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I SAMPLE CSPY.^1 [Ledger Readers Should Patronize Ledger Advertisers. 17^ o To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. VOL. HI. NO. 24. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2J, 1890 *1.00 A YEAH. THE BLUE TO THE GRAY. CORPORAL TANNER’S MAGNIF ICENT SPEECH. A Newsy Letter From Etta Jane aa Well as the Full Text of Mr. Tanner’s Interesting a Speech. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jank, July 20.—We have had a flitper-abundance of rain recently arifl much of the crops on the low lands is a complete destruction. Prof. A. G. Davis, of Mercer, will begin his singing school at Duck Pond on the 27th inst and at Bethle hem on the llOth inst. The public is invited to be present and see how he conducts his school. Mr. Davis is a worthy industrious man and had the misfortune to lose his house and most of its contents by fire last spring. Prof. It. A. Foster lias a fine sing ing school at Mesopotamia notv. He began last week. One day last week I received a let ter from W. E. Blackwell, who has been in the lunatic asylum at Colum bia for about sixteen years. He writes a very good letter—certainly not one that would convict him of lunacy. Winding up he says: “Tell the people along the river that they will never be allowed to gather another crop as long as they keep me in here. This is a prediction which has produced a dread with some peo ple. Last week I made a trip to the Whig Hill section of this county. This is a'portion of the county upon which I had never trod before. I find Emanuel Littlejohn, colored, who has that large plantation in charge, just doing as well or better than any of his people, and, in fact, few whites are better managers than he Is. His sons can improve their condition immensely by .following his example. Jimmie Strain has turned out to be a perfect “Flaw Picker” so far as plowing music out of a banjo is con cerned. H. T. Estes wont to Lithia Springs last week for his health. 1 think that if some of those pretty girls about King’s Creek and Smyrna will give him a chance to talk to them, he will not take the blues. Rev. T. J. Brock preached a very impressive sermon at Abingdon Creek yesterday. His text was Matt. 12, 42—“The queen of the South shall rise up in judgement with this gen eration, and shall condemn it; for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Sol omon ; and behold a greater than Solomon is here.” The protracted meeting will begin at Abingdon Creek on the second Sabbath of August at 11 a. m. Messrs. Hancock and Miser, with their force of convicts, have been doing some splendid work on our pub lic roads. Last week they took the old bridge from over the creek at Thompson’s mill in a few hours when soipe contractors were expecting to bid not less than $25 for the job. The sections of public roads have been appointed different overseers, and the working will begin at an parjy dpy. l^iss Qla Hendrick, of Qafjney, ancj Miss JJar.nie tyeeyes, of tfeorgia, are yjsiting Lheir sjster, Airs, pqrrie In? (pan, qf this section. I regret to hear that Mr. Jim Hughes, of Gowdeyville. got his fin ger cut off by his engine last week. I learn, however, that he is getting along all right. * Universal sympathy went out to Senator Tillman and bis family from all classes of society and political factions when the report of thw tragic death of his daughter reached here last week. Though they are many things and reasons to divide us on life’s pathway, yet there is a kinship in death that draws all into one great and grand brotherhood that stands above personal or political aspira tions or dissontions. Some cows have died in this neigh borhood lately. Dr. and Mrs. Durham, of Greers, visited relatives at Wilkinsville last week. Wilkinsville and Mercer postoffices have telephonic connection now. Last week your correspondent had the pleasure of testing this new and and advanced method of correspon dence and found it perfect. Messrs. Whisonant and Macomson are among our most enterprt£*ng men. Wish we had more such. ' The Christian Endeavor Society met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Estes last night. A good many attended. We have been having plenty of jsvatermolons lately. Those planted |)n the river have generally been de stroyed by the high water. Two first class barbecues are booked for the county campaign in this township at Owen’s Ferry. We had a pleasant call from our friends, Messrs. Q. F. Brown and J, > /. E. Gault, one day last week. They are both up to date farmers and citi zens. of which we have plenty. Messrs. Felix Spencer, Jack Ken drick and Clough Inman were among the young men from this section who visited Richmond and Washington during the Confederate reunion. John Estes, Sr., and wife are both in bad health at present. A rumor Has reached us that John Estes, (the second son of George and Mary Estes) died at his home at Potts Station. Arkansas, on the 5th inst. He was among the first young men of this country and moved to the West with his parents in the spring of 1884. For several years lie lias been in declining health and the announce ment of his death was no surprise to his friends. His widowed fnother, brother, sister and friends have our heartfelt sympathies. I promised last week to give some additional items on my northern trip from time to time as I got room. On my way home I stopped over 12 hours at Gastonia, N. C., witli my good friends Rev. and Mrs. It. P. Smith and their interesting family. I found them in good health and spirits except that their son Brevard was confined to his bed with some thing like fever. His physician called while I was there and said the next few days would determine what course the disease would take. (1 am glad to hear that lie is improving and able to sit up.) While in Gasto nia I had the pleasure of inspecting the new Presbyterian church build ing which has just been erected, and. 1 must say in all candor, that it is the finest and most uniquely ar ranged house of worship I know of south of Boston. Everything that modern science, skill and architecture can devise for the comfort of the wor shipers has been duly considered and brought into use. The Sabbath school and other rooms needed for the different parts of the church work are all properly heated or ventilated so as to promote the best sanitary results and bodily comforts. The entire church building can be kept at the same temperature all day if necessary. In the basement I found besides the heating apparatus a pump and well of sufficient capacity to supply all witli the purest crystal water and an easy way to get to it. 1 found my good friend Ed. Eison, of (Jnion, at Gastonia. He is in busi ness there, and by the way he is a first class gentleman, too. To his kindness or courtesy I am indebted for the good nap of sleep I got while waiting for the train to take me to Gaffney. Gastonia is one of the growing towns of the Piedmont section and is building up with the best people of North and South Carolina. At Gas tonia I was glad to meet my’gooci friend Sam Grist, of the Yorkville Enquirer. It made me feel that I had already got home. The old En quirer has been an honored member of our literary housihold for more than forty years. Sam is one of Yorkville’s most popular and enter prising young men. I promised our readers to give Cor poral Tanner’s speech at the union of the United Confederate Veterans at Richmond July 1st. Here it is in his exact words: “My fellow-veterans,” he said (and these‘words were greeted with the loudest cheering), “I have had Gen eral Gordon in New York when he was about the lone Confederate there. Today the conditions are reversed, and I am possibly the lone Yankee here in Richmond. (Cheers.) Pos sibly J should have felt lonesome since J have been flown here in Rich mond”—^’. voice : ‘You are at home here’)—“but there are many of you who know that ! have not been lone some, and that it has been some strain for me to get the necessary sleep in order that a man could keep moving. (Laughter.) Thirty-four years ago I, with my comrades in blue, were looking into the faces of some of you at Malvern Hill. (Cheers) Today, we are as we are—thank God Almighty for it! (Renewed cheers.) For my comrades who went to death under your lire; those who, like myself, have suffered with un measurable agony from wounds that were made in war, can look today at a reunited country. We are all standing in support of one fiag and a common country. That is what we fought for, and we have got it. (Ap plause.) If it does not suit any soul on earth, then I am satisfied that it is a soul belonging to a creature who never got around until all opportu nity to fight had gone by. (Loud cheers, mingled with cries, of ‘That’s right!') As I told the boys in Lee Camp last night, there were those fellows who cried in advance, ‘<)q to Richmond!’ Why didn’t the army move? When old Father Abraham called them through the channel of a draft, they had the draft in one hand and a time-table of the nearest route to Canada in the other. (Laughter.) There are men hero in the sound of my voice who know that this is no new tune that I am singing. All along—over a score of years ago, when I did hot have a personal acquaint ance among ex-Con federates—there were not any within miles and miles. I say here and now, and am entitled to say it, for I have said it so many times in my own Northern commu nity, and if the boys who did not work in that war had taken hold of matters, this country would have es caped the infamous disgrace of the reconstruction period. (Applause.) “General Gordon made allusion to n matter that I am proud of. I am a New Yorker, but for the last seven years I have been living in the city of Washington. At the time I speak rtf I was residing in the city of Brook lyn, and one day there came in my mail a circular that some of the boys sent mo from Richmond. They did me great honor to mail it to me. It set fortli the needs of the Confeder ate soldiers. It called attention to the fact that they had no pension— that war had sapped the very sub stance from them. I read it and reading between the lines my eyes became moist, and I never was ashamed of it. 1 picked up mj pen and wrote live brief notes. I asked five different men to come to my office at 5 o’clock. They all came within one minute and a half of 5 o’clock. Every mot her s son of t hem was short an arm or u leg. 1 told them to take a seat. They looked at me and said, ‘Tanner, what in the devil have you got now?’ I read them that circular and they said, ‘what have we got to do with it?’ I wrote out a call for a meeting of Union soldiers at the Council Hall. They came and packed the building. [ read my call and everything went along like a Methodist camp-meeting with an amen. Out of that came a great mass-meeting, and Henry Ward Beeches made a great speech, and 1 tell you it was a great speech. “The chaplain of the Grand Army made a inagniflioent lecture on Amer ican citizenship. We counted upour expenses and found out that we had —I am proud to say that we did have the pleasure of sending to Richmond $1,7(58, to'tlio boys in Richmond. (Applause.) “When that project for that monu ment at Chicago was started there was a great deal of kicking. A good many did me the honor to write ami ask me what I thought of it. I said that it seems to me that when a man who was in the Confederate army sees two thousand unknown graves— (A voice: ‘Six thousand.’)—sees six thousand qnknown graves of Ids fonqer corqrades, \yantefl to build a monutqent to mark their graves I said there is evidence of a warm heart, and said that I would like to touch elbows with him. “I said further, that when you ask mo about what I thought of erecting a monument to the rebel dead in a reunited country that I don’t draw a line in the United States—I take up the whole earth. A people who will forget their men who go out and fight for a cause, who will permit their memory to die out entirely, are so contemptible us not to merit respect. (Tremendous applause.) “I have told my Northern comrades that the chances are that ninety-nine out of a hundred would have worn the Southem gray instead of the Northern blue if they had been brought up on Southern soil and drawn into the doctrine of State rights, brought up on it from their mothers’ milk. (Loud applause.) “The chances are that ninety-nine out of one hundred of us would have worn the gray if the conditions had been reversed. Yes, reverse the con ditions and you would have been fol lowing Grant, Sheridan and Sherman. (Applause.) “I want to say another thing, and I say it with particular pleasure in the presence of these women of the Squti). When I sut down here yes terday and heard your speeches I thought the Confederate Veteran’s Association ought to be very proud of you—proud that they had so many ladies with them. (Applause.; If you hadn’t had the ladies with you as they were we would have licked you eighteen months sooner. (Laughter.) Why, every man in the Southern ranks knew that if he did not toe the mark—if lie did not stand up and keep step to the music of the ‘Bonnie Blue Flag,’ ‘My Maryland’ and ‘Dixie’—that if he sulked from the contest, he knew that if lie returned home the girls would burn him alive. (Laughter.) “Another thing, There are plenty of stalwart young men around hero to-day. Frost has not gathered in their hair; years liave not built the furrows upon their brows, as they have upon ours. I think that it is only natural that the boys of the South should be particularly attract ive to the young ladies. I speak upon the basis that manhood and woman hood are only divided upon geograph ical lines. “So, if you boys—I say to the young men of 189(5—perhaps they cannot understand it when you speak of those women with wrinkles in their brows, and silver in their hair; and when they hear you call them girls they wonder and cannot appreciate it. In the Southland and in the Northland we look at them in a back ward way. Wo are looking hack at them as Ufey were in 1801, when they stood on the hills and in the depots and waved us good-bye and “God bless you” came from Southern hearts and Northern hearts. (Loud applause.) “So young men just remember that these women go back to '01. .The/ are the girls yet of our hearts. (Re newed applause.) Out of all lias come a reunited country. We stand to-day under one flag. If the tocsin of war shall ever he heard again in this land it shall be witli Virginia and Vermont, answering together. (Applause.) New York and the Cor- olinas. (Continued applause.) Main and Mississippi. (Prolonged cheer ing.) Then, perhaps, our young men may hear once again the Yankee holler, and the old time rebel yell. (Continued cheering.) And if that day should come they will hear it down one line and in support of one fiag and a common cause. (Renewed cheers.) No man will depricute war more tban those whohuvescen fields run red, and yet, my comrades, I al most wish that General Gordon was Jin the White llou-e or some other man, believing that if he were there lie would take steps to kisk t he last resemblance of monarch- iul government from our land. We have no room fora shadow of mon- archial government, in the confines of thiscouutry. (Applause.) We most earnestly hope that freedom in the most perfect sense may he guaranteed to that gem of the Antilles—the blue island of Cuba. (Applause.) And, now, my comrades, and I choose the term (applause), the iieart of our great leader welled up with absolute peace when lie said to Lee: “Tell your men to take lheir horses home with them—they will need them to do their spring work with.” He wanted to in ike the desolated South to blooni and blossom again. (Ileneweil applause.) if Grant and Lcefcnd Sherman and Jaekson could look down from (lie regions of the blest; if spirit eyes could gaze upon material forms and scenes, they are gazing upon this scene today and thanking (iod liial this spirit exists at this time. (I.oiiil applause ) “My veteran friends, I am entitled to say one word more to you. You put up the best light that it was pos sible to have done, and I don’t, want you to think for a moment that you surprised us. (Laughter.) You would have been adisgraen to our American people if you had not made js us Husty for us as y u q difl.’’ (OuuUn- ued applause.) A Ladies’ Memorial Association was organized at Salem uhurch today witli twenty-eight members, Mrs. Dr. Whites'des was elected president, M iss it. C. Moss 1st vice-president, Mrs. Amanda Lee 2nd vice-president, Mrs. Nancy Leech Jrd vice-president, and Miss Lillie Smurr oeeretary and treasurer. Flaw, you seem to kick at the K I- itor’s “intimation” that we were knocked up by the celebration of tin* Fourth so that neither of uscame in for work week before last. Don’t he so impassionute ole fellow. Keep your feathers drfwn and your temper cool. Perhaps the Editor conceived that idea while recovering from a rouzer himself. j. i„ s. -« •- — Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining in office uncalled for to date: Jas. Bishop. L. II. Blanton. Jus. Beam. Sam Byze. Walter lioit, col. Amos Dickson. M iss Mary Gaffney. Rowland Nicks. Mrs. Minerva llogne. Miss Della M. Wilson. N. B.—Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised in Tmc Lkdgkr. T. H. Ljttumoiix, J\ M. July 20, 189(5. — House Mover Hopper. Gaffney was a house mover who bids fair to rival Ross, of Charlotte, in the person ot Clabe Hopper. Mr. Hopper lias successfully rolled sev eral houses in Gaffney within the past few weeks among which was the store of tlie Smith Hardware Com pany. Mr. Smith was put to no in convenience while being moved and there is not the slightest evidence in the shape of a crack in the build ing that he has been moved about sixteen feet. Mr. Hopper is now en gaged in moving the store-house of R. A. Jones, formerly occupied by J. G. Galloway <fc Sons. — . ... . Paste This in Your Hat. The Board of Registration have an nounced that they will ho in Gaffney Ju'y 29th and 30th to register the voters of this township. Bear that in mind and bo on hand. — Just What’s Needed Exclaims thousands of people who have taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla at this season of the year, and who have noted the success of the medicine in giving them relief from that tired feeling, waning appetite and’state of extreme exhaustion after the close confinement of a long winter season, the busy time attendant upon a large and pressing business during the spring monthsnnd with vacation time yet some weeks distant. It is then that the building-up powers of Hood’s Sarsaparilla are fully appreciated. It seems perfectly adopted to overcome that piostration caused by change of season, climate or life, and while It tones and sustains the system, it pu rifies and vitalizes the blood. WILL NOT SUPPORT BRYAN. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND IS AN INGRATE. He Cannot See His Way Clear to Support a Man Once Who Has Thrice Supported Him. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) \v ashinutox, D. 0., July 17, —— The administration has spoken. It will not support Bryan and Sewall. Who or what it will support is still a problem to be solved. President Cleveland and several members of ids Cabinet are strongly in favor of putting up a gold democratic ticket, and. fur once, the silver democrats are all wishing that Mr. Cleveland may have ids way. They believe that a gold democratic ticket would add largely to their chance of win ning in several close states, because it would be supported by gold dem ocrats who would otherwise vote for .McKinley and Hobart. Republicans say they are indifferent as to wiiat the gold democrats may do, but it is an open secret that they are pull ing every available wire to prevent the putting up of another gold ticket. The convention which will meet at St. Louis next wees are attracting a great deal of attention in Wash ington. it is virtually settled that the silver convention will endorse the Chicago platform and ticKel, as it was culled for the purpose ot taking independuul action only in case ueillier of the old parties adop ted a silver platform. When the democratic convention adopted u silver platform and nominated a sil ver ticKet it left a little fur the sil ver convention to Uo hut to endorse that ticket and platform. While it is reasonably uortuin that the populist convention will either endorse Bryan and tiewall and the Chicago platform or nominate the same men on a not her plat form, there is just enough doubt uoout it to add interest to the convention ami to attract some of the shrewdest pol iticians in (lie country to 81. Louis, for the purp jse ot'trying to influence (lie action of the convention. The silver democrats will be there to urge the desirability of uniting all who favor the free coinage of silver in the support of one ticket, and the goid men, both republicans and democrats, will be their to try bo persuade the populists that the only way they cun keep up there parly organization is to nominate a ticket of their own. Of course botli of these arguments are bused upon the self interests of those who make them, but then politics, like most of the games in which mankind en gages, is chuck full of selfish ness. This is likely to he a queer cam paign in more ways than one. Ac cording to Senator Faulkner, chair man of the Uemoorutlu Congress ional Campaign committee, the work of that committee is to he both for silver and gold, just as the demo cratic candidates for Congress may desire it to ho. Speaking on the subject Senator Faulkner said: “Wo will take it for grunted that tlie democrats of each district know what they tiro about, and wo will not question their selection. It will make no difference to us wiiat tlie platform may ho upon which tlie candidates aro selected.” In order that there might he no misunder standing of Ids meaning Senator Faulkner was asked if tlie commit tee would furnish gold standard literature if it was asked for by a democratic candidate for Congress. He replied: “if he asks for such literature, and wo have it, he will get it.” There is always fun to ho extrac ted our of a political campaign by those who know iiow to get ut it. Tlie knowing ones ur» now laughing at the announcement, that Fostinss- ter General Wilson’s sound money views make it impossible for him to accept a nomination to Congress from Ids old district. That is one way of putting it, hut, according to West Virginia democrats, it wasn't th* sound money views of Mr. Wil son which made his nomination to Congress impossible, but the very pronounced silver views of a majority of tlie democrats in his old district. The populists generally regard the platform adopted by tlie democratic convention and tlie nomination of Bryan as a great triumph for thair principles, and in order to impress that idea upon members of his party Secretary Turner, of the Populist National committee, has issued a signed statement, urging the pop ulists to unite in sup|K>rting the democratic ticket, and tlie platform, which lie says is to all Intents and purposes n populist platform. He also says that Mr. Bryan Is a pop ulist, and calls attention to his har ing acted witli the Nebraska pop ulists for the lust two years. After noting that populists principles have captured the democratic party, he adds: “All populists in these United States should rejoice that their principles have taken such a hold upon the American people that one of the great politica 1 parties of the nation lias been c impelled to adopt those principles and nominate a ticket pledged to carry them into execution.” — —• •— —. FLAW MEETS A “CANDYDATE.” More Than Negro Meetings and Jokes Added Thai Man. (Correspondence of The* Ledger ) Dkaytonviu.k, July 20—Down in these here low groun's of sin an sor row, t’other day, a man come to me, an nftpr the r glar every-day saluta tion an his sympathies expressed in regards to my illness, said : “Flaw, you jist ort to’ve bin with me last night.” “What fer?” said I, pointin’ ton chair fer him to set in. “I waspassin’ by tlie nigger church last night an heard one ole nigger a prayin’. Well sir,” he went t n as l.e seated hisself in (lie chair I pinted to, “that nigger nigh ’bout made tlie hair rise on my head t ill lie come over one place an said, ‘oh ! Lavvd. come right on down through the roof an bless our souls here toniglit,’ an jist as he said that another one yelled out, ‘yea, Lawd! come right on down, J II pateli up de hole in de mawuin’.’ an when he said that, Flaw, I tell you, 1 had to holler.” We took a hearty laugh, hut Flaw’s keen eyes saw more’n nigger meet in's and jokes ailded that man. He was fidgety an restless—sorter like he wanted to git up another conversa tion but didn’t know jist exactly how to git about it. A heap of these hero candydates don’t kmflV jist exactly how to take ole Flaw, no.ioxv—scade I’ll give ’em IV wrap In Hit* paper, but I only meet it out to tlie desarveu parties, an in well regulated dosts ut (hat. Tins feller, finally at last, as Monroe Mize is wont to say, got off on politics an went on to ax me to vote fer him. but I tole him “boo oo, I couldn’t see the pint.” Ef 1 love a man same as my brother an he aint capable, to my opinion, of fillin’ the office he is runnin’ fer an there is a better man in the field. I’m shore goin’ to cast my lot with him. Eh, you gilt-edge sap-head, I reck on you don’t know that ole Flaw is laid up on a bed of afflictions an aint got a dog gone thing to do but shove the pencil an take medison? Hit’s bin a long time since I’ve turned my briteh-loadiu’, double-action mouth; peace loose on anybody but ef I do liaf to put my machinery in workin’ order an start it up your “Bill” will be “Curly” t’other way. You can’t dround me out with the “tepid stuff ’ ner freeze me out.nother, as fer as that goes. I’ve bin in deeper warter than you can put me in, an 1 can swim fer tlie whole lock, stock and barl of my ginneration, too. I’ve played witli the eel-, I have. The mainest difference between me an the eel is—I’ve got the slick stuff, plenty of it, hut not so mutch slime; an so fer as ole Flaw’s buryin’ groun’ is concerned, I will wager the last dad burn pair of socks out of my ole shoes that there’ll be more good people pay homage to ole Flaw on ids buryin” day than even thought of “Walter Husky, of Algood,” on the 4th of July. This is plain milk I’m givin’ to you, hut ef I'd a let it set till the cream gathered 1 could a give it out in a leetle stronger dusts. Wo take our hat clean off an grace fully how towards the south-east in acknowledgement of tlie kind invita tion sent us to bo present at Salem Lv share the enjoyments of a Sunday school pick knick to he Meld at that pimco Thursday of this week an say : “Will ef I can,” hut Kernel, you an Sambo both knows my faiiin’s. Flaw IMokek. Gaffney vs Shelby. The Gaffney halt players went to Shelby last Wednesday to play hull. Alt hough tho team was somewhat crippled by its inability to scctwe the absence of several of the best players. In town hUII the boys put up u pretty good game, the score standing? to 7 in the seventh inning. At that point Hopper, one of Gaffney’s players, be came sick from over-exertion and was compelled to retire. That ne- ecsailulcd the Gaffney hoys quitting aa they had no suhat itutc. The em pire gave tlie game to Shelby by a ■cor* of 9 to 0. Our hoys were treated in fine style and hope to have the pleasure of meeting Sliolby here before long. Como down, boys, and we will give you a royal welcome but do our In at to heat you playing ball. Smith and Richardson did the bat tery work for Gaffney urn! both were a surprise to their friends. Several pretty plays wen* made, throe double plays—two by Shelby and one by Gaffney—being the features of the game. * mm Ki kki ii it..—Charles J. Booth, Ol- Ivewood, Cal., says “I have used Ayer's nils In my family for several years, and have always found them most effectual in the relief of ail ments arising from n disordered stom ach, torpid liver, and constipated bowel*.