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I'HE LEDGER. Th'irlow S. Carter. EDITOR AND MANAGER. SATt'KDAV, NKITKMKKK 30, 1800. After quoting our article in last Saturday's issue, "In re the cotton market," the Enterprise of Wednesday, among other things vi!l \*vi * 4 ? \\ it iirn unrv i* 11ii mi i* esteemed contemporary advertise ing Waxhaw and Monroe merchants to the detriment of those engaged in the same business in Lancaster, and possibly to the hurt of tnunv of those (farmers) who might be induced by that advertising to haul their cotton to those markets." How in the world The Enterprise ever managed to construe our remarks "in re the cotton market" into an advertisement of the Waxhaw and Monroe mer chants to the detriment of Lancaster merchants, we are at a loss to comprehend. We are too generous to think that the wish suggested to the Enterprise such a far-fetched construction. The genuine sorrow expressed by our contemporary at our supposed bold and impolitic act precludes such an idea. The purport of our at tide was to urge the buyers here to pay a? much for cotton as was being paid in the neighboring towns of Waxhaw and Monroe. We quoted he Monroe papers to show that cotton was being hauled to that market from right around Lancaster. Wo added that trade is going where the cotton goes unless extra inducements are held out by merchants here. This was said in t ho interest of the town and in the interest of our merchants. It was a suggestion to them to place such tempting bargains before the people that if a man sold his cotton in a neighboring town tha* ho would stick the money down in hisjpocket and come hack home to trade. It seems foolish to make such a suggestion to supposed live, wide-awake, business men. Now, while wo disclaim intending our remarks to he detrimental to the interests of Lancaster mer chants we do admit that they were made in the interest of the farmers of the county who had cotton to ell. We want them to pet all for their cotton they can. Unless they pet a pood price for this short crop th?*y cannot meet all their obligations and the average farmer is unhappy who cannot pay all his debts when the harvest is past and his crop is marketed. We have the farmers' interests at heart as much as the merchants', and if any of them were "hurt" by our "advertising" of the Monroe cotton market we have yet to hoar them say so. The business men of Greenville are subscribing $1,000 to be offered in prizes for wheat growinp in the territory thirty miles around the city. This is a good move and will, it is thought, result in 300,000 bushels of wheat being produced in the territory where the past year only about 40,000 bushels were raised. Greenville has a roller Hour mill which has ground 300,000 bushels of wheat tho past year, 200,000 bushels of which was shipped in from the West. Another year the $225,000 which went to Chicago for wheat the past year will be kept and spent at home. If every town in the Stuto had it roller mill it would help the farmers in their desire to diversify crops. The cash is paid in Greenville in .June, .July and August for wheat just as it is paid for cotton during the fall and winter months. The ? farmers of Greenville will now have money all the year round. 'A % ' > y The Rock Hill Roller Mills, aL though in operation only about two months, has ground 4080 bushels of wheat for customers 1 and bought and ground 2,221 1 bushels. Of corn it has ground 1 4(>0 bushels for customers and 1 \ bought, ground and sold 2,600 ' bushels. The mill has been kept busy since its establishment here and its hum is heard from the I rising of the sun to tho going down thereof. ? Rock Ilill Herald. Mr I") E Callendar, of one of the leading Liverpool cotton firms, was in the city Monday. He has recently made quite an extended tour of the cotton btlt and says, with the exception of the crop in Alabama and Mississippi, cotton ?s all stick and leaf. He does not subscribe to Neill's cotton esti mute, t?ut on the contrary ex presses the confident belief that the crop will not reach ten mill ion bales* ? Rock Hill Herald. HUBBARD'S COTTON LETTER. What is Said of the Status of the Cotton Market and Crop. New York, Sept. 28. ? With the approach of two holidays the markets have been under the in fluence of realizing sales. From the opening large buying for continental account in Liverpool caused that market to open ex cited at nearly 8 points advance. This advance abroad is accepted as indicating the opportunity for realizing which immediately began here on a large scale and the traders have not hesitated to sell heavily, believing the south will weaken during the two holidays. Under this liquidation the decline was scarcely arrested at any time, the exporters assisted in putting out lines with the idea of cover- | ing tomorrow in the southern markets. We thin* the local short interest is larger than at any time since .January, it crossed (>.4 cents. The close was steady with the traders bearish and going home short over the holidays, ex pecting lower Liverpool tomorrow. Hubbard Bros. & Co. ^T T Sure Cure for Cottle When the children get their feet wet and take cold give them a hot foot hath, a bowl of hot drink, a dose of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and put them to bed. The chances are they will be i all right in the morning. Con: tinue the Cherrv Pectoral a few ! days, until all cough has dis- | ' appeared. Old coughs are also cured; i we mean the coughs of bronchitis, weak throats and irritable lungs. Even the hard coughs of consumption arc always > made easy and frequently cured by the continued use of Ayer's : Cherry : r Pectoral! Every doctor knows that wild ' cherry bark is the best remedy , known to medical science for soothing and healing inflamed throats and lungs. Put ono of Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plasters I over your lunge Thm Bmmt Mmtilaml Advlom Frmm 1 W? now have tome of the moat ami- I nant pliydclan* In the United Htater. I Untirtial nppnrtunltlM and long expert- I . ance eminently fit tiiein tor firing 70a V medical advice Writ* freely all tha ft particular* lit your care. t Addree*. Dr J. C ATKIt. 9 The Warehouse Movement. ? . % 1' rom the reports that ape being ^ published in the papers, it appears ^ that the cotton warehouse move- f \ inent recently inaugurated in this it# section is extending to all parts ^1 of the south and financiers all over i V the country arc beginning to give j r> r- V i the matter their serious attention, The general plan of the ware- L house business is quito simple. I?' ' ^ the first place it is necessary to y . provide a suitable building. Then ^ there must be snflicient insurance against fire, and next, satisfactory f assurance of the safe keeping of Vt the stored goods. Cotton always f reprosehts a definite value, and < consequently when stored in a I ' warehouse that is safeguarded as ! lllwt nllflinud it ,,11, rill fit 11. t at in itlit I |UC1V VWVIUIVVI, IV uu^jiu VV? ?'U 4IIII|MV7 li security fur reasonable loans at a j J comparatively low rate of interest. ^ ( There is a convention of cotton | ^ growers in Atlanta next monthly for the purpose of discussing the f situation generally with a view to |ki agreeing on some systematic plan i 4 of action with reference to the \j matter. Such a convention is * likely to he productive of good \ results rather than otherwise: but at the same time it is doubtful as to whether there is any real w necessity for it. The matter is ^ fast regulating itself along proper ^ business lines, and a perfect sys- i torn is now in a fair way of dovelopment. The following from \4 the last issue of The Manufacturer's Record outlines some of the'* advantages that may he expected V' to accrue: "The cheapening of the rate jV for money, as these warehouse J. receipts would be accepted as good 2 collateral in New York, Baltimore L and elsewhere, all money needed f for handling and carrying cotton ^ could ho secured at from 4 to t> I 4 per cent, according to current rates in New York. 4 "The farmers, thus being ahleiVl to store cotton and carry it at at * very low rate of interest, would >( not he forced to sell as soon as|^ picked. Cotton would not he I > crowded on the market in she fall, thus breaking prices. | j "Farmers and cotton buyers v, would then have the same advan 4 tages in handling their cotton which the west has had for many 4 years through its elevator system. ^ I "Buyers for northern and for i ' eign mills, being able to store |V( cotton in b inded warehouses, i could carry it in the south and j skip it out from month to month k IVI as needed, thus bcneliting the js railroads and securing the lowest L.. ocean freight rates. "Cotton warehouse receipts would become recognized in all \4 money centers as (irstclass col- V lateral, and the whole rotten crop' ^ would then ho n bankable ns.-?et, tr revolutionizing the business to the \\ benefit of the entire south." ? Yorkville Knquirer. Pi ? ? j ci Georgia Cotton Cl op ()ne?Third j Short. Atlanta, (in., Sept. US.?Ofli Pt cial returns to the State depart 1 **r ment of agriculture show that the th cotton crop in Georgia this year W will be about one-third n!F. From | be estimates based on the reports Pt from 7"> counties the crop will j ' amount to about l,000,o?)0 Imlcs, j he against l,53t?,00O last year. : _ 'tu I so WOltKINO X |(.|l I AX l> in V ....... co Ine busiest and mightiest little!, thin<; that ever mule is Dr Kind's New Life Pills. Kvery pill is a sugar-coated globule of liealth, ra that changes weakness into tin strength, listlessness into energy, jn brain-fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the heath. Only 25c pe^ l?ox. co Sold by Crawford Bros'. n" If. i ?n | th< OA0TORZA,. Batntfe _y?ltaKMTMNfff AhNhBonsM -rez^m L? ijJUljl ^^s* ^ / ^"+> * ^.*0> >> s : - liooil lilies > n i BUT THEY m : t: c J Think of !l! *ti * \ > 50 cents Jean I \ lfave one hiin?lre< \ $15 pants, woes $ $1 50. * ,$2 pants, norsl r $1. About fifty n } Mold 47 pairs in t * $1 50 pants, al * at 75 cents. f * Come "a runnin' ; I ny * SHI RTS AT HA KG AINS ! Fori f Good Cheviotte work Shirts, heavy i ^ Best Buckskin Twills at 25 cents ; Struck it Right i ' TKN TllOl'SAM) YARDS, and the ^ Percales on the market at 10 cents. | 5 and ALL THESE i (V ? Such us Orgnudies, Lawns, Mum ^ Real nice White Goods in plaids and ^ price 7S cents. ; - LITTLE GIA ( The best on earth for the money ^ sole agents for this great line of Chil p Buy good Shoes and save money. ( * ST~ Many good values we cann stores and you will find the greatest < ^ motto : "I'nderhuy, I'ndersell. () f r FiiniKTs' M : L a n c MWp ^ Sk ^ ^ ^ si. ^ C ^ "s*. ^ J* ~ ^ ^ ^ TNN1E DAVIS MEMORIAL, j F< roposed Home for Destitute i')e* Kan: endants of Confederate Soldiers. Mrs .1 local pi Luray, Va., Sept 27 ? "Winnie advices ivis Cottage," which is to bo t? an ? ected at the Whosoever Farm, Hnd, v rough the efforts of Rev II M 'ier by barton, D D, of Baltimore, will Mrs i one of the finest buildings in Lucille ige county. The cost is to bo *!l- ^ it less than $25,000, and the proven III < 11II < r is i li'si imrx I ti? l.?> <> ?-> r- ? r^"~" v" w "" vIuid for the orphans and dosti- 15 H to children of ex *Con federate Victi Idiers. kidney Mrs Jefferson Davis has heen a|' nsulted as to the project, and s lent hor hearty endorsement ?n,j tjn it. Dr Wharton proposes to ing. I ise the bulk of the money for like tin a building and its maintenance neJ/ ' the North. \ number of promi- 4l^'( (/ ' thing f nt architects throughout the njn (j0, untry have been invited to sub- h0 |jVe! t plans for the construction of give mi 3 cottage. appetit ^ - take. have a ] Macao Toor HowcU With CucarM*. oent fcndy Cathartic, <mre cormttpatlon forever Or If C. C. C fall. refund aaoney. Otore. Ml O INOT LAST LOl HEY ARE TO' aple Goods at H Pants now at 25 I pairs now on lis teds and cassime ted and cassimcr ... ?i j. ft ^ lairs 01 iiit'se iwo wo <lays. 1 wool and wool n " If You Want of These Good nerly 50, 00 and 75 cents, all markc ind strong, only 20 cents?the 35 ce s, worth 4<> cents Ao-ain ! 1>KI{CALKS th? 4 COIII tors sick all over. i first shipment just in ? heaviest, pr Wo sell them at 34 ceni GOODS VERY C? dins, Nainsooks, India Linens and i stripes and plain. India Linens NT SCHOOL SHI Every pair warranted to give ge dren's Shoes, and have now a coi?| ot mention, hut call on us and gt collection of bargains you have over f the people, for the people, first, la f ill lllTI'il! ister,? ills Heir to a Million. P|^| sas City, Mo., Sept 27-I T Van Smyth, wife of a hysician, has, according to A Al received today, fallen heir ?\ IA state in Rotterdam, H?l- l|| alued at $1,000,000, left I an aunt. Van Smyth wuh Mis*' CH Livingston of Richmond, drs Win Smyth hiis already The CI her title to the property. J*|?ratt A 1 1 J two p'ai m . m i : A V K M K N FALL ' iViiM .? ims to stomach, liyer and | troubles as well as women, feel the results in loss of " ^ e, poisons in the blood, tie, nervousness, headache ed. listless, run-down feel- Y ^ hit thero's no need to feel HARI it. Listen to J W Garddaville, Ind. He says: 3EC0N ric Hitters are just the or a man whim ho is all Ht'?re It ivn, and don't care whether y?"r w? i or dies. It did more to re,urn u 9 now strength and good ntiCCT b than anything I could 1 can now eat anything and new lease on life." Only _ s, at Crawford Bros' Dhig I Every bottle guaranteed. | Last! -! A \TG, i 0 GOOD. * alf Price. ? fS if cents. we A md. X rs. now at . A s, now at y lots left. 0 A y lixed.now A Y A X s\ Things! ?d down to 35 cents, nts kind. Wa t make our competi- Wa' Placed one order for ettiest and best dark y A X i&. X IEAP. X y# all Summer Goods. I at 5 cents, former Mil jj od service. Vv e are r>lete stock on hand. A X' ) through our largo . 2 seen. NVo stand by st and all the time. v C. I ^' w ^ sr /* rfRs . >.j* ^ S\i) ester"';;' MACHINE D LUMBER OMPANY. .... # ESTER, S. O. o lieeter Machine Co. and H. M. Co , have consolidated the >t*, and now ready to funnel) K to the Machine and l.umlter ill) m well equipped Foundry ihilie Hhop, and Door, Haeh id Factory cur facilitiea are led In thin part of the 8tate. :ks mowkrs, kkshkrm, gins, ENGINE* HA *V MILLS, ND COTTON PRESSES, *0 W8, CA81INQS, K TC A T QA id hantmachinery. 11 Ih complete for Dwelling*, oomn, etc. Kenit ur list of nit*, mii<1 we will annwtr by ih|1 Re* pact fully, er machine * lumber company.