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4 THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 29, 1890 THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS. - - Editor. ED. H. DcCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. The Ledger is not responsible for ilio views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point io insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. A.11 correspondence should be ad- iressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. FLASHING VISITORS. November will bring us radiant guests whose luster and sparkling beauty will swiftly disappear, leav ing us the “story of our days.” They are the emblems of time. “On! on! our moments hurry by and vanish like a meteor’s glare.” Wise men tell us that every thirty-three yearsf November brings us an extraordinary display of meteors. In 1833 great consternation and alarm prevailed over a largo section of country, the cry of the ignorant was the “judg ment day has come.” In IStiO it was estimated that fifty meteors were counted during the densest part of the shower. The panic then was intense, shouts of victory and triumph were heard from those who were waiting the plaudit “Mell done!” Shrieks and awful groans pierced the air by those expecting a fearful doom. We look for another >von r lerful visit in 181(9 and each year ax we draw nearer to that period the November display becomes more and more splendid. Let Gaffney during ithe coming month prepare for a grand pyrotechnic entertainment; »-e shall advertise it as “Celcalial fireworks.” The question will arise, arhut are meteors? There are var- uous opinions, and decisions so pro- loutid that our Ledger would throw aside its courteous garment and groan under the weight of conjec tures. The approaching transit of ,our globe across the motoric orbit vwill aid astronomers in divining the {phenomenon of these flighty visitors iand solving tlio mystery of their showers so bright, so tantalizing to our untutored eyes. Sufficient for us to admire and wonder, trusting Him who sways the mechanism of the universe. Ho who cares for the little speckled sparrow will surely envelope with God-like love his timid, helpless children. In viewing our ifiy-away guests, remember an ancient superstition, that if we catch a glimpse of them and entertain a wish wt? shall certainly enjoy full jsnd glad realization. HON. CHARLES F. CRISP. All that was mortal of Georgia’s great statesman, Charles F. Crisp, was buried Monday. Only '>2 years, and the light went suddenly out when wc all thought that it was about to shine brighter than. ever. Last Friday, in Atlanta, Judge Crisp breathed his last, loved, admired and respected by all who knew him, as he moved a man among men. When Georgia needed soldiers to go to the front young Crisp, then a lad of 1(5, shouldered his musket, and on the battlefields of Virginia fought for the “lost cause.” It was in this school perhaps that, taught by ad versity, he learned how to manage men. Preparing himself for the legal profession, he rapidly rose to promin ence and was soon known as Judge Crisp—a title by whicli he was gen erally known, even after he had hon estly won and nobly borne high political honors. •‘There is room at the top” and the Georgia judge soon finds himself a member of the noisy House of Rep resentatives. Hero ho soon risos to the surface and makes his voice licardandhis influence fell. Might years of service and he is the ac knowledged loader of the Demo cratic forces in Congress. As speaker of the House he was tried in the fires, but came forth pure gold from the furnace. Reed, as Icadei of the opposition, did his best to defeat the Georgian, as ho wielded his gavel with a firm hand, directed by a clmr bead, but all in vain. His next stop, and the United States Senate would kave welcomed him. Only a few nuere days and almost the unani mous voice of Georgia would have called him to the highest place in her gift. But a nation mourns his early death, and unites with Georgia in doing honor to his memory. INSULT TO SEC. CARLISLE. The lines are being tighter drawn. Political parties are disintegrating and new ties are being formed. The gold and the silver forces are allign- ing themselves for the great Novem ber conflict. The Secretary of the Treasury, Kentucky’s most noted son, was re cently most grossly insulted at Cov ington, his own home. The insult was premediated and persistent. The Secretary was escorted to his hotel by policemen. Carlisle is a gold man. Ho has firm convictions, and like an honest and patriotic citizen ho is throwing the weight of his influence to strengthen the gold side. Carlisle’s ability is unquestioned. He has studied thoroughly the financial question that is now dividing our people. The verv position he fills under the government has afforded opportunities for investigation that are not open to all. Assuredly, if any citizen should be given respectful at tention it is Carlisle when he rises to speak on the question of the hour. It is a losing game to insult a : speaker. Ital.vays recoils with re doubled force against the offending party. The perpetrator dares not | show his head in Covington. Ar> in censed people would not show him ; any quarter. Hereafter the Secre tary may expect respectful attention even from his most bitter enemies. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. One hundred and fifty years a col lege, Princeton has just been chris tened a university. She has em barked on her new career with the brightest prospects, and President Patton is overjoyed. Only think of it, over $1,800,000 received in be quests. Is jt any wonder that she feels a little proud just now? Prince ton has never slackened jn the thoroughness of her work. Many of her sons have gone forth from her halls to do her honor, and these are the ones that are now blessing her in deeds of munificence. Good work is never lost. Happily, jt possesses the quality of reproducing itself. This anniversary lias been looked forward to for years as an occasion of rejoic- i ing, and her many eons Hocked to her side. President Cleveland was pres ent, an honored guest, and the orator of the day. The speech shows the man equal to the occasion, grand an it was. We wish Princeton univer sity ail the success that its friends prophecy will be hers. WATCHMEN NEEDED. One of the penalties for a city’s growth is the increased insecurity to life and property that follows as a mutter of course. Ten years ago, and less, many of our citizens never thought of locking either front or back door to their homes, Not so now. Our town is becoming more and more a thoroughfare. In pro portion as this is so our citizens need protection. This they ought to have. Perhaps two policemen are enough for ordinary occasions, but how is it after the midnight hour, when these men, wearied with their exact ing duties of the day and early night, retire to their homes? They do what men can do; others should take up the charge and watch till the morn ing hour. We think our city fathers would do well to have an oyo turned in this direction. Has Lived With His Wife 84 Years. (Correspondence 0? The Ledger.) Pacotet. Oct. 20.—We have quite a character among us. Not quite among us either. Ho owns a small free hold just on the outskirts of the town and lias resided there some twelve years. Among all the people of the world there is but one Billy Griffin with an individual ity of his own kind and helpful to those who he likes, and expressing his dislike in an outspoken and face to face manner. Uncle Billy, as lie is often called, is in his 75th year, not a grey hair in his head, as agile as a cut and about as strong as he ever was. Ho served in the war in the loth and I8th S. C. Infantry; was wounded seven times and has now a minnie ball in his left flank to remind him of the late u. nleasant- ness. He has been married twice and bids fair to live considerably in the next century. On being inter viewed he said his father is living in North Carolina and makes a good living by tilling the earth. Can plough all day and not be wearied much. He now is 107 years old and has lived witli his wife 84 years, who is now 104 years old, and the mother of eighteen children, all of whom are living but five. Just one more word please and then I will let up on Uncle Billy. He hauls filling for 192 course looms and has besides cultivated and gathered a large crop of sweet pota toes on a small plat of ground and knows a good paper when he sees it. as he is a Ledgerite. Sometimes very small events or happenings in our life has a great deal to do with us in influencing our actions. In fact little things have formed the destinies of nations. Had Columbus sailed directly westward and not turned southwest in the wake of those birds he would have landed on lhe main land of North America, instead of on an island. Such was the “numerations” I had in my mind when I saw Mr. F. W. Laver jumping aimlessly about one morning recent ly. I really felt uneasy about my friend and neighbor, and feared that ihe card room would shortly need another second hand, but my fears were at an end when I heard that he hud telegraphed to his brother-in- law, who lived in a" distant town, “Come quick, it’s a boy, weighs twelve pounds. Rev. W. J. Langston preached a timely sermon yesterday to parents on their duty to their children. Among the many good things his that children to do evil and needed parental restraint to keep them in the proper hounds.” It was well received and we hope will be well heeded. Your scribe will add that he has seen many things that were revolting in their general makeup during his wanderings of two score and ten yours on this mundane sphere, but the worst that I ever f^uw was a child whom hh mother was nursing that between draws would stop long enough to curso her with oaths not polite to mention, Such conduct of course did not rest uloua with the child but with the parents, Now don’t jump up everybody and pull the old man’s raven locks. That did not happen here, Next Sunday his reverence aajd were naturally prone were Will Not Follow Blindly. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Gowdeybville, 8. C., Oct. 26.—We are reformers and believers in some thing like the editor of the Head light. but when it. conies that he wants; us to follo.v him in our per sonal interests, wo will not do so. I hope there is not a voter in the proposed cutoff that will vote against the new county. T. L. Gantt says we will have to build several bridges over Broad River, etc., if we get our new county. We will have but one little creek to bridge, and that is Thickety. If we get the new county —which I have no doubt w*e will—we will have one of the cheapest coun ties in the state. It will be as good a thing as the fence law was for us poor farmers. The anti-new county votes will be between seven and ten at Sarratt Box, and I could tell why those few are against it, but they are good, honest men, and I do not desire to offend them. 1 am not a renter, but if I were and I lived on a man’s place who told mo if I did not vote against the new county I could not work his land but I would bo found moving about Christmas. Gantt says Col. Strain’s lotters are very interesting, Col. Strain is a new county man. When persons above Wilkinsville have to go to Union as witnesses it takes them one day to go, one day to stay and one day to return home. All the men north of J'acolet go to Gaff ney to do their trading, and after you get there the merchants will take you down to their houses and give you a good supper, a good bed to rest on, and in the morning will give you a good breakfast and if you trade with them they y,ill give you good bargains, The building of the court house and jail is the hobby for the Antis to ride on, when they know it will bo built by Gaffney. I thjnk the new county will get three-fourths of all the votes polled an Dec. 8th. JL W. Davis. If Troubled With Rheumatism Read This, Annaj'ous, Md., April Iff, 1K94.— I have used Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for rheumatism and found it to he all that is claimed for it. I believe it to be the best preparation for rheuma tism and deep seated muscular pains on the market and cheerfully recom mend it to the public. John G. Brooks, dealer in boots, shoes, etc., No. 18 Main St. ALSO READ THIS. MEniANp'SvipLK, St. Mary County, Md.—I sold a bottle of Chamber lain’s Pain Bulir to man who had been suffering with rheumatism for several years. It made him a well man. A. J. McGill. For sale at 50 cents per bqttlo by Co. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report -4 ✓ ill IO Mi Bowlersville Budget. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Bowlersville, Oct. 26.—The cut ton is all picked out and we have had a nice season and are now ready to sow wheat. Mrs. Cordelia Medleyldied at White Plains on the 20th and was buried at Corinth on the 21st. We are all full stock new county folks in our S( ction. I notice that our opponents say wo are too poor to build a court house and jail. We do not ne ’a $50,000 court house. If we are poor we can cut according to our cloti The lit uilight says that the rail roads, telegraphs and telephones are so convenient that it is but a Final I thing to go and correspond with par ties at Spartanburg, and doesn’t say one word ibout the cost; also that jurors and witnesses get mileage and that they can make more traveling at 5 cents a mile than raising ;i cent cotton, but does not say those men pay from $1 to $2 a day to stay in Spartanburg and that a witness gms the whole sun of 5u cents a day if he is important, if not ho gets noth ing. James. — * — Ele trie Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when thr liver is torpid r 'd sluggish and the need Cyf a tonic and alterat ive is felt. A prompt use of thjs medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevppj. No medicine will act ,nore surely in counteracting and fret - ing the system from the malaria! poison. Headache, Indigestion, Om:- atipatlon, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50c. and $1.00 per bottle at DuPre Drug Co.’s Drug Store. Tribute of Respect. Whereas, All-wise God in the mys terious chain of II13 providence, has seen lit to take from among us, on Get. 16, 1890, our devoted Sunday e-hool secretary and worlu r, William Newton Jefferies, and whereas this school owes so much to him for his antiring zeal, for our welfare. We do hereby adopt the following reso lution : Resolved, First, that while wo bo\» with humble submission to tiit will of Almighty God, we will ever cherish Ids memory and try to profit by his example. desolved, Second, That we inscribe a page in our Sunday school record to ids memory, and ask that these resolutions he publish.d in the Gaffney City Ledger, and a copy be Ft. it to the bereaved family. Committee, N. G. Lrrn.K.ioifX, C. M. Littlejohn. — -««•> .- ihe Darlington, Wis., Journal says editorially of a popular patent medi cine; “We know from experience that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is all that is claimed for it, us on two occasions it stopped excrusiating pains and pos- : bly saved us from an untimely grave. We would not rest easy over night without it in the house.” This remedy undoubtedly saves more pain and suffering than any other medi cine in tho world. Every family should keep it in the house, for it U sure to be needed sooner or later. For sale by the Dupre Drug Co. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, ; Gaffney, - - . S. C. j Gffico ovor.I. It. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 24lh of each month; ..*a xaec, jv.<r mxasrm^irr The Du Pro Drug 1 ? MA V fc/ Not Know What the Fol- m^■ , . - tr. ■. .+**. ■ gxw’i.v—y.-ATc- • -. tx.-h'--** "xonuK* lowing Figures Mean-- o • . /1. -• — * reverence will preach dren. to tho chil li o.uo. If your children are subject to croup watch for the llrst sympton of the disease—hoarseness. If Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse it will prevent the attack. Even after t he croupy cough has appeared the* attack can always be presented by giving this remedy. It is also in valuable for colds and whooping cough. For sale by Tho DuPre Drug Co. DRESSED LUMBER ! Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Mouldings, and All Kinds qf Building Materials, For Sale at Lowest Cash Prices. No charge will be made'for Infor mation as to amount required for building. ISc per yard, 29 lbs for $ 1, 7 lbs for $1, $1.65 for 109 Ibs= 23 Cull on L. BAKER. I>1 'i if you will call at my sterc you will fm<l that you can buy 1 yard ol Schoolboy J- ms lor loc, lbs of good Sugar lor $1.00, 7 lb o; real good Gollcc for $1.00 and 100 lbs ol Flour toi $ 1.05, every sack of which is guar anteed to give satisfaction or your money refunded, and you can buy almost anything else you want a! prices in proportion to tho above. Respectfully, J. N. Lipscomb. O TV E<£ ]$<£4 b 1^,I^ Ac r 2VOY, Ranker® 'I'rons;ic-t ji C»cm-e.il lliiulciny: UusIucmw. Tiie Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, - ^ # I *' <£> A. I*' I-r Jt) Y O IY. 1 E >epnriment. li.'ivin/ opened u,) .‘i s ivin/ . I V|) ii t Hu nt In our Itunk, .Inly i i. I.v«i. \\ i will Hi in* Uf|jitf.il-. of SI.CO.HH! >I pr. I; Is lilid allow llllfn-sl I In •If • ! irv fftit. |) ,, r annum. |,ii.yaiilo «|iuiM'rly winvi UMl in Limit a momlis o: Ion t. ;:ffi y I !».- posit Ho.\i s foi rt'ilt. VotU- >. soilfllfii. How’s This. We offer one hundred dollars re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot he cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Props., To ledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their linn. West <t Truax, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo,O. Walding, Kinnan <fe Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Hull’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon Ihe blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs j and e» Ibis place in lots of from 30 to iOO acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. Tor f all particulars ; r; 1 " tc MOSES WOOD, Agent. L N. B.—AH trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing ^ ^ m timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. i $55 l C v <x.Ii E lll J * ’•» £ ^ ^ CARROLL & STACY. Will Continae Li I Her! {on. \ o<J p:iy hiilf at sill ing ittitl hiilanrr on drlivory , of rliotos. Whrn riinto* are to he mulleo. ' pay all at slttlnjf. Our patron* will please swasiarttf. c. Galla^tier tin* l.mt two moiitliH. 11 vUIIU^m/l, I^or Jriiile. !- Nulfiuttd Mules. 1 f amily Horse, 10 Shares Lnekliurt Cotton Mill Ktoek. 10Shares Tucapau Cotton Mill Sioek. ;i Shares Itielilaail Colton Mill Stork, 2 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. *>0 Share* Llnirxtonr Spring* LI me Co, a took. Apply to V. (I. STACY. / UArrasY, S. C. 9 Aro Vxooci TYppotlasers*. Whether they be sweet or Sour, so if you want a good appe tite there is no better way to create it than to eat Oolol>r«itocl IMoklon. We carry a full line of the first-class goods and keep them fresh and new all tin* time. 2 IIISoHton 1 £0(1 ISotiilH With Tomato Sauce make excellent eating. Call and secure a sample box free. C'iMiiicxl Oooilts of TVII ICinclH Constantly on band, and alwavs as low as the lowest. In fact everything to be bad in the Grocery line can be had of BYARS & SPARKS, - - __ Exclusive Grocers. Don’t Forget! I am still a Candidate"" For Trait*, • uhjeet to lllllna hungry people, C;tll next tloor to Hue Hive mid iiml he eonvlneeil. .Jn;-*! I^eeeived. A fn sh Lot of l.'iwiiey'* Clio ohite Cmrlles. nlso n nice iixxortincut of Cuke* uml Oil* ycur'* Nut* Just in. Every iluy In the week nt Ti uml l'> eenD. per <|intrt. Telephone order* re ceive prompt uml careful ultcutloii. IUiik up Telephone No. u. Chas. G. Ervin. We now have on hand a complete assort ment of Steam Pipe, Ells, Tees, Bushings, Nipples, Unions, etc., etc. Also all kinds of Fittings for Saw Mills and Cotton Gins, together with the cools for doing all work in this line, and will be glad to serve you at any time. Prices always reasonable. J. G. Galloway & Son. mm» t. nr « jt i.- v DuPRE DRUG COMPANY, niCA i .kuss in; &' I?# . ''Nr'" *1“' ’’Vi A'i ' r V" cA a Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Fine Stationery, &c. Telephone No. 21. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.