Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I SAMPLE COFY.'CS. Ledger Readers Should Patronize Ledger Advertisers. Ledger 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. 31. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1890. $1.00 A YEAH. THE PACIFIC NORTH-WEST. SALT LAKE CITY, THE HOME OK BRIGHAM YOUNG. An Interesting Letter From a Gaffhey- ite Who is on a Tour in the North-West—A Glow ing Description. (Con cspoii'lence of The Ledger.) Wooimruv, Oregon, Aug. 2(5.— Owing to the fact of my being a great distance away from my native South land, and, too, that I have been on r.n “outing” for a fortnight, some time had elapsed before I saw for sure that my last escaped the waste* basket; hut having found out for a certainly that it met with your ap probation, 1 summon up the courage, therefore, to pursue my narrative in humble prose. In my last letter, I brought my readers—those who undertook the hazardous task of following me— across the Itocky Mountains and there dropped them down for awhile in order that they might amuse them selves sufficiently with the relics on the west side of the Kockies; but thinking that they have already be held the invisibly and comprehended the incomprehensibly, and caught glimpses, as it were, of an absolutely infinite spirit and, perhaps ghosts and goblins, to their heart’s content, I now endeavor to conduct said party erect and top-side-up with care, to the I’acitic Slope in the “I’acilic North-West.” I might say in the outset that the huge bowlders, frowning cliffs, yawn ing chasms and plunging cataracts of the Rockies in the buck-ground, be- can e extinct from our vision, and by-the-by, there looms up in their stead many graceful peaks, not so gigantic in their proportions till later on, at various intervals, the promon tories break down to a low, easy shore, and thus we glide in silent wonder through varying and chang ing scenes towards the “sacred city of the Mormons”—barring off from us, by whut seemed to be an unsur- mountablo wall, three-fourths of the United States. From the Rockies all the way to Salt hake City, snow capped mountains of less magnitude were continually jutting up before us, the most important of which were the Riuc and Ritter root ranges. Notwithstanding the fact that moun tains were numerous, yet occasionally wo would speed across wide-extended plains covered with sage brush and inhabited by towns of ever present prairie dogs and squads of Jack rab bits, and.flke the bears in the story, they were large, middle-sized and tiny wee ones. Wherever there was u cabin to be seen, it was very low and squatted and, like the “whiskey smacks,” they were within easy reach of a cyclone protector. The sensa tion which one receives by dashing around the sharp curves, through wild and rugged canyons, over se cluded glens, yawning chasms and rough boulders and gorges is like “shooting chutes,” or “tobogging” on the “vine clad hills” and “icy mountains” of Greenland. In the midst of such proceedure, did the all bonne “sunset limited” plunge right into the heart of an evergreen and fertile valley completely surrounded by the semi-circles of two mountain ranges of “perpetual snow.” This valley is known as the “Garden of Kden”—the sight of Salt Lake City— and the mountains are denominated the Oquirrh and the Wasatch ranges. Salt lake City, though constitu ting a population of only 80,000, is one of the prettiest cities in the world. Through the streets of this ‘•City of Zion,” flow in graceful wind ings fresh sparkling and gurgling streams of water from out t he gulches and canyons of the neighboring moun tains of “perpetual snow” and from the fact that they thread the City, ns well as winding up and down the green alleys and leafy canopies in the suburbs where oooths and tents are pi'ched, with ice-cold water from the melting snows, thus washing away all bactoria and germs of disease, the visitor is fanned with a healthy and refreshing atmosphere which seems to invigorate the whole system. The foliage which spreads itself out at our feet over an area of four miles square, embowers the modern Zion. Among other very noted and historic buildings, there stands in the center of the city, two massive structures known as the Mormun Temple and Tabernacle. These structures will stand for ages to come us objects of curious wonderment to every traveler who visits Halt Lake City—the home of Itrighum Young. It was the pleasure of our party to attend ser vices at the Tabernacle on Sunday and listen to a half dozen mission aries who had just returned from Germany. The Tahornahlo has a Bating capacity of Li.OUO and has lie hug' G roof (unbraced from the Inside) of any building in the world, and also has u massive pipe organ which assumes the enormous propor tions of a two story house, and it was purchased at a cost of $100,000. Fort Douglas, situated at the foot of the Wasatch mountains three miles distant, is indeed the glen fort of America,barracks and drill-grounds are surrounded by beautiful creeping vines and budding flowers—the bow ing fountains and rushing streams of which arc supplied with cold, spark ling water from the gulches of the snow-capped Wasatche’n nearby. Re- fore leaving Fort Douglas our party, alter n long, tiresome climb up the mountain siiL , \vay to where snowdrifts were in abundano there cooled ourselves off by taking a face-to-face buttle of snow balling. There was quite a contrast between the snow-capped peaks and the hun dred unaccustomed varieties of beau tiful flowers down in the gulches. Having by this time mustered up enough courage to partake of lunch with a “rusticating relish, and after wards visit the great Lake, no time was lost in either. On our way to Halt Lake, nineteen miles distant, the sharp gusts of icy wind swept down from the heights and through the canyons to such an extent that it cut like 'knife-blades on our faces, and made one think that he or she had on only summer gauze instead of heavy clothes. I should remark that hat hunters on this lino have a picnic. Two of the greatest peculiarities of this Lake are the large percentage of salt its water possesses and its great buoyant forces. Salt lake possesses more of both than the dead sea in the Holy Lands, the former of which possesses one-fourth its volume in pure salt, and is so buoyant that a man tapples on its surface • like a cork. The process by which this salt is gathered'is, that the water is carried away frtim the Lake through a ditch by means of a force pump to a dead level surface of, say ten or twenty acres, and there damned up to a depth of about twelve or sixteen inches, After it is allowed to stand there a month or two it evaporates, leaving a solid crystal!ne of solid salt from three to four inches in thick ness. After it is perfectly dry, it is piled into pillars about fifty feet wide, one hundred feet long and eight feet high. It remains there in this condition for a while and then is sacked and sent to the salt refinery. There is a tendency or natural in clination on tiic part of every one who visits Salt Lake to go in bathing, even for the mere curiosity, if not for the sport it affords. There being a doubt on the part of some of our party as to the genuineness of some assertions made about this water (and I, myself, would not swear to it), wo soon decided to take a hath. Tickets were soon purchased, suits procured, and we were the first among the great crowd to break Hie water. Not being very well posted, we took it b) deurces, as did the eat when she ate the grindstone, striking it shallow at first in order to see how it would work. Some of us who were not so tali as the others, felt the buoyancy more marked than did they, On getting tamer and in deeper water, I lost my footing and almost went into convulsions like 1 did when I attended the funeral of my Aunt Haseltine Sapanthy, from the fact that she fought so manfully to stand herself up again. “Laughing is catching.” and so 1 was the next to be “Hipped up;” but finding out after a little struggle that il had done mo no violence, 1 spread my wings and shouted to the balmy breezes. One couldn't sink if be tried, for I tried to several times for a change, and you could lloat like a cork all day with no harm befalling you if you would exercise the precaution of keeping your mouth out of the water. Saltuir Reech is quite a delightful resort. Her pavillion is of Moorish design and very interesting from an architectuul point of view, since it was constructed at a cost of $2.'><i,00<). Along the shores of Salt Lake—one hundred miles in length—are found many gas wells, and larger smelters and refining works than are found anywhere in Utah. • From the shores of Suit Lake all the way to the‘H’ucilic North-West,” tiie Railroad Company seems to have caught on to a new and more econo mical idea, which is that of following mountain passes, canyons and up uud down the general courses of many rivers, and the trails of smaller streams which have assumed the proportions of a river. While we have crossed the IMains proper, I do not mean to convey the impression that they are with the things passed, for wo strike them in vast abundance across Idaho, Southern Washington and Oregon west of the Cascade Mountains, though they are more rolling and more or less broken by numerous small mountain ranges— the most important of which are the Rlue and Ritter Root ranges. We speed for several hundred miles be tween the ranges of these two (Moun tains which moreover are fragmentary protrusions of the Rockies, and their snow-cupped peaks form a continuous snow range on both sides. As we near Western Idaho, on account of the low lands mid superabundance of water, we lind green fields, larger herds of steer cattle, finer bauds of houses, squadrons of wild ducks, and Hocks of rare birds of beautiful plumage. Among other beautiful birds, I noticed the China pheasant with a long and beautiful tail, like a pea-cock, presenting all the colors of a kaleidoscope; and, too, the magpie similar to our crow, though with longer wings and tail—the plumage of which is so variegated that 4hey present in the sunlight, all colors of the rainbow. The Magpie is a very pretty and sensible bird, add if they are trained they make the tinost con versationalist among fowls—the par rot not accepted. At this juncture, two sights at- attention. One was that of a shepherd, Tieraiv.';. his flocks. The general appearance of trrrsnePp and the costume of the shepherd re minded me very forcibly of the ac count given in the Rible of the shep herd and his flocks since he, with cape-cloak on and stall in hand, stood on a prominence and watched attentively the flocks at his feet. The other sight that I had reference to was, among others, the stampeding of two bronjhos. One inheriting the nature of his big cousin, tlio hippo potamus—hippos (horse), and pota- mus (river)—river-horse, took to the view; while the other, possessing the spirit of what is termed in plain Irish as a genuine “divil,” dashed off through a canyon. I thought no more of the frightened broncho till onr cars stopped at the next station— six miles distant—when I happened to spy the same broncho dashing down the side of a precipice at break neck speed, with the same cowboy hot in his pursuit. On the borders of Oregon the coun try is more mountainous and is cov ered with finer and tailor timbers. Should I give space to all the promi nent features of the scenery, this state alone would require a volume within itself, but must suffice it to say that us we dashed through tl.e canyons Snake, R irnt. Fugle and Grand Round rivers, the scenery be came so grand and so sublime that the passengers unconsciously sprang from their seats and gazed heaven ward in silent wonder, in order to get a slight glimpse at the exalted peaks, jutting up sometimes abruptly sev eral thousand feet above our heads. As the day was drawing to a close and the sun was hiding his blushing face behind the cascades, we pulled into a railroad lunch station culled Mountain Home, just on the out skirts of the Indian reservation. Here we took lunch. The passengers were sufficiently amused at the build ings—altof which were made of logs, fashioned like unto “Uncle Tom’s cabin.” The sights through the In dian reservation were interesting to me, since I was no way too well posted upon the private life and habits of the Indian. As onr ear pulled through the reservation we passed numerous villages of Indian wigwams—some of which were sur rounded with squaws and papooses, while others were partially deserted. Flat on the ground, in the threshold of a wigwam, sat a conglomeration of Indians, squaws and papooses, en joying a hearty repast over a piece of a partially skinned deer which lay before them. We could sec others, in the pursuit of game on the hill side, slink across the patches of moonlight like coyotes. A person’s blood would almost run cold at the sight of so many savage-looking In dians only a few yuids away, staring in your face like ‘ little Alabama coons;” hut, upon further acquaint ance, wo found them to be kind and good natured and, for a good drink of whiskey, they would make you a present of their best pony and pret tiest squaw. s. l. s. ■* •- —- Night Police. \\ hen will our City Fathers arouse themselves to action in the matter of a night police force. We have an efficient day force, but it cannot with proper effect extend its labors through the night, burglaries are being com mitted, all manner of petty thefts are being committed at night and all sucli acts are necessarily going un detected and unpunished. City Fathers, consider the matter. There is too much property here to have no other protection than our confidence in the honesty of the hu man race. Let us have an efficient 1 night force of trustworthy men, not some little fellow rushing about from point to point with a watchman’s clock hung to him in order that ho may punch it in time and collect his stipend; hut u force of intelligence and integrity, knowing its duty, dare to perform it. In the meantime let every citizen he on the alert and keep his shotgun ready. A Valuable Prescription. Editor Morrison of Worthington, Ind , “Sun” writes: “You have a val uable prescription in Klutrlc Ritters, and I can cheerfully recommend it for Constipation and Hick Headache, and as a general system tonic it lias no equal.” Mrs. Annie Htehle, 2(12.') Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, was all run down, could not eat nor digoot food, had a backache which never left her and felt tired and weary, but six bottles of Electric Ritters restored her health and renewed her strength. Trices 50 cents andfl.OO. Get a bot tle at storq^ DuTre Drug Co. FLAW PICKER IS ENDORSED. THE “KERNEL”PLEASED WITH HIM. The Protracted Meeting at Salem is V/ell Attended and a True Christian Spirit Pre- ^ vails. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sept., 7.—On the 19th tv.s)ant—Saturday week—Trof. R. A. Foster will close his singing school at Corinth. The public is invited to come prepared for a picnic dinner. Ladies you know what that means— bring your baskets well filled, of course. The protracted meeting began at Salem yesterday. A large congrega tion attended and Rev. W. It. Owings preached two powerful sermons. I hope next week to report glorious re sults from it. ()uite a number of our good brethren of other denominations were there. Of one thing our section can boast—of the immunity of its Christian people and of anything like selfishness or sectarianism among them. To visit one of our churches a casual observer could hardly tell what denomination takes the lead in the worship. This has not always been the case. Mrs. Sallie R. Estes is very unwell just now. She has been sick for four or five days. Dr. J. F. McCluney is her physician. There are several cases of sickness among our people. Just at, this time.a great many cases of chills and fever are prevailing along the river and creeks—confined mostly to the latter. Rro. Flaw I am glad you have at lust found out that women are not always to be dispised, and that you so readily offer your services to pro tect them in the right. You “done up” that boy in very good style lust week for cursing his mother. Try and find out his name and give it to Hie public. We want to know him. I think wife beating, next to mother cursing, is the most hineous crime in tho catalogue of the felonies, and am truly glad that our new constitution promises it a sufficient cause for dis franchising tho guilty party. That is one of the best points in it. Tiie man who beats his wife ought not to be allowed to vote. (Although I don’t see how some men could get along without it unless they would quit them. That some women need it 1 admit, but the fault often lies at the door of tiie man when tiie truth is found out. Mr. T. 8. Wilber and daughter Miss Avalona were at Salem yesterday. J. Eb. Jefferies, Esq., and his best girl was there too. Also Mrs. Judge Greer, and her children and many others whose names I haven’t room to mention. Mr. James Stroop, of Mercer, died last Friday after a long and severe illness. On account of the ill health of his wife, Trof. A. (J. Dav<s lias been compelled to abandon his singing schools at Duck Tend and Thillipi churches. Mrs. Davis has been in bad health for a long time. They are staunch friends of The Ledger and have our sympathies. 1 had tiie pleasure of spending a day and night with friends at Tacolot Mills last week where I met many of my old acquaintances and formed many new ones. I find that most of the opeiatives are well pleased with their work and speak in the highest terms of their employees. The most of them seem to be perfectly satisfied that they are fairly dealt with, and from what 1 seen of the officers and head men they all appear to be gentle men. From private letters from friends I h< ur * 1 at the crops in both Texas and .i.'.ansas are failures, and in the latter cattle are perishing for want of water. Hon. C. W. Whiaonant attended the State S. S. Convention at Flor ence last week. He reports an en joyable time with that grand lodge of Christian workers. The mornings am wintry and thick clothing are comfortable. Union County lias the best roads it has had since the uar. We are well pleased with the work they have re ceived in most places. Mr. Hcott, tiie present supervisior has given all ids time and talent to their improve ments. Trof. Davis Jefferies will return to his work in the graded school at Union next week. His services as teacher have been engaged for tiie next year and we congratulate Hie faculty upon their success in securing him. He is a gentleman of the first order us well as a teacher. There is a good deal of talk about tho new county. A few are opposed toil, but wo trust that all tho differ ences of opinion concerning It will tie settled upon some nuiisfaclory basis, and that complete unity will attend Its working in the future. Mr. T.J, Kates has dug him a well, ^ Melvin Edwards, colored, of Gaffney City, did the work for him. Three prize Ribles will be given away to the infant class in the Salem Sunday school on the first of Novem ber to the three scholars who answers the greatest number of questions in Brown's eatuchism. Also a hymn book will be given to the scholarjwho repeats the greatest number of con secutive verses, beginning with the first Tsalin. And all who inemerize the books of the Old and New Testa ments will get their qames on the honor roll of the A. R. Tresbyterian. Several ladies in this community (among them Mrs. J. L. S.) have re ceived circular letters from the rail road au*.Wirities offering them cheap transportation in cawt they wish to go West. Toor creatures—many cA Uiem might do well to accept the kind offer tendered them. My fighting lieutenant, Frank Truitt, Inis stepped over into North Carolina for the present. He will be back by the time I need his services, I suppose. At the recent election one vote was cast for Jim Troctor for magistrate. John Dixson seemed to think it was Ben Spears who cast it expecting the appointment of constable under Jim. Mrs. Millie Durham, nee McCul lough, of Greers, was at Salem yester day. Her many friends were glad to see her. Capt. King is making preparations to build the bridge at Thompson’s mill. He nas ordered the lumber from the low country. Soon alter it arrives he will have it fitted and put up. He is a hustler. j. i„ s. Property Holders Take Notice. Tiik Ledger happens to be in pos session of the fact that there are now a number of heads of families who are working here and living at board ing houses while their families are living elsewhere, ard assign as a rea son for this that it pays them to do so because of the high rents here. We are aware of the scarcity of dwelling houses here but we sincerely hope that this scarcity of buildings has not advanced rents ns indicated above. If so, property owners would do well to stop and think, and at once adjust themselves to the circum stances, for surely whenever people want to live with us wo should be able to offer as good inducements as any live town. The natural enhancement of the value of property in Gaffney makes any offer for it attractive and always assures a handsome profit. The more we can attract to us the better it will be in the long run. So let us keep in reasonable bounds and not be “pound foolish and penny wise.” A Painful Accident. Some days ago while Win. T. Thompson was at work in his black smith shop a scale flew from a piece of steel on which he was at work and entered his left arm near the shoulder. He had his arm probed by a physi cian but the steel could not bo found. He continued bis work for a day or two but inflamation set in and for some days Mr. Thohipson was in quite a serious condition. His phy sician gave him the closest attention, and his many friends arc now thank ful for the assurance of his improved condition and hope for his recovery. — - • -*•*- —— A Novel Bitthday Party. The ladies of the Tresbyterian church have arranged for a novel en tertainment at Lipscomb's Hotel next Friday evening. The admission system is the novel feature of tho occasion. Those who attend will ho provided with a small sack in which they are to place enough pennies to correspond with tho year of their age and this is to be presented at the door to gain them admission. Re freshments will he served free of charge to those who attend. — - • ■+•+■ • No Business, But Hard at Work. A friend tolls us that he recently went into Hie store of a business man who did not advertise, and was sur prised to find him busy. The store keeper, it seems, had tiie itch and a Waterbury watch, and when he wasn’t scratching himself ho was windiifg his watch.—Mayfield Moni tor. *•»> •- — / Push It. Gaffney will be up to the mark on our new railroad. She recognizes her great opportunity and her people are not flinching from thelrduty. Noth ing hero will he recreant. —— -- » t— The Ideal Panacea. James L. Francis, Alderman, Chi cago, says: “I regard Dr. King’s New Discovery us an Ideal Tanacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Com plaints. having used it in my family for the last live years, lo the exclus ion of physician's prescriptions or other preparations.” Rev. John liurgus, Keokuk. Iowa, writes: “I have been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years or more, ami have never found anything so beneficial, or that gave me such speedy relief us Dr. King's New Discovery.” Try this Ideal Cough Remedy now. Trial bottles free at store of DuTre Drug Co. “THE CROSS OF GOLD.” IT IS NOT INDORSED BY THE SILVER COMMITTEE. The Seeker After Truth is Met With Many Diverging Opinions as to Who is Ahaed, the Gold or Silver. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, I). C. Sept., 1 — lake it all in all this week lias been productive of very little rejoicing at the tri-party Y^adquurters of the Bryanites. Things are uot apparently going their way. The Biyanites publicly make light of the immense republi can majority in Vermont, and say that it was no more than they ex pected: but it was much more than expected. They knew the State would go Republican, just as they know Maine will go republican, but they hoped that the majority would be less than it was in 181)2. Those supporters of Bryan who have been condemning the tendency of his managers to chase rainbows in tho oast, instead of concentrating their efforts upon the middle west, where they have some show to win, regard the .Vermont election as proof that they were right. The action of the Indianapolis con vention has had a depress! tur effect upon the Bryan managers, although they know that the ticket nomina ted will not carry a single state. They fear that it may help McKinley to carry more than one by getting votes which would otherwise go to Bryan. Tiie money question is being brought home to the Bryan mana gers in a very disagreeable manner. They have been disappointed in their expectations of contributions, and don’t know where they are to get tho money needed to pay their campaign bills. The little game of politics which have been played over the printers employed by Senator Stewart to get his paper out has been both interest ing and amusing, and it is going to add, for a time anyway, 25 per cent, to the wages of those printers. Tho fact has been widely published that Senator Stewart’s paper is set up and printed in Alexandria, Va., although it carries a Washington date line,and that the work is done there because there is no typographical union in that town and printers work for about half what they get in Washington of fices run under union rules. Tho managers of the gold campaign, thought they saw a chance to hit tho silver men a hard blow by spreading these facts broadcast, and then they made u direct play at Senator Stew art’s pocket book by making arrange ments to have Alexandria placed un der the jurisdiction of the Washing ton typographical union. The Sena tor headed off this move by getting tho printers of Alexandria to apply for a charter for a union of their own, promising to pay whatever scale they may adopt. So his printers are cer tain of increased pay until the elec tion is over, whatever they may get afterwards. The following, whicli explains it self, was given out by Secretary I)i- fenderfer, of the silver committee, and endorsed by Chairman Faulkner, of the democratic committee: “My attention lias just been called to u certain publication culled ‘Tne Cross of Gold.’ Upon tho title page is dis played a cross in gilt, upon which is a picture representing a working man crucified. I have not examined the script of this work, consequently am unable to pass an opinion upon whut it contains, but 1 desire the pub lic generally to understand that we, us a silver people, do not propose, to shock the sensibilities of those who are morally inclined by such sacreli- gious display or by endorsing such u work. 1 can hardly see how any one equipped witli good common senso should have ever conceived such an Idea, and I am at a still greater loss to know what shotild impel any one to force such au article upon tho public, i am led to believe that its author is not u friend to the cause of bimetallism, and want it distinctly understood that we repudiate its publication.” How widely apart two persons opin* # ions may bo on*the sumo subject is thus shown: Hocrotary Rritton of the Virginia Htafo Democratic com mittee—“We will certainly equal if not exceed tho democratic majority in 18',12, which was upward of bojMMM) and wo shall carry every congres sional district.” The other side of tho picture is given by Col, J. A. Komple, who lias been on the stump in the slain for two weeks. He said “My impression now is that the chances are more than even that the electoriul vote of Virginia will he give to McKinley and Hobart.” The seeker after the truth is met with this sort of thing right along eon- curning every state which there Is tho slightest doubt.