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THE LEDOcJL Thurlow 8. Garter, EDITOR AND MANAOKR. ] W1DNMDAT, MAT 22, 1901. Married Man Run Away With a Pretty (iirl of Nine*eon Yearn. Special to The State. Florence, May 17.?Something of a sensation was created here i this morning when it became' known that Mr. W. Milligan, a married man, had disappeared, and with him the 19-year-old daughter of Mr. John Muggins of Rfhngham. The elopement occurred yesterday morning. Sheriff Burch has the case in hand and win take steps to catch the couple. The father of the girl claims that s loo of his money is gone, ami means to hold Mr. Miligan responsible for it. The truant couple were seen on one of the midnight trains at the passenger station hero, but it is not known where they went. Miss Hoggins is well known among the school children here. Her father is a man of means and intended giving his daughter a liberal education. She studied music under a Florence teacher some months. Charged With Abducting a 16 which loves a tax on imported cotton. A tax amounting to about two-thirds of the value of the staple is imposed. The importation of cotton diminished over 72,000,000 pounds in 1800, while the production increased #4 per cent during the same year. Grain ffclds in Russia are now planted with cotton, for the cultivation of the fibre is much more profitable , than that of wheat. Year-Old Girl. Charleston, S. C., Special, 18th, to Atlanta News. Hunter Shar|>e, a well-known white man of this city, was arrested here today for the abduction of a sixteen-year-old girl from Colombia. He is charged with enticing Miss Viola Adams from her home in ^Columbia and bringing her to Charleston under a promise of marriage. Instead of fulfilling his promise, he placed her in a house, where she was held prisoner fer more than a week. The girl was rescued by the police yesterday. Miss Adams is of a prominent family, being granddaughter to ex-Goyernor rj a Adams, of this State. Charleston has been thrown into a furore by the affair. Cut Down by Accidental Discharge of Useless Revolver. Special to The State. 1 Lowndeaville, May 18?Yesterday yeung Hump Daniel cam* down from Anderson to visit kis relatives. This morning in cornpuny with others he came to town in a wagon. On their return home in getting out of the wagon he accidentally struck his pistol against the wheel. The pistol was discharged, the kali passing through Daniel's body, killing hint in a few minutes. He was a young man kighly esteemed. The sad accident is very much regretted. Russia's (treat Cotton Crop. Washingt<yi, May 17.?It is expected that Russia will soon be able to supply her own needs in cotton, according to a report received at the State department from Deputy Consul General Hannuel1, at Frankfort, Germany. She is one of the few countries [For Tba Ledger. An Occasion of Groat Pleasure. Mb. Editor:? One of the moot pleasaat and ea jay able occasion# of tba kiad 1 erer witnessed, I wot tbo family rounioa at Mr. ' Joshua Caraes', last Thursday, the 16tb inst., this b?ing tha anniversary of his 70th birthday. His children, grand-children and great-grand-children all joined in making the reunion a grand and uioet en jo ya hie success. On arriving ut Mr. Carnes'yeur corre?|)ondent feund that <|iute a number bad already assembled at tke home of thia venerable patriarch. In this number we beheld the shining faces of all age?, from the father to the infant in the cradle, all glad to have tins grand privilege of once ttiiaie assembl'ng at thia much loved spot, where father, grand-father, mother, grand-mother, brother and sister, alike had played in their younger flays, under the beautiful shade of the stately oaks that still stand to tell the story of past lives.There were one hundred and forty~two people present, all told: 123 children, grand-children and great-grand-children, and twenty others, neighbors and friends. After spending the morning heurs in various ways, children roaming over the old homestead viewing the scenes where their fatkers and mo hers had spent their childhood days; older people talking of times past?of theisuccess and failures in life so eas:ly brought to mind on an occasion like this; dinner hour came, and while the day was a great pleasure to all present,this part of the program was the most enjoyable. The table was fifty feet long, and well filled with all kinds of delicious and palatable viands. 1 aever saw a more varied or better prepared dinuer than was had on thia occasion. After one hundred nnd forty had feasted until their appetites were satisfied, there was enough left to feed as many more, and unless one knows something about the amount it tuKes for such men as L. H. Howell, Wm. Shute, H. S. Plyler, Ja*. M Stewart, J. F. Carnes, VV 1*. liowell and others to eat, there can not be aa estimate as to the amount of victu.-Is that was brought out on this occasion. After dinner was over the men began to assemble in small comO t panies and smoke their cigars, cigarette, ect., likewise the ladies would pass around the snuff, (or I suppose they would as it is always customary, but I don't know this to be true.) Later ie the day a party of young people drove to the Buford monument, a place of historic interest, not far distant from Mr. Caines' home. By the time the sue began to make its way in the western sky, the people began to depart for their respective homes, all having fiinml it u ji.iipm .1-1 ?1 ? ? ftv u auuii/V U1 III11U1V.I |MCM" i ure to have visited the old gentle- | man on bi^ seventy-sixth birthday cello brat ion. I The names now represented in : this family are, Carnes, Plyler, j Kowell, Small, Shute, Funderburk, Sapp, Stewart, Hair, Taylor and Walters. in conclusion I would say that all eajoyed the time spent at this grand birthday picaic, and feel assured that it was a great pleasure to the 4 4Father in Isreal" to see almost a multitude ef his off- i spring during his stay as mortal on this old earth. May God's richest blessing crown bis last days. Respectfully, A. C. K. Idseate Your Bowcli With Cue?ret?. Candy Cathartic, *ure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C.C.C. fail, druggists refund money. ? I # I I I Itch on human cured in 30 minute by Woolford's Bantary Lotion. Tbi? j nover fn iIn. M/Url h? I O m. * . J ** ?i?v?pjr , Co .Druggist, Laacatsr, 8 C. Memorial Daj. - * t i Address Delivered by Rev. H. W. 1 B iy?, D. D., at Lancaster, May 14, 1901. J t By request of the Ladies' Memorial Association, we publish below , the excellent address of the Rev. 1 Dr. Bays at this place on lust < Tuesday, the Uav observed as ; memorial day. The speaker was 1 appropriately introduced by R. i E. VVylie, Esq. Mr. WyRe said: ' We have met, my friends, as is ? our yearly custom, to pay tribute | to the memory of the Confederate seldiors of this county who have i passed over the river of death and < are now tenting "on fames eternal i camping ground." Wo arc in- I debted to the ladies, of the Memo- 1 rial Association, for the inaugura- i tion of this custom, and may it always be observed in future years, i It may be said that, after all, it < is only a matter of sentiment, but I this kind of sentiment should en ter largely into the make up and 1 character of a people. It is a re- < assuring sign ?f fidelity to prinei..i.. tu..t ...:?u - : m jim, nidi mi cuuu ?ccui i iijjj; miiy, these exercises are held in almost \ every city, town and hamlet in i our beloved South-land. "Father 1 Ryan" expressed the thought when he said: "Yes, give me a land with a grave in each spot, And names in the graves that shall not be forgot." Giand old Wade Hampton, who, as Gen. John B. Gordon truthfully said, the other day, is "the greatest South Carolinian, who ever lived," remarked in a public address, that no people deserved to live who lack reverence for their i heroic dead, and 1 pray, (said he) that the time may never come, when the humblest graves of our soldiers, shall not be decked with the fairest flowers of Spring." The South did not altogether fail in the late war between the States?It is true, that after four years of the most heroic struggle for constitutional rights recorded in the world's history, she yielded to overpowering numbers, but she, at least, demonstrated to the world, that she appreciated such a thing as principle, and was will log to seal her devotion to it, with the blood of her devoted sons. It has been well said that "it is not in the power of mortals to command success, but we can do more, we can deserve it." No people ever fought for a more holy cause. From the first shot fired by the Citadel cadets, at the transport steamer, "Star of the West," as she sought, with hostile intent, in South Carolina territory, to fur-? nish Fort Sumter with munitions of war?to the last shot fired at ' Appomattox, at the invaders of Virginia's soil?it was a defensive war. But 1 will now give way to on? who was an active participant in j that great tragedy- enlisting as a son of the "Old Dominion," un- j der the Stars and Bars, but who now is enlisted as a soldier under the blood-stained banner of the' cross. I have the honor of introducing . a a I T> rx ft wr? r* 10 you, uie ivev. ur. ti. w. ways, j who has been selected to make the ^ address on this occasion. Dr. Bays stepped forward and j for about 30 minutes held the audience spell-bound with his eloquence. He spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman; Members of the , Ladies' Memorial Association of I Lancaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: ?In the midst of other duties, I turn aside for a day to take part, in these memorial exercises. The ' part, which I take, is not of my own choosing, else 1 should be a silent spectator of these graves, where sleep my comrades of the "Lost Cause." My part in thta service has been issigned me by woman's authority; iod when woman commands, it is | infest for tuaa?that he obey. 1 im, therefore, here at her bidding lir, whose husband, son, father or brother, it may be, now sleeps in some of these honored graves. You ask me, <di?ters of my adopted State, to share with you the henor of decorating the graves 3f our patriotic dead. 1 accept your invitation, for it gives to me the double honor of serving you ;? s...?ui .... ?? iu ?? limnkiu nun ui joining w'th you in rearing a monument of tears and flowers upon the graves of the Confederate soldier, whoso chivalry and heroism has never been surpassed in tho annals at' war. 1 said, we would rear a monument of tears and Sowers, so we shall, and these shall be to us the solemn reminders of his victories and reverses. We are not here to heap unmerited eulogy upon the deeds of our countrymen; hut simply to scatter a few flowers upon the graves of American soldiers?and then, baptised in sisters' tears and consecrated in mothers' prayers, we shall leave them to their peace* - i 1 i - iui hi winners. in rorgot these graves would be to put dishonor and reproach upon the rer mime of American valor. It is true that the Confederate soldier needs no monumental heap to perpetuate his memory. No flag may ever float over his dusty bed. Rough weeds and wild grass may grow there: "But little h' 11 reck if you let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades buried him." No marble shaft marks the spot where he sleeps, no polished mausoleum keeps guard by his dusty bed, no sentry walks on his beat to drive the intruder from bis tomb. He needs no such recognition to immortalize his deeds. His deeds call for no recognition save that which comes from the hearts of his grateful countrymen. The tears of his nged mother, and the flowers in the hands 6f his grateful sister, constitute a monument to bis memory more enduring than bronze or iron, and more hftfitinor hie ilnoilu nf itoIak ... a v. v?w\IU 1/J. T UIU1 bIJUU granite shafts or floating flags. Prayers, tears and flowers are the tokens of woman's devotion, and they enrich the grave of the silent sleeper. Here he has slept since the days of battle?let him sleep on in quiet, peaceful rest until the Son of God shall come. His coffin a rude box, his shroud his gray-jacket, but immortal honor shall publish his deeds to all future generations. They may never be carved upon sftone, chiseled in the rock, moulded in bronze or wrought in iron, but they will lire in our hearts forever, as the richest heritage of a grateful, brave and patriotic people Sir, the chivalry of the world died not when Sparta fell. Tne sons of Spartan mothers still live. The fame of Virginians and of the avenged Virginia, lives not only in poetry and song. The mother who buckled the sword on the arm of her soldier boy forty years ago, and sent him forth to do and die for his country, won for her sex and country an imperishable fame. She was the chief factor in thejiome as the war-cloud passed over our land, and her renown must go down to future ages along with the women of Syracuse, Sparta, Carthage and Home. Historians tell pf Leonidas and bis Spartan bands, poets sing of Greece and Trov. Hanmbalwand Scipio were demigods in their day. Latter deeds have immortalized the Scott aod the Britton, "The furious Frank and the fiery Hun" live in the immortal valor of their deeds. But it was reserved for AmeriCOINCLUDED ON FOURTH PAOK. Tbe Tetirans Lost. The Supreme Court Decide* That the Peneion Appropriation ie $100,000. Special to Greenville News. Columbia, Maj 17.?The supreme court has issued an order .I _ L!_L ?. Ill lUt |WDI1UU CU? ID WU1CQ 11 IN decided that the amount to ba distributed is ona huodrad th< usaad instead of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Tha opinion is to ba filed latar. The chief justice and all tha justice* signed tha order which shows that the opinion of tha court is unanimous. A petition was Bled by Clark of Court Walker praying for a mandamus to eompel tha attorney general to issue his wai rants on the basis of $150,000 to be paid to tha panuioners. Ha was represented by tha attorney general. The comptroller general, in his reply, held that only $100,$00 had been appropriated. He was represented by Jm . 1?. Thomas, Jr. Tha legislature intended to ap propriats $150,000, and although an act nai paused ?to that effect jet it was neglected to he put in the regular appropriation act. It was stated at the comptroller general'a office today that the amount to be receired by each pensioner would oe practically the same as last year. It will take a ' few days to get the amounts for the different classes in proper form, but it is likely that pensioners will be able to get their money next week. The decision only renews the consideration of the frequent blundering on the part of the legislature in putting off the most important matters to the last moment and then rushing theaa through. Two Young White Men Waylaid. Special to The State. | Sumter, May 19.?Last night about 10 o'clock Deputy Sheriff Gaillard was summoned to Mayesville, a telephone message baring been receired stating that two white men had bsen waylaid and murdered near that towD. i The deputy sheriff, ss sobn as possible, got together a posse and the bloodhounds and left for the scene of the reported murder. Arriring there it was found that no one had been killed, but thst two young fellows?Ashley end Ilogan Strother?bad been shot from ambush and painfully though notoriously wounded. An effort was made to capture the man who did the shooting,. but he aroided the officers. It is reported today , thst be will surrender to the ' sheriff tomorrow. His name i e wneeier. 'TIS EAhY TO PFEL GOOD Countless thousands have found a blessing to the body in Dr. King's New Life Pills, whicb positively cure Constipation, Sick Headache, Dizziness, Jaundice, Mali ria, Fever and Ague and all Liver and Stomach troubles. Purely vegetable; never gripe 01 weaken Only 25c at Crawford , Bros' and J F Maokey & Co's drug store. Suicide of A. J. Agnew. Special to The State. Abbeville, May 18.?Yesterday 1 about 6 o'clock Mr. A. J. Agnew, a merchandise broker and farmer, who lived near Donalds in thii county, committed suicide bj shooting himself. Mr. Agnev 1 11 * was a goou man ana leaves a iarg< family and an extensive conncc tion. Ill health is supposed tc , havo been the eanse of this rasl act. Such ia Politic#. Chatter Lantern. ia 1870 man offered to lie down aad let Wade Hampton walk over tham. A few years later, they turned their backe upon him, supplanted him with another who had not a single quality that fitted him for a representative of the state, and deaoueced<hiroasasot,a libertine, and a disgrace to the state. They howled him down and insulted him when he attempted to address his own people. A little later the man used to displace and humiliate Hampton was ignominiously repudiated TTuuuui nuj cituife oxu?|'i ??tu existed, and was known to exist, whan ha waa promot ed over tha 4'hero of '76/' Now gome of those same mhn who dagradad Hampton ara slobbaring ovar him iu tha exuberance of their praise, holding him up aa an ideal of Carolina manhood and honor, unpurchasable, incorruptible aud above reproach, while they cannot find words in tha vocabulary of vituperation to suitably characterize Jne L. McLaurin, who aided tnam in defeating Hampton. Tha crime for which McLaurin ia now denounced is that he differs with ?them on political questions and has consented to use hie influence with the president 10 Hampton's behalf, if it is desired. The deed by which Hampton has wen their adulation is his declining, in an ill tempered manner, the preffered service. Such is pelitice and such are a large portion of the men who represent us in our public affairs and before the world. The average woman is too delicate to shoulder a musket; but nobody questions her right to bare arms. ^ AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUT - GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS CHEAP. i We hare Bought the Defunct Stock of the Parlor Grocery Co., and with it have some wonderful bargains to offer our customers. It is not necetsary to quote prices. All yeu hare to do is to call and see what bargains we are offering ; in fancy and 'heavy Groceries. pf" Country Produce wanted , ?such as nice Butter, Eggs, i Chickens, etc., for which highest market price will be paid. Yours to nerve, : S. I MATHIS 8 CO. i THIS WAY. PLEASE 1 j ust received a carload of Columbia and Jewel Buggies. Top and open, all the different kinds of springs and colors. These bug' gies are beyond doubt the nicest an.l best wearing that we have 1 handled. We have also a large lot of Buggy Harness, from 16.00 to $18.00 per set. Plow and Wagon Bridles, from the cheapest to the best. We still sell the best Mules'and' Horses for the least money of any r .ii J - i ? ? - * ouier uetuers in ine up country. We hare a number of extra , good Harness and Saddle horses. ) Our livery outfit it the best and r we can always furnish a nice turnr out at very reasonable fates. Come and see U9. ; ELLIOTTS CRAWFORD - I