Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

k 1 C. JEFFERIES,4- GRHENVILL, S. C. AttVney nnd Counsellor nt Law. Practices in Ail the Courts. Collections a Specialty. Will Be in Gaffney on Saturdays ——and Mondays. Ledger <3 To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOL. in, no. r>2. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897. $1.00 A YEAR. WITTY REPRESENTATIVES. THEY FURNISH FUN FOR EACH „OTHER. West Pointers Cannot Attend the In auguration at the Expense of Uncle Sam—Other Cap itol Notes. L' WAisinKGTOK, Jan. 20.—A Senator whose position enables him to know whereof he speaks, and also p.-ecludos the use of his name, said to a personal friend concerning the Arbitration treaty now in tho hands of the cenato committee o. Foreign Relations: “The treaty cannot be ratified as it is now, and should the committee de fer to public clamor for its ratifica tion and report it to the senate with out amendment and succeed in getting a vote upon it, it will surely be re jected. When 'a treaty has been amended so as to leave no doubt about this country's intention not to submit to arbitration its right to maintain the Monroe doctrine and to have a voice in the control of any ship canal that may be dug between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and by striking out that clause which makes King ft car, of Sweden, the chooser of an umpire in cases of dis agreement, as I believe it will be, there will be no trouble about its rat ification. Rut I have my doubts as to whether England will care whether the treaty be ratified when so amend ed. None of those who are taking part in the public meetings in behalf of iin- mediute ratification of the treaty can possibly bo stronger advocates of the principle of arbitration than I am, but I am opposed to tieingthis coun try hand and foot for five years and giving England an opportunity to gobble up whatever she pleases on this continent with the certain knowl edge that when the question of her right to do so is submitted to arbitra tion it would be decided in her fa- . vor.” 1 Senator Allen led the fight which ^resulted in the defeat of an amend ment to the Military Appropriation bill, appropriating the money to pay for the tranportation of the West Point cadets to and from Washing ton, in order to allow them to take part in the inaugural parade. Mr. Allen had the support of all the populists and democrates present and of six republictm Senators—Aldrich. Allison, Burrows. Hale, Lodge and Wetmore. Several interesting and several amusing things occurred while the House was considering the Indian appropriation bill. Among the former was Representative Sherman’s state ment that the Daws Indian Commis sion had performed a remarkable work and was now taking a census of the Indians which was almost completed, He said that it had negotiated treat ies with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian nations, and that if it were allowed to finish its work it would bring about a condition in the In dian Territory of which every Ameri can could be proud. Delegate Mur phy, of Arizona, questioned the good results of the present Indian educa tional system, and declared that every Apacho educated in the east who had returned to his reservation, was to-day wearing the breech clout. Representative Mahon, of Pa., warmly defended .the work of the Car lisle Indian School, and Representa tive Curtis, of Kansas, paid a glow ing tribute to the good work being done in Kansas and other States by the educated Indians. Representa tive (Irosvernor, of Ohio, asked if the Indians had not developed great power in football, and when assured that they had said: “And is not football considered in our modern colleges the hightest test of culture and civilization.” But the humor ous hit of the debate was made by Representative Hartman, of Montana who offered an amendment appropri ating one billion dollars for the educa tion and civilization of the Seeley savages of the Manhattan reserva tion. This was regarded by the House as .payment in full for the jeers of New Yorkers at the civilza- tion of the “wild and wooly west”, and Mr. Hartman was crowned vic tor. The gold standard democratic ticket got together this week when Senator Palrm r was escorting (Jen. Buckner around the Capitol build ing, and possibly telling him of the onerous duties ho escaped by not be ing elected Vice President last No vember. The proposed amendments to the Nicaragua Canal bill, by which it is caculatcd to stifle the opposition of Nicaragua by providing that it ■hall receive $4,000,(/Mi of the amount re ceived by the Canal Co. froinjtho sale of the bonds which the bill makes Uncle Sam guarantee, are not re- irded as eulficieut to put new life the dead bill. Senators Turpio id Daniel n It Riiceches against re bill this week, showing among other insurtuouiitable obstacles to the control of the Canal by this country the existence of a treaty be tween Great Britain and Nicaragua by which the armies and navies of the former are granted entry to the canal at any and all times. About the only consolation the friends of the bill have is the knowledge that it couldn’t hare gotten through the House anyway at this session. After a somewhat spirited debate, in which the peculiar methods adop ted by the North German Lloyd Steamship Co., to try to make votes against the bill by getting individ uals from widely scattered points to telegraph their menibi r «>f Congress asking h>m to oppose the bill, the House adopted the conference report on the Immigration bill, and ended a long and at times bitter fight. The principal item of the bill is its exclusion of all immigrants between the ages of lo and 50 who cannot read in some language a clause of the Constitution. Statements from Slice. fCorrespondence of The Ledger.) Stick, n. c.. Feb. 2.—As 1 haven’t seen anything from this nourishing little village in Thk Lkdgkr for some time I will try and pen its readers a few items from this side of the branch. Sunday evening at the home of the bride’s parents, in the city of Earl, James Erancies and Miss Doeia Hippy were united in tho holy bonds of mat rimony in the presence of a number of friends. Miss Hippy is a charming young lady who numbers her friends by the score while Mr. Francies is one of the most promising farmers in this community. We have a large number on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. 0. C. Sarratt, Mrs. Jane Wylie, Mr. S. D. Randall, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hop per, and many others are suffering from severe colds. David Champion is as happy ns a big sunflower. It’s a ten pound boy. H. M. Angle now wears a long smile on his face. It’s a big boy. The farmers of tins section are about through turning stubble. James Champion, of Sharon, N. C., was in this section one day lust week. John Grumbling and family visited friends and relatives in this section last week. To give a list of all who have been complaining the last week would take up more space than could be allowed, However, we well say that most everybody is sick. Old Hustler. • Waverly Writings. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Waverly, N. C., Feb. 1,—Our worthy citizen. Eli Bailey, celebrated his birthday the 2(1 of last month. It was an entire success, especially the eatables. He had all kinds of the wing tribe, fattened for the occa sion. His devoted and loving com panion gave orders and everything was to a perfection. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. K. Blanton, Mr. and Mrs. A. McCraw, Mr. and Mrs. B. McCraw and mother, Misses Lola and Talula Davis, Messrs. Bill Martin, Scruggs and McCraw and wife. All enjoyed the alfair and only wish his birthday would come several times during the year. The “lagrippe” lias loosened its hold on us and has made its way somewhere else. Dave Beam has been very sick, but is improving. Mr. and Mrs. John Dames are all smiles these days, for it is another boy. The new church at State Line will be completed some time in the sweet by-and-by. Yours truly and sister (Pol) are in vited to a valentine drawing the 13th inst. We are expecting a halleluyah of a time. A new store house is being erected on Bud Wood’s place near his old home, on Ashworth creek in Cleve land county, N. C. Cicero Barnett’s little child was laid to rest at State Lino church tho 30th ult. Sal Joe. Church Notes. There will be sevices at the Meth odist church Sunday afternoon at 8:30 o’clock by the Rev.C. E. Robert son, of the Presbyterian church. The services announced for last sabbath did not take place on account of Mr. Robertson having to go to Blacks burg but lie inforns us there will bo no mistake about it this time. Next Sabbath tho Rev. B. P. Rob ertson will resign the pastorate of Providence church. Mr. Robertson desires that all members be present on this accasion. At the First Baptist church next Sabbath morning Rev. B. P. Rob ertson will inaugrate a series of ser mons on tho “Holy Spirit.” It Is assential tlv.t those who are inter ested should attend the first of the series, if possibly, in order to better understand the full scope of the ser mons. —■* -• —— I nliko moat proprietary medicines, the formulae of Dr. J. C. Ayer’s Sar saparilla and other preparations are cheerfully sent to any physician who applies for them. Hence the special favor accorded these well known standard remedies by the World’s Fair commissioners. DELOACH EASILY DOWNED. THE HOUSE REFUSED TO AC CEPT HIS BILL. He Wanted to Cut off Ten Square Miles From Cherokee and Let it Re main in the County of York. [Spartanburg Ibiily Herald.1 Columbia, S. C., Fob. 2.—The house was in session only two hours this morning. Tho senate did not meet until night. Most of the time was spent in pass ing the bill organizing Greenwood county. Kinard wanted to fix in tho bill that the court house and jail to be built by Greenwood should not cost less than #25,000, but this failed. DeLoach wanted to got back into York about ten square miles of Cher okee county. He said all except two or three in the territory wanted to go to York. Layton, Austell and John son, of Spartanburg, opposed the hill. Austell made a considerable argu ment, saying that if this and a por tion of Spartanburg were allowed to leave Cherokee, that that county would not have tho requsite area. deLoach made this as a flyer, but the bill was snowed under. He said that the people v.ould hold an election and secure the same result. Killed the Measure. [Yesterday’s State.] When Mr. deLoach't> bill to change tho boundary line of Broad River township in York county was called up, Mr. Austell moved that the un favorable report be adopted and the bill rejected. He said that this por tion of the county wtiuld be included in tho new county of Cherokee. Mr. Patton said that if this town ship had been carried into a new county by an election, the legislature clearly had no power to exempt any number of miles. In this way any new county could be defeated in the general assembly. The Constitution could not be so construed ; it contem plated no such thing. Mr. deLoach argued that this was not an established new county, but merely a proposed county. Mr. Stevens wanted to know if this territory was not included in the map filed for Cherokee county before the election was ordered. Mr. Patton said no matter if the line was changed the new county would be entitled to the territory. Mr. Johnson explained the course of the committee, saying that the pitfall that it was proposed to estab lish had been seen and both this and another bill on the same subject had been unfavorably reported. Mr. Rogers said under the Consti tution the general assembly was com pelled to give Cherokee county every foot of territory proposed in tho orig inal map. The inacting words of the bill were then stricken out. Maud Musings. (CorrPBpoiftU-ncc oC The Ledger.) Maud, 8. C., Feb. 2.—We spent most of iast week sitting by the fire, but wo hope to sco the weather mod erate soon. Homo of tho sick that was reported in our last letter aro improving, while there is a good number that are still sick. Wo could report one or two in almost every family in our commu- Bity. Lncle Billy Godfrey is still in a low state of health and it is thought that lie will never recover. R. E. Linder, our accommodating postmaster, is having the finishing touches put on his dwelling. He is a hustler in tho way of business. We could hardly wait for The Ledger to come lust week, we were so anxious to hear from tho now county, and according to the message The Ledger received from Columbia last week, wo can all rejoice together over our new county. T. G. McCraw, of your city, has moved his saw mill to Andrew Bon ner’s place and will soon bo ready for business. Mrs. G. H. Camp, of Inman, is hat ing a dwelling house erected on bet plantation near this place. J. 8. Ruppe gave tho young people of this suction a party Haturday night in which a good number took a hand. J. 8. Hammett has made some ad dition to his store house and is going to enlarge his stock. w. k. HE MUST BE DEAD. NO APOLOGY IS NECESSARY. But as We Have Not the Particulars We Cannot Write His Obituary. Some time ago an individual who owed The Ledger #1.25 for subscrip tion to the paper met a representative of the paper on the street and asked if wo could use a load of wood in the office, adding that if we could he would bring us a load the very next day, if he lived that long, and have it credited on his subscription. We told him to bring it along. The next day wo waited and watched but no woo'd came, so we concluded the fellow was sick or dead, but imagine our conster nation when we saw the same indi vidual a few days later perched upon the top of a fine load of four foot wood. We believed that was our wood and our co'd nature began to warm up as the thought of sitting by a red hot stove writing patriotic sent iments for the edification a long suf fering constituency coursed through our brain. But, alas! How we are doomed to disappointment. The wood hauler (or his ghost, and if it was a ghost it was a pretty lire one) moved on with his wood, and the wood wc looked for never came. But we guess the fellow is dead. At any rate he said he would bring us that wood if ho lived, and as yet we have never received the wood. THE PRINTER WAS WELL AC QUAINTED. At Least He Seemed to Know Flaw Picker Better Than the "Ker nel”—A Batch of News from Etta Jane. Ivy Cliff Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ivy Cliff, Feb. 1.—It has been some time since I have written to The Ledger hut nevertheless I have been a silent admirer and have noted with deljght its progress. The cold wave is now upon us and, according to some of our modern prophets, this will be a good fruit year for the trees are bending with icicles. A man who will so degrade himself by drinking that accursed stuff called liquor and abuse his wife and children should not be recognized by humanity as a man but should be put in state prison until he learns how to be a man. God did not create us to make the world worse by us having lived, hut to try and make it better. When wo do the very best w’o can we do enougli that is wrong, but when anyone deliberately does that which he knows is wrong he lias little res pect for the God who made him. Your correspondent is suffering with a severe cold. Edna Leonard, aged two years and six months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Northey, was fatally burned Saturday afternoon about 3 o’clock and died at 8:30 o’clock. The little one was interred at the Providence cemetery Sunday. Tiie bereaved patents have the sympathy of the en tire community. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Allison was also buried at Providence Sunday afternoon. “Suffer little chil dren to come unto me and forbid them not,” said Jesus; therefore we should not grieve for the little ones, but it is hard to give them up, Mrs. Lizzie Gaffney is suffering very much with a heart trouble. We hope sho will soon be well again. We are having a good Sunday school at Golden Spring. Let all come out next Sunday at 2 o’clock and help us make it one of tho best Sunday schools in this community. Bea».. — ♦-— — Child Burned to Death. Tho three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W’m. Northy, who live about three miles northeast of the city, got some matches from their resting place in the house last Saturday af ternoon between three or four o’clock for the purpose of setting fire to a field of broom sage near the house. Mrs. Northey was at home alone. She was not aware that tho little ono had tho matches. In trying to set the broom sage on fire the little girls’ clothing caught fire and she was so badly burned she died that night about eight o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Northy ar« highly respected people in their neighbor hood and the whole country will sym pathize with them in their awful be reavement. ——- •» »-■— • - —- Dare Devils. Thursday night unknown parties entered the back yard of Postmaster Littlejohn and frightened Mrs. Little john and horjmother, Mrs. Watson, very badly. Mrs. Littlejohn is a bravo little women, however, and she grabbed her husband’s pistol and went to the front door and fired it several times and called for help. The affair occured about 8:30 while Mr. Littlejohn was at tho postofflee attending to his business. The par ties evidently meant mischief but Mrs. Littlejohn’s action frightened them away. —- —• «■»» * — — Highway Robbers. Mark Griffin was held up last 8at- urda(y night, almost murdered, and robbed of #35.00. Rev. Goo. Neshit, a colored preacher; Jim Broadus, Nim Cast eberry and Brooks Ferguson werd arrented and placed in Hpartan- iast Monday for tho crime, shit is a Baptist preacher and is supj osed to be tho boss of the job but leclares that the others have put up t job on him. (Correspondence of Tne Ledger.) Etta Jane, Feb. 1.—To say Chero kee county, South Carolina sounds as euphonious as if it was an old county. The blizzard struck us last Wednes day night and practically put a stop to all out door work. The colds that have been so prevalent and annoying are getting better. We have no se rious cases now that I know of. Hon. C. W. Wliisonant ran up from Columbia last Saturday. He will re turn to bis post of duty in the state legislature tomorrow-^Tuesday. He has the appearance of a man whom a legislative life has treated very well. For the persistent fight tho town of Gaffney lias made for the new county the country people owe them a debt of gratitude. Some of our farmers sowed oats and turned stubble lands during the few days last month that was fit to plow. Several guano agents are now work ing for the spring trade. Tho man who sells the best fertilizer on tho best terms will get the trade sure. The Ledger has made its way into almost every home in this section. During the recent cold snap many people have had their feet frost bit ten. Rev. W. R. Owings will preach at Salem next Sabbath—7th instant. Rev. Mr. Isom preached at Mesopo tamia from the text Acts 4:13. We learn that Robert G. Ingersall has permanently retired from the practice of law. He had better give up infidelity, too. The epidemic of lagrippe through out tho country is believed to bo the tail end of the Russian influenza, and an eminent Richmond, Va., doctor saya that it does not spring from a germ. A patron of the Yorkville En quirer says lagrippe isn’t fit for a white man to have. The editor of the Union Times gives excellent reasons for not sub mitting the election of judges and solicitors to the people. What he says is to the point, but ho might have gone a step further and spoke of getting the purest Christian men in the position as well as of taking them for their knowledge of the law and character. With what judge ment will laws against immorality be executed by those who are grossly profane and immoral in their own practice. Just think of a judge on the bench of justice administering an oath to a witness or passing the sen tence of death upon a criminal and putting him in mind of a judgment to come when he himself ig a politi cal debauch. With what propriety, dignity, or force would either of these bo done by one who is known to be a blasphemer, an infidel, or by whom in his conv'ral hours everything se rious or sacred is treated with scorn and contempt. Those who wish well to the state ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conduct and conversation. Is it reasonable to ex pect wisdom from the ignorant; fidelity from the profligate; or appli cation to public business from men of dissipated life? The Inaugural address of Governor Kllerbe is tho strongest state paper I have read in many years, if ever be fore. No man who opposes his ad ministration, while conducted upon the plan he has mapped out is a friend to good government. His sug gestion in regard to tho free school system is excellent. If we work upon marble, it will burnish; if we work upon brass, it will efface it; if we build temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon im mortal minds—if we imbue them with principles, with a just fear and honor of God, and love for our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which will endure to all eternity. The true aim of the highest education is to give character as well as knowledge; to train men to be as well as to know. While on this sub ject there are seven rules if adopted will guarantee success: 1. Never attempt to teach what you do not understand. 2. Never tell a child what you can make it tell you. 8. Never give a piece of information without asking for it again. 4. Never use a hard word if an easy one will convey your meaning, and never use any word unless you fully understand tho meaning it conveys. 5. Never begin a lesson without a clear view of its ending. 0. Never give an unnecessary com mand, nor ono which you do not wish to sue obeyed. 7. Never permit a child to remain in tho class even for a moment with- g out something to do and a motiv for doing it. While urging upon our school au thorities the adoption of a better class of books for our free schools, (espec ially histories) I feel justified in quo ting from Mrs. Susan Pendleton Lee’s History of the United States. What she says of our Southern women dur ing the war, to show the character of her work: “The history of every free people tells how, in all times of danger and difficulty, the women of the nation have shared in the trials and lightened the burdens of the men who fought and toiled for freedom and sacred rights. In no age or country has this been more remark able than in the Southern states, from tho beginning to tho end of the Civil War. With sorrowful but sym pathizing hearts, they gave their dearest and best to what they felt was their country’s cause; and, in the hour of defeat as well as of vic tory, they stood ready to cheer and encourage their defenders. Endur ing privations and facing danger with silent courage; nursing in the hos pitals; taking charge on farms and plantations; exercising the wonder ful ingenuity to supply the daily in creasing deficiencies in all household departments; looking after and di recting the negroes left almost en tirely dependent upon them; main taining their trust in God and tho righteousness of their cause, when their best beloved were languishing in prison, or dead upon the battle field. The women of the Southern Confederacy • will be remembered for their patriotism and womanly fidelity while the world stands.” My friend“Billy” Sanders bought a cow last week from Dr. Garner. I met him as he was taking her home. He said, “The Doctor told me she would give three gallons of milk a day and I am satisfied she will do it for the first thing he told me about her was the solemn truth—He said she was poor and ugly and I knew it was so, and I thought that as he told me one truth that was sufficient to make me believe all he said about her.” “A little truth told now and then, Will have effect on most of men.” In last week’s Union Times the cor respondent at this place is made to say in the paragraph : “Mr. J. Luther Sherrill, of the Gaffney Ledger, paid us a pleasant call last week. He is canvassing in the interest of The Ledger. Hope and fear are blinded (blended) in a lazy man hunting work.” The last sentence has no connection whatever with the first two. It is the work of the printer’s devil putting it in the same paragraph. Mr. Sherrill is a persistent worker and is not afraid of work. The sen tence referred to was coined for the benefit of those lazy dead-beats who won’t work when they get a chance, and not to such a gel-up-and-get newspaper man as Mr. Sherrill is. Miss Dora Whitlock, of Jonesville, has correctly answered my problem as published in a recent issue of this paper. She is a teacher of the right kind and makes a study of her pro fession. Besides, she is an admirer of The Ledger. Wish we had many more such. J. L. s. Attacked by Highwaymen. Monday night about 10 o’clock as Dr. B. D. Bates was returning fro'm a professional visit he was attacked by two negroes at a point about two hundred and fifty yards below Chief ol Police Camp’s residence in the northern section of the city. The doctor was riding in his gig and just before he met the negroes they sepa rated, one going on one side of the road and the other on the opposite side. As Dr. Bates drove up they closed in on him. His horse stopped and the negroes grabbed his arms. The doctor rolled out of his gig back wards and as he did so one of his as sailants fled and the doctor fell on top of the other one. He then proceeded to maul the negro, who managed to scramble to his feet and at once be gan to put distance between himself and th<» doctor. Dr. Bates returned to the city a little agitated but none the worse off for his experience. Cowpen’s New Postmaster. John Webster, of Cowpens, last week received his commission as postmaster at Cowpens. Mr. Web ster will make an accommodating postmaster. Mr. Chas. Setzlerhas been the postmaster there for a number of years, and he was a good one, too. Cowpens is fortunate in her postoffice appointments. — - -«+•> — - - A New Firm. J. L. Alexander and R. O. Bal- lenger have bought the stock of groceries of J. H. Cook, who assigned about a month ago and will conduct the business in the old stand. The firm name will be J. L. Alexander & Co. They are both clever follows and will in all probability succeed. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is known by its works. Tho experience of half a century proves that no other prepa ration of the kind stops coughing and allays irritation of the throat and bronchial tubes so promptly and effectually as this.