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I 9 -E, S. C. Attorney <nd Counsellor at I^w. Practices in All the Courts. Collections a Specialty Will Be in Gaffney on Saturday'-. and Mondays. The EDGER. 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 of Cherokee County. YOL. IV. X<>. 17. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 1897. $1.00 A YEAR. TOUR THROUGH TENNESSEE. EDITORS HAVE FUN IN A PULL MAN PALACE CAR. Meeting of the South Carolina State Press Association nt Newberry. The Trip to the Nash ville Centennial. Press -third The South Carolina State Association met in its twenty annual meeting at the fountain head of hospitality of the Palmetto State— the beautiful little city of Newberry— on May Ulith. The language at our command is entirely inadaquate and it is with misgivimrs we attempt to give a faint idea of the reception ac corded the Knights of the f>uill. Those who failed to attend missed the treat of a lifetime. The arrange ments were perfect, the reception most cordial and the entertainment of the gu< sts superb. Each member of the various committees was se lected with u view to tlu position and the gentleman who did the selecting displayed a remark able gift in the stu ly of human nn- turt. Mayor H. H. Evans, Col. O. E. shumpert, Senator Geo. S. Mower. Cole E. iilca.se and a host of others whose names we cannot remember, vied in their attention to their guests. The banquet and barbacue were feasts indeed unu the waltz was u dream. Lovely women and gallant men—not all of whom were members of the press—engaged in feasting and the Terpsichor. an art to their hearts content. This was interspersed with bits of bright and ingenious associa tion of ideas, all of which went to make the occasion one long to be re membered. After spending three days in Newberry the members of the association boarded the cars for Clinton on Friday. Dr. Jacobs had extended an invitation to the associa tion to take dinner with him and his one hundred and fifty bright and pretty charges. An entertaining pro gram had been arranged and after its rendition by the jvell trained children and some remarks by' the press asso ciation I »r. Jacobs turned the pencil pushers over to the tender and loving care of sweet faced children who took a delight in showing them around the beautiful grounds and buildings, and finally conducting them to the spacious and well ventilated dinning room where pretty’ maids dispensed toothsome viands. The editors were then conducted to carriages fur nished by the citizen-; of Clinton and driven around the city and thence to the depot, where they boarded the train for Harris Lithia Springs. We arrived at the Springs late in the af ternoon. Jim Harris, the hustling and genial proprietor, turned his fa mous resort over to the party. Ev erything belonged to the “boys and girls.” In due time the guests were assembled in the parlors where they were presented to the host and host ess—Mr. and Mrs. Harris. The re past was all that could be desired and again bright bits of gossip and sparkling wit mingled with delica cies and sparkling champaign and ginger ale. Supper over we repaired to the roof garden and those who de sired waltzed and waltzed while others looked on in admiration. At 12 o’clock we returned to the station atid hoarded a Pullman Palace car bound for Nashville In addition to the members of the press, by special invitation, Mayor Hub Evans, Jim mie Dunbar, both of Newberry, and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Harris, of Harris’ Lithia Springs, went with the editors. It was indeed a merry crowd, all bent on having a good time, and all succeeded in doing so. Saturday morning found us in the Gate City, and Saturday at 1'o’clock we were in <’hattanooga. After dinning at the Read House the party took tallyhoes for Lookout Mountain and Chica- maugu Park. The assent up the in cline road was a delightful sensation, And many who took the trip declared they were as near Heaven as they hui ever been before—and some may never be so near the Great White Throne again. We took no notes and therefore write entirely from memory. We were out for a lark for ten days and gave little tlr ught to business, therefore if we err in some of our statements, we ask your kind indulgence. Our recollection is that the incline road is about one and a quarter miles in length. The assent is about eight hundred feet. As the car glides slowly along the bright steel rails in an almost per pendicular attitude over the last few hundred yards one is inclined to wonder at the ingenuity of man and the majesty of God. From the dizzy heights one gets a grand view. Hun dreds of feet below the lovely city of Chattanooga is spread out in pano ramic view, while the silvery Ten nessee river in snake-like fashion winds itself about the city made fa mous by the heroes who wore the blue and the gray. Descending from Lookout Mountain we again took our seats in the tallyho, and were driven over the beautiful government roads to Chicamauga Park. Here we pause with indignation at the scene which greets us. Here and there and everywhere stand marble shafts and bronze statues to tell of the val iant deeds of the Federal troops— erected, be it said to their honor, by the states from which they came— while only an iron plate erected by the government, sings the faint praise accorded by partisan histori ans to the bravery of the boys in gray. Just here wc would suggest that the people of the South should show a better appreciation of the memory of those who defended the “Lost Cause,” by erecting monu ments of bronze and stone to their memory. True we are not as wealthy as some of our Northern states but time has dealt gently with us in thirty-two years and we are not so poor us some would have us believe. Leaving Chicamauga we drove over to Missionary Ridge and thence back to the city of Chattanooga. Though travel stained and weary all are in high glee and nothing but praise for the trip is heard. We took supper at the Read House and some stroll his fitness for 1 liroun d tl)e city, others loiter in the i lobby, while others tired and weary ; sought the repose of the Pullman 1 car. At 11 :L"> we left for Nashville, ; arriving there on Sabbath morning. ! The party repaired to the Maxwell House and had breakfast. The ; ladies secured rooms at the hotel, ! while the men occupied the Pull man, taking their meals at the Max well or elsewhere just as they pleased. After breakfast those who felt inclined attended services at the First Presbyterian church where Dr. James I. Vance preached a special | sermon to newspaper men on the S subject of ‘‘Christianity and the Newspapers.” taking us his text the eleventh verse of the sixty-eight Psalm: “The Lord gave the word; ! great was the company of them that published it.” The discourse was entertaining and instructive and was greatly enjoyed. The afternoon was spent in “seeing tho sights.” Nash ville is the sporty town of the South. For openness she equals New York or Chicago. You can get anything you want—if you want to pay for it. Glendale Park is to -Nashville what Coney Island is to New York. Its naughty ! verv, very naughty I Rut then this is centennial year and Tennesseeans are not supposed to be as. pious now as they were when they were North Carolinians, especially a a hundred years ago. In the even ing the association attended services at the Episcopal church in a body. The discourse was of special interest to the fraternity, the music grand and the attention shown the editors Monday we proceeded to take in the fair. Its a good show. It equals tho Atlanta Exposition in every re spect. The grounds are beautiful, the buildings grand and the display superb. The “Midway” has been changed to the "Vanity Fair,” and a vain fair it is to be sure. The edi tors are especially indebted to Mr. Edward S. Jones, of the exposition press, for the many courtesies ex tended. Mr. Jones is a most charm ing gentleman. He took a special delight in conducting the members of the association around and ex tended to them many courtesies for which we will ever hold him in grate ful remembrance. Tuesday was “Tennessee Day.” Gov. Bob Taylor was the lion of the day. Great is Governor Bob. Not content with giving one of the hap piest speeches we ever listened to lie liad the press association to dine with him on the roof garden of the Woman’s building and afterwards tendered a reception at which he and Gov. Russell, of North Carolina, greeted the members of the press. We always did love Bob Taylor from the first time we ever saw him. He won our hearts with his pathetic and soul-stirring “Fiddle and Bow” and we can never hear his name or see his face without thinking of the old black “mamma” of long ago. May he live long to enjoy the rich esteem in which all Tennesseeans hold him. Wednesday was our last day in Nashville. Barring a trip to Belle Mead stock farm it was without inci dent. Col. Jackson, the proprietor of Belle Meade, gave the editors a hearty greeting. He is somewhat of a statesman, but, being a millionaire, lie evinced a fear, in his short address of welcome, that some day the com- mou people might cause trouble to the gentlemen of his stamp, and em phasized the fact that he believed it to be the duty of the men who mould public opinion to educate the people not to do such a thing. Returning to the city we spent the evening in va rious pursuits and at 12 o'clock left for home. The time was well spent. As much was seen as it was possible to be seen, and, all in all, the twenty- th'rd annual meeting of the South Carolina 1'ress ^Association was the most successful ever held. President Auil is a brick, in fact he is a whole brickyard, and to no one is more credit due for the pleasant time than to Mr. Aull. Lt. Governor McSweeny, “My Dear” Appelt and Hub Evans were the life of the crowd. The following composed the entire parly who took the trip to Nashville: President E. H. Aull, Herald and News, Newberry. Lieutenant Governor M. B. Mc- Sweeney,Hampton Guardian. Louis Appelt, Manning Time.’ S. R. Bridges, Leesvilh Lancet. G. R. Pettigrew. Reform Advocate. J. S. McKenzie, Reform Advocate, Florence. Rice B. Hannan, Lexington Dis patch. T. J. Drew, Hartsville Messenger. Mrs. M. W. Coleman, Carolinian. L. C. Ligon, Aiken Journal and Review. •• M. W. Culp, I'nion Times. M. Stackhouse, Marion Times. N. G. Gonzales, The State, Colum bia. Mrs. Virginia I). Young, Yarnville Enterprise. J. E. Britt, Times. McCormick. H. G. Osteen, Daily Item, Sumter. C. P. Osteen, Watchman and Soutiiron, Sumter. C. C. Langston, Anderson Intelli gencer. Miss Stackhouse, Marion Star. John R. Mathis, New Era, Union. LL R. Hemphill, Abbeville Medi um. Miss Mary Hemphill, Abbeville Medium. M,ss Nannie Babb, Cotton Plant. C. W. Birchmore, Wateree Mes senger, Camden. Mrs. J. J. Pluss, Cotton Plant. E. II. DeCatnp. Gaits; v Ljoigmk. Miss Eugenia Young, Yarnville Enterprise. August Kohn, The News and Cou rier. Charleston. Thornwell Haynes, Leesville Lan cet. Mayor Henry H. Evans. Newberry. Miss Genevieve Wharton, Eaurens. THE SAGE OF ETTA JANE! WRITES OF CHEROKEE COURT I AND OTHER MATTERS. 1C Spent a V/eek at Gaffney and Full of Praises for Her People and Their Hospitality- Other News. is Gowdesville News. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) GowjiKYSVii.i.K. June 7.—We arc having good ruins and the crops look fine. Wheat is well tilled. Fall oats are very good. I received my first Texas paper last week. It is the Bayswell Star. It is a small paper but is a newsy one. It was sent me by my brother in re turn for the Gah .vky Lkdgek. My brother wants to know the beuedry of Cherokee county as he was raised near Jonesville. I want the editor to give the lines in full us there are some people in Texas that were raised in this county that would like to know the boundry. John C. Handers was robbing a bee gum last Friday and three bees stung, him and it almost killed him. His skin turned red and he fainted away into a stupor for about an hour, and his family thought he was dead. He had on a thick coat which caused him to get very hot. and this proba bly caused him to faint. 1). P. Hold er gave Mr. Handers all the camphor his stomach would take and it soon relieved him. This is one of the best hay years we have hud in several years. Smith Inman and wife visited R. W. Davis yesterday. R. W. Davis took dinner with his oldest son. Luther Davis, and was treated to beans, pickles, beets, and blackberry pie. There is a question about who is exempt from the road duty. There is a man in this township who will be fifty years old the 21th of this month. Will he have to work in August or not? There is also a young man that was eighteen the first of the month. Will he have to work in August or not? I hope Supervisor Lipscomb will publisii the law in Tm: Lkdokk, as it would be a help to the many overseers. Mrs. S. J. Hughes and her daughter, Mrs. P. Y. Poole, went to Lock hart Shoals last Saturday to see Mrs. Hughes’ sister-in-law, Mrs. Ann Co mer. I would, like for our friend J* it-1 Strain to write the history of Gaffney. He could do so if the men that built up the city would give him the names of the first merchants that sold goods. There are men in Gaffney' that can tell all about the progress of the place. I hope the colonel will see after that matter as it would be in teresting in days to come. Our young friend, Mr. G. W. Brown, and his better half, are visiting Mr. Moorehead. Clih. — - . Mr. Isaac Horner, proprietor of the Burton House, Burton, \V. Va.. and one of the most widely known men in the state was cured of rheumatism after three years of suiTering. He says: “I have not sufficient command of language to convey any idea of what I suffered; my physician told me that nothing could be done for me: and my friends were fully con vinced that nothing but death would relieve me of my suffering. In June, 1894, Mr. Evans, then salesman for the Whealing Drug Co., reccommen- ded Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. "At this time my foot and limb were swoi- len to more than double their normal size and it seemed to me my leg would burst, but soon after I begun using the Pain Balm, the swelling bege.n to decrease, the pain to leave, and now 1 consider that I am entirely cured. For sale by DuPre Drug Co. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jam:, June 7.—Tjie earth quake of last Monday gave a scare to -Gtne people who will not get over it soon, I don’t believe. We have had general rains and "General Green” is beginning to in vade the farms and give trouble to tho fanner. There has been some hail in differ ent sect ions, but no particular dam age done that I have heard of. S. F. Estes is quite sick with some kind of a\idney trouble. Dr. J. F. McCluney was called to see him yes terday. Wheat will be ready to cut this week, it is generally good where it is free from rust. Rev. W. R. Owings preached at Salem yesterday. A large crowd was present. Although oar fanners were lute beginning their work, I can’t see but that the crops are about as tar ad vanced as they usually are at this season of the year. Should nothing happen there will be plenty of cotton by the 4th of July. I spent las* - week in Gyllney at tending court. To the people of Cherokee county this is something new and quite a crowd was present, among them many ladies. Some crusty old fogies think that the court iiouse is no place for ladies, es pecially during the sitting of the court. This is a mistake. They have as much right there as men who are mere lookers-on. No gentleman will act unbecoming in their presence even though he may be under the influence of liquor. So far as I was able to see the new county officials discharged their duties in commend able style, and I think the county lias just reason to he proud of them. My sojourn in the city was made the more pleasant in consequence of the marked attention and kindness shown me by my friends whom 1 had the pleasure of visiting in their own homes, and the kind and pressing invitations from quite others whom I expect next round. In the was ably assisted by Anderson Thomas and others in hold ing the seats down during the ses sions, In the large crowds that 1 gathered day by day it was an easy i kind words for Thk Lm ui:k. Should it keep on growing in popular favor it will be but a short time until it is sent to every home in the county— both white and colored. Let camps Jake Carpenter, Hart and Jefferies United Confederate Vet erans bear in mind that the election for colonel to command the Cherokee Regiment U. C. Veterans takes place next Saturday at 1 p. in. Capt. H. 1*. Griffith has been nominated and we hope to see him unanimously elected. To comrade J. R. Webster, of Cow- pens, 1 am indebted for a copy of the News and Courier of July 11,1891, containing a sketch from the pen of Rev. J. B. Traywieh in regard to the treatment of Southern soldiers in Northern prisons during Ihe war. As this is of much interest to our people I will try and procure its publication in The Leuckk before long. As at present listed the South Caro lina troops went into the service of the State and Confederate States during the war amounted to 00.889 divided into the different arms of the service as follows: Artillery—threo regi ments and six battalions; Cavalry— seven regiments and ten battalions; Infantry—twenty nine regiments, two legions and ten battalions; Iti- ik\-—three regiments and one battal FROM THE COALING GROUND. a number of to visit on my court room I Bob Wilkins, matter to tell the Cherokee county men from the other people. They would walk into the court room with a dignified air as much as to say: “We are independent of the old counties now. We have a court house of our own. We ask them no favors.” In common with the other officers our court crier Frank Coyle came up to my expectations. He stood at his post ind 'called with all the life and earnestness he could command. Sometime! irae something like the following would take place: “Call John Smith.” “John Smith “J-o-h-n S-rn-i-t-h !” J—o—h—n S—tn—i—t—h!” “Here.” “Come into court sir! You set there and hear me cull you and you won’^ an swer!” Caleb Soencer woulcVwalk around with nis stall with eve/y now and then a thump, thump, thump, “Silence in court!” Morgan Byars was delighted in keeping the court supplied with good fresh water, and to break the monotony ids honor would occasionally turn loose a broadside and clear the rostrum of the intruders who would every now and then assemble on it. At one time he said, “Mr. Sheriff I can’t hold court with every man in <’hero- kee county on the rostrum.” This was rather rough on some old men who had no disposition to intrude upon the court, but hud gone there simply to hear the proceedings—a thing impossible for them to do from the floor. No doubt but that his honor wounded the feelings of some of them for one never came back in to the court room that I know of after lie had been asked to get off the ros trum. We highly appreciate his honors’ position and believe that he intended to do his duty and no more, but these old men had concluded that the rostrum occupied more space than was necessary for the court and its officers, especially when the floor and gallery was crowded almost to suffocation. The chills are still working in some of our people along the creek. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel, of Hickory Grove, visited friends and relatives in this county last Satur day. I am sorry to hear that “Cap” Clary is in so low a state of health. Ho bus tho sympathies of this entire community. From all sections of the country I meet people who have nothing but FLAW GETS IN SOME COMMON SENSE. The Knight of the Coaling Ground in Sympathy with a Woman for Once in His Life—He Finds a Flaw. ion; Reserves—eleven regiments and eight battalions; Sharpshooters —one regiment and three battalions; State Troops—six regiments, one battalion, nine militia regiments, one militia legion, one naval battal ion and one statejjcadet battalion. Of course these organizations, many of them, were merged into dif ferent commands, and the same troops may be counted two or three times. The gardens are beginning to fur nish an abundance of vegetables and soon the blackberry crop will be on hand. Merchants should lay in a stock of “Bill” Fowler’s poor man s flour, and ivo will live cheap. In conversing with men from the battle ground section I find that the government will get all the help that those people can give in having a national park established there. If Jie legislature will establish the officeof county scavenger it will not be hard to find u brute in human form to fill it. Some people dop’t appreciate the tune of some of The Ledger corres pondents on certain points. Well, its hard to please everybody and we only murder time in trying to concil iate them. So let the heathen rage. Sambo, alias, “Chunk,” saw a snake fight this morning. A king snake attacked two upland moccasins, one of which he killed and the other got away. The king snake run too. I expect he will tell of it in his next letter to The Ledger. We are having a splendid grass season and farmers are trying to get it conquered. The children are making prepara tions for an enjoyable time “Child rens’ Day” at Salem. It is the de sire of the managers to have it sur pass any of its predecessors. I have met with several of Chero kee’s most influential citizens from different parts of the county who j are unanimous in the opinion that we have one the best counties in the : state. 1 was glad to meet the editor and 1 congratulate him upon bis safe re- | turn from an extended trip in which he took in Nashville, Tenn., and j other important places. He looks j like he enjoyed his trip and we ex pect to see an account of his travels ! in this week’s issue of the paper. During the recent term of the j court of Cherokee county I heard 1 some able speeches from eminent | council on various cases. But con sidering his age none struck mo with i more force than that of Robt. F. Gantt. Esq., in behalf of the State in the daggers’ ease. Of course the oppos- 1 ing council gave him a rough road to travel, but he was equal to the emergency, and with tho aid of our able solicitor established a precedent in the court that will hereafter make the careless handling of lire arms an expensive luxury in this county. I don.t suppose there are many la dies in Cherokee county of her age who have done more work during tin* past winter and spring than Mrs. Mary Turner. She has pieced and quilted thirteen quilts She is the mother of Mrs. Thompson Robbs. Broad river was all over the low lands Monday but the little corn is not badly injured. Gats wero dam aged considerably. The rain con tinues to fall •»t this time, 12 o’clock Tuesday. Your correspondent has a very bud cold and is unfit for duty. J. L. s. “For three years we have nt ver been without Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house,” says A. H. Fatter, with E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.. and my wife would us soon think of being without flour as a bottle of this Rem edy in the summer season. We have used it with all three of our children and it has never failed to cure—not simply stop pain, but cure absolutely. It is all right, and anyone who tries it will find it so.” For sale by DuFre Drug Co. (Correspondence of The Ledaer.) Uitek Co.u.iN' Guoi’N'D, June 7.—I was up town ’tother day an heard a woman prcachin on the street cor ner. Well, I listened to her dis- eburse very attentively an thought it very good an in the right place an at the right time but on my way home some one said that they didn’t believe in a woman a preachin an it wasn’t right, to which I said that I was right to the reverse; that women ought to he the very ones to preacli; that they, nine times out of ten, was tho cause of man's destruction an that • they, nine times out of ten, could be the cause of man’s restoration if they only would; that they could speak ten words while a man was gettiu the tobacker out of his mouth to speak one; that a man was no where when a woman begins to preach. Of couse I know there is one place in the Bible where ole Paul said that women must keep silent in tne church, or somethin to that effect, but I believe in mixin a little com mon sense in everything. Some wheres in the Good Book it says that Christ died to save sinners an ef Christ wants sinners saved that bad an women can be the instergation of one bein saved, then pray tell me, why won’t it answer as well as if a man had done it? I have hearn preachers say that a woman shall be seen but not heard an I’ll jist be dog gone ef I don’t be lieve that its because they don’t want so much competition. If a woman can’t beat a man out of hia ‘socks a pre&eliiu it aiut because $h<r aint got tongue an influence enough. Later I learn that the woman preacher was refused the privilege of preachin in a little school house near the factory. And right here I want to pick a flaw. I don’t care if Bap tist, Methodist, Fresbyterian, Lu theran, or any other denomination would turn a Christian lady out in the damp air to preach they are lack- in the co-operation of God an the Holy Ghost, an ef such people would come to where 1 was at an begin to preacli I would git up an leave ’em much less go two steps to hear ’em. They wouldn’t even let the woman have a few seats out of the school house, church, or whatever you call it, to accommodate her audience. Ii I belonged to any denomination and they would act thus wise toward a lady preacher I be consound ef I wouldn’t get ashamed of it uu with draw. If there is anything under heaven I do hate it is a close-fisted, stingy, selfish church member. The lady simply told them Christ preach ed in the wilderness to a larger audi ence than she would have here an that if they had any seats she hadn't read of it in the Bible yet an that she wasn’t as good as Him an she knowed she was over willin to preach in the open ai.* ef she only had threq people to preach to. I urn not a man to hc44»a grudge or spite toward anybody but before I would go to that school house to hear prcachin agin I would stay at home. I don’t go much as it is nohow. “Wliy,” yousay, “Flaw, how come you to come out on the woman’s side so strong when you have been down on ’em heretofore.” I have never, in all my born days said aught of a Christian lady. I have always held the highest esteem for a woman who would let her tongue run in the right direction. A woman’s tongue is bound to run for it is somewhat of an unruly member an ef a woman can keep it guided right she deserves credit an praise an a whole lots of it. Flaw Picker. Hon. O. L. Schumpert. The many friends of Hon. O. L. Schumpert were much pleased to have him with us the latter part of last week. Mr. Schumpert stands high about Gaffney.'where he is look ed upon as one of the ablest attorneys in the State. Something to Know. It may be worth something to know that the very best medicine for restoring the tired out nervous sys tem to a healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach. gently stimulates the Liver and Kidneys, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters improve the appetite, aids di gestion, and is pronounced by thoM who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for .')0c or $1.00per bottle at DuFre Drug Co’s.