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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY 1.% 1800. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PtTBLISMKD KVKKY TI'l’iiSDAY ]!»' The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. 0. SAMS. - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP. Manager and Local Editor. run Lkdgi:u is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- oute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, out for identification. Write short letters and to the point o insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the oflice by 1 uesday. ■Vll correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. II. Det'amt', Manager. Obituaries will he puldi-hed at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will he j ui 1 i.ed at one cent a word. Reading uotieps will he puhlishi’d at five cents a line each insertion. Single copie- of the paper are live cents each. f nity. It is the summer chicken that flourishes. Very seldom is it that frying sized chicks are offered for sale in our market before the hMli of .lin e. There are several reasons for this. First, chickens are not brought out soon enough, and second, the large fat growing varieties are not on the market. It would have done the eyes of an amateur good last spring 1o 1 witness three yards of I’lymoth , Rocks—raised by Dr. I>. R. Frontis, of Ridge Spring. One yard was de voted to the old style I’lymoth Rock —the Barred; another to the White, and still another to the Rntf. As we looked admiringly at these line, healthy chickens we thought here was pleasure and profit combined. This variety suits well our climate and can’t be surpassed for the table. THE MEMORIAL THURSDAY, FFBRFAUY Id. lN ( Jd. A DEAD ISSUE. Representative Tolbert was called to explain Ids words recently made in Congress, when the good name of bis stale was assailed. The unwar ranted alt act: should have been met. and Colonel Tolbert was a good one to meet it. Far from being ashamed of the part South Carolina took in leading the secession movement and in main taining her position by force of arms until her banners were furled at Ap pomattox, he was proud of her ai;d of his part in that great struggle. But the word- that out into the super- sensativc souls of such men as Bar rett of Massachusetts, and Boutolle, of Maine, were these, reiterated by iol- bert. “I thought we were right, and I think so yet, and under the same circumstances, surrounded by the same conditions, 1 would do the same thing again.’ - “The lost cause” has settled the question of the ability of our state to secede from the Union. Like circum stances and the same conditions can never again arise as ushered in the year IShl. He who takes from its quiet n st ing place the buried past and makes a show of patriotism while he dis credits the actions and motives of others deserves to lie se verely rebuk ed. South Carolina is as loyal U> the Union today as she was before Hie subject of secession was first, mooted. The noisiest are not always Un- bra vest. CHARLESTON IN THE TOILS. lias Governor Evans a grudge against Charleston that he forces on her the Metropolitan police? Charles ton had just passed through the severest municipal contest in her his tory; a mayor of known integrity had just been elected. Without giv ing the new council a chance to carry into effect any much needed reforms; without knowing whether the dispen sary laws would be enforced with greater strictness than formerly, hut just at the initial period of the coun cil’s career, the Governor enters the field and takes into his hands powers that were only intended for an emer gency. And Charleston is almost powerless. We can hardly believe that person al considerations influenced the Gov ernor, hut it is difficult ot herwise to unravel the situation. Charleston is the metropolis of our state. She has not sprung into e.\i"t- ance in a day. Her history hears inspection. Nor will her police sys tem suffer from an intimate acquaint ance with its management. She is able to take care of herself and main tain the law of the land if left un- t ram in el led. Her own arrangements are far su perior to any that the state can give her. THE CITADEL. Dr. A. Toonur Porter, of Charles ton, comes boldly forward, advising against disturbing the Citadel. As an educator he appreciates the thor ough work doncat the Citadel in pre paring the young men of the State for any of the responsibilities that await them. Next to West Point in the strictness of her discipline, she comes very close to her in the effi ciency of her Work. Dr. Porter soon saw that his school lacked what military discipline would secure, .lust at this time his plans were furthered by securing for the Academy the beautiful grounds of the Arsenal in Charleston. Gradu ates of the Citadel have been his ac tive co-laborers during all these years of increased prosperity of (lie Acad emy. Dr. Porter now says: “If I was forced to give up the military feature 1 should disband this school at once.” :i< * * * * “I wish 1 could impress all with the conviction that schools, acade mies, colleges arc not the creation of a day. Money, political influence, patronage, all combined, alone do not make useful institutions. They are a growth, t hey are wielded by tra ditions, by a thousand intangible in* fluenees which only time and expe rience cun give.” Dr. Torter's success enables him to speak with authority. It is easier to pull down than to build up. Gen erally those who would pull down know nothing of the work that en dures. CONFIDENCE REIGNS. We can imagine the look <>f satis faction on the face of the Secretary of the Treasury, as the bids for United States bonds were publicly opened for tabulation. Xo better test could have been given U> prove the confidence of the American peo ple in the strength of the Govern ment. Instead of the President and Secretary wrecking the government’s credit by their unflinching determi nation to meet the nation’s indebted ness by paying out the more prec ious metal, they have sustained that credit. And now the call for a pop ular loan has met with such a hearty response as to disarm suspicion. A call for .$100,<>(K) 000 in gold, and six times that much in bonds is called for by the people. Well it is for the United States that, during these trying years of fi nancial stringency when even (Con gress was “at sea,” that the execu tive head of the government was a man of keen discernment backed by unflinching determination. When he lays down the cares of official posi tion, he will take with him the thanks of many who trusted to his guidance. But above all will he that inner satisfaction that comes alone from duties well done. OUR BIRDS-WHERE ARE THEY. Even to the casual observer the last quarter of a century shows a wonderful decrease in the number of the feathered tribe. Time was when field and forest were vocal with their many songs. The question may well he asked, where are they now? The small boy with his single-barreled gun who shoots recklessly, with not a thought beyond the present, and the man who shoots for the bright plumage that his pockets may be filled while supplying a demand, can best answer this question. The State steps in too late to rem edy the evil. Already many species have been exterminated. And that means that we will never have them Of the Gospel Temperance Union of South Carolina Respectfully presents to Mu Gen- i ral Assembly of South Carolina that it is an organization composed of citizens of the State, having for il- object the suppression of the liquor traffic. In pursuance of this object the Executive Committee of this or ganization have had prepared a bill to amend certain sesetions of the existing Dispensary Law. which is now before both Houses of the Gen eral Assembly for your consideration. These amendments propose to elimi nate any profit furt her than necessary to enforce the same; and further eli minate the dispensing of intoxeating liquors as a beverage, so tiiat they shall be only sold for medicinal, mechanical, scientific and sacramen tal uses. These amendments represent the wishes of the Gospel Temperance Union of South Carolina and the Christian sentiment of the State. We make this appeal lor their adoption for the reasons following: I. These aim ndmenls are such as will put the Dispensary law in las ting favor with the best and most luwabiding people of our Stat e. It. The law. as amended, will have the hearty support in its en forcement of the conscientious citi zens and lovers fo sobriety. III. It will allay the discontent of Prohibitionists and others if intox icating liquors are no longer sold as a beverage, as there are many who think the State has no right to sell it as a beverage. IV. If such amendments are adopt ed as will unite the good people of the law, the illicit sales will neces sarily he decreased. Such changes will in no wise affect the provisions of the act regarding its enforcement, all such provisions remaining in full effect. V. The sales of liquors will then be as much or more under the con trol of the State than it could possibly he otherwise, inasmuch as good or better men could be secured to act as officers in the Dispensary, and no church could refuse to keep a mem ber in good standing who, held such an office, which is not the case now. VI. As the Act now stands we find the State with a lawunder which no eonsistant church member can accept an office, and an institution of the State upon which he cannot in voke God's blessing. VII. The law, in its presents shape, is partieularly objectionable, because it provides that the State shall do that which the church has said can not be done without sin. \ III. It humiliates, debases, and destroys public conscience in receiv ing for education hush-money—the price of the eternal ruin of immortal souls: such money as the Scribes and Pharisees who purchased the Sav iour's blood refused to receive when returned to them by Judas Iscariot. IX. It is further objectionable because it gives the gloss of respec tability to a trallic that undermines society, demoralizes its victims, im poverishes its citizens, and becomes responsible for a great majority of the crimes and the constant infrac tion of the laws of the State. X. The sale of intoxieating liouors as a beverage by individuals or by t In state, never being right, no good man can consistently do other than pro test against any legal approval of the^same. XI. The Dispensary law makes every citizens a stockholder, sharing in the profits if there he any, and in the liabilities, which are certain. See Habakkuk 2:1^, 15, “Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttestthy bottle to him. and makest him drunken also. Woe to him that huildest a town with blood and establisheth a city by in iquity. - ' This being true, the State has covered with shame all of her citizeiin, instead of protecting them from such dishonor as a true mother would her children. XII. The present law antagonizes the Church, good society, makes criminals and law-breakers of her citizens, as no man filled \.ith liquor is any longer a law-abiding citizen, hut is a fit subject for arrest for drunkenness, if not for crimes he is very liable to commit. XIII. Those amendmentsjsuggested are not political or partisan in their nature; they are the demands made by the great Christian Church of our State which can not he silent without sin, and which, in the name of her I communicants and b\ her Gospel Temperance Union, which appeal for) deliverance from the unholy alliance ‘ into which she, as n part of the j State's citizenship, has beoen forced to participate. XIV. This appeal is also made by the Gospel Temperance Union in the name of the four hundred ministers i of the Gospel who have written the Executive Committee that it is their wish to have said amendments made to the present law. XV. Lastly, gentlemen, we urge upon you in the name of our God and of our fallen and helpless brothers victimized by strong drink, with broken wills, unable to take advan tage of a Kcely euro and anxious to he delivered : and then we invoke you, in the name of their broken-hearted and impoverished famiiie", to grant our appeal, thus removing “the most prolific sources of misery and crime and the greatest hindrance to the progress of t he cause of Christ,” do ing what we think is right, and fail ing to do which would be wrong, and forever tarnish the good name of our State and fix. perhaps forever, the greatest imaginaM • curse with the I divine sentence of “woe,” upon the citizens thereof. Respect fullv, !>. L. BOOZER, T. .1LaMOTTE Secretary. 1’resident. A Message from Midway. [Correspondence of The Lkixieh.] Midway, S. ('., Feb.. Id.—We an having the best school here that has ever been known at this place, I be lieve. Miss Antoinette Bianton isour teacher. She lias between thirty and forty scholars. She has been getting along fine with them. 1 am afraid the recent rains will throw stubble turning and oat sow ing behind. We are having a lot of sickness in our community. Little Sallie Teal lias been very sick of catarrhal fever, hut I am glad to hear she is able to he up now. Mrs. Jane Hill has been very sick but is now improving. Dr. S. B. Crawley has reported that Highest of all in Leavening Power.- ABSOK.UTi£tt.1 l’ink < iarner's consumption wife is very low with Litti.k Rat. Free Pills. Send your address toll. E. Bucklen A Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Rills. A t rial will convince you of t heir merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to he perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to he purely vegetable. They do ^ not weaken by their action, hut by | giving tone to stomaehe and bowels - greatly invigorate i he system. Regu lar size -.‘5c. per box. Sold by W. B. BuRre, Drucgist. Curiosities of War. Exactly i!SN,*2<>0 patriots ^ in the American Revolution. Great Britain now owns (>.ill*2 can nons; France, \210 and Germany, 5,I*2(). 1 The war of the lovers was the seventh war of France, waged be tween the years I57(’> and EATS. At the present time all Europe i ;> well-armed camp and has so been for more than a lyiartor of a century. The great gun factory at Wachiug- ton—one of the largest, in the world, employing 1.500 men—tniusout guns valued at .$50,1100 apiece. At Gettysburg, the American Waterloo, 110,000 m*-n fought, of which number 2S.EIS Fcderu's a: d .'>7,000 Confederates were wounded, killed or captured. In I Chronicles 111:17. record is made of 500,000 being slain on one side, which, however, may not have been in a single battle. 1 Kings 20:2(5, tells of 100,000 men being killed on one side in a single day. Bohn says that in iShOtho world has expended .$ 15,000.o(m 1.( <-0 in wag ing war and four tim s that sum in holding standing armies in rcadim-ss. England claims to possess a navy of 707 vessels of all classes, aggregating 1,700,000 tons, and 1,000.000 horse power.—St. Louis Republic. The]: lit tie daughter of Mr. Kred Webber, Holland, Mass., hud a. vi ry had cold and cough which he had not been able to cure with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent bottle of Chun - berlain's Cough Remedy, says W. R. Holden, merchant and post master at West Brimtield, and the next time I saw him he said it worked like a charm. This remedy is intended es pecially for acute throat and rung diseases such as colds, croup ami whooping cough, and it is famous for its cures. There is no danger in giv ing it to children for it contains noth- The IlJ passed roc' ures 1,f vtl passed hill 1 ran-'port road comp:’! quire railrol ti rst-class col dr.t mu of wli! gers and to i| work of empioj 'I h- sc 1;. js-jJ and have pas sent at i vi-s hi fo| fa ■ in the Seta funeral.—Co tl Catarrh v.i.h L'K'AL A’ anno H C;.;: J t ill .om; ! ■ A i, ou must 1 ak< * Hall's Catarrh 1 '■ nally, and act a ml mucous surf: -A 1 'ure is not a qm v.;; prescribed pbys'n kins in tin ami is a regular ; composed of tlie combined wit h l h - ers. am ing direct !y - r.rfaccs. The per/ ! he i wo ingredii ::i such wonderful t ('ata’.vli. Send for F. J. CHI Rr Sold bv drinrgi-1. Y O' >-ur Attention! mg injurious. I HiRree. For saK bv GEO. S. HACKER & SON, W E n spectfully solicit yourBl ronugc for the M< . in iron \\< WE are prepared to d- ork of lescription in mr various dl i . at;. in qu mtitj • d q utlfl suit the most 1 xaet 1; g. 1(1*1 W5iA-.'r & CO WE car. furnish you iu a vy huj mater ials, such .!" Lu: ::;!)er. 1 glcs. Laths, Brick. Lime, 1 prom: >t!y and in g <! > i i it ] .V . WE are ready to g.-t im - anv d; a SI '.iiridi* finishing, s'- k as Ma - r Doo s . Sash, Ulii. Moult lir ' >w Balki t . ., etc. () i 11 I - -n Foupilry : ■ i M aeiiini- ^ ] is cqilipped l’>.r i--:■ 11 • Um i g ! hci east in gs as v -: I . inarj ’ i works L. BAKER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Will do any class of carpen ter work promptly and at prices to suit the quality, and always keeps on hand flooring;, ceiling;, siding, sa di, doors, etc. Also a good supply of heart pine shin gles at market price. Will also make out hills for building ma terial for parties who desire it and lill the same for a small per cent. Give me a trial. Respectfully, Iw 3 5itkei% Manufacturers cf Doors, Sasli, Blinds, Moulding and Build ing Material, Basil, Weights and Cords, C5 11 A I* I vKSUin >>c. s. Purchase our make, which we guarantee to be Superior to any sold South, and thereby Save Money, WINDOW and FANCY GLASS A SPECIALTY Ml tl Oak ami o'. In ; -.s of Manth-s an w inning a r.-p H a! :oti. Beauti ful work for very ./He money. Give us your orders and wc ; -o: .. ;- to do all we can to please you. Cu!’. .1 or corres pond wit’.-, us. MORGAN IRON WORKS, riu >>::s'ig, <2*. CHAS. Id. CARLISLE. Pri . and Treas. r * * icc-xrrcjca Cut Prices At J. I. Sarratts. M. Montgomery. II. L. Spear,. II. A. Ilohm ‘ S i ENTERPRISE - STABLE - C0„ 1 ,vM now offering my entire stock at prices lhat will - i! to anyone * wanting goods. Gents’ low cut shoes NOc, Ladi. U /Pc, Childs 50c and up. Men’s suits, new goods $2.5(1 and up, Rants .i'v and up. Cof fee filhs for $1. Sugar. Rice, Tea. Lard, Meat, Flour, and Tobacco at BOTTOM PRICES. California Hams 8c. Dove bra i Monazite tools, such as Shovels, Spades, .Matto -ks. Ricks, Ac.. .! • ..perthan any one in town. A few Straw 1 hits left at New York cos'. < Amt s shirts IfiHc and up, Suspenders 5c and up. Give me a call when in town. Respectfully. I. S. n. a. nONTGOHERY, ngr, c; A I 'l 'TS ICV, o. LIMESTONE * SPRINGS * LIME * WORKS, Wood’s Seeds. Livery, - Feed ■ and * Sale - Stables. I'il-sl-rhm.s/I'uniout* ut lt(','isi>niil>l<- Kales. \ Comim-iviul Men Aceommodated at Short j Not Ice. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIME, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair. Dymamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps. THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY. Perhaps there are some persons who are looking about them for something to do. The raising of chickens is an industry that suggests itself at this season of the year, and to anyone who is painstaking and diligent, and who will observe simple rules, of which cleanliness b chief, it is also pleasant and profit able. There are seasons of the year that chickens or eggs are ever in demand. And right now is the time to prepare to meet that demand. Spring chick ens arc hardly known in our commu- agnin. Nature in her generosity has di vided very evenly her gifts. As a rule the songsters are of dull, unat tractive plumage except as you give it closer scrunlty, while the bright feathered birds are deprived ol sweet voices. But we need them both. What we have wo would like to keep and our legislators should lend a helping hand. DECULIAR ' l> combination, pro- ■ portion and preparation of ingredi ents,Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses great cuButivevalue.*You should TRY IT* OATS Giant White Abundance Makes a growth and yield which, in contrast with the ordinary White (Spring Oats, in simply amazing. It is enormously pro ductive and an extra heavy grain, weighing 10 to -15 pound:) to the measured hurhel. VTitc for price. V/ood’a Skscri/ivc Cataiorno ti-lls all about till:luaMc new < >ut. It Isa vi-j'lt:; Moptitiic tothe lanacndcardca, ti’llln;: I In- bo I Top:- ,o grow, and tho boat way to inow thorn. Wrltu for It. N-llcd free. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, RICHMOND, VA. Cut Prices I'oi- I ho iiovi thirty days I will soil you Shoos. Mills. Dry (iooiis and Notions ;it Cut Prices l~' o .loans for Ido. l.V .loans for l:i' .o, Ono .loans for lie,o. 2V .loans for :i0o, lino .louiis for :»V, :tv .loans for-T' -o. . . . "l.Vi Mills for Mals forg.loo Sl.oti Mats for T.'>o and soon down. . . Ready Hade Pants, Sliirls. Shoos mid Hoots in pro port lull to Hbovo Most all wool l-'liinnol l."> to oonts. . tilyi- ini' a rail hofon'buying Yours ri'spcolfully, T>o Vou Iv no w GPliiit T. DAYENRORT keeps on hand constantly a large sti ck of the best quality of GR(ICERIES. BEST PATENT FLOUR A SPECIALTY. Armour’s can goods and smoked'meats on hand all the time and everything in the fancy grocery line of the best quality. You arc in vited to call and we will give satisfaction. T. DAVENPORT. I. M. PEELER. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Lim • tone FpriJ and of t his place in lots of from .‘>0 to 1»KI acres on libc ral t km- rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Ager] N. 11.—All trespassing on lands of this Compatn cult ing and rq| in her, fishing or hunting-are forbidden under penalty of law.