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THE LEDOER: OAEPKEY, 8. 0., DECEMBER 11, 1896. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Limeitone l rioting and Publiahlng Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Yenr. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, 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 Correspondents who do not contri- •bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. 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. CHEROKEE COUNTY. Cherokee is its name. Our citizens at the polls on Dec. 8th emphatically declared that they wanted a now county. What could’count plainer? 1.432 for, to 422 against creating a new county. They appreciated their opportunity and embraced it to a brilliant success. It was indeed the opportunity of a lifetime. Had we failed on the 8th ever afterwards would we have looked back, repeating with saddened hearts, “It might have been.” Never did men work harder for any good cause. Personal feelings were cast aside, other business was tem porarily suspended that with a steady, earnest pull, and a pull all together wo might bring the uliip into the port. Our action means responsibilities today and for all time. Rut we need not fear to entrust the interests of Cherokee county to the men who won such a victory. The county is to be organized and put in good shape for that career of progress that we can confidently predict awaits her. We would be derelict to our duty did we not commend the unselfish spirit of those citizens from York and Union counties who worked and voted with such unanimity for the new county, and were willing for the county seat to be located at Gaffney. Strange as it may seem, the per centage in favor of creating the new county was greater in York than in Spartanburg or Union. In Gaffney the vote was almost unanimous in favor of Cherokee county as it stood 1)12 for, to 8 against. How much we are indebted to the Town Council of Gaffney and their faithful coadjutors none of us will know, hence we cannot fully appre ciate. In our hearts let us give three cheers to them all. cultivation of the beet and and its subsequent conversion into sugar. This will bo something new to Carolinians, but if the venture proves a success it will open to our people a new outlet for the product of their industry. We hod thought our climate not moist enough for suc cessfully growing the sugar beet, and that our summers were too long and too hot for developing the saccharian juices in a percentage high enough to make the industry profitable. Mr. Hartman states that long and hot summers are just what the beet needs. That being the case, we can supply the need in South Carolina. Five hundred families are expected to bo brought over the first year. 1897, preparatory to planting the first crop in 1898. Not many sec tions of the state can furnish 18,000 acres of land in one body, fit for colo- mizing, but many counties have lands in tracts lying idle, which would blossom ns the rose under proper fer tilizing and cultivation by skilled labor. In Nebraska the beet has been successfully raised and the sugar beet runs higher than the beet in Germany by two or three per cent. Rut the snminers fire too short in Nebraska, so Mr. Hartman seeks South Carolina for his colony. We wish it all success. GENERAL MACEO. On the 7th of December, the very day that President Cleveland’s mes sage was rea l in Congress it is re ported that General Maceo, the brave and intrepid Cuban loader was as sassinated. A mystery still hangs over the manner of his death, but the re ports received lead us to believe that it was murder most foul. Although second in command, the world looked at Maceo and not at Gomez as the true leader in the gal lant fight for Cuba’s freedom from Spanish misrule. What Spain can not accomplish by superior force and intelligence in open field she tries to d > by encouraging the traitor and piling the assassin’s dagger. Whether Maceo met his fate in this way or not. it so agrees with Spain’s barbarous modes of warfare as to make us believe it is true. Maceo made a manly heroic fight for the freedom of his native island. The rejoicing in Spain over his death shows how high a price they placed on his head. Rut the death of Maceo does M*t mean the death of the cause he maintained against such fearful odds. The Cuban expects not mercy from I he Spaniards, and the fate of their leader tells them all the more plainly wbut they may expect from the de generate sons of Castille and Aragon. Sympathy is stronger now than ever bet*, o for the Cubans in their un even struggle for freedom. The slightest eucourageinont and thous ands would Hock to her shores and take the needed aid. After nil, perhaps what General Weylcr thou'lit would bo so much to Spain’s udv intigo—getting rid of Maceo—will he the turning point against tier. We await with interest the echoes from Congress, The present feeling cannot long bo sup pressed. A NEW INDUSTRY. Mr Hurlman has found in South Cunlii a climate and soil suitable for the cultivation of Iho sugar boot. He has bought eighteen thousand acres of this land and purpose* establish ing on it a colony of Germans for the CORRUPT JUDGES. So says Senator Yancy Carter in the Georgia Legislature, and the Senate calls on him to name the cor rupt judges and substantiate his charges. The Senator goes to the core. Listen to him! These are his words: “There are men on the bench today who arc woise than the con victs whom they have sentenced to the penitentiary, and let not the Senator call on me for names lest 1 give them.” No wonder Senators call upon the populist Senator to ex plain. This lie promises to do if a committee be appointed with au thority to summon witnesses. Think of it—judges more corrupt than the criminals they sentence. Georgia is in a bad fix. If some of her judges are not corrupt—it looks very much as if some of her senators have gone far astray. A corrupt judge! Not in our day! Certainly not in Georgia. DISCONTENT. White Plains is dissatisfied, and is showing her opposition by contesting the recent election that made the most of that township a part of Cherokee county. Nowhere else do wo hear a ripple of disapproval within the area of the new county. The vote cast was so overwhemingly in favor of creating Cherokee county, that, those who remained in the old coun ties of Spartanburg. Union and York quietly acquiesced in what they clearly saw was the will of the large majority of the people interested. White Plains secs it too, and by her contest is simply keeping alive tiros of her igniting. Our interests need a united peo ple. There is much for us to do. The battle has been won, but we must now press on to possess the land that is ours to enjoy to improve and to bequeath to our posterity. A Suggestion. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) W'e suggest that we. the patriotic citizens of Cherokee county should set apart the first Saturlay in Jan uary and meet together on that day at the county scat (Gaffnej) to cele brate the great cause, and have u jubilant, rally. I further suggest that all patriots who prize t.ie cause make Mr. A. N. WoodJ secretary and treasurer, and contribute to him any amount we see proper toward building a better than $15,000 court house and jail. If every man will do this part we can build a nicer court house and jail than Spar tanburg now boasts of and it will he prized as a monument by our rising generation. We. as country people want to help build it and are willing to do our part. We would ho glad to hear from others along this line. Respectfully, E. R. Dawkins, col. E. Littlejohn, co). How’s This. Wo offe" one hundred dollars re ward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot ho cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. K. J. CHENEY it 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 firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo,O. Walding, Kinnan A Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, (). Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Hold by all Druggists. Testimonials fret, WASHINGTON NEWS. t Allen Explodes the Bomb That Shakes the Senate. (Oorrrspondonco of The Ledger ) Washington, Dec. 11, 189fi.—Sena tor Allen exploded a bomb that shook the Scmate from center to cir cumference when ho moved that the Dingley bill be taken up, and the motion was carried by a vote of 35 to 21. The vote in favor of the mo tion was made up of 23 republicans, <i democrats, 5 populists and Senator Pettigrew who is now classed as an independent; and the vote against it of 2 republicans, 16 democrats and 3 independents, Cannon, Dubois and Mantle. Senator Allen said he made the motion without consultation with anybody and solely to show that the populist Senators were not standing in the way of revenue legislation. In reply to questions from Senator Al drich Mr. Allen said that while he would not vote’for the Dingley bill as it passed the House, it could easily be put in a shape that would get his vote and that of other Senators who are not republicans, but ho didn’t mention what that shape was. The Dingley bill was before the Senate less than 30 minutes, when the ex piration of the “morning hour” sent it back to the calendar, Mr. Allen having failed to get unanimous con sent for it to be the “unfinisheu business” of the next day. It can be taken up at any time by a ma jority vote, hut as the bill is now, owing to the action of the Senate at the last session, a bill for the free coinage of silver instead of a revenue bill, its passage in that shape would he merely duplicating the work of the last session. Several Cuban resolutions provid ing for recognition of independence have been offered in both House and Senate, but Senator Mills of Texas, is entitled to the belt, and it ought to be a blood-red one, lor having put the hottest stuff into a resolution that the oldest Capitol habitue re members. His resolution directs the the President to take immediate and forcible possession of Cuba and to protect t he Cubans until such time us they .shall organize a government of their own. A facetious Senator has already suggested that Senator Mills bo the commander of the army of occupation. Mr. George E. Nelson, who took the time and trouble to travel all the way from Indian Territory to Wash ington with no better claim for a seat in the House as Territorial delegate than a certificate of election signed by an Indian Agent and his own statement that he received 200 out of about 300 votes in an election hold Nov. 3rd at several villages of the Territory, finds that members of the House not only fail to recognize the legality of his claim bat are in clined to poke fun at him. Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, professes astonishment at the stories that tiie canvassing board of that State was about to t hrow out, on ac count of alleged fraud at the election, enough votes to give the State and possibly the legislature to the re publicans. He said: “Every one out Ibere thought the election was conducted in the fairest kind of a way. I did not hear it challenged on any side. I scarcely think the board would attempt to throw out enough members of the legislature to turn it over to the republicans. It would be a high-handed outrage if it did, and it would cause an uprising in South Dakota. I can do nothing but watch the course of events, but our men are » n the ground nil the time, and will bitterly contest any scheme to defraud us of our rights.” Republicans are not talking for publi cation about this matter, hut enough was said at their caucus of Senators to indicate that some of them ex pected a republican to succeed Sena tor Kyle, whose term expires on the 3rd of next March. Comptroller Eckels has a plan which lie says in Ids annual report he is certain would go far towards curing our financial ills. The founda tion of nhi plan is to decrease the tax on National bank circulation and encourage the formation of banks wit 1j $25,000 capital in small towns and villages and to allow them to issue currency to the face of bonds they have deposited with the U. S. Treasury. Neither Senators nor Representatives have been falling over each other in llicir ef forts to get the plan of Mr. Eckels before Congress, and there isn’t the slightest likelihood of their doing so. Tiie House, jjas usual, is ahead of tire .Senate is the matter of doing business. It lias passed the regular Pension appropriation bill and a number of minor measures. The bolting silver republican Sena tors were playing for bigger stakes than the forgiveness of their old party associates, when they ignored the invitations sent them to attend tiie republican caucus. They figure it that by maintaining an independ ent attitude they can dictate Leg islation in the next Senate, unless the republicans happen to get a maj ority, and demand control of tiie Federal patronage of their States us well. The only man who has mentioned the Prcident’s message in Congress is Representative Grow, of Pa., who in a few n-inarks ridiculed Mr. Cleve land’s assertion that the present tariff law if let alone will produce all the revenue that tlie country needs. It seems that Mr. Clevluml has changed Ids opinions since he called that tariff bill horrid names and refused to sign it. Chairman Hanna having completed the work for which ho came to Washington is about ready to return to Ohio and discuss what he ha* learned with Maj. McKinley. Ho has learned lots, too. Written from Willie. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Willie, S. C., Dec. 7.—“Rud” Gorden killed two hogs last week, one of which weighed 530 lbs., and the other one weighed 463 lb*, mak ing a total for the two of of 993 lbs., but then 500 lbs. is getting to be a very common weight for a hog in this section. There has been four new families organized in our section during the past two weeks by parties entering into matrimony. Rut we are glad to say that wo still have plenty of mat rimonial candidates, of both sexes, left. Mrs. Nancy Floyd, one of the old est and most esteemed ladies of this section, died last Sunday the 29th, of pneumonia3 and was buried at Holly Springs Monday. She leaves a husband and three children, one son and two daughters, together with a host of grand children to mourn her death. “Jairus” has just returned from a business trip to the mountains of North Carolina. He enjoyed the hospitality of the Zirconiaites very much. But, Lord! how it snows in that country. We had a snow fall here last Wed nesday to the depth of about 'eight inches. Mary Drummond, an old colored woman was found dead in her house yesterday morning, supposed to have frozen to death. While Tharm Staggs and John Harris were out bird hunting a few days ago Staggs accidently shot Har ris, inflicting a very painful but not dangerous wound in the head and breast. Mr. J. L. Spake will please accept our congratulation for the very able manner in which he answered the ten questions propounded by the Headlight upon the new county is sue. The other day, as’we came through Campbollo, wo saw the most novel thing in the way of sleigh riding that we have ever seen. Mr. Win. Cald well, of Gowensville, together with two other gents had two yoke of oxen hitched up to a very small sleigh and were driving through the streets of Campobello, which caused a gnat deal of mirth on their way. Dec. 7th Presiey Davis, one of the oldest men in this community died yesterday and will be buned today at Mt. Tabanon. He was about eighty years old. Mr. Aleck Benson’s baby died yesterday and will be burned at Holly Springs today. “It is ap pointed unto man once to die, and after that, the judgement.” Jaikus. a Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report gtj Baking Powder pure Draytonville Dots. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Draytonville, Cherokee County, Dec. 15, 1896.—Mr. Editor: There is not much news astir at this time. The election for tiie new county is over and everything passed off quietly at this place. Everybody seems to be very well satisfied over it. Even the antis seem to be glad that they are living in Cherokee county, or, atjany rate, we haven’t heard of any of them saying anything to tiie * contrary since the election, and we believe that this is just as it ought to be for the people have spoken, and now that we have all pulled and voted together to get tiie new county let us still pull and vo'-c together in county affairs. Let no one array town against country or country against town for country people and town people alike have all worked for their own welfare. tSo united we stand and divided we fall. The snow is all gone and left muddy roads in its stead. There is very little sickness. Some of our people have pretty severe colds about now and that is about all. Yours truly, Rambler. — *••»- ^ — The Discovery Saved His Life. Mr. G. Gaill ouelte. Druggist, Ben- versvillo, 111., says: “To Dr. King’s New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe, and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail, and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in my store l sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up aud about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at The DuPre Drug Co’s., Drug Store. Happy Home. (Con eppondence of The Ledger.) Home, 8. C.. Doc. 14.—We are now in Cherokee county. The elec tion is over and most everybody seems to be satisfied. We hope that everything will get along nicely. Christmas will soon be here and we arc going to try to take a start with the rest of tiie boys. 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