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BH' . M(?. KH I THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. & Representative newspaper. Severs Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding bounties fcifce a Blanket. $ VOL.. XXXIC LEXIXGTOX S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1904. 47. I Z GLOBE DRY GOODS COMPANY, 7 | fit -<ft. n. zmoiitciitoit, Tie., ivdz^.2sr^.a-sie. Ik~~ WW l&SiOMAI IV STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. % ' October l3tf i TRl'TB L\ f, 1 i We have Shoes for everybody, The big man and the tall? { ^ For those who wear them very larg6. And those who wear th6m small. We have Shoes for the merchant prince, The Banker and the Farmer too, For the Parson and the lawyer Anri a nail* nr on fnr TOD. We have Shoes for the hoary sage, Or the infant on mother's knees; Oars are the kind thai wear the best * And are always sure to please. We have Shoes for the school boy. To run and tag bis mate, Or Shoes for the blushing lover Hanging o'er the gate. We have shoes for the cowboy Of the wild and wooly West, > . And Shoes for the sporty dude Who always buys the best. To be continued. I " LEVER. *SHOE MAN. COLUMBIA, S. C. Men's Fall Furnishings MY STOCK IS NEW AND COMPLETE IN : Neckwear, Gloves Underwear, Half Hose, Handkerchiefs, Shirts. Knox <fc Stetson's Soft and Stiff Hats. Snit Cases, and Hand Bags. White and Fancy Teste. SUm MADE TO ORDER. i # A FIT GUARANTEED. > . / J.H.Eleazer, t 1 HABERDASHER, 1514 MAIN STBEET COLUMBIA, S. Q. ~ FURNITURE A -3 B TR I JONES & ^ WHE1 1 COLUMBIA FOR FURN X High Grade, Cheap and Mediu ~ we ha 1 SOME REAL < ww""" g in second hand Beds, Bureaus W Don't miss I JONES * S3 > JU 1208 Main St, op; COLUMBIA, Fearful Accident. Through the careless of an engineer on the Southern Railway, and bis disobedience of orders two trams carrying a heavy list of passengers collided near Hodges, TenD, on September 24th, sending fifty four people to death, and mangling aod maiming and injuring 320, several of whom will die. The claim of failure to see either the station or signals could not be set up by the engineer of the west-bound train were be alive to enter a plea of defence, ae the accident happened in broad daylight and, according to the best information obtainable, be had the orders in a little frame in front of him, as his monster of iron and steel rushed by New Market and scon after came upon an east-hound passenger train, making for New Market in compliance with instructions to meet the west-bound train, which carried the sleepers from the blast for Knoxville, Chattanooga and other Southern cities. The possibility exists that the illfated engineer may have been asleep or that death bad suddenly taken the sight from his eyes before New Market was reached. Bat nothing is known save that the orders were not obeyed. The trains were on time and not making over thirty-five miles flic imnoA> o a thor rnnn/1. C1U UUUt j JO!) l/uo iLu^auu aa < uuj iuuuu ed a curve and Cime suddenly upon each ofcber was frightful. Both engines and the major portions of both trains were demolished, and why the orders were disregarded or misinterpreted probably will never, be known, as the engineers of the two trains were crushed, their bodies remaining for hours under the wreckage of the monster locomotives, which but a short time before had leaped forward at the touch of their strong hands upon the throttle. A PASSENGERS STpRY. John W. Brown, of Kogersville, Tenn, a newspaper editor, was in the rear coach of the west bound train. When the fearful jolt came, he said, ail the seats in tne car were torn loose and people aud seats were burled to the front end of the car. When he recovered the shock he beard the screams and groans of the injured and dying in every direction. * > *- - v )) ?: J nr. "C? "1 i I? ?06 car, uaiu iur juruwn, uas soon as I could, and walked to the main part of the wreck. Is was the most horrible sight I ever witnessed. I eaw a woman pinioned by a peice of split timber, which had gone completely though her body. A little child, quivering in death's agony, lay beneatn the woman. I saw the child die, and within a few feet of her lay a woman's head, while the decapitated body was several feet away. Another little girl, whose body was fearfully mangled, was calling for her mother. I have since learned that she was Lucille Conner, of Knoxville, and that both her parents were killed, I heard one woman, terribly maDgled, praying earnestly to be spared for ND STOVES. Y - | BRACK, ? 1 * ? I MRE, STOVES, ETC m Furniture. At this time ^ ve BARGAINS I Chairs and Bed Springs. > the place. ? ^ VIVI 1 MVF 1 : JUlAbA : posite City Hall, - - - S. C. her children, bar. dea*h relieved her sufferings in a few minute*. "Both engines Hcd all of the coaches of No 15 were literally demolished. rbe smoker and baggage car completely eo. The sleepers remained oo the track undamaged. Both engines lay to the north of the track, jammed together into one mass of indescribable ruios. The cars which were demolished were piled on the wrecked engines."' Register aad Vote. Daily Item. Tbe Republicans, it is predicted, will put out candidates for congress in every district in this State in which the negroes are numerous and will do so for the purpose of contesting the election of tbe Democrats who are elected. They will try to induce white republicans of intelligence and some degree of respectability to become candidates to the end that the republicans in congress may have some shadow of excuse for unseating the Democrats. Wben a candidate, like Dintzler, of OraDgeburg, goes to Washington to contest the seat of a well qualified man like Mr. Lever, the fair minded republicans are not prepossessed in favor of their brother republican from the South, and are not willing to go to the length of violating their ideas of right and jus lice 10 UDseat a wormy representative, though he be a Democrat, to seat an ignorant negro. The plans of therepublicans are of no concern to us, some Democrats may say, but that would be a mistaken idea, for we are vitally concerned. We mention these rumors concerning the republican plans for the purpose of again emphasizing the necessity for every Democrat to register and vote at the general election. If the Democrats do their duty and vote in the general election, as they do in the primary, it will be impossible to unseat our representatives. Register aDd vote. We Have $31.16 Apiece. The amount of money in circulation in the United States is now greater than at any other time in the history of the country, the aggregate being $2,558,279,984 Notwithstanding the loss in volume through the loan to the Cuban Republic, this totalis $169 378 806 more than on September 1,1903 Bised on the estimates of the Treasurv experts of a population of 82,098,000, the amount in circulation if equally distributed would give each man, woman and child in the United States $31.16 The per capita circulation has risen steadily at a faster rate than the population bap increased. Oa September 1. 1903. it was $29 90; on the same date m 1902 it was $28 55: for 1901 it was $28 18 and for 1900 it was $26 85, wbile on September 1, 1898, it was $23 96, an increase of 23 per cent, in six years. JkARE f \ T wii you are / 1 /show you the n / I * i'imW'm CQt ac(* ma I I A made by the m I ^ ffflT , 1 Prices no highe V^Jn jjM i f\ mixed Cheviots VgS 111 " ' ' ^ tkird more *c W ^ any ^e^er THE. PRINCETON M,VBL%bT$ a^rWill M. L. R1NAJ 1523 Main Street, Reflections of Billy Felix. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The backbone of summer seems to be broken and the cool winds of the north begin to keep sign among the pine boughs. Cotton has been opening rapidly, the farmers are gathering it. the ginners are ginning it, the merchants are buyiing it and the farmers ? well be seems to be satisfied with ten cent per pound. Mr. J. G Fallaw can now be found behind the counter of Mr. J. C Reynolds of Swansea, where he will v 7 be delighted to see his old friends ?LIU uuotuuicio Every white voter in South Carolina should prepare himself for the general election, go to the polls early and vote for Judge Parker and A F. Lever. I am in bed on my back and have been for three days aod the probability dow is, I may be here several days more. My hands are nervous, blistered and eore from plowing up millet, stubs. Oh! my, what hard work that is. One good thing I did not have many to turn out. Something less than a quarter of an acre. Such a fodder pulling I had in that patch. Three hands in there two weeks off aDd on?off more than on ?finally'I got it to the cane mill; three days grinding aDd cockiDg. Here is how much I got from the patch: One barrel, 284 gallons, 2 kegs each 5 gallons, one jug 1? gallons. The miller's toll, whicn was the 8th, which you Eee run it up in the figures of 45 or more gallons on less than quarter of an acre. I weDt for some of the syrup, but I took good care to keep the bung end in the opposite direction. Now we can feast on new syrup and sweet biscuits made from flour manufactured at Mr. George's fine roller mill. Wonder how maDy of the succ'essful candidates can face the dear people two years hence with the consciousness of having done their duty. Yours for success and mine for locomotive power. Billy Felix. Gaston., 8. C., Sept. 23, 1904. Dots from Brookland. To the Editor of the Dispatch: We are moving along nicely in our town. Messers C. T. Weed, C. R Costner, N. Gr. Gable and J. E. Addy are taking instructions by mail in a course - ? --i. a: 3 : : t 01 CO lion caruiug auu apiLiuiug iiulu Scranton, Pa. They are preparing for any kind of mill work, which | means six or eight months hard ; study. | The I)uek mill is running six days i in* a week and is using more cotton j than any other mill in the State. Mr i L. I. Guion, as superintendent, is a | moving mill man. The mill is runj ing ten to twelve bales of cotton I more per day than it did under any j other superintendent. Messrs. Stalling k Awtrey are doYOU READY? ready tor your FALL S(JTT we're ready to ew ideas in colorings, and the late kinks in ke-up of our FASHIONABLE CLOTHES, ost reliable houses in America. IlllTf Rfl T?I TT - the choicest things to slip away from you. )T than the quality justifies Men's fancy , Cassimeres and Worsteds, cut in corrtct $12.50, $15, $18.50. and $20.00. i makin? Suits to order charges one>r the same patterns and then cannot . A word tc the wise is sufficient. Order by Mail. refund Money if not Satisfactory. II Ti TI,e iLlX*^ Clothier. COLUKSJA, S. C. ||||| I . " | iDg a good dry goods business here, j Oar soldier boys were delighted | with their M&nassas trip, and were ! glad to have with them Col. M. D. Harman on the old battle tields. Messrs. stalling &. Awtrey are making arrangements to light our churches with electric lights. The canal is very low. We need ruin badly. Conference has passed and our TTloif a??o mm AnAAln U A A n vionuio auu uui pcupic uau a pj^acuui time. Boy. Obituary. Daniel E. SbulJ was born October 30, 1843, and departed this life September 24. 1904. He was married to Miss M E. Weesinger, January 30, 18G8, and to them were born three daughters add one sod, twelve grandchildren; two dead. He joined the M. E Church South in early life aDd lived a consistent life. He enlisted in Company H., 20th Regiment, and was a good soldier, as his Capt. Roof remarked who was present at nis funeral. He leaves a wife, mother and many rela tives and friends to mourn his loss. Peace to his memory. N. S Younginer. Court. The jury in the McDaniel murder case, alter being out seven hours, brougat in a verdict of 'mot guilty." After nassiuff sentences as follows J. 0 - ? the Court of Sessions closed: Boston Jone*, 3 months or $40. The fine was paid. Wm. Lytes, for housebreaking and larceny; three years on the gang. Abranam Lincoln Sheppard, for burglary; live years on the gaDg. The regular rail terra of court of Common Pleas opened Monday morning and Judge Purdy promptly began the despatch of business. There are fifty-one jury cases on the trial docket with only one week allowed us for the term. Heretofore we were given three and sometimes four weeks for the fall term, but the last Legislature changed the law so as to give us only one, and it is a hardship on litigants I as well as the cause for special terms of court. The first case tried was brought for John P. Price vs. Southern Raili way Company. Mr. Price claimed .1 _ t 1. ? damage-s ior personal injury, - naving ; been struck and thrown to the ground | by a moving passenger train in Lees| ville, while alighting therefrom, on i December 23, of last year, but the | verdict was against him. I The next jury trial was begun ! J yesterday morning, entitled Simon and Janip Mfk v*. D. F. Etird, | ! brought by Martin & Sturkie aod ! | defended by Edrd & Dreher and J. B. ; i Wingard Toi? is * personal injury I | damage suit. Verdict for defendant. The housekeepers feel the need of a | green grocer in town. There is J money in ibi- bu?iDess for someone. ! I I i r? . i t _ i in oxning dux oona i_,ea Every Pair C I j They are here and of cour.-e are beauties bee and Low Cuts. Blacks and Tans, All Leathe invited to call wnen in the city and inspe Cohen's Sli I 636 MAIN ST., C Local Items. Register Monday and pin your last tax receipt to the certificate so as to be in readiness to vote for Lever on the 8ch of November. This is important, so attend to it at once. A commission has been issued to the Batesburg Telephone Company. The capital is $500 and the petitionera are W. P. Timmerman and J. Frank Kneece. Wanted?Prospective buggy buyers to know that I am agent at ibis place for the celebrated Rock Hill Buggies. Call and see them and get prices. W. H. Donley, Gilbert, S. C. The ladies of Lexington and vicinity are cordially invited to call on Mrs. Alice Timmons and see her beautiful line of stylish trimmed hats for fall and winter wear. The prices are right. Mr. Frank Roberts, of Providence, who graduated at the Palmetto Collegiate Institute last May, left today for Charleston where he goes for the purpose of attending medical lectures. We invite the attention of our readers to the advertisement of E. Jones, Batesburg, on the 2ad page of this issue. He says if you want to save money give us a call when in that town. The firm of Sligh & Allen Company will open for business on Oc tober 5, with a fresh and Dew stock of dry goods aDd millinery at 1638 and 1640 Main street Columbia. In looking around for a place to purchase your fall dry goods, notions and gents' furnishic *, don't forget that N. A. Young, Columbia has a nice stock from which to make your selections. We learn that Judge Simon Wingard, who lives in the eastern suburbs of the town tried the expriment of picking cotton by moonlight one night last week. We failed to learn the result of the experiment. Twelve Mile creek is said to be lower at this time than ever known before. Mr. E. J. George cannot get water enough to run his flour mill and gin at the same time and as his wheat interest is much the largest he has been compelled to stop operating his gin for awhile. Miss Naoma Stuart has accepted a position in the millinery department of J. L. Mimnaugh & Cu's., popular store, Columbia, wtiere she will be pleased to serve her Lexington friends with the prettiest display j of new bats and trimming, ijaaies be sure to call and see her when in the city. A large lot of new fall dry goods, notions, shoes aDd millinery is being received by W. D. Bates, Columbia. These goods are fresh from the looms and factories and represent the latest products in these goods. They are certainly lovely creations and will please the most fastidious ( taste. Call and see them when in ' the city, at the Fountain. Buy Your SPRING SHOES OF COHEN COLUMBIA, S. C. i/ther Shoes Sold and q V*q -n A ULVXU/U UVVUi aus* they are Keith Konq lerors in High srs, Uniou Mide. Yoi ar.? respectfully ct these goods. Quality guaranteed. ioc Store, 501 UMBIA, S. C. *