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t THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, o. 0., DECEMBER 10, 1896. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. rUBLISHED 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 the Views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur- >ish their name, not for publication, Out for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. \I1 correspondence should bo ad- iressed to Ed. If. PeCarnp, 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 lino each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. with snowdrifts. Besides this, the country adjacent is rapidly being de veloped, and with lines across the water f'»r easy transit, this develop ment is apt to increase to the benefit of the entire cotton belt section. I New Orleans now ranks first in im portance as a port for corn ship ments, thus demonstrating the ad vantage of her situation near the mouth of the “ Father of Waters.” When we first remember Charles ton her harbor was filled with ship ping and her warehouses with mer chandise. Her wholesale merchants carried on an extensive trade with the interior of the Carolinas and Georgia, and perhaps with regions beyond. Their packing clerks sel dom retired before the small hours of morning. The pendulum has swung far, far away. Perhaps it is now coming back, after many days, ami we may soon see returning life and prosperity to our “ City by the Sea.” Peep waters on her bar and ocean steamers in abundance, she yet needs SENATOR TILLMAN’S SPEECH. The long-UK>ke*(l-for fifth found Senatoi Tillman a guest of our city, railways that she can call her own ■■ttir came on an invitation extended to travel the rich territory that is him by a large number of citl’.ens from the proposed new county. r l he Senator was glad of the opportunity again to address a Gaffney audience. hers by right and bring the increase to her wharves. BUSINESS REVIVING. He remembered making a speech : From all points of the compass here six years ago, and very vividly comes the joyful news that business j did he recall the time when, two [ is reviving. Factories long shut : will give its “informant’s” name, Straght Talk. Editor of the Ledger—In the last issue of the Piedmont Headlight of the 4th instant the most remarkable misstatement of facts and perversion of truth appears that ’in justice to the good people of this country who have honestly advocated the forma tion of a new county, with the county seat at Gaffney, and being one who has, without one cent of remunera tion for time or work, with many others who have worked no doubt to better advantage than I have and received no pay, and iike myself ex pect none, I can’t let some, at least, of the many falsehoods go unchal lenged. First, the Headlight says it is “ in formed ” that “ the people of Gaffney have already selected the officers of tiie proposed new county.” If the editor of the Headlight has any sense, and all admit he has, he knows, if he knows anything, that the officers “ for the proposed new county,” nor any other county, can not be elected by the towns. The Headlight would have you believe that the country would have nothing to say about who shall hold the offices and the town of Gaffney alone could vote. Any one with an atom of sense knows there is no truth in that statement, and any “informer” who states that the offices have been divided out, or even attempted to do so, knows that he is not telling the truth nor anything akin to it, and if the Headlight or its informant wish to toat fair, and the last issue con vinces me it does not, then it would not miss the truth so far in putting in such stuff. Now if the Headlight years later at Spartanburg, he was confronted by a noisy set from Gall- ney, who wore “soda” on top of their caps. <>f course the Senator bears liitin no ill-will. This is a free country, where each man lias a right to his opinion, am) a right to express it. We expected the Senator to he magnanimous here. He forgives, hut j down are opening up again on full time; agricultural products have in creased in price; the saw and the hammer and the trowel are plied with every hand; foundery and workshop are doing their best as a wave of prosperity is sweeping over the country. Confidence nearly lost has been re does not forget. He came here, he j stored; thus is labor sweet and en- sai 1, in the interest of no party, but ns a servant of the people, who wanted to keep in touch with them, though he was now their Senator. And when j eve rmore, but many will be found joyment sweeter still. Where are the croakers now? The cronic ones will croak on and on for- nsked to discuss questions that inti mately concerned them he felt it his duty, as it was his pleasure, to ex press to them his opinion. In doing this he promised to “ hew to the line.” By the action of the Constitutional Convention, of which he was a mem ber, the work of forming new coun ties was taken out of the hands of the legislature and the politicians and given to the people, where it be longed. Without that action our hopes had not been stirred to active effort, as court-house rings would nip them in the bud. That was an im portant change in the line of true progress, for which we thank the framers of our new constitution. The advantages of smaller coun ties were dwelt on without bringing forward any ideas that had not been advanced before time and time again. The typical county to Senator Till man was one twenty miles square, with the county seat in the centre. As we cannot have that, the nearer we get to it the better. In this we following the tide that brings pros perity. That government is good and I strong that can stand so well the strain to which ours lias lately been subjected. Gold and silver and greenbacks circulatejside by side with out discount on either. fully with the speaker. A NEEDED REST. We are writing on the eve of the election that is to determine whether wo are a progressive people or are content to be laggards in the race. It is easy to stand still, it is easier yet to retrograde; it requires some eff«rt to mov? forward and upward, but activity stands at the base of prog ress. Never have we had a question pre sented to us that concerns us so inti mately, or that has stirred our peo ple more deeply. And it is because it is exclusively ours, and means life or death. Others have come in and stirred up strife when we should have been allowed to decide this family question entirely alone. Before this l'' j goes to press the battle will have been found that the smaller counties gen- fought. Whether lost or won, we erally had better roads; that people nee( j ti, e re3 t, that comes after toil knew each other better, and conse- iiru j excitement and the stirring, per- quontly could better know who to i ltt p3 ofithe sediment in man. We put into office, lie thought i will all welcomT and enjoy it. would not he lower for a few years at ' ■ ' j least, and believed in properly re- ; Mark Hanna seems still to control warding those placed in official posi-i “ ^| )l} in , U) G f destiny.” lie estub- tions. lie further thought that Gaff-; Hahea headquarters in Washington, and thence the anxious office seekers turn their care-worn faces. Is the distribution of official patronage to be in the hands of the man who made McKinley president? »k*5' ought not to wait twelve years before completing court house and jail, if chosen as the county scat, and spoke rather slightingly of the bond £iven by her best citizens. ^ e must believe that on this point the Senator spoke without being prop erly informed, lie mentioned not that the City Hall superior to most nf the court houses in the state, was columns what most concerns us, offered free of rent until such time Perhaps it is his last message tlint he as th“ proposed buildings could he j will ever send to CongressC erected. ——————— The President’s lengthy document, some sifting before we can get in our Message is a It will require Never for one moment hud we thought of the New County as being h Conservative County, but the Sena tor had, still he did not care, he was working for the good of the entire people, and wanted to keep South Carolina advancing with the other states of the Union. Our Senator was hardly equal to himself on this occasion, but his utterance* v 'dl have Weight, as they always do. CHARLESTONS TRANSATLAN TIC LINE. The first steamer of this new line, which connects Charleston with other ports, is now taking in her cargo at Charleston. Tlus is to ho made up principally of cotton and pig iron. Cotton wo might naturally expect, hut. think of iron shipped from a southern p^rt, and then England to receive it. Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans arc bidding bitfli us shipping ports of the great northwest And why not? They are natural outlets, and are never clogged 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. .1. CIIENEY & CO., Props., To ledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. ,1. Cheney for the last If, years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to curry out any obligation made by their firm. West it Truax, Wholesale Drlig- gists, Toledo,O. Walding, Kin nan Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per hot tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. and he cun show mo how and when the offices have been divided out, I will apologise for what I have writ ten and oppose the new county. My post office is Gaffney and I can be found here on election day and any day I am wanted. Again, the same paper has some thing else in it that no one has yet believed, or I am “ informed” wrong, for it issaid that an effort was made to get the Governor to set his order for the election aside, as so many “forged names” were on the petition, as charged by Mr. G. W. Chalk, of Re- venna, in his communication dated November 26th Jto jthat same paper. Don’t any one know that if they could satisfy the Governor that all the names in White Plains Town ship, or any of them, were forgeries, that he would set aside the election? The writer of that article of Novem ber 26th, in which it is said that the people are terribly excited, has had from the 26th of November until the 5th of December—nine days—to con vince the Governor that the peti tions were forgeries, and ho has not done it. And G. W. Chalk knows who carried the petitions around in White Plains, and if forgeries were committed they were committed by those who carried the petitions, and if Mr. Chalk thinks the names were forged let him tell the gentlemen that carried the petitions around that they did it, and I have my doubts if G. W. Chalk would be able to get to the polls to vote on the 8th. And if Mr. Chalk says that the names were added on after the lists were handed over to me, I say he is nothing else but a liar, and I alone am responsible for that, and he can find me at Gaffney almost any time. I dislike to use such language through the public prints, but noth ing else tills the hill in this case. The Spartanburg Herald convicts him of something very close to lying in its issue of the 4th, showing that a letter was written from White Plains that appeared in the Herald, when this same G. W. Chalk sail over Ills signature that the letter never came from White Plains, when the letter was written by Mr. J. L. Spake, and he is living in White Plains. I don’t object to the truth coming out, but as one who has the New County movement at heart, I do not like to see a paper save all its false figures and misstatements for the last issue before election and try to fool an honest people. Thomas B. Butler. Gaffney, Dec. 5, 18%. 'Vliy will you l>uy hltM-r nauscatiii); i I’fii Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is ns Lockhart locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Lockhart, Nov. 30. 189G.—Homo now hails from Lockhart and if yon will permit me to bo a little egotisti cal I will explain. It was not for the want of friends nor because I had to, but from the fact Lockhart offered more of the free silver, and. besides, it is in sight of the hills of my nativity, which goes to make up many deficiencies. The mill is a model of architecture and is filled with the latest improved machinery from basement to spin ning room. The overseers are affable, gentle manly and very polite to their help, which goes a great way toward the successful operation of a mill. Well I have introduce myself, and it might be a good time to crack a good joke at old Uncle Johnny’s expense. It so happened when I was a freshman at Pucolet that I went up to 1). Baxter Woods to do trading. Uncle Johnnie had left Pacolet and I did not know he had returned. Among the things I bought was a can of kerosene oil, and when I bundled up I found I could not carry the oil. Mr. N. asked my name so he could tag it and would let it remain until called for I informed hirrf that it was unnec essary for he could give it to the ugliest man that he ever saw. Now when 1 saw Uncle Johnnie had re turned I hastened and was not slow to get there, for I knew if he should pass that way Mr. N. would bo sure to give him the oil. I beat him there and thought Mr. N. did not recognize me, but he hurried around and handed out the oil. One more word, please, about Paco let. When it was building a man now high in authority applied for a job of rolling Georgia buggies and carrying 3 by 6 and was accepted, He was a freshman in m 11 affairs. Some of the boys confided in him that there were bears in plenty around and there was one white hear in particular that they wanted to bag that night. The county around was a wilderness and such things could easily bo believed by a stranger not acquainted with the habits or the color of hears in this climate. The days work being finished they procured some good pine torches and some nice long rich pieces to replenish. They wandered about with guns loaded and their stomachs well filled with corn juice. At last they spied what the boys called the white bear and the new man tired away, when down fell a white cow which proved to be a very fine cow after she was dead. It only cost the hoys some $40 in hush money. Homo. TIRED MOTHERS And help ■ in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which gives them pure blood, a good appetite aud new and needed STRENGTH. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s mw store In office from 1st to 24th of each month; O. L. SCHUMPEUT. TH09. B. IIUTI.EK. Sol. 7th Judicial Circuit. U. S. Com. Wm. McGowan. SCHUIPERT, * BUTLER»S»McGOM, A.XTOR.IW rtYS-AX-JUAVV. Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Office days at Gaffney. Friday and Satur day of each week. Very careful and prompt attention Riven to all business entrusted to us. ractice in all the courts. tonics when Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Is as pleas ant as Lemon Syrup. Your driiRKlst is au- lliuri/.od to refund the money In every case where It failjs toeure. Price. oQ cents. RICE HOLLER. l^or kile. L snlendld Mnles. I Family Horse. 11* Shar»*s Lock hnr l Cot ton Mill Slock. Ill Shares Tucapau Cotton Mill Stock. !l Shares Richland Colton Mill Stock. •J Shares Victor Cotton Mill Htis-k. AOShann Limes to no Sprlutts Lime Co, stock. Apply to F. G. STACY. UAtaNKY, f». C. The only machine that in one operation, will CLEAN, HULL and POLISH Rough Rice—putting it in merchantable condi tion, ready for table use. SIMPLE AND EASY TO MANAGE. Write for prices and terms ALSO Corn Mills, Saw Mills, Planing Machines and all kinds of wood-working machinery. TALBOTT and LIDDELL En gines and Boilers on hand at FACTORY PRICES. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder Ab&olutely pure Monumental Works. Granite Monuments a specialty. Agent for IRON FENCES. No.‘235, W. Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. T. L. ELLIOT. Elgin Dots. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Begin, 8. C., Dec. 7.—The farmers of this section all seemed happy pre vious to this cold wave. They are through gathering crops, done sowing small grain and bird hunting seems to be the go. Messrs. J. M. and J. S. Hagins and Mr. John Fleming went out one day before the snow fell and killed ninety-seven birds, and said it was not a good day for birds either. We have had an unusual pleasant fall and winter up to the present cold wave, which struck us on Sun day evening, November 25)th, and on the morning of the 30th was the first ice we had, and on Tuesday, Decem ber 1st, wc had a nice little snow of eight inches, and the remaining part of last week was well represented with rabbit hunters. Mr. Weldon R. Harris, section foreman on the O. R. & C. R. R., made an early start Wednesday morn ing. He said he could kill more rab bits on the wing than any other man. He had gone but a short dis tance on the trail of one, when he set him under a small bush, and in order to show that he was an expert shot he kicked Mr. Rabbit up and his first shot passed about two feet over Mr. Rab’s back, and his second shot liked about fifty feet of reach ing Mr. Rab, so Mr. Harris made up his mind that he would put in the balance of the day with his hands cutting snow from switches and road crossings. I. W. Moore Son have bought a fine timbered plantation near our little town and have been doing a right nice little business shipping wood, and this cold weather has added several carloads to their or ders. Trusting by next issue of The Ledgkk to hear that you have a Mew County, I remain Elgin Movement. Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act nore surely in counteracting and free ing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50c. and $1.00 per bottle at DuPrc Drug Co.’s Drug Store. Henrietta Happenings. (Correspondence of Ths Ledger.) Henrietta, N. C., Dec. 7.—Miss Carrie Wilson from Gaffney is visit ing friends here. We wish her a very pleasant time. Mrs. Seaton Green is visiting in - Charlotte. .<*. ~ Mrs. J. B. Tanner has returned from a long stay at Charlotte. Mr. June Hicks has moved to. what is called “rabbit town,” where he has purchased a pretty house in the grove. Mr. C. Gettis lost his fine buggyi one night not long ago. Mr. James Davis also lost a good horse the same time. They have gotten both horse, and buggy back. Mr. J. K. Ivey gave the children an entertainment last Thursday night at his house. t Mr. Sip Whistnant at No. 2 gave us all a dance one night last week... It was greatly enjoyed by all. Also- a nice sociable at Mr. II. Wall’s last.- Monday night. Mr. Oscar McDanial and Miss Dora Chanton were made one last Thurs day. We hope they may live a long and happy life. Miss Tube Turner and brother, of Sharon, visited Lola and Palute* Duyis last Saturday and Sunday;* Come again, Tube. Sai. Job< '«i — •— — Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gundcrmnn, of Diamondale, Mich.U wo are permitted to make this ex* tract: “I h ive no hesitation in rec 1 ommending Dr.King’sNew Discovery as the rssults were almost marvelous f in the case of my wife. While 1 whs' pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives’ Junction she was brought down with pneumonia succeeding la grippe. Ter rible paroxysms of coughing would last hours w'th little interruption and it seemed as if she could notsur-’ vivo them. A friend recommended Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfac-. tory in results.” Trial bottles free at W. B. DuPre’s drug store. Regu lar size £ L; and $1. W. D. ARCHER, . ; TO>J»01*IAI^ AM.TISTW Hair-cutting, in the latest styles. Shaving and Slmmpooing at reason able prices. ^l^Shop next to J. D. Goude- lock’s store. ' * • »'"r V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, - - 8. C. Shingles! - Shingles! DRESSED LUMBER ! Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Mouldings, and All Kinds of Building Materials, For Sale at Lowest Cash Prices. No charge will be made'for Infor mation as to amount required for building. Call on L. BAKER. The"’. " is Over, McKinley is Elected. We will eat our crow in submission and hope for better times. Now Whoop for the New County! And if you will buy your goods from me you will get down weight and full measure and we Will all get happy and climb up the hill of prosperity together. I will give you 21 yards of nice, smoothe, heavy brown sheeting, full yard vide for $1.00. The best pair of pants ever made for $1.00. 4 yards of best all wool jeans for $1.00. The best pair of men’s over or under shirts for $1.00. ‘21 yards of nice, smooth, heavy check for $1.00, and many other things I can mention. Call aud sec my line of nicc,wool underwear, from the little wee baby sizes up to the largest girls’ and boys’ in both shirts and drawers. Our ladies’ union suits are superb. SHOES.—A big stock and all solid, at prices that nobody can beat. I have just picked up a little job in Mundell’s Chil dren Shoes, heel and spring V*el, worth $1.50. You cart get them at $1.10 while they last. GROCERIES.—More for the money than anywhere. Come! A|1 I have are bargains and the money gets them. J. X). Ooiideloolc. Don’t Forget! I am still a Candidate ^ Fur Trade, MUliJcct Hi l|IHi|j( liuiitfry people. Fall in'*) door to Bee lllvr and Ik 1 convinced. Ju»t Received, A Fresh Lot of Lowuey's Chocolate Candles, also a nice assortment of Cukea and this year’s Nuts Just In. OvHter«-^* F.very day in the week at 35 and t.l rents per <iuart. Telephone orders re ceive prompt and careful attention. Itlnx up Telephone No. 6. Chas. G. Ervin. Murder! Murder! WE ARE MURDERING prices for the next 30 days on Shoes, Hats, Caps, Jeans, Ladies’ Dress Goods and Groceries. The Cheapest Place on earth. ... f Spake & Blantoi •r*. 1 --t.