The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, October 07, 1903, Image 2
THE LEDGER.
Thurlow 3. Oartcr,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
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\vki)M:M>\V, ni'inr.i i; 7, 1!?0T
? Ucv. Chalmers ITuser re
turned yesterday from .1. lTerson
where he h is been attending the
meeting of Hethel l*resb\ terv.
This presbytery embrac - all the
ehurehes of the Presbyterian donomination
within the counties of
Lancaster, Chester. Fairtield,
York ami part of Chestertiehl,
representing a membership of
0,000. It convened Kiiduy night, j
Rev. Mr. Brown, the retiring
moderator, preaching the opening
sermon. The sessions were quite
interesting. The presbytery-ad
journed Monday night.
Lancaster Veterans Fa\or Annual
Iteiniioii in Columbia.
In compliance w:th notice pub
lished a number of the Confedcr
ate Veterans met at the court
house the first Monday in Oct.
The meeting was called to order
by \V. (J. A. Porter, and Dr. T.
tf. Strait was called to the chair
and \\*. B. Bruce requested to
act as clerk. The object of the
meeting was explained by \V. < .
A. Porter. A motion was then
made that it is the sense of this
meeting that our Representatives
in the Legislature he requested to
work and to vote for the establishment
of a soldiers' home at
Columbia. This motion was
promptly voted down and a motion
made and carried that our
representatives he requested to
work and vote against the establishment
of such a homo.
\V. (x. A. Porter was elected
delegate to meet like delegates
from other counties in regard to
selecting a permanent homo for
the annual reunion of the Confederate
Veterans A motion was
made and adopted that our dele
gate be instructed to vote l'or j
Columbia as the j ! ace of meeting, i
A motion was then made and
adopted that the ContY Dratc Vet ,
erans give tin' daughter^ of the I
Confederacy an entertainment i
and picnic at Heath Springs on
the 3rd day of November. Dr.
T. J. Strait and .1. N. Kstridge
were selected as speakers for the
occasion.
The chair appointed the follow*
ing committee to take charge of
the arrangements:
?). A. Weaner, II. H. Uooeh,
W. G. A. Porter, Krwin liowell,
J. N. Kstridge, M. C. (iardner,
\X. T. Vanlandincham. T W
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Secrest.
Everybody invited to come with
full baskets.
W. H. Bruce, Sec'y.,
T. Strait, Cbr'm.
The Bent Prescription f or Maiwa
Chills and Eever is a bottle of
Grove's Tastolesi Chill Tonic. It
18simply Iron and Quinine and
tasteless, No ( are No Pay.
Milton Sharpc, one of the ju
rors in the Tilitnan ca-e va- <jmte
ill Sunday.
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Tablets. All druggbts refund
money if it fails to euro. K. \V.
Grove's signature is on each box
25c.
Col. L. W. Spratt, one ot the
members of the South Carolina
Secession convention, died in
Ju.ksonville, Fin., the 4th in>t.
Only six members M that famous
cinvention are still living.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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Items 1'Voiii Kerslmw ! >?,
Mrs. A. II. Mathis, of Lancass
tcr. i- vi.-iting at tlio lioino of Mr.
S. S. .Jones.
Mr. \Y. N. ClyIxirn has accept
ed a position :it the store of
the Heath Hanking vV: Mercantile
Co. anil will I e pleased to wait on
all Lis old customers and friends.
? Mis. K. ( '. Hauler, of Mia- (
mi, Ida . i- visiting her father,
Mr. d W. I la-sol tine. Mr.
rrenholm 11 i?elline also came in
and spent a day or so tint has returned.
The editor has in his orchard
a .June apple tree which has borne
a third crop, a pear tree with w
-vn/u'i i u'ji ui >*>uiig pears, unci
cherry trees with second crop of
voting cherries unci lots of blooms
on them.
? Dr. .1. E. \Y. Hailc has moved
his stock to his new stand on
the site of his old drugstore building,
which was burned. He will
have, when he gets everything in
shape, one of the handsomest and
best appointed drugstores in any
small town in the state.
Sfojts <1?( ami Works off
t/m C'<>{<1.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
ets cure a cold in one day. No
Cure, No Pay. Price, 25c.
Not Mexican Weevil.
Rock 11 ill Journal.
it will be a bit of good news to
many of our readers to know that
the insects found in several cotton
ti ilds adjacent to this city, supposed
to be the Mexican boll weevil,
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and which have caused no little
uneasiness among the farmers and ;
oil,o? s iMpially as deeply interest- j
ed, are not the Mexican weevil
but only an acorn weevil, at least
the two specimens which Mr. W. j
J. Cavony sent to Washington !
last week were pronounced as such \
and they looked to lie the same as
the se found in tho fields of ;
Me?rs. Neely and IStoelo some- ;
time ago. 1 bo letter Mr. Cavony
received from C. L. Marlatt, of
mi;wuiKiw^y division oi ino Agri- ;
cultural I)cpsirtmeiit at Washing-i
tor. in reply to Ins letter of in- ,
Hairy follows:
I . S. 1 )epartment of Agriculture, j
Division of Entomology
Washington, L). C., Oct. 1,
1903. ?
Dour Sir:?Your letter of the
listh ultimo, duly received and
referred to this oflioe for attention.
The supposed Mexican
weevil, examples of which you
send, is a common acorn weevil,
Balaninus fjuercos. and has no
connection whatever, with cotton,
breeding only in acorns. Under
seperate cover lam sending you some
of our publications -on the
Mexican boll weevil which you
may not have seen.
Yours truly,
C. L. Mai'lutt.
Avoid serious results of kidney
or bladder disorder by taking
Foley's Kidney Cure. T. Eugene
1- underbill k.
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( apt. S. C. (iilbert, a conductor
on the South Carolina Railway
since 1s57, died m Charles*
ton Sunday.
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u.s signature is on every box of tho genuine
Laxative Bromo'Quinine Tablet*
ho retug"v that ruri'N n ? <?>?! in one day
Mrs. Ii ?l. Williams, wife oik
the chairman of the State board
of control, died of typhoid fever
at her home at Edgefield Monday.
Mr. Williams and his littlo daugh j
tor are also very ill. (
OAS TOHIA.
ftp.ira the N18 K|n(1 You Have Always Bought i
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Foley9s Honey una Tar c
cores coldy, prevents pneumonia, t
Happenings In The State.
\s Chronicled by the Alert Cor
respondents of The Coluuibni
State.
sKNATOK HAKDIN'S CONDITION.
Chester, Oct. 2. ? A most encouraging
and gratifying reports
ire received here from tlic bed
dde of the Hon. 1'. L Hardin,
State senator from this county,
who has boen for nearly two
months at Johns Hopkins hospital,
Baltimore, where ho under
went surgical treatmeir for nicer
of the stomach. lie expects to
leave the hospital in a few days
to return home.
1)1 K.I) IN l'HII.ADKUMlIA HOSPITAL.
Spartanburg, Oct. 3.?The
news reached the city this morning
of the death of Rev. J. E.
Urier, pastor of Central Methodist
church, in a hospital in
Philadelphia. Mr. (irier was
carried to Philadelphia a short
time ago for treatment, hut failed
to mend; he gradually '-sank until
the end lust night.
Tin: sm.rna assassination.
Newberry, Oct. 2.?The coroner's
inquest this afternoon in the
case of Smith Cockerel, who was
shot in his-yard in Saluda county
about ten days ago hy an unknown
party, brought in a verdict, after
hearing the testimony, that S. 11.
Hanks was the principal in the
killing and Sallie Cockerel was an
accessory. Mr. Hanks is brother-in-law
of the deceased and Sallie
Cockerel is the wife. There
was some very damaging evidenco
brought out against -these two.
Warrants have been sworn out
for their arrest and they will prOknKI..
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WOUNDS A NIGHT WATCHMAN ANI)
KILLS A WII1TK MAN.
Georgetown, Oct. 2.?At Rosemary,
a village About 15 miles
from Georgetown on the G. and
\V. railroad, and tho central depot
of the logging "operations of
the Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation,
Night Watchman Wheeler
was shot in the mouth and
Geo. II. Almeida, boiler maker
and mechanic, was shot in the
head and killed by a negro desperado,
also in the employ of the
Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation,
early this evening. The
murderer escaped, and up to 11
o'clock tonight had not been captured
NEGRO SLAVS A NEGRO WOMAN.
Yorkville, Oct. 4.?About 0
o'clock last night a negro named
Loe^ Hardin, shot and killed a
negro woman named Belle Floyd,
in Swampton, a notorious negro
neighborhood of our town. It
seems that theso parties, with another
negro man, were in a house
alongside of the Carolina and
Northwestern railway. Hardin
was night watchman for the Victor
Cotton Oil mills, situated sev^....1
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<JVHI uiiiiiircu yarns distant. tlni5ilin
tried to pet the woman to go
with hitn to the oil mill, hut she
refused. Thon ho began talking
to her in a very abusive manner,
and she replied in the same strain.
Finally, with an oath, ho drew
his pistol and tired, shooting her
in the forehead. The woman was
sitting on the edge of the bed at
the time, and fell back where sho
was.
FOR I'F.NSION 1RR F.G I TAHITI F.N.
Anderson, Uct. J.?The grand
jury in its final presentment in
die sessions court yesterday pre- i
*ented \Y. ('. Meredith, a mem>er
of the county pension hoard,
or violation of the pension laws.
\t the June term the grand jury
routed a mild sensation hy saying
hat information hud come to it
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tho effect that some of the
am hois of I he pension hoard
3re ehar^in<? commissions to apic.ints
for pensions. It is proh
tie that tlie mem her referred t?>
the only one "vlio has been
inrgo?r with this practice, and
e outcome of the matter will he
v.iitnl wMi interest.
AniU D:\is, who was t?ued in
o ions DMi; l } e.-terday for
o dcr, was convicted with a renin
i mui hi ion to mercy.
INhl'K.U CIIAKOKI) WITH llUHNlNO
a h.\rnsT cnrucii.
Wiilhallu, Sent. '2'J ?There urn
i Ihe Oconee jail three persons,
ev. Samuel Chum hers, his sisr,
Mrs. Kate McGuflin, and
Ibert Chambers, a nephew of '
ie former two, churned A'ith the
lining of liolly Springs Bapst
church last May.
It seems that the membership
f this church was badly divided,
al ly lns\ spring the Kev. Samel
Chaimiers ami his followers
let am] turned out of the church
any of the members whobelong1
to the opposing faction. Lair
the opposing faction mot and
irned out the Rev. Chambers
ui his faction, and locked up the
lurch. Soon after this the church
cut up in flames. It is under
,ood that the State will put up u
ozen or moro witnesses to testifv
gainst the defendants.
PITIFUL STORY THAT COMKS FROM
SPARTANBURG.
Spartanburg, Oct. 1.--A pitiil
story of a mother's love, lavh
and unyelfisb, despite the fact
lat the object on which it is wast"
1 is far from being located, is
rought to light in the instance of
n n
Irs. Sallie McDonald, - an aged
hite woman, who was found in
10 waiting rooms of the {southern
apot last night by the police; she
as unconscious when found, and
tedical aid after some time, reored
her faculties She ^related
story of length, a proper syniiyin
of which is misery. Her
>11 has been missing from here
>r a year. During that period,
ith the undying and fathomless
lot her affection, she has been
uveling utnot iiii? him. lie
i all she has in the world. No
roperty, no household goods, no
unhand, no other sons or duugliirs.
This unnatural progeny
us secreted himself from his
other's searches ever since be
istippeured from here?over a
ear ago. At present she lies
angerousiy ill at an humble
oarding house in this city, and
le charity of the people here is
deviating her wants.
P. H. F.
Gen. M. C. Butler Injured.
pecial to News and Courier.
Hichmond, Oct, 5.?Gen M. C.
iutler, Ex-*United States Senator
rom South Carolina, had one jof
is ears almost severed and his
culp badly cat yesterday .by a
tone thrown through the window
tthe Seaboard Air Line train, on'
rbich he was going home from ^
Vashington.
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People say OUR SHOES are %
ie CHEAPEST and BEST. We
ave the strongest line of coarse
hoes on the market.
Closing out 2,000 yards Calico
t 3A and cents the yard. Come
3 day. Respectfully,
Cherrv & Co.
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Auction Bale
I will^ell at public outcry on
jo first Montbiy in November,
II my hooseho'd furniture, valnble
pictures, bboks, etc., at the
2ni<lence formorly occupied by
le late Cap).. K. G. Billings.
W. D. Lrmmond.