The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, October 07, 1903, Image 2

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THE LEDGER. Thurlow 3. Oartcr, EDITOR AND MANAGER. I i .n .1 \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 I 1 - V ' 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. Tnl.? I v * xui\u uiiAui: vi" oniino i^uiDMio I 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 s 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, I 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. i? mm ( apt. S. C. (iilbert, a conductor on the South Carolina Railway since 1s57, died m Charles* ton Sunday. us* -i -- 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 t- ? 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.. .... ? i uukjij u\s ui iv;?ivu iwmglll. 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 V. 1 1 - ** ' -- - <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 Heath Bankings LAXCAST I ;3P AA J OUR SP | i DiSPLi j fall and MILLII o o? i thitrsi i V v/utu * FRIDAY Octol jj ?o o? | Our Miliine I Simpson spent I ill tlie North en | lectin^our stoe 1 p-1 i i styles of tit is s 8 |j will i>e showi Beavers and I line of the new in all colors. * o | The latest wt for Shirt Wais Skirts will he d A WELCOME * # EXTEND A & w Heath Banking & LANCASTJ ? _ Mercantile Cp.: Ell, S. . ' A ^ ECIAL t; 'i k* 1Y OF k < | li WINTER j \ VERY, ] >AY, I: ber, 1st, | 9 I >er, 2nd. I < P e( r Miss Julia | , three" weeks I 11 markets se-1 ? k, and correct 1 ? season's Hats | !; lin Velvets,! j; vits. a full i;; est Suit Hats | <" saves in goods S ts, Suits and B ' ti lisnlaverl. I h 1 J 8( 81 O 1 * V iis - ! ED TO ALL 2 sl T , E t, v fi Mercantile Co.s Ul KR, S. C.^ 4 - .-S ' - '< #v\ * T * ^ 1 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. W H 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. / w 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.