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EC ER. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the Peop! It Subserves. VOL. II, N'O .sf GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER Jil, 1895. 81.00 A YEAR. IT WAS A GREAT FIGHT. THE CONVENTION’S LAW. COUNTY I) is Made Possible for the People of this Section to Have a New County if They But Will It. faro the law, so far at least as voting was concerned, with the white man. Any qualification that was honest : and honestly administered would he acceptaele to the negroes. What elTect the speeches will have j remains te be seen, but it is probable \ that many votes will he influenced by 1 Going to call on Old Clib Again When ilie admirable speeches of these four negroes. FLAW PICKER ON THE HUMP UNCLE SAM TO HAVE NO WAR HE VISITS A FEW OF OUR COR- UNLESS IT BE THE WILL OF RESPONDENTS. CONGRESS. [Correspondence of Thk I.kdgku.] Columbia. S. C., Oct.. 2$.—As was to be expected there was a great fight over the County Government Bill and it lasted longer than most people supposed it would. It had been made the special order for Monday and was promptly called up at the appointed time. It was not until 1 o'clock Friday that it was ordered to be engrossed and passed to a third reading. More of it is yet to be heard, for when it comes up on the third reading several important amendments will be offered. It can almost he said that the county politi cians had matters in a sling, and from various things it appears that there was a decided combination to defeat the projects of several new county schemes. The Abbeville del egation led in the light, and they al most succeeded m forever putting it beyond the power of Greenwood to become u county seat. But ’T’nele” George Tillman taught the conven tion something about township gov ernment that few of its members knew before, and it is generally pre dicted that this issue v\i;l be one on which the next campaign will be fought. The politicians are already hedging on it, and there is no < l eny- ing the fact that the scheme provides an absolute and safe method of gov ernment by the people, for the peo ple, and by the people. It is the es sence of the spirit of freedom, and will to a very large extent put it be yond the power of any set of politi cians to dominate the .Slate. “Un cle” George is full of it, and tils elab orate and learned speech on the sub ject commanded the closets attention of the house f ir several hours. The impression was when he commenced that it Mas a hobby of his in which there Mas little to commend ilseif to the general South Carolina commun ity, hut before he was half through the politicians could find no way to answer his argument, and the only excuse for voting down the motion of Mr. Ott, of Union, making a town- ship/'uvermneiit scheme ohligat* In deference to Whipper the debate on his substitute for the plan pro posed by the committee was ad journed over until Monday evening. The scheme proposed by W hipper is one of universal sufferage for men and women until 1900. when a simple educational qualification is to be en forced. Senator Irby has announced that he will fire his first shot at the report of the sutferage committee this Mon- He Kills His Sausage and Liv- er-Mush—The Kernel Bilin’ Lasses. [Correspondence of Tin: Ludgeu.] Dratoxyillk, S. 0.. Oct. 23.—1 got a hump on myself last week, 1 did. I visited the Kernal, an’ Funny Boy, an’ Old Glib, besides a lot ol out siders. all of whom I was glad to see. They I know’d they me as day evening, when he will move to ! are 0I1 ]y ‘ blows. commit section i, which provides j ,. . . . . i n I ii { , , wasn t as mad at that a person shall be allowed to vote ^ ; > ‘who can understand and explain” a out. Wasn t one of cm < section of the constitution when it is ■ even quarrel with me. But they said read to him, to the judiciary commit- i Giere was n. woman down thar in that tee to have the constitutionality settlementsomew i lelv that lias 8XV orn passed upon, for the reason that should this section be declared tin- ! vengeance on me. I did., t meet her constitutional the illiterate whit© j though, an’ I m giad of it. for I man would be deprived of his vote. j despise to hear a woman alus a uuar- 1-. II. McMASTEit. ■ ivliu,’ an’ that’s what they are good The Indications are That the Demo cratic and Republican Mana gers Intend to Act in Concert. [Correspondence of Tin-; Lkdgkk.] W ASHIXGTON. I). Oct. 23.—There will he no war between the United Stales and Fiighind over the main tenance of the Monroe doctrine, un less it be the will of Congress to have one. Timid people who have been they made I by sensational publiea- ttiered to J lions may accept this statement as ! gospel. Ail answer to the coinmuni- 1 cation of this government to England | is daily expected by Ambassador j Bayard. As soon as he receives it he j will cable a synopsis to Secretary i Olnev and mail the official document. almost to a personal declaration, that Ex-i’resident Harrison intends to try for that nomination again. Among these was the presence of his nearest friend in Few York while some of the members of the Republican National Committee were arranging a deal to make his nomination impossible. He was there to ascertain just bow much power was behind that deal and to report to Mr. Harrison. Another signification is that Ex-Senator Saun ders, of Nebraska, whose daughter married Mr. Harrison’s son, is at this time in the South trying to have Harrison delegates elected to the National Convention. It may he that the Ex-I’resid nt eannot succeed, but those who are familiar with his record as a managing politician say he will \ have something to say about w ho j among parents who think they have does get that nomination, if he cannot done their duty in raising their boys. THE SUNDAY BANJO PICKERS THEY WILL PROBABLY DESIST NOW. Col. Strain in His Usual Interesting Manner Gives the News of Etta Jane and Vicinity. [Correspondence of Thk Lkugek.J Etta Jank, S. C., Oct. 23.—Our allusion to the Sunday banjo picking lias created a good deal of inquiry get i! himself, like Senator : I n ot her won durmun, he's s, that. out to “gt t even” with somebody. It i s regarded as in together probable Maud Matters. |Correspondence ot I’iik Ledgeu. j Maud, S. C., Oct., 29, 1395.—Some men say that a big drunk is the very thing to tone up the appetite and save a doctors bill and some men will act on the principle of the expression for they will find a way to accomplish tIm experiment. A man may find an excuse for not hav ing bread and meat, or clothes, or for not paying Ids debts and dues, or for neglecting home, parents, com panions and his OM'n dear offspring, no excuse is sufficient to bar him from drink, for the Devil keeps the road open for men to get to hell. i t is a .shame how some people vill act. Instead of being intelligent and ascending to the highest order of in telligence and studying the diversi fied order of God’s great plan of crea tion, how he snows himself unchang- uble in all the works of creation and how he has entered into a covenant with man, and how faithful he is in ids token of love and remembrance as he arches the cloud with the bow of promise, thus choosing man above all created animals. Vet men refuse j to maintain purity of life, hut de- I scend to the level of a brute, stupe- 1 lied in mind, dead in sense, and think j no more than a brute. insult tiieir ; best friend by imposing tiieir pres- j enci while in a state of intoxication ; at; and when they uint a quarrelin’ they’re a poutin,’ an' 1 hate tiiat sort of bisness still worse. thing it don’t take a woman As a general dug to find a man’s techersome place, an' right tbar’s \\here she's shore to slick him hardest. I f he despises quarrelin’ he’ll shore git Ids share of it. an if he hates them horrid pneumatic ap- aratics worse, they 11 puff cm up to the fullest extent an' git stuck right before him. ’Tit a woman is a woman an’ the world is not a world without ’em. They can lead a man to the jumpin’ off place an if they jump he will jump oil with ’em into- that the recent diplomatic success of Russia, in gobbling up a slice of (’h'ma to he used fora Pacific seaport, will be it factor towards making the tone of England s answer more favorable or, at least in preventing its being unfavorable. But even granting that the answer should he a positive re fusal to recognize the Monroe doc trine. which isn’t probable, there would still be no danger of an imme diate rupture between the govern ments. Tilings move slowly in tin* diplomatic world. It can be stated that whatever tbe nuture of England’s well I 1 busuer may be all the papers in the PARENTS AND CHILDREN. Uncle Jake Discusses This Momen tous Question. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Greenville, S. C., Oct. 21—Uncle | Jake has changed his base you see, but has not done as Jim Husky did, run away and married. Well Uncle Jake has been thinking lately on this question: The relation of parents to children, and children to parents. Now you know ’tis said that some of our ablest agricultural wh“ t I am not disposed to feed the flame with lire brands as I only intended the hint for those whom it concerned. If it stops, all right. It not, every body will know the secret. The guns at Waterloo broke up the ball at Brussels. Mr. R A. Foster closed the ten da v: -ion of his singing school at wiv. ers he legislature, Mas that it was b<*sli to leave it to the discretion of the legislature and the motion of Mr. Barton, of Greenville, permitting the legislature to ’ it, if the legisla ture saw fit, was adopted. “Uncle” George’s argument Mas simply unan- iwtra! !. , ; : I - n ties i-su,. opportu nity Miil be given many new poinieal lights to raise and shine in South Carolina. It will he uol! for the as piring politician to study it at once, for it is certainly the coming issue. At least the politicians at the capital now say t hat is. I'or the formal ion of new counties | prevent him from crime the following conditions have to he | a shame. recon God dnow'd M'hat he Mas doin after all when he made ’em In my rounds l met Mr. Calvin W. Whisonant, mIio dwelt on the down fall in cotton and expressed his sym pathies for the poorer classes by say ing: “I am heartily glad that the poorer classes were compelled to sell their cotton early, while the price of cotton was up.” That expression sounded to me like it was coinin' from the bottom of a gentleman’s heart, hut I didn’t say nothin'. After takin’ oysters without crack ers an’ cheese without bread, an’ givin’ Charlie a square meal, I sot , out for the Kernel’s, and when I got and trespass upon the finer feelings of ; t|nr dol ,> t vou ,1,,,^ ] f ( , UM > ’j, n a t their kind neighbors with their foul I work ; Yes sir, I foun’ 'im at work, j and fiendish epithets and savage ; pppp ’lasses. yells. Very dim are t ic marks of I j waa sorry to learn that his better | civilization on such a person. It is > j ia |f—Dy two in the game—was battel- ! sad. yet true. Only last week, “ : i„g vvilh the chills. The Kernel is! young man that had promised re-j fa n ()f ] ife ari > understands makin’; form and one who ougut to be a : -|. US scs. but he can't hold me a light , model of pjety and a delight to his i uL a p U |ij„’ after dark, ij dear old mother in her declining ease Mill he sent to Congress early in the coining session and that body will he asked to say whether the position taken by the a Iministration is right are men who nave never en gaged in agrici Iture themselves. They stand off ai d observe facts and then give us farmers the benefit of their observations. So Uncle Jake | has been stand.ng off, letting “dis-[ tance lend enchantment to t he scene” j and observing some facts in connec-i lion with paternal and filial relations ; \Yc have observed this much, that j some parents seem to think that their children are given to then as slaves. Therefore they, the parents, must, as they think, maintain a slavish kind of relation between themselves and or wrong, and whether if right it shall, children. They must speak to their if necessary he hacked by powder and children as t hev WC) aid to slavi hall. It is because of the high au thority from which t his informat ion is obtained that the statement at the beginning of this paragraph is made. Every week something turns up to indicate the intention of the demo cratic and republican managers to act together in opposing the silver men in next year's National Campaign. The latest thing was the action of the making the children feel that they have no home as the full meaning of the term expresses it. hut a staying place and that they have no loving parents as other girls’und hoys have, but some hard masters. Such a feel ing or relation should not exist !)e- tM\en parents and children. While ii is a faettha' parentsought toteach tin children to work, they owe it to j chairman of the Kepuh.ican National them, yet it ought not lobe done in j Committee, silver man though he be a slavish or coereeivc manner, but in [ himself, in calling a meeting of his a truly parental manner, in a manner committee for December lOih to that demonstrates the love and inter- seleet the time and place of the next est which the parent feels or ought stayed all night with him an' next day I run on Funny Boy He talked mostly of the purty gals of that section an’ how he loved cm. lie’s got a job that’s enough to give any one the dispepsy for want of exrysize I guess he gets it of a night though, that is if his gal lives any distance away. The next night I stayed with Old Clib. lie bus, I think, six big hogs to kill an’ a whole lots of little ones I want my readers to be impressed M. \. Humphries and fourcbil-i ^ f aC (, tJmt I . have made up mv mind to call on Old Clib again years, caused that mother that went doM'ii in the very jaws of death to give him birth, a sleepless night, trampling on her heart, while with tears and groans she tramped through the night after htr wayward son to A shame, National Convention. That makes it certain that the National Convention will he held about the usual time, as at least six months must elap-e be tween the date of the committee meet ing and that of the convention. Tiiis action was a defeat of the silver republicans, as it was Midi knoM'ii that they desired an early convention so as to have t ime to decide what t hev Our sick are restored to health again and the genera! hi alt h at this place is good. Mrs. W. T. Horton and daughter, Mr dren, of Pleasant Grove. A. D. Ray his mife and daughters. Misses Larrie ; vv | letl j Giink its cold enough fer him ami Lillie tdary. of Gowpens, R-v B. j () k jjj |,j s gaussages an’ liver mush 1 . Robertson and Charles Scruggs, of Gaffney, visited W. T. Thompson lust week. Rev. C. M. Tea! is moving up in the Arrmswood settlement. Ourre- grets and loss Mill he the cheer and comfort of others. We M ish him all that tends to human elevation. Some real estate inis been chang ing hand at t his place. Jas. V. L. McCruw and William Bright to Lee Bright, Thomas Blackwell and C. S. T. Bright complied with: One third of lie* qualified voters in the section to he formed into a iicm county must petition the Governor to order an election to decide the matter. The Governor will order an election, m it bin a “r asonahle” time, and two thirds of the qualified voters iu the sections to be cut off must vote in favor of the new county. Thy ihw county must contain 1H0 square miles, and a property valua tion of 000. The mw county line must not run nearer than eight miles of nn established eourt house. Townships are permitted to b‘* sep arated from one eoun;y and he joined on to another if Imti lliirds of the qualified voters in the fownship favor it and if the change does not inter fere with the eight mile limit. Town ships are created bodies political and corporate. After the article on Counties and County Government bad been dis posed of the report of the committee on Sufferage was taken up. The Friday evening session and the Sat urday morning session was consumed in the delivery of speeehes by four of the colored delegates, Miller, Wigg, Whipper and Smalls, from Beaufort. The convention paid a most respect ful attention to till of the speeches, and it cannot be denied that much that was said by the negroc delegates sunk deep into the minds of the white delegates, in all candor and fairness it can he said that Mith the exception of the speech made by “Uncle” George Tillman on bis county govern- John Janes and Mrs. .Sarah Fosaer quite sick yet. ment scheme that the speeches of arc visit ing friends and relatives at Mr. Alphas McDaniel is visiting these four delegates were the most Trougl Shoals. his son, H. B. McDaniel, forceful that have yet been made on I There M ill he preaching at Salem Mr. Dock Howell had a corn shuek- the floor of the house, and good and ! next Sunday by Rev. W. R ()wings, ing one night lust week thoughtful men Mire much affected II. B. McDaniel was made happy I’rof. R. A. Foster’s Hinging school by them. There Mas an almost total | over the arrival a girl baby at his closed lust Sut urduy m ith much suc- absence of bitterness from all of the 1 house yesterday. cess. Speeches and they Mio'e plain straight-; Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell and family are Mr. Murphy, of Chester, spent one forward statements of facts that were visiting her mot her, Mrs Laura Estes, night lust week with J. L .Strain, startling in itiutiy respect:.. The plea Noble Ul.ickM'nll got stung with a Constable W. T. Osmcnt started thal Mas nmile was not fora qualifi- bee lust Saturday night while cut ing M'ilh a prisoner to hunt bail and the cut ion that would enable every negro some honey and his face was sMollcn prisoner look leg bail and left t In to vote, but merely a demand for fair ; so yesterday that, be could not see. constable standing in toe road, treatment, for an cquul standing be- | tUMUO. ( sambo. to feel f‘>r t be child. Again it is observable that some parents seem to think that their chil dren arc given to them as toys or doll babies. W ell, it is true that art, while it has failed to makeany tsdkingdolls, any walking dolls, any working dolls or any intelegent dolls, has made cry ing dolls. So all that a parent who sustains a kind of doll-babyism rela tion to his children can expect of them is that they will he good criers. In other words, a boy or girl eared for a> a doll has to he cared for will always want mamma’s apron string to hold They Like Flaw. [Correspondence of 1 he Ledger.] Howell s Ferry, 8. C., Oct., 23.— Flaw Bicker was down in this com munity last Thursday night with his banjo. He is a good banjo picker as well as a good flaw picker. W'e hear tily welcome him. Come hack and bring your banjo. W’e like to hear good music. W ill Howell left last Tuesday for Texas. Wylie E Iwards lias been suffering Math tooth-ache. Your correspon dent asked him why he would not let J. L. S. pull his tooth and he said that J. L. >8. jumped at him too vigo rously. saussages an liver mu ; Clib wants a telephone an' needs it j an’ should ort to have it. It ! would be worth a lot to that com munity an, they don’t cost much. | Ciih. I’ve been studyin’ on Ibis sub ject an’ 1 leli you what todo—get upu | i subscription paper an’ go ’round an’ i ; see who’ll tiirow in an’ how much an’ i I’ll find out bow mutch it’ll cost, an’" we’ll have one yit. I In a few more years this country i Mill be stretched so full of wires that j | the hawks an’ crows will git scared : of ’em an’ bid us farewell forever, i And another thing while I’m on the thought of improvements. I wish everybody had bouts sufficient to hold them an’ a week or two’s rations so’s God could send u deluge an’ wash all these old hills an’ gullies down to a level pint, a:.’ not drown no one. It would save a many a man from loosin his religin who has to rule around in buggies an’ wagons. Flaw Rkkkk. Howell's Ferry Personals. [Correspondence of The Ledgeu.] Howell’s Ferry. 8. C.,Oct., 21 — Mr. and Mrs. Win. Fowler’s child is J would do should they fail to receive recognition from the convention. It | is saiil that the Democratic National Committee will lake similar action | for the same purpose. In fact, it is [ probable that a taeid understanding to and if he hasn't got hold of it lie exists between the committees or, at makes a big fuss. Such treatment of h ast between their ruling members, children us this is just as far on one One prominent anti-silver man sized extreme as the slavish treatment is it up this way: “If the republicans on the other. There is, however, a and democrats held their convcniion happy niedicinehetween these tMO ex- early and refused todo anything for tremes, which position parentsought their silver members they would have to take, that is, l«ve their children, plenty of t ime to organize a concerted prize them highly, for they are am- bolt which might prove a serious iuhle and useful in a family, and t hen inatt-r, but by bolding both conven- most of till teach them, not force lions late it will confine the bolters them under the lash, to work. Asa in both parties to those who Mill be consequence, the children will love willing to endorse the populist ticket their parents and will not detest and platform, which will probably he work. the iir>t in the field” It does not The relation of chjldren to parents seem to have occured to these people should he one true love and simple that the populists "might also hold obedience. How many their convention late. A story is being told among the j politicians which explains in a meus- I ure, the seeming indifference of the administration as to the Kentucky campaign. According to this story, a deal has been sanctioned bv im m- things there are to stimulate this love in us for our pa rents, especially in our childhood days. Uncle Juke’s mind runs back to liis childhood days, the time when be was so amiable and useful. Why ! our parents loved us before hers of the administration which, if we knew how to love, cured for us bc- carried out, is bound to prevent fore we could care for ourselves, and Blackburn’s re-election to the Senate, then after we grew up to he boys and even if the democrats succeed in girls they taught us how to work, electing a majority of the legislature, sent us to school and gave us thi> The understanding is that Blackburn good thing and the other good tiling will control a majority of the demo- Indeed M'e ought and surely do love crats elected to the legislature, but our fathers and mothers who have that the administration or “sound done all these tilings for us. And the money” democrats will refuse to hoy or girl, young man or young lady caucus with the silver or Blackburn who does not do so exhibits gross in gratitude. We demonstrate our love by our obedience to our parents. The boy who makes an ugly face whines and refuses to obey when h’n fat her asks him to do something is one mIio has been either taught not to work and not to obey or else he has no love for hi- father, Boys and girls join I nch Juke in saying that mc arc going to hr Im tti r hoys and gins, love and obey our parents bet ter. N«w wc might sum up all that w< hnvt lri«d to say in these words: “Fathers provoke not your children to anger; Children obey >our parents. ” Uncle Jake. j Mesopotamia on the 19th inst. I was i present and can testify as to the im provement made by the class. For the practice it has had, it sings equal to any country choir 1 know of. Sev eral visitors were present also. Elder 8. F. Estes has just returned from a meeting of the Synod at Rock Hill. John Estes got a “bran” new “Pied mont’’ wagon at Yorkville last week. It cost JjHO. We finished making our molasses last week. Quite a number of our people have been feeding their cane to stock and say it is the very thing for fattening. Farmers have been so buisy that some of them have not had time to make their molasses and 4 the canc is yet standing in the field. 8am Lee had a severe chill yester day. The water at Howell’s ferry is too low to run the flat and there is no way to cross the river there but to ford. Last week Mr. Albert Robinson, of Trough Shoals, was summoned to the bedside of his step-mother at McCon- nelisville, who died after a long ill ness. She was buried at Bullock’s Creek. Mr. Flaw Picker was in’our com munity last week looking after the interest of the correspondents, read ers, stockholders and publishers of The Ledger. I suppose a general flaw picking crusade will he inaugu- rated at once if some people don’t do their duty. Mr. Flaw, we are^with you. The weather up to this time con tinues dry. C. W. Whisonant, of Wilkinsville, lost a very fine cow a* few days ago. She died with big-gall, says Dr. Frank Pruitt. We have some choice cooks raising in this country. Lust week I prom ised a young lady to say in print that she was one of the best cooks in the county, but she gave me to under- sland that she was no managerie and 1 thought the best thing T could do was to say nothing about it. But if some good fellow will call upon me personally I will tell him all about it. That wont make her mad. “Uncle Bill” put up his fattening hogs last week. The simplest remedy I have ever heard of for headache, is for the per- -on afflicted with it to walk backwards for five or ten minutes. The argu ment urged is tiiat this reverses the action of the muscles and thus the patient is relieved. .! don’t know it to be so, but I throw out the suggestion for the benefit of those correspondents and readers who wish to try the experiment. I would think, however, that much depends upon the cause which super induced the attack. If it was brought on by too much had liquor. I would recommend and guarantee a preven tative of more value than the cure. Dr. Blakey, of Hickory Grove, was in this neighborhood yesterday on professional business. J. T. Douglass, X. A. Nicholson and J. L. Strain M’ere elected dele gate'! to represent “Camp. Giles” U. C. Veterans, at Columbia, S. C., on the 12th of November. Our friend P. S. Webber, is the best fixed mechanic we know of in the country. He has all the applian- d< mix-rut-, and Mill put up a “sound money” candidate whoean gel enough republican votes to elect him to the 8enate. This deal will, of course, depend on the democrats carrying the legislature. Should the republicans carry it no deal would be necessary to prevent Bluekliuru's return to the Semite. Since the adoption of tie* “sound money” plat form about the only tiling in t he Kent ucky campaign , that the lidminDt rat inn Das hocn iu- lere.-ted in has been to ddcut Black burn. While it is true that Mc-.-r . Quay, Platt and ol her prominent r» pu in leans : have declared against liis candidacy I there ure indications amounting ccs fordoing work on short notice. j. l. a. Gregory-Fowler. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Gowdkysvillk, 8. 0., Oct., *27.— Cupt. Jackson Gregory, of Gow leys- ville. and Mrs. Mary Fowler, of Ra venna, formerly of North Carolina, were united in the bonds of holy mat rimony at the residence of Pinkney Jones on Sunday. October 27th, at 2 o clock p. m., J. Kb «#%.*av&4.0 tary public, officiating. A goodly uunib- rof theCuptains friends atton- ded (dm. while they found a host of i lie bride’s friends awaiting their ar rival. The groom is a prosperous planter of this section, while the bride is a charming young lady of Ravenna. The Captain is all smile! 1 to-night. Rex.