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I . •• TI1K LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 28, 1867. 3 THE TARIFF QUESTION. Sleeping Car Magnate Passes Away Very Suddenly. DISEASE OF HEART CAUSES DEATH ATrak«« Durlnc Hie Njjjtit, Cvinplalnt Veelifig Unc.itnforlable autl < all* t'«r m Doctor, but Ksplieit Itcforc tlie Latter Arrive*— H tory of the luaiiKUralloa of tfce Ureal Faiann Coach o,*tem. Chicaoo, Oct. 10.—George M. Pull- iuhii diet! fiUiidenlv of heart disease at It is Discussed by a Ledgerite From Wille. Willie, Oct. 2.*>.—J. L. S. says in Tiik Lkdgeb of Sept. .‘10th: “Two men have certain goods we need. One wants $2.">; of the other we could buy the same goods for .$20, but he has to pay $.*> for the privilege of selling to us. consequently, the protected man puts 25 per cent, of excess of profit in his pocket if we buy of him. If we buy of tiie other we pay hut lie does not get the profit, etc.” • Tariff laws impoverish the needy Unclaimed Letters. office 6 a. ih. ilr. Puiimau’b death occuned i and enrich the capitalist.” lu his magniliceut brown stouo home at the corner of Prairie avenue and Eigh- A V ' •ROROU PTT t.MAN. teenth street, where ho has resided for many years. He retired at iiis usual hour, which was somewhat early, appa rently in ordinary health, and there was no indication o. his demise, tudeed, any prem'iniMon even of illness. About 4 o’clock he awoke aud called his boy servant to his bedside and spoke of feeling uncomfortable. Finally he requested Hint the family physician, Dr. Billings, be sent for. In the mean time. hearing through the servants of Mr. Pullman’s indisposition. Rev. Dr. Charles H Eaton of New York, an in timate friend of the Pullman family and who was visiting at their home, went harriedly into the sick man’s bod- chamber. Air. Pullmsu rapidly grew worse and a second mosj&ge was sent to Dr. Billings, but before the doctor could reach the home Mr. Pullman had died. Mrs. Pullman, who was in New York, was immediately telegraphed for and is notv on her way to Chicago. Sfcvvob ..I HI* Lif«. George Mortimer Pnllmau was born In Chautauqua county, N. Y., March a, 1851. At 14 he began life us a clerk lu a country store, later associating him- •elf with an older brother in the cabinet making business at AiLImi. He came to Chicago in 1359 aud at ftnit engaged in the business of raising buildings, ele vating entire blocks to bring them up to new street grades. Ule riding in au oidfoihioncd tleqp- £ar from Buffalo to Wist field, NY., rurred to him tbat there r\s i field Ike building of a A/tufortulde sleep ing coach. From lt?59 to 18da fee made a series of eeperimeats on the Chicago and Alton and Galena roan*. From tlies- experiments be worked out do tailed plkns. A workshop was rented, skilled uiechamoe emuloyed, aud Mr. Pullman tbreVv himself into the task with the ardor of a man who moves from settled convictions. Although- without mechanical training himself, he personally conducted the work of others in all the minor details of pat ting the ideas he bad originated into material form. The first oar, “The Pioneer,” was completed early in 1865 and immedi ately Wok rank as the most perfect rail way vehicle the world had ever seeu. This was the beginning of the Pullman system, willed has grown to its pruaent enormous proportion. t-ubiio spirited y*'*. Mr. Pullman was identified with al most every public enterprise in Chicago. The industrial town of Pullman withiu the city limits of Chicago now couiams 11,000 inhabitants. Mr. Pullman was a brother of the Rev. Dr. J. M. Pullman of New York, former editor of The Christian Leader. Mrs. Pullman is expected to arrive in Chicago Wednesday morning on the Pennsylvania limited. She has been spending the season at the Pullman summer residence at Elberou, N. J., but went to New York city a few days a^o preparatory to coming west for the winter. Mr. Pullman, while in apparently good health recently, formerly had some stomach trouble which he attributed largely to the condition of his eyes. His belief was that about all the bodily ills Were due to the eye*. The latter part of last week he gave the visiting officials of the Pennsylva nia railroad a dinner at the Chicago dub and was in excellent spirits. He leaves two sons—Snager and George M. Jr., and two daughters, Airs. Carolau of Hau Francisco, aud Mrs. Frauk O. Louden of Cbicaga Stuck Market AflVctad. Mr. Pullman’s death affected the Chi cago stock market quite appreciably. He was said to have been u heavy holder of both Diamond Match and New York Biscuit securities, two of the most active Modes listed on the locwl exchange. When the announcement of Air. Pull man’s death was posted on the bulletin board, it caused a break in the latter stock of 6)4 points. A break of 6 points in Pol) man palace car stock was chronkiled on Wall street, but a reaction followed. The death of Mr. Pnlhnan, besides leaving a vacancy in the Pullman car directorate, also causes a similar ooudi- tiou of affairs in the beard of directors of the Chicago Telephone company. Ho was represented ou the New York Bis cuit and Diamrnd Match boards by his •on-in-law. Frank Lowdeu. it believed in local stock exchange cir cle* that Horace Porter will soocml Mr. Pullman as president of the Pullman Palace Car company. Wu K ** In 4a»«n Ili c ti»r. ^W a SHI KOTO*, Oct. 19.—Consul Sharp, at Hiogo, Japan, sends to the state de partment a clipping from the Kolia Herald showing that the rate of wages in Japniris 80 per cent higher this year than in Now, I am ready to admit that what I don’t know about the tariff, were it written out, would constitute a very large volume, but I do have my opinions about what 1 consider to be some facts in regards to the mat ter. Now I think it is actually better for our country at large to pay the $25, or the excess of $5, and keep the money in our own country circulat ing among ourselves than it would be to pay the $20 and send the money off to some European country for the benefit of foreign labor and capital ists. It is a fact, and one that is not denied even by the most ardent free trader. that the “Protection Tariff” has enabled the I’nited States to build up her manufacturing enterprises to what they now are. But it is claim ed now that our manufacturing enter prises are built to such an extent that they should be able to compete with the foreign manufacturers without the protection by the government, by which they were built up, and per haps they are, but were it not for our tariff laws there would one of these two things happen : The earnings of our laboring people would be decreas ed from 35 to 05 per cent., that is to the same wages of European .labor, or our manufacturers would go down and leave us at the mercies of the European manufacture. We are all too prone to consider our persom-.l interest to the exclusion of whut might be of the best interest of our country at large. The fact la, we all would like to sell our products for a high price and buy other people’s products for a low price. I am decidedly of the opinion that had the tariff been maintained as an economic instead of a party question that it would have been by far better for the country aud especially so for the South. About tho greatest ob jection that we hear now-a-days to the tariff is that it is discriminating against the South, thereby admitting the benefits of the law to the North and East, and if the North and East aro benefitted by it the South can only blame herself for not sharing in the benefits of the law by failing to particij ate in the framing and enact ment of a law that would not be sec tional in its operation, Now, I don’t think that my friend, J. L. S., meant exactly what he said when he said, “Tariff laws impover ish the needy and enrich the capital ist” unless he denominates the mid dle Claris landlords or the “needy,” because they are the only ones that are particularly interested in cheap labor, that is those who are depend ent upon the rental of their lands for their income. It is very evident that the laborer of this country has been considerably benefitted by the tariff laws although his benelits must of necessity come indirectly. No one who was familiar with the condition of the laborer 20 years ago can deny this. There is no one, I presume, not even the most ardent protectionist, but that will admit that the manufacturer receives a greater benefit from a pro tection tariff than anyone else but because he receives most benefit is no reason that no one else is benefitted by it. Take the cotton mills from South Carolina and what would the condi tion of the laborer be? It is con ceded by almost everyone that it has been through the instrumentality of a protection tariff by which our coun try has been enabled to build up her manufactories to the extent that she lias. I am fully aware that the cotton producer’s benefit derived from the tariff is very remote and indirect, and in fact, I don’t know whether the landlords of the cotton producing lands, are either injured or benefitted by it, but I am satisfied tbat the ones who till the soil, the laborers, are benefitted by a protective tariff, but while I believe this I concede to every one a perfect right to his own opin ion in regards to the matter. Cl’MTUX. Things in Thickety. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Thickety, Oct., 25.—Cotton is turning out about a half crop and prices are just about half what they should be. Corn is nothing extra. I guess it will average about half on Thickety bottoms. I don’t seo what the farmers are going to do this winter as potatoes are a failure. Boy Wilkins, colored, while com ing from Gaffney the other night caught the largest possum that has ever been caught around here with out a dog. The possum was going across the road when caught. J. M. 1>. - — It Saves the Croupy Children. Kkavikw, Va.—We have a splen did sale on Chamberlairi’s Cough Remedy, and our customers coming from fur ami near, speak of it in the (lightest term*. Many have said that their children would have died of croup If Chamberlain’s Cough Reme dy had not been given.—Kellum A Ourren. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by Dul’re Drug Company. col. (2) List of letters remaining in uncalled for to date : John Anderson. John Addison. Mrs. Bessie Archer. A. P. Abrams. Isaac Anderson, col. Miss Victory Brown. Mrs. M. C. Blanton. John Boyd. W. W. Boys. Joe Bonner, col. T. R. Blackwell. R. R. Blackwell. W. Bright. Martin Borroughs. J. H. Black. Geo. Bonner, col. J. H. Burgess. Jas. Byars. Geo. Bradshaw. Anderson Burton. C. T. Brice. Luthur Brewton, col. Nathan Bridges. Giles Brown. Loise Camp. Mrs. Alary Chambers. W. F. Curry. J. M. Dixon. Mrs. Susan Duncan. Miss Darcas Elmore, col. Mrs. Annie Green. John Gilmore, col. Benson Goudelock, col. Lewis Hollis. Miss Rachael Harris. Dave Hawkins. J. M. Huskey. Andrew Jordan. Clarence Jolly. Ed Johnson. W. E. Keiser. Smith Lipscomb, col. Gabe Littlejohn, col. John Lipscomb, col. Wash Lipscomb, col. Ben Littlejohn, col. R. L. Morgan, col. Sell Mays, col. Dock Mitcham, Perry McCall. Judd McCruw. Miss Lena Putman James C. Powell. Mrs. H. J. Porter. G. M. Parker. Miss Eva Petty. John Pinnington. John Price. W. A. Putman. W. I. Pinnington. Mat Pinnington. Tom Pearson John Posey. W. J. Pruell. Drnyton Peeler, col. Jeter Phillips. J. P. Pritchard. Reed Paris. Alonroe Roberts, col. J. C. Randolph. Sam Robertson, col. Miss Sallie Sanders. H. M. Sarratt. Spencer Smith. Airs. H. J. Scruggs. W. P. Self. W. Stacy. G. W. Townsend. Thomas Tinsley. Ed Webber. Aliss Hattie Whitworth. Sam Welchel, Jr. Abner Watkins, col. Jeff Watkins, col. John Watkins, col. J. P. Williams. John Whelchel. N. B.—Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised in The Ledger. T. H. Littlejohn, P. M. October, 28, 18‘J7. — -— —• Ravenna News. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ravenna, Oct. 20.—A colored man came near meeting with a serious ac cident near here last Thursday. He was carrying cotton to the factory and while going down the hill to wards Brown’s creek the wagon ton gue pulled out and the wagon turn ing into a gully threw the man off and hurt him very painfully. Both wheels ran over him. He was in an unconscious state when found by M. W. Brown but soon came to himself again and, we learn, is alright now. We were very glad to see Mrs. Wade Thomas out again last Hab- bath. She has been sick quite a long time. John Wilkins from Cowpens visited hero Sunday; also Jack Pettit from Corinth. We are very sorry to hear that K. R. Goforth’s family is going to move to Pacolet. The first Sunday in November there will be a Biblj day meeting at Goucher church. The public are cordially invited to be present. E. M. Green, from Union.visited at his father last Sunday. We are very sorry to learn that Mrs. Byars and Miss Isabel Blanton are quite sick. We wish them a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown went to Cowpens last Friday to visit Mrs. M. McKinney, Mrs. Brown’s sister. John Pettit and Miss Selma Lit tlejohn visited Spartanburg this week. a. b. c. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their mer its. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Head ache. For al tria m l Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaen by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels grimily invigorate the system. Reg ular size 25c per box. Sold by DuPre Drug Co. South Carolina Mills. South Carolina still stands at the head of the list in the cotton manu facturing industry in the south. Ac cording to the report of the Commer cial and Financial Chronicle for this year, recently issued, she has til cot ton mills—including cotton mills in operation all the year, new mills started updating the year, and a few mills in operation only a portion of the year. These mills have 994,740 spindles and will consume by the end of the year 148,767.042 pounds of cot ton. South Carolina has over one hundred thousand more spindles in operation than any other of the thir teen Southern States, and consumes over twenty million pounds more cot ton than any other state in the South. North Carolina ranks second and Georgia third. Each of these states have more mills than the Pal metto State, but less spindles to the mill. North Carolina, for instance, has 147 mills at present. There are 375 mills in the Southern States this year, having 3,197.545 spindles and using nearly four hundred and eighty- one million pounds of cotton against 352 mills last year with 2,770,282 spindles using 430.548,330 pounds of cotton. This is an admirable showing for the South when it is considered that the North this year has only 18,900.- 000 spindles and the total increase in the number of spindles during the year in this country has been but 545,341. Of this increase the South shows up with the handsome number of 427,3(51. This simply shows that throughout the South the manufac turing industry so far as the building of new mills is concerned has been on a boom, while at the North the erec tion of new mills and enlargement of plants has been practically at a stand still. So far as South Carolina is con cerned, it need only to be added that there are now a large number of new mills in process of construction with in her borders. Although the figures cannot to given accurately at present, the esti mators are placing the South Caroli na crop for this year at S(X),0(X) bales, an increase over last year. The Tortured Horne. Now that horses are paKsing away be fore tho trolley, tho cable, tho bicy cle aud tho horseless carnage many horse owners aro leuruiug for tho first time that tho uso of sunbouueU ou horses has materially decreased the mor tality among them in Euro)*! Tho horses must present a droll appearance with their faces peering out of their straw bonnets, their ears also being vis ible through holes made for tho pur pose. Before tho horse becomes quite extinct as a draft animal the sunbon- uet might be used with advantage to lessen the misery of his remaining sum mers. Tho passing of tho horse, by the way, is very generally deplored However, no lover of animals will grieve over his ceasing to be. Nature was very cruel when she made horses. The victim ever of man’s ignorance, aud until late years the victim also of his unchecked brutal ity, tho victim also of his pleasuriugs and his gambling, the horse—denied the power possessed by other domestic animals, such as tho cat and the dog, of voicing its anguish—has led a life of ghastly tragedy. Very occasionally from birth to death he lias boon well cared for. But tho common lot of the horse has been tho tortured fato of any sensi tive creature at tho mercy of that most cruel of created things—mankind. Tho passing of the horse will very apprecia bly lessen tho total of the world’s suf fering. Vogue. Haa**li Grant* a Kepneva. Raleigh, Sept. 24.—Governor Rus sell reprieves uutil Nov. 5 Lum Haynes, a negro, who was to have been publicly hanged at Whitesrille Friday. The re prieve i* to permit him to be a witness against accessories. Walter Falion l’a«*e* Away. WiLMiMOTO*. N. O., Sept. 24.—Hon. Walter E. Faison, ex-solicitor stixte de partment. Washington, D. U., died at the home of bis brother-in-law, J. E. Mathews, this city, njed 42 years. Hew raving Material. Another jiaving material has been discovered in Florida, at Tampa. It is the pebble phosphate and is said to be very good aud cheap. Bible Day Concert Program. The following is the program of the Bible Day Concert winch will come off at Goucher church the first Sun day in November. Song—Marching on. Address of Welcome. Scripture Reading. Prayer. Song—The gentle voice. Recitation—Words of Life. Recitatiof)—More Precious than Gold. Song—Holy Bible,Book Divine, (duet) Scripture Rending. Recitation—This Holy Book. Dialogue—Reading the Bible. Song—Ob, Wonderful Word. Recitation—A Wonderful Library. Recitation—A Gift of Our Father. Song—How Gentle God’s Commands. Recination—The Greatest Service. Class Exercise—By 10 children. Recitation—The Bible. Song—An Open Bible for the World. Scripture Reading. Recitation—Send Forth the Bible. Motion Exercise—What Shall We Ask?—By five little girls. Motion Song—Primary class. Recitation—Thy Kingdom Come. Recitation—Kept in Heaven. Recitation—Come Over and Help Us. Song—Over the Ocean Wave. Recitation—A Little Missionary. Song—What we may Give for Jesus. Recitation—A Short Sermon. Collection. Scripture reading. Closing Song—Over There. Recitation. Dinner. The afternoon exercises will be singing and short talks by local speak ers. The public is cordially invited to attend. A Democratic rrincr. Several years ago Prince Oscar of Sweden, a nephew of tho present king, shocked court circles by declaring that ho intended to marry Miss Kbba Monk, a young lady of patrician birth, but yet far below him in rank. The king pro tested and even refused to permit tho marriage, whereupon Princo Usoar de clared that he would yield his title aud resign all rights of sm cest ion. out Unit marry Miss Monk ho certainly would. The marriage was celebrated in duo time, aud Prince Oscar has never been seeu in the royal circles since. The king and queen have maintained friendly but distant relations with their democratic nephew, who is known simply as Princo Oscar, and who is immensely popular with the people because of his philan thropy. Prince Oscar aud his wife have been devoted to causes of charity aud benev olence, but recently have created a sec ond sensation by joining the ranks of the Salvation Army The prince and his wife hold regular open air meetings according to the methods of the army. Tho princo exhorts, and he and his wife lead in the street singing EnflUb Dinner Orators. Twenty years ago the best dinner ta ble talkers in England were thought to be Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Queen’s Counselor Judah P. Benjamin, Mr. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, Lord Rosebery aud Dean Stanley. Twenty years before that Macaulay aud Carlyle headed the list. In Dickens’ time he ranked as the best after dinner speaker, and Sala enjoyed that distinction for a few years before his death. There is now rather a dearth of talkers aud speakers of the first luster in that coun try- Courtai«rti*l For L»v*ritig. Chicago, Oct. 19.—Secretary Alger has directed General Brooke that a courtmartial be ordered for ttie trial of Captain Loveriug, in case the captain does not ask for a court of inquiry. Varanlo* Millar Head. New Obuians, Oct 19. — Veronica Miller, a member of the Gruu Opera c nupany, playing here, died in this city, not, however, of yellow fever. “THE KNELL OF PARTING DAY” may suggest to some a sorrowful sound, but it is just the time when we are are looking over our immense stock to see how many bargains we can offer to the ladies of Cherokee county on the morrow. We found lots of things last night that cannot fail to interest you, and if you’ll call and exam ine them you will profit by it. Remember we have the most completa and *up to date stock in the city and that it is no trouble to show goods. Call on us, 0 Yours &c., CARROLL & CARPENTER. Grassy Pond Gossip. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Grassy Pond, Opt. 25.—Rev. A. J. Bonner filled his appointment at Camp Creek church Saturday and Sunday. There was quite a large crowd out Sunday. Misses Nannie Elmore and Missie Wood, of Maud, spent Saturday night and Sunday at S. R. Humphries’. Mrs. R. M. Jolly spent several days in Gaffney last week visiting her sick daughter, Mrs. J. W. Bridges. Broudus Lattimer, of Lattimer, N. C., is visiting Avery Humphries and Monroe Lemtnonds. Broadus is a fine, jolly fellow. Julius Jolly received a present last week of an eighteen dollar suit of clothes. We have a debating society here. Next Saturday night tho subject will be “War and Temperance.” Miss Lula Davis and Chas. Scruggs, of Gaffney, were in this section last Sunday. Dr. A. B. Holland and his niece, Miss Nora Hopper, of Boiling Springs, N. C., passed through this section last Sunday. Dexter Jolly, of Boiling Springs, N. C., was over last Sunday. R. M. Jolly went to Nashville, Tenn., last week. He reports having had a nice time. Phalanx. An Extra Twinge. When tho wi-ather m-is cold and damp, pci-Koiia Nutijcct to rheumatic attack* cxptvi an extra twinge of their old complaint. There Ih one way to prevent thin, vl*: hy taking in advance u ahort eourae of I.AI.I.X- Mami Si'tst iric for Kiit.rM vn-.ii. It enters tin- blood and de<,troys the rheuinalle ueld In ererv part of the system. Gives qulek relief from pain, quiet* inflammation and performs a permanent cure. Get your IiIimmI rleansed of ild*acid poison In ad vanei- of therouirli weather season, amt you wiii safely pas* through unatlVeted. Lam.k- MAXl/tt hPEcmo 1* un antl-actd. safe, tho ouilh and reliable. Price $1.00 per vial. Hold hy Cherokee bruit Co. Kdurate Your HoweU With CascwreU. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, 26c. If C. C. C, fall, «Iru*'KikU refund money. Are Youv© looking for the best place to do your trading? If so you will find that my store is the place you are hunting. Come In^@ and price my goods and you’ll soon see that no one else in Gaffney will sell you or can sell you goods any cheaper than I. Yours truly, J. N. LIPSCOMB. I0U SHOW 1008 WISDOM*^ When you come to our store to buy your groceries, because we are the people who keep them always pure and fresh. A trial will convince you. Yours truly, BYARS & SPARKS, Exclusive Grocers.