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■ W< *".^m j£a.'L*, V! ■"it . ' v V - • ^ V&1 Xw-c / V T'' ‘ 5 ‘' : '' . V- ;. !■* '.; i ‘f.*’: i ''-^v/t^?!..—. Weekly Ledger. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. VOL. II, SO. 3%. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1895. $1.00 A YEAR. THE END NOT YET IN SIGHT. \ WELL CONCEIVED CONSTITU TION TO BE PRESENTED. Broad General Principals Are Being Stated, Rights ol the People Pre served, and a Sympathetic Law Being Framed. [Correspondence of Thk Ledger.] Columbia, S. C., Oct.. 20.—The end of the convention is not yet in sight, but many a mile post has been passed, and the speed quickens as the days pass by. Good work is being done, and a symmetrical and well conceived constitution will be pre sented to the people, when the work is finished. Broad general principals are being stated, the rights of the people carefully preserved and an or ganic law sympathetic with the na ture of the poo pie to be guided bv it is being framed. It is well that the convention has met. In no other way could the two factions have been brought to understand each other so well, and if the convention retains its present temper, and all things indi cate that it will, the thirty or forty thousand dollars which it shall have cost will be well spent,and the people will reap large returns from the capi tal invested. I see no reason now to modify the views expressed when the convention first met, and any un- prejudictd man can but admit that it is a body of men, of whom any com monwealth might be proud. The recess bad no bad effects, and the convention lias got down to real work again in this the first week after the recess. • Tuesday the convention merely met and adjourned in honor of Dr. Byrd, of Florence, who died suddenly during the recess. On Wednesday the unfinished business left from be fore the recess was taken up. It was the final clauses on the article of the Legislative Department. Section 30 was the first in order. It relates to the subjects on which the legislature is required to pass general legisla tion, and on which it is prohibited from passing special acts, lire fol lowing are the subjects embraced in the section : To change the names of persons or places. To open or work highways. To incorporate cities, towns and villages, or to change or amend the charter thereof. To incorporate educational, relig ious, charitable, social, manufactur ing or banking institutions when not under State control. To incorporate school districts. To authorize the adoption or legiti mization of cl . A. vi A V. or of To summon or empanel grand petite jurors. To provide for the protection game. To provide for the age at which citizens shall be subject to road duty. To fix the compensation of county officials. Section 37 which • provided that > member of the Legislature eligible to any office elected by the legislature, and to make judges ineli- gablo to any other office in the State was stricken out, after considerable debate. The article on charitable and penal Institutions was passed with little change as it came fro n the commit tee. The Bill of Rights was taken up next and was passed as reported by committee with a few changes. Practically it is the same as the Bill of Rights in the present constitution. As can be seen from the above a good day’s work was done on Wed nesday. On Thursday the homestead matter was taken up, and the whole day, and almost all of the night session was spent in discussing it, and then it was not finished. It looks very much as if the homesL-ad is to remain as it is, with very little change. Senator Tillman wanted It fixed so that when a homestead was once set aside it could not be sold, except by order of a court of record, and then the pro ceeds to be invested in another home stead, but th« amendment was killed. It was practically agreed that the amount of the homestead is to be $1000 in real estate, and $500 in per sonality, but it is possible that some difference may be made between homesteads in the country and in a pity or town. On Friday the article on Finance and Taxation was considered. The first section caused a regular “dog fight” which lusted all day. The section as reported by the committee .provides that the legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxat ion, and for obtaining a fair and just return of all taxable property In the State may impose a capitation tux on domestic animals of a destructive nature, and may Impose Income tax. The first Clause went through with little com ment. Senator Tillman proposed to amend the second by requiring the lejjlllftfcure tu Unpose a tax on every dog in the State which should be paid by the owner thereof, and the proceeds from said tax to be devoted tot lie common school fund This brought on a debate that lasted for several hours and after four roll calls on various substitutes and amend ments was defeated by 100 to 24. The third clause in the section was amended so as to provide for a grad uated income tax, and for a gradu ated tax on occupations and business. In all other respects the section passed as it was reported by the com mittee. Among the other clauses passed were: Forbidding any county or municipality from bonding itself for more than eight per. centum of the total valuation of its taxable prop erty; and forbidding the issuance of Slate bonds for any other purposes than the ordinary and current expen ses of the government, without first submitting the matter to an election, and then only in case two thirds of the qualified voters shall be in favor of it ; forbidding any county or town ship from levying a tax for any pur poses other than to support schools, build roads and bridges and paying the ordinary expenses of the county government; making the fiscal year commence on January 1st, instead of November 1st. On Saturday no night session was held, but tire convention did good work during the morning. The first matter to be considered was rule 42 reported by Ex-Governor Sheppard for the committee. It authorizes the printing of five hundred copies of the new < o istitution, and regulates the distribution of the same. Each member of the convention is to get one. each of the circuit and supreme court judges get one, so do the solic itors. Three copies to the Supreme Court Library, one copy to each chartered college in the state, one copy to each of the governors of each of tiie States in the Union, two cop ies to the eongtessional library, one copy to each of the heads of the de- paatments of Government at Wash ington, one copy to the Historical Society of South Carolina, and the remaining copies to be sold- by the Slate Librarian. The article on Finance and Taxa tion wj^s again considered. Section 5 as passed exempts from taxation all county, township, and muni> ipal property used exclusively f<>r public purposes, all educational, charitable and religious institutions except where the profits from educational or | charitable institutiens go to private uses, all public libraries, churches, i parsonages and burying grounds. The section as passed relating to the length of time for which Slate bonds may run provides that they shall not run fora longer period than forty years, but may run for any shorter period. The rest of the morning session was spent in cot sid ering Mr. McMahan’s proposition to establish a State deparunent of Roads and Forestry. It was finally killed, because it was considered a matter purely legislative and having no place in the constitution. So the convention is doing credit able work, and doing it as rapidly as Is consistent with the nature of the business at hand will permit. This week probably will he the red letter week of the convention as the Suffer- age Article and the article on Coun ties and County Government are scheduled. Probably more time will be given to the last named article than to the former as the Sufferage matter has been sc. thoroughly dis cussed before and since the conven tion has been in session. The whole week will probably be taken up with these two articles, and when next Saturday comes every member will probably be glad of a Sabbath to rest in. The best calculators say that the convention will he in session three weeks and possibly four. This will run it into the Legislative session. It does not seem probable now that Mr. Ellerbe’s motion to do away with a meeting of the Legislature this year, will prevail, but many think that the date for the holding tne ses sion will he carried forward until after New Year’s Day, so that the Legislature will meet in January rather titan in December. * F. H. McMastkk. WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO. LOYAL TO DE WHITE FOLKS, NOT EVEN REPRESENTATIVE BUT NOW GONE TO REAP HER GROW WILL PREDICT. REWARD. The Friends of Mr. Reed's Opponents Col. Strain Finds Many Interesting are Worked up Over the Re- Things to Write About for the port that He Controls the Committee. Enlightenment of the Ledger Family. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the enr- There is only one way to cure Deaf, ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafnt ) is caused by an inhumed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it isentiely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Do'.’.ars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Bend for cir culars, free. F. J. CHENEY AGO.. Toll do, 0. gftfcld by Druggist, 7fe. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Washington, D. C., Oct., 21.— Friends of the candidates for the re publican nomination are considerably worked up over a report thutex- Speuker Reed controlled a majority of the Republican National Commit tee. The report probably started from the fact that Mr. Reed was in New York in consultation with Chair man Carter and several other mem bers of the committee. The control Of the National Committee is thought by politicians to lie a big thing, be cause it enables a candidate to dic tate the time and place for holding the nominating convention But ■, is well remembered that no long ago than the last campaign Mr. Har rison was nominated, although a large majority of the National Com mittee were opposed to Ids nomina tion. Tell a politician that and lie will say that it was the office holders who nominated Mr. Harrison the second time, and he will add in sig nificant tones, “and he wasn’t elected either.” The executive branch of the admin istration left Washington in a body tonight, bound for the Atlanta Ex position. Mrs. Cleveland did not go. I he party will not return to Wash ington until the last of the week. If length of experience counts for anything Representative Grow, of Pennsylvania, ought to be high au thority when it eomes to predicting what Congress will do. He is now in Washington and when asked what Congress would do at the coming session, he candidly said that lie would not attempt tj predict and that the situtalion was so mixed he didn’t think any mail could tell what would or what would not be done, al though he didn’t see how the imper ative need of increasing the revenue : in order to keep Uncle Bam out of the j Poor House was going to he over- ; looked or ignored. Much surprise has been expressed in a quiet way by Naval officials since it was learned through the newspa- j pers that the state authorities of III- i inois had sold the brick battleship Illinois, which was such a conspicu- | ous feature of the National Govern ment’s Exhibit at the World’s Fair, and that the money—a mere pit tance—had been turned into the Ill inois treasury. The counterfeit bat tle ship in question was at the close of the exposition turned over to the state of Illinois, to be used by the State Naval Militia as a drill ship It has been customary in all previous cases in which the National Govern ment has furnished property to he Used by the naval militia of any state to consider the property as a sort of loan in trust, to be returned to the National Government when no longer needed or used by the militia. An investigation is being made and if the result warrants such a demand may be made upon Illinois to explain the transaction anil give up the money received. Gen. Thomas Ewing, once a demo cratic congressman from Ohio and now a .New York lawyer, doesn’t take a very rosy view of tin* political outlook, of which lie says: ' It about needs a foreign war to get this coun try on a healthy ba-is. politically and financially. If we could engage in conflict, say with some great Euro pean power, perhaus the usurer, would stop sending out tin* country’s gold fora while. The demoeratic party is coin rolled by gold worship pers between whom and the republi cans there isn’t the least difference of sentiment on the most vital ques tion of the day. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Sherman stand for the same ideas in finance. What is thereto enthuse voters in the battle of next year? Both the old parties will de clare f »r gold only, and if there were some metal still more valuable and scarce they would advocate tha>. The republicans with better discip line and the prestige of many recent victories go ahead and elect their candidate, whose position will he just what the shylocks ask. So matters will progress, the gold combine con* tinually squeezing the treasury and the people continuing to get poorer, until some day they will conclude that radical remedies are necessary and before wo know it , perhaps, the country will be In the throes of revo lution.” Gen. Ewing i< a life-long democrat, although closely related to the Shermans of Ohio, and us early , as 1849 he was Private Sscjetury to j President Taylor. ! “I would rather trust that medi cine than any doctor I know of,” says Mrs. Hetlle Mason of Chilton, ! Carter Co. Mo„ In speaking of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea remedy. For sale by W. B, DuFr* [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Etta Jam:.Oct.22.—“Aunt Venice” Estes died at her home near Hope- well yesterday after a long and pain ful illness. She was a slave of Col. Henry Thompson and was one of the most respected colored women in this community. Her loyalty to the white people both before and since einaneipation is unequalled by any of her race. I dare say. Hon J. S. R Thompson, during his lifetime, provided her with a home on his plantation as long us she lived or eared to oeeupy it. She liv«*d with three and helped to raise two genera tions of the Thompson family, and none will regret to learn d her death more than her young masters and mistresses who are scattered to differ ent parts of the country. A good many white people will probably at tend her funeral today, and sadness will he felt whenever the announce ment is mad-.—“Aunt Venice” is dead.” La-d wet-U Mrs. Martha McDaniel, ninth, r d II. B. McDaniel, died sud- d*MiiV a» her home near McUonnells- ville, in Y >'k county. She had he ir! disease. Site was buried at Hickory Grove lu«d Friday. Rev. Mr. Thacker conducted the funeral services. On the same day at about tin same hour*. Limit. Marlin V. Darwin, late of Company B, 12th S. ('.. Regi ment during tin* war. died at his home on King’s Creek under similar cireumstanees—snatched from time to eternity without a moments warn ing. \ye have quite a number of cases of sickness reported among our neigh bors. Mrs. J. L Strain was taken with a chill last Saturday night and is still suffering from its effects. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Estes are getting well, slowly. Mr. Archie Orr is still in low health. Mr. Lum Brown and Miss Betsy Hartford are both sick. Drs. Douglas. McCluney, Garner, Wood and Blakey have each a medi cal practice in this vicinity. I want Thu Ledger to furnish , “Clih” all the room he wants here after for he is full of his anecdotes and will please the readers, I am sure. He told some good on *s last Saturday. L *t “(’lib” have a show ing, Mr Editor, and we will all enjoy him. Rev. Mr. Brock preached a very im pressive sermon at Abingdon Creek Sunday. His text, was Romans 1 :HJ: “For I am not ashamed of the gosp,.| of Christ,” etc. His defense of the Christian religion was full of z.-al ami enthusiasm, and he arraigned that class of professing Christ Ians who are ashamed to he called Christian lest it hurt their influence in society. Some farmers w ho have had sick ness have not yet picked out their cotton tin* first time. In many places the fields are white, hut in many of them the crop is m >stly gathered. Ehlrige Woods, of C" voetts. was in this neighborhood Sunday. The potato** crop seems to he g tod this year so fur as I have seen or heard. The peanut crop is begin ning to take a prominent part in our farm work William Fowler is a model farmer. 'He has twelve large hogs to kill thi> season, t.*.; shouts for m xt year, be sides lie has the corn to feed them on. Tiler* was a * big shucking” in our neighborhood last week. I didn’t get there" hut I am told it was an old time affair. Black Betty put in her appearance ami effects and the usual patting, dancing, “rasliog” and dog fights came off according to schedule with fin* usual accompaniments of loud hollerin'. „ I r. g'cl to heuf that Rome <,f our neighbors boy-—i.u tubers of good fami'ies—u.eso lo-t t »all self ro.-p ct that the. congregatt! on the Sabbath at certain out h iu'Os and then pick I h« huh] • du'V’e and olhei wS»e uoin.-v themselves with sinful pleasure (if they call it by that name). I don’t want. In the first plaea, to believe it and In the second place if I find it to he true 1 intend to ptihDtdi their names to the world This will he mortifying to myself as well as hu- miliaiiog to them. If they cal, stand it I can. Boys I think I k.iow the last one of you. Home of you have good mothers who have no idea of the disgrace to which their sons are tending and w ho would shed bitter tears to see you at this work. We have a field full of correspon dents for The Ledger In this neigh borhood and Its readers will be fully appraised of any neighherhood news which may he worth writing up. The dry weather Is having a fatal effect Upon guldelia. ilb# Laura Joiict,of JJivkorjr Druva, was at Mesopotamia last Sunday. WillSmarr was also among the singers that day. Joe Estes and Miss Oregon Estes visited Will Smith’s family at Bluirs- ville lust Saturday. We don’t want our good Brother Flaw Ricker to fall out ranks any more if he can help it. Everybody wants to hear something from him **ucli week. Brother don’t “disap- pint ’em” any more. The present price of cotton has put a broad grin on the faces of the av erage farmers. For one time in their lives they are getting more for their cotton than they expected at plant ing time. 1 have never seen the shucks on Corn so dry and brittle as it now is. The Salem Sunday School decided Sunday to have a Thanksgiving ser vice on the 28th of November, t'> which all Sunday Schools ar«- invited j. L. s. • • THIS MUST BE A JOKE. MR. PICKER AND THE DR. FLAW GETS AN “OLE KNOCKED OFF. SCAB’ A Doable Dose of Drugs—Can’t Fool Him on Corn Bread When He Has Biscuits in Hit Coat Pockets. Surely we Have no People Ignorant and Base Enough to do Tms. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Algood. S. C.. Oct. 18.—The presi dent of the Thickety .Mountain Man ufacturing Cotton Mills has just re turned from New York where he lia> been engaged in the given goods bus iness. He received a circular from John Carlton about three weeks ago stating what great advantages lie would give him if he would eonie and be his pari ner. Billie says 1 lie more goou*. you purchase the greater tin* (ii-eoii it is. He says he bought $2U,(ni'J .voiih i f spurious money tor jjwob *n gold. lie says he saw '•irlton r.,'.!!i! it out and put it in a l eigai* box and then they ccrn.d | ii to tin* express oilieeaud had it con- I signed to John Gardner, Gaff ley, one of t he president 4 special fr nils. Biliie hoarded the veslih.de and beat the box to Gaffney and hired I a line l urnoul from Doe Spencer and i dro e out home and told his friend Gamner what a fortune lie had made and got Gardner to go hack to Gaff ney with him.* John said they went to the express office and found the box j ist as Billie had deserihed it. lie says when they got the box Billie fairly jumped juber and wouldn’t open it inside the incorporation of Gaffney, lie waited until begot over between A. S. Water’s and Midway sen.i'd house. Gardner says that Biliie was powerfully [('o re-ipondcnce of The Ledger.] Dra m tLLE, S. C., Oct. 22.—Be fore I got done perusin’ The Ledger last week I come to the conclusion that somethin’ was wrong an’ that I needed somethin’, so I went to see my doctor, i ll’ after a short salutation I said: “Dock, I’m In great perplexity this mornin.” "What is it now, Flaw?” he axed twistin’ his little blond mushtash an’ tryin’ to hide a sneakin’ laugh. “You know that thar sore that Mrs. Ann Waters knocked on me some time ago?” *fes.” .-aid he. “Well,” said I, “It was done an’ scabbed over, an’ ns 1 thought would, never bothei me agio hut yisterdy she turn in an’ knocked the ole scab off an'—you know how a woman is— an' its boiherin me to some extent. You pioinist to stand by me an’ now 1 want to know what to do.” “Flaw, old boy, Jet me see your in- iliclioiis,” said lie; an’ I pulled out I ni: Ledger an sliowd him the drol led in ss. “I i! fetch you around all straight an good in a week er t wo if there’s any virtue in medicine,” he said as he opened his saddle-hags an’ begun pour out powders an’ pills an’ to liquids an’ one truck er nother an’ begun to wrap an bottle them up. “Is all that thar stuff for me, Dock?” I axed. “Yes,” said he. “My Lord, man ! I can’t—all that thar stuff’ll kill me dead as a door- nai',” hut ho begin to explain its vir tues an’ I kinder knocked under an’ he went on to say : “These powders'll strengthen your dignity; an' these pills ’ll give you more contempt for siteh ills as the present one an’ this liquid will cool an’ tone up your bruins an’ insure you from nervous prostrations of which you are threatened, caused Diek .Corry. ! by bein’ made believe that you are a lice dog an’—” “No sirec, Dock! Nairy time! Billie I No woman can fool me on corn bread Lord when I’ve got biskit in my pocket, so—” hope up until 1 lay reached Midway and said that In* had been roosting on the low limbs long enough and now by goober he was going to lly up on the top limbs and cut high stubble. He said tluit he didn’t ask A. X. Wood a in n.ore odds now thail lie did John says when they stopped and opened the box and found it was full of brown paper and saw-dust threw up liin hands and said have mercy,” and fell over and fainted. His lips were as blue as in- | “Well, hold on now an’ let me ex- ! d go, his eyes looked like a dying calf j plain. I know w hat you need an’ and his face was all in a jerk like a i you've got to foller directions er our , turtle’s heart. John ran out to Cal- contract will be broken. Here’s vin Teal’s and got the camphor hot- a box of capsules, they’re good to tie and hat lied Billie’s forehead, lips stimulate and increase your hatred and temples and finally aroused him ! for womankind.” to a state of consciousness. The lirst | I took the doctor’s medisen as di word that Billie said after he came to reeled, but with ail, I jist as well let was, Oil! if I had my gold hack I a woman have ’er way—I do believe I would put it in a snuff box and hurry, am tik a lice dog at times—always I it in the turlh and never spend it for burkin at u great big nothin’, i nu\ tiling ut all. I wa- over at the colored people's iis.ioc at’nil ut Mount Hilda Several Sumlavs ago. There was a large crowd of people there from every di- i reclion ami lhe> were of a I color., some white, some spotted and some black ei.ottgli to make the chickens go to roost in to day time. Evt r.v- t hi:.g ;< i-sed off pvaeahle an I <|U i l Spa i t a nbi we all liiiii a good time, hut in c.• nii g when they i:!l started i' one ungodly idack ruffian from irove ids Imrst* so hard thui t dropped dead in lit*' r ..il m .r Gu> Daniel's, lie ought *o hav- three hundr d a-iu s on his naked [lack with a eat-o’tiiue-tail, and J. Lum,ruin <'lar> to lay it on. Ther< was a mud dog in this com munity last week. Flaw Ricker. Goucher Gems. [Dorrespoydence of The Ledger.] Got cher. H. 0.. Oct. 21.—Cotton picking hu> almost come to a climax and • rn gathering has begun. ih.-v J. D* Huggins, who has been • all. d ;o • mw f ir the remainder of 1! e >• :.*• pn lel.ed here lust Saturday *R . nua.v J.>hn Gore •rs. J. B. ■ •in h .i re at is very sick. Brown and J. H. t he c iiinty seat this .MG ndi g court. r.M of tii • hoy - urmiml here Cx- » visit the Atlanta exposition p. *•’ : soon. . • Khcce Goforth is once •more a It hit the dogs ».f happy man—the result of a new boy. i Han. i ismitii and T. (’. Huskey and i " ‘ - • X. .escap'd unmolested. Hmith had to j " ■ kill his brindlc turkey dog. He says I ii sen ed like shooting down one of There is no medicine so often !ie< de l *n every home and so admiru- i Ids I *si friends in cold blooded mur* hiy u-.apted to the purpose for which i dt r. He eommehis on the death "f it is intended, as Chamberlain’s j hisilog in the following works: “l\.or Rale Balm. Hardly a week passes !. u* Georgia, you will never have to hut some member of the family needs enco.inter with another mud dog in it. A toothache or headache may be order to keep him away from your cured oy it. A touch of rheumatism oiu.|. i’s house you will never get or neuralgia quieted. The severe uiiolh r blow from old Aunt Cas-ie pain of a burn or scald promptly re- wiin a rock ami you will never receive lieved and the sore healed in much uuoiiter death wound from the hands less time than when medicine has to of la o-lhe-Kipper.” j be sent for. A sprain may bo “ This dog is dead and here he lies, promptly treated before inflamma- Nobody laughs and nobody cries; , tion sets In. which insures a cure in Where he’s gone and how he fares ! about one-third of the time otherwise Nobody known and nobody cares.” ia quir» d. Cuts and bruises should There has been something out of receive immediate treatment before gear about A. Harris’ machinery, but the parts become swollen, which CRD he will soon have it allright again and only be done when Fain Balm !■ kept will gin and puck your cotton in an economical style. Will Phillips, of this place, who recently married one of Corinth’s most noble daughters, has taken his industrious companion to the field and they pick $U0 pounds of cotton everyday. If they pull together this relieved without paying way all through life they will cer- bill. Procure a 60 cent ti inly make their mark In this world, once and you will nerer Uuuuw Luza Jo* ( JTvr tale u/ W. fk PtFltt opt at hand A sore throat may be wUred before It becomes serious. A troublesome corn may be removed by applying It twice ft d»y for ft week or two. A lame back tufty be eared and several days of TalUftblf tlm$ saved or s pain In the side or ehMft