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Ledger Ledger Readers Patronize Ledger Advertisers. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOL. iv. no. ndr GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1897. $1.00 A YEAR. from lower::::;:: co. THE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS TERSELY TOLD. A Brief Pieci of History in Regards to the Cowpens Battle as Re'atcd in the Life of Rev. J. G. Landrum. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Err a Jane, Oct., 4.—Beatty’s mammoth show passed here last week and took a few pictures. The bal loon was sent up at Hopewell, so I understand. G. \V. Chalk, of Ravenna, was in this section last week exhibiting a corn sheller for which he has the agency. From its work we are satis- lied it will pay almost, any farmer who shells on an average of a bushel of corn a week to get one. Our people are picking cotton’wilh all their might. On S. F. Estes’ farm last week Anderson Smarr, colored, picked 1,441 pounds, H. T. Estes 1,392 and J. F. Estes 1,183 pounds, making in all 4,01(1 pounds. A baby in this neighborhood, I am told, cried all day yesterday for a “new ying yang.’’ if anybody will send it one the writer will bo very grateful, and will return the compli ment when convenient. John Sprouse, of Sunnyside, lost his dwelling house with its contents this morning by tiro. As to the origin of the fire I am not at present advised. The house was formerly the property of A. F. Kendrick. Misses Mollie and Minnie Kirby, daughters of Mr. and Mrs, W. C. Kirby, are both very sick at this time with malarial fever. Dr. J. E. Gar ner is attending them. Mrs. John Foster, I regret to say, is very unwell. My old friend, Mr. James Raines, of The Ledger office, visited friends and relatives in this section last week. We are always glad to see him. 1 attended the meeting of Enoree Presbytery at Union last week and met, Biany of the good citizens of the old mninty who were glad to know that tye are getting along all right in the new county, and who wish us God speed they say. Last night Sam Lee’s horse fell with him, and, it is afraid, broke his arm. He is complaining greatly just now. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel and children were at Salem yesterday. The Register’s correspondent, “Looker On,’'has arraigned our mag istrate’s court for malpractice. If the facts justify his assertion all right, if not, he should keep quiet until he investigates. It is as nat ural for meddlers to attend to other people’s business and misrepresent them as it is for geese to go bare footed. N Mr. Owings, of Laurens, father of our minis-ter, Rev. W. R. Owings, visited Salem yesterday. We hope the county commission ers will soon look to the road between the Tolleson place and Wilkinsville. Its in bud condition, and ought to be worked at once. The bridge at Skull Shoals is badly in need of another coat of paint. The counties of Union and Cherokee would do well to look after it now. The colored people are putting up a good building at Mount Tabor church. Mrs. C. W. Whiaonant is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John P. White, of Yorkville. A negro by the name of Henderson was shot and killed at or near Kel- ton yesterday by another negro named Byrd. They were gambling. A good way to wind up the game. I don’t suppose there are many mourner’s at the scene. The ’possum hunters are going the rounds at regular intervals. Some of our boys caught “a big un and a good un" last week. The Fowler Brothers started their ginnery last week. They will per haps continue running until the end of the cotton season. The U. C. Veterans, of Union county, are speaking of erecting a monument to the soldiers of the Con federacy, and particularly those of Union county. When the matter was brought to the attention of com mander J. T. Douglas he at once said: “I’ll give one hundred dollars to It." That’s the way to talk, and Capt. Douglas will find plen.ty of men in Union and Union county who will follow his example. Can’t Cherokeo set an example for her mother and sister counties in this matter by erecting a monument to the soldiers she furnished the Confedefeite army? Let it be one that will reflect credit upon the ^living as well as the dead. It should be placed In the courthouse square and made of native granite, surmounted with a pure Corinthian marble statue of a confederate soldier with gun and accouterments, or stapling at “parade rest" with his eyqpisteadfastly looking toward the Blue,Ridge. Sodh, in after years, when we shall have passed from the stage of action will answer the children’s question, “What mean ye by these stones?" Let us bear from you comrades and friends through The Ledger. The water courses are exceedingly low at this time. Tue mill at Thom son’s can grind only at times. Several Cherokee county people were in Union last week on different kinds of business. Explain your method of putting the decimal in the quotient when one decimal is divided by another, dear reader. Although I may tresspass upon the the patience of our readers, 1 will give, as I promised last week, a few ex tracts from the Spartanburg Express of May 1, 1^.V), in regard to the Cow- pen’s monument. From the life of Rev. John G. Landrum I take the following; “In 18*)G, tiie first monu ment was erected on the Cowpen’s Battle ground, in the eastern portion of Spartanburg District, (now Chero kee county), by the Washington Light infantry, a famous military company of Charleston, S. C. The company marched through the country with their baggage train and camp equip- page, and pitched their tents on the far famed field. There was a vasl concourse of people present to witness the occasion. Rev. John G. Lan drum had previously been selected as the orator of the day on account of ins having been recommended to the company as the most thoroughly con versant with the country's history that could anywhere be found. His speech has ofter been complimented us one replete with information, pa thos and power. Dr. Thomas Curtis wiio heard both, pronounced it supe rior to Preston’s great oration at King’s Mountain on October 4. 185o. If the speech was a written one, the manuscript has been lost or can’t be found among Mr. Landrum’ papers. It is quite probable that he spoke from notes, and the notes were after wards thrown away Of the dedication the Express goes on to say: “The work being completed, the company changed their fatigue dress for their full dress uniform, and formed in a double column around the monument, to consecrate it to its sacred purposes. The Rev. Dr. Gilman, the chaplain of the company, made a few remarks alike appropriate to the patriotic as well us the sacred solemnities in which the assemblage was about to engage. He . then read a portion of the twenty-ftrst cTfapter of Deuteron omy, and offered up a most ferverent prayer. “Hon. W. D. Porter, State Senator from Charleston, and former captain of Washington Light Infantry, who had accompanied them as a guest, was called for, and made a beautiful ex tempore speech. “Rev. J. G. Landrum was then called out, and gave us a fine speech, in which he exhibted a store of infor mation that he had gathered up from different sources, that would be in teresting and valuable to the public. He defended the militia from the slur that some are disposed to cast upon their conduct at the battle of Cowpens. He spoke, at length, on the defeat of Gates at Camden, and of the gloom which overspread the land in consequence of that disaster, and of how the English commander wrote home to say that South Caroli na wi>s again a British province. Then Green took command. Before this however there had been several encounters, and among thftm King’s Mountain and Blackstock’s. Green therefore thought if he had any friends they were in the up country. He sent Morgan up the Broad river with directions to take the road lead ing to Ninety Six. He stopped at Grindall’s, and gave out that he was there for recruits from the whigs and the friends of the cause of liberty. Here lie received information to the effect that Col. Tarleton was some six or seven miles on the other side of the river in Chester district, and was evidently intending to cross the river above him, and cut off his re treat. Morgan, therefore, left Grin- dall's and came up and camped on this spot, about sundown. He per haps intended to cross the river and go into North Carolina, but his scouts came iu and informed him that Tarleton was upon his rear. He then determined here to give him battle on the following morning, and here on the following day was fought the battle in commemoration of which this monument has been erected. “Mr. Landrum said it was diffi cult now to detail all the positions occupied by different portions of the army, but he those given by^)r. Johnson in his recent pamphlet shb- stantially correct. As to the ravine, there is no doubt that it lies on the coniines of the muster-ground. Though seventy five years had worked greut'changes, and the ravine was filled up and the road obliter ated, we are now on the spot where the frontline wasengaged. Notwith standing the night before the battle was bitterly cold, Morgan was up all qight, the greater part of the time encouraging his men, preparing them for the morrow, and charging them to stand firm, and not retire until they had fired at least three rounds. A great deal haa been said about the conduct of the militia on the occa sion, but the fact is, they gave way, because it was intended that they should give away. They behaved bravely and nobly, and when, in after years, Morgan was defending in Congress, the militia system, he de clared that the militia were regulars at Cowpens. “When the order came to Wash ington to charge, he charged with such fury that his men rode straight through the British ranks, treading many into the earth as they went, then reformed and charged again from the rear. Mr. Young, then a boy of sixteen years of age, who was in the charge, says ho changed his lackey for the best British horse he ever rode, and made the quickest swap he ever made iu his life. Just then the Continentals became closely engaged, and soon drove the British from the field. Morgan rode between them and the militia, and said; ‘Form boys, form! OlcI Morgan never was beaten in his life!’ *1 need not toll you,' said Mr. Landrum, ‘that 1 was not there. My head is gray, (he was forty-five years old), but I am not quite old enough to have been there. I wish to God I had been there.’ “Then, after speaking at consider able length in reference to the monu ment, and announcing that the peo ple of Spartanburg would enclose it with an iron railing, he took his seat amid loud and prolonged ap plause." Of course this meagre outline has tily sketched for a country newspaper cun give us but a faint idea of Mr. Landrum's Cowpen’s spsech. It is the only preserved record of the oc casion. and -Vhe one who made the speech and the newspaper that pub lished it have both passed away. At its last meeting Enoree Presby tery by only a few votes decided to hold its next session at Wellford in stead of Gaffney. It is quite likely that the synod may decide to meet in your city next fall, 1898. J. L. s. - Showing Sympathy. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Sympathy is something more than mere speeches, it is even something more than mere feeling. It is the helpful touch of a soul that has suf fered, carrying healing to a soul that suffers. There may be two souls suf fering because of this lost letter. One may think oh why doesn’t she answer my letter. The other oh why doesn’t he come to claim me for his own. Now to make it all clear and remove all, “may be this’’ and “may be that,” I will give the letter in full: My Dear Friend:—I will take the pleasure to answer your kind letter that I received the other day, and was glad to hear from you, and you said for me to sot the day, when we are to get married. Now I will leave that for you to do, and rou can set the time when you get ready. I don’t care when just so it is anyways soon. And you asked me did I love you, yes 1 do and you know it, for you know if I didn’t love you I wouldn’t marry you. Hoping to hear from you soon, Yours. I do hope this may fall into the hands that it was intended for, utd the result be a happy union. A great many years ago King Solo mon in all his glory with all his wis dom, said that it was better to dwell in the corner £of a house top than in a open house with a brawling woman. It does look to me like as smart/a man as he was could out of his seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines picked out one to have lived with, without him dwelling in the corner of the house top or Jiving with a brawling woman. And had I been his first wife, when he got to bringing in any one else I certainly would have let them know who was mistress of the situation, and there would have been more bald headed women around there than ever have been bachelors around Buffalo. Per haps for this example, and they ought to see how bad the old King turned out, some men now a days have more than one wife, and then will go to church and sit in the auieu corner and put on long sanct ified faces, with hearts so black that he would not want to own it could he see it. Bachelor wants to know what I think of bachelors. To say the least of them they haven’t any place at all, for the young people doesn’t want them for associates, and the old folks wont be pestered with them, so, like the old maids, they are left out in the cold. As for women preaching I can’t af ford to say anything againat the command of Christ, when he said to the women at the Sepulcher “Go tell my desciplea I’m risen from the dead." I have never felt that I was called to preach but to do all the good I can otherwise, and I want to be very careful to not throw ob structions in anybody’s way. Mus. R. Ann Waters. Certainly you don’t want to suffer with dyspepsia, constipation, sick headache, sallow skin and losa of ap petite. You have never tried De- Witt’s Little Early Risen for these complainte or you would have been cured. They are small pills but great regulators. SHERIFF JACOB B. ROSS. A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND CAREER. Born and Reared in Spartanburg County Which Forms a Part of Cherokee—Extensive R R Contractor. Jacob Brown Roes, the first sheriff of Cherokee county, was born in that section of Spartanburg county which goes to make up Cherokee, and near Gaffney, on November 28th, 184G, and is therefore close on to fifty-one years of age. His parents were John W. and Delcenie Ross. The former died a few weeks ago, but the latter is still living, although in bad health. Ja cob was the second child, having had an older brother who was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness. Jacob’s boyhood and early manhood days were spent upon his father’s farm. Early in life he attended the prima- tive schools of his neighborhood, but before he had finished his education ho felt called to go the war and en tered the service of the Confederate States iu August, 18GL He joined the infantry and after serving in that some time he joined a calvary com pany. At the age of eighteen he en tered the regular army, joining the Sixth South Carolina Calvary, where he served until the end of the war. Young Ross was a “rebel" in the truest sense. He learned that the Confederacy was to surrender and on the eve of the surrender he left the ranks of his command and returned to South Carolina. He did not take the oath of allegiance to the United States until after he returned home. Shortly after his return, however, he took the oath of allegiance and has since remained a good citizen. After his return home ho entered the Limestone Springs Seminary, of which J. Bank Lyles was principle. After finishing his education he re turned to the farm and remained there until he reached the age of twenty-four when he married Miss JACOH BROWN ROSS. Fannie E. Little. He then rented land of his father and conducted a farm of his own for a year. About this time the ku-klux war broke .out in this section. It became so wdrm that young Ross thought it would be advisable to seek a more congenial clime so he took his wife and, with other relatives wont to Arkansas. He did not remain there a great while un til his father-in-law, who had accom panied them, died. He then returned to this section. Matters had not subsided to such an extent as to yet make it pleasant so he again went west, this time going to Texas. He remained in Texas and Louisiana about six months and then came back and resumed farming, buying a place near that of his father. Af ter farming u few years he concluded to go into business and moved to Gaffney where he opened a saloon. About 1878 he moved to Blacksburg and conducted a saloon for some time. When the Three G’s became a certainty Mr. Ross went into co-part nership with W. A. Jackins and took a contract to grade about two miles of road. He was so successful in the railroad business that he de cided to engage in it to a greater ex tent on his own hook and aceepted contracts to grade successively on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, the Three C’s, th* *C. K. A W., the Roanoke & Southern, the A. «& D., and the Southbound. In all Mr. Ross has probably constructed a half million dollarf worth of railroad work. The failure of*the Three 8’a was quite disastrous for Mr. Ross, he having lost more than $15,000 by it. About two years before the dispen sary law went into effect Mr. Ross became Interested in religious mat ters. He at once disposed of his whiskey business and has aince fol lowed other pursuits. • When Cherokee county became a certainty he entered the race for the position of sheriff and although eight other men. ail good citizens and pop ular too, were in the field against him, when the votes were counted it was found that Jacob Brown Rcss led in the race. It has been said that troubles do not come singly. In this instance it might have been said that blessings do not come alone. About the same time that Mr. Ross was elected sheriff he was awarded the contract to grade the O. R. it C. R. R. from Blacksburg to Gaffney. With the duties of sheriff and con tractor at one and the same time he has come among the people of Gaff ney and while to many he was no stranger yet to a large number he was a new man. He is a quiet, unas suming man, and his conduct since his election to the position he now holds has been such as to endear hun to a large majority of those who come in contact with Dim. It must be remembered that he holds one of the most honored and yet most try- ing positions within the gift of the people and that it would be impos sible lor him to please all, yet he has filled his office with credit alike to himself and the county. In his home lile he is very demo cratic. He has been blessed with a goodly number of children, most of whom are hoys, and he enjoys being at home with his family very much. He possesses a quiet disposition and is yet quite sociable. It would have been difficult for Cherokee to have selected a poor sheriff out of the ma terial that was at hand but in the se lection of Jacob Brown Ross sh« choose one of which she need not be ashamed. Lockhart Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Lockhart, Oct. 4.—-Rev. W. L. Brown filled his appointment here yesterday. An accident befeel him near two months ago, mention of which was made in this correspond ence at the time but as it was some what peculiar it might be of interest to some of your readers. He fell from the buggy, aud he does not know how. but was picked up in the road by the man that was driving when he checked the frightened horse in un unconcious condition, and taken to his home in Kelton and lay in that condition for sixteen days when rea son returned. He says “he never suffered any pain” and I understand that no bruise could not be found on his person. His strength and reason have re turned, to the surprise of the physi cians who had his case iu charge. Rev. Isom will commence a series of meetings here, beginning tomorrow night. J. 8. Sparks and Barney Bridges, overseer and second hand of spin ning, made a flying visit to Lockhart yesterday. The Lockhart Mill Co., have a force at work on the roads around this place that add much to the convenience of those coming and going from this place. The river is very low at this time but the running of the mill has not been affected thereby. Masters Lindsley Beech and Earn est Cranford took a flying trip al! by themselves to Jonesville yesterday. E. J.Larvin, loom fixer.has changed from here to Spartanburg. ^Tohn R. Hill, merchant at this place, will, I understand, soon move his stock of goods to Union. The Lockhart store has been busy night and day for the last week taking stock. Homo. Catarrh Cured. No remedy is as effectual in eradi cating and curing Cptarrh as Botan ic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It puri fies and enriches the blood, elimi nates microbes, bacteria, etc., and builds up the system from the first dose. Thousands of cases of catarrh have been cured by its magic power. For all blood and skin diseases, it has no equal. Buy the old reliable and long tested remedy, and don’t throw your money away on substitu tes, palmed off as “just as good." Buy the old reliable Botanic Blood Balm. Price $1.00 per large bottle. SAYS IT IS GLORIOUS. I cannot refrain from telling you what a glorious medicine you have. For two years my mother had suf fered with severe catarrh of the head and ulcerated sore throat. She re sorted to various remedies without effect, until she used Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) which cured her catarrh, and healed her sore throat. W. A. Pci'pE, Fredonia, Ala., For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. A woman should never cease pray ing for her husband; it may not avail anything, but it will keep her out of mischief. It Saves the Croupy Children. Seaytew’, Va.—We have a splen did sale on Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and our customers coming from far an 4 near, spoak of it in the hightest terms. Many have said that their children would have died of croup if Chamberlain’s Cough nome- dy had not been given.—Keilam <k Ourren. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by DuPre Drug Company. SCRIBBLER AND SALLIE. THEY HAVE TROUBLE WITH NIGHT TRAVELLERS. “No Husband Nor Pa” Likely Not to Become One Soon—How Sal Was Permitted to Fall Out of Bed. (Corrpsponilence of The Ledger.) Goucheu, Oct* 4.—I^see from The Ledger that uncle “No Hus band nor Papa" is brimfui^uv trubel because he is accused uv bein’ the 'riter uv my “backwoods” letters. “O ‘tis a dreadful tliluj- to be lii such distress autl uilserce!” But mind you, kind friend, that my ’ritin’s are erboui my own wife an’ fumly an’ need not tuch eny other woman be she lean or fat. Why he exhorts us all ter he eleva- tin,’ utter he hisself had done eleva ted an’ told us, ermongst other el evation things, erhout the old maid wantin’ ter marry an' the bachler tellin’ ugly people not ter stand too near clear water at er getherin.’ Yes, he can in truth ’rite his name No husband nor Papa, an’ ef the signs, uv the times fool me not, I blevo he will fer meny moons ter cum, contiuyer ter he No Husband nor Papa, hut still he is er good old feller, admittin’ that huchlers an’ maids are great fault Anders. Me an’ Sal, Mr. Printer, will have our little ups an’ downs, in pertickler does Sal have the downs an’ then es I have nlreddy told you, I have er hard time with my hand stick tryin’ter get her ter have the ups. Now me and Sal, es is kustumary in this day t an’ generushun have all ‘ erlong bin occupvin’ the same noc turnal roost—notoner pole under stand. But last spring on the ap proach uv hot weather an’ night travelers we dissolved kerpartner- ship so fer es sleepin’ is concarned. Sal puttin’ her own bed up in the corner uv the house an’ me puttin’ mine rite jinnin’ the side uv hern, so es I ccod be close in case uv an’ em- erjency. Night travlers had bekum power ful numerous at our bouse, an' I blamed Sal fer it, because she woodn’t scald with bilin’ water like my old mother always done. No sir, not er drap uv hot water wood she put on her bed stids, but used her own remedies sich es cowbolic assid, rat pizen an’ soforth, an’ went so fer, Mr. Printer, es ter put out strychlin’ in the cracks uv her bedstids. Now then wus one time I warned herur the danger uv puttin’ out strychlin, tellin’ her that er big old bug mite git a little uv it on his bill an’ cum an’ bite me or her in er vital spot an’ kill er feller, but all my warnin’ done no good. Sal’s bed up in the corner hader better supply uv travlers than mine, an’ erway in the night when they wood begin to bite her in yearnest, she wood have dreams uv g’osts an’ goblins, an’ then she wood cum er rullin’ over on my bed like a saw Jog rollin’ down hill an' I hud ter wake up an’jump out er lay still an’ be mashed. Every time 1 got mashed I wood tell her erhout bilin’ water, but she wood git foamm’ mad an’ almost swear that not one drap wus gwine on her beds. Well, I had jest cum ter the pint whur I coodu’t stand that rollin’ an’ tumblin’ an’ mashin’ process eny longer, so last Friday night atter my wife had gone to sleep, I got up an’ rolled my bed erway from hern erhout the space uv four feet. I thought I wood stay erwake an’ wait fer the result, but I drapped off ter sleep an’ slept till erbout midnight, when all atonct thar wus er power ful noise uv ratlin’ shakin’an’ break- in’ like er mity yethquake had taken hold uv us ergin. I hopped out of the bed, lit the lantern and busted out doors an’ erround the house ter see if everything wus still standin’ you know, but erbout that time I heered my wife scream out for me ter cum back into the house. I went back an’ rite betwixt the beds I found the old lady, party badly dam aged an’ es mad es you please, er scramlin an’ er groanin’ in her at tempts to rise. When I axed her what she thought caused the axer- dent why she jest bristled up with * anger an’ said I wus the cause uv all the trubel, an' if she wus in trav- iin’ order she wood teach me one les son. That wus one time, Mr. Printer, that I wus a little aleered ter put her in travlin order, so I jest let her lay on the floor the balunce uv the night, an’ next mornin' the fust thing she said wus “Put on yer pot an’ let the water bile." Scriuuler. Small precautions often prevent great mischiefs. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are very small gills in size, but are most effective in pre venting the most serious forms of liver and stomache troubles. They cure constipation and headache tad regulate the bowels.