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USUAL VERDICT AT INQUEST. Testimony Taken Over Shooting of Gonzales. NOTHING SENSATIONAL. TIHinan's Lawyers are Si lent. Senator Talblrd Heard Tlllman Say "How Are You, Mr. Gonzales?" ?Other Witnesses Sworn. There wero not more than a hundred pooplo at the Gonzales inquest last Thursday. Solicitor Thurmond and ex Attorney General Bellinger were pres ent representing the prosecution and Mr. Bieasc, Mr. Tlllman, but not a word was ottered by a lawyer. The verdict was a simple statement with out comment that Mr, Gonzales oame to his death from a gun shot wound at the hands of James H. Tlllman on Jan uary 17th, the jury being out less than live minutes. In general the testimony corroborated tho accounts already published. Senator Talblrd, however, swore that when Mr. Gon zales approached within ten or fifteen foot Tillman said: ''How ara you Mr. Gonzalos?" The latter made no reply but obliqued to the left. "I reoeived your message," said Tillman and fired, Mr. Gonzales being then almost on a line with Talbird and Tillman. After the shot Mr. Gonzales said:''Here I am, finish me." This was Talblrd's testi mony. Senator Brown's testimoby was identically tho same with what has already been published. He did not see the shooting, was speaking to a lady friend who became terrified when the shot was fired. J. F. Sims was crossing Main street, he heard the pis tol shot, and that first attracted his at tention and then heard Tillman say: "I got your messaae." The latter might luve been said at about the same mo ment as the shot was fired but he knew nothing about the affair until he heard tho shot. Honor Roll Of Oak Grove School for month end ing, January 19, 1903: First Grade?Mabel Goodwin, Bon ner Benjamin. Seoond Grade ? William Bailey, Frances Abrains, Irene Goodwin, George Virden. Third Grade?Dex Goodwin, Boozer Simpson. Fourth Grade?Dessle Shockly, Ben Simpson. Seventh Grade?Rosa Bailey, Fair Goodwin, Liza Malone, Leaf Weathers, Mattle Simpson, Eighth Grade ?Lyl Bailey, Victor Weathers. Ninth Grado?Lizzie Sloan. Sarah Corn im nt>, -Teaoher. Report of the Supervisor of Lanrens County for the Quarter Ending, December 81st, 1902. fourth quarter, 1902. County Auditor, t 83.50 County Commissioners and Clerk's salarv, 287.60 Sheriff's office salary and jail 669.12 Magistrates and constables, 385.00 Coroner's salary, 62.75 Poor House, 381.46 Roads and bridges, 749 13 Public Buildings, 9.80 Books, Stationery and Printing, 355.19 Contingent, 952.24 Chaingang, 941.46 4,880.18 October term of Court, 1902, 1,614.30 6 494.45 J. S. DRUM MOND, Supervisor. J. D. Mock, Clerk. MERCHANTS NEWS. Full weight sacks of salt for 50 cents. Laurens Cotton Mills Store. We now have on hand the celebrated banner oil heaters in two sizes. They aro absolutely safe, quick to heat and and easy to carry around. Call to see them. S. M. & E. H. Wilkes. Better buy your flour?its advancing. Best half patent $4.00 per bushel. Laurens Cotton Mills Store. Remember that every Book's Stove or Range bought of us is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or your money will be refunded. Every fire back is warranted for fifteen years. S. M. & E. H. Wilkos. We are running off below cost about $200.00 worth of dry goods slightly damaged by explosion of lamp. Laurens Cotton Mills Store. The all wire inter-lock springs which wo are now handling are the best ever brought to this market. They are made of the very best steel wire and will hold their shape better than other springe. 8. M. A H. H. Wilkes, Ask to see our nvjor dinner set which is of the best oblna ware, beau tifully decorated, consisting of 58 pieces for $7.26. This set is suitable for a small family who would not want a larger set. 8. M. & E. H, Wilkes. WCEOT AWORD. All persons are notified not to hunt, ride over or trespass upon my Wait's plaoe or home place in any way what? soever. The law will certainly be en forced against any one so doing. "A word to the wise Is sufficient." Jno. R. Smith, M. D. Jan. 23, 1003.?2t. WANTED ? FAITHFUL PERSON to travel for well established house in a few counties, oalling oa retail raer. chants and agent!. Local territory. Salary $1,024 a year and expenses, payable $10.70 a week in cash and ex penses advanced. Position permanent. Business successful and rushing. Stand ar? Home, 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. Please take notice that I forbid any person or psrsons hunting, fishing or riding on my lands or trespassing on my landein any way; also I forbid any persons of hiring my hands to work as day laborers or otherwise M. B. Pool?. Jan. 12th 1903 ~-2t. Miss Louie Simpson of Pendloton is visiting relatives in the city. Miss Meta 8ulllvan left last Saturday for Jonesvlllo, where she will teach in the public schools. Messrs. Jas. Stall and Sam R, Todd leave this week for a trip to California. Recroation and pleasure are their ob ject. Entertainment. The Mystic Olub, a young ladles or ganization, was delightfully enter tained last Friday afternoon by Miss Mariegene Caino. Northerner Dies Here. A white man namod Morehoad who recently moved here from the North for his health, died at his home in Brooklyn last Wednesday night. He leaves a wife and o ;o child. South Carolina Gets Federal Conrt. Congressman Joe Johnson's bill to establish a now Federal court passed both houses of Congress last Thursday. Spartanburg and Rock Hill will likely be the cities where the new court will sit. Tho passage of this act means much for the convenience of up country people. Wash Gary Arrested. Sheriff Duckett lodged,in jail last weok a negro named Wash Gary, charged with having been implicated in the riotous affair near Goldvillo a few weeks ago in whioh Mr. Man Ox ner received several painful wounds. He was caught near Hopewell. A New and Welcome Citizen. Mr. Mason L. Copoland, formerly of thin city, but more recently of Clinton, has located here to engage in the stock, bond, real estate and firo insur ance business. His card appeal's in tho advertising columns. He can bo found at A. 0. Todd's law office. Laurens is glad to haye him back again. Ulbert C. Roland Dead. Mr. E. C. Roland died at his home four miles North of this city last Thursday night. He was sick only a short time. The nature of tho fatal malady has not been announced. He will be remembered as having sued Mr. J. O. C. Fleming for damages al leged to have been sustained by him by reason of Mr. Fleming's maintaining a mill pond near where Mr. Roland lived. The deceased was a prosperous farmer and leaves a wife and seyeral children. WRONG MAN CAPTURED. Arrested in Anderson Last Week? Promptly Discharged. It was supposed that the thief, who,on the 26th of December, last year stole a One horse from Capt. Westmoreland, and sold him to C. S. Fuller, livery man, for thirty-five dollars and skipped for parts unknown had been appre hended and landed in jail. Sheriff Duekett received information that a man answering the description of the thief had been arrested in Anderson and was held subject to his orders. Mr. John Eichelberger swore out a warrant and Chief Hughes went after tbo man. He arrived here Friday afternoon. It developed, however, that the wrong man was arrested. The man brought here was promptly discharged. POPULAR COUPLE WED. Mr. C M. Miller and Miss Eloise Wright. Tho social event of last week was the marriage of Mr. O. M. Miller and Miss Eloise Simpson Wright last Wednes day at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. N. Wright. The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. B. Ratcbford, of the Presbyterian Churob. The attendants were Dr. W. D. Fer guson of this city and Mr. R. W. Davis of Fountain Inn; Miss Lutle Wright and Miss Lillle Miller. Mre. Thai. F. Jones, of Gray Court, sister of the bride, presided at the piano. Follow ing the ceremony delightful refresh ments were served. A number of town relatives and friends attended, among them being Col. and Mrs. H. Y. Simp son, Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Aiken, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Teague, Mr. and Mre. J. H. Davis, Misses Mary Simpson, Luoilo Wright, Willie Philson, Fay and Emma Hudgens. We have just received a shipment of kitchen safes. We have these In dif ferent styles, colors and ?l/,oa at prices worth coming to see. S. M. & E. H. Wiikes. GOV. HEYWARD _SWORN IN. Other State Officers Takes Oath of Office. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Clear Cut Expression of Views. Biennial Sessions, Child Labor Law, Regulation of Trusts, Schools Advocated. D. Clinch Hey ward of Colleton and John T. Sloan of Columbia were in augurated governor and lieutenant gov ernor respectively of South Carolina at noon last Wednesday. The ceremony took place in the hall of the house of representatives and in the presence of the supreme court, general assembly and a large audience, including an un usual number of people of prominence. Chief Justice Pope administered the oaths. While Mr. Hey ward was not elected as the representative of any faction, he is the first to be elected aloco 1890, not identified with the Reformers. The new governor read his address from manuscript, the delivery consuming 40 minutes. He hopefully reviewed the recent advances of the state in agri culture and manufactures, . alluding particularly to the great development in tobacco culture. The necessity of common school education and help for those in thinly settled school districts was pointed out. He advised a contin uance of liberal support of the state colleges. If the laws with regard to regulating trusts be inadequate, the legislature should amend them with the view always, however, to give capital its legal privileges. Child labor in textile manufactories should be prohibited, the statute to provide that time be given to manufac turers and operators to adjnst them selves to changed conditions' He would seek to enforce the provis ions of the dispensary law in all locali ties. He recommended in a general way pensions for ex-Confederates and directed the attention of the legisla ture to the demand for improved high ways. Attention should also be given to the importation and sale of adulterated and impure food products. A constitutional amendment provld vidlng biennial sessions of the legisla ture is advisable. Appropriations should be made to correspond with the tax levy and avoid incurring necessity to borrow money to meet current obligations. If appro priations cannot be reduced without impairing the usefulness of public inst itutions, means should be provided for increasing the revenue. The legislature should take steps for the drainage of the waste lands, com prising one-fifth of tho state's area. I ater In the day the various other new state officers were sworn in. THE 8ECRET OF LONG LIFE Consists in keeping all the main or gans of the body in healthy, regular action, and in quiokly destroying disease germs. E'.eotrio Bitters regu late Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, pur ify the blood, and give a splendid ap petite. They work wonders in curing Kidney Troubles, Female Complaints, Nervous Diseases, Constipation, Dys pepsia and Malaria. Vigorous health and strength always follow their use. Only 50 cents, guaranteed by Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Letter to Will Whitener. Laurens, S. C, Dear Sir: You'd strike it rich if you could find a way to shave your custom ers in less time, for less cost, and make the shave last twice or three times as long. You wouldn't shave the saroo person so many times, nor get so much of his money, but the whole town would be talking about you, and everybody would come to you for a sbave. Devoe lead and sine is exactly that in paints. It takes fewer gallons, and it wears longer. Costs less for the job, and you don't have to do it again for years and years?six years at least. "Fewer gallons; wears longer." Takes fewer gallons to paint a house with De voe Lead and /,ino than with mixed paints; and it wears longer than mixed paints or lead and oil. Yours truly, F. W. DeVoe & Co., New York. OA.BTOAXA. Benri th? A m Kind Yw Hro Always OosjM HERE'S A CHANCE TO GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. The Adevrtiser Offers for a Time Some Advertising Space Free to Subscribers. Advertising is offered free. Tub Advertiser offers it. For any subscriber who is paid up, Thb Advertiser will print, one time, an advertisement of not more than 25 words without any charge whatever. For eaoh word over 2ft, the oharge whl be one cent each time the adver titement appear*. Thus The Advertissr is again of fering something now. What is the obJeotV What will The Advertiser make by it ? Well, The Advertiser is not pub lished for "its health," as the saying la. Here is the scheme: Peop?e in Lau rens do not indulge in transient or short ads. Thitf buijuo^cls a?t what it should be. Tb$ Advbrtiskr believes that if the people could once learn that an adver tisement of a cow for aale, or a poil tiou wanted, or wood for aale, or chiok ens or egg?, butter, milk, cotton seed, peas, hay, and ? hundred other thing*, will pay, they would advertise more. Hence these free ad*, are offered for a short time only, with the aim of get ting business, Remember that a free ad. wl}l go in but once for the same subscriber. If he wants it for a second time, the prioe will be one cent a word and not less than ?5 words. If yon have anything to sell, a plan tation, a cow, a dog, if you want any thing from a railroad down to a three dollar mule, try an advertisement?-not over 25 word*?in Thj* Advertiser, free. The aim is to show the people that f-uia ?ort pi ftfyprtMpg nay*, Tbl* of fer\wi!l be withdraw ri after a few we*ks. It is only an experiment, it it only mtd* to piid-up aubjoriber*. The Doctor's Duty Ho must first examine his i>a tlent.by the light of solenoe,to de termine where sod whet the trou ble is. He mutt determlno and prescribe precisely, the kind of drugs needed to- efreot a cure. He must direct the doses and leave no room for-doubt on the part of tho patient, or the drug gist who compounds the pre scription. There hh duty ends. Your Duty If medicine is to enre a disease, it must be goed medloine?the best only is good enough. Your duty to yourself and to yonr doc tor Is4 to go to tho vary very be?t druggist you can find, without letting dollars end distance' stand In your way. In doing, your duty we have every reasen to think that you will come here with your prescriptions. Laurens Drug Co, Citizens' Ticket FOR MAYOR: 0. E. GRAY. ALDERMEN: 1st Ward?John Y. Garlington. 2nd Ward?E. W. Martin. 3rd Ward?Dr. T. O. Lucas. 4th Ward?Clarence Babb. 5th Ward?Dr. G. O. Albrlgot. Oth Ward?W. R. Rlchey. The following are placed in nonima- ] tion for Aldermen: 1st Ward?W. P. Ohlldress. 2nd Ward?W. H. Washington. 3rd Ward?W. A. Watts. , We beg to nominate T. H. Nelson for Alderman from Ward 0 NEW CENTURY COMFORT. Millions are daily finding a world of comfort In Bucklen's Arnioa 8alve. It kills pain from Burfis, Scalds, Outs, Brulies; conquers Uloers and Fever Sores; cures Eruptions, Salt Rheum, Bolls and Felons; romovei Corns and Warts. Best Pile oure on earth. Only 25 cents at Laurens Drug Co. and Pal metto Drug Co. CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children, The Kind Ten Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Attention, Farmers! I sell the very best Guano Acid and Meal, cash or on time. Price is right. A. HUFF, Jan. 14 fit. Agent for j Wl B. KNIGHT. R.K. BABi KNIGHT ft I* A IMS, Atorneys at Law. _/ Will praetloe in all the State and Federal Courts. Strict attention to ?11 I business intrusted to them Office qpvaHlre, Simmons' BslUlsg. J, No LEAK, Auctioneer, Offers his services to the peo ple of Laurens County. Address; Gray Court, S. C. Ten Gents Cotton. Wears prepared to take ears of a quontjty of potton on storage and *d* venpa money on same. Now Is the time tp stove your flatten for ? profit. DoVtsetl too fast, or It will give out toe quick. J. Wadb ANDBRSON, 6m President and Manager. Dr. W. II. DIAL, No. IIP, W. Mala St. Ottos hours In the oUy frost 10 s. m; i to 4 p. si. 'Phone?Residence No. 44. [Ott-NO,?. ' T I YOU'RE IN LOVE with Miss High-Price District or engaged to Miss Old Style Furniture , of course we canlt interest you but if you want the latest and handsomest styles in Up-to-the Minute Furniture come and visit our store. 4.75 will buy a Couch like cut in Velom or Corduroy. Fix up your home for the greater portion of you time for next four months will be spent in-doors. See our handsome Parlor, Bed-room and Dining Sets. X KENNEDY BROS. Is Headquarters for Fruits and Candies and Confections. Our Groceries, Canned Goods and Eatnbles Of all Kinds are Reliable, which the People Know. Therefore we are prepared for a bigger Christmas trade an frith Finer Fruits, Candies and other things than ever. Kennedy Bros. THE WEE?TTLES IN TURKEY. Mules and Horses. The undersigned under the name of Bark-dale, Pranks A Irby will deal In mules and horaes at Laurens. Hto.rk Will be kept at Ed Martin's Stable; rear of Enterprise Bank. We bave received a carload of fine Kentucky mules and also have a num ber of good horses' oh hand. We In. vjte tho patronage of the people of L*urens County. T. N. babksdai/.C, Jno. A. Franks? i **.v J . M \ NEW Restaurant Opei^e^ I have. open?d\a Restaurant in the n?hh ?vUldlng foV WRITE 1MCOPL.K EXCLUSIVELY, Prompt and First class service asswcd. Meals, 25 cents ; at Restaurant orient to offices. Fresh Oysters on handA IIMSON HUNTKR, en Harper Stree R. P. riilam & Co. We otter to our Farmers the chance to buy goods, especially Groceries, at? CLOSE PRICES We sell all Supplies, the best kinds, at LOW FIGURES and make your dollars go furthest by trading here. Try us and see for yourselves. Our Undertaker's Stock is Complete. We carry a well selected stock of everything from the cheapest Collin to the best Me talic Cases ; in cloth goods we carry the best?among them embossed white plush goods ; also black, full draped in cloth. A First-class Hearse when wanted. We can furnish white or black horses when desired. At night or Sunday 'Phone R. P. Milam's residence or call on J. Mills Hunter at the Crisp House. Respectfully, it. P. Ml LAM. & CO. || Glenn Springs Girier file, The best on the market! For sale at KENNEDY BROS, Laurens S. C. Get Your Dollars Ready! For you never had an opportunity to accomplish so much with them as you now have at the Grand Cost-Reduction Sale at J? THE HUB. Owing to the mild Fall, our trade in heavy Fall and Winter goods was light, and we have, in consequence, much of the stock still on hand. Now, in order to turn these goods into casj^in the shortest time possible, we offer everything in Winter (W^Jb, at actual cost, for the next twenty days. We will include in this sale all heavy Dress Goods. Flannels, Flannelettes, Outings, Underwear, Millinery, Ladies' Jackets, Shoos, Boys' Clothing, Blankets, Comforts, Etc. Heavy Wool Dress Goods worth 5octs at 39 cents. Heavy Wool Underwear worth 85cts at 56 cents. Heavy Fleeced Underwear worth 5octs at 39 cents. H,ea.vy Wool Blankets worth $5.00 at $3.98. Ladies' Jackets worth #8.00 at #5.90. Ladies' Dress Shoes worlh $2.50 at 1.98, Men's Heavy Shoes worth $1.25 at .98. Men's Heavy Shoos worth fri.30 at ?1.25. Boys' School Suits from 98 cents to #3.98. Nq Qoods will be Charged during the Sale. g0T* Come and buy where your dollars will go the farthest. THE HTJB.