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THh LKlJGhR. Thinlow 8. Carter, kditok and manaukk. ?e WIUNKSDAT, MAY 8, 1901. In the Magistrate'!* Court. Reltua Johnson was convicted in Magistrate Caskey's court of two offences and plead guilty in a third case last Saturday. Ths charges war*: Cruelty to animals; carrying concealed weapon; and assault and battery. His sentence aggregated 00 days er $30. He appealed ia each case. On Monday AdamMcFadaa was convicted of malicious mischief and tined $16. er go to the gang for 30 days. An appeal was also taken in thin cane from the ver. met 01 tne jury. An Escaped Convict Captured. Sheriff Hunter received a tele, gram yesterday afternooa from the sheriff at Salisbury, N C, saying that he had captured Frank Thompson, the eegro who escaped | from the chain gang in this county about a year ago. Thompson was convicted at the March term (lOOOt eourt of house breaking and larceny and sentenced to two years en the gang. He escaped a v> few months after going to the gang. Deputy Sheriff J F Hunter will go after Thompson today. Items From Kershaw Era. Several of our business men attended toe sale of the Johcston lands near Bethune last week. It was bought by Hon W U clyburn for $4001. Wo are informed that the Wiethrop col tog? students will hare a pie-nic at Hanging Hock, near liobley's mill, next Saturday, 11th inst. Mi a* Agnes Cauthen, of the Oakluirst neighborhood, returned home Sundav from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where she went for special treatment. ? We regret to learn that she was not benetited by the trip. The gross profits of the Kershaw dispensary for the week ending April 37, were $111,32. Pretty good for hard times, and a large proportion of men who, if you ask them for what they owe you, will tell you that they are unable to pay you, and hare at the same time a bottle in their poeket and the sceat on their breath. Camp Lancaster Elects Delegates. At a meeting of Camp Lancaster No. 11 sfi, U. C. V.'s held on the 4th day of May,the following Comrades were elected delegates to the reunion to he held in Columbia 8> U, May 8 9 10 1901 I iz: B .1 Wit her spoon, W H Kires: Alternates, W T Van* laudingham anil YV \V Ferrell. Also the following ware elected delegates to the Memphis reunion J C Foster, B F Miller: Alter . nates, J \V Williams, J m Riddle. Sponsor, Miss (Iattie Miller, laughter of msj. B F Miller. The old officers were unanimously re-elected to serve an other year. .! K Stewman, Adjt. 'TIS EASY TOFP.EL GOOD Countless thousands have found a blessing to the body in Dr. Kind's New Life Pills, which positively cure Constipation, Sick Headache, Dizziness, Jaundice, Malaria, Fever and Ague and all Liver and Stomach troubles. Purely vegetable; never gripe or weaken Only 25c at Crawford Bros' and J F Mackey A Co's drug store. Su bscr i betoTheLedger. x STiLL THINK \ THE MAN REESE The following letter relative to the Ueese matter van received here hy Mr W G A Porter last Monday: Oxford, Miae., 5*1 1901. W G A Porter, Eeq. Lancaster, S. C. Dear Sir: New bold has come and gone, and doubtless ere this you bay* heard his decision. Your warnings were timely. Sheriff Harkins, ex-Sheriff .Mathews and myself met him at the Depot at 7 p. m. Saturday night. 1 had, as well as the others, pretty well sized him up before we got to the hotel. I remained sad talked with him until 10 o'clock Sunday morning be entered jail with Sheriff Rainy, U S District Attorney M A Montgomery, Jailor Raglaud and one or two others. When prisoner was presented he walked into private cell, had short conference with prisoner and then said it was not Reese. Here his mission should hare ended, but, on the contrary, he again called prisoner into cell and had private conference for about one and one half hours. This at once created a suspicion with all the parties in the jail, and after coming out of cell asked Mr. Rainy, deputy . u_u iu. ?j ? Iiwim, nutli (.Li LUUMKLIl WHS stopping, meaning Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Rainy replied that she was in Holly Springs, a town thirty milas distant from Oxford, north on tba 1 C Railroad, board, lug with Mi. Keel, naar the depot. He took a memorandum book frem his pocket and again asked, and took Mr. J S Keel's name and place at Holly Springs. Br this time parties had been in jail three hours. He again approached Reese, alias Stevens' ceil, saying, "1 will bid you good bye," shaking haods with him We the undersigned. have known F J Hheney f.>r ttie last 15 years, and lielieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry oui any obligation* made by their firm. Wkht * Truax, Wholesale Druggist. Toledo, O. warding, Kinnan A Marvin Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. O, Hall'a Catarrh Cure is taken int rnally, acting dire::tly unon the blood and raucous surfaces of the system. Price, 76c. per bottle, rtold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best P*yyourSiib?criptioi. and saying, "in your excitement awhile ago you neglected to tall me where tba madam was atop, ping. However, Mr. Rainy kindly gava placa. I will call on har to-night on ray raturn. Such was hia conduct here. certified latter to thia affect haa bean sent Gov. MeSwceney of South Carolina today; also through my council wa have made application to Judge Nile* of the U S court for an order to take him out of jail and have him photographed Mr. Newbold changed nobody's mind in Oxford, but on the contrary confirmed the doubtful Oxford is a unit ia sentiment today as to it being Reese. Newbold'e conduct throughout convinced officials and all others who came in contact with him that he did not want Reese, as he openly said that Reese did not deserve the punish m*nt Milt iim nn tii m - ? %> |/>?? v? vy H UlUli van b TC pome one who is familiar .vith Reese and knowa well to come and identify him. Probably some eae coming to the reunion at Memphis. Let me hear from you at once on the matter. I hare written J M C. You can give this letter to the publisher if you wish. 1 am with much respect, Your friend, J no. A. Montgomery. HOW'S THIS I We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of t atarrh that cannot be cured hy Hall's Catarrh Cure. K J CHENEY & CO., Props. ToUilt M Hoibold's Report To The Goiernor Knew at One* the Man Wasn't Rest*?Fellow Wanted to be Identified as Reese, However, and Tried to Bribe State's Agent. The State, 15th instant. Below is given the text of the repott of W. H. Newbold, Esq., who was sent to Mississippi to see if the maa under arrest there was M R Reese, the fugitive from this State : I Got. M B McSweeney, Columbia, B.C. Sim :?Pardon my delay in writing to you unto my return from Oxford, Miss., after M K Reese. I hare not been able to do anything since 1 got back, because the trip nearly broke me down. I arrived at Oxford Saturday j night last. Sunday morning in < company with Mr Montgomery, . Esq., U S district attorney, J A Montgomery, (our man, thn hum i who worked up thn Reese matter, j and claimed all rewards); Rev ? -- Winters, a grocery man preacher and J A Montgomery's side partner; Dr Wilkins, the county physician, and Sheriff Darkins, j went to the jail to see Raymond Stevens, supposed to he Reese,the fugitive from justice. When I saw the man I knew at a glance that he was not Reese, but 1 did think that he was Bud Dalton, a notorious outlaw who was badly wanted by the United States government, and the Welle-Fargo Ex , press Uompany, for train robber- I A*. 11 ? - we* ! la norm nxai ana id* inaian i Territory, in 1890, sol walked up to the man to examine him close- | ly, whan ha said, "You cannot aaa ma hara coma hack ta the light," ha abut tha call door Wfcd ha want to tha window at tha oth ar and of the call. Ha commenced to try to make term* with ma to to "identify" him as Reese, and to allow him to escape, and ha of farad me money to do thia. Ha claimad to hara seen ma in tha Waat, and certainly knew of aey aral of my exploits when 1 waa with tha axpresa company, and worked in the western states and territories. Ha did not look at a'I like Reese, and if we could hare gotten those people out there to have sent us a description of Stevens instead of a copy of my Root* circular, wo believe that I could hare told from a shadow of that man ou tho ground in the sunshine that he was not Reese.? Here is a partial description of the two men : Reese, big Scotch Irishman; looks like a North Caroline, boom'* er; 5 feet 10 inches high; red face, laige boned; square build; large blue-grey eyes (with green in them), bull neck, big muscular t head, hair thin and dark brown, high and broad forehead (lounded) coarse featured, scar on back of head,right side. Stephens, trim looking, halfblood Qreek Indiun (If he was idiessedup would look like a northern congressman), ft feet 2 inches high, .blue-white Indian skin, ?ma>l boned, round build i mall brown eyes, email long ; neck (for a big man), small trim head, medium low forehead, black hair (as thick as a cur dog's), small ears, looked thirty-five years old (said that he was forty) fine featured, a typical westerner, no scar behind right ear [on head) ae ehowc by certificate of Dr. W ilkins. i ! The two men looked nothing alike. Stevens was held on several i charges in U. S. court that the districts attorneys said would give him more than a life sentence in ? tat-- - i - ? * ma aggregaia, and na do pad to profit bj tba Haaae iccidant bj making hit escape, and aftar 1 had failed to identify him as Raesa our man Montgomery and Wintar j tried to convince ma that I was mistaken about the matter, and when I would not be convinced thev offered me one half of the < * V reward to help them get it [by fraud I presume), and when 1 rejected this proposition they said ( that they would bring Stevens ( here at their own expense. 1 told ^ them that 1 would ask you to i give them a requisition for the 1 man if they wanted it and not put the State to any expense in the affair. The United States district attorney was on the train Sunday evening wi'h ine and he said that J A Mon-gomery and Winters told bim at the train "that thay bad gottan a lattar from a party in South Carolina laying that I would not do to trust, and that thay beliarad that I was bought out bafora 1 came thare, tha rata, on that 1 would not ideaiify Raasa Thay ara still certain that thay bars Raasa. Got. A H Longino said tnat ha thought that ha knaw you. Ha signad my reqnistion all right for Raasa. W. H. NewboldTha Physician's cartificata is as fallows: Oxford, Miss , \pril 28 1901 This is t< cartify that 1 bava thoroughly axaminad R. Starans, supposed to be M R Raesa,around tha back of tha haai for scara said to ba causad by a bullat wound and an oparation for tha ramoyal of tha parts of tha bullat, and I ...tu: i-- ? - uuu uuiuiu^ to tuuicsia tears 01 that kind. J. P. Wilkin., M.D., Countj Physician. Tillman and McLaurin. To the Editor of tha State. In view of tba bitter political hottility now existing batwaoncur United Stataa tanatars, B R Tillman and John L McLaurin, who were onca political chuma, tka fallowing biographical statements in regard to them may ba af intaraat to some of your numerous readers: Senator Tillman first commenced his political crusade by making an address at a summer meeting | of the State Agricultural society held in Hennettsvilla in 1885. It is in llennettsvilla that McLaurin IA- T*. 11 : I A9 &ii 1111 uu mm grew in strength, Greenville became one f its headquarters. Today the Mountain Tity i? not only sweetly smiling on the junior senator, but by invitation, he will make a poli- ! ticul speech tnere during this, the pleasant month of May.v Would it not be like political irony if McLnurin should be invited by the citizens of Trenton?Tillman's j home?to also make a political speech there? Not only do these political com? ; oaiaius come irom widely differ- i ent sections of South Carolina? one representing the Savannah river county aud the other thn I Pee Dee county?but the? differ 1 considerable in age. Senator Tillman was 53 years old last j August; Senator McLaurin will be 41 tomorrow week. McDooald Fur man. Privateer, Sumter county, May 1. JOB COUhDN'T H AVK STOOD IT If he'd ha<i Itching Piles. They're terribly annoying; but Bucklen's Arnica Salve will cure the worst case of piles on earth. It has cured thousands. For Injuries, Pains, or Bodily Eruptions it's the best salve in the world. Price 25c a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Crawford Bros, and J F Mackey & Co. uAoins fnedta,. *uvAle, or < Mi-Inn wbo want Slit u;. - .uuld t*V? ? i liirrnu, That Joke of Chaffee's. 50m? Interesting Remarks by the Greenwood Index on a Recent Appointment. $ays the Greenwood Index: "The Greenwood Index, of which Capt. W G Chaffee used to t>e editor, assert* that he ia a 'Bryan democrat.' If that be ee the joke ie on Mr. McKialey and mi nna oun m ? - -w VMV V?U V-jVJ m J UVtitr than the same Chaffee."?Columbia State. Yea, the joke is on McKinley aa well as on The State, and other papers and people who persistently claim that whoever accepts appointmenta from the republican adminittratioa ia a republican. We happen to know that Bill Chaffee, the great aad only Chaffee, the brilliant author of the prophecy of Zerrachoboam, ia ao more of a republican than a sheep ia a go-at. Why this same Chaffee lionized Bryaa when that distinguished man visited Greenwood some years ago. He went to Augusta and brought him here. He got out an extra edition of The Index ?by no means aa insignificant fatt in hnnrip nl _w?w v* tu? v?vuiuv/i?tiv; Under, double leaded a brilliant editorial about bis greatness, accompanied him to Due West and scraped the ground in general in presence of the Nebraskan Why, notice the following from the virile pen of Chaffee: * 'Though defeated he conquers. All eyes today turn to Wm J Bryan, the foremost American, who in 1900 will tackle the Augean political stables in Washington and will give them such a cleaning as they have not had in a quarter of a century He is the champion of the people, who will arise in their might to rescne a country purchased with the blood of therir fathers and consign to the devil, if necessary, Mark Hanna and his gang of unclean political vampires, who are intent on suck ing the life-blood of this great nation." Note again: "The election had been carried by bribery and corruption of American rotes by Hanna and his curry crew of political bummers and official misfits, who would hare turned Ananias green with envy or driven Judas to distraction and untimely death." Again in the Bryan Extra this sentence appears: "In the whole scurry lot there is not a drop of patriotic blood, and while prating of honest money and national honor they would scare a hyena from the grave of a dead SenegamVian for the pur pose of stealing the coppers from his eyes." Of course Chaffee is no republican. The whole affair is intensely amusing and we produce these extracts merely that our readers may help us enjo* one of the best jokes of the century. Married, Tuesday evening, April 30th, 1901, at the residence of Henry Truesdale, father of the bride, Mis* Rosa Qoldie Truesdale and Mr. Edgar Lee McCuL lum, formerly of this couaty but now of Kershaw county. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. S W Henry, formerly of Heath Spring, ha'f brother of the groom. Appointments East Lancaster Circuit. 1st Sunday: 11 a. m., Bethel; 3:30 p. m., Tabernacle. 2nd Sunday: 11a. m., Tabernacle: 3:30 n. m I r. ?, ? 3rd Sunday: 11a. ni., Hopewell; 3:30 p. ra., Bethel. 4th Sunday 11a. m., Hopewell; 3 30 p. m.. Tabernacle; 7 p. m., Bethel. W C Winn, P. C. I PayyourSubscription. J tw Arc Taar KMup t DrHobbi' Bparajraa Pllla ooramll kldaajr Ilia, to plafTM. AM-BWrUni Baawtfir Co.. ChKito ot ST i\olice Notice is he-ckmy. given >?*( on Hie 2H itay .f M?) , 1901, t?n uutit-rriKtml, a* ku nil", of J. Edwin Niebf . will fl r hie final re. urn ati'i ecu lenient hi d make appll* eallnii til ih Prnhai> ? ? '?? ,h? < ounly <>f UiKtaiiicr -? , for M Anal dlHi'liarK* us guardian. K. W. NI*BET. Dated a4tn April. 1901 INotice. lyoritE is hkkeby oven tha. ou i lie 25 i ?iu> .?l M-?y. 1901, the underdg- t-d, <>s -ttmii.l-nrmor of tlie fit at of Wui -? Gi'?a d eeaaed, witl fl e ho A -al return and se.tie* t ent and mrtkn apt dcM'ioit to tiia Probate (buo >or the ly of l.a> ? caster. S . f r h float d ?cfearge aa !-U Ot aomioistra or. (lEO H GRIFFIN. DaUmI 24th April *901 BRIdG.S TO LET. ON ^AlliKlia, M\Y4 NfcXT, ihe"Mii'*T\irt??r? o? I.mk' ?Ur Mild York c mi ii? *i i mwl a* BaII.EH KKiDGK, ?- suiiar ur-eK two an es h utii' MHt??' Foil Mill, f r I t- purpose of letting a co A?-t ?o build <\ new brio*** at thpot t Tim* reserve j the riirhi to r Jei?i am ?nd all bids, si ectficatioiih in *d-* kn?? ? n on day *?f biting The Marin*,* ridge unions the ?anix.Htr?-Hfii ? I I ) lei t->e Maine day a> 12 o'clock uo oi ioiiM to be iiiaite known I ho d*y W Q, 1 A "KEY. JO 11 ? F OOHUON, pwrvisors. April 24 1901. BRIDGES TO LET. The *>ridge over Little Lynches creek near John M Hinnon's and the one over Lick creek near White Bluff, will be let to the lowest responsible bidder on Tues<* day, the seventh day of May, 1901 ?the former at 11 o'clock, a. in. the latter at 3 o'clock, p. m. Flans and specifications will he made known at the letting The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. W. Q. Caskey, Co. Supervisor. n/^MsT TOBACCO SPIT I JC JIM I and SMOKE * * Your Lifeawayl You can be cured of any form of tobacco using easily, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor by taking HO-TO-BAO, that makes weak men strong. Many gaia ten pounds in ten days. Over BOOpOOO cured. All druggists. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and advice PRBE. Address 3TSR1.1NO RBMBOY CO., Chicago or New York. 437 BAD BLOOD "CASCARKTS do all claimed for them and are a truly wonderful medicine 1 have often wished for a medicine pleasant to take and at last have found It In Cascarets. Since taking them, my blood has been ntirlfled and my complexion baa Improved wonderfully and I feel much better In every way." Mas. 8a i.lia K. Sella ks. huttrell. Teas. CANDY M CATHARTIC ^ \ooaam TWAOS MAAM >1WMU Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Neaer Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c, COO. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Martlag Itaftr fieper. Cklif. ?to?I, 1? Iwi. W MTA RIP Sold and guaranteed by all drnc I U-DAl* (lata to CUKE Tobacco Habit. THIS WAY. PLEASE! / mmamm^mam^mma^mma^mtmm mam Just received a carload of Columbia and Jewel Buggies. Top and open, all tbe different kinds of springs and colors. These buggies are beyond doubt the nicest and best wearing that we hare handled. We have also a large lot of Buggy Harness, from $6.00 to $18.00 per set. Plow and Wagon Bridles, from the cheapest to tbe best. We still sell the best Mules and Horses for the least money of any other dealers in the up country. We have a number of extra good Harness and Saddle horses. Our livery outfit is the best and we can always furnish a nice turnout at very reasonable rates, (tame and see us. ELLIOTT*. CRAWFORD To The Deaf. A rich lady cured of her Deaf* neas and Nomes in the Head by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Gar Drums, gave $10,000 to his Inftt.itlitu ?r? 1 * " , .uav worai pOUpiC UDAOI# to procure the Ear Drums may have them fiee. Address No. 11967 The Nicholson Institute, 870, Eigth Avenue, New York, U 8 A. 6m.