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Local Matters API'OI N I'MKMTH OK HKV. J. M. WHITE. Unity, l*t and 3d Sabbath. (.lilli . rtv k, 'J I mill 4lti Sabbath, 11 a. m. Pleasant Hill, 2 i mid 4tli Sabbath, 4 p. m. / the onlj Candy, / A trial will convince you. At Mackorell's. ?Fay your Subscription 4o the Ledger and be happy. ?Mrs. E. C. Carpenter will leave today for Henrietta, N. C., to viait her mother. ?Mrs. R. B. Mackey of Heath Springs is visiting her father's family at this place. ?Mrs. J. B. Mackorell will go to Yorkville today to visit her |iai cu to. ?Married, Jany. 10, 1904, by Rev. R. J. Blackmon, Mr. Hinson and Miss Lda Ellis daughter of Mr. G. W. Ellis. ? Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Robertson, Jan. 10, 1904, a daughter. ?Strayed or stolen! One black horned cow, brown strip down back. Suitable reward for return to H. Mines. ? Mr. J. E. Welsh of Longs ille returned to the University of Maryland last week to resume his studies in dentistry. ?Messrs. John Welsh and Lawrence Stuart of Monroe,spent several days here with friends this week. ?Mrs. Jas. W. Miller of Jsfferson, S. C, is riaitiog her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. F. Gregory, at this place. ? Senator Hough and Representatives Williams and Potta left Monday for Columbia to attend the session of the legislature which convened yesterday. ?The Lancaster Cotton Mills, the L. & C. Railroad and The Bank of Lancaster declared the uaual semi-annual dividends this month. Vf r Pi*nefnn I? VI ml. j. ivvi.WU ?*.* lUUL/HUlOl who has been visiting his aunt Mrs. Mary Manea returned to his home at Bathuno Saturday. The ladies of the Methodist church will serve oysters in the Kiddle building next Friday evening from 6 to 9 o'clock. There will be services in the Episcopal church next Sunday at 11 o'clock, a. ra. and 4 p. m., conducted by Rev. G. Croft Williams. The Stewards of the Rock Hill District, of the Methodistjchurch, will meet in Rock Hill next Wednesday morning, 20th instant, at 10 o'clock. There will be a basket supper Wednesday night of next week, 20th instant-, at the A. R. P. Manse at Unity. The public is ordially invited to atteud. The proceeds will be used'to buy desks for the Unity school house. ?Sammie Snipes, son of Mrs. Nannie Snipes died at the home of his mother at the Highland Park mill Sunday and his body was taken to Kershaw Monday for interment.?Rock Hill Jour Dal. ?The Rev. J. W. Wnlli*cr rt > formerly a member of the South Carolina conference but for 16 years a missionary of tho Methodist church in Brazil, is in the city. Mr. Wolling is here for a stay of several months in the States.?The State 9th inst. Generul Stephen D. Lee has assumed the duties >19 commander in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, made vacant by tho death of Gen. J. B. ^Gordon. ? Mrs. D. Schwarlzman and little daughter Esther,of Marion, S. C., are visiting tho former's sbter, Mrs. R. Miles, at this place. ?Born, to Mr. and Mrs H. F. McDonald, Jan. 11, 1904, ason. ?There will be a hot-supper, oysters included, given at the residence of Rev. S. N. Watson, next Friday night, Jan. 15th. The proceeds will go to theBaptisb church. Everybody is cordially invited. ?Married on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1904, at the home of the bride's father, Mr. John Hunter in the mill village, Mr. Marshall Privett and Miss Lottie Hunter. At the same time and place, Mr. John Hunter, Jr., was married to Miss Robert Privett. Rev. Mr. Catoe norfnrm^ft tho p?i-omnnv "t l>nth I ? ?w. UJ t?V "UUI 1 marriages. n Admitted to 1U1I in tlio Sum oi' $3,000. The application for bail by iMr. C. B. Skipper, charged with the murder of Mr. Jas. B. Caskey on Christmas day, which was made before Judge Gage at Chester the past week resulted ia the granting of the application last Saturday morning. Tho bond was fixed at $3,000. Mr. Skipper left Saturday afternoon for Baltimore, accompanied by hit wife, to spend a week or so with relatives. i/o mil unni une 01 'l'licsc l'.an- j ' tations? j t 200 acres, 4 miles North of i * i town, nice tw3-story dwelling, 3 i tenant houses, good outbuildings, ri hree-horse farm open. ?211 acres, 2 miles North of town, good two story dwelling, outbuildings, etc. Apply to T. S. Carter, Agent. j Church Notice ! ! Bad weather prevented my 1 keeping my last appointment at j Douglas. Providence permitting, j I will preach there next Sabbath, j as usual. Jos . T. Dendy. Kilied by His Wife While Asleep In Bed. A private letter received in Rock Hill from Dallas, Texas, gives information of a bloody affair in that State several days ago, in which some of our ro.iders will #??i u :?i l t ? i? ! ? iooi inuvju luioi wHi. uuuii rorier i i vrav born and raised in the Wax- t haws section of Lancaster county, I but was well kuo^n in this city. i He wsnt to Jacksonville, Fla., | some years ago and there married < a woman whose name we do not t know. They removed from there t to Texas, but as he and his wife i did not agree, they parted. La- \ ter they became reconciled and ] renewed their relation as man and t wife. A few nights ago, for i some unexplained reasen, the wife i arose from her bed, securing hor f h-isband's pistol fired upon him i and-killed him instantly. Mrs. e Porter was arrested and is now t in jail.?Rock Hill Herald. t Too Much Gambling. c "Yes, there is too ranch gambling," said Col. Leroy Springs, j. of Lancaster, the well known cot- ^ ton mill man who was in the city ^ yeaterday. "And Charlotte was j not the only town that has been ^ hurt by tho reaction. Down at n my home, men?small manipula- ^ tors?were about 160,000 ahead # cf the game on one day. The next they wore ubout $20,000 behind. That's the usual way. JNObody but a rich man can afford to gamble on cotton. The rest ^ who dabble in it remind mo of a people who borrow money to com. Q pound interest."?Charlotte Ob orvor, 11th. , Germany has decided to main- j< tain a atrict neutrality in cane of p war between Russia and Japan. f Fewer gallons; wears louge?Devoe * coins From The Era. Mrs. J. VV. llumcl is visitin g lor uaother tit Lancaster. ? lv L). Blnkonoy, Esq , left Sunday for Ohio on professional ' easiness. ? Mr. M. S. Asheley of the Kerihaw telephone office is put- ( Ling in a control at Heath Springs j ? We are glad to learn that Dr tl. S. Beckham continues to ini- < irove a little and is now allowed o sit up several times during the ] lay in an invalid's chair. ?Young Oscar Catoo who was | iccidentallv shot hv his brother . * I vhile out hunting, as noted in he Era last week, is now able to up again. ?There is still no material im? | irovement in the condition of t Son. J. N. Estridge, who la still rery critically ill at his home at i White Bintr. ?The Hartaville Messenger of ' he 7th inst says that postmaster Simon Beckham, who is a son of \ Dr. It. S. Beckham, of Kershaw, I ook charge of the Hartsville post- < office .Jany. 1. i ? We are very glad to an- J lounco a marked improvement in he condition of Mr. Wesley Mciorton, who was so seriously in ured by falling from the roof of ? lis house, lie is being nursed >y a trained nurse from Colum- | )ia. ?Col, L. C. Hough and his jrotbor, Mr. A. II. Hough, spout ast week in Honea Fath visiting heir brother, Dr. C. N. Hough, vho is critically ill. Dr Hough1# nnlady is of such a fatal type that lis life is despaired of. The Iloartlessuess of a Husband. A heartiest; hue hand, one Jasper rlyder, hailing from Hcssemer 3ity, but who has boen living in Lancaster with his wife Dora, jnme to Rock IIill Thursday afornoon by train accompanied by lis wifo. Upon arriving here he ook the woman into the waiting ooni and leaving, said he would eturn later, that he had business .0 attend to. The confiding wolian took a seat while her false ord took his departure, and going 3111 to the train and crossing to :he opposite side of the railroad e embnrkcd, and when the wife, ' *vho was ft good looking woman ? ted apparentlg very worthy, was t 'riandless -and monoyless. Sho * ' mained in tha waiting room un? j il after night for bar husband, ? t)ut he never came. Becoming 1 alarmed, she made inquiry of i puesers by, but received no tilings of the man whom she had J .rusted. She was in great dis* ? rets, naturally sa, and a sympa- 11 :hizing workman of whom ahe * iad made inquiry took her to his c loma wkare she remained until (1 he next day, when she came * vith her tale of woo to the mayor, u vha was unable to do anything i] ? J br her officially,but taking her to H he depot eaaily secured by sub- r icription enough money to send l' ler on to the home of her bus- e >and. When the money had been <1 'iven her she buret into tears , . . . J ind was sincere in nor expression tI >f thanks. o We relate these facts to show tow heartless some creatures in he shape of man can be to those b lepeadent upon them. This fel-alu ow, if the woman's word can be bl lepended upon, ought to serve a t* lumber of years at hard labor on at he chain gang.?Rock Hill Her- jjj Id. About the best advice we can \\ ;ive the legislature is to kill the roposition to increase the num- " or of judicial circuits and the sal % ries of dispensary directors, pass no or the other simple measures? m bout which we can give iostruc- * ions later if desired?then adaurn to meet again in 1900, for a ^ leriod not exceoding -10 days, and ^ or a like period every two years ft| hereafter.?Chester Lantern.. ft Lottor to A. B. Ferguson. Lamashr, ?>'. C. ' Dear Sir : There aro several \vay9 of choatiug in milk. An 1 old-fashioned way is to water it. I Nobody waters it now. A hotter J way is to take out the cream ? rich milk with the cream taken 3Ut is as good as poor milk with f) L18 cream all in. t But we needn't go into parti- is julars. ti You don't rob your milk and pour customers. Paint is as easy as milk to ;heat with. Good paint is as are as good milk ; for human lature is much tbo same in milknen and Daint men. * You are just and true with /our milk ; so are we with our laiut. I)evoe lead-and-zir.c is ,wice as good as mixed piants : There's twice as much butter in G Mr. J. T. Ladd, Choraw, S. C., , writes: -1 "When Mr. Evans painted his : louse with iJevoe, he figured on y iow other paints covered and had mough left to paint three large ooras. lie was so pleased that j le has used Dovoe on two other j louses " | Yours truly, ^ I F. E. Devoe& Co. J6 New York. PUBLIC SALE 1 OF 1 A valuable and verv productive plan hi- i ion comprising two tracts, situated in the Waxhaw District of Lancaster comity, ^ South Carolina, and known as the Waxhaw I * Plantation or Witkerspoan Place, and j ^ [Jureton Lands, respectively, the former he- I ng 12GG.J acre., more or less, and the latter \ 172 acres, more or less, in area, and both j iracts adjoin. This land is about 9 miles i from Lancaster court house, on the Char- j [otte road and also not very far distant ^ 'rom Waxhaw on Seaboard Air Lino. The ; , loil is red clay and very fertile. This plan- ( -| at ion is also well adapted for stooli-raising. j J The Waxhaw plantation is the historic 4 birth-place of ii neral Andrew Jaokson. j " The undersigned own rs will sell at pub- . ic auction, on Monday, the first day of , February, 19oi, in front of the Court House I loor at ono o'clock p. m. at Lancaster C. J I II , 8 O., all those two tracts ot land:? j I Tho first thereof being all that pieco, par- ! I :el, tract or plantation called tho Waxhaw ? Ltl&ni?tun, containing about 1206J acres, 1 mo:e or less,as the survey made 1 y Chailes if. Itagsdale, surveyor, lying an.l situated n Lancaster county, afon said, on both sides of "Vaxhaw creek and adjoining lands J if Estate of Samuel 11. Massey, deceased i ind others, being the same land or planta* k ion mentioned or described in a deed from lames J), faskey, Sheriff for Lancaster | ;ounty to Judson A Ilasscltjno and N. Cf I II. Oliafee, bearing date tbo 0th day of 1 September, 1869 and recorded in the otlico I if the Register of Mesne Conveyance for ^ aid county in Rook U. pages 501 and 595; ~ icing also the farstly described lot of laud f " n deed dated the first day of July 188o and ^ coordcd in tbo ottiee of the said Register ; >t Mesne Conveyance in Rook C. pages 111 ^ to, from David Wissenfeld to Joseph 'riedenwalk and others f] The second thereof being all that piece, lareel or tract of lanrt situate and lying in / Lancaster county, aforesaid, containing 372 j * cres, more or less, bounded by tlioStinson 4 ind and lands that formerly belonged to i lasselline and Cbutee, also tracts No. 1,3 nd 5 of the estato lands of Eliza B. Cure- | lureton, deceased. For a more particular J ascription see plats made bv D. P. Robin. I , nn D. S., '31st December 1873 of tbo estate H inds of Eliza B. Cnrcton, deceased, desig ated on said plats as tracts No. 2 and 4 beig tbo same tract* of land conveyed to said lasseltine and'Chafeo by J. R. Hunter, lu riff, on tlio 13tli day of May lg71 and ecorded in said Register office in Hook A age 41, and beiog the fifthly dosjribed lot f land in the said deed from David Wies- ^ ufeld to Joseph Frie lenwald t.nd others, j?| ated and recorded as aforesaid. L The Waxhaw Plantation, firstly above M escribed lias been sub divided into six ji acts, and, if not sold as a whole, will be B ll'ered in tracts according to a plat, a copy 1* T which can bo seen at the offco of the L ,ancestor Review. w Tlie improvements consist of tenement i ouscs and ontbuldings scatered over the ? nd. TERMS OF SAT,E:-One fourth cash, i alanco in equal yearly instalments of one, |y vo, three, four and five years, or all cash |j , the option of tbo purchaser; the credit ? lymonts bear interest and to bo secured T t the satisfaction ot the owners. p Wiesenfeld &, Co , ft 7oG Fidelty Ruilding, Ratlimoro, Md. U 'illiam ('arnes, of Dwight, Lancaster J| 'ounty, S. 0., Auctioneer. g OA0TOIIIA. .It* ^Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought i fi I xm>.?>.m.ali? ?ii . * rouKnw It'na You re Taking m When you take Grove's Taste M i8s Chill Tonic because the form ii1 la is plainly printed on every hot- 8 e showing that it is simply Iror |,j nd Quinine in a tasteless form B fo Cure. No Pay. 50c. 2 GREAT Improvement. v' Uavo just received a large stock 1 f shoos. From the best Brogun ^* r> tho nicest Patent Leather that '1 s made. Wo save von from 25 J"' ten [) 50c a pair. j Respectfully, , Cherry & Co. j cec Do i i k . . C \ ' V I I o j UP' ' ' - ' |,r< I ;,5:V:'V?:- u ** ! - .. ??>? | wLi. / .?... , the ,ir r,Y. I . r > C\'; ~-tii 5 Co., r - . i. > <4011 k . . -.<5* ?- -? ? ? w - - ^ - . . _ 1 teal Seas We have had For which we heai Friends and patroi ill a very happy 1 rear durum- 11H) C~t " jerely trust that or get to huy gooi BARGAIN * STO you will get belt more of them for t ii llian y?u possibly elseii! Itiwiil I We will move into the Milling, now occupied by 5 ,0011 as it can be gotten read} ime we are going to sell gooi educe our stock before movir if winter goods that must be lot carry over winter pood<?= * O"""? ;ome price. Come to our sto ind you will find warm bargi locketbook good. Sell Goods! Ef! ivercoats that we will take or a trifle, try us and see less. E. E.CL -HSC*- KI<- -SG-r-XE- -Kf- -ex.. j IT IS A PLEAfc ! TO ( You I I WELL, I 1IAVE ir IN T i FRESH PRUNES, FIGS, 1 | CITRONS, OATMEAL, SIJ creamof wlleat, postu s stitutk,) grape nut, ca all kinds CELERY. CELEf every week just from ktilamazc you want in the grocery 1 n> J.B.Maci =3*^- -bbssacajxae2o0ceskce -?? si.'-u nit yviNJN i Ir /:?. : : ?t*3 -. 7T. '1 JFL. m ire tbe 1 1 - V u Ha ; Always bought ihiable Real Estate for Sale. will hi* * 1 fit* <? ?ti? ""i? - - x <?% (m i t ?nc rjaitr j following tsiuiy hauls of Joseph irk, deceased: I'hu lot near t' e cotton mill, ad" ningthootd M. L, Leminr.nd lot, whicli there arc several Hto?es. I'he lot in roar of the i'resbvlerian urclt, containing: about 1 acres. lot near the narrow g uge overail bridge, lot land, about 130 acres, near Os >!a, known as tlie K/ell Mine tract, Vpplv to the undoisigned at once, JANE M. CLARK, c 18, 03?tf. Executrix. iOHSY TO LOAN huvc made art angoments.by which an negotiate loans of $300.00 and wards on first mortgages on im>ved cotton farms at 7 per cent in* est on sums of $1,000 CO and over, I s t>er cent interest on sutns of h ss in $1,000. so commission churged, only a'ren" lanle fee for abstract of title. It. E. WYLIE, (HE, a busy season *tily thank our us. We wish mil jirosperous I, and we sinyou will not ds at SCLUDS HE," where er goods and lg same money, can anywhere IliSi. tbll9 i new handsome psonic itevenson tk Porter, as i for us. In the name* ds cheap. We wish to ig than we have a lot sold anyhow. We will =they must be sold at ire any day in January tins that will do your HESS OF COST. We i good stock suits and pleasure in giving away if we do not mean busi= r\ TT T~\ U U D. >URE | 3rET WHAT i Stent- i HE EATING LINE. j'J ? AIS1NS, CURRENTS, ? REDED WHOLE WHEAT, ? B 1 CEIiEAL, (orcokKKR^Sl'H* w I ill iru? * - " 1' - L IWTjO AND jUUAUltrJKM OK $ 1 tY4 CELERY, I a ^ >, iti fact,'most anything [?1 o. Coino to sec me, $ iORELL. | -?xs?