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Weekly Ledger. / m " 1 ‘ 1 — — '1# the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 18»0. $1.00 A YEAR. cor- ► have kericnns by a whom agreed ro a civil jcuted. and Spain Ing to offend ft knows that 4n delaying belligerency Untrary to the bed States, ot Congress is it may not be The River and ^passed the Senate fmore “pork” than sure ever did, and ry anxious that it a law. President never signed a River ill, although he has iber of them to become his signature. Con- re him a chance to do this one, by remaining the requisite ten days caches him, which is not be before the middle of 5k on account of theamend- Jded to the billby the Senate. Pncpally expected that this bill vetoed and passed oyer the r i the financial dstration would l7 *pg. This com- •^Ho get at the ''4oes is yet to bo n e another mem- Vlont’s cabinet in ecretary of Com- y no means new, t to the front again ive Cobb’s bill pro creation of a Depart- ■nerce. The idea Is to he bureaus of the other trhich deal exclusively e r cial matters under the tment. It is not proposed his bill until the next ses- an effort is to be made to hen. e was nothihg startling or ng in the vote of the Senate ^"Jihe Dupont resolution.* Crossings of Cross Roads. (Correspondence of The J.edgpr.) Iross Roads, May IS.—Rev. R. J. ‘ate tilled his appointment atCrassv 'ond Saturday and Sunday. His text * found in the 4th chapter of the Book of Proverbs: “Wisdom is better than rubies.” Little Jackie, as usual, handled his subject with great skill. Our Sunday School met at the usual hour at Fairview. We have a large attendance and seem to be get ting along well. Rev. W. T. Thompson, of your city, will preach at Fairview on the fourth Sunday at 3 o’clock. We hope a large congregation will turn out. Thomas Blackwood and Miss D. E. McSwain married yesterday. They were to meet I. G. Sarratt Esq., at Geo. Elmore’s Sunday evening, and Mr. Sarratt came up and stayed awhile, and the couple didn’t come. So Mr. Sarratt came up to J. C. Camp’s a few minutes, and the couple arrived at the appointed place and found that the Squire had gone. They pulled out for Gaffney, and the Squire heard the couple had come and gone. He followed, overtook them and tied them for life. Mr. and Mrs. 1*. V. Gaffney visited relatives in these diggins Sunday. Miss Mary Harris, of Gaffney, HOPEWELL HAPPENINGS. CONFEDERATE WAR HISTORY A Batch ot Neighborhood News for Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Hoi’KWEU., May 1").—There is at the present time a growing tendency among the young men of this sec- ion for a city life. To go to town and there encounter the temptation of such a life seems to be the highest ambition of some of our most promis ing young men. Young men just blooming into manhood, surrounded by a home and every comfort, breath ing the fresh breath of the morning air as It comes over the fresh mown fields, shielded from the tempter’* snare, only waiting to place them selves in the “swim” and go to the vilest of all places—town. Most as suredly these are facts that comfort every parent, and well do they know that the son, who is the joy and the pride of the mother and father, Is only waiting for age before ho shall tear assunder the yoke of bondage and go forth where, oh! where! Pa rents should make the home a place of pleasure and comfort for the boy. Give him a living chance, and above all things remember he was not given to you by the creator for a slave, but still some seem to think so, and sweetly resting in the shade of the trees, will watch the son who is barely in his teens plow and toil in the mid day sun. Father is it yon? If so. I tell you the day is coining and com ing fast, when old age shall bow you down in sorrow and weakness, then that son will leave to work for self. Father make home bright, happy and cheerful for the boys, and above all else give them a chance. Allen Crosby shot and seriously wounded a negro living on his place, last Saturday. The trouble is the outcome of borrowing and is much to be regreted. The angel of death visited our com munity last week and took from our midst Mrs. LeRoy Sharer. Mrs. Sharer was a true and pious Christ- MR. STRAIN IS SUCCESSFULLY OATHERINO DATA. It is a Case of Flattery or Slander With tha Baaliebub of tba Coaling Ground—Etta Jana Etchinga. with Miss Antionett Clary S. A. Stacy is quite sick and has been for several days. Jno. and Ed Clary hived a swarm of wild bees Saturday evening. They got stung very badly in the face and on the hands. Jas. V. L. McCraw and wife, of your city, visited his father-in-lqw, Jas. Swafford, Sunday. The people are about dope chopping cotton gn(l it is loqkipg fine. Owing to the 4ry weather, eorn is not grow* (Coy^apondenea af Tha Lad^tv.) Etta|ja!th, May 18.—Rev. T. J. Brook preached at Abingdon Creek. His text wasEph. 4 :l. r > and 16 verses. His congregatoln was larger than usual and his discourse was truly edifying. I heard more young men speak of it It than usual. Mr. Brook has made many friends in this community among other de nominations than his own. I find that one-fourth of his time Is not taken up, and any vacant churches would do well to call him for that time. Or, any other churches might advance their splra^al interest by getting him to put in his spare time with them. Truly the harvest is great but the laborers are few. H. B. McDaniel, R. A. Foster, Sam Leo and Miss Dorotha Lee are all on the sick list this week. It is a matter of history that Frank Millwood fired the last gun shot by Gary’s Cavalry at Appomottox, Ya., April 9, 1866. Jimmie Strane and Flaw Picker have made a banjo trade. Joe Fowler and Wylie Edwards, two colored men, had a rueus on Sat urday of last week, in which Wylie teceived a load of shot in the arm and Shoulder. The difficulty was about a Woman. • Mr. and Mr*. S. F. lates spent the day with their daughter, Mrs. R. A, Foster, one day last week. C. W. Whisonant, of Wilkins- rille, is l>>oking around as If he In tended making some of our neighbor ing towns ;his future home. Calvin seems. You keep cavorting and prancing around like a hantorn roos ter and raising cain, generally, wher ever you go. I have just stood it ns long as I can, and intend to stop it or give you a first-class spanking. You pour out your abuses on me for not going to that picnic to look after you and protect you from the women, etc. Well, whose fault was it that I didn’t go, Flaw? It was yours. You promised to come by and you and 1 would go over and give Charley an other chance to scare at a basket. But you didn’t come. You slipped around some other way and you see how you come out. Charley didn’t see a baiket to get scared at. Neither did you. As you are such a great “fellow” to draw lessons from scrip ture you might get one from this “trying to come in some other way.” You say I am like a long tongued woman. Well, I would rather be like an intelligent talkative lady than a man whose tongue is like “a pig’s” tall—always wagging, but saying nothing. Unless some people are flattered they think they are slandered and you are ono of them too, Flaw. You make a great ada about what I am made to say in print about the fore runner of Christ. I claim the fault la with the “printers’ devil,” (or de vil of a printer) who had left out so much of my manuscript as to destroy my meaning. BuLI lot it go. Con troversies in religious matters pa£ no spiritual dividends, ond self-consti tuted evangelists arc always spoiled Jobs. Christ ate with publicans and sin ners because they made him welcome. To find fault in others is to expose greater ones in ourselves. J. L. S. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Mahon Nicaragua Canal bill )een favorably acted upon by 'House committee on Interstate Foreign Commerce and will be Feported to the House. It authorizes guarantee of $100,000,000 in bonds and directs that the canal shall be built under the supervision of U. S. army engineers. At the committee meeting which directed the bill to be favorably reported there were only eleven of the sev enteen members present, and four of them voted against the bill. There has been some criticism of the action of the committee in dis posing of such an important matter with more than one-third of its mem bers absent, but it is answered by the assertion that the absent mem bers knew the vote was to be taken and could have been present if they had wished to be. A prominent railroad man, now visiting Washington, says: “The St. Louis people are going to he very much disapointed in the Republican National Convention, and the rail road which have been at work pre paring for a big business will also feel the effect of a premature settle ment of the Presidential nomination. Since it has developed that McKinley has practicually captured the nom ination, the interest in the con vention lias decreased wonderfully, and tlie railroad officials in all parts of the country are kept busy coun termanding orders for special trains and special accommodations. Clubs in New York, Pennsylvania, New England and other sections which contemplated going have abandoned the idea, and this will become quite common by the time the convention meets.” This is a more valuable pointer than columns of talk from prejudiced politicians. Senator Morrill, Chairman of the Senate Finance committee, isn’t as a rale a tricky man, but he pro bably couldn’t resist the temptation when it came to naming the sub committee to investigate those |bonp issues, under the Allen resolution He pitide Senator Harris, of Tenn., chairman and gave him two dem ocratic colleagues; Vest, of Mo., and Walthall, of Miss.; one republican, Platt, of Conn.; one populist, Jones, 6f Nevada. Four out of the five are . ailver men. and the one republican ^ably the most friendly to- administration. Mr. Mor- tthe sub-committee dem- majority, so that Its pnot be chargeable to but selected silver cause of bis belief that 7 ing very mst, Mr, and Mrs. ian, and will be much missed by her » K tnrW nicrl t nnrl KlinHnv °/ ^ i - **** ^0* bUSlne** 01*0 »nd don'l 1*11 spent Saturday night and Sunday will be missed, mourned and la mented for by her husband and children. vV. I. Wilkerson has returned from Wilmington, N. C., and reports the purchase of a fine boat for the river, Work will at opce coiu*uence on the river and |n two months ’tie said you can hear the sound of the great Trans-Atlantic steamer’s whistle. J. Ed Leech, of this section, is a f irobablc candidate for sheriff. Mr. <eech has been requested by his many friends to make the race, and we sincerely hope ho will do so, for le is a true reformer, a consistent Christian gentleman, and would fill the position with honor to the com munity from which lie hails. Miss Bessie Plaxico is visiting Miss Jerta Smith, of Bullocks Creek. J. M. Watson and Henry W. Thompson went to Bullocks Creek Sunday to vis ‘friends.” Will C. anu -k Thomson, of your city, were • Bullocks Creek Sunday looking fc friends” also. John C. Kirkpati <, one of Gaff ney’s old school boys, and one of the most prosperous farmers of this section, reports fine crops. There are some parties who live near here who have a pack of very vicious dogs. They will come in the road and take a fellow off his horse and most anything else. Can some i a remedy for evil, now would a dose of David Hawkins vis ited Calvin Teals Sunday and reported that Mrs. Teal is at the point of death. Lewis Waters and Miss Hattie Turner, of the Midway section, were at Grassy Pond Sunday. Dock Peeler’s little son, while driv ing a cow to the pasture, let her run away with him. The cow jerked him down across a stump and broke three of his ribs. The little fellow seems to be getting along very well. s. Happy Home. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Homk, May 18.—The Corinth Sun day School expects to celebrate the second Sunday in June as Children’s Day. The children have some nice recitations to recite. Everybody is invited to attend and bring a well filled basket, and we will have a nice time. I was in your thriving city last Saturday evening and saw a nice game of base ball played between the Cor inth boys and Gaffney factory boys. When seven innings had been played the game was called, and the game stood as follows: *22 to 3 in favor of Corinth. The weather is very dry and hot, and all vegetation is needing rain. Wheat and oats will be almost a fail ure through this section. The farm ers are getting most of their grass killed while it is dry and hot H. A. Pettit, of Gaffney, visited his father Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. II. 0. Tate and daughter, Miss Edna, visited E. O. Tate’s fam ily last Snnday. Honey bees are moving about lively. They are making honey, swarming and running away. The dry weather is ripening the cherries before they get grown. I. L Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gunderman, of Diamondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this ex tract: “I h tve no hesitation in re ommending Dr.King’sNew Discovery as the rssults were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While 1 was pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives Junction she was brought down with pneumonia succeeding la grippe. Ter rible paroxysms of coughing woul last hours w'th little interruptio and it seemed as if she could not sur vive them. A friend recommendec Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was quick in Its work and highly satisfac tory in results.” Trial bottles free at W. B. DuPre’s drug store, lar size 60c and $1. Regu of the “acribos” yn such an evil. How lead do them? Myrtle. Put Yourself in His Place. How can we rightly sympathize with another until we put ourselves in another’s place. . When the pupil is culled to the teacher’s chair he gets new views of a teacher’s duties and trials, and perhaps that pupil has wantonly vexed his teacher, when, had he been in the teacher’s place, would have deserved sympathy, yea craved it. Children can’t or don’t seem to understand the burden of responsi bility and anxiety which their parents feel until they themselves are called to bear similar burdens. We too often misunderstand tnd misjudge one another. Sometimes we think it would bo better for the pnacherto be a little more tender in his rebukes, but while we are criticising let us take his place for a while, then per haps wo would find less fault and be more helpful. Sometime ago 1 was in church when a lady with a tall hat (out of style of course) cam? in, and she took her seat. 1 saw another lady look round to some one else and motion upward, (she had on a stylish hat of course). I thought to myself, though you may have on a hat of later style, put yourself in her place and see which had the purer motive in coming to church. We do not live close enough to God, and are not enough entirely given up to His ser vice and kingdom to be capable of the confidence ^we ought and will have to have. ti»t God hears prayer from the heart and not fine cloths, “Look not every man upon his own things, but every mjyi upon the things of others.” Mrs. K. Ann all he knows by a great deal. To. those people who are ao much opposed to the dispensary that they 4on‘t believe people should patronise it even to make camphor ought to grin and endure the colie when they take ft. Our Knights of Leisure have not failed to meet regularly since they or ganized. It’s one of the best main tained institutions in the land, so far as keeping pledges Is concerned. Mr. Wade Pridmore and Mrs. Hat tie Curtis, of Gaffney, visited Mr. J. H. Wilkins’ family last week. “Cranberry” our Lockhart corres pondent, tells about our minister, Rev. W. R. Owings, havings “taekey party” at hla house one night last week. I don’t know who It was that made up this party but some people are at white heat about it. They say that they are no “tackeya.” P. 8. Webber and one of hla boys narrowly escaped being killed one day last week by a lot of wagon timber breaking through the joists of his work-shop and falling. For tunately they both escaped. Our people have been annoyed with suspicious lights passing around at nights and dropping (they say) on the ground and bursting without making any noise. 1 suppose It Is a J ack-with-a-lantern. The young people want to have a lishing party at Thompson’s Mill on Saturday the 30th instant. The girls will please bring some well ftlled bas kets and give Flaw no room to com plain about getting nothing to eat. The suggestion thrown out some time ago as to the best method of gathering war reminiscences is meet ing with wonderful success. A very intelligent lady In Fairfield county sends four pages of letter pa per closely written, lb which she gives her father's account of many incidents connected with the mili tary history of the old sixth South Carolina regiment. Beginning with the battle of Dranesvlile In which many noble men of that regiment went down under the withering fire of the first Kentucky regiment, (Among whom were a near and dear relative of your correspondent). Tom Parks was also left for dead on the field, but was after taken priscu- er and had the bullet cut out of his back by a federal surgeon. She closes her narrative for the present with the “Seven days fight,^ In front of Rich mond. She will continue to write Ivy Cliff Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ivy Clikf, May 18.—We are having very dry weather now. Some of the fanners are getting pretty blue, but I don’t think they need to worry, for the One who gives the sunshine knows when to send the rain. Sandow Northey’s foot is still very •ore, but under the able treatment of Dr. S. R. Crawley it is improving. Mrs. J. F. Haraes and Stewart Thackston, of your city, paid us a pleasant visit Sunday afternoon. The ivy is blooming beautifully on the cliff at present. I went Saturday to gather a bouquet of the pretty lit tle speckled flowers, but oh! It looked so snaky around there I didn’t get any. The “confounded” bees have been trying themselves down hete lately. Your correspondent went tr put a swarm in a gum a few days ago and but fourteen tried their ability to Sting. In a few days after that we went to rob a gum and suffice it to say I didn’t see much for two or three days afterward. Mr. Morgan, of Limestone, has put up a saw mill on Mrs. Lee Linder’s plantation, about half a mile from here. We hear that a few Sundays ago a crowd of bad boys from your city went to the Sarratt A McCraw mill on Cherokee creek and broke the pond loose. No grinding could be done until it was repaired. Boys, that is no way to do, you should learn i practice the Golden Rule: Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you. Hurrah for Flaw, ho got out a pretty good sermon last week. The “Kernal” needn’t try to do anything with Flaw, for ho can’t. There has been a great deal of sick ness in this section the past two or throe weeks. I noticed a piece in last week’s Ledger about the champion mean man. The classes named were all pretty mean, but I think there is anotiier class which is just a little bit meaner than any named by Mr. Nye, and they are those who go around running a paper down and saying this and that about it and before he gets through talking about it lie is ready to borrow his neighbor’s paper and never return it. If a paper is worth borrowing it is worth reading, and if it is worth reading it doesn’t deserve being run down. Beaty. Sensible Talk, This. There is no need of any bitterness In the campaign in this county this year. Let every man vote for the candidate he wants, and concede the right of every other man to do the same thing.—Piedmont Headlight, A Patch of Breezy Items from Hust ling Ravenna. (Corrfspondcnce ot Tho Ledger.) Ravenna, May 19.—A very destruct ive fire broke out in the Jefferies Pork, in the eastern port of the village, last Saturday and continued to burn until Sunday morning when it began to spread and assumed dangerous proportions. The beautiful residence of Felix Littlejohn, Esq., was saved by tho untiring efforts of the colored people and a few whites who fought fire nil day Sunday and Monday. Much damage was done to forest timbers and game, as hundreds of acres perished. At midnight, the four room residence of B. A. Hanio, colored, on the estate of \Vm. Wil kins, was entirely destroyed with nearly all tho contents. This was a beautiful fire and attracted the citi zens for miles around. There was no insurance on the building. Hanle is a hard working colored man with a- large family, and is asking the public to help him a little. Two funeral processions passed through here this week. One Miss Arabello Brown, who was on a visit from Mississippi to relatives at Paco- let mills, died and was buried near Grindall, the other a child of James Garner died at Pacolet mills and was buried at Skull Shoals. John A. Gore, a good citizen, died last Sunday and was buried at or near Hammet’s gold mine on Pacolet River. Mr. Gore was near 70 years old. T. CyGiuCn, one of Ravenna’s best and irmst enterprising citizens, has been confined by sickness several days. Miss Addle Brown, of Ravenna, and. Miss Ola Lipscomb, of Goucher, have closed their schools for a vacation, but the Ravenna Academy is flourish ing with some real' pretty young la dies in attendance. * Some of the Gaffney young men seem to love to visit the Ravenna Sun day School and don’t like to leave hastily, either. Pacolet and Gowdys- ville also sends a delegation occasion ally. and finally will Sherman’s marcl Such coi work ot get ■pi* A lady “We L^ge*. H glyos ML home. Wheq R com* an account of >ugh this state. >rm the ground, Is intended, to, in the f| wllh *e news i we never.; until R U thoroughly perused.” waiRs to know who Flaw Plcki Mir ft Muditm yoi Picker. S' don’t she o that he it ing ground, to the W cept Ben T Plaw, wUJ have to aak may know him. t to. All I i top ihe »he How to Treat a Wile. (From Pacific Health Journal.) First, get a wife; "'md, be pa tent. You, may haV\ trials and perplexities in yo\ siress, hut do not therefore, can. o your home a cloudy or contracted brow. lYonr wife may have trials, which, though of less magnitude, may be ird for her to bear. A kind word, a tender look will do wonders in chas ing from her brow all_ gloom.—To ^ Wedding Bells and Other News. (Correspondence of The Lodger.) Blacksrcrg, S. C.,May 18—Julian N. Ross and Miss Kittie Guinn, of this city, were united in marriage at tho home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. A. P. McLure, on Thursday evening. Rev. L. A. Johnston, of Yorkvillc, officiated. Tho young couple have the best wishes of their many friends. Saturday evening the mandolin and guitar club, under tho able manage ment of Bob Withers, were out on a serenade. At the home of the newly wedded bride,! they played such ap propriate selections ns “Southern Beauty” and “Honey Moon” march, and were rewarded by elegant re freshments. Rev. H. J. Cauthcn and Messrs. R. S. Withers and Jas. B. Allison spent several days in Spartanburg last week. ^The Southern Railroad pump house, located near the Acid Works, was burned to the ground one night laat week. At first it was thought that the Acid Works were on fire, and some excitement prevailed. The en gine and boiler were hut slightly damaged, and are at present supply ing water for the tank. The grand opening of Deal’s new tennis court on Monday afternoon was quite a pronounced shicccss. All of the young ladies and quite a crowd of young men were present, and championship games of tennis were indulged in until late in the evening, when delightful refreshments were served. The opening was planned and managed by Sam Deal. Prof. Palmer Brown, of Spartan burg, spent several days with Rev. H. J. Cauthen last week, A special train, carrying the pro fessors and about four hundred girls from the Winthrop Normal and In dustrial College of Rock Hill, passed through the city on Tuesday on their way to Thermal City, where they spent the day in a picnic among the mountains. Nearly every boy in town had a “cousin” on board, and of course it was absolutely necessary that lie should meet the train. S. M. D. — • «•••■ • — Bret Harte’s new story and Jerome K. Jerome’s latest piece of fiction have both been secured by The La dies’ Home Journal for immediate publication. Jerome’s story is called “Reginald Blake: Financier and Cad,” and sketches an incident in fashionable London society. Bret Harte calls his story “The Indiscre tion of Elsbeth,” aftd pictures, romance of a younj falls in X l.