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WEEKLY LEDGER; GAFFNEY, S. C., JANUARY 1(>, 18?H». For Rent. for rent. Apply to A, MEN lion od. For Sale. lALF. A lot of /ood youriK farm _1ps; will he sold <11 In r for cash or on Apply to l.. ti. Hyurft. SALE—Town lots. Oak food awl Hickory wagon axles. Gaffney. lRMING l.\ND FOR SALE— I’arties d. siring to buy good farm- r|and within two miles of (iaffmy ' find it to tln ir advantage to call ior write to R. K. Mct'raw, Gaffney. WANTED—otii) husluds of corn in the ear. Carroll Co , Lessees. r ANT ED—300 good post oak cross ties 8 ft. long with not less m H inehes face. Carroll itC<<.. JtfiseHS. ^Dissolution Notice. lOTH'E is hrn l.y riven tlmt the firm of ,1. S. U. Wuiuplirlcs. of Byarsvillo. ^1 is <;i- nlvc.! I'v inutunl consent. ,1. V. ItrMPHRIF.P, S. !t. Humphries. tyarsvlllc. ( .. Jim. t. ISOO. Wood’s Packets of Vegetable and Flower Seeds Contain more High-Grade Seeds than any other packets sold. Don t buy half-size, poorly- filled packets and commission seeds, which are not to be com pared, either in quality or quantity to Wood’s Packet Seeds. If your merchant does not handle Wood’s High-Grade Seeds send vour orders direct. We pay the postage, delivering packets, ounces and quarter- pounds of seeds free to your post-office at catalogue rates. tSTbescriptlve Catalogue and Guide to the Farm and Garden mailed free. Write for it. T.W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, VA. LITTLE LOCAL LEDO ERITES. This pleasant and perfect remedy, so delightful t<? take, so refreshing and exhilarating, stands in highest favor with all who know it best, as the great est of all medical remedies for both sexes, of all ages and in all conditions. 73 WHAT IT WILL DO FOR TOIL It will glie you APPETITE. It will glte jou restful refreshing SLEEP. It will stimulate your DIGESTION. It will restore your NERVOUS ENERGY. It will put your KIDNEYS in perfect order. (twill purify your Blood. It will change your weakness into STRENGTH. It will bring you out of sickness into HEALTH. X > r NEW PACKAGE, LARGE BOTTLE, 108 DOSES ONE DOLLAR. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY The Atlanta Chemical Co., Atlanta, Ga. WRITE FOR 48-PAGE BOOK, NAILED FREE. L. M. Cobb, one or Maud's sub- ; stuntial citizens, was in the city yes- j terdny. A fifteen mom Its old son of Mr. awl Mrs. Henry Byars died last Sat-| unlay of measles and was buried on I Sunday in the city cemetery. Manager Mike Montgomery, of the Knterprisc Stable Company, lias been 1 compelled to remain indoors for sev- j ! era! days on account of a slight at-S tack of t he grip. I A man that is mean enough to read | Tin: Lkdcku a whole year with out ' paying for it is too mean to get forgiv- j ness for his sins in a better world) above. If you are behind come in i an settle. The date on the label will 1 keep you posted. (Juile an enjoyable “at home” was | given to a host of friends at the resi- ! deuce of Mr. and Mrs. .las. .1. Guff- | ney's last Friday evening. The room 1 was beautifully decorated with ferns i and evergreens. The evening was de- | light fully spent. i’rof. J. E. Edwards, principal of the Gaffney Baptist High School, has had the misfortune to be detained to j his apartments it! the home of Rev. ' II. p. Robertson’s, where he is board ing, for several days on account ! of fcjcktn ss He is now able to be up again. During Ids illness the school ! was under the able and efficient direc tion of I’rof Henry Ross. Rev. J. D. Cront, the new Metho dist minister on this circuit, has en tered heartily hit Grout lias made iiti< friends among us. Your Attention for a Moment, Please. The advertising cob. n - of Thi. LKIHiKK have not h id ; for the past t welve mot.! issue. Perhaps t in* tin :< tent t hat you r< ad < he 1 in regard to his wares vm week. We ask you to rc;.d whet her new or not. and I KIH.KK a Ivert isers in < <•:<a i.res. , .i lids is con- lie story i* ad last the ads. to pa. r< niZ' cry possible The changes in tId instance paper are: Great closing ut A Go. For rent—A. \Voo< Best® Hour on earth- comb. .s A CAR’S ESCAPADE. IT STARTED A NEW DREED OF CAT TLE IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY. e—II L. Parks -J. X. 1.1 t>s- Gratn and Provision Market. \TK WlKK.l < losing. tiO'., [ItY T. \. I’Ul Nkm Youk. .Min. 15 Will. \ May July CORN May July () M S May July . . rohk January. •• May I,A 1(1> January... May It I US January May. cutToa January... r<'lirii.irv March ... A pril May J a in 1 July AuCoiNt Se|ii,«nilx’r I )ecein!»<‘r Tone !1 :n Opi'iiini;. .V.e 1 ize, ■■’Mi gi . ^>0 i5 10 00 i.V S| ' "Iy .Sj(l <■.>. l<;i.:ioo hales. his work Mr. is m '.king mm.y a He Is good preai I; i T NOW IS YOUR i? irv Never has there been for Furniture and something useful for such \LJ* ix a demand P ;- ? ^ O Q wer. 3\v' il» I 111 IS. Pictures of every description and many other things that will please you. Come and Inspect our Stock before the best is sold. ;R0LL, CARPENTER A HUMPHRIES, 111 f^ecMlingf Renters* ■ui^niture, Stoves, Buggies, Wagons and Coffins. iLl'JTOll & HtilC'V. Transact a General Banking Business H'CXCCWCCSVr allowed on Time Deposits by ^IHSCiAl Arrangement. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. "Vour I^sit ronai SSoIK'i< ocl. flieGaffnej City Land and Imprc^ect Company Offer for Sale Building Lots ii\ tin- I'hmrir' O JV I" I" IV IC \ 11 I I i Y C' r Limestone Spring 11me rates. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of »nd of this place in lots of from 30 to Hxi aero on liberal Also Agricultural Lands to rent for faro purpoM -. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—AH trespassing on lands of tIn*-Gompany cutting nui removing Iber, fishing or hunting are forbidden ii' .h r i i n:i!f\ ■•! I iw. GOT MARRtED ON CREDIT. Lack of Money Was No Impediment to the Student and His Bride. The city registrar’s office in tho old : courthouse is die scene of one or two marriages daily, and amusing incidents ! frequently occur. Perhaps the most pe culiar case that has come up recently, an account of which was related to a reporter A few days ago, is that of a Harvard student who was in love and i without funds. Tho love conquered his pride, and ho concluded to investigate the matter with a view of getting mar ried on trout. He made his appearance it the desk in the registrar’s office and inquired if that was tho place whore he could procure a marriage certificate and also get married. He was informed that it was, and a blank application was handed to him, which ho proceeded to fill out. After this proceeding was gone through with he looked up, and, in a hesitating yaanner, asked the clerk if he could have a few moments’ private conversa tion with him. Ho was taken into the anteroom, and this is the tale he un folded : He said that he was deeply in love with a young lady, and that she wa« also very much in luvo with him. But her parents had serious objections to the match and did all that was in ♦heir power to break it off. They had el ;ed their doors on him: but, notwith- ttanding this, he succeeded in arranging meeting* with his heart’s choice, and durfbg one of these he proposed mar riage to her and was accepted, he argu ing that if they wore joined in the holy bonds of matrimony nothing, not even her atern parents, could separate them. They had arranged the details and con cluded that the only thing to be done was to get married in secret and then separate until he should graduate from hia college. She, of course, would go back to her home and live with her parents as if nothing out of tho general run of events had happened. But the young man, being without funds, was in a dilemma, and the worst of it was ho could not see his way clear to procure the necessary amount to pay for the certificate and ceremony. His home was in a western state, and ho re ceived an allowance from his father only onco in six months. It was not duo for nearly two months. He concluded that his only course was to try tho method referred to above. The clerk, being a kind hearted man, told the youth that be would perform the ceremony and trust him for tho pay, provided the lady in question was of age. The next day the couple pat in an appearance and were married. Upon the arrival of the next allowance from Ids parent the youth walked into the office one day, made himself known end presented the and a judieion- worker of I earnest hut cordial maimer. He and ! bis charming wife are valuable ne- I quisitloms to our Christian rireh s and arc much uiiliiilYll by all \< !p. have met thein. The Yorkville Yeoman says: Dr. J. H. Save’s hosts of friends in this county reports that be is shortly to have Sharon anil make bis homo in tlx* wild and wooly west.” York’s loss will ire a great gain to the wild and woniy west,” for, besides Dr. | Save’s fine personal and professional qualities lit* is a s<don of grand oid South Garolina sleek, of which, t’ normal times, South Garolina \va- justly proud. Local Cotton Market, Tli<- following ai-- Hie <|U"taMo.,s f,r n,,. '•at eotton nnirkel. fnrnbli: <! I;v !>. .|,,ne .• Strict (»oo;i MMiiHiuf * ~ v() (ion<i M ftid liit}? 'll't'llliitf Y. ' G 7 7-|,. " he ill vets <p ta oi s for Jauuarj I.M i. WATER SNAKE FIGHTS EEL. Church Notes. Presbyterian church—Prayer- n< cl ing every Tuesday ul 7 p. m. Prea li- in^r every second and fourth Sabbath. Morning service II afternoo;; >.'rvic< 1 o'clock. All are cordially invited. Rf.v. G. E. Romkktson. Pastor Methndist church—Prayer-meetin'_« every 'Wednesday at 7 p. m. Preach ing every Sabbat h. Morning service pv af'ernoon service- < o clock. ! he lie is invited. Rky. D ' KOI T. Pastor. Information About Patents, \V<* have received from G. A. Snow i Ar ( <).. solicitors of i’nited States and ! foreign patents, of Washington. I) G.. a pamphlet reeont’v published i ami copyrighted by tinMii entitled: | •*A sun:mary of foreign patent laws j with information Hiul advice about j for ign patents, giving the cost of! same in various countries. The ! pamphlet is concise, well written Mid j contains, in plain statement, much ( that will he of interest to inventors, | patentees and manufacturers. A copy will he sent free to anyone ad dressing G. A. Snow it Go.. Patent Lawyers. Washington, D. C. - • r»»ortcnin£ ti»c? Friend—Doesn’t tho journey to and from tho country every day seem very long? Mr. Suburb—Long? It’s too short. When I tako tho train in the morning, I know I’ve got topiucli in and work like a horse the moment tho train reaches the city. That makes the journey seem too short, doesn’t it? “I presume it does. But how about tho journey back?” ‘‘Well, I always remember after I tit ait that I’ve forgotten something my wife wanted particularly, so that ride is always over too soon.”—Pearson’s Weekly. Terrific Combat Which Finally Kmled In the Eel’s Escape. “Did you ever know that there is a deadly antipathy between a common water snake and an cel?” asked tho fisherman. “Well, I never knew it un til »ui experience that I had in witness ing a fight between tho two. Personally I have the greatest dread of eels. I’m more afraid of them than I am of a snake, and you can imagine my chagrin when I happened to hook one on one of piy fishing expeditions. I was afraid to | touch it, and all I could do was to let it dangle in the air. I conld not get it off my hook, and I was meditating what, to do, when, altogether unnoticed, I allow ed the slimv object to drop down into the water, * "In a moment I saw a big water snake make a dive for it. At the first lunge it caught the neck of the eel squarely between its teeth, and I could see it sink its ugly looking fangs into the eel’s flesh. I waited anxiously to seo tho developments. With its grim hold still on the eel’s neck the snake, quick as it takes to tell it, wrapped its sinu ous body around its antagonist’s neck in an effort to squeeze it to death. The body of the eel was too sleek, however, and the snake’s coils, despite all it could ; do, would slip down into the water. Time and time again it tried to squeeze the life out of its antagonist, never for an instant releasing its hold on the eel’s neck, but tho body of the latter was too sleek for it and every time it would slip down. Finally the hook broke and the eel made good its escape.”—Indianapo lis Sentinel. ».lr • v.;ii ut Prices it J. I. Sarratts. BEST is what the People buy tho most of. That* 8 Why Hood’s Sarsaparilla has the largest •ale OF ALL MEDICINES. I .\M now offering my entire stork at |.ri'-es ■ wanting goods. Gents’ low cut shoes SOe. and up. Men’s suits, new goods $2 iio and up I hat will sell to anyorx Ladies ()()<•, Ghilds ;>tli Punts 40<* nod up. Cof fee 0 lbs for $1. *Sugar Rice, Tea. Lard. Meat. Klmir. and Tobacco at BOTTOM PRICES. California Hams Sr. Dove bra d 9e. Monazite tools, sueh as Shovels, Spades. Mattocks. Picks. Arc . tieaperthan any one In town. A few Straw Hats left at New York cost. GrnCs shirt- 16}c and up. Suspender* 6c and up. Give me a cill when In town. Respectfully. T- I- S'AA.KKA.'r'r. LIMESTONE SPRINGS * LIME * WORKS, CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturen of building, * agricultural * lime, \ln ►od Plaster Haii. ind Dynamite Caps. —Stylish jackets at your own price at Carroll & Carpenter. —Buy’ your carpets from Carroll A arpenter. —Set' Carrol! A Carpenter on clot hing, —Carroll A Carpenter arc st lliii,’ winter dress goods regardless of prices.* Notice, I AI>VF,KTISKI» sonic titne iik’o for UUHKt I bundles of fodder I huve already Itoue'ht 11.500, now want 10.000 more. Will have I car loud of mules and horses next Friday that must be dls|M»se<l of at once: also 1 ear No. 1 timothy hav. 2 second-hand carriages and harnesses, hack and three hturgies. J. (». Spciuior. KKKPBK K ATSFLUt. fi, (\ liKIX. AUSFELD & SEIZ, ARCHITECTS, Atlanta, G. A. Not So Awfully Superior. Paleface—Why don’t you get a civ ilized name for yourself, now that you have become a civilized Indian? Noble Red Man—Ugh! What your name? Paleface—My name is Iglehart. Noble Red Man (with crushing sat c.isiii)—Ugh! Iglehart! Heap good! In jun’s name Lagl* Heart! Heap bad!— Chicago Tribune. Statkof Ohio, City of Toi.kdo, / Lucus County. i s ' K ' Fkank .1. Chknky m ikes oath that lie is the senior partner of the firm of E. .1. ('llKNKV it Co., doing business ir the City of Toledo, County and Sfat aforesaid, and that said firm will pa* the sum of ONE HUNDRED DO!. LARS for each and every case o Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HAim's Gatakuh Cukk. FRANK .1. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribe in my presence, this flth day’ of JV* eember, A. D. IXN(». — A. \V. GLEASON, i »kal ^ Notary Public. •*’ '■* 1 Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous services of the sy’stem. Send for testimonials, free. E. *L CHENEY it CO., Toledo, O. UtF"Sold by Druggists, 76c. • . —Carroll it Carpenter are offerin' big bargains in winter clothing. Plan* and Specification* public bafiding** for private and —Go to Carroll it Carpenter’s you want to buy an overcoat. i Willing; to Please. Tourist (in Ireland)—I should like a room with an iron bedstead. Hotel Proprietor—Suit, Oi haven’t an iron bedstead in the place—they’re all soft wool. Bui you’ll find the mat tress uoico and hard, son-.—Pick Mo Up. The ancient inks closely resembled black paint, and on account of tho large quantity of gum employed in their com position the letters stood up in relief on the parchments as though embossed. In the early days of this century many efforts were made to fasten hard points to pens of sol tor material. Bits of metal were often i: dom'd as points to pens of gl::..-, tuitoise shell or horn. Heart" " Cured. A Convincing Testimonial* * 5 r s *s~ • Miss Ei,ux Kurtz. “For 19 years I suffered Irom heart trou ble. During that ttrjo I was treated by fire different physicians. All of them claimed that I could not be cured. I was greatly troubled w ith shortness of breath, palpitation and pain in the side. If I be came excited, or exerted myself in the least, tho pain in my side became very severe. At times it seemed as though nccdlai ucrc$hoot- irifj through my side. Sometime iu the mouth of November last, I commenced taking DR. MILES’ HEART CURE and since then I have improved steadily. I can now sleep on my leftside, something I had never been aide to do before. I can walk without being fatigued, and am in much better health than ever before, I would recommend all sufferers from heart trouble to try Dr. Miles’ Invaluable remedy without delay •’ MISS ELLA KURTZ, 518 Wright St., Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. Miles Heart. Cure fs sold on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell it at il, 0 bottles for *5. or it will be heet. prepaid, on receipt of price by tho Dr. Milos Medical Co., Kill hart. iutL Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure Coe Little's Rills aud Ills Train Failed to Agree When He Reached Fort Jervle. ( The Explanation Offered For the Cape Strange Freak. “It isn’t likely that there is any of tho Coo Little breed of cattle left in the upper Delaware valley,” said a veteran railroad man, “because, by this time, their identity mmst have been destroyed though mixture with other breeds. It doesn’t matter, for thero was nothing of particular hoto about that breed of cattle, except tho way they happened to be introduced into that locality. “In those days live stock transporta tion was one of the Erie’s big items of traffic. Trains half a mile long, loaded with horned cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, used to pass over the road two or three times a day. Such a thing is al most a curiosity nowadays. Coe Little was conductor of one of these stock trains between Susquehanna and Port Jervis. He left Susquehanna one night, in those good old days of railroading, with a long train of cattle cars. Those trains were next to passenger trains in class, and were run over tho road a-hum- ming. Conductor Little delivered his train at Port Jervis on time, and hand ed over his way bills, which ho had re ceived at Susquehanna, aud on which the number, character and contents of eA’ery car in his train were recorded. When the agent at Port Jervis compared Little’s train on this voucher, one car was missing. The car was entered on the 1 way bill as having left Susquehanna all right, but it wasn’t in tho train. Its i place, according to tho bill, was about iu the middle of the train. “Well, here was a situation. Coe Little declared that every car (ya*s iu the train when ho left Susquehanna, for he had checked the number of each one on the way bill himself. Ho certainly hadn’t delivered the missing car to any one on tho way, and ho couldn’t see how any one could have sneaked in and sto len it, especially as the train had been on tho move pretty much all the time between Susquehanna and Port Jervis. A telegram was sent to tho agent at Sus quehanna, asking for information about the missing car. The reply was that nothing was known there that could throw any light on the subject; quite tho contrary, for tho agent corroborated Little’s report. Tho car was iu tho train when it left Susquehanna. “During tho efforts of tho puzzled railroad men at Port Jervis to solve tho mystery of tho lost car, some oue dis covered that tho car that should have been just behind the missing one was coupled to tho one that should have been jnst ahead of it Avithont the aid of a coupling pin, the link being broken in such a way that it had become a hook, which was fast in the pinhole iu the coupler of the other car. This didn’t help matters a little bit, and rather deepened the mystery. “They were still deep in efforts to sofvo the mystery, and a car tracer was about to bo sent back over the road to see it he could find tho car, when a tele gram came from Shohola, a station 16 miles west of Port Jervis. Tho agent at that station said in effect that some body’s cattle car was astray in a field along the Delaware river just beyond Shohola station, and that somebody had better come and look after it. The wrecking gang was sent up from Port Jervis, and, sure euough, iu the middle of a field, 100 feet or more from the railroad, stood the missing cattle car-, right as a trivet, except that its doors were open and its cattle gone. To get where it was the car had run down a ten foot embankment, across a wagon road and through a stout rail feuce. “There was only one way to explain tho freak of the car iu quitting its train so unceremoniously. Goiug east aloug that part of the Erie tho track is ou a heavy down grade. Just before reaching Shohola tho coupling pin that held the car to the one ahead of it must have broken. This divided the train in two parts. The head car of the roar part jumped the track, and breaking tho link that hold it to the car behind it, went on down tho bank, getting out of the way of the cars following on the track. “When tho leading section of the di vided train got to the foot of the grade, its speed slackened. Tho hind section caught up with it, aud ran into the rear car, but not with force sufficient to do any damage or attract attention. Tho broken link, then a hook, happened to fall into the pinhole of tho coupler ahead of it. The train was thus recou pled aud went on to Port Jervis without the loss of a car right out of its very center having been discovered by any one. There is no parallel to this oue in the record of mishaps to railroad trains, aud it has never ceased to bo a wonder to all old time railroad men. “Well, whether the doors of the fugi tive car were broken by the jar and jolt of its trip down the bank, through the fence, and across the lot, or whether the cattle inside kioked them open, I can’t say. They were open, aud tho cattle jumped out. It was winter, aud tho Delaware river, only a few feet away, was filled with running ice. The cattle must have been iu a panic, or must have known that they were iu Pike county. Pa., or something of that sort, for they plunged into that icy flood ind made their way across the river into Sullivan county, N. Y. Searchers, accompanied by tho drover who owned them, found and recovered them all. One cow, u deep red animal with a white star iu her forehead, took the fancy of a farmer on whose premises some of the cattle were found, and he bought her. She had twin calves in tho spring, each marked exactly like tho mother. One was a bull calf, oue a heifer. Because of the way in which the stock happened to be there it was called the Coo Little breed, and for some years was a favor ite breed among the farmers of that part of the valley. "—New York »Sua.