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Bat guangu eimes. t LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. t 3V NNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, 1896. C t PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. C SUBSCRIPTION RATES: C One Year....................-- - .. Six Months.................. Four Months....................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $1; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and f Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. "You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. What's right is right, sooner or fi later the meaningless boasts and pre tenses of jingo merchants will be found out by the people. We have done e said. We 1 c h ut one price, the lowest-. c t ?t Sumter, S. C. Opposite Bank of Sumter. . - t POLICE. While in Charleston last week we a accepted an invitation to visit police s headquarters and we spent an hour S their with interest. The headquart- 6 t ers is a model of neatness and every 6 thing is so systematically arranged n that at a moments notice a company s of men could be sent out to quell a d riot. The horses are trained to per fection, and at the sound of the gong b a patrol wagon is hitched up and off a to the post of disturbance in a twink- g ling. The officials are all couteous ( and they take pleasure in showing ~ visitors through. We made some ' u-..~ries as to the working of the 1: me ohtangdlfeand we found s a record surprising to us. The poli ticians can prate. about home rule as much as they please, but the metro politan police system is giving them more home rule than they ever-had before; the members of the force are Charleston citizens and the regula- e tions will not permit a man on the force who is not a bonafide voter of ti the city. Chief Martin is a terror to a evil-doers and Jim Hogan "don't do I a thing" but land the light fingered gentry behind the bars, and from c \vhat we saw on the records at the ~ station we are convinced that all cities should have a similar system. Many people have been led to be lieve that the present police system in Charleston is a machine of oppression and the people there, are praying for it to be taken away; this we found ~ to beialse, and if a vote were taken ti by the property holders in that city . - tan sys -. hand' ... .law is c - .he men on tne toree are not under any obli- I gations to the members of the council. ~ a Several members on the ::ity council n are interested in the liquor traffic, in e fact, some four or five, are under in- a dictment for violating the dispensary law. WVhat chance would an honest dlischarge of duty have with such e a condition existing? The police( taken from under the power of such e an . influence go ahead and do their duty without fear of losing1 :heir positions, and as a consequence p aw and order is enforced. Tne op ,osition to~ the metropolitan police, ' ire the wairpoiticians, liquor deal irs and sporting men; the business t -dement are perfectly satisfied with f It, and we hope that the State police ommissioners will not allow them alves to be persuaded into temoving t a nrpAnnt nnhoad Qream~W TV +1'.. - Sumter and the adjoining counties ~ ere stirred last week and the pop-i i lace regardless of race was in full a mpathy. Simon Cooper dipped his li *n into the blood of six human - ings and he wrote a page in his ry that will never be forgotten. He fa is captured, and no one expected c y chance to be given him. It would ye been well if the fiend had been h :en alive and carried into the courts tr i there have justice meted out to ~ u; but the people of Sumter and 0 *ir friends would not have human d :incts had they not done just what ac ? did. 'UU UeILOaL t UYSOUb LLWt I) UUL1 ag of Cooper, but we do not consider his case a case of lynching, it was othing more nor less than the hunt ag and putting to death a wild beast hat was prowling about, speading leath and destruction in hispathway. looper, in our opinion, was a crazy nan, but his insanity was of such a iature that death alone was the only ure. The newspapers condemning he manner of Cooper's death would >e doing far better service did they ondemn the tardiness of the law dfficers when Cooper began his career >f devilment; if the officers had acted )romptly the Wilson family would iot have been on his bloody list. Congress is to have an extra session nd then the people will get the bene it of another summer spent in gas; vhile the business of the country be :omes more and more demoralized. The advocates of Cuba in Wash ngton are not as noisy as they were, mnd it is quite likely the question of nterference will die out until Macec s again killed in some outrageous nanner The General Assembly convened -esterday. We will endeavor to give ur readers the full proceedings each veek. Kansas proposes to try the dis ensary system, and a bill is now be Dre its legislature. X IYEN SARY ALONE The constant cry has been tha t the tate ought not to engage in the quor business, in which we fully oncur, but the brethren who are lamoring for in dividual licenses for be sale of liquor are not taking the tate out of the business by any 2eans. True, it sanctions and ap >rovesithelsale of liquor indirectly, iut it is none the less a partner in he business, as it would derive a lirect revenue from the liquor traffic. 'he proposed restriction as to selling a unbroken packages, not to be Irunk on the premises, is copied from he dispensary law, which is a dis inct concession to its advantages. ndividuals who sell liquor for profit re going to make large sales, if pos ible, and the experience of the past hows that they will not scruple to ell clandestinely and in violation of e law. Saloon-keepers we-e con taratly evading the law by buying icoonshine whiskey and refilling tamped packages, and they would o it again, even though they were nder heavy bonds. The demand >r indvidual licenses means a step ackward in controlling the liquor vil, and we would prefer a direct overnmental control of the traffic. ~ounty management under the board f township commissioners, with all e restrictions that can be devised, nd with the laa machinery of the tw to enforce the restrictions, would eem to promise more for the regula ion of the evil than to start back on be road to the open saloon.-Green ille Mountaineer STANDS AT THE HEAD. Aug J. Bogel, the leading druggist of breveport, La., says: "Dr. King's New iscovery is the only things that cures my :ugh, and it is the best seller I have." J. .Campbell, merchant of safford, Ariz., rites: "Dr. King's New Discovery is all 3at is claimned for it; it never fails, and is sure cure for Consumption, cough and Dds. I cannot say enough for its merits." r. King's New Discovery for Consumap on, coughs and colds is not an expern ient. It has been tried for a quarter of a entury, and to-day stands at the head. It ever disappoints. Free trial bottles at t. B. Loryca's. HANNA'S WAVE. It Reaches Colorado and Four Thousand Men Want Work. A Dever dispatch says that 4,000 men, who by their resolutions, their tatement and actions declanned that hey were out of work, starving, or n the verge of starvation, met in the ~oliseum Hall, Sunday afternoon, nd listened to a number of red hot peeches against the members of the ity council clamoring for work. The 2eetng was held in the Coliseum [l1 in response to a call. The p, ..rs were Rev. Thomas Uzzell nd Rev. Myron W. Reed, the gentle ien who have always been consider d friends of the oppressed and eedy. The former suggested that be quickest way to bring about the hange for the better was to take out alf a dozens membersof the citycoun i and bury them in the bed CTherry reek as a warning to their succes ors that the condition of the work ngmen should not be so cruelly over :oked and slighted in order that the oliticians could fatten their owvn urses at the expense of the many. he resolutions passed called for the onstruction of city water works, treet paving, viaducts, etc., anything o keep the unemployed busy, that be mouths of the hungry might be d, instead of paying out the money 2 interest to bankers. Rev. Mr. teed intimated that violence might e used by reminding his hearers at under the Constitution they have privilege of car that "we may yet iceise that pre neeting there was paraue. .L ne marchers carried ban ers, some of the inscriptions being, Cheerless Christmas for the Work agmen," "We want work, not char y." work instead of the poorhouse," nd a number of others on the same ne.-Nevada JournaL. We offer One Handled Dollars Rieward ir any case of Catarrh that cannot be ired "by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., -os: Toledo, 0. We the undersigned. ha wn F. J. heney for the past 15 years, ann '~elieve mn perfectly honorable in allbas ansactions and financially able to carr, it any oblhgations made by their firm. et & Truax, wholesale druggists, Toledo, .Walding, Kinnau & Marvina, wholesale uggist Toledo, Ohio. Hal's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, ting directly upon the blood and Iuueous *rfaces of the system. Price, 75e. per te. Sold by all druggists. Te.'timon .~LinA5 ISUUM A ltill A CORRESPONDENT COMES T( THAT CONCLUSION. Poverty is Rapidly Increasing Unde the Gold Regime-The Tariff is No the Remedy as Wrecking Panie Have Occurred Under Both Higl and Low Tariffs-The Only Reined: is Monetary Legislation. The business boom, where is it I have traveled to-day over the cit of Providence, up and down, cross wise huntiLg for it, but was unsuc cessful. I enquired of the cute-elee tion Hannacrat prophets; noV on< could answer. One man was a littli soiled, but before I got through wit him he mellowed, concluding his an swers with this significant remark .(We were all damned fools." I tolc him I was glad lie had come to hi senses, though it was rather a latt hour. He was a man, a trader, whon the hard times had cut into deeply He evidently row realized that thi Hannacrat organs and orators who s( vociferously predicted an easy se quence on the election of 1r. 3c Kinley had deceived and lied, and h< was stung badly. It was a hug swindle to tell the people that th< son of Canton, if elected, would be come the son of prosperity, invigor ating the body politic all through curing our industrial ills, arrestin( the downward trend of things, espec ially benefiting labor by constan work at a good wage. I visited large and small stores bu nowhere found evidens eo tood It was the ne old story, "dul se~. When I hinted at the roseati utterances before the election, an( asked how it happened that there wa no betterment, I touched a sore spot they didn't like to talk. Their look spake sharper and louder than words I told them that they laid the egg and if it had hatched a cocatrici they must father it. True the Christmas time had cre ated some activity, but the holidai trade is far from normal. People foi some months have been saving theii scant ear:dngs for the holidays. Bul their means are limited; so are theii purchases. Hence the usual flusl holiday trade will be lean. Thougt the season has been mild, thousand, upon thousands are sitting jupon thE ragged edge of despair. A paucity of money will not rush trade. I called at the office of the Over seer of the Poor. He said the pres. sure was much greater than last year, and if the weather became inclement the pressure would largely increase, Sewer and highway work havina ceased, a large number of laborer, are unemployed. These the city pro. poses to provide for with work on thE parks as a matter of'charity. Seven or eight hundred will thus be aided this to keep the wolf from the doors of these men who are facing grim poverty. Similar tales of woe and prospect ive wrestling with an adverse fate, caused by unjust and unwholesome legislation, come from all parts of the country, a sad commentary on Hanna crat wickedness and political rascali ty and venality. This fact stands out. vividly: Poverty is rapidly in creasing under the Cieveland-Repub lican gold regime, and will continue to increase till we shall have a change of conditions giving us a truly na~ tional money. But say the to be ins, wve will right things by at recasting of the tariff. During the campaign, this issue was made subordinate, the election being made to hinge on gold, because Shy locks and bankers furrnished funds plentecusly. Now the Hannnerats are pushing the tariff and a House committee are -incubating a bill. The country in thre past has had a surfeit of tariff medicine to insignifi cant advantage. Tihe first tariff act was passed in 1789; since that timE there has been an immense amount of tariff tinkering, the question hay ing been before Congress some fifty times or more. At intervals the schedules were entirely recast, and between the recastings, there was much patching. With all the tinker ing there always was a loose screw somewhere. Our monetary system has hereto fore, and i:, now, an obstacle in the way of wholesome tariff legislation. It has been claimed by the protec tionists that a tariff was necessary for the success of our industries. Yet we have had wrecking panics both under high and low tariffs. Under the Clay compromise tariff, average duties 22 per cent, we had the panic of 1837; under the Walker tariff average duties 25 per cent, we had the panic of 1857; under the Morrill tariff, average duties 48 per cent, we had the panic of 1873; under the Mc Kinley tariff, average duties 58 per cent, we had the panic of 1893; un der the Wilson tariff. average duties 47 per cent, the panic of '73 contin ued, with failures and their concomit ants. Tariffs, therefore, are not the factors of good times, and the at tempt to frame one now will give us another broken staff; liable to fail us at any moment. The essential measure to conserve our industrial interests is not tariff, but monetary legislation. The gold standard is a constant menace to our prosperity, the promoter and prop of aristocracy tending to make the rici richer and the poor poorer. To enact a tariff bill at the present time with out undoing the mal-administrationi of the past thirty years would be an outrage, putting on the statute book an abomination of desolation, to prolong the present order of thiuns, industrial and financeial.'-Williamn Foster, Jr., Providence, R. I. Many merchants are well awvare that their customers are~ their best friends rad take pleasure in supplying them with the best goods obtainable. As an instance we men tion Perry & ('rD.rou, prominent drug gists of Flushing, Michigan. They say: "We have no he-sitation, in recommending Chamberlain's C'ugh Rl-medy to our cns towers, as it is the best ecug'i medicine we have eve-r sohl, and alwa'. s gives satis faction." For s~ile at 25 an d 50) cents per bottle by R. B. Loryea's orrig store. .'or a pain in the chest a piecA of flan net amupened with Chatuberhtin' Pain~f Balm ,.d bonnal on over the seat of the pain, ann . other on the back between the shoulders, wi!i afford prompt rilen. This is especial., -:aluab s hr the pain :s caused ' " e is a tenderocy toward pne n ^1e by TEAUH1Elm ASSOCIATION. The following article is clipped 1 from the Carolina Teacher's Journal, and is inserted this week because of its general applicatian to so many; BUTTERFLY STUDENTS. In every school there is a small floating-attendance of students who like butterfles, stop to sip A little while, then float away. There are various causes for this some to be pitied-some to be con denimed, but all unfortunate. Health breaks down and the student leaves to recuperate. Parents get in strait. ened circumstances and they usually begin to curtail expenses in the very place where the least d egree of econ oiv is the last degree of extravag ance. If the pareut is really in dis tress it is the Christiau duty of the teacher to extend help. The teacher who has never attempted to help a poor deserving boy through school has missed one of the sweetest ex periences of professional life. If you want a future generation to rise up and call you blessed, huut up a few bright children who are thirsty for an education, but who lack the means to get it. There are other butterflies at school however, besides the poor and the sickly. There is the sixteen year old Miss who has drifted into society and wants to quit school. She usually quits after Christmas. In small towns parents could wisely and prof itably adopt a rule to permit "socia bles" only on Friday nights. Job never tried to manaae a sixteen year old scoolg cte with matri 1mo-nia1 microbes. Poor 'tb.trerfly girl! I It is to be hoped that her husband will manage her better than dithe poor bedeviled professor. Then there is the biight boy who has received a business offer. During fall, some greedy merchant picks out your best boy in school and offers him a job. The boy concludes that it is more important in life to fill the pocket than to fill the head. He quits and in after years repents in sackeloth and ashes. There is a law against decoying Your negro laborers Irom the cotton field, but what can be done with the merchant who de coys your best boy from school? There is one consideration. If the boy did not have sense and manhood enough to resist the enticement, he is not the best boy. He would have been the best had he stayed. To reduce the perceutage of but terfly students teachers should try to educate pupils and patrons to right thinking on this line. A private talk with a scholar will often save him from the ruinous consequences of deserting his books. I believe too it is a good idea to require students to make a formal application for a discharge from school. Generally the scholar folds his tent like the Arab and silently steals away. A patron ought to have more respect for a teacher than to stop his chil dren without notifying the teacher. Let us think now and then of the pretty butterflies who brightened our class rooms for a few brief months and then flitted away. Some of them are our best friends. They realize their lost opportunities. They speak regretfully of the vanished past. So here's lack to them and better luck to their children.-Henry-S. Hartzog, IJohnston, S. C. Let all the teachers of the county remember that they are enrolled as memberss off ..Qlarendon County Teachers Association, and that if they don't attend they are missing oppor tunities that would pruve very bene fical to them. The regular meeting for January will be held at the Manning Collegi ate Institute on Saturday January 30th, 1897. Strive to be present. E. J. B3RowNE, President. EXSPOSUR~E TO DISEASE Does not niecessarily mna the contraction vf diseas'e provided the .ystem is in a vg orous canditionl, wi the Jl)od pure and all tue organs in heatltay aiction. When in such a condition contagion i~s lea iily resisted and the disease germs enn inud no lodgmient. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best I edicine to build ny the systeum because it wakes pure, r.ch blood, and pure blood is the batsis of good health. In cold s'eatther is is especially necessaiy to keep np the health tone because the body is subject to grea:er exposure and mzore liable to aisease. dood's. Sarsaparilla is the satteguard of SHERIFF'S SALE. BY VI1U'Ui: OF AN EXE2fION TO mue direted, I witi seil to the highest hid <ter for easn, at Ciacendon Court House, at Manning in the said county of Ciaren dbo, during the lesal hours of Sheritf' Isatle, on tne iir't Monday in February A. D. 1b97, all that parcel or aract of land situated in the said County, ly ing on Pd diag swamp, cantaining one hundred acres and bounded on the north by lands ol Mary E. Dtuose, ea-t by one o1 the publie roads o1 said County and land of said Mary E. Dulose, south by iandls known as lands 01 H1enry Epps, and we-st by landlas of lHar pa r Johnsoan, Lands of P'res Morris. The .above described parcel of land being the lower or southern portion of a tract oi the said Mary E. DuBose containing about two hundred und seventy eight acres, and has beenl levied upon and wiil be sold, ais aforesaid, at the suit of Daniel Keels against said Mary E. Du Bose. DANIEL J. URI~ADilAM, Sherif Ciarendaon County. Manning, 8. C., Jan. 13, 1s'J7. Thomas & Braaiham are going to put every farmier in the county in~ a position to buy a watgon and a buggy. They have just reccived a car load of both. STATE OF SOUTH CAROUINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON. By, Lora-. Appeit, Esq., Jndge of Probate. ITHEREAS, DR. I. MX. WOODS Smade suit to me to grant him willetters of administration, with wilannexed, of the estate of and effeets of Charlotte Woods. These are therefore to sight and admonish all and singular the kin dIred and creditors of the said Charlotte Woods, deceased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court of Probate. to be held at Man ning,on the 25th day of January next, after publiention hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to showv cause, if any thety have, why the said adimin istrationi should not be granted. (iiven under my hand this 13th day of Januiary. A. D. 189l7. [SEAL.] LOUIS APPELT, Judge of Probate. OHN S. WIT.SON, AUorney and Counselor at Law, "Blight" costs cotton planters more than five million dollars an- t t nually. This is an enormous e waste, and can be prevented. Practical experiments at Ala- a bama Experiment Station show : conclusively that the use of 1 "Kainit" will prevent that dreaded plant disease. All about Potash-the results of its use by actual ex periment on the best farms in the United States-is told in a little book which we publish and will gladly 1 mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it. GERMAN KALI WORKS 93 Nassau St., New'aYork. __- --- 1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. u William F. B. Haynsworth and B. 2 Pressley Barron, as Qualified Exec utors of the Last Will and Testa- 1 ment of Samuel C. C. Richardson, deceased, Plaintiffs, u against Caroline Johnson, Eliza Johnson, and J William Junius Johnson, Defend ants. s Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A Judgment Order of the Court of c-ommon Pleas, in the above stated action, to me directed, bearing date October 19th, 1895, I will sell at pub lic auction, to the highest bidder, f Upon the terms mentioned below, at Clareidon Court House, at Manning, I in said 'County, within legal hours I for judiciais~ls, on Monday, the1st, a day of February, 1897, being sales- I day, the following described real es tate: t "All that plantation or tract of F land, situate and being in Santee township, County of Clarendon and v State aforesaid, coitaining one hun dred and eighty-nine and one-half a acres, more or less, and bounded as c follows, to wit: On the north by lands of Mrs. M. s M. Davis; on the east by lands for- C merly of Joseph Sprott; on the south by land of Estate of James J. Frier son; and on the west by lands of the a grantor therein. The said described t] premises being the same conveyed h to Isaac Johnson by Walker & But ler, by deed dated March 3rd, 1873" Terms: One-half cash, and the balance on a credit until 1st Novem ber, A. D. 1896, to be secured by bond and mortgage of the premises to be sold. Purchaser to pay for papers. DANIEL J. BRADHAM, c Sheriff Clarendon County. t) Manning, S. C., Jan. 6, 1897. s e. '- J CLEMSON COLLECE. t The first session of the Clemson a Agricultural College will begin Thurs day, February 18th, 1897. t< To the two regular four-year cour ses leading to the degree of Bachelor d of Science, a special two-year course in Mechanics and Engineering has ti been added. t. The courses of Instruction include the following subjects; Agriculture, Chemistry, Horticulture, Dairying, Veterinary Science, Botany, Geology, Nineralogy, Mechanical, Electrical ud Civii Engineering, English, iathematics and history. 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OFFICE COUNTY AUDITOR, CLARENDON COUNTY, 5 Manning, S. C., Dec. 16, 1896. The Auditors office will be open rom the first day of January, 1897, o the twenth day of February, 1897, o receive returns of personal prop rty for taxation in Clarendon county :r the year 1897 and for the conven nce of tax-payers will have deputies t each of the places named below o receive returns for the said year: 2 Pinewood, Monday, January 11th, S97. Packsville, Tuesday, January 12, 897. Panola, Wednesday, January 13th, 897. David Levi's Store. Thursday, Jan ary 14th, 1897. Suinmerton, Friday, January, 15th, 894'. Brunson's X Roads, Saturday, Jan ary 16th, 1897. Jordan, Monday, January 18th, 897. Johnson's Store, in St. Mark's wnship. on Raccoon road, near )uffie's old store, Tuesday, January th, 1897. Foreston, Wednesday, January Dth, 1897. Wilson's,Thursday,January 21st,1897 Alcolu, Friday, January 22nd, 1897. W. M. Youman's, Saturday, Jan ary 23rd, 1897. Saul's Store, Monday, January 5th, 1897. New Zion, Tuesday, January 26th, 397. W. J. Gibboa's, Wednesday, Jan ary 27th, 1897. J. J. McFaddin's Store, Thursday, anuary 28th, 1897. McIntosh's Store, Midway town hip, Friday, January 29th, 1897. Taxpayers return what they own n the first day of January, 1897. All personal property, must be re urned this year. Assessors and taxpayers will enter be first given name of the taxpayer 2 full, also make a separate return >r each party for the township the roperty is in, and where the tax ayers owns realty, to insert the ost office as their place of residence, nd those who only own personal roperty, to give the party's name ho owns the land they live on as heir residence, which aids the tax ayer as well as the county treasurer a making the collections and pre enting errors. Every male citizen between the ges of twenty-one and sixty years n the first day of January, 1897, ex ept those incapable of earning a apport from being maimed, or from ther causes, shall be deemed tax ble polls. This does not apply to onfederate soldiers over fifty years f age. All the returns that are made after ae twentieth day of February will ave a penalty of 50 per cent, added 3ereto, unless out of::the county uring the time of listing. Not nowing the time of listing is no ex se. The assessing and collecting of Lxes is all done now in the same ear, and we have to aggregate the umber and value of all the horses, ttle, mules, &c., and their value at there is in the.county, and have Lme on file in the Comptroller Gen ral's office by the thirtieth day of une each year. And from that me to the first day of October each ear the auditor's and treasurer's uplicate has to be completed and a abstract of the work in the Comp roller's office by that time, which ill show at a glance that the audi >r has no time to take in returns r do anything- else much, between 2e first day of March and the first ay of October each year, but work r the books and blanks. Therefore hope that all taxpayers will do me 2e favor of making their returns in me. J. ELBERT DAVIS, Auditor Clarendon County. NEW BEEF MARKET I Edwin Scott, Butcher. Fresh fat Beef and Pork every day-, butchered by one skilled in the business. SAUSAGES, BLOOD and LIVER PUDDINGS a Specialty. I do not allow hangers-on to loaf around my market, and can guarantee everything bought from me to be clean. I wIll deliver to the honses promptly. My market house is op posite Rigby's store and I ask for a share of the patronage, Prices guaranteed. Respectfully, AR-THUR LOWERY, Proprietor. C. C. LESLIE, wHOLEsALE AND RETAiL coaMrsI5SON DEALEn IN lsh, Oysters, -0 Game aid Poultry. Fish packed for country orders a special. . No charges for packing. Send for st. Consignments of country prodnee are spetfu~y solicited. Poultey, eggs, etc. Stalls Nos. 1 and 2 Fish Market. Office, s. 18 and 20 Market st., east of Bay. CHARLESTON, S. C. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. CLARENDON COUNTY, N~THE PROBATE COURT. Ex Parte ames B. Richardson and Augustus F. Richardson, In Re state of Frane~s J. Richardson, de ceased. PETITION TO SELL PERSONAL PROPERTY. NDER AND BY VIRTUE OF an order of the Court of Probate for Clarendon County, dated De mber 30th, 1896, we will sell at pub c auction, for cash, on Tuesday, the Ith day of January, 1897, at 11 'clock, a. in., at the late residence of rancis J. Richardson, deceased, the yllowing goods and chattels belong g to the estate of the said Francis . Richardson, deceased: T wo mares, two wagons, one sulky, ne saddle, two mare mules, one bull, ne milch cow and calf, one bull earling, a lot of hogs, a lot of goats, lot of plantation implements, ousehold and kitchen furniture, nd also the provisionl crops made on he lands of the said testator during he year 1896, to wit: About 200 lush'els of corn, about 600 bushels of otton seed, five thousand pounds of odder and hay, all now located on he farming lands of the said dece ent, and any other personalty which uay have been omitted from the .bove list. JAME3 B. RICHARDSON, AUGUSTUs F. RICHARDSON, Exeutors Estate of Francis J. Rich ardson, deceased, Decmber 30. 1396. CLOTHINGI CLOTHINI LOTHING for MEN LOTHING for BOYS LOTHING for Children. Fine Clothing! Medium Clothing! Common Clothing! 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