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yt ?4* 4"?ir ~4*?4?4*?4 f ; H H^H Hh k <? Wl if Y( I FEEDING T] i Fresh Wi You w t Burgess ; X i anxious t< T 1 ^ ?'f? t* ?yjj?^ DROVE OVER CAUSEWAY ~~ TO HIS DEATH. J 11EMNON VICTIM OF TEKRISLE ACCIDENT 0!) PUBLIC HIGHWAY FRIDAY NIGHT. Shocking and terrible was the death of James Blanding Lemmon last Friday night. Coming into town early Friday morning from his home at Martin's X Roads, just a few miles across Black river, with a freshly butchered beef in his wagon, he disposed of his beef and left town, it is said, alone in his wagon and considerably the worse for liquor, late in the afternoon, a little before sundown. He was never seen alive again, so far as has been testified, tfnrlv miners to town from beyond the river Saturday morning reported seeing in one of the big ditches or excavations at the fork of the Kingstree and Ma nning roads about two miles from town, an overturned wagon. with a mule attache \ and something like a man's feet sticking out from underneath the body of the wagonAt 9 o'clock a m (thanks to the courtesy of Mr J D Gilland for the use of his auto) a reporter for The Record arrived on the scene. It was truly a gruesome spectacle. The overturned wagon. the human body, its head a foot under mud pinned down by the front wagon wheel, the halffrozen mule feebly floundering in the mud, the poor beast moaning piteously the while, a broken package of apples the father was taking home to his children he was fated never to see again with mortal eyes: then beside the cold and pulseless corpse, now almost without semblance of human form, was seen a quart bottle of whiskey, the silent witness that told the stocy of a sordid tragedy. What 1 a moral to be pointed out! What ir?ir^im &' *$ 'i* 4* 4* LKRII OU WILL FIND ALL GOOD! -? Fresh HE PEOPLE is our bu i Supply T. W. LKINS ill tind Messrs R J j and H 0 Welsh here, d serve their friends. i | a terrible warning to those yet spared who "put an enemy inI to their mouths to steal away their brains!" I Under the energetic direction nf Mr W P Hawkins, the mule was extricated from its muddy bed and was soon able to travel ! The coroner was notified and in : a few hours he arrived at the ; place and impanneled the jury I of inquest with Mr W H McGee as foreman. Meantime willing t hands had lifted the wagon from! ; i the remains of the unfortunate j | man, the colored men who had | gathered around freely lending j their aid as they always do here! in such emergencies. The body ' was so completely encased in ' mud as to be unrecognizable, but wtten washed and laid out the features looked natural save '! for a few bruises, leaving no I room for doubt as to the identity ; Ox the body. There was very little testij monv given or required, the j facts of the case being almost i self-evident. The iurv returned i the following verdict: "We, ; the jury of inquest, have made i examination and believe, to the best of our knowledge, that the i deceased came to his death by ' accident, his mule getting off the embankment and turning the wagon over upon the body i of the deceased " Two points a little puzzling! . were: first, that the body and' the mule and wagon were all | facing town-ward, when the de-; ceased was presumed to be on ; his way home?just the opposite direction?at the time the accit dent occurred; and, second, that; ; according to the hour that the deceased left town to go home, i he should have passed beyond the dangerous causeway before ; night overtook him. The most ; plausible explanation of these discrepancies is that MrLemmon i had passed the causeway andl ; found out that he had lost some-j ; thing, causing him to drive back1 I . \ f.-W* ??n *$* *j[? <y m 5 FRESH. QUALITY THE Goods isiuess. We can also Wood's Gard DA Kingftree to look for the missing article. This theory is borne out by the factthathishatcouldnotbe found, we und erstand, and it may be lin Vio/1 rimnno/^ if dinner fVlfi tuat 11^ nau ui IV utviif, V?4V way and was looking for it. There is no suspicion of foul play. The mule and wagon and several packages, besides something over $30 found in his pocket, all remained undisturbed. Just at what hour, or exactly how the terrible accident happened will probably never be definitely ascertained. The deceased formerly lived in Kingstree with his family. While he had his weakness, he also possessed many good traits and his sudden and violent ending causes general sorrow. He leaves his wife and several children of tender years, toward whom much sympathy is felt by every one Hot Supper Near* Cades. We are requested to give notice that on Thursday; night next, February 17, there will be a hot supper at the residence of Mr H Foxworth, near Cades, given to supplement the building fund of the Presbyterian chapel that the people of that community purpose soon to erect. "Miss Ellen" says to be sure and tell every-body to come and help out a good cause. SaTed from Awful Peril. "I never felt so near my grave," writes .Lewis CliambJiu ot Mancnester, Ohio, R R No 3, "as when a frightful cough and lung trouble pulied'me down to 115 pounds in spite of many remedies and the best doctors. And that I am alive today is due solely to Dr King's New Discovery, which completely cuied me. Now 1 weigli 1G0 pounds and can work hard. It also cured my four children of croup." Infallible for Coughs and Colds, it's the most certain remedy for La Grippe; Asthma, desperate lung troubles and all bronchial affections. 50c and ?1.00. A trial bottle free. 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