Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ledger Readers iShould Patronize .edger Advertisers. i' 3L Ledger To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. VOL. HI. >O f 40. -X— GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1890. $1.00 A YE ATI. ETTA JANE TO THE FRONT. WILL CAST A SOLID VOTE FOR • THE NEW COUNTY. The Promise oi Office Was a Joke on the Pa it of the “Kernel” and His Friends But Was Taken Seriously. (Coyi ' i>oih1cji. y of The Ledger.) Kita Jam:, Not., 9.—Either for want of spuee, or intent, perhaps both, my historical sketch did not appear last week. I will say, how ever, that as these sketches are not strictly matters fot a newspaper cor respondent they will appear regularly in the “Army Letters of Prisoners'' published by the “War Readers Pub lishing Co., of Columbia, S. C., to which maga/ino I call the attention of tlioseAvho are fond of such reading. The price is $1.00 per year or lOcts. per copy. S. F. Estes bus been quite sick for a few days. He is suffering with someth!i g like gai 1-stone. Your cor responds nt has been suffering with a similar'malady for which he is in debted to Drs. !». D. Bates and W. J. Douglas more thanl'iny other human agencies for permanent relief. The Sah m Sunday School will have a Christmas treat during the holi days. The new county project grows in might and strength every time its opponents try to “down’ it. The most effective argument that can ho brought against it will be to keep sjlent. Capt. Baker turned loose a broad side last week that silenced many guns. 1 look for,our people to unite almost solid on the measure by or befor-JJllie Nth of December, and vote accordingly. So far as the people of Gaffney City promising office to anyone, that is all “bosh.” It’s our country people doing that for the sake of a little fun. For in stance: When one of our neighbors speak of voting against|it we will tell him he ought to vote for it and we will perhaps give him some office. The writer is perhaps the first and only person to mention it, just to annoy some people and have a little fun. I never heard of a Gaffney man using such talk. But I find some people can take’ neither a joke nor a hint. This is done merely for past time. The people of Gaffney know no more, or care no more about it than the man in the moon. To prove what 1 say is correct, Mr. Editor, you will observe that all this talk cam^ from this part of the territory. Nobody else ever thought of such nonsense—certainly none of Gaffneys people. It is just about as nonsen sical to expect such talk to change public sentiment as it would be to conclude that a blister plaster on the top of the Washington monument would quiet an earthquake. I am surprised that some people are so dull as they s em to be. The people who are to compose the new county don’t intend to be carried in any body’s vest pocket—that’s a settled fact. Wo had a good deal of rain last Tuesday night and Wednesday. Capt 1 J. N. King and his workmen have finished tlie bridge at Thomson’s mill and have gone to another con tract on Fair Forest. Wo have almost finished gathering cotton. The erwp is very short this year, and ought to have brought 9cts. to have justified our farmers in rais ing it. Some say they won’t plant for but two bales of cotton to the horse next year. We have heard that until we are sick and tired of it gentlemen. Farmers won’t consolidate on any thing but blunders and never will re- ideem such promises especially when mode so lar in advance. On my recent visit to Orangeburg I took occasion to notice particularly the changes in old’“Camp Hampton.” ^The shape of the ground en ables us to locale all the camps, the fdrill ground, etc. The land is cleared up and cotton is growing along the ^railroad from Hampton’s creek to 'the swamp on the side next to Col ombia ami as far as eye can reach the land is in cultivation, with tene ment houses dotting the grounds upon which we* used to drill. Thirty- live years has ftyule no appreciable change except touring the held into cultivation. Mr. W. (’. Kirby, with u force of bands did some work on our public road lust week which was very much needed. Our people, generally, turned out to see tho show lust Tuesday and all report a lino time. Some staid all night, others came home in tho rain and still others are 'unaccounted for. From rumor a utioat tho weddings of the sensop huv’iit all come off yet. 1 hear hut little talk uoout sowing ^vlient. Our farmers stand very Ittch in their own light In ncgloct- Tng this important part of their farm work. It now retmuiitt for] our people to settle down to business and make the best of the situation. Get good schools and patronize them. We are not ruined by the election of McKinley if we will goto work in the right way an 1 make the best of the situation. 1 look for a great change in public sentiment as soon as the financial issue is more thorogh- ly understood. Of course, political agitators will keep the country in an uproar as long as they can in order to keep their hold on the people. We are independent so long as we use the means nature and art have placed at our disposal. There arc a good many home raised hogs in this country to kill this sea son, nearly cnougn for next years de mand. Treasurer J. 11. Bartles is making bis round collecting taxes. He’is not compelled to do this, but lie wishes to accommodate the tax payers. He says lie intends to show them that if he has not been re elected he is not in tho sulks. He in tends to show them tho same courtesy ho would have done had they re elected him. Next Saturday night 14th inst., our debating club takts up the subject of “Smaller Counties in this state.” Five speakers have been chosen on each side with tho understanding that volunteer speakers come in if they choo'se after the regular speakers have had their say. Tjie speaking will begin at candle light und the public are invited to attend. Thursday i<ith inst., at DJ in., the Salem S, S. will have a Thanksgiving Service to which all S. S. scholars and friends are Invited. We have had one or two slight frosts, but some vegetation is still green. Since the election we hope that the price of cotton will go up to 9cts., although much of it is now out of the hands of the farmers. I would be glad for some good mathmetician to tell how long it will take the inillenuiin to come, when the average church members pay live times as much to hear Sam Jones or see a circus as they give to foreign missions annually. Mrs. Laura Estes visited Mrs. J. W. Mitchell last week. The C. E. Society met at J. A. M. Estes last week. Some of our friends are wanting to marry so had they can’t keep from letting everybody knowing it. hut go ahead you’ll not disthrb any body. Where a non-professor of religion is forced to reprove a church member for giving boys had advice, its time the church roll'have a name stricken from it. Mis Jessie Estes visited Miss Jessie Strain last Saturday night. Lawrence Osment,()scur ()sment and W illie Rlackwcll of the primary class have been awarded prizes for efficiency in the study of Brown’s Catchism. Next Saturday night 14th inst., is the time set by our debating society for a pitch battle between the new county and anti new county advo cates. It will be a battle of words and not swords though. A certain fellow in this section (l won’t tell his name) last week be come very much interested on ac count of a breaking out which seemed to be getting all over him. He thought he had tho itch and rode eight miles to] see Dr. Douglass about it, who very agreeably disappointed him by telling him to go home and wash with lye soap, that was all that was necessary to remove the trouble. Prof. A. G. Davis will close his singing school at Duck Pond on the 11th and at Piney Grove on 24st inst. The public arc invited to attend. J. L. s. . The Lost Piece of Silver. Pink Campbell, of Greenville county, spent last Thursday night at the hospitable home of John Pain ter, several miles above this city. On retiring he placed his trousers on a chair close to the bed. In some manner his pocket book slipped out of his pocket and fell under the edge of the bed. The next morning Mr. Campbell and Mr. Painter started to Gaffney together. On the way Mr. Campbell discovered his loss. He told John of it. John got uneasy. Ho did not know but that Mr. Camp bell might think he had been robbed at his house, so ho immediately went home to tell his’ wife, in tho mean time Mr. Painter’s daughter had dis covered the pocket book, so John was made happy. He took it to Mr. Campbell. In speaking of the mat ter hejsaid : “It made mo feel as,hap py as if I Jiail been newly converted. I didn’t want tho impression to get abroad that my homo was a den of thieves.” • • Catarrh Means Danger, Because if unchecked it may lead directly to consumption. Catarrh is caused by impure blood. This fact is fully established. Therefore, it is useless to try to cure catarrh by out ward applications or inhalants. The true way to euro catarrh is to purify the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purilicr, cures catarrh by Its power to drive out all impurities Irom the blood. Thousands of people testify that they have been perfectly and permaneuly eared of euturrh by Hood’s Hursuparillu. yyyyyyyy^^yyyyyyy^^yyyy^y i 4 j ** A A JO-A-A .A A A A A Jk .Sk_ M M M A A—*0. A A-A—A—A A-AA M M H M M A A M A A A ^ | k ’•«***’ HTs Trenton, 8. C. f Nov. 9, 189<L lv. M. Jolly and Others, Grassy Pond, 8. C., Gentlemen: Your esteemed letter of Nov. 2nd, extending in- vitation for me to come to Gaffney and deliver an address upon the subject of “Smaller Counties, M received. 1 am under many obligations for vour cour- tesy, and while it will be some inconvenience, I will accept, because I consider my fellow-citizens have the right to command my services in dis cussing any question aifecting their welfare. 1 have been absent from home the greater portion of the time for the last three months, making speeches in Pennsylvania and the West, and must leave for Washington on the 5th of December. I suggest that you appoint your meet ing for that date. That will fall on Saturday and I will go on to Washington that niglw, hut if for any reason that date does not sl Ut you let me know and | will try to conform to your con venience, • Yours very truly, IL R. Tillman. 3 I STATE OF SOl'TH CAROLINA, j Ex Bern vk C i i a miikr . Coj.tmmA. S. C., Nov. 3, 1S9(». > E. H. DkCami*, Esq., Gaffney, S. C. My Dear Sir:—Your letter has been received and would have had my attention sooner, but for my ab sence from the state. I should be glad to comply with your request, but I fear I cannot do so at this time. This is my busiest time and 1 scarcely have a moment for any private affairs. You are correct as to my views on new and smaller counties and I believe the mqjority of our people agree with me. With best wishes and kindest re gards. Truly Yours, John Gary Evans. —- -* •— —— McKINLEY IS PRESIDENT. He Receives an Unprecedented Major ity. The Presidental campaign of 1S91> is a thing of tho past. Uur favorite was heated badly. McKinley will have a congress ’in sympathy with him, and, unless the republicans have been blowing at a terrible rate, we may look for better times. We will wait and see. McKinley’s popular vote was the largest ever given a Presidential can didate in the history of American politics, und his majority in tho elec toral college will be in the neighbor hood of one hundred. Singularly Strange. It is singularly strange indeed that four opponents of tho new county, living in different sections, should make the remarkable discovery, all together, that a new county will raise the roud tax to $2, und that they should all write about it at the same time. It’s a bunglesomc piece of fakism but will deceive no one. Like other false statements, it will servo us a boomerang. The sections to he cut off have paid more roud tax than they have ever received tho benefit of, but if they hud a new county ail the money they pay for road tax would be spent in their midst. -• •— —— Many pooplo, when a little consti pated, make the mistake of using sa line or other drastic purgatives. All that is needed is a mild dose of Ayer’s Pills to restore tho regular movement of tho bowels, and nature will do the rest. They keep tho system In perfect order. Cooper Literary Society. The young ladies of the Cooper | Literary Society invite the Gaffney public to be present at the meeting of the society next Friday evening, Nov. Iff, at Cooper-Limestone Insti tute. Free tickets for a limited num ber of reserved seats cun be hud at Crawley’s drug store. “The Voice,” the burlesque newspaper published monthly by the Limestone girls, will be read by one of them. Miss Annie Martin and Miss Annie McClain are the editors for this month. Though there are “wants” and “losts” and “founds,” and advertisements and original poems and “personals” in its columns, yet the chief aim of The Voice, as seated in one of its edi torials, is “The defence of the down trodden school-girl against the tyran ny qnd oppression o( teqehers.” The ushers for the evening will be: Miss Mamie Humphries, Miss Meta Tyler, Miss Ethel Mack and Miss Mamie Turner. These young ladies will re lieve the visitors from haying to look for seats and will furnish them with programs. The society will be called to order promptly at 8 o’clock, by the president, Miss Ettie Mnnville. After business preliminaries there will be the following program: Music, by Miss Annie Martin. The Voice, by Miss Annie McClain. Music, by Miss Lillian Covington. Recitation, by Miss Hackney. Chorus, by Glee Club. Trial of Oliver Goldsmith. Charge; Unjustifiable Laziness and Conceit. Judge, Miss Annie M. Willis. Clerk of Court, Miss Lillian Cov ington. Court Stenographer, Miss Sue Chandler. Sheriff, Miss Laurie West. Attorneys, Misses Gwin and Worts. Witneses, Misses Croxton and Par ker. Crier, Miss Callie Williams. ^ Ladies of the Jury, Miss Fannie Fort, Miss AlmaTurner, Miss Minnie Garvin, Miss Bessie Smith, Miss Marion Morgan. Miss Minnie Harris, Miss Maud Drummond, Miss Ella Hughes, Miss Eunice Peeler, Miss Carrie Osburn, Miss Belle Twitty, Miss Nannie C. Richardson.’ Admission free. —— - «- — Lost Two Fingers. Superintendent J. C. Plink, of the Cherokee Fulls mills, had the misfor tune to lose two fingers of the right hand last Friday while working with some machinery in the mill. Ho is getting along very nicely with his wounded hand. Whenever you see an outsider put ting his mouth in your busines, be sure lie aims to make it pay him. — . - - — “Turn the rascals out"*- the fami liar party cry—may he applied to mircrobes us well as to men. Tho germs of disease that lurk in the blood are turned by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as effectually as the old postmasters are displaced by a new administration. CALMLY CONSIDERED. NEW COUNTY DISPASSIONATE LY DISCUSSED. Prof. H. P. Griffith Treats the Subject in His Usual Unapproachable Mcnner, Giving Facts, Not Theories. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) The time is drawing near when the people of certain townships of Spar tanburg, York and Union counties will be called upon to decide at the ballot box whether they will organize themselves into a now county to be known as Limestone, with the court- house at Gaffney. All of the terms of the law have thus far been com plied with and the whole matter is now in the hands of tho voters of these townships. What is desired now above all things is that the peo ple will consi-’.er this question intelli gently and dispassionately and then vote as their judgment may guide them. The man who will allow him self to he ruled by prejudice, passion or even his own personal interest, is unpatriotic and unworthy of the blessings of a free and prosperous country. The question is not “Will the new county benefit any particu- l ir place or interest, any particular man or set of men?” but, “Will it benefit a large majority of the peo ple who live within the proposed boundaries?” If it will, then it is the duty of every man to vote for it, even though he may see no benefit that will accrue to him personally. I tifke it as self evident that it cannot possibly do any great harm to a sin gle individual within its borders. It will not remove any man an inch farther from Spartanburg. Union or Yura. Every man can visit these places whenever he desires to do so, just as lie has always done. Every man’s neighbors will remain the same and all his surroundings will be just as they are. There is no harm in it, then, to anybody. With this fact fully realized, we shall he iu condi tion to look at the question calmly and dispassionately. As population and wealtli increase and the appli ances and conveniences of civiliza tion are multiplied men must and will adapt themselves to the condi tions which these changes establish. Within the memory of many now liv ing the farmers of this part of the state hauled in wagons all of their marketable produce to Hamburg or Columbia, because these were tho nearest markets- Some of our grand fathers rolled tobacco in hogsheads to Charleston. The farmer who would now habitually and from choice do such things would be considered insane, yet lie would be no more in sane than the man would be who would still insist on having only one or two court houses in the state be cause there were only one or two in the time of his great-grandfather. The world is advancing, and the man who will not advance with it will be run over or left behind. New counties are becoming more and more necessary and the natural consequence is that they must be come more and more numerous. It Is perhaps not generally known that Spartanburg county has to-day as much territory as the whole state of Rhode Island. There is only a difference of a few square miles in the areas. Yet Rhode Island is di vided into five counties already, and the time may soon come when these will be subdivided into as many more. If the territory embraced by Union or York county could be put down in some of the thickly populated por tions of Europe it would rise to the dignityof a state or a kingdom. Can anyone think fora moment that with our rapid increase of population and more rapid multiplication of all the elements of progress and enterprise, that these large counties will always remain as they are, intact and un divided? Such an opinion would be poor comment on the intelligence and wisdom of this generation. It will be just us necessary to divide them into other counties as it*\vas thirty years ago to divide them into townships—us it is to divide a large town into blocks and wards. And if our country continues to grow in wealtli and population at the present rate, the time will come when the constitutional area will have to be again diminished, and other divisions will follow. The only question con cerning which any reasonable man can now doubt is, whether tho time lias come for a division, and whether t lie section proposed Is entitled to the benefits of the first division. Don’t forget that a now county is going to be formed out of portions of the counties named, and that in the near future. No man nor set of men can prevent it, for it is as inevitable as fate. Then, if the present movement fail, we may look for others more en terprising than we are to form a new county out of other parts of the old ones, thereby depriving ns of our. available territory and leaving us where our fathers were a hundred years ago. The benefits likely to ac crue to this section from the organi zation of a new county have been so clearly and abundantly set forth in the columns of this newspaper that I am left with little to say about D'est. It has been shown ns clearly as anything can be shown that taxes will not necessarily he increased, while there is a strong probability that they will be somewhat dimin ished. Ihe saving of the time und ex pense of a majority of Uioso. who are compelled to visit the established court houses in one year would so far towards paying the whole of their taxes. But there are other considerations of greater import to every true man than taxes. This movement is an other step towards local govjrnnient. W ith a new county our public officers must come from right in our midst. Our state senator and representatives will be men who know every foot of our territory, who are personally ac quainted with our people and well informed of all onr local needs. More than all this, the laws will he exe cuted more easily and expeditiously because we shall have court three times a year with jurisdiction over a smaller territory affording a smaller number of criminals. W ith justice* quickly administered, the law will be more dreaded and respected, and the inducement to lynching and all man ner of violations will be greatly di minished, This state of things is certainly greatly to be desired, and every true patriot should earnessly try for it. It is ideal home govern ment, exactly the kind advocated by the Tillmans and most of tho ad vanced politicians of the day. 1 hope that our people will lay aside all old prejudices, if they have any, and look this question fairly in the face. If they will, I think they will be certain to roll up more than a two-thirds majority for the new county. So far as I have observed, the most outspoken opposition comes from be yond tho new county limits. This is significant, (tan any thinking man believe that this opposition is excited by a fear that the now county people will take upon themselves heavier burdens than they now bear? While we give our friends over the line ull credit for the ordinary benevolence of human beings, we are not yet pre pared to believe that they are so anxious about our welfare. Their op position is strong presumptive evi- dodee of their belief that we are worth more to the old counties .than they are to us—that wo pay inoro money into the county treasury than comes back to our section, if t}*i» is true, it is positive proof that we ought to have a county of our own. H. 1\ Griffith. — More Thriving Than Gaffney. “Enterprise” says: “Tho new county men are telling the farmers that Cheroke or Gaffney county „'.l! be the best and richest county in the state. If so, why would the Tacolefc mills kick so hard about having its property listed in the proposed new county? Why would Clifton and Cowpens, all of them more thriving towns than Gaffney, object to being put in tho new county?” Ho ought to stir around a little and get posted about relative thrift. ^B C8 >J e&> > county is not named yet; many of our people want it named Gad berry, and ull who are not bound to vote under tho direction of “Enterprise” —and ho will find them not a few— will vote for or against the new county, name of it. and the county seat, as they please, just like the freemen that they are. Now, “Enter prise,” we respectfully ask you ti> suspend your order, which says to tho free white men of this country: “Stay away from Gaffney entirely until the vote is settled.” It may interfere with business engagements as it stands, but if you would sus pend it, how’ many, oh, how many would be relieved of the trouble of getting your permission to visit our city? Please don’t be too exacting, on “my countrymen.” — -» -«•» •— Clover Correspondence. (Correspondence of Tho Ledger.) Clover, Nov. 10.—Tho election pgssed off quietly here; no one seemed to take much interest in it. A great many had lost tho password anu had to be excused from voting. Tho cotton mill hero shut down and gave all tho hands a holiday on the day of the show at Gastonia. Mr. Perry Dover weighed his big bog a few days ago. It was 17 months old and weighed f>4(> pounds gross. He can raise turnips as well as hogs. Ho has some in his patch that measure 20.J inches in circumference und that weigh ffjf pounds. There are scveernl nice houses be ing buijt hero now, und this little town is'growing very fast. Mr. John Leever, of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, called to see us a short time ago and spent a day and night with us. f. m. k.