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▼ r ^ - r " . i * ' •’ J THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 4, 1896. •EKLY LEDGER. I) kvkry rncnr-iUY by Vrintint: ani Publishing Co. Incorporated. li.oo per Year. /IS, - - Editor. eCAMP, Manager and ,ocal Editor. 5F.u is not responsible for correspondents, ndents " ho do n. t cor.tri- lr ne^-.s letters must fur- pan.e not for publicution, ptificnt ton. lort letters and to the point publication; also endeavor n to the office by Tuesday, eapondencc should be ad- Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. ds will be published at five thanks will be published i a word. notices will be 'ptiblisbed s a line each insertion, pies of the paper are five RESIDENT’S VETO, rein stable government; t are not simply on the books, but are tueant to ; in a judiciary, able, im- :orruptable; in an execn- ryed—quick to see and as perforin. \Yo beliere in ng our'eoast a^i harbor deepening our channels, icting necessary public ut we do ir>t believe in to the detriment of the enslave them for the Cleveland, in vetoing the arbor bill recently passed admin'utered a just re- legislativo branch of the In their extravagance, power would foist upon a debt which could only l by increasing the tarilT. ng the tariff means pro- ose already rich and op- luiHO already poor. The upon the consumer, the vhile the manufacturer houminds and manufac- trinre. The Kepublicans >rward to more than four >r in congress and in the lir. and arc thus paving ake their access easier. reach the goal that •ing for, the Demo- in power, they would rty down with a load of lid cripple it for another erm. VvK BEEN SPARED? ey<donc t!mt has rushed and boisterous sweep i to Texas, has destroyed lomes, making barren li mighty breath blown us ainfunt of property. >f all mourning hearts fur hundreds of dear > \borne away in the •junult. of the warring Virginia and sister jjods and billowy water (uged cities, bringing hearts with heavy sion of buaincss. I our land vibrates the distressed. Lging hearts in dcomo quiet procur es. At- ?liosied ^rugic tn TURKEY AGAIN. Turkish cruelties in Armenia aroused the civilized .world. For a time it looked as if Turkey’s days were numbered, but, alas! it was only a look. Her strength lies in her singularly happy position geo graphically. Not a nation in Europe but covets the prize, and would con sider the acquisition of such territory great gain. And in this lies the trouble. Turkey can keep on with her inhuman massacres while the nations view each other with jealous eyes. Now it is the beautiful island of Crete that has drawn upon her the ire of the Sultan. Troops arc pour ing into the island that would ho free of Turkish hate and cruelty. This means blood shed, rapine, murder and all the ills that follow in the wake of Moslem rule. “Man’s inhumaity to man Makes countless thousands mourn.’’ And still the intruder is strongly intrenched on European soil, and she will remain until her cup of iniquity is full. FREE SILVER. Parly lines are being obliterated. Never before has the country been so uncertain on the ers of tke assemb ling of the two great parties in con- rentions. The same apple of discord has been thrown in the ranks of each and made to do valiant service for the politicians. Here we have an ’economic question being thrust to the front in the political field and made the issue for Presidential nom inations. So fiercely is the war waged that success of party is at a discount when weighed in the balan ces against success of silver. Party, may be wrecked. Wh* f matters it go that free silver triumphs! Thus we interpret the action of the lead ers. We cannot understand the rush after the phantom, and must believe it is an illusive hope that will bring to grief the many and the few who are pursuing it with the ardor of youth. PRESS OPINIOH'. The notorious Samps. Pope an- -Yiounces himself for Governor as a Republican. No self-respecting white man will vote for him.—Hampton Guardian. * * * Senator Irby died suddenly politi cally, yet bravely and manly, and with the Democratic banner in hand. Hut, some say he is nob dead—but sleepeth.—Newberry Observer. A NEW COUNTY. Some Logical Reasoning Why Should Have One. We e i * * * Tillman ‘resident has ben talking about Cleveland’s bond deal, but Tillman is us dumb as an oys ter about Tillman’s South Carolina bond deal.—Edgefield Mo,nilor. * * * Sordid icemen will be painting on their wagons the fetching aphorism of of Rev. Dr. Peters, “A piece of ice is a cliunk of heaven on ihe brink of hell.—Sumter Watchman and South ern. ♦ * We belove that on the first ballot at Chicago Tilliuuu will be voted for by delegates from a dozen States. South Carolina’s man of destiny, it seems, holds the key to the situa tion.—Cotton Plant. * V * Col. K. S. Koitt, of Bnoree, we un derstand has declared his purposq- of entering the race for United Stutok Senator. If lie goes on the stunk) he will make it lively for the boys.-f- Newborry Herald and News. * « * Hop growing ought to he large] extended in South Carolina. Tk; people of California make lots, of money at It. The crop has^froved to be pay ingonoini^gfU^Col iua, Che- Eiutor Ledger • As an advocr. of the formation of a new county from portions of Spartanburg, Union and York, with the county seat at Gaflney, 1 ask spnee in your columns to give some of tiie reasons why the people surrounding here need, and very badly, a county seat at Gaffney. The constitution of 1895 and the recent session of the legislature have prescribed the manner in which new counties can ho formed. The requirements are before the matter of submitting the question to the qualified electors are : First. One-third of the qualified electors in the area of each section of an okl county proposed to bo cut oil to fonn a new county shall petition the governor for the creation of a new county, and the Governor, within twenty days after receipt of the pe tition, shail order an election within sixty days from the date of the order, and only those can vote in said elec tion who are qualified electors, that is those who have registered under the registration law. Second. The proposed new county shall contain not less than one one- hundred and twenty-fourth part of the whole number of the inhabitants of the state, nor sh»ll have less as sessed taxable property than one and one-half millions of dollars and must •ontain four hundred square miles, nor shall any new county line run within eight miles of the old court house of an old county, and must as sume its just apportionment of the valid indebtedness of the old county or counties from which they have been formed. Let us use facts and figures and look at the matter through the clear light of reason and not through the clouded glass of sentiment, self-inter est or prejudice. All the readers of Tin; Ledger are familiar with the proposed lines that will embrace the new county of Lime stone, or whatever name the (jualified electors vole to call it, and can read ily see the constitution and laws of the state can be easily complied with. The proposed county lias the neces sary area, population and taxable wanted to see a lawyer it would be cheaper for you to soo ono close to you and it would not cost so much to have ono go to your magistrate for you. Your tax collector, probate iud;''\ sheriff, auditor, school eom- mi-.ruoner and all your county offices will be closer and be convenient. The great hugh end cry is taxes will bo increased. 1 will show you how yofir taxes will not ho increased, but you save money. The constitu tion Clearly says, “each now county shall assume its just apportionment of the valid indebtedness of the old county.” So you can only pay to41 treasurer of a new county, within a few miles of you what you pay to ono now twenty or thirty miles from you. You are taxed now to keep your respective county offices. That same tax will keep your now offices in ft now county. Gaffney city has promised to build the court house and jail without taxing the country a cent, and : t the proper time will convince the people of the sincerity of its statement, so where can - the additional tax come in there? Take, for instance, a tax payer who has property of #200 and your tax levy was so great as fifteen mills, you would only pay .',13 (and you would pay the same in an old county if the levy was the same) when as it is now, you go to Spartanburg and had business in which you could get through in half an hour, it will cost you a second class ticket, $1.10 and as the train runs you would have to spend the night, and it would cost you at least $2.50 for one trip only, and each trip vfould be the same, so i not in two trips it would cost you nearly twice as much as it would if a county seat was here. Qur friends at Rlacksburg are within easy reach of Gallney. They could come here at a cost of one- fourth what it would cost them to go to Yorkville or Spartanburg and the 1 legislature at its last session passed an I act allowing witnesses and jurors the | cost for crossing ferrj' boats and toll Highest of all in Leavening Powcr.- ■ Latest U. S. Gov’ <1 Report a &QEMJ Tmx gsu S8 E ■pgara/wjv van-. .Tonfr 1 amcK.nxvHr •vu'js'.t.* r- vr jj-mx *j$ mrttMrm— Happy Home Happening?. (Cor rotsponilc nee of The Ledger.) <Or ‘C’pond^nce of rn CXT.; Home , Juno <.—Wo had 11 nice rain COWT ex*, Juno 1 — -\\ 0 U r vVO i tl iis mo rning but not a. season: best ros da in the conn u: M r . Bili Every thing is looking nice and has hoe. i in our midst V. it); his 1 fm l X osh. scrape. Mr. Bishop is :» go «1 John Ales ft 1 dor visited II. S. and man. I le straightens » be • hud. r* Jt . O. Tate inst Sunday. fie goes «nd fokes n p stun 'I >3,: H. B Pettit visited Ben Jamorson A il who Liltueti are invi tef \ to < ■ ft''Ll Sunday. Your correspondent hives today and honey an' R. L. Boyle bee tree last north of Cow pen s and try ouj did roads. Our crops are good seasons. • visited E. Tj * 'i' it lie Wo lij J. 0. tiellars last Sabbath. robbed six bee got 150 pounds of only received four stir:*;?, and Ed Hawkins cut a week. El got about fifty bees to try their manhood on him. The Corinth basa, ball team met again Saturday. Roundtree and Phil lips, the battery, were/ip.wn to prac tice with the other boy 1 Fruit is beginning to Sri pen. j. — — -<C»- — -- If it required an" annual outlay of !|100.00 to insure a family against any serious consequences from amaltank of bowel complaint during the year there are many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they could afford to risk their lives, and those of their family for such an amount. Anyone can get this insur ance for 25 cents, that being the 3“ .. „ price of a bottle of ChamberiainV! !’ ottl °* on ‘J flft * CCR| " At Du!rc! Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem-, ody. In almost every neighborhood some one Ink* died from an attack o'f bowel complaint before modicir/o could be procured or a phys'ei^p. summoned. One or two of Did You Evar Try Electric Bitters as ae your troubles? If not now and got relief. Tbit has been found to be' "pec adapted to the relief end vtir'e 7 Female Complaints, exerting a derful direci influence in fl st rength and lone #0 the orwar. yxuuhare Loss of Appetite, Co t.ihn.TfeatrrfNtC^^-Fainlsnf; H*-' a/e jle — Melancholy or trouoiea wi»n /ujoIIs, Elcctri* flitter* is the t: cine you ne»d. Health and r‘»r* are guaranteed by its nse. V / Co.’s Stor* this remedy ‘will curfc--any gates in coming to and returning , case, ft nevyrdaTiK. Can you afford. the risk for so small tin) For sale by the DuTro Drug . I f’o ‘<8 from court, »o it could not cost any- ! to late thing in crossing in the ferry and iLy-rfnTujnt ? would be nothing comparod_Jj>goTng Co. to Yorkville or .kpartivnVfurg, even if they had ittp pv»y. Had you a county seat at Gallney, N. D. ARCHER, pTO’iHwt > Ft *r» j ; H:4r-cutting, in the IMect ordinary!' Hlmving and Shampooing nt’ re prices. J. E. WEBSTER, property and the line of the proposedTyo’ur court docket would not be new county does not come vri'thin twelve miles of any „ccur£ house in any old county*--' Why_*A’iT5uld we have a new county? ^"Kecause the tax payers’ interest demand it. Many reasons can be as signed and no argument can success fully controvert them. As the counties are now, many tax payors go, compelled often whether they wish it or not, to their county seat at Spartanburg, Union or York ville, from twenty to thirty miles. The people of North Pacolet, in Union county, have to do jury and witness duty for a week at a time, not being allowed, on account of the long dis tance, to return at night to look after homo affairs, and often keep horses at an expense in the towns and pay board and receive as compensation $1.50 per day as jurors and f> cents mileage, witnesses receiving only 50 cents per day and 5 cents mileage, and under the lav/ witnesses may be forced to stay an entire week and re ceive no pay because they are not material witnesses. Yel being there under bond. How can a juror or witness make ends meet at such mode 01 living and pay they receive. In Spartanburg and York they must buy a railroad ticket, both ways, the court does not pay that. In going from Gallney to Spartan burg and return it will cost, second class fare, one dollar and ten cents, S |iid, as the trains run, ono is forced 0 spend the night and more expenses must be paid. f Now Suppose there was a court house at Gaffney. Jurors, witnesses and all tax payers could come in their buggies and wagons from any dis- tanco in the county and return home each night, thereby saving what they paid to go to Spartanburg which will be considerably more than their taxes could poszibly be raised. A witness attends court in Spartanburg, Union or Yorkvillb, in a civil action, receiving in tax costs 50 cents per day and mileage, to be taxed only when the case is finally settled. Sup pose, as in many instance*, the case is continued from court to court, witnesses are there paying their own expenses, the case finally comes to trial and neither party is worth nough to recover from them, you lave lost all your time for two or ree courts, board bill and railroad to pay, and you receive nothing, if Gaffney was your county you could return home each nd if you must Jose, you only ‘ ime, and have no railroad bill to pay. t lents of a new county jilroads and telephones se together. Does the railroad fare? Can juror or witness £ or in a telegraph ster your name telegraph or be person- good men at trouble because [orkville. f Reg- your will n crowded, for as it is in Spartanburg, there is so much business in court i» is impossible to get through in the time allowed by law. Had you good farmers prefer com ing to Gaffney to court and return home the same night or go to Spar tanburg the 4th Monday in June, a busy time on your farm and you have no one but your wife arid some small children to look after affairs? Another importanl fact. You no tice you have been taxed to work the roads and you will recollect the roads around the county seats are first worked. Give us a county sent and let our taxes go to support our own roads near us. Look at the tax levy this year and you will find in the acts of 1S5K5 that Florence county that has been Win ning as a new county for about eight years only lias a levy of 4)J mills and .Saluda, created by the Iasi comoitu- tional convention lias only 4.j mills and some of that goes to build the court house and jail, while Gaffney will build your jail and court house with no expense to the county, and at that rate Gaffney’s new county levy could not be more than 4 mills, wiiila in old counties more is paid. Union's levy is 10 mills, Spartan burg’s mills and Lancaster 8 mills. These figures are taken from the atatue book of the state, Ihe levy for this year. Can’t the people in this section run a new county as econom ically as the people have done in Florence for the past eight years, the time of her formation? Self-interest prompts the court houses to tight this movement, but if aome of these opponents lived ut the foot of VYilkinaville mountain, or between Gaffney and the river, or any long distance from Spartanburg, Un ion or Yorkville and had to go to the county seat on a cold, rainy, windy day and receive the pitiful sum of 50 cents per day, then they would be wild in advocacy of * new county. These are some reasons why the people should have a new county with the county seat at Gaffney and there are many more but space for bids. Let everybody who wants conven ience and little or no expense, in at tending their duties at the county seat, register, wont and vote for a new county at the proper time. A New County Advocate. \ • J How’s This. We offer one hundred dollars re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., 1’rops., To ledo, O. We the undersignad have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. We«t & Truax, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo,O. Walding, Kinnan tfe Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly, upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bott le. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. TVt tonio^-rVl- JvS-Vvv Gaffney City, S. C. »?)!o ‘"‘V.- .-ifior store. next to J. D. Gout sr.r* Practices in all the courts, tiona a soecialtv. Co] lee UK’IC AUSJ’Et.D. . F. (’. AUSFLLi) SEfZ, M ARCHITECTS,., Atlanta , 0 for private snd "'W Plans and Specifications public buildings. jT ' ‘-v / / 3 * / j A 'T\ - • V..J l' \ /V. f C li ;\ ' k •N 3N t ■■ y/z Y/, /%** Say the main ihingUto do is to keep (lie stomadi, iiver and, bowels in order if you want to live long and keep well. Good physicians say the same thing, too. The remedy called RIPANS TABUIES while not mysterious or miraculous in its curative qualijfr'E is a simple formula prescribed by the best physicians for disorders^.f ihe digestive organs. Just hltlc tablets, easy to take, easy to buy and quick to act. If youi'trouble is Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Dizziness, llendai/he, Constipation, Heartburn, anti the like, no need of calling a physician./ Kipaus 'J'abulcs contain exactly what he would teil you to take. / ONE TABliLE GIVES RELIEF. PERMANENT CURE FOLLOWS A FAIR TRIAL. NO UNCERTAINTY ABOUT IT. Ilifi Gaffney Cliy Land and Improve! lent Compa Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourish ing Town, G A. JJ' IS- T~ Y G I'T Also Farms near by arid n reach of the schools of Limestone Sp^ and of tins placo in lots qf from 30 to 100 acres on liber il time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purpose j. ' For full DuTticutars apply to v MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company c titling and roinovli timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under'penalty « f law. OciYroll Transact a General Banking Business. X.ptTGJMiCSSnr allowed on Time Deposits by SYxkdi Arrangement. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. Your Ir*a.t:ron»j£e feSoIicItc/d. 1 R. I. Al. HAIR, DENTIST, 4 r: SeUlomror flout: i