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/ THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JULY 1(*», 1890. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PUDL18IIKI) KVEHY THURSI>AY BY The Limntone t rintinK and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. riiE Ledgkh is not responsible for tho views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. \11 correspondence should be ,ad- iressed to Ed. II. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. rrr-r- GAFFNEY’S FUTURE. A prediction I heard on tho 1th, was: “In fifteen years (Jaffney would have ten thousand population.’’ Perhaps ’twill be true. Certain it is that no place have I visited that seems to be more thrifty, more pros perous. Somehow I like to hail from Spartan county; the impression pre vails that it is the garden spot of the State. Perhaps it is. If so it is due to the enterprise of her citizens, who have fu : th in her resources given by nature, and are ready to develop them Eyes are turned to Gaffney as a line business center. Every now and then she is visited by enterprising business men with tiie view of settling t here. Advntagcs are many, but one might have more. Many towns in the State that are unpretentious, and have not much to recommend them yet have their graded schools. And this draws from far and near Hoys and girls must be educated, even though the country home lias to be broken up and the family move to town. Where shall we go? is the ques- lion asked, and the answer comes quickly, where it is cheapest. And the pocket says it is cheapest where it costs nothing; that is where there are no tuition bills to pay. However that may he, we should trim our sails to catcli t he passing breeze. A good citizen with wife and a fam ily of growing children is a prize that any town ought to covet so earnestly as to offer the best inducements for them to settle in its midst. The schools that we have are good. Their standard is high, the teachers well selected, the discipline mild, yet firm, and, perhaps, our people are content to let well enough alone. Hut we should be looking to the future and prepare for that 10,000 popula tion that we are to have in the short by-and-by. A graded school econo mically conducted, well officered and managed will help to that desired end. f)ur factory is one of the best to be found anywhere; its management could hardly be improved on. Very likely we will have others. We can hardly have too many while cotton |s yet shipped by the in. Mon bales from) our borders. Hut let us not forget that other industries also help to build up a town. What about that cotton seed oil mill that last winte'* came so near reading the flood tide of success? Hreath new life into it and set it on its feet again. In working for your own success look for the success of your town. themselves of nature’s bountiful sup ply. For years, in Gaffney, we have been thinking of a water supply. Tho impression prevails that we are too near tho source of supply to be benefittod by an artesian well sunk in our town. But impressions may bo wrong, as they often are. Now that we are agitating anew the subject of water works it would bo well to study this question in the light of recent developments. Even we may sec the flowing stream of pure water that wells up from tho caverns of the depths below our feet. We, too, may have our swimming pools, our spray ing fountains as luxuries often needs of prime importance are satisfied. OPPORTUNE. Opportunity seized, appropriated ; opportunity attempted, lost; Bryan represented the first in the Chicago National Democratic Convention, Tillman the last. Tillman stood the representative of secession, of divis ion, of disintegration. He placed himself between his speech on the one side and his audience on the other. Great disappointment fol lowed great expectations. Come down was the sentiment. And the voice of the people is the voice of God. Hryan moved as if called from above. He was tho man of destiny. A vacuum there was and “nature ab hors a vacuum.” Hryan stepped for ward and filled it. He filled it well. Notice the naturalness of his plan, if plan he had. Hryan was behind his subject. Himself he subordi nated to his country’s crying need. Union, not division. This is no time for censure. Furl tho banner of dis cord, and in its stead spread to the breeze that of conciliation. These sentiments uttered with the fervor of the true orator and the patriot awoke the patriotic sense of expectant thousands, and Hryan was the hero of the hour, though lie meant it not. Hryan is young, vigorous, progress ive. He has grown up with the growing West, and has kept in touch with the burning questions of the day. Whether he is on the right side ftf tho financial question, we know not. .This must be determined by future developments. Hut this question divides alike both political parties and is but one plank on whioh the great Democrat!3 party stands. Bryan’s speech was a happy hit. He entered the harbor at high tide, without a pilot, and with full sail set. 6 MEN AND MEASURES. ARTESIAN WELLS. Nearly everywhere I go in the low country of the state 1 find the arte sian well. It is revolutionizing things wherever u shaft has been sunk and (lowing water secured. In Beaufort county these .veils are found widely scattered. While they are not springs imparting perenial youth, their waters are generally pure or slightly tinctured with min eral products. Several pipes were sunk in the vil lage of BlufTton, but in no one of them did the water rise to the sur face. A thoughtful citizen selected a spot at high water mark, beneath the bluff that gave the village its name Here this well was sunk in front of his pleasant home. The water rose readily and Hows briskly, giving outI,2(X) gallons a minute. It is a pretty sight. The rising tide ap proaches the pipe; and when spring tide makes the waters rise two feet higher, the waters from 200 feet ht- low rise in copious flow and mingle with those of the sea. A needless waste you say, and so it hociiim, hut there is enough for all, ami to spare. Here again at Conway these well* ore numerous. They are so cheaply dug, that private families are availing FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEA. Leaving Gaffney on the morning of the Jitli, I readied Georgetown as the shades of night were gathering. After the storm of days I .'eft sunshine be hind me, on the coast I met the storm in its renewed fury. All along the route were evidences of its havoc. Water still laid waste acres of grain and were hurrying on to deluge lands still nearer the sea. At tho early hour of 4 o’clock, the morning of the 10th, I started from the wharf at Georgetown to steam up the beautiful Woccomaw to Conway, the county seat of Horry. I expected to see an overflow of waters. Imag ine my surprise on noticing the water at low-water mark. Rains they have hud, but not yet have they swelled the flood. Horry is a flat country, but a few feet elevated above the sea, and it takes time for the waters to find the channel to the sea. Even at Conway, nine hours distant from the sea, the tide runs two feet. The Woccomaw is a sluggish stream, but there are naches wiiere the view I is picturesque indeed. The alligator finds here Ids home, but it is not u happy one. The Winchester rifle is ready at hand to pierce him with a deadly bull us he lazily sleeps on tiie languid waters. Strange, is it not, : that witli tiie falling leaves he seeks his winter’s rest, and in spring re turns from Ids hiding fatter and hap pier than ever. But here I am at Conway. And here I rest. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car- There is only one way to cure Deaf, ness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it isentlely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation < an he taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will ho destroyed forever; nine coses out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing hut an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Du”:irs for any case of Deafness (caused by calarrh) that cannot Iks cured h*y Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Head for cir culars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., _ Tolt do, O. gj^Sold by Druggist. 7&c. Things Said and Done About Politics and Politicians. The campaign circus is resting this week. As far as the people of Aiken County are concerned, it might rest indefinitely.—Aiken .Journal and Review. * * * In view of the fact that tho Dem ocratic party is to return to power on a tidal wave, it is very appropri ate that there should be a ship-owner i on tho ticket.—Columbia State. * * * We are glad to see the animosity between the political parties of South Carolina fading away, and giving place to a patriotic desire for a clean government.—Edgefield Chronicle. ★ * Hon. Patrick Walsh says Tillman’s speech was disappointing to the au dience. It did not measure up to expectation and does not rank with his better efforts. His name was not put in nomination for the Presid ency.—Rock Hill Herald. * * * 4c It is wonderful how quickly wives become beautiful, intellectual, at tractive, popular leaders of society, benevolent, generous and possessors of a dozen other commendable virtues after their husbands have been nom inated for high offices.—Greenville News. 4t 4c * That was just what was to be ex pected—the handsome tribute paid I to Wade Hampton by llie assembled thousands at Kicliniond last Mon day. He was tiie hero of the day, and his presence was hailed with delight by his old comrades.—the Kicker. ¥ 4c 4c Judge Bonnet has debarred five Charleston lawyers from practice for pursuing questionable tactics. In these days of sugar and slobber a little of tliis medicine scattered around over the State would do good. There is plenty of material to work on.—Yorkville Yeoman. Soutli Carolinians are very much gratified at the many compliments paid Gen. Wade Hampton at tiie Con federate reunion at Richmond. Tiie old General deserves any com pliment that can he paid him. He is still dear to the hearts of all true and loyal South Carolinians.—Che- raw Reporter. * * * Senator Tillman, Gov, Evans, Sec retary Tompkins and Sheriff Bradr ham, of tiie South Carolina delega tion, are stopping at the Sherman House in Chicago and are paying $20 a day for their rooms. The other members hunted up cheaper boarding house, as it was impossible for them to pay that amount, be cause they hud nothing to do with the commissions in the bond deal.— Anderson Intelligencer. * * * The Hon. Jus. H. Earle should eitii- er resign the judgsliip, or got out of the race for the Senate. The spectacle he presents at present is not edifying. He is standing on the judicial robes with both feet, while Iii8 hands are outstretched eagerly towards the Senatorial toga that is slipping from the shoulders of John L. M. Irby. Adjudge and a candidate is one and the same per son Is a hybrid that the voters of .Soutli Carolina, do not especially admire.—Sumter Watchman and Southron. Lnat summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctor’s remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine ever put on tho market for bowel complaint.— Mrs. K. G. Gregory, Frederiekstown, Mo. This certainly is thte best medi cine ever put on the market for dys- entary, summer complaint, colic and cholera infantum in children. It never fails to give prompt relief when used in reasonable time and the plain printed directions arc followed. Many mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it lias effected. For sale by Dul’re Drug Co. Allgood Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ai.i,oooi>, H. c., July 11.—I take a half dozen or more weekly papers, but I consider Tiik Lkdoku “the cock of the pit,” for i! gives the state and county news, from abroad and at home, and is not filled up with poli tics or factions. Didn't old Gaffney get out on the 4tli inst? She shot the gun, killed the Devil, and threw the doors of hospitality wide open. The day is fast approaching when she will soon have the proposed new county, the temple of justice, a jail and Chris Phillips for sheriff, for he would make a good one. Edward Lipscomb, of Blue Branch, who is a candidate for the legislature, made a rousing speech at the cele bration. Hurrah for our i’oinpy! the dead is alive, tiie lost is found. J. Wright Nash made the sweetest little speech of any of the candidates. I urn going to vote for him sure. Alfred Harris lias recently had his gin and machinery put in trim order for the fall season of Jhlki. If you get ahead of Uncle Alfred you have to take wings and fly. He is an in dustrious, long-headed, sober-minded and generous kind of a man and is worth a cool fifty thousand, but nevertheless he will brandish his hickory stick, and reach out after an American half dollar as quick as Monroe Mize. Mr. Editor, will you allow mo to relate a little incident that occurred at or near this place a few years past? There was a male child, born in a manger, in 1S77, and immediately visited by two wise men from Un- East by tiie name of \\ illiams and Blackwood, who fondly embraced him to their bosoms and cm pressed his cheeks with kisses. The babe is well known in tins community us the second Christ. His parents given names are James Buckhanard and Mandy Jane. Tiie child is still liv ing and doing well, and, with proper care, and the inspiration of God. lie bids fair to make a model ruler. If any Ledger reader doubts this state ment as being true, all you have to do is to come up, and I will take pleasure in showing you the boy and let you touch tho hem of his garment and be healed; furthermore, I will furnish you all the reliable evidence that you may desire. The people in this community are very sociable, clever and kind. They are powerful for war relics and tro phies. June Littlejohn has the first bell that Prof. W. F. McArthur ever used for school purposes in 18(59. K. W. Harris lias a walking stick or spear that has hi on handed down I from generation to generation.and can bp traped as far back as Alexander the Great. Thos. Blackwood has a most sacred trophy that he inherited from the McSwain family*many years ago. iy. M. Smith has a coffee mill that has been in use fiO yean and is a good one yet. It has ground enough of the tepid stuff to drown old Firw and his whole generation. Walter Huskey, of AI'good, was ! sixteen years of age on the 4th of this July, and J’ll wager a pair of brass I knucks that more people celebratad his birthday at Limestone Springs Mian will ever bo at the burying ground of the notorious Flaw Bicker. ' CiTti.v Bn.n. Mrs. Rhodie Noah, of this place, | was taken in the n'ght with crumping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took a half a hot lie of black berry cordial hut got no relief. She then sent to me to see it I had anytidng that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbors had been sick tor about a week and hud tried different remedies for diarrhoea but kept getting worse. I sent him this same remedy. Only four doses of it were required Id' cure him. He says he owes his recovery to this wonder ful remedy.—Mrs. Mary Sibley, Sid ney, Mich. For sale by Dul’rc Drug Co. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder pure Lov/pens Happenings. ((•■..r't -j ^niltnce cf The* LmIk-t ) Cow pens, s. 0., July 11.—The! Fourth of July was celebrated in ' great style at Love •Springs, about - four miles frum this place, several j hundred being present. After de lightful iambics through the grovo around the springs, a bountiful din ner was served. The table was loaded down with tiie finest delicacies to be obtained, and everyone present had plenty, there being several bask etfuls left over. At 51 o’clock, all adjourned to the Love Springs’ base bull ground, where the Hornets, of Cowpens, and Love Springs ball teams crossed bait. For the first two or three innings the game was hotly contested by both sides. When the Hornets got on to Smith’s curves in the fourth, the game was one-sided; the Hornets having it their own way and pound ing him at will. Thornton, ij, the Hornets, was very effective, yielding but few hits. The features were: A foul catch by Wilkins, who played third base; Martin’s base running, making several long slides, and gen eral good playing of in-field, (out-didd ers having very little to do), of Horn ets, and Keenan’s good playing at seeor. i base. Ed Smith's tickling, and Davis errors, of hove Springs. The Hornets thunk the young ladies who gave tin in so much encouragement durinff the game. The team consists of young boys and is open for chal lenges. Address J. M. Alexander, Manager Hornets, Cowpens, S. 0. We understand that one of our most popular young men will enter into hytneniul bliss. Wiio told us so’. A little sparrow. Mr. J. W. Brown has returned from college and was noticed at short in the ball game, whore he played splen did ball. ‘‘Thompson’s Puke.” — '«•*• *- ChumLi rhbn’s Cough Remedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough, it is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Dul’re Drug Co. Pleasant Grove Happenings. irorrespondonce cf The LedEcr.) I’i i:\sa\t Grove, S. C., July 11.— We were so busy last week we were unable to write, but owing to the immense quantity of ruin, that will not be our excuse this time. Last Monday mining it began raining, and up till Wednesday evening it rained almost without ceasing. Our old citizens say small watercourses were higher than they have been for fifty years. Of course we don’t know any thing about that, but this we do know, they were high enough to get most of the bottom corn. The river was higher last Wednesday than it lias been for several years. The people of the neighborhood of Eleusunt Grove need a post office. It is sn far to the postoffieu that wo have to lose half a day to get o ir mail, if it is nothing but the Ledger, some of us would have it if we were to lose a crop. 8he’s worth having. The roads of this cummuniiy are very much in need of work, so mnuh so that they are almost impassable. Wc would he glad if some one would inform .Mr. Jolly ahotit the condition of these* roads. Wo don’t like to pay "nv road tax and Mien have to work t.ne roads. People of thiscomiminit.v arc being bothered about having their wheat threshed. Though I don’t suppose it t.oakos any difference. They wouldn’t get much toil unless they would take part straw. i Ratteeu. Buckkn’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salve in the world fi r Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Sait Kheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar, unteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 2o cents per box. For sale by Tiie DuPre Drug Co. Success Follow > Ledgir Advertises. - -O'- ' io - (> \ . A ^„ --.j ^ " yJ ./C :zr W VC w 7, / :i j V\ Suy thi: m.iin ordi-r if you the !-an:e thing 1 >oWll fcSlio OopH! Until the loth of August I tu’J cut juices 20 per cent, on all tiling'to i!o is to keep tl.< stotruuh, liver and bowels in • want to live long ami keep well. Good physicians say I too. The remedy called —^ RIPANS TABIILES • while not mysterious or miraculous in is curative ijualities, is a simple formula prescrilx il bythebt e physii no s for ili.-oulers i.f the digestive organs. Just little tablets, caf-v U tAe, • ary to I uy at il quick to act. If- your trouble is I lyspepsia, l> bi.u-nt-s, I Uz/iness, I b-adacln-, Constipation, Ileaitburn. and the like, no i eoC f c.Hirg a physician. Kipans Trbules* contain exactly ulut he would tell you to take. ONE TABILE GiVES RELIEF. PEUMANKXT CUBE EOU.OWS A l-’AII; TIlIAI.. NO UNCERTAINTY ABOUT IT. Lay Aside Something FOR YOUR FAMILY l.y buying a policy in the Mas sachusetts Benefit Life As sociation, from R. S. LIPSCOMB, Agt. Also Fire Insurance Aijt. - ' FRUIT AND ORNAKFJTAL TREES. My customers and friends are invited to take auvantage of this and improve t heir proper! y Don’t forget that “Triumph” is tiie earliest yellow peach in the world. Respectfully, J. L. ALEXANDER. Notice I o I,. Snicjim-atT. Thos. It. Iti ti.f.ii. Sol. 7tli .linliri.il Circuit. C. S. Com, Wm. McGowan. SCHUHPERT, • BUTLER ■ & - McGOWAH, A'TTOJt Nt l-C VH-AT-J. A \V. Union and (iafrney, 5. C. Olllrc iluys ut ti.iirnry. I'rliliiy unifttutit:-- j day of cucli week. \ ery eiireful mill prompt ul(rution xlveu to nil ImsInesN enl riiHteil ions. t I’ruet lee In til I I lie court • This Is no emporium, no grand aggregation, no symposium or other grand collection of high sounding circus humbuggery. 1 ItCT THE PLACE to yet your Itooni. Saxli. IIIIikIh hiiiI nil klmU of liiilliiliiv Mu- tcrliil. Sawed mill Huud M;ule Slifnule* for the leiiHt iMMNllde ra.ili. ADVICE iftreii free In n-Kurds to proper slr-es for mukliiK fnimoM, etc. Itll.l.s for iiiulcriHlM himI entlniates niudc promptly. OFFICE In wurcliouiM*. UchpcctYully. 1^. J. E. WEBSTER. Attorney-A. t- Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Uollec- tinns » soeclnltv. DR. I. M. HAIR, DENTIST, Ofliri tin Scttlnnycr ImiIMIiik. Tcetli ex- tj-Mcled w11 Inmt pain. Flrst-cluait work itl n-HHOioilde price*. Will Is* at i’acolct from the loth to tth of citch mouth. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, offer for Sale Building-Lots in tliis Flourishing Town, O A IS Y O I/T Y. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs and of this place in lots of front 30 to ioo acres on liberal time rules. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes Fji fill particulars ar;ly ti MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. LIMESTONE * SPRINGS * LIME * WORKS, CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of BUILDING, * . . * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIME, • And Dealers In—— Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair. Oymamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps. «t>is»o ri l>o 3 l^or £ l lio Lodger.