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. {.. 'm ^ y -i my mm 5i /.'• , PP?¥ PT*!™ _er Rfeaders u!d Patronize ger Advertisers. » - Hew Subscrit Discontinued Net Los A Newspaper in all thai QI. Ill, NO. J7. — - - — steffiOML REVENUE, tHE^HKAT!. VOTES DOWN THE \ t Eli* TAX. 'V* t ’• ^ * ^Butler' 2 Eili Prohibiting the Furthur Issjfe of Bonds Will Pass the ^ecate but Cannot Get to the House. The Ledger.) For week: it looked aa though |jenutors'vvould succeed in Senate on record in fnvor |o Treasury $23,000,000 a ,nal revenue, by putting ll.tax of 75 cents a bar- and if they had all been i the end of the attempt been different. When l,is ofTered the beer tax i • . iied cheese bill Itkk moved to lay it on I<1 the motion was de- |te pf 1 !o 25. The ex- jUofning hour” pre- ibois following up tlie next day the Hown the amendment, i was some odd voting For instance, Sona- jh voted against tab- ^ment one day, and 1 against the aineinl- ^ Vest stated after Imondment that ^uld have voted aill as a whole, [voted against and then This indi- this session ride any ad- f government. F!dr. Butler's Rjrther issue of pnt of Congress, I jwcd to come up s session. It is lovm that it has iso that its oppo- ! to talk it to death t rd Implies and Devoted to *'01*^* 1 •' the Best Interests of tj^ie People it Subserves. ^ puto. It s-come. howrr«r. hav^ put jtn enr’, tc v the aVesurd hley, that a minor t reasury omci.!! has jnore au thority lb. , in Cortgresa und the Fresi- dent, and fc.r that reasoti has been thankfully r-delved by many who will not.get a.::y of the sugar bounty money. A f^erVioo pension bill giving every man who [served 90 days $3 a montn and one* cent a month additional for each day served in exceasof ninety,has been favorably reported to the House. It will not bo acted upon at this ses sion. It is estimated that it will cost between twenty-five and tillrty mil lions a yeu,r W carry o6t this bilk AoAEFNEY CITY. f£c.. THURSDAY. JUNE i, 1896^ 81.00 A Y, 10TE8 FROM UNION. -f *1 Moody He Gi ■S ENTERTAINING tTTER. Osment, had to shut down four hours for the the gate and wait dam to fill up. On Thursday last J. L. St rtf n, On Thursday lasi, o. xj. magistrate, married Mr. CJiffo^yttoas, -• ni««u-aK,,rfr and Miss KaJ^fe Stew- v,, pf Blacksburg, and Miss art, of this county AGREEABLE SURPRISE. THE ‘‘KERNEL” WAS IN THE BEST OF SPERITS. Sect! in in ws of Week ,ual Entertain- k Th rough ins. His -Rev. J. White Plair.r-S. S. Convention. The following is tho programme of the White Plains Township Sunday School Convention which will be held at the Baptist cjiurch at Cowpens the 11th and 12th of July. SATUKUAY. Devotional services at 10 a. in. by the president. Enroll men t ot delegates. 1st . Sub. -Tho best way,* to pro cure a good nttendauco ut Sunday School—Ivov. Wm. White. Wm. Wa ters. 2nd. Temperance lecture I). Bailey, \V. T. Tanner. A11 e r i) o on—ttie s 11 o ti vo v. Sunday—MoiiN.xn. Meet at 10. a. m. 1st. Sub. Tho duty and an co of parents site tiding School with their children.— L. Harley, B. F. Bonner, J ris. ' 2nd. Sub. Are the church mem bers doing what they can in putting religious literature in the, hands of the people to compete with the evil growth of th» times?—R. R. Brown, Thomas Chalk, B. C. A,dftir. 3rd. Wo deem it expedient to dis cuss ono of the great evils of the day, cigarette smoking.—Rev. .1. L. Hurley, C. 1.. Hammett. Respectfully submitted, . J. A. Can’TUKU.. Sect. iinport- Hunday -Rev. J. W. Har- '■ (Correspond ETfAjANK, J \ Ledger.) Virginian, of M^ hc y or folk text of Gen. M. cALg a full before the CenfedcrX address sociation in that ci know Genera! Butler gentleman and a soldie Imagine than I can desc handled his subject and I mend the address to ther than try to comment on it. In u special mhnnor ho graphic account of tho movetnt the army of Northern Virginia to the hnUlo of Brandy St which without doubt, was one. fiercest country bf Ul I'UIO V.V v ****V * i Tho officers of the Ladies Ussooiation at Elbethel are .Jefferies, president; Mrs. j feries, vice president; Miss lars, 1 secretary and treasu soon us I get the names of tl ent committees I will report , Our present wide-awake graijdjury man in this section, J. L. Moo^chcad, < . K>! n „ the attention of emorial rs. Etta 1 ,tie Jef- lice Sel- r. As diller- iSm court all e,.,— t law, regardless of who tho parties are or who it-offemiY^ ' a,Uk °A i> Ud -nectTy right. Grand jurors too remiss along this line .. No honorable man can oath of a grand jnror and IPk: his duty without losing his self respect. Most of our farmers have plowed their cotton over twice. With regret I learn that certain parties did not rttond the picnic last ‘luturdny thinking that a special in flation was necessary to make thorn r '\comc. This is not tho case. If parties want to get up any- ■ . i,f n **>f the kind they will not get < uring\this c^ r0S p On dent to write It up, or The Devil’s a Dutchman ef that Hoss Aint Got as Mutch Sense as Some People You Meet Appearentiy. If you livt to git as old as Flaw, disappointments won’t go hard with ~ ~ • -* • » —- ^ agoing to bring to the Attention oi uisappo.nimeniH wun „ 8 o le court all gross vioLatlo»a ntJLkfi. t i i ^ t 1 * . . ■ •*no'nr < noss of who tho partic* are, ia ' e ^ e,,rn t. by shrude ob- ' * “ hrv,,n ™* to a 1 wavs cxoect the 3VOH t0N latter which lention it. No, friends," tlie a public, social gathering wanted all friends to hex lively^Hnro* resident XUovi land |o mess^o ho is now and Harbor ^sort of document ex- la jftbgt may bo started Relay adjournment. Ac- opinion of nearly all lint members of both ^ngreas, the River and be passed over the fe not drawn in tho House passed a Iclause of the pres- \ provides for the ^duty, of foreign be used in the 104 Ropubli- kuid 5 Populists bill, and 00 Re- locrats against in tlie clause it forced and claims Tg piled up against rebate of duty paid feretary Carlisle asked | his .request was en- House Ways and te. Whether the bill the Senate is yet a !gh it has been given tarograinmo prepared "committees, loocrats are fully de- I say. that they shall Ibf the control of tho jtioh by any manipu- stional committee of egationa, and notice been served upon of that com mi t- [ Washington. Mr. it his committee trying to use its up the tempo- aventlon to keep It of their seats, do not entirely ud say that they ‘jns which will that, even -to stay inos- Bt Howey*s Ferry Happenings (Correyoiutonce of The Ledger.) Howei.ws Fku.uv, Juno 1.—Miss Lorena J*ics, of Grove, is visiting Foster.' , v .: . Farmers in thin section are about up with their (arm work. J. L. Strain lias the brag field of corn of this section. I don’t think it is any big work on the Kernel’s part, but it Is duo his rail Jimmie. The subject of the debating society of Saturday night k week ago was, ’‘Which doser res tho greatest honor. Columbus for discovering America, or George Washington for defending it?” Washington won. Tho judges said it was a bard question to decide. John Estes is suffering from a se vere attack of nerveous prostrations. Boys when you go courting' leave your dog at home or you might bo like a follow that come down in this section and when he got ready to go back homo his mlnd» \Vas so itlrred up that ho left his dog. The picnic at Thompson’s Mill was a delightful one. Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. There was but ono tiling wrong at the picnic and that was a girl knocked Rambler down with a biscuit. Girls you must not do tiie old Tel low so bad. Mrs. L. Mitchell visited her parents last Sunday. 8amho. «—•— • • — — *•« Crors Ro*d News. * (('om-sporiftcnce of The Ledger.) Cross Roads, June 1.—Tho Sunday School Union of the Northern section ttas held «t (irsysy Pond Baptist church last Saturday and Sunday. K. D. Edwards was elected chairman, Mr. Henderson assistant. Several subjects were discussed on Saturday. Bible reading ulid comments on,th( .verses and a good essay by Miss A Spake on Sunday. A large eongi gallon was present. A great m came from a far distance William and Miles Gedde shine. 8. C., were pre Messrs. Andy and J were present from Mr. and Mrs.^H made happy another h Mrs. ck U 8)' is both sensVaip un( | t t vcrul new Sunday school ».|| r ,w. ( W. R. Uwin ere juimuy royijntly. v . W. R. Owit'piirU^preach at In next Sabbat h. L. S. er.) war, and in which he (.Butler) hi. right f«,t. b which V,'wanted »il friends t This is trmy the history wc l e(it and en Y y thei n SC lves. Among writing together. be pleasant, features of the occasion Messrs. Ed. II. DeCamp, ofGaflnAis a sensible talk from Mr. Ed. H. and Flaw Picker, of Dray ton vill'Ca rap which he gave in tho after- uatne over to the picnic last Salmon. By the way, a young lad^ day. bl he was the best looking manAn One night last week Jolm SkateV ground. Wonder wliat JMrs shot and seriously wounded Smitnlamp will tVink of that? IT dare Poole’s liog. If it dies there wil^she wj 11 s\ that tlmy youn probably be a law suit about it, for John says he don’t want to pay for it until he knows whether lie or the doctor killed it. Last week Jeff Estes* killed three snakes in a pile. Ho chopped off the heads of two of them at one lick with a hoe and killed another close by. They were all poison snakes. Evans Estes caught a frog last week thus had only time legs. It never had any more. | he Mrs. Mike Sellars has three hens the aggregrtfcfrbeoods of whieh- ex lObchickens. . Messrs. Sim Brown, John Estes, mmmmimmn To One an* YOU are respect! to Gaffney on SatJ take part in the **'; '.a , • V *| sion. A splendij ments is beim will be doi mirth an< Cherokee; pi icPl'ondf net JiOKEK FAJ of this ph io sickness 1 ■The here bad igirvances, to always expect woftjt, and then ef I get surprised it will b© an agreeable surprise, yo« understand. a So it was at the Thompson Mil lickhick—an agreeable surprise. Well sir, ef I didn’t nighbout en joy myself Joe’s dead and Sallle’s a widder. The Kernel was in the beat of sperits all day, although the night before, just as the clocks (2 of ’em) was chimin' forth the midnight watch, tho Kernel's dogs raised a heart rendin’ yell that sent terror in to tho hearts of two pleasure-seekin’ ducks as they drev up to the Ker nel’s an raised the repeated hollo’s until tho Kernel wanted to know Who’s thar?” an in response to his querry hohearn one say “The Ledger and Flaw.” I listed for words that you don’t fer commonly hoar at Sun day schools but instead the Kernel was as jovial an good natured us ever saw him, un treated us as di the father his prodigal son—only hi calf was not “fatted” imuiT to kill. ' Saturday mornin' wo, repuif to the picknick grounds—a pleusj grassy, shady place in the tho creek above tho bridge at sons mill, where wo spent ‘ day. , The fust part of the announced as a banjer ole Flaw. I tried to narry, time could li couldn’t an wo\ Trough Shoals From tlio Southern dhrlsfcL Last Sunday, we sf of the Pacolet Mann* pany, with our friei Rev. George M. The charge has beei Shoals Station, bm, move for a change too clever, their d«j for them to carry I less it were a prj one calls for pro| let such know thj pays a salaries QfJ and presiding elj vance. Where j ion is this domj people have pci for domestic a/ They are up and farthest cj Just here, ij much of tb( able showini who, beside^ church, sei mirably. leads in sel things ueej Jimmie Strain are the com mil all matters pej yard. On Tut, Hughes caj made th< less thi Mr. lead! wee sonage; Idj right. HT him. Su<J ahould be ‘‘Baptist-s^ Goodlett, own church] excellent increase Sue