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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C„ OCTOBER 15, 1896. f You Wish t., iiofd y«mr cotton, store It In my wuri'hoUN :m<l rt No (hinder from diim- dy, for ninrhct ;il any I imr. t'liiirdes Hre rpasonnlde. • When you have cotton for sale ca I at my ottten. r«‘ar of W T .(>. Llp- * seonih & Hros'. llidhest prices paid. R. S. LIPSCOMB, Fire Insurance igent. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office ovor J. K. Tolleson’s new store in s fficc fr(»tn 1st to 21th of eueh month; ilO REACH PEOPLE , , ( ,ur elveitismg- Is the object Ol V«'e ate niaUci 4 a wooawork ond vlth peo j,tc who we» about our pioih MHlwsWuntto eorrespo® 1,1 like to know more | Can’t we send Price list? J«t write] you oul new i ra. for it, and wc you a coi>y. AUGUSTA l.UV.BER CO., AUGUSTA, QA. THE HEW COUNTY ELECTION Will be glad to *end | •flur o/ '>* *’" ktr " aril Bur Sterling Itrnf t. l^or 12splendM Mules. 1 Family Morse. 10 Shares Lock hart l ot ton Mill Stock, 10 Shu res Tucnpau Cotton Mill Stock, HShares Kichland Cotton Mill Stiwk. 8 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. 50 Shares Limestone Springs Lime Co, Stock, Apply to 1 F, ti. STACY. Gakknky. S, c. Will Continue pay half at sittlmr and halance on delivery of Photos. When Photos are to he mailed, pay all at sittind- <>nr patrons will please pwttttfw. C, Gallagher. Brid fe W E have a kiln of good Brick for sale. In any quanties. Apply to J. G. Galloway & Son. * CARROLL & Carry everything to be found a first-class General Merchan- ise Store. Groceries are so cheap it would iot pay a man to steal them if the tack door was left open. Dry Goods, Dress Goods and [Clothing in great profusion and it rock bottom prices. Don’t neglect your pocket book by failing to see our goods and our prices before buying else where. IT HAS BEEN ORDERED BY THE GOVERNOR. Tuesday, December 8th, is the Day Set Apart—The Governor Says We Will Have One of the Best Counties in the State. Another step toward the upbuild ing of this section has been taken and one that promises success. Those that are at the head of the new county movement are up and doing, and the success they have met with so far is but an incentive to push on ward and upward. Sunday a committee composed of \Y. II. Carroll, of York county, M. M. Tate, of Union county, T. 15. Butler and A. N. W ood, of Spartanburg county, went to Columbia armed with a petition signed by more than 50 per cent, of the registered voters of those portions of York, Union and Spar tanburg counties that desire to be cut olT into a new county, praying the Governor to order an election on the question. The committee called on the Governor at the Capitol building at 10:80 and were granted a most cordial welcome. The Governor gave the committee a most care ful hearing and after examining the papers he said to them. ‘ Your petition will bo granted. Your committee are the first to com ply with the full requirements of the law. I believe jou should have a new county and I believe Gaffney is the proper place for the county seat. You have the best men in your sec tion that the state affords. Fine, robust, healthy fellows. That is no doubt due to your excellent climate and your fine limestone water. You don’t find such specimens of man hood in the h wer section of the state. If you are successful in your effort to get a new county, be- * k. CARROLL & CARPENTER, We Are The People Our Motto that can please you 1G to 1 in prices on Sugar, Ooifee, Meat, Lard, Canned floods, Shoes, Jeans, Plaids, Dress Flannels, Henriettas, Worsteds and every thing you huy. Come at once and avoid the rush. Respectfully, SPAKE & BLANTON. home, we intend to -What you say when you go make our best advertisement. I Wtint your* mid if Low Prices, Good Goods.and Fair Dealings will catcSi you, I’ll get you. 1 have Just Ixmght a line of 'J'iuwiire timl Ormiitc Ironwtire to sell at aliout former price to me. I am daily receiving NEW GOODS for the Fall Trade and [Vou Osvii Get tiling left in the summer stock at greatly reduced prices. Come and ask for what you want. My 1*01 h Oentur.v Corset is a Iteuuty, and a leader at sOrts. Standard Indigo and other brands of calico ."> ets. Ginghams and Outings, a beautiful line, 5 ets. Hand Towells 5. 10, :. > 0 and ii cents. L>re»B GoocIh ! SOME BEAUTIES. CHEAP. OAT FLAKES by tin- can sell you I lb. for Sets., or ti lbs. for 2a ets. fresh and nice. Sugar, Flour. Meat, Lard. Molasses. Tobacco and anything as low as tin* I Will JNoL JU- Umlc-i-Holtl. «Jiill tintl Oet My I’ Bbl. I Coffee, lowest. I'iCCH. J_>. OoiKloloolc. May Not Know What the Fol lowing Figures Mean— 15c per yard, 20 lbs for $ 1, 7 lbs for $1, $ 1.65 for 100 lbs=== 1*1 T if you will call at my store you will find that you can buy 1 yard of Schoolboy Joans for lf>c, 20 lbs of good Sugar lor $1.00, 7 lbs of real good Coffee for .f 1.00 and 100 lbs of Flour for $1.C5, every sack of which is guar anteed to give satisfaction or your money refunded, and you can buy almost anything t-lse you want at prices in proportion to the above. Respectfully, J. N. Lipscomb. us I lieve you will be, you will have one of the best counties in the state, and I may come up and live with you.” The Governor was assured lie would be welcomed and then he added; “Since you have fulfilled all the conditions necessary to the call for an election I will allow you gentle men to select your own day for the election.” The committee again thanked him and named Tuesday December the 8th, as the day. Governor Kvans at once sent the petition to the Seoretaay of the State and had him to issue a writ for the election in order that lie might sign it that day as he was to leave the city Monday night on business. The committee returned to their respective homes Monday. The news quickly spread and now every one seems to be talking new county. In fact the national election is a second ary matter. Everyone seemsto realize that a new county is a local matter and that this community has more to gain by that than by the election of a president. It will bo a local affair and and the people of the sec tion to be cut off will reap the bene fits of it. Let every man who is in favor of the new county get to work at once and agitate the matter. Talk calmly and endeavor to show the opponents of the project the benefits to he de rived from a new county. Do not quarrel with anyone. Do not abuse anyone but show in a good , sound, common sense manner, that it is proper to have a new county. Tt ere is plenty of good argument in favor of it and there is very little, if any, against it. Mr. Alfred Harris, one of the most substantial men of Algood, was in town Tuesday'. He is a strong new county man. To a Lkdgkk represen tative he said: “I argue that the taxes in new states and new counties are lower than in old states and old counties because the people are less extravagant. In old states and coun ties they begin to put on airs and build fine public building and thus tax the people.” Mr. J. E. Mosteller, of Grassy Pond, was delighted to hear of the successor the committee. He said : “When the now county project was first proposed I was opposed to it, but after studying the question 1 could see that it would be a benefit to my self and my community. My reasons for supporting it now are that it is educational to live near a court house. Being reared near a court house it was mv privilege to visit the county seat when in session and the charges of the judges and the plead ings of the attorney were beneficial to me. You can find men in this county from thirty to thirty-five years of age who have never been in a court room. I consider that they would be placed at a disadvantage if called to serve in the capacity of jurymen. I believe it will lower taxes instead of raising them. I have only to refer to Florence and Huluda. both new counties, to bear me out in this state ment. The tax rate in these counties are lower than in any other coun ties in the State.” Mr. J. E. Foster, of Gowdysville.wus lieroTuesday and said in reference to the new county : “I am a new county man, and I believe my section is prac tically solid for it. I believe it will be a good thing. Mr. C. B. Turner, of Grassy Pond, is a now county man. He said: “Home of our people are opposed to it, but the large majority are In favor uf it. I believe wc will be greatly bene fit ted by it. I'shall vote and work for it.” The following is from the Columbia State of Tuesday: “Although the advocates of Salem county were th" first to file their peti tion with the governor for the calling of an election in behalf of the project, under the provisions of the new Con stitution and the act relating to the formation of new counties, tin* friends of Limestone county have gotten the drop upon the*n and have succeeded in being the first to have an election ordered. The Salem people omitted to get one small Certificate from a county official and hence theireleetion has not yet been ordered. The peti tion in behalf of the Limestone county project was filed yesterday and the governor finding that all the pro visions of (he act hearing upon the subject had been complied with, Ln- incniately issued the desired pro clamation, v Inch will be found be low. “The now county is to include the whole of Cherokee township in York county, the whole of Limestone township in Spartanburg county ; 50 square miles of White Plains town ship in Spartanburg county; 15 1-0 square miles of Cherokee township in Spartanburg county, and Drayton- ville, Gowdysville and Limestone townships in Union county. The area of the proposed new county is to be 1*28 1-2 square miles. The total taxable property will be !t*2, l'.)0 (>G5, according to the last returns. Ex clusive of the property in While Plains and Spartanburg’s Cherokee township tbe realty will amount to D.54:5.115. and the personalty to $052,5)05. Xo line of the new county will run nearer to an existing court house than eight miles. The popula tion of I lie territory proposed to he included in the new county wiil be 21,(585. Of course the name and county seat will also have to be voted upon. Gaffney, it is supposed, will be the county seat. The following is the proclamation of the Governor fixing the election for Dec., 8th. 181)0. Whereas, a petition signed by the I qualified|electors of.cei tain sections of Spartanburg, Union and York coun ties, has been tiled with me, and from said petition and accompanying papers, it appears that one-third of the qualified electors residing within the area of each section of the old counties proposed to he cut off for a new county have signed said petition : and Whereas, the houndariesof 1 he pro posed new county, the proposed name, the number of inhabitants, the Hren, the taxable property, as shown by llm least tax returns, and that the proposed lines for the new county do not run nearer than eight miles from any court house now es tablished, and set forth in the said pe tition, Now, therefore, I. John Gary Evans, governor of the State of South Caro lina, in compliance with the require ments of the act of the general assem bly, entitled an act “to provide for the formaiion of new counties.” etc., approved March 9th, 189(5, do hereby order an election in the counties to be cut off for the new county on Tuesday, the 8th of December, A. D., 1890. to be hel‘1 in accordance with the re quirements of the said act, at which election the electors shall vote “yes” or “no” upon the question of creating the new county, and upon the name and county seat of said proposed new coun ty. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People You Know and People Don’t Know. You Editor T. Larry Gant, the versatile geniuj of that excellent proGoctionof typographic wonder. The Uh-dmont Hei dlight, of Spartanburg, has ac cepted an invitation to visit “the liveliest little city in the United States,” and will he with us on Sat urday October 21th. Editor Gantt is a candidate on the South Carolina democratic electoral ticket and should be accorded a fine reception when lie comes. He is a genial sniil and a hard campaigner and, although his election is in no danger at all, lie is making u hard fight for Bryan and Sewell in t tiis state. Mrs. J. .1. Littlejohn, of Jonesville, spent last week in the city with her sister, Mrs. It. A. Jones, on Freder ick street. W. W. Whelchel, our able an ef ficient correspondent at Willie, spent several days in and arotii d the city visiting friends and relatives last week. He returned to his home Tuesday. 15. F. Holmes returned from Ai - dersoii and Greenville last week, where he had been to visit his dang! - ter at the former place and his s< n at tlie latter place, lie reports an enjoyable trip. G. 15 Surratt, of State Line, was in tile city Thursday. Mr. Sarrutt is a new county ina:i right. He is rot only going to vote for it, but he is using his influence among his neigh- Eczema All Her Life. Mr. E. D. Jenkins, of Lithonia, Ga., says that his daughter, Ida, inherited a severe case of Eczema, which the usual mercury and potash remedies failed to relieve. Year by year she was treated with various medicine i, external appli cations and internal remedies, without result. Her sufferings were intense, and her condition grew steadily worse. All the so-called blood remedies did not seem tc reach the dis ease at all nntil S. S.S. was given, ■when an improvement was at once noticed. The medicine was continuecd with fav orable results, and now she is cured sound and well, her skin is perfectly clear and pure and she has been saved from what threat ened to blight her life forever. S.S.S. {guaranteed purely vegetable) cures Eczema, Scrofula, Cancer, Rheu matism, or any other blood trouble. It is a real blood remedy and always cures even after all else fails. A Real Blood Remedy. Tcn Dollars Given Away. In order that there mav he some greater incentive for our friends to work for us, we will give on Saturday noon, December 19th, 189(5. a prize of $B> to the boy or girl, man or woman who will send to Tub Ledger the greatest number of yearly, cash-in- advanco subscribers from now until that date. This is a gift pure and simple. \Ye will pay a commission of 10 per cent, on every dollar sent in by those who are not so fortunate as to win the prize. Two six months subscription will count for one yearly subscriber and four three months subscriptions will count tor one yearly subscription. Now is the time to go to work and make a little Christmas money. Don’t delay. Go to work at once and report every week. The contest is open to everybody. Each week until December we will publish a list of the subscriptions sent in and give the name of the person who is ahead, make it a red hot battle. *--— •- —— Death of Mrs. Carrie Huskey. Mrs. Carrie Huskey, wife of Wm. Huskey, died at her homo on Logan street Sunday afternoon of fever. Mrs. Huskey had been confined tober home for some time and for more than a week her death bn^ been ex pected. She was a lovable Christian woman and leaves a husband and child to mourn her loss. Her death was hastened by a complication of causes. The remains of Mrs. Huskej and her Infant, whose life departed the day before the light of the mother was extinguished, were inclosed in the same coffin and interred at Lime stone cemetery Monday at noon. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. J. D. Crout, of the Method ist church. — • • - Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Suit Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively oures Riles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Trice 25 cents per box. For sale by The DuTro Drug Co. bors ill I hat direction. 1’. S. Webber uml wife, of Wilkins- vilh*. were among (he visitors to the city Tuesday. D. D. Gaston, of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday. Mr. Gaston says that Cherokee township, York county, is solid for the new county. Miss Fannie Littlejohn, of Asbury, and Miss Maud Littlejohn, of Clifton, are at Alderman R. A. Jones’ ou u visit. W. E. Kelley, who left here some months ago for King’s Mountain, re turned to the city Tuesday. He has visited several cities, but says Gaff ney is the best place yet. Truely spoken and well substantiated. D. J. Tugh, of Mercer, paid The Ledger u pleasant visit Tuesday. Mr. i’ugli says he could not do with out The Ledger. J. J. Vaughn, of Kelton, was in the city Saturday. J. A. Stroup, one of Beam’s Mill’s most progressive farmers, and his daughter, Miss Pearl, are in the city visiting W. W. Lavender and family.J K. Z. Hodge, of Grindul, was in the city last Saturday and renewed his allegiance to The Ledger. John Brown, of Ravenna, was in the city Saturday. Mrs. J. D. Jeter, who has been on a visit to her parents in the Santuc neighborhood, has returned to the city. Rev. C. E. Robertson arrived in the city Tuesday morning. He says he took the wrong end of the truck and instead of going to Montgomery he came to Gaffney. He will leave for Montgomery week after next. T. W. Hendricks has moved with his family to Spartanburg. Mr. Hendricks couldn’t do without The Ledger so he has it to follow him. Miss Mildred Scott, of Union, has been the guest of Mrs Hamilton for several weeks. Jno. H. Wilkins, of Sunny Side, was in the city Friday. Mr. Wilkins is one of the up-to-date men of his section, a good farmer and a good new county man. “Billy” Hoard is able to be out again after an attack of paralysis. “Billy’s” many friends are glad to see him about. Rev. A. J. Bonner, of Martinsville, spent last week with friends in the city. Mr. Bonner is pastor at Lime stone Baptist Church and has a great many admirers here. — Died Suddenly. Take a blood remedy for a blood disease; a tonic won’t cure it. Our books on blood and skin diseases mailed free to any address. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Go. sss Monday morning nt 8 o’clock, Marion, son of Mr. and Mrs. “Sut” Hopper, died of heart disease. The young man was in his nineteenth year. He hud been in ill health for some time, but bad not been con fined to his homo. He was on the streets Saturday in his usual good humor and no one who saw him and heard his merry laugh ever associ ated death with him, Monday morn ing he wrs sitting in a room at his home with IBs father. Suddenly he leaded over on his father and laugh ingly said, “Father I am dying.” They believed he was jesting and be fore they could realize the truth of the situation he was dead. His re mains were interred at Buffalo church, in York county, Tuesday. —• - — Death of Mrs. Lula Davis. Mrs. Lula Davis, wife of Will Davis, died Tuesday afternoon Oct. G about 2 o’clock at the residence of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gad Wright. She taken sick with brain fever at Lock hart Shoals a few days before and her mother went after her. She passed away about one hour after her mother arrived home with her. Kind Words. A subscriber writing from Eigen, in which he inclosed a remittance, takes the opportunity to say: “Your valuable paper has been a welcome visitor with us since it bus been able to find its way to our homo.” For such kind words we are over grateful. • • Local Cotton Market. Cotton was quoted yesterday ns follows: Middling 7.15-1(5 Good middling 7.10 — —Take your cotton seed to Carroll i Carpenter. The Sunday School Institute. The Interdenominational Sunday School Institute, which convenes in the First Baptist church next Sunday morning at 10:30 and meets again in the afternoon and evening, promises to be most encouraging. The object is to further the cause of Sunday school work in this county. It is purely undenominational and all Sunday school teachers an 1 officers in the surrounding country are cor dially invited. Addresses will bo made by prominent Sunday school workers, including T. H. Law, S. B. Ezell, C. H. Carlisle and II. E. Itav- enel. Let there be a good attend ance. The following is the programme : MORNING SESSION—11 A. M. I. Lesson Study: (u) Source—The Book—Ad Iross. (b) Methods—Blackboard Exer cises. AFTERNOON SESSION*—1 I*. X. II. School Management: (a) In the School—Blackboard Exercises. (b) In the Home—Address. III. Teaching: (a) The Function of Teaching— Address. fb) The best Methods of Teach ing—Blackboard Exercise. We hare had Sunday School Con ventions, but never u Sunday School Institute has been held in this county. We are glad that Gaffney has been selected as the place for the lirst In stitute, and that such an interesting programme as the above has been prepared by our executive committee. The teachers have already been se cured. Let all who arc within reach make an extra effort to he present ou Sunday next, the !Sth inst. Sunday school workers cannot afford to re main away. —- •— — Index to New Advertisements. Do you patronage Ledger adver tisers? If you do not you should. The policy of this paper in all tilings is strict honesty. No swindler can knowingly get an ad in its columns, so you may feel absolutely safe in prtronizing any concern that advertises with us. No business house that takes advantage of its customers to swindle them has money enough to buy our space if we know that they are swindlers. Patronize Ledger advertisers all the time and let them know it by telling them where you saw their ad. The follow ing is a list of the changes in our ud columns this week; read them ail and put confidence in what they say: H. L. Parks—Bread. I. M. Peeler—Notice. J. N. Lipscomb—You may. James J. Gaffney—For sale. R. S. Lipscomb—If you wish. Chas. G. Ervin—Don't forget. W. C. Gallagher—Will continue. H. L. Parks it Co.—The Bee Hive, "’ilkins Bros.—Seasonable goods. . .t. Tolleson—A good suggestion. Spake & Blanton—We are the people. Carroll it Carpenter—Carry’ every thing. R. A. Jones it Co.—Furniture, wagons Buggies and coffins. — —• • Transfers in Real Estate. James Brown, of Gowdysville, has bought a house and lot on Montgom ery street of R. E. Poole and will move into soon. W. W. Thomas, of this city, has bought a valuable tract of land two miles out on the Smith Ford road. -» . How’s This! Wn offer < >iu* II u m In'(I |>nl lur* l<('w:ir(l fi»r any cum* of t'Htiirrh ilutl rammi be nceured by Hair* Catarrh Curt*. F. .1. CHEN V A co . I’ropv. Tttlodo, <>. We, tlm iiii<li'nii!;ii<'il. have known F. J. Cheney for the laot !*> yeitm. and Itellevo him |M>rfr<*tly honorable in all bu»lhe»a trun*n'-tU>n» ami linuneliilly able to carry out any oblliralhno made by ihelr Hrin. Wkht .V TUI'AX, WhoICNlilt* l>rlimrl»l», To ledo. (>. WAI.1)1X0. KlNXAN A MAIIVIH, Wholesale DriiKKlsts. Toledo. 1 >. Hair* Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, aelluy tllreelly u|M>n the Idood and Inueoux surfaces of the system. |*rlee ”.V. |m rltotlle. Sold hy all druitKiid* Testimonials free.