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-+J. C. JEFFERIES,4- i GAFFNEY, S. C. torney nd Counsellor at Law. Practices All (he Courts. Collections a Specialty. The Ledger. 4 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. YOL. IV, NO. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1897. FROM LOWER CHEROKEE. THX SAGE OF ETTA JANE TELLS THE NEWS. -Con- Mary Musgrove’s Beautiful Example is Worthy of Emultaion' stable Mayner and His Darkey. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jake, Nov. 8.—Rev. W. R. Owinga preached at Salem yesterday. His text Rev. 5:5. Our Debating Society has for its next subject, “Is the mental capacity of the sexes equal?” Our township School Board met at Wilkinsville jast Saturday. Our friend G. A. Byars has tur nips—lots of ’em—that will throw other reports in the shade. Some State odicials passed through this section last week looking up cases of violations of the dispensary law. Blind tigers will perhaps get their eyes opened. Tho young people had a singing at Mr. F. A. Goforth’s last Saturday night. I regret very much that tho Gow- deysviile people are having some dis satisfaction in starting their school. This is unfortunate to say the least. Whenever our people realize the fact that the object of the State is to ben efit the pupils rather than to advance the pecuniary interest of teachers the better it will be for all concerned. Whenever the children are made the victims of a neighborhood wrangle it is exceedingly unfortunate for them. The parties have our best wishes for a fair settlement of the affair. Comrade J. Wesley McKown was in this section last Saturday. “Old Wess” was as good a soldier as was in Lee’s army. I hate to see infirmi ty claiming him us its victim. Several years ago I heard a mer chant in Gaffney say a man came in to y bis store and asked the price of ‘Sixty cents a bushel,” was “Aint that mighty chleap?” said the other. “I presume you have some to sell,” rejoined the knight of the yard-stick,” There is a great difference between skinning and being skinned. The different numbers that can bo made from the 9 digits as proposed in onr recent problem, will form a column of numbers 1G80 yards long, and their entire sum is 201, .$599,998, 708,400. Mr. Jack Kendrick was ginning in this neighborhood last week. In ten days or two weeks, the cot ton will be gathered from tho field. The all-absorbing questions of the day are the low price of cotton and the whiskey problem. I learn that the field will be full of candidates next year for legislative honors. But 1 don’t believe every thing I hear, unless I know its au thority. Our county treasurer, J. B. Jones, was down this way last week, collect ing taxes. It’s u great pity his visit hud not been a little later, as many tax-payers have sold no cotton and were unable to meet him with their dues. It’s not bis fault, and they will not object to riding up to him some day before the time closes. Last Monday was a very stormy, rainy day, and out-door work was en tirely suspended. One day last week deputy consta ble H. M. Mayner. arrested one Wil Horn Baxter, colored, for a heinous affair, for which his race seem to have a penchant. In getting the warrant out of his coat Docket to read to the prisoner he had to use both of his hands— No quicker was It said than done. Will Maxtor undertook to run. For him, Just then. "Mid made a Iuijko, AffrlKhted Baxter made a pluiiKo, And otT he started like the wind. And left pursuer far behind; t>o with the stately step of pride, lie made his tracks lioth far and wide. The fun was more than “Mid” could stand And so be thought he’d take a hand, And off he wont to execute The warrant, or else try to shoot The Ilyin# nejjro In the fray, Who thought It l>e.st to jtet away. "He found no virtue In appeals, Will knew his host friends were his heels And of them a K<ssl use he made, While "Mid" he fell heels-over-head. The neitro ho had neuxht to say— So (dad was he to g« t away. John Spencer, he stood looking on. And plainly saw all that was done. He thinks he never knew such grace A» did attend that funny race. "MIgs" fall was Hard enough to bust Him open, yet he never "cussed” A word while Will went In on foot, Saluted by a pistol shot.” From all accounts Baxter picked up the miles on his toes and kicked them off at his heels as fast as ever “Yalier Blossom'Brace-horse Bullet,” did in Georgia scenes. Mid hates for his game to get away, but we com mend him for his faithful attempt to catch it. From Justice Maxtor's made escane- Au Asylum found In mercy's carol When In Just such another scrape Hu will be, found and caught. I fear. There never has been snch a dispo- sitidn on the part of our Southern people to commit errors which have crept into history, and which have a tendency to make the Southern peo ple appear in a false light, both in the Revolutionary and Civil war—to say nothing of the war with Mexico. The fault is mostly in our people not squelching this evil before it has gone so far. That wrong of these so-ca'led histories have been denounced as false by the press long ago, is. too true. But nobody has undertaken to correct or remedy the evil, and the fact is that many men, and women too, born and educated since the close of the war, have learned to recognize them as standard authorities, and it will (at best) take many years to eradicate the evil. Recently much has been said and written about Mary Musgrove, and all the resources of tradition are being brought to bear upon her history. For many of these statements we may make due allowance. But of one thing we may speak assuredly— tha'J the home-training of this girl was such as to make possible all the greatness attributed to her. In that home where the Holy Bible is recog nized as the word of counsel, and where the fires of the family altar are kept constantly burning, (as was the case in that of Allen Musgrove) “there the Most High has its habita tion,” and to them His promises are sure and steadfast—“nothing shall hurt them.” We find this noble girl visiting Ma jor Arthur Butler, in his prison, and carrying with her the family bible. between the leaves of which she had concealed writing paper upon which the doomed soldier might write his last message to his comrades who were working for his liberation. With her own hards she placed the saersd volume into his with the admonition that he take it as “the word of his counsel.” and rely upon its promises, and “all will be well.” Again we find her excusing herself from company in which her earthly jrospects might be greatly enhanced, n order that she could be with the amily around the hearth-stone at the hour of evening prayers. Noble girl. No wonder she could venture out In the darkness of night and se cretly pass the guards of tho enemy us they walked the beats to and fro around her home, in order to adopt measures by which an American sol dier might gain his liberty; or else to carry news to her lover—a soldier n her country's warfare—John Ram sey. We find her again, at the hour of midnight working her way to the “Drummond” grave-yard where the jody of her devoted lover, who had fought his last battie, was being low ered into its last resting place to await the resurrection morn. The Psalmist could have no greater fa th in an Almighty arm when he said: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil; for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,’ than did Mary Musgrave, whose life and character is the standard by which the girls of the present day might do honor to themselves, their families, their country and their God. As a reward for her loyalty, and in answer to her prayers for the safety of Major Arthur Butler, who had been condemned to death by a Bri tish “drumhead” Court Martial. and shoulders above the rank and file of tho average politician of the day. Here is our problem of this week : A man has two jugs, each of which holds exactly one gallon. One of them (No. 1) is filled with whiskey, 100 proof. He draws out a quart of it and pours into No. 2, and tills up No. 1 with water. Ho draws another quart from No. 1 and pours into No. 2. this he does four different times. Now the question is—what is the proof of the mixture in each jug? Somebody say. Mr. G. W. Chalk, of Ravenna, was around delivering corn-shellers last week. Miss Jessie Strain had a chill last week. j. L. s. JAS. . ONE OF THE FOREMOST CITI ZENS OF GAFFNEY. FRIEND OF THE NEWSBOYS. Senator McLaurin Has a Kind Word for the Little Fellows. | Washington Post.] “In the battle that the newsboys arc making for their rights here in Washington they have my hearty goodwill,” said United States Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, at the Metropolitan. I hope the effort being made to stop them from crying newspapers on Sunday will fall. For one I want to be recorded on the side of the newsboys every time. They are so earnest, honest, persistent, and as a rule so deserving, that I don’t see how any one can find it in bis heart to do them an injury. In my opin ion, a religion that won’t stand the cry of newsboys on Sunday morning is of but little account. It is a very poor Christian, in my judgment, who cannot put up with the noise of those little ones in their efforts to earn a few pennies to buy a scanty dinner— or, worse, to buy perhaps the break fast or supper they have been com pelled to go without. I always feel like helping these brave boys instead of hindering them in their fight with poverty and want. These plucky little lads as a rule make good citi zens, since they are schooled in the hard experiences which fall to their lot. From their ranks have come many of our most eminent men in all the prominent walks of life. In ad dition to Hon. Thom. L. Johnson and T. A. Edison, I might mention hundreds of others who made their start by selling papers on the streets. I favor letting these little fellows alone and give them the only chance within their reach to begin the great battle of this life.” A Cleveland County Boy, He Came to Gaffney at an Early Age and Has Succeeded by Per- severence. James Alexander Carroll, was born on the 19th day of May, 1852. in Cleveland county, North Carolina. His early bovhood days were spent on a farm where he labored faithfully, attending in season the common schools of his neighborhood. In 1871 young Carroll came to Gaffney and clerked for Mr. Ira Hardin, who con ducted a store on the site where Mr. i. D. Wheat’s residence now stands. Several years previous to this Mr. Car- roll clerked for Hardin it Thotnasson, who conducted a store at a point be tween Y'orkville and Rock Hill, and ater for Hardin & Whisonant o Whitaker’s Mountain. He did not remain at Gaffney but a few months : or it was about this time that the ederal authorities made things jretty hot for what was known at that time ns the Ku Klux, and he be ing a member they made it so warm ;or him that he was compelled to seek a more congenial clime for a short space of time, so he went to Georgia. It was in Oconee county, this State, he accepted a position with !)eal<fe Lemmons, who were con tractors on the Atlanta & Charlotte God from Ills holy place looked down, {Thu earth he viewed from Heaven on hl({h; Hu heard the maiden’s moumlnK Kroun. And freed him who was doomed to die. Before Jong I expect to give our Ledges readers a sketch of another noble American girl—a native of Spartanburg county—who figured ex tensively in the struggle for Ameri can Independence—Dicey Langston Madam rumor says that Hon. J R. Henry, our present Solicitor, will be a candidate for Congress next year. If he does he will make some body “hustle round.” My friend John T. Whitesides, of Bullock’s creek, in York county, has the best turnip patch I have heard of this season—and the most of them, (except Col. Samuel Jefferies who has his field sown.) Mr. Whiteside gives this us the best way to raise them “Just catch hold of the top as near to the root as possible, and hold on to it while you straighten up”—if you don't raise a good one every time it will be your own fault. Our colored friends report that their collections during their public meeting at Walker’s church, a few week’s ago, amounted to $188.50. Bully for them! I am always glad to note any evi dence of thrift, civilization, or spirit ual advancement among our colored population, and will do so us readily as if they were white. It is right that they bo encouraged in any good work. Many of the old soldiers think that the present call for funds to build a monument to the wOmen Of the Con federacy h a national affair. It is not. It’s a State monument, and if built at all (which it will be) it will be built in South Carolina at such place us our committee decides upon. 1 am very, sorry to learn of the death of Mr. Lee Plexlco, which took place at his home in York county, last week. He was a high-toned gentleman in all that that term im plies. We look upon the death of Henry George, of New York, as a National calamity. He was one of our coun try’s bruinest men, and stood head Dastardly Deed in Spartanburg. A special to the Register gives the particulars Of a most dastardly deed which occurred in Spartanburg, coun ty near Wellford, at an early hour Wednesday night, when Mr. Albert R. Ballenger, a country merchant, was rouderously assaulted in his store, death resulting from his injuries the next morning. The facts are as fol lows: / As usual, Mr. Ballenger closed his store about dark and went home to his supper. A short time after he got there, the signal whistle at his store blew. Supposing that some customer wanted to get in, Mr. Bal longer hastened back. His wife after waiting about three quarters of an hour for his return, became alarmed and sent Lis small son to the store to investigate. The child found everything in darkness, but going to the window he could dimly see his father lying on the floor. The boy called him and asked what was the matter, to which his father replied that he had a severe case of yellow fever. The boy be came frightened and gave the alarm The neighbors broke down the door and found Mr. Ballenger lying un conscious upon the floor, his skull be ing badly fractured, and ^an old ax was lying neaf him. He had not been robbed, as his money was stil on his person, where he usually car ried it at night, instead of locking it in his safe. There is not yet any clue to the dastardly deed. Rheumatism Cured. After eminent physicians and al other known remedies fail, Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) will quickly cure. 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He shoveled dirt and did other labor such as was entrusted to him. So faithfully did he do his work that at the end of five months he was foreman of agang of workmen. So economical was young Carroll t hat he did hisown cooking and lived in a mud shack in order that he might save his money to get a start. After ac cumulating what he thought to be a sufficient sum to go in to business he returned to Gaffney and formed a co-partnership with Mr. Thomp son Humphries and opened a general merchandise business one mile north of Gaffney. This store was regarded as one of the best country stores in this section at that time. It was about this time that Mr. Carroll sought and won the heart and hand of the fair daughter of his partner. After a year’s time the firm opened a branch store at Skull Shoals in what was then Union county. Messrs. A. A. J. V. Sarratt were conduct ing a store just across tho road. By strict attention to business and courteous treatment to all Mr. Car- roll made friends fast, and some of the customers he made at that time still trade with him. He remained there about four years. During this time fie labored on a farm and con ducted, with the aid of his excellent wife, the store, accumulating what was considered at that time a very snug little fortune. In February 1877 Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, with their two daughters, Misses Minnie and Virgie, moved back to Gaffney. The co-partnership with Mr. Humphries had been dissolved in the meantime. On returning to Gaffney Mr. Carroll opened a store in a wooden store house which stood on the site of tho present commodious brics storehouse of Carroll & Carpenter, purchasing the building from Messrs. Byars £ Humphries. The following year in addition to running his mercantile business, Mr. Carroll began buying cotton for Inman. Swann & Co., of New York, who were at that time the largest cotton dealers of the United States. He commenced as a buyer and in the fall of 1880 was given full charge of the territory em bracing East Georgia, South Caro lina and Eastern and Western North Carolina. Among those who worked under Mr. Carroll during his career as a cotton buyer were J. H. Sloan, F. G Stacy, J. 1). Jones, B. K. Hum phries, James, John and Nathaniel Turner, M. A. McCraw. Ed. Wilkins, Chas. A. Petty, Claude Ross and others. Mr. Stacy was afterwards made a partner with Mr. Carroll and for about ten years these gentlemen conducted the most aggressive cotton campaign ever known in this section of the country. In the meantime Messrs. Inman, Swann & C'o., had gone out of the cotton business and these gentlemen took charge of the same territory for George H. McFad- den it Bro., of Philadelphia, who were the largest exporters of cotton in the world at that time. During his ca reer as a cotton buyer Mr. Carroll was dubbed the “Cotton King,” for his bold and daring plunges on the market. He would buy 1000 bales just as readily as he would one bale. He made a magnificent success of the business. > Mr. Carroll is modest in his claims and attributes his success as much to the faithfulness of his colleagues and the utter confidence they placed in him as to his own ef forts. About 1880 Mr. Carroll made Mr. W. C. Carpenter, who had been clerking for him, a partner in the mercantile business and while Mr. Carroll was engaged in the cotton business the former conducted that enterprise with marked ability, so much so in fact that today the firm of Carroll it Carpenter is perhaps the best known firm in Gaffney. In 1891 Messrs. Carroll <fc Stacy quit the cotton business and opened a banking bouse. Mr. Stacy assum ing control. This business was suc cessfully conducted until May of the present year when*it was merged into the National Bank of Gaffney, Mr. Stacy being made president and Mr. Carroll a director he being one of the largest stockholders. In addition to being the head of the firm of Carroll 4 Carpenter and Carroll, Carpenter A' Humphries, Mr. Carroll is interested in the Gaffney Mfg. Co., he being the first subscriber of stock to that company, subscrib ing individually to $10,000 of the stock, the Cherokee Fallt^ Mfg. Co., of which he is now president, the Limestone Springs Lime Works, of which he is at present manager, the Smith Hardware Co., The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co., a num ber of land companies, and in fket there is hardly an enterprise in the city in which he is not Interested. Mr. Carroll has not lived entirely for self for he has given liberally of his means to schools, churches ant charity. He has given more than $1000 to Cooper-Limestone and today carries a big block of the bonds o that institution. He is a leading supporter of Providence church anc there is not a church in Gaffney or this section, white or colored.of what ever denomination, that he has not contributed to the building thereof. In the new county movement ho was one of the foremost workers anc the success of the new county was as much due to Lis brilliant campaign work as to that of any other man No man in Gaffney is more public spirited. He encourages every en terprise started and works for the sue $1.00 A YEAR. FLAW AND THE OLD GANDER HE HAS A TIME TRYING TO MAKE HIM SET. The Mean Trick a Yankee Played Upon the Innocent But Beau- tiiul Factory Girl Causes Him Merriment. smoke which, power- of his cess of everything in the city. In politics he is democratic to the core but has pronounced views and while some say he becomes too ardent at times yet, be it said to his credit,that he never takes a stand that he does not believe will redound to the gooc of his town and country and once that stand is taken he is as firm as the rock of Gibraltar. Personally he is most agreeable and although he is naturally a very busy man, he always finds time to listen to the many matters of interest which are constantly being brought to his attention. Mr. Carroll has served as alderman more times than he can recollect anc has once served as mayor. Gaffney owes much to the enterprise of James Alexander Carroll. Mill Men in Gaffney. Last Thursday the New Englanc mill men visited Gaffney. There were about thirty members of the party. They were met at the depot by Mayor Wood, Alderman Carroll Manager Wheat and others and con ducted to the mill. On reaching the mill they were taken in charge by Messrs. Wheat, Wardlow and Cutting and shown through the mill, spend ing a couple of hours inspecting it. They unhesitatingly pronounced the Gaffney mill the finest yet inspectec on their tour and all went away de lighted with it. Among the party was Mr. George Weeks, agent of the Lancaster Ging ham mill, of Clinton, Mass. Mr Weeks is an .old friend of Superin tendont Cutting and as tho two had not seen each other for twenty years the meeting was a most cordial cne on both sides. Meters. Weeks and Cutting had labored together in minor positions when they first knew each other and the success of one was a pronounced pleasure to the other. Bucklen’s Anica Salve. The Best SMye in the world for Cuts, Bruises, . Sores, Ulcer, Balt Rheum, Fever Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postivsly enres Piles or no pay reqtrlred. It is gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. - Price 25 cents per box. For sale by. Tho DuPre Drug Co. Ui’PEn Coalin’ Ground, Nov. 1.— Well sir, that ole Banjer Lu is the liggest devil I raly do believe I ever seed in ail the days of my life. He ias got some game chickens, an toth- er day whilst he was a feedin' of them Granny Picker’s ole settin’ goose—the onliest goose she had in this wide created world but one old ▼ander—come off the nest and into this gang of chickens and began to gobble up his chicken feed. Every time he’d shoo the goose the chick- would leave an’ the old goose would stand her ground till finally at last, ole Lu got tir’d of the proceed- n’s and picked up a rock an' busted that ole goose’s head tetotally wide open. In the fullness of time Gran ny Picker found it out and raised pluperfect sulphuric blue about her ole settin’ goose you understand made ole Lu ful oneasy in regards to some game chickens a cornin’ up missin’. He tole Granny if she would only hush her conflabulations that he would see to it that every egg should be hatched out in the due fullness of time. He said he would make the daddy goose finish the job, so he caught the gander an’ took him up to the nest an’ set him on it, but no sir, he wouldn't set worth a cent. Finally at last, he tied the ole dad dy goose on the nest an’ started back to the house, but be got out of sight of the nest he looked back an’ there the gander was a standin' up on the eggs. Well sir, I’ll never fergit ole Lu’s expression on that memorious occasion^ He shook his head an’ gritted his teeth an’ said, “dadblast you everlastin’ white-winged devil, ef you won’t set down and set, durn you, stand up and set.” Hit took Rufe Saunders own self to tell somethin’ about a boss trade but what ole Flaw can't find out an’ make plain before the publick in re gards to the female woman aint worth while nobody else a tryin* For lo these many years I’ve amakin’ of them a special study, till, bless gracious, I’ve got ’em down pritty pat. What I am drivin’ at in these remarks is, that when a female wo man makes a misstep hit most in- generally reaches Flaw’s ears in the due fullness of time an’ receives his careful an’ undivided attention. The subject which is a bearn’’on my mine jist now is that of a foolish female woman who has bin done one by a Yankee, an’ the way hit leaked out. You see, Fred Mize, “Fed,” as we irere wont to call him for short, an’ myself were shirt-waist boys together way b&ck yonder years ago, an’ growd up to be the best of friends, but when Fed got up big enuff he went to a new cotton mill to work, an’ consequenti ally I had lost sight of him till ‘toth- erday when I saw him a cornin’ through the front gate about sun down one evening’ We talked that night about the old an’ new times, an’ topics, an’ through the gineral run of chat he tole me about the Yankee’s trick on a factory girl. “Flaw,” he went on in the gineral run of chat “I have seed many a fool in my day an’ gineration, an’ you have too, but I want to tell you of another wbitch has come to my no tice an’ observation. “ I’ou see, Flaw, a crowd of them, devilish Yankees built the mill whilst one stayed to level up, adjust an’ put the finishjn’ touch on, as it were. Whilst he was there he made love to the loveliest, prettiest, an’ sweetest gal on the hill which, you under stand. was already engaged to anoth er man. This gal only hud one blem ish as far as I could see, in all her loveliness, an’ that was two of her front teeth had little black specks on ’em. The man that loved her, whitoh you understand she kicked for the’ Yankee, said the little specks only added to her beauty, but the Yankee tole l^fr that they spiled her looks to some extent, an’ that ef she would have ’em all pulled out he would get her a bran new set. out and out, all around, and then marry her, an’ take her up to Massachusetts with him to live. “Flaw,” he went on, “that dura fool gal aint got no more teeth in her upper jaws than she was born with, the Yankee is somewheres in the New England Statea, and the gal’s upper lip is drawd and puckered in till she looks like the hind wheels of destruction. “Of course it was a Yankee trick. Flaw, an’ I’ll bet four dollars an’ fif ty cents that that Yankee has tole hundreds of people, and laughed hun- .dr.^s of times till bis sides split about,it f - Flaw Picker.