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I THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFXEY, S. C., JANUARY 23, 1896. TliB WEEKLY LEDGER. PUBU I ! i KVKKV TIIUR8DAV BY The Li:: Aor.t: Printing and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. i'ni: liicnoER is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur- lish their ean.e, not for publication, but for identification. Writ, ^lort letters and to the point ;o insure puhlication; also endeavor to get them to the office by I uesday. \11 correspondence should be ad- iressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituar’us will be published at five cents a line. Cards of t banks will be published at one rent a word. Ih adin;.r notices will be published at s a line each insertion. Sip'. opies of the paper are (i\c cents each. THI USDAY. JANUARY 2:1. 189(5. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. As the anniversary of this great man’s hirth comes around, it is well for u- to call to mind his high char acter. pi' unostentatious life, his deep p i "iotism, his love of his fel low nem. Such pure men seldom are jurs. A ‘noble line of ancestry cul minated in him, as it was in him that tve find harmoniously blended the beaute s of them all. The following beautiful tribute to his memory is irom tho eloquent Benjaman 11. Hill, jf Georgia: ‘•W! u the future historian shall •ome ! urvey the character of Lee be will uid it rising like a huge mount; m above the undulating plain af liu: • ■ i.y. and he must lift his jy(-s . .ward Heaven to catch il- 3umi:i.t. i!( possessed every virtue )fot' r at eommanders without :heir v's. lie was a foe without bate: a friend without treachery ; a sold'u ;• it bout cruelty; a victor ivithout oppression, and a victim .vithoui murmuring. He was a pub ic oil without vices; a private fitizu: P.iiout wrong; a neighbor .vitln ; Mach; a Christian with- )ut 1 • risy, and a man without 'uii . Ho was a Ca-sar. without his mil. Irodriek without his tyr- mny o icon, without his selfish- ics.*- • lington without his re- vard. 1! was obedient to authorin is a si i vant. and royal in authority is a tno Jving. He was gentle as a vomai. life; modest and pure as a ,’irgiu !i ■(light ; watchful as a Ro- nan v<-i il in duty; submissive to aw as S .orates, and grand in batth is Achilles!” Tins, words may well be pondered :>y tlie youth of any country, in an\ THE RED CROSS ONCE MORE. Nui n ally, in times of famine oi distre s the world looks for some thing non- (ban a sentiment. Bravt hearls ;. i willing hands are th n al a premium. And it matters not whether the need is at home or ubri .oi. iiio the Jaw of supply and demand, it will he satisfied. Norn are Ik tier suited to carry relief to the down-1 Hidden Armenians than the Redt'r , under the wise leadership of .Mi - ( iara Barton. Mniie^ os been freely promised, and .M Barton has consented to go on he mission of love; but an angrv growl . •eompanying a flat refusal to admit bearers of the Red Gross is all w< h< : r from the Sultan, whih tin ry of his subjects contin ue will icentious fury. 1 In; liuth must he hid. Too many dark c iies have already been de picted I ( i'o.e other eyes than tL Turi;. than has been good for tin peace of the weak monarch who pre- ten. Is I > rule am empire. Tin . is heaping up wrath agains the n: y of wrath. Her days ar< numbered; her valuable territory will be partb i mod, but not before Mos lem s|;i Inn vented its rage on tin onl) subjects that are worthy of the name A CHANGE IN CUBA. Whil Turkey in the East is op- pr< iii In r host citizens, Spain in Hit West is trying to subdue a people de termined to he free. General Cam pos, the Spanish commander, is too humane for the bloodthirsty Span iard. He has not shot every rebel who Im fallen into his hands, nor has In | plied the torch fast enough. He must ive place to one wh > will show quick return by bringing the rebel toterms. I n t he mean time the “rebels are uniting more firmly than - \ r and are assuming theofTen- sivt a never before. The new general will have a hurdi time of it than the one just recalled to Spain. ( , a sympathizers are increasing « ■ ver hand. Many are i here who we . i lend a helping hand to Cuba in h r call for help, in this . r dire extremity, if they could do o with impunity. Belligerent rights are what Cubans now ask. To the United States they hold o. t pleading hands. The insur- roetioi appears to be approaching a crisis. One thing is evident. Spain canno I mg hold Cuba in subjection. SHEEP HUSBANDRY. Interest is awakening in this all but abandoned industry. Perhaps it has reached the low water mark. Circumstances seem to have com bined against the raising of mutton. Tho cur is more petted than ever. Every cabin, however humble, boasts a cur or two of low degree, the sworn enemy of the only animal that utters no cry for help. Our fields are as numerous as ever, but the old worm fence is almost a relic of the past, and a better has not yet taken its place. Our hill sides are growing up in broom straw and briers, when by a wholesome tax on the worthless cur or hound, the way would be opened to cover them with flocks and herds. Mutton chops are almost a forgottei luxury and wool is never offered ii t he markets for sale. The sheep rapidly improves the soil. He asks little at the hands oi man but returns to him that whicl makes him rich indeed. A wholesome and wholesale killing of 7o per cent, of the dogs in tin state would wonderfully stimulati t he raising of sheep. That day is noi yet in sight. Our timid law maker? are too mindful of the owner of tin cur. PRESS OPINION. Hog and Hominy” should he tin motto of every farmer during thi year.—Ba m burg He ra 1 d I he Legislature met yesterday and no man can tell what mischief wil evolve from the brains of the member? before the adjournment.—Cheraw Reporter. The Republicans who think that Maryland and Kentucky are going L vote fora Republican President wouh better brace themselves for a terribh disappoint merit.—Anderson Intelli gencer. * * * The Senate is to be .congratulate! bin Senator PefTer’s friends have rea s oi to fear that he is loosing his wind liislast speech extended over onl\ two days and was completed yester day.—Charlotte Observer. • -4* V . Allgooa Allegations. [Correspondence of Tin; Ledger.] Ai.good. Jan. 21.—W. I). Byars and wife visited It. L. Watkins and fain ily, of Hickville, X. Saturday am. Sunday. -Mrs. L. E. Dorman visited Fran I (iarner and|family Sunday. Miss Cl tudie Tindall, of Spartan burg, is visiting relatives here thi? week. .Misses Bessie and Edna Richard? visited Mrs. Mary A. Gardner Sunday 11. F. L. Turner and wife visited A. B. Cash and family Sunday. R. B. Powell was in Gaffney last Saturday on important business. W. 1). Byars went to Spartanburg last Tuesday on business. Miss Roxana Gardner, of Clifton, • wing to ill health, has returned to >cr old home to stay for some time. Mrs. .1. R Moore is on the sick list. There was a sociable and a dance at A. H. Daniels' hist Saturday night, vhich, they say, capped tho climax. A few days ago while the school toys at Macedonia were playing hull Lester Daniel let the hat slip out of os hands aid it struck Buren Clary icross the nose and right eye. He vas quite severely hurt but is all igbt now. There i- a stray pointer dog at W. I). Byars’. I'lie smoke-stack of Gaffney's new oill is like a city that is set on a hill. It can he seen distinctly at man) loints in this community, towering I hove the highist forest pines. Tim answer submitted by W. .1. G.. >f Sunny side to my hen problem is •orrect. SriiscRiBKK. Stati: oi < Mito, < Tty ok Toledo, i Leers Coi'XTY. s s ‘ S- IT;\\k J. (Tiknkv makes oath that ie is t he senior part nor of 1 he firm of P. J. t’HKN’KY A'Co.,doing business in He <"ity of Toledo, ('(Minty and State if.•resaid, and that said firm will pay he sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every ease of ('atarrhthut cannot bo cured by tho Une of Hall's Cat a huh Ci he. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence, this (itb day of De cember, A. I). INM. A. W. GLEASON, ■ seal ^ Notary Public. Hull’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter- i ally and acts directly on the blood md mucous services of the system. ' tid for testimonials, free. K.J. CHEN EY A CO., Toledo, O. £^"Sold by Druggists, 7oc. JUDGE BRAWLEY’S CHARGE. Denunciation of Evils Existing Among Minor U. S. Officials. In the United States Distric Court yesterday the grand Jury announced to court t hat it had concluded the work set before it, and Mr. T. Pinckne) Lowndes, as foreman made the pre sentment. The presentment is a very brief document and purely for mal. Judge Brawley then delivered the following charge to the grand jury: Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen : Before relieving you from your arduous' .la bors which have been discharged with great fidelity, promptness and intel ligence, the Court wishes to expres? its sincere thanks. Your work has materially contributed to driving from these walls time motley crowd of pimps and perjurers that has so long polluted them. Your findings have demonstrated that nine-tenths of the prosecutions under Section 3,242 have no merit in them ; that they have not been inspired by any proper lesire to advance the cause <>f justice but by the greed of miserable wretches who have sought to mak* money out of them. Some of these men have already been brought to trial and convicted of perjury and others doubtless will be; but this evil, which has reached the propor tions of a gross public scandal, can not be eradicated by the punishment of a few obscure rascals. A new •rop will undoubtedly spring up unless some means can be devised for reaching the root of it. This lies in the fee system. My observation on this Bench has -atisfied me that more than one-halt • f the prosecution under this sec- ion—in the lower tier of counties 1 vould say fully nine-tenth of them— tre instigated or promoted by the leputy marshals. I must do Mar- hal Hunter the justice of saying that he lias promptly removed even leputy who has been known to be engaged in this kind of business. • ut there are undoubtedly man) jersons nowon his lists who ought to >e removed and would be if the truth could be discovered, and I d<. not despair of seeing the badge of a leputy marshal one of honor, as it -hould he. Those who hold tin •ommission of this Government Might to he above the suspicion ot toubtful acts, and the men who tisgrace the service* should be re lieved. They impair the usefulness md bright discredit upon the bruv» md honest men who are on the rolls, these faithless officials and thesi vorthless witnesses would be power- ess for evil if the commissoners d'nt iot lend too ready an ear to the tale? hat are brought to them. The Circuit Judge, whose long expo ience on this bench opened his eye? o these evil practices, as mine have ooen opened in the last year or two. joined with me six months ago in a circular to the United States com- nissioners giving advice and instme lons in this class of cases. Thes* nstructions have had little effect. Human nature has been too strong ior us. I say it with pain, for I vould not willingly hurt their feel ings and they are all quite up to the iverage in character and consci •ntiousness but the wretched system vhich makes their income to depenu upon the number of warrants issue! uakes it very hard indeed for them to turn a deaf ear and a stern face !<• those who bring grist to their mill.— Charleston News and Courier. ^ Many merchants are well a wan that their customers are their best triends and take pleasure in supply mg them with the best goods obtain ible. As an instance we mention Berry A Cameron, prominent drug- rist of Flushing, Michigan. They say: “We have no hesitation in rec ommending Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to our customers, as it is the best cough medicine we have ever sold, and always gives satifaetion.” For sale at 2.') and iiO cents a bottle by W. B. DuRre. 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-oliico at catalogue rates. a^rbescrlptlve Catalogue and GulJe to the Farm an ! Carden mailed free. Write for it. T.W.WOOD&SOf STATE NEWS. 1 (HO people moved to IVlzer in tills •''•ate in one day from three counties in Xorlh (’arolina. .They went there to work in the mills. Think of a 'inall town increasing its population more than a thousand in one day. •Such a thing has never been beard of in the South before.—Cheraw Re porter. * * * Coroner Couch concluded the in- r otigation of the killing of young Garvin Allen, on Tuesday of last week, and the jury found that Allen came to his death ,>y a gunshot \* und in the back of his head, said gui was in the hands of Wiley Thompson, and the killing was pre- n ('' •tated murder.—Aiken Journal i id Review. * * * Rev. Henry M. Mood, whose »x- treme illness a short time ago caused anxiety among his many friends, ha? recovered sufficiently to go about the city. He ha? btvn .'ii years in the S. (’.Conference M. E. Church South, and Wednesday, January loth, will be bis golden wedding anniversary. On that day 184<>, he was married .• Miss Laura A. Clark, of Abbeville Watchman and Southron. * He * A (trover. N. C.. correspondent oi the Yorkville Enquirer says: Mr. \\ f. Hart ness, a highly respected am. well-to-do white man of York countv was shot and seriously wounded by a negro, near here last night. Tin negroes were having a row in one of the tenement houses near Mr. Hurt- ness’ residence and Mr. Ilartness wa? called upon to make peace. He wa? ?liot in or near the groin twice with a pistol. One ball passed through and the other lodged. He is doing a? well as could be expected and wil. probably recover. * * * Last year Mr. Dill, of Sandy Flat. S. C., raised oJO bushels of potatoe? on one acre at a cost of twenty-fivi dollars. If sold at only ,’>0 cents n bushel this crop of one acre would net $240. as much as the gross price of six 500 pound bales of cotton al 8 cents a pound, or as much profit as would be made on twenty-four bales >f 8 (*en‘. cotton. Such instances a this ought to have effect. The “al. •otton” theory has long ago been condemned by experiences, and tin nearer our farmers come to makiri}. •otton a surplus crop the better off ihey will he—Charlotte Evening News. . — An Express Agent. Mr. J. E. Mischell, Agent South -rn Express Co., Griffin, Ga., Ma\ 8th. 1895: 1 have used King? Royal Cermet tier in my family, an consider it the best medicine i havt ever used. It lias relieved me m muscular rheumatism. I also knov d several other cases oi rheumatism and catarrh that have been cured by its use.” Write t< the Atlanta Chemical Co., Atlanta. Ga*. for 48 pag * book, giving full in • urination, free. New package, largi bottle, 1U8 doses, $1. For sale b\ W. B DuRre. Do you know That inir stock of Staple und Kano.v (iroceries is the most complete in tlo city? Well, It’s a fact, And there Is no denying t tie assert ion Canned I’eachcs. Tomatoes, Corn. Etc., at the lowest market price. ((ive us a call when you want I’rcsh Groceries. Yours Truly, BYARS & SPARKS, Exclusive Grocers. »a7 V< ;..etaides of all kind? in season. Caveats, »o4 Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-' ent business conducted for moderate Fees. Our Office is Opposite U. 8. Patent Office and we can secure patent in less time (baa those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip tion. Wj advise, if patentable or not, free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet, ** How to Obtain Talents,” with cost of same in the U. S. ond foreign countries sent free. Address, u , _ ■ iP%a w sva TUT w w I i opp. Patent o»>ic?, vvasmingtc.*- n. c. ^ ' * * xwwW'-" .i• *.*» I Seedsmen, RICHMOND, VA, c r:rr ,:V THE WEBBER HOUSE T. S. WEBBER, Prop. W. D. ARCHER, TOxkokiai* Haii'-cuttiiig, ill the latest styles J Shaving and Shampooing at reason able prices. £jgr"Sltn|i ncxl to J. D. Goude- lock’s store. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report ABSOLUTELY PUltE Whitney News. [Correspondence of The Lkdgkk.] Whitxey, S. 0., Jan. 20.—This is a nice, quiet little place and is looking forward and upward now as we are going to have a new mill in the near future. It is to be a 10,000 spindle mill, the same size as the old mill. The engine will be a(iOO-horse-povvcr. There are now forty-four houses for operators and they are hauling lum ber to erect that many more. Lon Fanner has the contract to erect them. Ibis mill now works 175 employes. We have a nice church, of which Rev. W. R. Smith is pastor. We also have a comfortable school room and a flourishing school which runs eight months in the year. Miss Lula \ tmn is the teacher Several of tiie young ladies have quit the mill and are going to school. Mr. Cleveland has made quite an improvement since he has been presi dent of the mill and makes thing? more comfortable for his.help. Mr. Halliburton, of the company 'tore, has been absent for the past veek looking after business in North Carolina. Some of the Inman girls bav been •pending a few days with Misses Ma mie and Emma Leonard, of this place. Miss Maggie Tindall is visiting Gaffney this week. The remains of Mrs. Hattie Webb were enterred at Liberty yesterday. She was a daughter of Ben McCombs. >f Tucapau. Come again. Brother Fluwpicker. Dream all you can. If the shoe lit- mybody they will be sure not to let it be found out. Of course everybody iliinks I know who it fits. Don’t be <—rlain. friends, that you have not :ot it on before you accuse others. What about Subscriber ' He seems to have Iih feather ruffled. Chine. ,lt may Do As Much for You. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, III., vrites that he had a Severe Kidne) trouble for many years, with severe pains in his hack and also that his iladder was affected. He tried many '0 called Kidney cures hut without my good result. About a year ago lie began the use of Ele tricBittersand found relief at once. Electric Bilti r? is especially adapted to cure of all Kidney and Liver troubles and often .lives almost instant relief. <>:,e : rial will prove our statement. Rriei inly 50c. for large bottle. At \Y. B DuRre’a Drugstore. JANUARY 5th, 1896. THE < WINTER - TERM Howell’s Ferry News. [Correspoudeiic! * 1 i.i 1 Howells Fekkv j-,-> . i \\\. have had some very bail weather dur ing the past week. Farmers in iiii? ?••(''' ^v, begun to turn their stutihh and .w oats. What has !>e( •ome if il : oilier Clib. He must be frn/r ,i;it. We hopt to bo able to r -port a wed ding i n 1 Ids com mu i n . e.-k. Your correspomh i caugiit in a runaway scrape last v< (k but es- caped wit lioul in jury ., 1! i t?il You he rode a Ii! t ff tusler 1 • < ommoii and a little faster 1 i;.. 1 ! .. v •• ■ ? ; 11 ride !<n t wo win Is. W e arc under : in 11 : 1; Y' -ion as our brotli t .,*. .-j-. •• ;, ;■ n! ftMin Trough ahout Bru i !,), i ker. He must have gnt > mi:' <.i' . ■ (is meat arid eat to.) m;; -h uf ii for nip i* and it lay loo hea*. .' (. , 1,., ■l omaeh. We arc ex| '•ue from 1 u\v 111 is wet . Mr. Jam?? Br .: l • .1 .: i ' iiss Stew- art. of Blacksiiu;. w ii iiniled in ill* 1 Lol * n« in,; > v»j • j , j j ( 11 )iiy last 1uesday. riiree eh • ! Shq is Olio of t he 5.. - pap. i l.o * at Sa m:io. '; O M leads to dy spepsia and be?t remedy ia aPARILLA. CEO. S. BACKER & SON, Manufacturer!, of Doors, Sasti, Dltails, skiliis;;,; sns Baii log Material, Sash, Wt^ils anil Cords C'll A I.l ) X. jgi. Purchase our make, whit'': w,- uar :ntee to Superior to any sold S" th, . ;,,1 thereby Save Money. WINDOW am) FANCY GLASS A SPLCIAL* AT- HUDSON'S Business Uuiversity vill begin Jan. (Jtli. i’ructh-al work. High grade of study and moderate x ponses. •ml for catalogue. J. E. HUD ON, iTincipnl L. BAKE V * !ACTOR m vUlLDER, FOR SALE. 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