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r "* T ’ } 'v, j * S C' Ledger. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. VOL. II. NO. 48. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1896. THE SENATE IS OPPOSED TO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND IS- SUEING BONDS. ‘What the Senate is Going to do With the Bond and Tarift Bills is as Yet Problematical—No Alaska Dispute. I? [Correspondence of The Ledgkk.] Washington, D. C., Jan. 6. ’96.- hat a majority of the Senate is op- iosed to issuing bonds at all in times f peace Is probable, as will be shown ater, but that an overwhelming ma xi ty of senators are opposed to is suing bonds through a private deal with a syndicate of bankers has al ready been shown by the vote to take up the resolution of Senator Elkins, expressed the sense of the Senate to be against any other disposition of bonds than by public advertisement and to the highest bidder. Only six senators voted against consideration of that resolution, which would have been adopted but for the rules of the Senate which enabled Senator Hill— by the way, one of the most bitter opponents of those very rules—to throw it over by an objection. True, its adoption will not be legally bind ing upon President Cleveland, but, all the same, he would much prefer that It would not be adopted. There is a rumor that this vote has caused President Cleveland to decide that the issue of bonds he is now contem plating shall be offered to the high est bidder by public advertisement, but this rumor does not tally with the story generally believed about these bonds having been pledged to the Morgan syndicate weeks ago, un less tne bonds are to be so advertised as to make it certain that the syndi cate will be the only bidder. What the Senate is going to do with the tariff bill and the bond bill is yet problematical. A report is ex pected from the Finance Committee this week, but a report was also ex pected last week. Those who ought to be good authority say that the tariff bill is likely to be reported without amendment, and that a sub stitute for the bond hill, providing for the free coinage of silver, will be reported and passed. Meanwhile, the announcement of another bond issue i by the administration is daily looked £ for, notwithstanding the semi-official announcement that Mr. Cleveland will wait a reasonable time to see if Congress will do anything. Representative Boatner of Louis iana has offered a resolution instruct ing the House Judiciary Committee to ascertain “whether, under pro vision of ary statute of the United States, there is any warrant for the refusal of any executive officer to perform any act necessary to the ex ecution of any law of Congress on the ground that such law is, in the opin ion of such officer, unconstitutional; whether any power is lodged in any officer or can be constitutionally lodged elsewhere than in the courts to annul any act or withhold any ap propriation, and to report whether such action is not in contempt of the authority of Congress and in viola tion of the rights of the beneficiaries, aud what action should be taken by the House to vindicate ite author ity”. This resolution, it is needless to say, Is aimed at Comptroller Bow ler of the Treasury, who refused to approve the payment of the money appropriated by Congress to pay sugar bounties. Justice Rufus W. Beckham, the “baby” member of the United States Supreme Court, took his seat to-day. He didn’t appear to be a b! nervous, but several times an expression passed across his face which was in terpreted by a bright woman to mean: “I’d like to know whether my new silk gown hangs aP right.” Those who expected a dispute be tween the United States and England oyer the Alaska boundary would bet ter pack those expectations in moth balls and pigeon-holo them. There isn't the slightest probability of their ever being realized. When the re port of the commission, headed by General Duffiold, chief of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, now in the hands of the Secretary of State, ia sent to Congress, as it will shortly be, It will be officially seen that there Is practically no difference between the boundary line run by the American engineers and the one previously run by English Engineers. The greatest difference between the two Tines at any given point is six feet and seven inches, or fifteen sec onds of longitude. The Venezuelan boundary commis sion held its first meeting and organ ized fov business by electing Justice Brewer president. That the commis sion enjovs the confidence of the public and of Congress is plainly In dicated wherever the subject is dis cussed. It is to be entirely untram- meled in Its proceedings, and will decide entirely for itself not only what l« thf true location of the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, but also what is the best way to go about getting the de sired information. It has already- been unofficially announced that England is going to place her side of the controversy — unofficially, of course—before the commission. Utah now has a member of the House who can vote, and as quick as her legislature can elect them she will have two senators. So much for the President’s proclamation declar ing Utah the forty-fifth state of the Union. News from the Spartan City. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Spartanburg, Jan. 6, ’96.—The many acquaintances and friends in this city were pained on last Satur day evening by the announcement on the street that our very popular county auditor, L. P. Epton, had met with a terrible accident and was killed in the neighborhood of the junction. Quite a relief was experi enced when a half hour later a sec ond message came, saying that Mr. Epton was not dead, but seriously injured and unconscious. The facts developed that Mr. Epton and his clerk, Mr. Ed. Brockman, were re turning from a week’s assessing work, and when pear the Spartan burg and Asheville junction a pass ing engine frightened their horse, which became unmanageable. A holdback strap broke, Mr. Brockman jumped out, and Mr. Epton was thrown forward out of the buggy. When picked up he was unconscious, and the right side of his head badly cut and the skull crushed. At first the surgeons, Drs. Dean and Wilson, were afraid that the injuries would prove fatal, but when the reaction took place they- wore encouraged, and decided that the injuries were not necessarily fatal, though very seri ous. Yesterday Mr. Epton rested comfortably an<i was rational. This morning he is improving, with favor able symptoms. At noon (this writ ing) he is reported better. Mr. Brockman hud his nose broken and was otherwise injured, and rendered decidedly uncomfortable, hut is also doing well to-day. Up at Gramlin’s mill, near Inman, on Christinas day, two young fellows named Albert Perry and Lewis from North Carolina got into a fight, and Perry was getting the best of Lewis, when the miller, Mr. Mahaf- fey, separated them. Lewis started home, and Perry followed him. Levvis picked up a rock and threw it, hit-, ting Perry on the head, which satis fied him. He went home, not realiz ing that he was very much injured. On the Monday following Perry was taken with convulsions and died. Lewis has gone to North Carolina. Spartanburg is growing much more rapidly than most people know. It is not a boom, but a strong, health ful growth, unprecedented by any other city in the State. All the churches in the city are observing the week of prayer in union meetings. An old colored woman living at Major Kirby’s place, this city, named Aunt Susan Thompson, 85 years old, #as found lying in the fire in her room, roasting alive, yesterday. She is badly burned. Another colored woman, Betsy Dent, who for some time has been suffering of a sore foot, yesterday while sitting by the fireplace in her room, fainted and fell into the fire, burning her other foot so badly that it will have to be amputated. The public schools, after two weeks’ holiday vacation, resumed Monday, and the merry laugh and juvenile prat tle of tlu happy chil dren made the streets a scene of joy to the hopeful and hoping. The schools arc crowded, showing the rapid increase in population in this city. It seems as if everybody is moving to Spartanburg except those who go to iraffney. People here are in eager expecta tion to meet Daniel D. Emmett, au thor of “Dixie”, in this city Wednes day. Up at Now Prospect old Mr. High land Davis, aged 90 years, while warming himself at. a fireplace at his homo on Sunday toppled over into the fire, and was so severely burned before help arrived that he died in a few hours afterward. The Southern .has put another train on between Columbia and Ashe ville’ passing here in the morning at 9:45 up, and 10: 30 at night, going south. In the Beginning Of a now year, when the winter season of close confinement is onb half gone, many find that there health begins to brnik down, that the last exposure threatens sickness It is then as well as at all other times, and with people in good health, that the following facts should bo remembered, namely: that Hood’s Sarsaparilla leads overythigln the way of medicines; that it accom plished the greatest cures in the world; has the largest sale in the world, and requires the largest build- in the world devoted exclusively to the preparation of the proprietary raedleino. Does not t his eonclusivoly prove, H you are sick, that Hood.s Sarsaparilla is the medicine for you to take* NOT STATED EXACTLY RIGHT. SANTA CLAUS AT HOPEWELL So Mr. Davis Objects to “Cunning Little Joe’s” Report. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Algood, Jan. 5.—Your correspond ent from this place in your paper of ! the 1st inst. uses my name in con- ; nection with the conference meeting | at Macedonia church, December last, in a way that calls for an explana tion from me to my many Baptist friends all over this county. Also in my opinion it places my brethren of that church under a wrong impres sion before the public. First, the inference may bu hastily drawn that an unfriendly contro versy, of a religious nature, sprang up between them and myself, which would be entirely false. No such controversy ever arose. The facts are briefly these: I, feeling that some views, very precious to myself, bearing upon the second coming of our Lord, were not now in harmony with views of the majority of my brethren of the Macedonia church, wrote a letter of withdrawal from that church and placed it in the hands of their chairman of investi gation. Upon that letter the breth ren have acted. If their action was exclusion from all fellowship with aiy Baptist brethren all over the great ilold they cover, I must say their views Baptist principles and mine very materially differ, and the brethren ought to ha\V' taught me my error long ago. The BuplJsfr.VId to me is all the Bible and an implicit duty (not a privilege only) to ex amine every doctrine (whether from pastor or public press) by the one infallible rule, the Bible, and see if these things be true or not. Upon this law I stand today and must al ways stand. The next charge your correspond ent makes against me—“Gone over to the goats”—I do not know to whom here he refers. My under : standing is the Master, when he again comes, makes the separation of the two classes, and so plainly defines the eternal destiny of each that the idea that anyone would voluntarily take his position among the goats (in this life if he could) is absurd to say the least. I am where the breth ren, by their action in conference, left me, and as I cannot be anything in my views but a Baptist in prin ciples, as I understand them, here I must stand until some one more en lightened than myself convinces me of the errors of views. The Bible presents to me only one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God, the Father of all and Creator of all. I could give the Scriptures for all my views, but as this is not written to invite controversy, but only by way of correcting wrong impressions that might grow out of your correspond ent’s notice of the action of Mac edonia church, I feel that this will be sufficient. But in closing let mo say to my brethren, who may desire me to do so, I will cheerfully give them Scriptures upon which 1 stand any time, or I will meet them any where they may suggest, and with them will read over the Scriptures, receive their views and give mine. In the hope that you will kindly give the above a place in your col umns, I am, very truly yours, L. B. Davis. A Great Admirer of The Ledger. ^Correspondence of The Ledger.] CowpKNS, S. C., Jan., 7.—Will you allow an old maid to enter your cir cle of Ledgerites. I am a great ad mirer of The Ledger. There has been such a cry against old maids that I have been hid for awhile until I found out that a great many mar ried women would like to be old maids, so I took courage and came to the front again. I don’t blame Flaw Picker for find ing fault of the Indies’ lego’inutton sleeves, for if I get one as large as a dogs’ leg I think I am doing well. Your correspondent has made a mistake about E. T. Sellars having the finest baby, C. M. Sellars has got the finest. It is just four months old and the finest out for its age. Providing father and baby both live he is going to make an honest farmer out of him instead of a lawyer. Messrs Henry Bell and Birge Bron- non visited T. S. Sellars and family last Sunday. They are two of Clif ton’s handsome young men. Henry Swafford visited R. E. Sel lars and family last Sunday, p. p. A Butcher’s Experience. Mr. J. \V. Herring, a butcher of Phoonix City, Ala., says, May 14th, 1895: “For five years I had Indiges tion, which continued to get worse till my suffering was intense. I spent hundreds of dollars trying to get relief, but grew worse until the fall of 1893, when I communed to use King’s Royal Germetuer. I took only three bottles, but began to im prove from the first use of It. I bought it of Dr. I). E. Morgan, and he cun tell about my case. I cheer fully recommend Germetuer us the best medicine for Indigestion and Dyspepsia.” New package, large bottU, 108 doses, 1)1. For sale by W. B. Dupre. HE PLEASES YOUTH AND OLD AGE ALIKE. The Publication of His Doings at Hopewell is a Week Behind Time, but is No Less Interesting. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Etta JanEj S. C., Dec. 30.—I took a trip into York County last Friday and Saturday and attended the en tertainments given by the Broad River and Hopewell Sabbath Schools. These I greatly enjoyed and feel that a condensed report of the same will be of some interest to our readers. The Hopewell school assembled at the shool house. The choir was as sisted by the organ under the skill ful touch of Miss Maggie Dowdle after which “old Santa Claus” opened his budget and handed out his presents to the scholars. These were both rich and beautiful. The children enjoyed themselves and the older people were highly pleased with the success of the occasion. “Old Santa” kindly remembered your correspondent too with some substantial gifts. 1 spent Friday night at the hospitable home of Mrs. M. E. Smarr. of Hopewell, where I gri : nf*]y.. enjoyed myself with the family anttS-heir friends who as sembled to make pleasant. We had some splendid musie>» ^* 8S Lillie Smarr, one of The Ledger’s best friends, presided at the organ and as the group of young men and ladies surrounded her and put for ward their best efforts it made me rejoice to feel that I had taken an humble part in the work of the Hopewell Sunday school. Sacred and sentimental peices followed each other in regular succession, but the grandest and most pathetic of all was the piece entitled “The old door step.” This took me back in mem ory to many forgotteir friends, class mates and comrades whom I had long since bid adieu to meet in eter nity, and made me feel sad. Satur day 1 went to Broad River Academy where I had a special invitation to be at 10 a. m. The rain prevented a full turn out of the school, especial ly of the ladies, but everything was in readiness for a good time and so no one was disappointed. “Santa Claus” had been around and obedi ently remembered the faithful schol ars for their attendance upon the school during the year. As they were handed out John Robinson had some complimentary remarks which kept the house in a continual roar of laughter. Among the articles was soap for him to wash his hands, then came tobacco of two grades— “pig tail” and “coon dog,” next a ration of “souce,” next pepper, spice and ginger to take the place of dis pensary warmth, after which came a great variety of confections, the best of which was a “whopping” stick of candy about the size of a wooden hand spike. After all the scholars were served the visitors were seated and the same compliments paid to them. I regret to hear Mrs. J. B. T. Scott died at her homo in Union after a long and painful illness. She has many friends in this commnnity whose heartfelt sympathies go out to her bereaved husband and motherless children in their implorable loss. She was a loving wife, a tender mother and a faithful friend. With heavenly weapons she has fought the battles of the Lord Finished her course, and kept the faith and entered her reward. Several families in this section have measels and grip, Hunters tell mo that rabbits, squirrels and birds are very scarce. Luke Bullock is going to move to the Draytonville sictlon. Jeff George had another stroke of paralysis sometime ago from which I am glad to learn he has nearly re covered. Charlie Dorman, of Wilkinsville, fell some time ago and hurt his an kle from which he has been laid up. I don’t want our readers to think that dispensary or blind tiger had anything to do with it. Charlie is is not built that way. Ed Burgess, of Wilkinsville, and Miss Deloris Burgess, of Sharon, York county, were married week be fore last. “Occasionly” you ought to report these matters to The Led ger. If the compositor who sets up my letters for The Ledger don’t mind how he makes mo spell and use cap itals I will send Frank Fruit or Pack Mosely up to “square off” with him. I’ll admit (hut my chirography isn.V copper plate but the spelling is bet ter than he makes like. Prof. Davis Jefferies, of the Union graded school, is at home spending his vacation. Miss Grace Whiaonant sat homo from AH Healing Springs spending \neat ion. A few shooting matches came off last week In which turkeys were the prizes. Though some good people think there is no harm in them they will not admit that they cultivate words as well as a first class prayer meeting does. I haven’t seen a drunk man this Christmas or even a person who was under the influence of liquor at all. This speaks well for our community for this season. j. L. s. Allgood Items. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Algood, S. C., Jan., 8.—Some six or eight weeks ago I was in the moun tainous regions of North Carolina where the people work oxens and ride on sleds. The people up there are very clever and kind. They have something good to eat. plenty of sweet mash liquor, and enjoy fiddling and dancing very much. I had a partner along with me who was exceedingly fond of their sweet mash. He drank so much of it that his tongue seemed to be loose at both ends. He spoke so fluently and with so much elo quence that the mountain people took him to be a Baptist preacher. At a little social one night he gave them a small lecture about dancing. There was one nice looking red headed girl in the crowd who seemed to be deeply interested in his talk, her name was Miss Minnie Fisher. After my part ner got through his lecture Miss Min nie came around to where he was and conversed with bin on several sub jects concerning the Bible but he could not persuade her to give up the ball room, for she was an Hegant dancer. When Garrison Rollins would commence tuning up his banjo Miss Minnie would begin to promenade over the floor as swift as a bald eagle on the lofty peaks of Mount Pisga. There was one girl in the crowd who Slits not so well posted in running cotimon* o£-Uie^ 0t hers were, conse quently, she was a T^S^wkward, and whenever they would say pro? nade she would jump out in the mid dle of the ring and knock the back- step for about ten minutes just as hard as she could jerk it. I went by the town of Columbus, the first dead town I ever saw. There was a jail, a court house, two stores and a calaboose. While I was there I took a notion to get a little sugar to sweeten up a dram that we had in the wagon, so I went in one of the stores and got a nickle’s worth, and gave the clerk a five dollar bill to get his pay out of, he took it and ran across the road to the other store to get it changed and lost It, so you can read ily see that I have no use for Colum bus. We have some very game women around here. Last Saturday R. H. Hamilton, colored, was passing by Aunt Cassie Wilkins’, and she came out and asked him for a small amount of money that he had been owing her for three years. Rufe refused to pay her, and Aunt Cassie Trailed him over the head a few times with a stick, and made Hamilton pay up his little dues like a man. Three cheers for Aunt Cassie. Mr. Editor, here is a little puzzle for some Ledger reader to unravel. It seems impossible, but neverthe less it is true : There once lived at this place a man and his wife who had five children each, and there wasn’t but seven children in all. The first one that tells how this is will get a pair of L. T. Clary’s long cigars. I noticed in last week’s Ledger where Subscriber very ably and skill fully showed me how to scan hell, but he was very careful not to men tion how he could ascertain when the end of time will come. I can sub stantiate the fact by fifty living wit nesses that Subscriber is well ac quainted with a series of new bibles, entitled “An Epitome of the Divine Plan for Human Salvation”, which treats on pulpit infidelity of to-day. I don’t poke this at Subscriber as a slur, nor as an insult, but he craw fished a little last week, and I feel it my indispensable duty to remind him of it. But as Subscriber is a clever, genial, jocular kind of a boy, I will give him another funny little prob lem : If it takes a man two months’ hard studying to solve Bro. J. L. Strain’s little land problem, and then not gel it. how long would it take him to butt the horns off a Billy goat? Pound suppers and parties seem to he the order of the day around hero now with the young people. Hon. J. L. Clary gave them one last Satur day night. All report a nice time. Mr. TeabClary gave the youngsters a nice party Tuesday night. They had two fiddlers and one banjo picker. Plenty of music. Mr. James R. Moore gave them one last Wednesday night, which was the last one that we have any account of. They played until midnight, then took the parting hand and left for home. I enjoyed Flaw Picker’s piece last week very much. It was equal to any sermon that Sam Jones ever preached. Cunning Little Joe. . » For a pain in the chest a piece of flannel dampened with Ctnunberlain’s Pain Balm and bound on over the seat of the pain, and another on fthe back between the shoulders, will afford prompt relief. This is espec ially valuable in cases where the puin is caused by a cold arid there is a tendency toward pneumonia. For sale by W. B. DuPre. 81.00 A YEAR. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Daytonville, S. C., Jan. 6.—It’s no use to talk. Ole Flaw’s gol M mutch loadin’ as ho over had. Bm, that dream—I’ve bin tryin’ to gftther some more of hit up in my min<L but the only thing I can gather together that I have not already noted was a little pretendin’ White-Wing. I thought he came up to me an shook ray hand an said: “Got blesh you, Brother Flaw, youse shust the mon we needs. You shust gife it to ’em right.” “God help you brother, do you glory in bearin’ a crowd censured that way? It grieves me to have to do it, but it’s my duty, and you know Ole Flaw was never the man to flinch from duty. By the way, did you take any of it to yourself?” said I, while yet our hands were clasped. “Oh! no, no. You vash drivin’ at the shinners, I understood it at vonce,” said he. “An are you not a sinner, brother?” T asked, as I looked him square in the face an seen hipocracy bangin’ in pods around his eyes. “Oh! no. I vash shanctified. I vash mit out shin. I beliefs in ter holinesh doctrin’,” said he. “So do I, if a man will live up to it. Hits the only doctrine that will satisfy a man in his dying hours, but there is sitch a few that’s got it,” said I, as my attention was called to someone else; but I kept my eyes rivited on that little man. Directly I saw him come in contact with a great big fat man, and he got as mad as fire, an I could hear him cryin’ out with a loud voice, “I ish a little mon, but I can shtan up;” an popin’ his fists together, an 1 thought I said to myself, “Ole feller you mayby mought believe in the holiness doc trine, but you are like myself, you lack a doggone sight in practicin’ it. Really I do believe there is signs in some dreams. You scarcely ever thing but what some thin’ will turnu^f^Sltfcji^^® y° u think of it again. I’ll bet yoiT ^ head that there’s somethin’ in that dream yit, fer hit still lays as heavy on iny mind as a mess of peas an onions would on my stomach, es pecially that thar ole big-mouthecj hipocryt that yelped out “Amen” when I was givin’ them down the country. ihe folks in our part of the morral vineyard are in quite a stir at this writin’, as Mr. Newton Wrains has moved away, an Joe—well, let him go. God bless ’im, I will love ’im wherever he stray. An then there’s a crowd of niggers in his ole house. -^ n —yes, an thar’s Mr. Golden Spen cer, he never lets nobody git ahead of him in nothin’ they go at. Why, when they all commenced to move an flurry ’round from place to place, he gist picked up and moved an thetf removed right back to his same ole bouse. Flaw Picker. Correspondent Wanted. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Maud, S. C., Jan. 6.—Three cheers for The Ledger, whose success is un-r surpassed, that is finding room plenty at the top of the ladder, that floats out to its eager readers in every di rection, that makes homes cheerfifi with its bright pages full of news and good matter, that is relished by all who have read considerately. We are encouraged to see the improve ment on the part of correspondents and the marked increase of news. Let us give our kind and worthy editor and generous manager our best efforts in securing pleasant and elevating items and a prompt visit with a dollar. Let no one pull the bell cord who will not come at the call of the bell. May the wisdom that guided us through 1895 attend us, improve us and lead us to grander and nobler attainments that we may be able to say, “Happy the year 1896.” This place is yet quite busy mak ing preperotions for a tremendous drive at another crop. Some will sing for guano deeply plowed in the ground, for it will make the cotton grow that will bring the dollar round. Some are thinking of home with plenty of meat and bread and will look to homo supplies instead. The hollidays were passed with out any sad accident and the few fisticuffs were of a mild nature and little scratches and scars have dis appeared. The young people have enjoyed several nice sociables in this vicinity. Our new postmaster and assistant, R. E. Linder and D. F. Phillips, went to Gaffney on business Saturday. This place expects to have a new notary public. D. F. Phillips is tho aspirant. \Ve hope the honor may be confered upon him, as we greatly need a notary public since Wra. T. Thompson, Esq., has removed to Gaffney. Our vicinity has undergone quite a change this full, some moving out and others moving in. We regret to be separated from our acquaintances and friends, yet we enjoy making new ones. However, we hope all change® may be profitable and for the better. We will have a now correspondent at this place this year, as present arrangements prevent me from serv ing longer. I can but say that I wish him pleasure in his work and wel come him in our family. Who will volunteer to serve The Ledger. T,