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THE WEEKLY,LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S.'C., 1 MARCH 1890. r> LiTFLEJOHN vs JOHN LITTLE THE CONTEST UNCOMFORTA BLY CLOSE. Tired and broken down women will find that OR. KING'S ROYAL 6Efi& fi iE7^£3 is a priceless boon and blessing to them. It gives appetite, brings restful, refreshing sleep, aids digestion, tones the nerves, builds up the strength and puts disease and pain to flight. For An Exciting Day, But Cool Heads Pre vailed and No Difficulties Oc- curred—Events of the Election Day. tionod in this election. That should not be so. and upon second thought, gentlemen who have questioned the motives of others as being impure, will most likely consider the matter in another light. At least give one gentleman credit for being as pure as yourself. -• — —■ Index to New Advertisements. HOW INDIANS MEASURE TIME. They Fis Their Date* by Sleep* and Moon* and Winter*. Our Indians measure time solely by days, by sleeps, by moons and by win ters. The Indian has no name for any subdivision of time less than a day. When lie desires to indicate a shorter period, ho points to the heavens, and measuring off a space says, “It was as THE GOOD SAMARITAN IN CHINA. Ho Would Have Iteen Likely to Get Hhn- *elf Into Tro iblc. Om dark evening I 'was returning homo from a call on one of cur English neighbors in Taiyuenfn. When not far from our compound, the read < ro;: ed an open space of several acres in extent. As I was finding my way iilcug by the “GREATESTON EARTH” Dr. miles’ Restorative Ncrvlne,- Mr It T. Caldwell, is book-keeper in the First National Dank of Fulton, Ky. “I was completely run down. My nerves bee;u:io so unstrung through loss of sleep and worry that 1 f< It sure I would bo com pelled to give uo my position. 1 would He awake all night long, and it took but little These are ehaiu'cs and »!cw ads that long as it would take tho sun to go from rather dim light of a Chinese lautcru I annear in this week’s issue. Do us there to there.” A day is from daylight | ucarl J stumbled over the body of a man i favor bv telling them you saw their to darkness, “sleep,” or night, from * ... V * ... : ~1- i- TT_ 1 Including all menstrual and womb difficulties, it has no superior—used both locally and internally. It is emphatically Pleasant to take as lemonade, and harmless at all times. New package, large bottle*, 108 Doses, One Dollar. Sold by druggists. Manufactured only by THE ATLANTA CHEMICAL CO., Atlanta, 6a. WXirE ?GF. ^6-?iGC BOOK: HAILED FREE. X. II. Littlejohn will be Uaffney’s mayor for the next two years, lie will have as his cabinet L. linker, D. A. Jones, J. A. Carroll and \Y. II. llichaadson. This is as good a set of men as it could be possible to get to j,’ i)r r run the affairs of the town. Each one is identified with the progressive spirit of the town and ouch one*will do his duty by the people. advertisements in Tin: Lkdgkk For rent — E. (i. Stacy. Lumber—Augusta Lumber Co alt'—J. A. (Jeddts. For Sweet potatoes—Louis Humphries. Lumber—L. Baker. Coon—J. K. Tollesoii. (iroceries—\\ ilkjns Bros. ■lit—A. X. Wood. q p 'c n i a i ■ « • 1 .... V_^ ;. £ X . B ■ ■ (if that Tn;; Li::k;i:u feels confident. But tiien i. wpuld not h ive niatle a great oca I of difference who had betn chose.), the city would have kept on in her way of progress, for every inm run- :.:ng was imbued with a progressive spirit. The day opened bright ai.d fair, with not a single cloud. The battle of the ballots began promptly nl b o'clock, and for two hours if, was royal. Tho forces of each faction worke 1 like heavers and it was with d.fflculty that good order was pre- s- rveil. But a large police force had Dcn’t Ccme Too Near. Road Commissioner. 11. M. Jolly, requests Tut: Lr.nuK:: to notify lliose living on the public roads to leave at leas! twenty feet clear for the road. Th's i■; done so th:T. no one may do ploughing too near and i ::pect d ini- ages fr *:u tbe county, because the law requires that much don't forget and eon road. space. So too near to the A Small Fire. ,i tire :--t erda broke 'cut : a ft •••non.) in an outhouse on tin* premises of Ed Littlejohn. A crowd quickly gathered and l he building was demol ished and the tire extinguished. '1 he incident served to detract thealtcn- 1 ion oft he excitement Iroin peu; a short while the election at h a-t. p>i: I r *y Min! Hie at <\!,Y 53o.oo will L’usin;':* !>;• 5hort- HUDSON'S B us in t ’ss Uu is <ersity illl'i < • If si .:i' |pr . 11 . of stB( a iirltil. ■ t rue. Bsri System lues’s :u5iness Oniiersiti, \-j East Trads St/cst, <. liiif'lol t e, T'-*. <C- z:n. d r ^ i» o ALE. due !,,• ea .i- irerle*, re* i. .‘•ever 1 niee I.>1 , on llutledxe LOTS o IS <, TOV.'N. or, ; . i (Jrcii- '1 street w'.ih 2-storj l.itUdln;-. -.torero.;::) on Ti n ttoorarnl (i.ti liing iifiove. Sc e .• !l I". ■ in '.ti'- r.orthw: sl< rji part of the city. He\: r:d h ititifiil 1 U . oa Fairview Are. (lac liirae «loill,!e !o! < ii Ittiec Street. Terri!. id on ;>lic :;;i a. R. LIPSCOMB, Life Insurance Agt. WHO WILL BE THE NEXT IMAYOR for GAFFNEY 6 This we don’t know, hat the lines! To!; ■ eo, Cigars. ( t'aiuly or anything in < !■ lino "Wc Do Know that you should ir ver .lass tic; lillh Cheap stori rioihlng from i-j.Si) to fiS,,).'£) pe: Guaranteed to lit. Kcspcet fully, been provi led and cool heads sem u ton- ist itt maintaining good order. Insults were thrown at first one ;.::d tiien the other by thoughtless men wim seemed bent on raising a row, but they were generally treated wiih I silent contempt. i The t otal vole cast was 412. When the ballots were counted it was found the box contained 411 voles. Tv.o ; over-enthusiastic supporters of Air. Little had folded two ballots together which accounted for the two surplus i rules. But one of these four ballots ’ were allowed to be counted, which j made the result stand IN. 11. Little john 1 SS, J. L* Little 1ST, A. Lipscomb .17. If the four ballots above n f< rn u to h id been cast us two ballots, the ' n - lit would have been a tie between ! M:. Littlejohn and Mr. Little. The most exciting time of the con- j test, however, was when the baiiols j were being counted. A multitude of | people remained on the street in the i vicinity of the polling place. A man ; ; stood at a broken pane in the window | and as the votes were counted he j would announce, tho result to the eager crowd. First Little was ahead ! then Littlejohn, then Little again, rd the i last it was nip and tuck. Before the last ballot was taken out tho result i stood Littlejohn 188, Little INS, i counting one of the duplicate hnilots ! that hau been cast for Little. Every body in the room was spell bound, i The contest had been so even as to stir the inmost soul of every man. What would the last ballot say? Xo | one knew, yet each man hoped that i it was for bis favorite. When Man- ; ager 1’hiilips read: X. Lipscomb, there was a deep silence for a mo ment and then it was unofficially an nounced that it was a tie between 1 Little and Littlejohn. The manag ers, however, said they would reserve i their deci.-ion until yesterday in or !« r I to consult the law on the duplicate i ballots. Lillie men waved their bats and shouted when someone said Little i was , lectod and when someone said A Warning. This is to inform the public Unit W. (’. Owens, my lawful husband, lias deserted me, and 1 warn all peo- n I cs,) ciaily young women, t CllgUc. L. J.. OWLNrf. (”• • - u against his o <1 IV! Low, S. C., i'Vii.. If, lS!b). MAGIC OF THU WOODS. D5»T o DILslEAULE & RCg/IDENCE and tiien Littlejohn. Toward 9 1 Ilun-cr* Say About the Spell of an Otter’* ZOrs. Ly the Adircudac I: woodfimen along the banks of the West Canada creek tho ott< r is regarded as quite as sly as the fox, inasmuch as it is very difficult to trap in any kind f contrivance. There arc f; wor storii - ibout the creature’s in- tel: gcnce, as the animals are icarco and have not been to much observed as have the f -xes. Them has been, and probably is, an ott<r that lor six yew anyhow, and per- Imi longer, has traveled down the creek winter and summer about every twe weeks, in the winter it left a running, sliding trail in the snow on tho ice, sel dom 1( aving the creek bed to go into a cove or overland for a dozen or 15 rods. In summer weather it fished and caught frogs in the coves of the flats. A good many shots have been tired at it and a lot of traps set for it, but none was eve r suceo Hnl. It is believed by woods- i..( n that the otters, like the hell divers, loons, mini: and others, dodge shot ci ball. 1 saw this otter once some years ago in the summer time, and while only cue feature of the animal is distinct in my mind, 1 do not recollect any other wild animal so we 11. The body is a mere glimna r of black in waving swale grass. Even tho In ad is a burly, rusty gray shadow, a sort of background for the two ( yes. 1 have real deers when they were standing Mill 1 uking at me, have look ed at squirrels, rabbits, partridges, foxes and other wild animals alarmed by my dark to daylight. Ho has uo uame for any day, nor has ho any subdivision of I time corresponding to our week. A moon commences with the first streak i of the crescent in the west and lasts un- i til the next one appears, but tho days of tho moon are neither numbered nor named. “Frcm winter to winter” is tho nearest approach ho has to our term. Tho year commences with tho first fall of enow. An Indian will teil you he is so many winters old. but having uo months or days ho never has a birthday. The Indians who formerly inhabited the southern part of Texas, where there is no snowfall, aro said to have fixed tho commencement of the year at tho first “norther,” a furious and chilling wind that sweeps from tho north and is of fre quent occurrence during tho winter months. No year has any name or number fix ing a sequence or point of reference, but each band will designate a year by its most prominent occurrence, as a fight with hestilee, death of a chief, preva lence of disease, abundance or scarcity cf food, or failing anything marvelous cr striking by tho name of tho stream on which was located tho winter camp. But these are mere remembrances, and excellent as is the Indians memory they, after a few years, fade into a jumble of disconnected facts without stqm nco or usefulness.—Cincinnati En quirer. McanSnc of tl:c Word “Oinalia.” Tho name “Omaha” hears testimony j to tho long journey of tho people, and reveals some of the causes which brought about this breaking up into distinct i tribes. It is composed of two words, which signify “going against the cur rent,” or up the stream. The Omahas were the people who went up the stream, while tho Quapaws, their near of kin, went, as their name reveals, “with tho current,” or down the stream. | The traditions cf both these peoples say that the parting occurred during a hunt ing expedition, each division finally set tling in tho lands whither they had wandered apart. This epochal hunt must have been centuries ago, for the (Quapaws boro their descriptive name in 1540, being mentioned in the Portu guese narrative of Do Soto’s expedition as then living on the Arkansas river, where they dwelt until IfdiD, when they ceded their long occupied lands to tho United States.—Alice C. Fletcher in Century. Alarmed For Hi* Safety. The Professor’s Wife—Tho professor is in the laboratory conducting some chemical experiments. The professor experts to go down to posterity— (From the laboratory) Br-r r-r- bang I Thi Visitor—1 hope the professor hasu': gone —Harlem Life. who had fallen by tho way. My first impulse was to take hold of the person and ascertain if help was needed, but for some reason I did not, but hurried homo to get aid. Mr. X. was still with us and on hearing my statement said: “Yes, I know. Tho man is dead, and it is fortunate that yon did not attempt to touch the body. Should we now try to remove it cr even to go to it we should uo doubt bo seen and at once suspicion would attach itself to us, and none could tell tho consequences. We might cause a riot before morning.” It should bo said that this suspicion would not have been because we were foreigners, "or a under similar circumstances would likewise have run tho risk of being charged with tho mur der. The good Samaritan would have fared hardly in China, or most likely would have been su:q cted of doing tho kind deed fur •omc ultimate gain, while the priest an 1 the Levite would have been accounted net hard hearted, but prudent.—Prefes or C. M. Cady in Cen tury. Old Put’* Weird Ensli-di. The following specimens of General Putnam’s English, said to bo genuine, show that education was not necessary to success, honor and fame in those days: IIEADQUATlTKllS, PHILADELPRIA, JO Mi.f JV- cembor, 1770—AH otT-ar; a:ul soldiers bo :’.i Thoas that lire Newly inlh-tod in tho cent .i i nal snrvis, Thoas of the lit in;; campar: re quested to panid tomorrow morning :.t 'J o’clock at tho markit to go on litig to fortify this city and so on every morning tel farther orders. Ihkaei, Putnam. Camp at Perspect Ilil. Sir—Pleas to deliver the Barror hearof 2 Tons of Bread to .some- rod Islanders as they camo from roxbury yesterday and nothing to eat. Israel Putnam. —Boston Journal. Ii. T. Caldwell. to shako me up so that I could not possibly attend to my business as I should. In connection with this I had liver trouble, heaviness about the stomach, and pains in different pans of my body. I was also much reduced in iiesh. I was persuaded to try Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine. I first procured a trial bottlo from n. local druggist and good resultsquicklv followed. I then procured adollariiottie, anti by tho time I bad used tins un I was a dilforont man. I am now on my third bottlo and am able to sleep soundly ana out regularly, something I could not possibly do before taking your Nervine. I am now/ulfu retcrered, and do not hesitate to pronounce I 'r. Miles* Restorative Nervine tho Qreatcsi nervine o:i curth." Fulton, Ky. R. T. CALDWELL. Dr. Milos’ Nervine Ss sold on a posit I vo guarantee that, the firm bottlo will iienefit. All druggists sell it at SI, 0 bottles forS3, or it will bo .sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Hilts Medical Do., iUkhart, lad. »rs Rsrtcrcs ...ttcclth Dr. Miles’ Nervism W anted. w:;: A puli TUI' ior ■ i I i t c i-1 M'cnnd-liait i writing lie- v. or!.: mu. • l«- cheap. E5EAL MERIT is the chat •actcr- ■*. istic of Hood’s .SarsapanTla. It cures even after other preparations fail. Get Hood’s nu.d O.L* LY’[-•COO’S. ^ the \X7A s i Li)—Jim VV (. r ,. ss i j(. s s ft. -L(J> Idishols of corn in Car:’oil a- Co., Lessees. good post oak long wit h not less than (i inches face. Carroll it Co., Lessees. ¥ (I ii Of 111 s I Y\ c a:v iviulv to oll’cr you s en. A A Furniture of ail kinds Wo have tl prices to suit anyone Oid Reliable cia! bargain -S lil largest stock evoi We SilOWU sell tile 111 thi 1’ own, tv it It s*]| lit “A cri<*k io tiie back,” (l‘.*s llie shou!die’-bhnlc.s, wutcr-brash, biliousness, and constipation, are symptoms of disordered stomach, kidneys, liver and bowies. For all in a derange- organs, take Ayer’s Old Hickory and Wire Iliekoiv need a \\ agon it will sure pay you prices Ix-tbiv you buy. We a! ;o e.st to tin* highest prices. Also, just received tv. » e..r b ads advance, which we will give on • eus.oni One car load on: ::es sizes , -Mi l ' 4 4 1 1 > I rom the ! i' you get our ehcap- !oi: ugh! fore the •s .lie of. Choice Texas M M Proof Oats ailments ment of these Bills. on^ina ting Local Cotton Market. if you v.’iiiit '. ':i!i:i‘-'i gitOLS. ('iiiifcTtionery Littlejohn was elected that faction '.vent wild with delight. At no stage u.t. J. L. Alexander. GAFFNEY CITY RAILWAY CO. Carroll & Co., Lessee. Tho following schedule in Mfircli 0. 18'.)."). Leave Gaffney (Lipscomb’s Hotel) I 8:80 a. rn. arriving Cooper-Limestone 1 Institute 8 :4i* a. in. BbTIJKNIN'O Leave Cooper-Limestone Institute 12:15 p. m. arrive at Gaffney 2:25 p. |m. The cheapest thing Ion earth—The Weekly Ledger at one dollar a year. <i Moul; onicry. II. L. Spear*. M. A. Holme* ENTERPRISE * STABLE«GO. n. 0. noNitjonERY, ngr, [CJ* A I''I*.’NIC’S of the game after ii o oiock was .Mr. Lipseomb in the race. He did not, however, as was reporn d, olfii.*iall.v wilb ittw from tbe eonttst. TIIK aUCCKSSFfb CANDIDATES Are ail men of tne higbest integrity. L. Baker led the ticket all the way through. Mr. Baker, Mr. Jones and Mr. Carroll were very modest over their success, and when an individ ual friend was met they would than.: him for the support given them. Mr. Littlejohn was very modest also, and ids thanks lo ids admirers i wen: profuse and generous. Evi ry man chosen has served t e effect c ly before and all will give the ei y t n* benefit of ih-dr experience. As the matter stands the LittS* j> n men Kjdcu while the Little men protest. THE DKl'EATED CANDIDATES Are also men of Integrity. They take their defeat generally in good grace. Mr. Little consulted Ids attorney as to whet to do. We do not know what he was advised to do. Tho managers in giving in their r - port made two reports—a majority and a minority report. Messrs. Win. Bliillips and John K. Holland re ported in favor of giving the e mte-t to Mr. Littlejohn, while Mr. J. Iv Austell declined to reconsider tIn decision to count the duplicate ballot, claiming that a higher author ity should pass upon it. If Mr. Au - tell’s ideas had prevailed the result would have been a tic. The new council were sworn in lust night at 7 o’clock at the office of Lawyer J. E. Webster. The first meeting to transact business will be next Friday night. It must he said to Mr. Little’s credit that on the day of election he conducted himself in a genteel rnon- 1 rest lice, but their forms, lather than The f'-lloivbiK an-Ihe quolalions of ! i.c l<>- their eyes, are mere or less: distinct. In 'mI'mi* »n i.iai'lq i. furnislu-d by.i. D. .loucs. fact, the eyes seem secondary fn the [,;;; A mind pictures, except in the case of the Mi<l<ilii j......! 7 q otter. Ii m- ms t(> me that the otter did 1 :i, ’ ni ’ ' 1 '”' 1, l, u:tri not m rely look at n.o; it was more as , if it looked into mo, tho same as tho —Just received at tho Hustlers, a car sensation one Inis when some one—a : of genuine Texas lied Oats ut llH per man or woman—“re ads your innermost • bushel. thoughts.” These eyes were large and ... i full rounded, dark brown with a shim- | » exas ni-d ^its ai ^ . . inpscomh mer of light gray skating across and tlmt wi* aro selling; very low. And <• Grocery line at hot tom prices. GaTl and set* us. Yours trulv :e rviiuiu :•..* 1 tavy I’S. JA. OS14J •Oo. i’. S. .( oiiins oi all kinds Iroui die ehc.apest to ti:e highest Mr. A. I). Gaines lias charge ofour t’mleivakingde|)artmenL and wi 1 always hold himsell in readiness t » serve vou at short notice. Bro., for 1*2 j e per hu. CL Ivery, and > Sale > Stabte. l''lr*t-<‘lii**}Tiirii(>ul* ut UniKoiiftlilc Kaiev <‘ofmavrcial Men A- eoruiuodatc-d atHhod Notice. around the ccnfir, and with a lively beauty ns diii'erent from tho dead lx*auty of a derr’s full eye. It sent precisely finch ciiills up and down my back as dark human eyes have done. It was a i tense, particular look, and not the gen- 1 eral gaze of a bird or other animal. Tho i otter, I think, hypnotized me, for I did i ot shoot, although my impression is that wo looked at one another for a minute or two.—Forest and Stream. The Mln’ctcr'-i I’arnaco Fire. Plumbers tell some laughable stories i about people who don’t know bow to run furnaces and steam heating plants. ! “Wo put in a furnace fora minister, | once,” says an Auluri plumber, "and ; the next day bo came down and kicked about it. Ho said that U wouldn’t buru, and bo cither wanted it taken out or put in working order right away. I v. ( at up, and after examining the chim- n< year fully i looked into tho furnace. ; What do you sunpoM the trouble was? Well, sir, tin: minister had been trying | to lx at the house by building a lire in the ash box.”—Lewiston Journal. • • $ioo Reward,¥:oo. The readers <»r this paper will he i ploase-d to learn that ro is at last } om* dreaded disease that science, has > been able to euro in nil it s stages, and tlmt is Catarrh. Hall’s Cntarrli (!nre is the only posit ive cure known to the medical fraternity. Galurrli being a const it ut'kuirI disease, requires a con stitutional treatment, ilull’sCatarrh Cure is taken intcrnallv, acting di rectly on the blood and inncotiH sur faces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and Wo have the largest and prettiest line ofjjeglige shirts ever brought to Gaffney, at .oOc and $1.00 each. Gall an** select your go-as-you-please sum mer shirts.—Burroll A- Carpenter. —We have the largest and prettiest line of negiigeo shirts ever brought to <ialTne t v (" •’(If and $1.00 ea,eh. (;c.ll and s(-lect your g >-as-your-plea.s(* sunmx r sliirts.—Carroll A Carpenter. 500 V/I VGCte, BUSHELS RED RUST-PROOF Oats. Large assortment of sceel plows, best sizes a.nci shapes in town, now instock. Dixie Boy turn plows at $ 1.25. Cotton seed hulls, per 100 ibs., 25c. Cotton seed meal, per 100 ibs. ; $1.10. I am selling The Best Floisr on Earth rzx.ozz CLCOffL:C.TCLa3G.xOBa a o o 11 LJ r 4 O 0 3" n 9 ICi r'Zt Oa f D ■ © c B O ■ o n o n © [Y Wc ask lids repeatedly. l,ccau«c % serious diseases olten follow trilling fj 1$, n |To«dayi Q ailments. Vi © CJ s Iron I Bllters © nt If y u nr* weak q ai I ,;< n*r >11/ ex- q ll lUSli >1, in i vous, y liavx in nc ^ and can't '*>>rk, ^ l i'l'in at once t ik- ^ mu ilic ni' st rcl>a- g, M<? ‘ Ir •nRlhciiiiu{ _ iiii ilii me, wliii Ii is £ iliown j Iron Pit- lers Ik-nclit conu-s ner and there iu no (luestion that if giving the patient rtirengtli by huild- lie iiud been careful to pursue tlmt plan of campaign all the way through that hu would have beaten Mr. Lit tlejohn beyond tho possibility of n doubt. Now just a few words more. Thu motives of soinu men have been queu ing up 1 he eons'll it ul ion and assisting nal un* in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, tlmt they offer One Hundred hollars for any case that it fails to cure. Semi for list of testi monials Address, ' © fiom tlic very last 5 dose. gj € n as cheap as the mills are offering it today. Call and see it before you buy. Guarantee every sack to give satisfaction or your money refunded. Yours truly, '-1° _ j q/I M > a B11 >. Oiir>11 ^ii Transact a General Banking Business, I ."N '1‘iC W(vS'r allowed on Timo Deposits by HIKiJClAI* Arrangoment. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. \ <niv fe^olielted. IT CURES Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Impure Blood, Malaria, Nervous ailment:: | The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, A 1^ IV IC Y" o I 'r Y. Women’s complaints. Gif'* Get only Hi" Kcnui'ic—ii h-* crowed red ^ lux** on (lit- wra|>|>vr. j* brown chemical co. BALTIMORE, mo. 5J l Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Spring •■6BOfl0OOBOi>9OlcaOB<cnO(f and of tins place in lots of from 30 to I‘i0 acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to F oil KIM (MCSAl.i; The i wo-Nlory siure lioii*'-nexi lo ( 'nrroll A ('ai iieiiler*. T>>i' term* npl'ly D» ,1. A. Geili|i'<., F oil KENT The rooms over the hank of ('urroll A. Sliicy. Apply to F.G. Sinry. MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of thist'ompany cut ling and removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law.