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Ledger Readers Patronize ^Ledger Advertisers. •y' The Ledger Sixteen Pages. PACES 13 to 16. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOL. IV, NO. J GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897. #1.00 A YEAR. REPORT OF THE COMMISSION HOW THE INDEBTEDNESS OF CHEROKEE WAS SETTLED. Full Text of the Report of the Board of Commission Which was Appointed by Governor Ellcrbe. The following is the full text of the settlement made by the commission ers appointed to settle the indebted ness of Cherokee to the old counties from which this county was formed: (STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. At a meeting of the commission appointed by the Governor of said State under the provision of section li of the Act of the General Assembly entitled “An Act to Establish Chero kee County," and approved the 25th day of February, A. D., 1897. held at Gaffney, S. C., the county seat of Cherokee county, this the 7th day of December, A. D., 1897, pursuant to the call of the chairman, Hon. 1. H. McCalla, in accordance with the res olution adopted by said commission at its first meeting held on the 10th day of August, A. D., 1897, the com mission was called to order by the chairman, all the members thereof being present. The minutes of the meeting held on the lOih day of August, A. D., 1897, were read, corrected and approved. On motion, it was resolved by the commission that, after due examina tion and consideration, the lawful in debtedness of each of the old coun ties of Spartanburg, Union and York and the proportion thereof which should bo assumed and paid by the new county of Cherokee, is fount! and apportioned, according to the direc- tiors and terms of said act, as herein- below set forth, to wit: Sl'ARTANBCRU COUNTY. Homied debt: Air Line Kail way 7 per cent, due 1 Jan. 18i(8. f7.000 Spartanburg Co.’s proportion $ S.iKWTO Cherokee “ “ 1.000 30 $ 7.000 00 Air Line Railway ti per cent, due l July 1905. $30,500. Spartanburg Co.’s proportion $ 36,14155 Cherokee “ * 4,358 45 $10,500,00 Air Line Railway 0 per cent, due 1 July 1911, $45.«)00. Spartanburg Co.'s proportion $ 38,56!) 50 »Cherokee “ ’• • 6,430 50 $ 45.000 00 Spartanburg A Asheville R. R., 7 per cent., due 1 Jan. IM*. $1,000. Spartanburg Co.'s proportion 8 857 10 Cherokee ’’ ” 142 90 $ 1.000 00 Spartanburg & Asheville U. R., 7 percent, due 1 July 181«i. $35.00). Spartanburg Co.’s proportion 8 31,437 50 Cnerokee “ ’* 3.5?2 50 8 25.000 00 Spartanburg A Asheville R. R.. 8 per cent, due 1 July. l!K)a $15,600. Spartanburg Co.'s proportion $ 13,370 76 Cnerokee ” ’* 2,229 34 8 15.600 00 Spartanburg & Asheville R. R., 6 per cent, duel July. 1911,125.000. Spartanburg Co.’s proportion $ 21.427 50 Cnerokee ” “ 3.527 50 Greenwood. Laurens A Spartanburg R. R., 7 per cent, due 1 July 1902. $75,000. Spartanburg Co.'s proportion $ 04.282 50 Cnerokee ’• ” 10,717 50 $ 75,000 00 INTEREST HEARING NOTES. VV. T. Russell $ 500 00 Mrs. E. G. Wright 1,400 03 S.J. Hendrix 500 00 Miss E. 11. Lucas 2.300 00 Mrs. W. W. Harris 540 00 Miss Russell 200 «>0 Mrs. Russell 1,000 00 ( 6.440 00 Spartanburg's proportion, with in terest from 1 Jan. 1897, at 7 per cent. — 5,519 72 CherokeeCo.'sproportion with in terest from 1 Jan. 1897. at 7 per cent 930 96 i $ 6,440 C) Interest on each of the above notes has been paid to 1 Jan. 1897. W. W. Harris, dated Jan.2. 1897, 8625. Spartanburg Co.'s proportion $ 535 09 Cnerokee *' " 89 31 $ fi25 00 Each county to pay interest at 7 per cent, from date of note on its proportion. K. A. Walden, dated Jan, 14.1891, $1,500. Spartanburg Co.'s proportion with interest thereon from date at 7 per cent $ 1,285 65 Cherokee Co.'s proportion with in terest thereon from date at 7 per ceht • 214 35 $ 1,500 00 R. Jane Boyd, dated Feb. 10, l«97. $500. Spartanburg Co.,* proportion, with interest from date at 7 per cent $ 428 55 Cherokee Co.'s proportion, with Inter est from date at 7 per cent 71 45 * 500 00 Central National Hank,due Jan. 2.1898, $1,750. Spartanburg Co.’s proportion with interest after maturity at 7 per cent $ 1,499 93 Cherokee Co.'s proportion with in terest after maturity at 7 per cent 250 07 $ 1.750 00 Notes given for money borrowed to build new jail and jailer s resi dence of which bears interest at the rate of 7 per cent, and'each county is to pay interest on ' its proportions from Jan. 1st 1897, to which date in terest has been paid: T. K. Trlmuiier, Clk., due 1st Jan. 1898. $5000. Htmrtanhurg Co.'s proportion $ 4,285 50 Cnerokee “ “ 714 50 I 5.C T. R. Trlmmler. Clk.. due 1 Jan. 1899, $56 Hpartanhurg Co.’s proportion $ 4. Oticrokro * y - * $ 5,000 oo 1 T. R. Trlmmler, Clk. due 1 Jan. 1900. $5,307 38 i Spartanburg Co.'s pro|M>rllon $ 4,54*96 Cherokee “ " .. 75H 42 I 5.307 38 antral National Hank, Interest paid to ma- jturlty due Jan 5, Isn*. fr.VJiin. nurtunhurg Co.'s proportion $ 1.885 03 Nikee *• “ 314 :i8 ite^ol .,4 $ 2.300 00 of said counties to pay Interest on Its proportion of last note above mentioned, after mat urty at 7 i>er cent. Tin* National Bank of Spartanburg, due Jan. 19. 18'ts. interest paid to maturity. $2,2<K> nt). Span an burg to.’s proportion $ 1,885 72 Cherokee “ •• 314 38 $ 2.200.60 Eaclt county to pay Interest on its propor tion after maturity at 7 per cent. There is on hand of Treasurer of Spartanburg county for each of the following named funds the several amounts hereafter named and set forth and the same is proportioned between said counties on the same basis as the debt, to wit: Ordinary county fund, $801.16. Spartanburg Co.’s proportion $ 686 67 Cnerokee " 114 19 $ 801 16 For interest on R. R. bonds. $4,728 02. Spartanburg Co.’s proportion $ 4.052 38 Cherokee ” " 675 64 Sinking fund for R. R. bonds. $383 94. Spartanburg Co.’s proportion $ 329 07 Cherokee " '* 54 87 $ 383 94 The total value of all taxable prop erty in Spaitanburg county as it stood prior to the date of the act creating the county of Cherokee is found from the tax duplicate in the office of the auditor of said county to be eleven million, nine hundred and eight thousand, one hundred, and seventy five dollars ($11,908,175) and the value of ail taxable property in that portion of Cherokee county which was cut off from Spartanburg county is found from the tax duplicate in said office to be one million, s6ven hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six dollars ($1,701,770) and thecalculation of the proportionate part of the indebted ness of the old county of Spartan burg which is to be paid by said old county and the proportionafe part thereof which is to be paid by the new county of Cherokee and based upon the said taxable values, and it is thereby found that Spartanburg county’s proportionate part of saitl indebtedness is eighty-live and seven ty-one one-hundredths (85.71) per centum thereof and that Cherokee count)’s proportion thereof is four teen and twenty-nine one-hundredths (14.29) per centum thereof. All the costs and witness fees and milage which accrued in criminal cases in the Court of General Sessions for Spartanburg county before the adoption of the act creating the county of Cherokee, to wit. the 25th day of February, 1897, to be paid by the county of Spartanburg. I. H. McCalla, Chinn. . UNION COUNTY. Ordinary county, non Interest bear ing,$185 85-100jordinary Co. interest bearing from July 1st,1897,470 G7-100 dollars. Spartanburg-and Asheville R. R. bonds indebtedness due 1915- 1925, interest thereon paid to Janu ary 1, 1898, interest at 6 per cent, per annum payable semi-annually at Union, S. C., or in New York at the agency of Union county at the option of holders, $12,157 08-100 and in the assumption and pay ment of the liability herein im posed, Cherokee county is entitled to credit for the following sums in thp hand of the treasurer of Union count/- $43 49-100 of the fund for the redemp tion of railroad bonds, $87 50-100 of the fund to pay interest coupons on railroad bonds, and to be paid $190 27-100 of the one mill road tax fnud. * It is further adjusted, adjudged and provided: That Cherokee county shall assume and pay ten and 2-3 per cent, of any judgement and cost, re covered by the defendant, Thomson Robbs, against Union county in the case of Uuion county plaintiff against Thomson Robbs and Leroy McArthur, over and exceeding the sum of $785 dollars of said claim herein ap portioned; and that Union county is to assume and pay 89£ per cent, of any costs taxed and paid by Cherokee county in cases of the state against Sunday defendants for crimes which accrued for the attendance of witness es in said cases at Union previous to February 25th, 1897, as authorized by the records. STATEMENT. Ordinary Co. Debt $ 6,373 82 •' " Fund on hand 16452 Net ordinary Co. debt $ 6,212 36 Union Co. non-interest bearing $ 1,556 79 " ’• interest bearing from July 1, 1897 3,992 99 Cherokee Co. non-interest bearing . 185 85 *' interest from July 1, 1897, 476 67 R. K. bond indebtedness*, $114,000. Union « o. (iut. pd. to Jan. 1, 1897) .$ 101,842 32 Cherokee Co. (Int. pd. to Jan. 1, . 1897) 12,157 68 Funds apportioned. Sinking (und K. R. bond, $407 84: Union Co. share $ 364 35 Cherokee Co. share 43 49 Fund for payment Int. R. R. bous, $*20 50. Union Co. share $ 7j:j 00 Cherokee Co. share 87 5o One mill road lax, $1,784 10. Union Co. share $ 1,593 83 Cherokee Co. share i«u 27 This adjustment and judgement is made pro rata upon the basis of the value of the property in Union county and in Draytonville and Gowdeyaviile towhsbips cut off from the county of Union, and incorporated in the county of Cherokee by the tax duplicates for the year eighteen hundred and ninety •even, to-wlt: Union county, tnree millions, three hundred and eighty neven thousand and seventy dollars; Draytonville and Uowdeyviile town ships, four hundred and four thous and, three hundred and forty dollars. 1.11. McCalla, China. YORK COUNTY. Total bonded debt of said county, interest hearing at 7 per cent., eigh. thousand, one hundred and eighty- five dollars ($8,135); Cherokee’s part of same (| or 12$ per cent) $1,010.85. Cherokee towhship 7 per cent, bonds issued by said township in aid of Charleston, Cincinnati and Chi cago R. R., $23,400. This entire debt must be assumed by Cherokee township in Cherokee county. Ordinary county cash fund in hands of York county treasurer belonging to Cherokee. $57.96. Commutation road tax belonging to Cherokee, four dollars school tax belonging to Cherokee county, $1,254.51. The above bonded debt of $8,185.00 is due and payable in four enstall- ments of $2000.00 and interest at 7 per cent, on entire outstanding amount, on first days of January 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901. It is adjudged and determined by this commission that Cherokee town ship assume $1,016 85-100 of said bonded debt,and the treasurer oi Cher okee county shall pay over one-fourth of said sum together with interest on full outstanding amount assumed by said county to the treasurer of York county on the first day of Jan uary 1898, one-fourth and outstand ing interest on first of January 1899, one-fourth and interest on first of January 1900 and the remainder und interest on the first day of January 1901. It is adjudged and determined by this commission that Cherokee town ship now in Cherokee count) shall assume the entire bonded indebted ness of said township exhibited as shown by the bonds issued in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnatti and Chicago R. R. by said township, and inasmuch as said bonds und coupons are payable at the office of the county treasurer of York county, the treas urer of Cherokee county shall place in the hands of the treasurer of York county a sufficient sum of money annually beginning January 1, 1899, to pay the interest due on said bonds. Total taxable property in York county including Cherokee county $0,406,414.00. Taxable property in Cherokee township $810,758.00 Chero kee’s property, one-eight, Cherokee’s percentage of indebtedness twelve und one-half per centum. Resolved that the foregoing resolu tion be recorded with office of the clerk of each of the counties of Cher okee, Spartanburg, Union and York and that a certified copy thereof be forwarded to the Governor by the Chairman of this commission. Dec. 7, 1897. I. II. McCalla, Chinn. J. G. Black, W. C Hamrick, Commissioners for Cherokee Co. J. D. Leonard, D. E. Hydrick, Commissioners for Spartanburg Co. J. H. Barti.es, J. Clough Wallace, Commissioners for Union Co. J. 8. Brice, W. S. Wilkerson, Commissioners for York Co. • Algood Allegations. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Algood, S. C. Dec. 14.—“Life is but a span;” marriage is a double- team, youth,when wedded to old age, is a tandem, and to an old bachelor, is a broken down sulkey. Rev. R. J. Tate filled his appoint ment at Macedonia Saturday and Sunday. He preached his farewell sermon and will now seek other fields in which to labor. He has fill ed the pulpit at Macedonia lor four years with an enviable punctuality. The answer to the problem we sub mitted a few weeks ago is $9,000 in 5 per cent, bonds and $93.75 in 3 per cent, bonds. J. L. Clary is on the sick list this week. Early, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Richards, is quite sick. Thos. Green, of Mooresboro, N. C., was here last week on business. J. L. Clary spent two days in Gaff ney last week on business. He also went to Spartanburg last Saturday on business. J. Gardner went to Cowpens last Saturday on business. Rqbt. B. Powell went to Charlotte, N. V)pt long since on business. Beef! beef! beef! is now the all absorbing conversation in this com munity. For further particulars consult to the gossips and news car riers of this vicinity and later, see the records of Cherokee county’s next term of court. Corncracker. The Coming Woman Who goes to the club while her husband tends the baby, as well as the good old-faahioned woman who looks after her home, will both at times get run down in health. They will be troubled with loss of appetite, headache, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The most wonderful remedy for these wometi is Electric Bitters. Thousands of sufferers from Lame Back and Wea Kidneys rise up and call It blessed. It is the med icine for women. Female complaints and Nervous troubles of^all kinds are soon relieved by the use of Electric Bitters. Delicate women should keep this remedy on hand to build up the system. Only 50c. per bottle. For sale by Du Pre Drug Co. THE HISTORY OF SMALLPOX A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN ON THE SUBJECT. It Dates from Remote Antiquity and at One Time or Other Has Pre vailed in Every Quarter of the Globe. The following article from tho pen of a local physician who has given the disease of smallpox and its history considerable study should be read by everybody in South Carolina: To the Editor or The State. In view of the general attention that is being devoted to the contin ued presence of smallpox at Atlanta, and the increased interest occasioned by the appearance of the disease at other points, I have thought that some remarks relative to this most loathsome affliction and its preven tive, treatment by vaccination, would be welcomed by the public. Smallpox dates from remote an tiquity. At one time or another it baa prevailed in every quarter of the globe. The earliest knowledge of its ocurrence is derived from India, where the Brahmins practiced inocu lation many centuries before the Christian era. So common was the disease in that country, and so ter rible its ravages, that a goddess was worshipped as a protectress against it. During the I3th, 14th and 15th centuries it prevailed in Europe und two centuries later it appeared on the American continent. To obtain an adequate idea of the appalling rav ages of smallpox in its unfitted activ ity we have but to look at its past history. During the 18th cen- turp ont-balf of the total mortality in Europe was caused by smallpox We find that in 1518 it helped to complete the depopulation of St. Domingo, which the horrors of war and famine had begun. Soon after wards, in Mexico, it even surpassed the cruelties of conquest, suddently smiting down 3,500,000 of population. Prescott, in his "Conquest of Mexi co," describes the epidemic assweep ing over the lana like fire over prai ries,, smiting down prince and peas ant “leaving its path strewn with the dead bodies of the natives, who per ished in heaps like cuttle stricken with murrain." A striking account of its ravages among the Indians of his country may be gathered from the following passages in u book pub lished in 1841: “Thirty millions of white men are now scuffling for the goods and lux uries of life over the bones and ashes of 12,000,U00 of the red men, 6,000,- 000 of whom have fallen victims to the smallpox." To turn to Europe again, ,ve find that during the 18th century “fully two-thirds of all cfc ildren born were, sooner or later, attacked by smallpox, and that on an average one-twelfth of all children born succumbed to that disease." Nearly one-tentb of all persons who died in London during the latter half of the last century died of that cause alone. In every country visited the younger part of tho population were peculiarly its victims; and royal and noble families were not exempt. But the ravages of smallpox are not half enumerated in the Int of the myrids whom it has slain. From the earliest to the latest records of the disease there is constant mention of the tax which he levies upon sur vivors. In prevaccination times many who did not die were rendered weak or deformed for life, and blind ness often ensued from the scourge. Macualay, who justly assigns to smallpox the foremost place us “the most terrible of all ministers of death," exclaims in a striking pas sage. “The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid, but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory. The smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tor menting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared thehideus traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at whom the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the bethrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover." An authority affirms that 90 per t^ent. of all cases of blindness met within the bazaars of India are due tolheC^same disease. No wonder the ancient proverb. “From smallpox and love few remain free." Nofclet us have briefly the history of vaotajation and give some account ofits'ipture and importance. The first mothod of immunizing the indi vidual ngalMt smallpox was known aa inoculation, which was introduced into England 1W4717 by Lady Mon tague. SubsoqtAotly, it was quite 'generally practi&l throughout Great Britain. v V. In 1776, Dr. Edward Jenner, an English practitioner,v*as first at tracted by a popular common among dairyhands of the north ern section of the country, that any one who had contracted smallpox from milking oows effected with the disease was insusceptible to smallpox. After a close investigation of the sub ject, Jenner arrived at conclusions sufficiently satisfactory to warrant the experiment of taking matter from one of these sores found upon the udder of the cow and introducing it into the arm of a person who was supposed to be unprotected from smallpox. After the, sore upon the arm had run its course, he exposed the individual to the influence o' smallpox, and in this way established its protective power. The story of Jenner’s struggles to convince his contemporaries of the value of his observations forms a most interest ing and instructive chapter in the history of medical progress. No member of the profession ever re ceived more anathemas or more scurrilous abuse than did this great apostle of vaccination. Undaunted, Jenner kept bravely at work and by repeated experiments became con vinced that by vaccination perfect protection could be obtained against smallpox. Within the space of a few years Jenner compelled the profession to admit his statements and adopt his practice, and a few years after its recognition, the practice became a fixed therapeutic procedure, until to day after standing the test of prac- tisa for a century, it is the greatest medical preventive the world has ever known. There is no question among the intelligent portion of the profes sion but that vaccination, properly performed, is a perfect protection against the infection of smallpox— indeed, it has been authoritatively asserted that if a person contract the disease after he has been vaccinated, then the operation has not been properly performed. Now what is the relation existing between smallpox and cowpox? Jen ner was the first to advance the be lief that the two diseases have a com mon ancestry, or are identical; re cent investigations seem to strength en this view, but controversy still wages hotly around the question, and it still awaits u definite solution. A common origin does seem probable, since it is not unlikely that smallpox may have departed widely from the primal type and by successive repro ductions on man have gained an ex alted virulence. It is seen that vaccination, like all active measures for protecting the public health, has emanated from and has been fostered by the medical pro fession ; the assertion sometimes made by ignorant layman that the profes sion has been influenced in its efforts to maintain tho practice by motives of pecuniary benefit, is so obviously ingenerous as to call for no notice. The practice stands today as one of the greatest blessings that human thought and observation have con ferred upon mankind. Formerly, smallpox was so common that accord ing to the philosophy of the times, every person had either passed through it, or was destined some time to experience an attack. Now we never hear of an epidemic, and when sporadic cases occur the disease is quickly stamped out. The facts of all epidemics since the practice be came general bear unanswerable tes timony to the value of vaccination. The failing of vaccination is largely due to the absence of any widespread epidemic of smallpox within recent years; the feeling of false security thus created has ied the people to put off for the moment the temporary in convenience of being vaccinated. When the disease does threaten to spread in a community, there is a rush for vaccination, which,by strain ing the local resources to their limits, renders it difficult to secure the most efficient protection in all cases. It is important to undergo the operation before the epidemic arrives, for when once the disease is fully manifested, vaccination is practically without avail, for it is probable that immunity does not reach its maximum until the fourth week after vaccination. Now, an attack of smallpox does not inva riably confer immunity from the dis ease. Vaccination efficiently per formed in infancy and repeated in the 13th or 14tb year has shown it self to be almost an absolute protec tion against smallpox. In those cases in which smallpox occurs after vaccination, the disease is almost without exception so far modified that its identity in its earliest stages is frequently unrecognized. It must not be supposed that vac cination, however valuable to the community at large, is not exempt from that liability to accident which exists in all human affairs. Opera tions of even a trivial nature some times prove fatal. There is an aver age of one death to 14,159 primary vaccinations. If the virus be care fully selected and properly used, and if reasonable care be exercised after vaccination, there is no doubt that the dangers of the operation are ex tremely small. This small element of risk should deter no one. The prompt action of the authori ties of the city schools in adopting measures to have all the school chil dren vaccinated, should meet with the commendation of all; a single case of the disease developing in a common school of unvaccinated chil dren would probably give rise to hun dreds of cases. This was fully dem onstrated by the epidemic a few years ago at Montreal, when a single case, at first supposed to be ehickon- pox, resulted in the death of 1,009 children. In the face of an epidemic every one should be vaccinated; no matter the number of previous vaecinations; all persons who. when danger threat ens, neglect to avail themselves of this means of protection against smallpox, constitute a serious men ace, nuisance and indirect cause of expense t5 the community in which they reside. R- w. g. SQUIRE HARRIS. He Mistook the Judge’s Order and Was Therefore Alarmed. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Island Ford, Dec. 17.—As Christ mas is coining on I thought it my duty to give you a few dots as to the corrent news in pur part of the world’s vineyard or, 1 might say Uncle “Tom’s" province. You know that uncle Tom, or as some folks, and es pecially uncle Tom, calls hiiuseif Major General Captain Colonel F. C. Harris J. J. ex-officio, is certainly justice of the peace iu High Shoals township. Now, you know the truth always sounds best and 1 must say that all our people were glad when uncle Tom was elected for he is a perfect gentleman and the very soul of kindness, lie and I are special friends and that is exactly why I am so interested in telling the readers of The Ledger what I know about it. So, us 1 said. Uncle Tom was duly elected and bonefiedly sworn in, and yet we have been told that the clerk of our superior court had the audacity to say that he could not qualify uncle Tom for the several duties of his office of honor, but then, who knows for certain that Mr. Smith, our clerk, said this and if so, who knows the truth of the matter? One thing is certain Maj. Harris has quit chewing home-made tobacco, and also quit greasing his shoes with tallow. Well, when uncle Tom came home after his election, he said to his wife, "Well I told you so." "What is it Mr. Harris—cotton down to nothing? ‘ Oh, what do I care about cotton and me now justice of the peace!" “Well, if it will be beneficially to us I shall be proud," quietly said Mrs. Harris. “Now. Mrs. Harris, I tell you what I want and, what I must have,!’ at the same time drawing tome bundles from his pockets in quite un unusual dignified manner. “Here is a box of blacking, a shoe brush aud some ‘manifact’ tobacco. 1 do not want any more tallow on my shoes, and me justice of the peace, nor I do not want to be caught spitting from home-made tobacco and, also I want a sqare made shirt with a broad high front just like Esquire Simmons. Of course 1 don’t want any ambier off home-made tobacco on such a shirt as that, and me a justice of the peace, because Mrs. Harris, you know people are up to tricks now-a- days and somebody might tell the difference." It was not long after uncle Tom got matters straightened out until he had a case styled, State vs. S. B. Manual Ford. So the superior court came on with Judge Hoke presiding, and uncle Tom had forgotten to send up some important papers in the case and the judge, it has been said, wrote uncle Tom a note. Now Bro. editor, you know uncle Tom Is getting old and can’t see as well as in his younger days. “Now," says uncle Tom to his good lady, “I will be contrived, blast it all," and some other things that would not sound well in a Sunday school, “if I ain’t a good mind to tell you to lock them up." “Oh, my! lock what up. Mr. Harris?’’ exclaimed his wife. “Why, my shoe brush, my manifact, and my blacking." “Why do you want them locked up?" inquired Mrs. Haaris. “Why here is a note from the judge ordering me to send them up at once, and I will tell you Mrs. Harris, this all-fired Col. Durham has been teliing the judge something. 1 know it. However.Col.Durham says not, but the Colonel did say ‘as his name had been used in connection with legislative honors in the past, that he now wants to go to the North Carolina Legislature one time for the purpose of limiting the judges of the superior court in their power and jurisdiction over certain matters. I do not believe any judge ought to have power to send for ft man’s shoe brush, blacking box aini all his ‘manifact’ tobacco, because he is a justice of the peace, and he says he is going to introduce a bill to stop it. I am a friend to Uncle Tom and dislike to know of his being so confused as he has been over the judge’s note. The Colonel says just because uncle Tom saws his fire-wood with a peculiar saw, with the teeth set the wrong way, and if he did stop all the saw mill crew to chase the supposed wild bear, which turned out to be a hound p ippy with an oil cloth overcoat wrapped^about It, la no reason that uncle Tom should be obbod of his manifact, shoe brush and blacking box. With best wishes to The Ledjkr and its editors, I am youn, Rough on Rath.