The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, May 17, 1902, Image 3

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Local Matters IV Andrnl Brottun, of Yorkvillt, spent Thursday in to.vn. !liuluv market prion paid for Uu.li't* and ). B Muckorell. Mrs. K.iht. Heglar of Trades villa is dangerously ill Born, to Air. and Mrs. .1 D. Si si arc, .of the Pnuglas section, twin sons. For ShIo ! The lot just North of Mr. #1. H. Carnes' on Market ji.ifd Apply to T. S Carter. Two Thousand! \ ds- frist quality < uihroiderioa 2-J ets per yard. WilliamasHnghes Co. 1' re vacant town lota at u bargain. j If yommcan business apply to T. S. .Carter. Iiereafter there will be no loafing in^this office. W* pay our employers to work and not to talk. Rot. r. L. Ro oilmen of Camden, Ala., preached the commencement sermon at ULonteralo, Ala., en last Sabbath, before the Alabama Girls industrial School.? A. R. Fiosbyterian. The Charleston Post says that already over 20,000 tickets have been sold for "Wagener Day'* at the<exposition, and that the indicatiens are that three times that number will be sold before the day arrives. It is the 22nd and _ 1 i - U IT 1 extra 10vr rums uru living unoiuu by the railroads. ?t ? During the thunder storm Wednesday lightning struck oue of the coutton mill house* occupied by Mr. Jno M. . McAteer, knocking off some of the shingles and woatherboarding and right badly shocking Mrs McAteer and Ernest McAteer; also Policeman Knight. Deputy J. F. Hunter, of Lancaster, passed through the city yesterday morning baring in custody an insane negro thnt he wn* taking to the asylum at Columbia ?Chester Lantern. The dispensary tales for the months of March and April were 2 5 per cent, less thai the same months last year. This is an in. dica^'oh of the scarcity of money this year as compared with for^ mer years. The exhibit ot Che Lancaster graded school at the Charleston exposition won a geld medal. The Charleston, Columbia, Greenrille, Spartanburg and Union schools wero the only other pvblic schools -? - i 1 J J -1 . in til* Olftte mat wen goia nseuaxi. Memorial Day was celebrated at Kershaw Ibis week for the first tiase. Gen. J. W. Floyd was present to deliver an address but *' . was prevented by the rain. We V. are glad to see this move en the part of Kershaw and hfcps it will be followed by every community in which there is a Confederate seldier buried. A. much-needed rain fell Wednesday afternoon and night. In some sections it was very heavy and was accompanied by wind, hail and lightning, doing considerable damage. In the neighborhood of Douglass Church the wind and hail were very heavy, blowing down trees and fences and das. troying fruit and possible the stand of cotton and corn. Noar Dwight. also, the hail did some damage. The aftereeon before there wee u wind storm in the same section, blowing Hewn fruit trees and over turning seme out houses. Yorkville .bus followed tbe cx ample of Lancaster and voted iu fuvor of issuing bonds to erect a new guided school building. 1 ? 1 Mr. .John Leo Tillman's horse I foil with him one day last week and. hurt again the foot that was I so hud 1> injured souie time ago by 1 his being dragged by a tunic. I .1. L Anders, the pneantroo i swindltr, a hi A nuts Owens Cherry t tree swindh ts, given a hcarin ; iu i Savannah WtdiHsday before tin c United States t oniiuissionor and i in default of bail was sent to jail, t Mrs. M. B. Cant hen is visitiug t relatives ut Heath Springs and ] Cakliurst this week. 2 Mr. 11. H. Ferguson, of Spartanburg, State Agent for the Pru- , denlial Life Insurance Company, ^ spent a couple of days here this ,, week. < Mr. E. D. Tillman visited his ^ old home at Van Wyek this week, t ? 3 Married, Thursday by Mngis- ( trate King, Mr. J. T. McMurray g and Mrs. Mamie Ivy, all of Dry Creek. fl t Jim Crockett, colored, was tried 1 \ in Magistrate King's court for on' tieing a laborer and found guilty | and sentenced to pay a tine of j | fl5. or go to the chain gang 30 1 days. He paid the fine. t W. Black Wilson, of Rook Hill, ^ candidate for Congiess, was in ^ ' town Wednesday. BTom here he ^ | went out in the .country. Dr. Strait returned from his , I] Cedar Creek farm yesterday and I V brought gloomy reports of the | ^ rain Wednotsday evening. He j ^ says the land looks like it is' ruined. * Cedar Creek was about five feet higher than it was from nuy of the heavy rains last year. , Ditches and terraces were leveled. J I Ilia manager, Mr. Hell, says he i never saw such lightning?that i sometimes the whole world Beemcd j to be on tire. From there back I of Mouth Springs on up to Dry ' i Creek the damage to land and J crops was very great. Cotton \ j was cut off by the bail as if it had j been cut with a knife. Some 1 J think they will have to plant over j 4 while others think there is enough j teed still in the ground to come \ ^ up for a stand. j Wednesday night a ,negro ( | Andy Brice, attempted to steal a j ride fretn Chester to Lancaster. < | Conductor King ordered him off ^ the traiD and he said that, one of the rail.oad men for whom he war j working said to let him come t oyer and he would pay for it. * When the train reached Lancaster Mr. King wired to Chester and usked if the negro bad told the 1 truth and upon receiving a nega- i tivo reply liad Brice arrested und ' put in the guard house. Thura- | day he was carried before Magi*- 1 trate Oaskoy for trial. He plead guilty aud was sentenced to the chain gang for twenty days or pay a tine of thirty dollar*. The contract for putting in eater works was let last week to Mr. W. B. Moore ef Yorkville and a Mr. Mk>ore, of Atlanta, fer the $10,000 isMie of bonds and $500 additional to he paid out of the general funds of the town. They hope to have the work com ( pletod by the first of September. Tho well, en which work has been ] stopped, 1* 461 feot deep and will furnish 43,000 gallons water per dij. It is pronouaced a good i well.?Kershaw Era. The Ledger, Semi-weekly Journal and Home and Farm all three for f'2. . V Killed by LiKiitiiiu^. As Mr. Jumcs Belk was on hi* way from Mouroe to his home near Dudley Wednesday evening he was struck l>v lightning and killed as were also the aiules he was driving; and his younger brother who was with him wa<nocked unconscious and ono or Ms shoes torn from his feet. They were discovered soon afterward and c tr.i ts inado to resusci ate them, which were successful ' I is regards one of them hut the niter was l?e\i.iid help. Mr. BelU ,vus a son of .Mr. Jackson Belk md was only uhout eighteen years f ng?-. His remains were inerred Thursday at Liberty Hill dnptist church. STo Place Like Lancaster. We asked a substantial citizen if this county who bus just retimed from au extended trip to Texas aud Louisiana if he mtendsd to wove out there. "No," le said; "we have the best counry right here that I have struck ret. They have sonic advantages >v?r us here. A man can work o minh more thoro but the disidvantages, to my wind, more lian counterbalance the advantages. For example, where 1 vent there is no water, 110 living veils, but tho people have to dc>end upon cisterns, and as tbey mve not had what is called a 'season" in two years, itissouieimes pretty bad, as 1 see it. They lave to go to frog ponds and low daces where the water stands and mul it te the cisterns. And the and is not as rich as 1 expected o find it. A good part of it ooked to me about like our land lere. I saw some good land that vould wake a bale to the acre, ?ut 1 have some that will do that oo. No, Texas is a very good ountry, but I prefer Lancaster." *8 You are iin Thursday and I this opening the play of Spring 1 careful buying 1 o! experience ai been searched t ever shown in I age is not suffici deserve it by ofl price- The slig alone ?o far as < Here you will mer good, in Si goods in mercei suits. 50 styles Dotted Swiss an -these are s?ar< -Wli 150 pieces of W hite fancy Jfla are opening up tions to supply t where else in r pers. . Heath Kerns from Wuxlmw Enterprise ' Many of our renders will bo 1 ( interested to know tliut Dr. Frank ; I Bright, of Amos Owens Cherry ' Tree fame, was arrested in Texas ! 1m>t week b\ a luited States Marshal and brought to Charlotte. . i wh?re he was lodged in jail. His i bond was iixcd at $2000. i Mr. Green Collins, ?f lieluir, i who was severely burned about the head i tul ncek some time ago, has gone to Charlotte to a hospital to have his eyes treated. For a w hile it was feared thut he would lose his eje-sight, but ho is mow I 1 Ul [IIUVIUSJ. I 1 ? Mr. T. W. Single, son of Mr. J. M. Single, of Osceola, went to Arkansas a few weeks ago and was married to Miss Sallio Schooley, daughter of Mr. ^Noali Schoo1 l*y- . The lecture at the Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon by Miss Moor* the missionary from Japan, was very much en joyed by j thoso present. I ~~ The following letter was received from a well known Lancaster negro who moved to another county without paying bis taxes: Dear Sir an sincerely: 1 hasten to reply to yours received, you has favored mo in the past au I have all ways prove to bo true, an 1 hope }ou will Con** time to act religeous on this line. The amount 1 will soon send, in case of Death I will disapoint you. 1 reuiuin Yours in ehrist, John. Smith. u 1 The children of the Epworth, | Connie Maxwell and Thornwell I orphanages will bo carried to J Charleston the 28th to sec the Expoaiton. P R IN iteti to our grei Friday this week, ! best yet. Conn lillinery. This < >y our expert mil nd splendid taste. 0 bring before y< Lancaster. We 1 ient reason to yoi ering superior ii ;htest look over o luantity, assortm 1 find the only coi Iks, Dress Goods ised Silk Xenlivi M J 't of French Pc id Organdies. A ee now. Ms! U white goodss Pla (Iran. French or enough all-ovei he County. Big (Tailored Skirts. Banking < * ^ A School Taachcr Attacked* I FiorcMice, NS uy l-> ?An unpleasant personal altercation occurred near the Court House ves- J tcrday ufternoon in which S< per d intcndent Clarence 10. Johnson, of the graded schools, and Mr. J. .1. ^ Jennings came to blows. Tho * trouble, as well as could hu learn, ed, grew out of the suspension of ; a child of Mr. Jennings from tho ^ j >ch?ol sown weeks igo. Ycstcr- ' day the two met and souie vers :l harsh words from Mr Jennings, d accompanied by an unmcntionnhel p 4'cuss word" was passed, Jen- e nings at the same time informing a Mr. Johnson that ho had been n looking for him. Mr. Johnson asked him if he was armed, and ti is said that Mr. Jennings replied o in the allirmative. Mr. Johnson r then asked him if he would give him time to put himself on an equal footing and the matter would tl be settled. Mr. Jennings reiter-!... 0 | I 4 ated his former epithets, where- jj upon Mr. Johnson struck him in the face. This was followed by another from Mr. Johnson before 1 the two could be separated by the I 11 sheriff, who, seeing the trouble, rushed up and took charge of both of them. Each of them deposited a sunt for their appearance at the May- si or's court, where the case will be called tomorrow. Vacancy at West Point A competitive examination, to fill a vacancy of scholarship in the { United States Military Academy v at West Point, will he hold at i Yorkville on Thursday, Juno j 19th, 1902. For further information write Hon. D. E. Finley, Washington, D. C. A. C. Ilowell, Co Supt Ed., Lancaster Co, S. C, ..?? v Kdup?lu Vour Itowwia Willi CiiHcurvts. .V Cnrnly Cathartic, euro constipation forever ? W If C. O C fail. o?Mir??l?,ts refund Htonov J G 190: at Open in v^ale. April 3(1 and 4tli. 3 and y?u will see exhibit is the resn liner, Miss Mae Ma . The markets o hi the finest arra tnow that asking 1 11 for giving it, but lducements in stv! ur stock, will slio ent, style and prie mplete stock of Sp and Wash Goods s, very desirable ;rcales, Lovelv B J ? few assortmen!' c mirfe! U ill nmwli ifi nml ? 11% V % A I gandies and persi; r Embroideries, values, such as y Di ess Waists am & MERCAN' t'amdtn is to have afl5,000 basket and coffin factory. Lightimng struck a tree iu Mr. . Davis Caakey's yard Wednesay evening within a few foot of here one was struck last year, ir (itarge Bowers, barn was al9 struck.but not damaged. The Governor granted a pardon Vednesdny to a negro who had letn convicted nnd sentenced for crime 29 years beforo which he id not commit. Ue was not iD rison all that time, however, but scaped soon after being put io ud wu3 not recaptured uotil some jonihs ago. Lewis Nixon, the new leader f Tumnuany Hail,iNew York,has esig|&d<und*quit politics. With three Edgefield*iCandida js in the field, the gubernutoriaice this summer should not lack fo. WANTED, Hickory, Dogwood d Persimmon Logs. Southern lard wood Co. Charleston, S. . Like Br'er llabbit, Governor IcSvveoney is "laying low and iyin' nuttin." PASTORIA. Jo.va tho y> ^ You l1a'0 Always Ugnatnre ^^^^7 Dr. E. S. McBOW, 11YSIC1AN and SURGEON Catawba house, South Side, Up Stairs. offices OPEN DAY ANI> NIGHT. Bk?T Phone ))((. i'-^T'Pay your Hubscription one ear in advanaa and \ra will send au the Home and Farm free ane oar. V. ) I which occurs W e will make our grand disilt ot weeks oi irtin, a milliner f the Rast have y oi millinery tor your patron4lk i- ? * umi we must le, qualit) and w that it stands es go. ring and HumPretty wash for waists and >astiste Lawns, if linen suitings im i 'ipped Bastiate. an Lawns, ffe Edgings, Inser011 can get no : it iiouse wrapriLE Co.