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1 _ THEfLEDGER: GAtTNRY, S. C., JUNE 25, 1896 7 GENERAL CONGLOMERATION OF NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL IN TEREST. Some Short, Some Shorter «nd all Too Short for a Heading, Yet None Too Short to Mention. What will become of people who practice bicycling on Sunday/ Subscribe for Tun Ledger when you come to town on the 4th. Reoso and Lucky have surrendered and arc now in ^orkviiio to stand trial. How about an ad for next week’s Ledger? No ixtra charge for the 2,. r )00 edition. There is a good deal of complaint of lice on the cotton among the farmerj of this section. The storm Friday afternoon did considerable damage to fruit trees, uprooting some of them. t t >uito a crowd of GufTneyites at tended the Children’s Day exercises at Draytonville last Sabbath. Send in your copy for next week’s edition of The Ledger today and give us time to make it attractive, There will he preaching next Sun* day at the Raptist church us usual by the pastor, Rev. R. 1\ Robertson, Ten thousand people will read next week’s Ledger. An ad in It of your business will tell them you want their trade. Have you constructed your ad for next week’s Ledger? The issue will be copies. No extra charges for ad space. A large crowd left yesterday for the commencement at the State In stitute for the deaf, dumb and blind at Cedar Springs. (ion. Wade Hampton will be in command of the cavalry division of the United Confederate Veterans at Richmond next week. The protracted meeting at the Methodist church began in earnest Sunday night and will continue until the leaders see fit to close it, Every man with Hie least degree of interest in the future of Gallney should see that his ticket, and the ticket of his neighbor, reads ‘-Yes.” Wo have expended $00.9*") for now type for next week’s issue of The Ledger. Your ad will be set in an at tractive manner if sent in this week. Hoarding houses and hotels should have an ud in next week’s Ledger. Ton thousand strangers will be here and many of them will want a place to stop at, The members of the (Quarterly Con ference will please bear in mind that the Conference will meet in the Meth odist church next Friday afternoon at a o’clock. Ten thousand spindles and 40() looms are being added to the cotton mill at Forest City, ,N. C. When complete it will be one of the model plants of this section, The clouds have come and the rain has fallen a'hd this section can boast of Hue prospects for good crops this year. It is refreshing to hear Capt- John W. Ross talk about crops. ]f you know of any persons who do not take The Ledger and who you think likely to subscribe kindly send Us their name an address and we will mail them a sample copy without post, The boys bad a very nice practice game of ball Tuesday afternoon on the new grounds. After the game several bicyclist present took a spin around the track. They pronounced it in good shape. Mrs..!. L. Alexander is the pos sessor of the finest milch cow in tiie city. Since the loth of inarch she has disposed of a hundred pounds of butler beshhs having a sulHciency for family needs. The Corinth baseball team hereby ehullenges the Union baseball team to play tbem on the 4th of July next at GatTney, S. C. The Union team is referred to *Cnpt. William I’hillips at Dowlinsvillo, S. C. If you are a business man, doing business in GatTney, you should see to it (bat next week’s paper contains your ad. Two thousand and live hundred copies will be the issue. No advance on advertising rates. Tilltnnii R. Gaines left yesterday on a mountain lour In the interest of The Lyceum, lie has cousejitud to represent also Tin: Ledger, and our readers may look out for some of his mountain rumbles in the columns of our paper. “That was a dandy paper you got out this week,” said a friend of The Ledger to a reporter last Thursday. Thank you, kind sir. Wo are trying to get out the best weekly in the State and will do it with the help of God and humanity. J. 1). Jeter lost a fine milk cow this week which ho had been offered $3,'> for and relused it. She is supposed to have been poisoned. There were two hogs poisoned to death in this same neighborhood lust Summer. They belonged to F. G. Drowin. We want the names of any persons in your neighborhood whom you think would be likely to subscribe to The Ledger ho wo can mail them u sample copy. It will cost you noth ing and may be the means of increas ing our list of subscribers. Two local nines and u largo crowd .of base bull admirers repaired to the new bull grounds at Limestone t Frl- duy evening to do the grand act when lo! the thunders rolled, the lighten- ings flashed and the rain descended in torrents and the game of ball was not. Send us your news items, person als, etc. This is a paper for the peo ple of this section and every reader of it should assist the local man. Ho don’t know everything and be as sured he will consider it a favor. Do not even hesitate. Wo want the news. Some little excitement on our streets Saturday was occasioned by a runaway horse. The horse was hitched to a wagon wheel ami becom ing frightened pulled Hie wheel off ami run through tDo streets dragging the wheel after him. lie was truly “a horse on wheels.” Let next week’s Ledger be a per fect mirror of Hie business of GnfT- ney. If you do business bore you should not neglect this opportunity to place your business before the ten thousand strangers who will be pres ent. No extra charge for space in this 2,500 edition of The Ledger. Solicitor (). F. Sclmmpcrt announ ces himself in ibis issue of The Led ger for re-election. Solicitor Schum- pert lias made a splendid record, is a most agreeable gentleman and will no doubt make the contest pretty warm for tlnse who aspire to wrest the honors of the solicitorship from him. In writing your advertisements be very careful not to exaggerate. Truthfulness in print is just as effect ive as by word of mouth. Let people once learn that you moan what you gay and when you have gained a cus tomer it will be a dillieult matter for your competitor to take him away from jou. There are many GatTney people at tending court this week. Some of them are missed while others never would be. Strange, isn’t it, how some people can impiess men by their gentle kindness while others only leave the impress of their rude ness and insensibility to tlie tender cords of humanity. Miss Sallie, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A, J. Robinson died last Sunday at this place after a long ill ness. Her remains were carried to her old home in York county to be buried. Miss Robinson was all «hat good people love in young woman hood and the family lias the sympa thy of this community. We are sorry that .vc could not at tend the Masonic picnic at Gowdey- ville yesterday but it being our pub lication day it was not convenient to do so. However, we arc pleased to note that it was a great success and that all who attended enjoyed them selves immensely. Our thanks are due Jus. T. Drown for an invitation. Gaffney has got one of the best bicycle tracks now in the State. It has been built by lots of work and big outlay of money, AH tin* same GatTney has it ami It is a pretty sight to see seventy-live or more wheel men and women on It these after noons. They have the best makes of wheels and they know how to ride on them. The executive committee appointed at the railroad meeting some days ago arc progressing rapidly with their work. K very body is giving what is asked and numbers are re sponding with ext ra donations, That is just like GatTney people, they know a good thing when they see it, and will on all proper occasions come up to the scratch. We take a special pride in this issue of The Ledger. It Is brim full of news. The credit is not due to the management alone. Kind friends hav* contributed thejr share; corres pondents have done well and as ener getic and persevering a group of work men as ever graced a printing office have done their duty nobly. We are proud of the paper. We arc proud of our force us well. Two weeks ago we stated that the mother of 1’rof. McArthur was very low, when it should have been the wife of Frof. McArthur instead. We make this correction bcoause some of Mrs. McArthur’s Mississippi rela tives who read The Ledger are much concerned about her We are pleased to he able to state Hiat Mr. McAr thur’s mother mother is enjoying splendid health for one of her years. The Ledger desires to call atten tion to the card of “A Tax Payer” in this issue. It is a timely subject and one which is now uppcrmosi in the minds of our city fathers. The health of the community demands that something he done. The alto gether too frequent appearance of the dread typhoid fever in our midst should be impetus enough to do something. The city council have authorized an election on the ques tion. If you love your town vote “Yes.” t ' • —- -* —— Index to New Advertisementa. The following are the changes in our ud columns this week. Read them carefully and when buying tell them that you saw their ad in Tint Ledger: Announcement—(). L. fihumpert. For rent—I. M. Peeler. Down she goes—J. L. Alexander. Administrators sale—I. G. Harrutt. Notice—Town council. Have your earnings—Cauroll & Stay. Lost—Return Ledger office. Hummer kults—Wilkins Rroa. Do you wear shirts?—W. O. Lip scomb A Rro. CAUGHT AT LAST. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS A Systematic Plan ot Robbing Wood Haulers Exposed. Carroll Carpenter, Lessees of the Limestone Springs Lime Works, buy largo quantities of wood, part of which they have delivered and cord ed near their Dummy R. R. track, between their warefiouso and water tank. They have more or less on hand all the year round. For the past two or three years they have known that some one was stealing wood from their racks, and at different times they have offered the police $5 each if they would de tect and arrest the thief with proof to convict. Failing in this, other plans were adopted. Early last Thursday morning as the dummy stopped at their tank for water, Con ductor B. L. Hames noticed fresh wagon tracks lending to and from a rack of the company’s wood, there having been a shower of rain the night before, thereby making it an easy matter to track a wagon at that early hour. Mr. Hames, accompa nied by Engineer Ferguson, followed these wagon tracks to two or three negro houses, whereupon by sharp inquiring they caught a clue to the true situation. Putting their ques tions like practical lawyers to the re cipients of this st ole it wood, they elicited the Information that the wood had been hauled to them by Geo. Manning, alias Son Manning, who drove Abo Smith’s wagon. Soon as this information was given to the management, Mr. Hames was instructed to summons Chief Camp and go at once and arrest, the said George Manning. Chief Camp and Mr. Hames found George hoeing cot ton near the colored Methodist church and upon arresting him he told Hie story of the theft, In substance he stated that he had delivered the wood hereinbefore refoared to and that, he had, with the help and under the di rection of Abo Smith, loaded his wagon from a pile of wood belonging to Carroll <fe Co., Lessees. Upon this testimony Abe Smith was arrested and after further investigations lie admitted the theft charged against him, Carroll it Co., Lessees, have fre quently been annoyed by parties hauling wood claiming that their wood had been hauled away before it had been measured. Every investi gation of these complaints proved that no employee of Carroll it Co., had ever moved the wood. The ar rest of Abo Smith and his admission of the theft, explains fully the disap pearance of people’s wood who hud delivered it for the Lime Company. There is no way of ascertaining the amount stolen, but In all probability it would reach between 200 and 30(> cords. Every wood hauler having lost wood from his pile on Dummy Rail way should prosecute his ease as abundant proof can bo procured. -• •«•»* *- OLD VETS CAN HAVE DEAL MERIT is the character- Im. Ut'o of flood's Sarsaparilla. It cures even after pther preparations full. GetUood’g and ONLY HOOD’S. A Daylight Ride to Richmond via Southern Railway. Special train service has been ar ranged by the Southern Railway to afford a daylight trip from nearly nil of the points in upper South Carolina through to Richmond on the occa sion of the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion at Richmond. Special trains will ho run from various parts of the State by the Southern Railway. The first special train will be operated: Leave (1 reenwoot1, 5:‘HI; A ruler- son, (5:00; Belton, Pelzer. 0:50; Piedmont, 7:05, and arrive at Greenville at 7:10. Leave Green ville, 8:00; Spartanburg, 8:45; Blacksburg, 9:,15; Gastonia, 10:10; Charlotte, 11:00. This will ho a grand train and will carry the Confederate Veterans ami their friends from all of these points on to Richmond in the best style possiole. Special couches will be furnished by the Southern Railway for the delegation from each of these points, and these couches will be handsomely decorated. This splen did train will reach Richmond be tween 5:30 and (i:00 p. m. same day. The York county delegations will join this train at Gastonia, X. C., the Chester it Lenoir Railroad operating special train from Yorkvllle, leaving that point at 8:00 a. m., arriving at Gastonia in time to connect with the Richmond special. Another special train will leave Augusta early in the morning of the 29th, taking on delegations up to Charlotte, including Lexington and Columbia, and other points, arriving in Rich nnnd about llie same time as the first special. Still another special train will leave about noon, Juno 28th, paasing through the upper part of South Carolina that evening arriving in Richmond (i :(K) a. in. Special through coaches will he provided from most of the principal points in South Carolina. A royal welcome will bo accorded ail of the delegations arriving in Richmond via the Southern Railway on the part of the local military and Virginia Con federate Veteran organizations in Richmond at that time. Arrangements have been made for the return journey via the Southern Railway in parties or otltenvt«e. — — - -• -«•»> •- — Our Brother in Black. A. S. Gaffney, a substantial colored man of the Allgood section, was in the city Friday. While here ho re newed his allegiance to The Lkdukk. Brick for Sale! W E tiave a kiln of good Brick for tala, in any quanliaa. Apply to J. G. Galloway & Son. Movements of People You Know and Some You Don’t Know. Bud McCraw, of this city, is again on his native heath after an absence since last fall. Bud is one of the all-round cotton man in the country and that takes him from home most of the time, but his Gaffney friends have a hearty welcome for him when he returns. Col. J. L. Strain, of Etta Jane, left for Boston, Mass., last Friday night where he goes to attend the Eighth International (Triennial) Sunday School Convention, which will hold a four days’ session, June 23-24-25-26. Col. Strain will return by Richmond and attend the Old Soldiers’ Reunion on June 30, and July 1-2, and will re turn to the city for the 4th. He is a true and tried lighter for both of these noble causes. Mrs. Jas. R. Durham, of Greer*, is spending a fe.7 weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. P. White. Mrs. A. A. Sarratte and children are spending several days on their plantation at Skull Shoals. Eugene Lipscomb, a former student of the Gaffney Mule and Female Sem inary, and his brother, Edward, of Asbury, wore in the city Saturday. O. E. Macomson, also a former student of the Gaffney Male and Fe male Seminary, passed through the city Saturday on his way home from the Furman University. Our genial friend, J. Gardner, of Allgood, was in the city Saturday. Wm. Phillips, of Bowliusvilte, was in Hie city Saturday. Robert Roundtree, of Tucanau, was in Hie city the tirst of the week. Rev.B.P.Robertson is now living at Limestone. C. C. Christman and wife, of Spar tanburg, were in the city last Sun day. Rev. C. E. Robertson, who has been in Spartanburg assisting in conducting a protracted meeting accompanied by his wife and daugh ter, returned to the city last Mon day morning. Dr. Chalk, of Ravenna, was in town on professional business part of this week. Dr. Ileijv^sh, of Spartanburg, was in the cify^on professional business several days agrtr *“*•< Miss Annie P. Sarratte, who lias been visiting her cousin, Miss Katie Magness, at Spartanburg, returned to the city Monday. Miss Janney Thomson, who has been visiting friends in Union for the past two weeks, returned to the city Monday. Miss Inez Sarratte is visiting rela tives and friends in Union. Our genial friend Eph Humphries, of the Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company, was in the city Monday. Mr. Stempson, General Manager of the Draper Company, went to Hen rietta Monday on business. F. A. Bridges, of Boiling Springs, was in Hie city .Monday* on business. Mrs. Sumter Littlejohn is visiting relatives and friends at Cross Keys. Miss Mary McCullough has re turned from Greenville Female Col lege, where she has been taking a course in the art department. We regret to note that she is confined to her homo at Mr. and Mrs. J. P. White’s with an attack of fever. D. J Pngh, of Mercer, was in the city last Friday on business. He paid us a pleasant call. S. A. Allison, of Grassy Pond, was among the immense crowd of planters in the city last Saturday. J. K. Webster and JO. Patten, of Cowpens. were in the city Saturday shaking hands with their friends. Geo. W. Bonner and daughter, of Grassy Pond, were in the city Satur day on business. Mr. Bonner joined The Ledger brigade while here. Mrs. Harry A. Eskridgi—nee Miss Bessie Richardson—of Atlanta, Gu., arrived on the afternoon train Satur day. She will remain here several weeks visiting her parents, Cupt. and Mrs. \V. II. Richardson. Prof. 11. P. Griffith took a Hying business trip to Laurens last week. Ishutn Richardson returned from Furman University last Friday. Isham has developed into a splendid athlete and will ho a great addition to the baseball and other amuse ment promoting circle. Little Mac Thompson, of Blue Branch, was in the city yesterday. Ex-Mayor Joe Kennedy, of IPacks- burg, was in the city Monday. Mayor A. N. Wood returned from a trip to the Xortli Hunduy. Calvin Tale, of Home Postofilve, S. C , and a Ledger subscriber, was in town Ha unlay, and bought a buggy. Cal. is a hustler, and wo only wish that wo hud uiuro of his .kind in this section. —Look out for the IfuslIortP ud of special saloof shirts Saturday. there is a way tp make doors, sash & BL,ND ^ h I rW' 1 and N v c W Unow onfy how make then DHm ^ haavlly 1 that <*ir I turrcasing tranr i ,hatlk. tot mica thot i\ * 1 c c,m- hunk, rroi>l"; modern peeni worUm «. i* lhmoUgh ly I rajml , "% hl J k tttfore *hip tC :!dSw.rr r h. TU'kUie kM you want. Send tor Price Li*. AtUUSTA I.UMBP.K CO.. }Uk " Mtttl ImAd GREENVILLE’S GATHERING AT THE COMMENCEMENTS OF HER COLLEGES. Furman University and the Greenville Female College the Scenes of Pleasant Graduating Exercises. (Correspondence cf The Ledger.) Greenville, June 22.—Beginning on Sunday the fourteenth and lasting until Thursday night, Greenville was kept lively by the commencement exercises of Furman University and the Greenville Female Golltge. Vis itors from a!) parts of the state were in attendance and all were royaily en tertained. The commencement sermon of Fur man was preached Sunday morning by Rev. W. W. Landrum, of Rich mond, Ya., and that of the Female college at night by Rev. J. S. Felix, of Asheville, N. C. The declamation contest for the McMilan medal took place Monday morning. The contestants were Rufus Ray, of North Carolina, Thos. Darlington, of North Carolina, W. P. Coker, of Laurens county, W. B. Knight, of Laurens county, J. H. Blake, of Rock Hill, M. C. Barton, of Oconee county, and B. F. Roper, of Laurens county. Monday night the concert of the music department of the Female col lege was given. This department is in charge of Chevalier Guiseppi Fer- ruta, an Italian gentleman of remark able musical talents. He has stud- died under the most renowned teach ers of Europe and wears a magnificent gold medal given him by the C^ueen of Italy when he played the piano in her presence. Diplomas in music were given to Miss Annie Manly, of Greenville, and Miss Georgie Steedly, of Athens, Ga. These two young la dies tied for the directors’ medal and it was given Miss Steedly by lot. There was also a tie for the medal of fered the less advanced pupils and Miss Corrine Riley won this over Misses Emma Wells and Hattie Poe. The address to the Alumni of Fur man was delivered on Tuesday morn ing by Hon. J. L-.Tiebb a, of Ander son. Mr, Trebble’s address was an earnest plea for a higher standard of national life. Tuesday nigh^ occurred the anni versary exercises of the Judaon Liter ary Society. Miss Emma Allgood presided and an interesting program of music and recitations was pre sented. Wednesday morning Prof. A. T. Robertson, D. D.. of the Southern Theological Seminary, delivered the annual address to the literary socie ties of Furman, his subject being Nero, and the lessons to be drawn from Ids failure to take advantage of his opportunities fordoing good. The Alumnae Association of the Fe male college held a business meeting on Wednesday and decided upon plans for raising money to furnish parts of the buildings and improve the grounds of the college. Mrs. Willie Williams and Miss Ida May McGee, of Greenville, were elected president and secretary, respectively. At the meeting next jear histories of tlie class of 18SU and 1890 will be read. The Alumni Association held its business meeting Wednesday after noon anil decided to build an Alumni hall at a cost of $10,000. This hull will contain a spacious chapel on the oral floor and above will be rooms to be used for society hulls and tlie li brary. It is proposed to organize tlie old Furman students in each county and arouso them loa fuller reulizatiou of their duty to their Alma Muter. Already about $1,000 has been raised and President II. 11. Moscly is enthusiastic over tiie plan. The second annual banquet of the Alumni anj Alumna) was given on Wednesday night, about two hundred guests being present. Toasts were responded to by several fine speakers and altogether it was a very enjoya ble affair. The closing exercises of the Uni versity took place Thursday morning when diplomas were presented by Dr. Manly, the president, to tlie following graduates: Bennett Huge no Geer, of Bvlion, and Margaret L. Bronson, of Sumter, taking the degree Master of Arts; R. J. Bland, of Sumter county, W. P. Coker, of Laurens county, Arthur B. Kennedy, of Union county, and James E. Sanders, of Florence county, taking the degree Bachelor of Arts; J. E. Ashmore, of Greenville county. T. J. Hart, of Or ange county, and G. Edward Hayns- worth, of Sumter, taking Bachelor of Literature. The special degree Mas ter of Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy, was taken by B. E. Geer, W. P. Coker and Charles M. Manly, of Greenville. Orations were delivered by J. E. Ashmore, J. E. Sanbers and I). E. Geer, and an essay read by Miss M. L. Brunson who is Hie first young lady to take the M. A. degree at Fur man. The graduating class of the Female College received their diplomas on Thursday night, when the address to theJudson Literary Society was de livered by the Hon. Y.J. Pope. Judge Pope’s address was an able argument in support of South Carolina’s posi tion on tlie marriage and divorce question and was well received by the large audience present. The gradu ating class consists of the following young ladies: Miss Maud Gary Netherlund, of Georgia, Elizabeth Katharine McNeil, of Florence, Ida May McGee, of Greenville, Olivia Hudsett, of Anderson. Emma All good, of Pieken* county, Willie Gray, of Greenville, Annie L. Brown, of Greenville, Hellen Eva Jones, of Florence. Rena M. Rice, of Belton, Carrie May V’ntson, of Edgefield aiid James Deborah David, of Marlboro. The graduates gave a reception to their friends after the e xercises, which was a decided success. Both Furman University and Hie Greenville Female College have en joyed an unusual amount of prosper ity and success and all are well pleased with the management. Dr. Riley, the president of the Female College, has given universal satisfac tion. He is a born disciplinarian, firm, yet kind in manner. Mrs. Cal loway, tiie matron, is noted all over the up-country as an excellent house keeper and is greatly loved and res pected by the girls. The chair of Latin in Furman has been tilled by the election of Prof. Charles S. Estes, of Maine, to that position. Prof. Estes is a graduate of Colby University and John Hop- kin’s, and all who know him unite in saying that Furman is especially for tunate in securing him. B. E. Geer, of this year’s class, has been elected assistant in the preparatory depart ment, and if h^keeps up the record as a teacher which he has made as a^ student, it will be hard to fiad^TCet- ter. Seven Months With Fever. Wonderful Recovery of Health. Mr. Baird’s rapid and marvelous recovery from a mere skeleton to his normal weight, 270 pounds, was surety the/uiloit test of the grandest strength-giving and building-up medicine ever produced, namely: Dr. Wiles’ Restorative Nervine. J. n. Baird. Gentlemen—I wish to express to you my X ratltude for the great good that Dr. tile*’ tferviM has done for me. 1 was taken sick with typhoid fever and I laid in bed for seven months. After getting over the fever I was thin, nervous and tired, and did not recnin my loststreugth. I tried several proprietary medicines, and finally, after having been reduced in weight to ISO pounds, I began trying your A>rrine, and at once began to improve. Was finally enttrrlp cured, and today 1 can say I never felt bet ter in all my life, and weigh 270 pounds. t This is my normal weight, as I measure • fcetStt inches in height." South Bend, Ind. J. Tl. BA HID. Dr. Miles* Nervine is sold on a positive guarantee that the first Iioitlo will benefit. ail I druggists sell it at II, 0 bottles forjfi, or it will besent. prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind. Dr. Miles’ Nervine Unusually Warm and Sullry Is I In* weather lit present, in f:ict *0 tnurh so tut to make it disiiKreeahle unless you choose to Keep Cool and Enjoy Life Hy piitroulxiii^ our sixi.i water fountain uml lee creutn parlors. The latter has Just l>eeii completed and l* ;tn Inviting Place for Young and Old And wo do rlaitn that no ’e handle erer; grocery line for lioUMokci<pcr» and cordially invite your D’ltde. other cMtahllhhuiciit hi Hm 1 city can Hurpusn u*. Wr handle everything in tlie md cortfh “ Byars & Sparks, Exclusive Grocers. UIESTONE * SPRINGS * LIE * WORKS, CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturer* of BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * Li ——And Dottier* In Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster, Oy mamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamij > ^ , - Vl *