan, I I>i11 were not enough interested in i the result to spend any money.? t Columbia Record. I , Make Dogs Work Roads. Riverton, 8 C, Oct 7, 11)00. Editor Chester Lantern: Mr. j j Hamilton's letter ts on the right line in regard to game laws. 1 , i ?-> ] ' want to add an amendment. Let the ; next legislature put a poll tax on i j the dog. Let each township have j I a dog assessor, pay him a com- j 1 mission on each dog assessed. Let this dog tax go to pay the overseers of the public roads, and to , j buy tools foi working the same, i This will bring in some revenue for the good roads, and reduce the mongrel dogH.that are destroy* i ing more birds than anything else I If we cannot get a state law, let the law be passed, and exemp-1 tions can be made by each delegation from counties where the jaw is not wanted. There are today more dogs in Landsford township than hogs. I^et us have more road tax or fewer dogs. Modoc. A. Million Dollar Gold Mine Concern. The State, 14th in?t. The secretary of state yesterday morning i-sued a commission to a concern which seems to be a pioneer in the nniitvr of the development of the south. It is to b? known as the Palmetto (?<>h I M ining company antl is to have a cap ital stock of $1,000,000 The headquarters of the compan** }l,-r to bo Spartanburg. and it is the purpose to mine, gold, silver, copper, etc. The corporators are LUC'annon of Spartanburg, and Henry Kurtz and Lucius C Embree of Princeton, Indiana This company i- to develop antl operate the West Spiings gold mine near West Spring* in the northwestern corner of Union county, about four toiler from Glenn Springs, in Spartanburg county. j Mr. Kurtz came down himself to secure the commission He is a practical miner and talked ! most interestingly of the put poses 'of his company. He says that 'already two shafts have been sunken, each thus fur havicg reuched 150 feet. They are to go ?everal hundred feet deeper At present ah ut .'{0 people are being employed and u 20 stamp mill is being operated He says they have seven our*11*1 vein*! ;?? .. trip of laud about 000 feet wide, the veins being about f>9 feet apart. It in believed tint they will widen the deeper the shafts go. He says they propose to lit the plant with automatic machinery f >r handling the quartz, and it lb now costing about $2.60 a ton to get out the stulT, which nets an average of $S per ton. A Negro's Pig Rooted up a Pot of British Gold. Special to The State. Yorkville, Oct 10.?A negro man was in town yesterday showing some old English gold coins that he had found on the premises of Mr R L Wallace in the King's creek section, nine inile? we>t of this place. The negro had built a hog pen on his lot, and the hog in --nulling urotimi unearthed an old iron pot, and under it was a lot of gold coin* which had heen buried there. It is not known how much the man got bui it is supposed he made a pretty good tind. Mr Wallace was here with him, but hud the man "couched in regard to keeping his mouth shut. The coins were all gold and of English make. They ranged in si/.u from a live-dollar piece to a $20. Undoubtedly this money was buried during the Revolutionary war, as the dutes on them were of a number of years previous to that war. It is thought that perhaps \Iuj Ferguson buried them whilst on his way to Kliur's mountain tlii ? , is about on ti lino with his route to that buttle ground. Senator Tillman complains that i the Democratic campaign commit* tee sends him into only those States which are sure for either McKinley or Bryan. Ho wants to try his persuasions in a doubtful section. But the Democratic managers doubtless realize that they cannot afford to take the risk of turning Tillman loose in uncertain States. ?Birmingham News. IT SAVED II IS I,KG* P. A. Danforth, of LaGrange, Ga.; suffered intensely for ?ix months with a frightful running sore on his leg, but write* that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured it in ten days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Burns, Boils, Pain or Piles it's the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c Sold by Crawford Bros, druggist. CALL TO METHODISTS. To Hold Old Titno Watch Meeting en Night of December 31. | Jackson, Miss , Oct 14 ?Bis* ! hop (. has. B Gal Iowa v, president of the general hoard of education I of the Methodist Episcopal church ! south, tomorrow will issre a call | to the one and one-half million } Methodists in the south to assem! hie in their places of worship on : the night of the last day of the ' j ear to hold an old-fashioned , watch meeting as a titling climax to the Twentieth Century fund movement The fund now amounts to $1,100,000 Handsome Increase in Taxable Propei ty. The State. The Slate of South Carolina is going to show up handsomely this year in the matter of its taxaide property. 'he increase orer la>t \ car is t?? he noteworthy Thu> far it lias been impossible j to oet at the figures for the per- 1 sonal propert\ of the State, hut, those for the real estate and the railroad property have been obtained. These figures show a most marked increase for this year as compared to last year. In railroad property alone there has been an increase of nearly three million dollars ? $2,891,51)5, and Darlington has more of it than any other single county. Orangehnr.r un.l 1/i ..1.1 ~ I ..... _ ...... itiimniMi CIIIIIO next. 8<i far an real estate is concerned there hu* been an increase of ft,0(17, tt.iH. I'ho t"tal increase in these two c'artsPrt of property amounts to the handsome figure o! $.1,9511,231. A Burglar Killed. Special to Greenville News. *. ('entral, S. 0., Oct. Id ?Last night about 1 1 :3<t o'clock Itoht. Wright, a colored schute hand, noticed a light in the store of Messrs. F. It <1. N. .Morgan. Sus* pecting it to he burglars, he went 'o the Southern telegraph ortiee and informed Mr. Itoggs, night operator, whereupon Mr. Hoggs PAUTOHIA. Inn tW ^ KM Him Always Bougtt sent the negro to inform Mr. F. It. Morgan, who liven on an adjoining lot to the store. Mr. Morgan, secured his double barrel hreecli-louding shot gun, and crossed the fence into the store lot. Seeing a light through a window in the rear of the store, he told the negro to run to the front and he would go to the rear. The burglar, hearing Mr. Morgan talking, blew'out the light and inuiide a break for the front. Mr. Morgan run to the front just in time to try to halt him as ho ran away from the front door, but he did not halt. So Mr. Morgan fired one shot at him hitting him in the i . . - - back of tho head and neck, killing him almost instantly. On examination it proved to ho a negro about * I twenty-five yeura old. No one seems to know him. The Free Shortage. Attorney General Bellinger haa I gone to Barnwell, where he will , look after the state's interest in | the collection of a claim of $2,300 1 J of the sinking fund against the late ! treasurer, Mr. Free, of Barnwell county. This claim of the sinking fund is independent of the claim of about $9,000, which is in course of settlement, on account of the deficiency of the late treasurer. Mr Bellinger anticipates no considerable trouble in the collection of this claim of the sinking fund.? Columbia Record iMth * SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. 1 (Complaint not Served) STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, liAlU'ASTKK CTDNTY. Court of Common Pleas. Deeina Jane Miller, Plaintiff, AGAINST Amlrew J. McWhirter, Joseph E. Scott, J benjamin Scott, W Capera Scott, Lida K< Settler, Kincy Goforth, Sarah C. fMnith, Hattie Arthur Annie Go'orth, Leonora Smith, Alice H. Fisher. William C. McWhirter, John (J. McWhirter, W illiam R. F ?wler, J. J. Fowler, E A. Hart, O. E Fowler, A C Brown. D. J. Fow er, H. C. Higginhntham, Emory S. Fowler, William Fowler, John VV Story, Madorn White au?l George I. C. McWhirter a? A dm In W MoWhlrier, deceased, l)e? fendanta. To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action,which is on file in the oflice of the Clerk of the court of Lancaster county w. and to nerve a copy f your answer to the said complaint on the sub-eribeis at their office at NewKerry court house. South Carolina wnhin twenty days after the service hereo ; exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within tiie time aloresaid, the Plumtills in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint Dated October S, A. D 1900. | HI'NT * n IT VP Plaiutld'a Attorney*, [ L* 8 ] W 8 L Porter, CO c L c. To Andrew J. McWhlrter, W. a pern -cotl, Surah Hiuith. Leoora ?inith, * lice B Fisher, William C. MoWhirter. nJohn C. MeWhirier, William It. Fowler, J. J. Fowler, K. a Hart, o, k. .Fowler, A. u. Brown, I). J. Fowler, 8. C HigginlKitham, Kmory 8 Fowler ami William Fowler. lion resident Defendants. above named: TaKR NGTICF that the Complaint in this action wan ibis lhth day 1 of October, 1000, tiled iu the ofllee of W. 8. t, Porter Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for Dane-rater couuty j in said rotate of 8outh Carolina. Hunt &. Hunt, Plaintitra Attorney*. Dated Oct, 10th, 1000,?6w vi- w.ifcta>>?? oMAmi ' Notice of Election. i I For Presidential Electors and Representatives in the 57th Congress of the United States. HTATE OF SOUTH < 'A ROI.l N A. OIINTY OK LANCASTER N'OTIcK is hereby given that an ?-lec inn win he held ai the severi-1 |?r incts established hv law in LaU<*u-tel' OnUitly II TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 0. lflOT for nine Presidential Electors, an-f for u Ue..r*-seiita ive in the Fifty-Seventh (MiiKrtsH uf l lie United Mtates, Glli congrissonal District Polls at each voting precinct will he n, ?*ned at 7 o'clock a in and Cosed at I n'c o.-U p m the following named persons have been appointed Ai A.NAUERS OF ELECT.ON: Lancaster C il ?N B cousart. J c F<>sU*rand LS Knott Mflatr-J J P-rry, LMv Hall and J P iinrrn* Van Wyck ? ( I. Vauvhan, U II Del.a ey ano J \V BateThornwell Pnice ?J It .Sistare T F C'ulp and W Ike Wil'iania. ouroiel? \ H carter, A W Hicklin and \V I' Valilandingliam Montg >m? ry?J It Barber J L Brown and John Beckham H ath Springs -Hilliard Duncan. Andrew Mohley ami () W IKiuIri* New nil?T P Wiiliuinn. J VV Sullivan and J Palmer Flyn , Kt-nti aw?A N Caiilhen, W H .Montgomery and T c Hofton. Kigm J rt. NagiiiH, J. M. White and (? F, Ferguson. Wrlches- o c Welch, Jasper Mniiun and K 1. Unison. F?at creek?A r Fails, (} Frank l cook and W I' Pitman. Taxahaw? W P McMauus. W J Belk and J P Ingram. Trsdesvilie?H rt Plyler, J I) H Plyler and W J Funderhurk bwight?K B I.ingle, H W Taylor and J U Porter. Primus ?W B Miller. J W Black* m<?n a d B F Adanot. The ballot Imxes in the precincts must he h'i I rated iih t ? he in view of persona oiitsid the polling place during the time of the election. , A apace or enclosure separate and , distinct from thai used by the Man* | ugersofthe Stute K/cctlon, must tie I raihd olf or otherwise p'ovided, at | each precinct, under direction of the undersigned. But one vot? r must be allowed to enfer any voting plaoe at a time, and n ? one ? xceut 'he Man gent must hs allowed to speak to the voter while in the vo'tog place casting his vote. For further instruction m. ?.r C')inaai^k)ii?ri of rttnte Ulfctinn. of the Mb intern hi each precinct named above munt call upon the Hoard of OoiutulnloovrH for Federal Kiecilou at Lanc&*ter c H, on Hatur day. No vim bar tfrd, 1900. to receive ballot liiixew, poll llatr- and inntiu> tlona, and to he <iuali(1ed. J- Wyllo Porter, J K Hlackmnn, 11 J Kunderhurk . c ?mmi?nioners Of Federal K ection. iftucanter c H, He, Oft 17th 19<K). The railroads have accorded a satisfactory rate and President Johnson baa announced that he will take the Winthrop girls to Columbia on Wednesday during fair week. Tbey will go by theS. C. A G. road to Camden by special train and thence via Seaboard Air Line to Columbia.?Rock Hill Herald. in* rm a nn u * W AN l'EU-A(-TIVE MAN of good haracter to deliver ami collect io ^outh f aroliiiu for old established m an u tact 11 ring wholesale hnut-e $900 >t y?ar nure pay. Honesty more than experience lequired. Oui reference, any hank in any city Fuelose eelfaddressed atampel envelope Manufacturer*, Third Floor, 3H4 Dearborn e>t., Chicago PI I?D1/'0 on T? ULiILniV 0 OttLjb. 8TA1EOF SOU I'M CAROLINA, Lancaster county Iti the Conrnv-n Pleas Harah Bebecca Caskey. et al , Plaintiffs. afjrxivnt Jasper N. Caskey, et al , Defendants. HY virtue of an Order made in the above ease by J mine J C Kluph, dated He t. 21, 1 SH'O, I will sell at pubiie auction at Laca-?t?r court house, within tlie lenal lioursol sale, on the Fir*t Monilay in Xov mber, tiearf, All that piece, parcel or tra< t of land being. lying and si'mite in atie Creek Township in tlie county of Lancaster in the State of South Carolina containing "&1IU A err*. More or I,etw, and bounded Noitli b\ lands of Leroy Springs, (f rmerly the Ewiu lands). East hy lands of II N Sowetl (formerly Wi Mams' lutnl)H< uth hy thepubltfc road leadi g f?om Brown's Ferry on the ? Htiiwln River to Lancaster court house, and West by lands of J t' Sowell (formerly the j M Oreen lands) ?the same being known ?s the Juo. I) ? askev home nlsc? Term* of Sale: CvHH. Pnr? liaaer to pay for all eeesaary papera, W S L PORTER 0. r. C P L O. Green &. Hinea PlalntiflV Attya. Notice to Debtors aiul Creditor* of I* M IMylor, Deceased. ALL Persona indebted to the estate of P. M. Piyler, deceased will ctmie forward at once and make settlentent widi the undersigned. Peraoi having claims against mid estate v ill preaept. them, duly verified, to the uudertdgiied, W B PLYIiER, (he. \V. PI YLKK Executors. NOTICE ! To the taxpayers of Lancaster county* Tito T- - * . ..t- i irnouirr .1 omce Will 1)6 Ol>ell l??r ilie collection of taxes for the fiscal \ ear 100b, on the Ifttb day of October and ill close the Hint day of December, 1900 TilK LKVY IS AS FOLLOWS, Htate ft mill* ( omity ft " Hpvcial (C A C R R) ft " Kinking Fuud (<" A C U R) J " CoitHtilulioiial Hobo 1 Tax 3 " Total 16J *4 OK A *. LKVY. Cune Creek Township (C C A C R R) 4J ?? (Jills Creek Township (CCA C R R) ftj Pleasant Hill Township (C C A r R K) 3 " LOCAL LKVY KOK SCHOOL IMsTKICT*. Lancaster 4 " Jones X Roads il " Heath rtprUiK 3 " Oakhuret 4 14 T TOTAI*T.EVY IIV D1STKKTH. Indian Laud 16} " Waxhaw 16} " Cmne ('reek 21} " Graded school 2.51 * " Jouet* X Roads 28} " Gills Creek 22 ' Grade** school 2H " " Jones X Koads 24 " Kuford 16} " Fiut C'reek 16} " ' Kershaw 163 " Peasant 11111 19* " " Kershaw 19} ' " Heath Spring 22} " Oskhuist 28} " " Jones X Roads 21} " Cedar Creek 16} " " Jones X Koads Ik} " Respectfully, W C CAUTHKN. ? o Treasurer. unooro i nunocas HORSES I HORSES I We have junt r* ceived a carload of number one honoH fiom A tlanla,every animal having been r? f.111 v selected in person by our Mr. Klliolt. In the lot nre some of the finest horses ever brought to thin market. If you want a good Saddler, or a good Driver, or a good combination horse, now is your time <o get it. We now have just what you want and need, (.'all and see for yourself. We take pleasure In exhibiting our atock, as well as Vehicles. Ill will either sell or swap, and MM Q wid aeIt either lor the cash WW w or good paper. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD T. W. SECREST, SURVEYOR, OHCEOLa, H. ?j. If fully equipped, and qualified, and Hollclta your eurveying. t T" Suhacrib?t? Tub Lbdobb