The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 04, 1896, Image 1
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steffiOML REVENUE,
tHE^HKAT!. VOTES DOWN THE
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Eli* TAX.
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^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.
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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