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; ' i '-y ' ■■■%'■ ' *' . ; , * • VS Ledger Readers Should Patronize Ledger Advertisers. 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. Ill, NO. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1896. BUT ONE GENTLEMAN THERE AND THE LADY DEPRIVED HIM OF HIS SEAT. An Up-to-Date Essay on thfe Modern Man—Charles Lancaster Meet* Death at Halls Shoals. Other News Items. (Corrcppondewo of The Ledger.) KfTA Janu, Aug., 10.—Last Satur day oWjie Lancaster met b’.e death at Hall’s Shoals while working with a boat. His leg was crushed between tbc rope and tho capstan, rendering amputation necessary, He died and was brought home and burrlcd at Halem yesterday. A largo concourse of people attended tho burial. He leaves a wife and eight ■small child ren who have the sympathies of this community. He was a native of Spartanburg county and has been rafting lumber to Lockhart Shoals since the factory was first started to be built. Rev. M. A. Jenkins, of Percy, Ga., preached at Abingdon Creek yester day. His subject was “The Cbrist- jjtpig Mjpsiop.’’ H*9 Le^t bejng “As my father hath sent iim, even so send | you." He is a young man of fine appearance and made a good impass ion on our people. He had a large congregation to hear him. Un ac count of Rev, Jenkins being too un well to take part in this week the protracted meeting was postponed for the present. It is with peculiar delight that I notice tho success Mrs. J. P. Knox, of Hickory Grove, has had in enroll* log the largest Builder’a Rrigade yet reported to the A. It. Presbyterian. Her Smyrna troop number sixty-one and that of Hickory Grove twenty- nine members. Many of these child- ren’s.names are familiar to me and they belong to tho best families in Western York. Mrs. Knox is to be congratulated upon her success iu getting such an army organized for Christian work, and we may reason ably look forward for good results. At last tho boat is launched that is to run from here to Lockhart Shoals. It still remains to be rigged Up and equipped with an engine when Ib wlR 1 be ready for servigp. The (s made after the most irqpcoVed style of workmaqshjp' apd all Ijie C araphenalin necessary to make it success. Mr. Ward, the cliief me- phanjip, says that it will be done jn a jlmjrt t'jipei whpp tlie public pan tfe- Ci4e as to its merits and usefulness. The weather is very hot and dry, and cotton and gardens and late corn are sulTering for want of rain, There have been several protracted meetings In this section lately, and generally they have been reported good. I learn that a good deal of friction exists In some of the colored churches. This is to be regretted as the better clement is generally domi nated by the worse. Much of this is caused by the unlimited scope al lowed those who care nothing for the purity of the church aud who usually congregate there for other than church work. W. C. Kirby, I regret to say, had a very fine colt to fall into a gully one day last week and get crippled so that it is not likely to recover. A few days before that he lost a very fine cow for which he had been offered a round sum and refused it. Rumor says that two .gaPons of melted tallow were dipped out her insides. The road overseers have been working out the public roads and putt log them in good order all through t his township. Capt. J. X. King will begin work on the Thompson’s mill bridge in a few days. He was to begin it by the 15th of October but has agreed fo finish it sooner as it-is so much peoded by the pubjic. 'f|m)ro seems to he all unusual Sfppunt of chills in this country just pow. Also a few cases of slow feVer. The telephone from Wilkinsville by Mercer to G. W. Mcl^own’s and Uipn to Olierokpo ha 1 ! 8 * 8 wprking *Klm|rubly H nd messages jire spnt and ppjrrespopdence parried op regularly pyer tiiat line. Its a great conven ience to Dr. R. F. McKown, of Cher okee Falls, and his patients. The Dr. was tho prime mover in getting it up. He means business. Mrs. J. L. Strain spent the day with Mrs. Laura T. Kstes one day last week. She reports a most en joyable time with that good lady who always takes great pains to have her guests to enjoy themselves. C. W, Whisonant has visited many parts of the county since ho has an nounced himself an a candidate for tho House. That Calvin will get there all the same his friends have I no doubt. kW. T. Osmeub and Jaa. Hopper Rarted to Henrietta, North Carolina, night last week to see a lick niece, daughter of Willie Mosely, who was reported dangerously III. But before they got far a messenger came an- nouncing\that the little sufferer was much better and it was though that she would recover. So they aban doned the trip for the present. I regret hear that J. Pack Mosely’s family are suffering with fever at Gaffney. Lem K. Brown, who was reported some days ago in these columns as being very unwell is still complain ing. Ho is one of our best citizens and attends to his own business. A crowd of I'nion county boys went to Mercer’s mill last Wednes day on a fishing tour. They re turned Thursday and report a good time, having caught a fine lot of fish. Will Harris is again on his old stamping ground and his friends arc glad to see him about, H- Terry Kstes returned last Fri day from Llthla Springs, Kings Greek, York county. Ho will return today as tho waters seem - to Improve him very much. Fodder pulling is now on with the farmers and the most of them will have to get down to work this week after considerable rest time. The sand in broad river lias been so plentiful this season that the flat at Howell’s Ferry could not run part of the time. J. W. Mitchell, of Hopewell, is building a new house. Ab Smith, ot Hickory Grove, is pulling it up for him. F. A. Goforth, of Sunnyside, is also preparing to put him up a new house this fall. He gets bis lumber af flings Mountain. Several pows have djed in tips poinr munity lately. From what J can find out the 'causes »rc not fully under stood, I received another letter from W. S. Blackwell who is confined in the lunatic asylum, In which he states that he wants out of his prison house and ventures some prophetic state, ment on his confinement, I heard a lady say last week that feeding cows on watermelon rinds made tho butter oily. Some of Win. Fowlers hands went to the white oak orchard at J. X. Jefferies’ last week for basket tim ber. Miss Ora Kendrick, of Gaffney, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Carrie In man, of this section at this time. Rumor had it stated that Rev. C. F. Hickson died suddenly one day last week. It has not as yet been confirmed. I have just got hold of an “Essay on man” which no doubt some of our readers might study with profit to themselves. I give it in full:—“Man is an omnivorous animal. Some peo ple pall him n biped, but that it a zdological'error." He is just a plain every day, two legged animal. He is found in most parts of the world, oftentimes where has no business, ftp ^oqmg at will, feeds jn thp day timp and sleeps at night—some nights. He is very tame. You can go up and put your band on him anywhere, so long as you don’t put it on his pocket book, lie has, under such conditions, been known to kick. He is like the dog; howls a good deal and runs about at night. Like the elephant he In.* a trunk but doesn’t carry It about with him—the elephant does. As to wliat man ijj. really good for anthropology is still in the dark. Being strong lie is used to draw pictures, carry news and pull revolvers and whiskey flasks. Properly trained he can jump higher than any other animal. He has been known to jump mountain-resort board bills. Although in many re spects lie is like oth.r animals, in this lie is different from all them all:—belies standing up straight.” The most cutting remark I ever heard from a lady was on a northern railroad She came in and walked the aisle from one end of the car to 'the other looking for a sent and no body paid any attention to her. At last she came opposite a fellow (no matter about his name) who jumped up and offered her his seat. She said in a pleasant tone; “I thunk you, hut I dislike to deprive tho only gentleman in the car of his seat.” Her remarks didn’t produce a storm of applause, hut iu less Ilian no time she was offered a half dozen seats. .). |.. i • * He Has Taken the Little One to Him. _Fcrrel, youngest child of Prof, and Mrs. R. C. Karrutt, died last Thurs day niglR q| the home of Mrs. Sar- rate’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos in Spartanburg and was hurled here in the city cemetery on Friday after noon. The services were conducted by Rev. B. P. Robertson at tho First Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Surratt have tho heartfelt sympathies of the commun ity in the loss of their little one. • •- V Cure for Headache. As a remedy for all forms of Head ache Electric Billers has proved to ho tho very best. It effects a permanent cure and the moat dreaded habitual headaches yield to its h.:,uenco. Wo urgo all who uro otllieled to ppoeuro it hoi tic, and give this romody ;; fair trial. In casos of habitual constipa tion Electric Hitters cures by giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist tho use of this mediclne. a Try It once. Largo bot tles only ‘ Fifty cents at W. B. Du* Pro's Drug Store. THEY ARE MERE BLUFFS. THE STATEMENTS OF THE SIL VER AND GOLD BUGS. Senator Jones Denies Speaking Slight ingly of the Southern Populists as a Class—Logan Car lisle Has Bolted. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, I). C., Aug 7.—It would be interesting to know bow long the gold and the silver managers expect to keep up their present mean ingless bluffing, and what either side expects to gain by it. The silver managers started it by a series of in terviews speaking in glowing terms of the tidal wave growth of silver sen timent in Xew England, Xew York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the gold managers went back at them with interviews claiming that a great reaction was going on against silver in such states as Colorado, Idaho, Utah, etc., and that this reaction, together with the existing sentiment in favor of protection, woqld give McKinjey the electoral votes of those states^ 3(0W. every man who makes even the slightest’ pretense to keep ing posted on the drift of political sentiment knows that such state ments are mere bluffs, and that the men who make them know them to be such, and further, that there is little probability that silver will get any electoral votes from the eastern states and not much, If any, more that, gold will get any electoral votes from the extreme west. It looks like the managers on both sides are mak ing these statements for their effect in the states which they know to be doubtful, which includes a consider able portion of what are popularly known us the middle western states. It is not tlattering to the intelligei.ee of those voters who uro in doubt on the subject to suppose that they are more anxious to go with the winning side than to bo right. Yet that sup position appears to he held by the managers, of both the gold and silver tickets. There was considerable amusement among the politicians when the re port reached Washington that the gold democrats of ^’ew York had tried to make a dicker with Mark Hanna, on the basis of their voting for McKinley and Hobart and Hanna guaranteeing that the next Xew York legislature, if controlled by the re- publipqrjs, or a eoiqbinqtiqn qf repub licans and gold democrats, would elect a gold democrat to succeed Sen ator Hill, The relations between the demo cratic and the populists managers arc somewhat strained, owing to a number of things, including that un usually big democratic majority in Alabama. Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic National commit tee, tried to pour oil on the troubled waters of the political partnership by giving out, just before lie left Wash ington for Xew York, where he ex pects to remain until after the Bryan and Sewall notification meeting, which will be held next week, a signed statement denying tho cor rectness of a widely published inter view in which he was made to speak very slightingly of the southern pop ulists as a class. Senator Butler, chairman of the Populist National committee, lias not been in Washing ton since the meeting of the Mutionul convention, but he is expected daily as the headquarters have been estab lished. He is credited with a strong liking for Bryan, and a desire to aid in shelving Tom Watson in favor of Sewall, but I am quite sure he has not authorized anybody to say us much. Speaking of Tom Wutsm, the i'm- pression is general in Washington that tho democrats intend to throw him overboard without ceremony in the end, bqt that they will postpone doing so us long us possible, so as to get as many populists committed to Bryan us they can. It is thought that Watson bus an inkling of this plan and that h« will make some trouble w})en they stuft to carry it put. Logan Carlisle, chief clerk of the Treasury department, and a son of Secretary Carlisle, lias bolted Bryan and Sewall and life Chicago platform and announced his intention to vote for McKinley and Hobart, unless a gold democratic ticket is put up. This is regarded ns indicating to u certainty the position of Secretary Carlisle, ns it is hardly probable that Logan Carlisle would have come out so plainly on this matter without having discussed it with bin father and it is reasonably certain that un less his father had thought as he did lie would have kept his mouth shut, — • - t~ —— “Canst thou minister to a mind diseased?” asks Macbeth, Certainly, my lord; the condition of the mind depends largely, if not solely, on the condition of the stomach, liver, and bowels, for all of which complaints Ayer’s Pills aro “the soveielgnest thing on earth.” Howell’s Ferry Happenings. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Howki.i.’s Fkkky, Aug., 10.—We are having quite a iiot spell which is drying up the cotton and late corn. ! If it continues for a wees or ten days longer the cotton crop will inevitably be cut oil to the extent of 351 per cent at least. ( Yesterday about 10 o’clock the spirit of Mrs. Nancy Milwood passed from time to eternity. I understand the funeral exercises were preached by two morman preachers at Sunny- side. Johnnie and Broadus Estes, of Se- dalia, are visiting the family of S. T. Estes. Sam McDaniel and Pink Caldwell, of Hickory Grove, visited H. B. Mc Daniel, of Etta Jane, last Saturday. The debi ting society met last Sat urday nigh'. The subject for dis cussion was "Should the negro be colonized.” The judges decided that it would be best to colonize them. The next subject for discussion is “\\ hicli is to be preferred, a tqwn or country life?” Tony Littlejohn srys be is going to get married the lirst Sunday in Octo ber. He says be wants to see a long piece in Tin-: Lkhgkk when it comes off. W. C. Blackwell and family visited Janesville not long sjupe, There are about twelve families ut Etta Jane who receive Tiik Lkdgkk and all speak highly of it and say it is well worth tho money. Sambo. — • - — Perfection in Cake Making. Housekeepers frequently wonder why it is that they cannot make bis cuit and cake that are light and pala table and that taste ns delicious as the biscuit and cake made by their mothers and grandmothers, tho de lightful memory which even to this day creates a sensation of pleasure to the palate. The trouble arises from the highly adulterated state of tho materials they have to work with, particularly the cream-of-tartar and soda used to raise or leaven the food. Cream-of-tartar and soda that are now procurable for domestic pur poses contain large quantities of lime, earth, alum and other adulter ants, frequently from five to twenty- five per cent., and consequently vary so much in strength that no, pep^qn can toll’ the exact quantity to. use, or properly cqiq^jqp. them, to insure po^ect VtiSURs. Prom using too much or too little, or because of the adulterants in them, bitter, salt, yel low. m heavy biscuits or cakes are frequently made. These udqltccqqts are also injurious tq the health- All tips truqbie may bo avoided by the use qf tho popular Royal Baking Powder, Where tills preparation is employed In the place of the cream- of-tartar and soda, its perfect leaven ing power always insures light, Haky, digestible biscuit, cakes, and pastry, that are perfectly wholesome and free from impurities Invariably present when the old raising preparations are employed. The Royal Baking Powder, we are informed by the most reliable sci entists, is perfectly pure, being made from highly refined ingrediauts, care fully tested and so exactly propor tioned and combined that it never fails to produce the best and uniform results. An additional advantage in its employment comes from the fact that bread or other food made with it may be oaten while hot without fear of indigestion £or ‘any unpleasant results, while ’being equally sweet, moist and grateful to the palate when cold. — * Not Calculated to V/in Friends. Last Wednesday night after the candidates had concluded their speeches from the veranda of the hotel, Mr. Oeland. the deputy organ izer of tho American Order Junior Mechanics, spoke to the assemblage. Mr. Oeland was proceeded by a gen tleman on tho same subject. Both took pains to denounce the Catholic church for its very active efforts in sc ’iiring for its members and follow ers governmental positions. The | charges brought against the Catholic church may or may not be true, but to us, a Protestant, they are to be commended for their zeal in behalf of their members. Certain jt' is that there cqn bq no wrong for a ohuroh to work for its members. If the Pro testants set idly by and allow the Catholic church to be more active in behalf of its members surely the Catholic church is not to be con demned for it. Wo believe ilmt argument and not abuse should be used in tho efforts to establish any institution. - « «••• • — Since 1N78 there have been nine epidemics of dysentery in different parts of the country in which Chain* Dcrlnin’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Hcntody was used with perfect success. Dysentery, when epidemic, is almost as severe and dangerous us Asiatic cholera. Heretofore the heat , efforts of the most skilled physician* have fulled to uhock its ravages, this remedy, however, bus cured the most malignant cases, both of children and adults, and under tho most trying conditions, which proves it to ho the best medicine in the world for bowel complaints. For sale by the DuPre Drug Co. FLAW MISSED HIS MELON. HE TELLS HOW HE GOT STUCK AT MELON STEALING. Old Draytonville Hides Her Face With Shame at Some Drunk Ducks in the Coaling Ground “Friday Night. $1.00 A YEAR. AMONG OUR ADVERTISERS. ■ ri (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Dkavtonvim.k Aug., 10.—I do wish to goodness I had a bin home last Friday night. Hit’s got so bit’s ac tually dangerous to leave borne. Last Friday night when I was away from home there was too young ducks come down into the coalin’ groun’ drunk as startnatral fools an roused the whole community. Some of our good nabers went out to meet them with swourds an staves, ns it were, but only found them to be too drunk for dangerous. Each of them lost their hats an lost the buggy whip an one side curtain an one finally lost the buggy. Now I don’t tolerate no sitch people an no a itch cut tin’ up, most especially ef I’m away from home, an I’d tell their names to the world too ef one of ’em hadn't a bin a special friend of mine. Boy ef you can’t come when you are sober stay away. Ole Draytonville, bows in shame that such has occur red. “There are exceptions to all things” some lias said, an I en lorse every ut- terment of it from beginnin’ to endin’. 1 even take exceptions to the Bible. \ou know it says over thar somc- wheres in the Good Book to love your enemies. Well, that’s good with one exception hut you’d better steer clear of that. Ho far as human enemies are concerned I believe it’s perfectly right to love’em, yea! even conquer’em by love, but this thing you cull intoxicants is the greatest enemy a nation ever had an I don't believe God meant fer you to love it when ho said it—although most o( ’em do. Way back yunder, when I was jist about sqgqr*stea)in‘ size, 1 remember it tjlj yit-—I got bent on stealin’ wa- termellons. I kuowd where a patch was over in an island in the middle of the river. My partner was scudo of the water so wo agreed that ho was to stay on tfic hank an watch my dudds while J swam over to the patch after tho mellons. Hit was as dark as a stack of black cats but I un dressed an plunged in. I swam till I bumped my shin on a rock, then I realized that bottom was near at band an waded on to the bunk. When I ! got there the only way 1 could see to I git out was to climb out on the top of i a big wilier tree which had bin cut nearly off about waist high an felled so the laps jist reached to the river’s edge. 1 elum up into the laps an got onto the trunk an walkqd to the end where it was cut an looked down. It a bein’ so tremcndcous dark an the short, thick cane shrubbery an hr.un- boo briars about waist high made it look jist exactly like short grass an the log jist about a foot from the ground. Of course I thought I’d jist stop down un walk over into the patch but my! my! when 1 slipped, I stepped—waist deep in cane an brumboo briars sot ole Flaw, bleedin’ at heart an flesh, no knife to’cutcano or briar, no helpin’ hand to assist, no one to remove Hum’s (my partner) fears. I got out of that mess by breukin’ one briar ut q time in the direction of tip; river un when I got to thp. river | slid in sorter cootcr fashion an wont to see whar was Ham. The briars almost painted the river red with me an when I got to tho bank I found Hum a layin’ quiled up on my clothes sorter dog fashion an sound asleep. I woke him up an. we pulled fer other quarters. The river was south Fork, the state wqs North Carolina, tho county was Gaston, tbc place was at Wilson’s cotton mill u,t the foot of Hpencer Mountain, the patch belonged to Will Moore an the moral to this:—Water- mellon stealiu never pays. Fi.aw I’k kkk. Miles McSWeeney’s Candidacy. Miles B. McSwcney, of Hampton, is a candidate for lieutenant governor of the state. Mr. McSweeney is cd- ’•torofthe Hampton Guardian and also prominent in financial affairs in his own town. Tho one fact that Miles McHweeney has made a success of a country newspaper—a financial success—is enough to recommend him to any position within the gift of the people of Houili Carolina. Mr. MoHweenev I* an agr< w >a4)lo gentle man and, although wo never met him but once, he made a most favorable Impression on us. • — Bucklcn’s Arnica Salve. I he Best Halve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Halt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all HWin Eruptions, and positively cures riles, or no pay required. It Is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. I’rice 25 cents per box. For sale by The DuPre Drug Co. How The Ledger is Regarded by Out- of-Town Firms. We are particularly gratified at the work accomplished this week with out-of-town advertisers. We have carried for two years an advertise ment for Royal Baking powder. Tliis year the company were inclined to reduce the price, but we knew we were giving them good service at a fair price, so we decided to stick to our figures. The happy result is that they have ordered another year’s work at the same figures. We received a check from the Cheney Medicine Co., of Toledo, ()., Monday to pay for their advertise ment. This company’s ad. appeared in the first issue of this paper and has been in every issue since. Promptly ever six months the com pany sends a check. Wo do not have to send them a bill. In addition to the check they invariably have a kind word concerning the manner in which the work lias been done. Wo appreciate checks and we appreciate kind words. The two make business pleasant and profitable. Tiik Lkdgkk is the advertising medium of this section. Out-of-town advertisers recognize this fact as well as local advertisers. We don’t say every ad pays the advertiser but that we do our best to make it pay. Our ad. columns this week contain a number of new ads as well as some changes. We ask your attention to them and when you go to a store to purchase goods to make it a rule to ask for such goods as you see adver tised in Tiik Lkdgkk and to tell them where you saw their ad. Royal Baking Powder. Look out for free silver—W. O. Lipscomb A Bro. Do you want goods cheap?—J I). Goudelock. Barbecue at Timber Ridge August 19th. Brick for sale—T. Robbs. Bryan and silver—Columbia Htate. Hlaugntering prices—J, G. Gallo way A Hon, Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining in office uncalled for to date: Miss Lina Bishop. J. E. Edwards. Maurice Eichberg. Miss Bonnie Hill. James Magunly. Mrs. Hattie L. Mootv. Prof. Mabel Morrison. Thos. J. McGill. Miles Reuse. A. P. Sills. N. B.—Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised in Tiik Lkdgkk. T. H. Littlejohn, P. M. Aug. 10, 1896. — * -• -*•*- •- - Name It Gadbcrry. Mr. Editor: Gadbcrry is the name for our new county. Col.J. M. Gad- berry was born in York and learned the tinners trade there. He worked at that trade in Spartanburg. Then be worked at that same trade in Union where he was admitted to the bar and became one of the State's ablest lawyers and most distin guished soldiers. When we name our county let us iionor one of South Carolina’s noble men by giving it his name and there is no name that is honored more in York, Union and Spartanburg than that of James M. Gadbcrry. New Cot'NTY. ’ - -• •- —— A Quick Trip. F. M. Nance made tho trip from Okolonu, Miss., to Spartanburg in twenty-two hours. Mr. Nance bad been out there visiting. He says of the country: “It is hard to con ceive the changes that have been made in the last ten years. I found the farms generally good all the way. The crops in Mississippi are gmer- aly good. It is a good grain state and adapted to stock raising. The country is tolerable level and is as healthy as could be expected.” A Sweet Grout. Rev. and Mrs. J. I). Croat are tho happy possessors of a sweet little girl. Tho little stranger arrived on the Holy day of the week and wo an ticipate she will prove a her parents and mankind. blessing to A Country Painter. Mr. and Mrs. John Painter, of the Midway neighborhood, are rejoicing over tho addition to the family of a bouncing baby boy. May lie grow up to be a genial, worthy man. A Prominent Minister. Rev. T. R. Kendall, pastor Grace M. E. Church, Atianta, Ga., says: “I take pleasure in testifying to the great virtnre of King's Royal Germe- tuer in relieving night sweats result ing from the debiliating influence of malaria. In a severe ordeal through which my family passed from this oppressive ofliiction, I found Uorme- tuer to bo an iiiitnedia'o specific. Have also found it a speedy tonic to the digestion, and u most grateful and refreshing remedy In the heated season when suffering from relaxa tion and general debility.” New S ackage, large bottle, 1U8 doses, $1. or sale by DuPre Drug Co. I