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ESTAJ5LI8JIH1) FEB. 1C, 1894.
GAFFNEY CI'l’Y, S. C,. T1IUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898.
ei.OO A YEAH.
THB“KERNAL”TALKS OF CAM-
P4GNING IN CHEROKES.
Ma Thinka tj*e People of fhe Battle
Ground Section Are the Fa
vored ot all the Tribe
of Cherokee.
(Corraarartdence of The aedBer )
Ejta Jaxk, Sep». 1#.—Leaving
iiaffuey early on the merning of An-
gaat 20, we took the Southern rail
way train and ran over to .Blacks-
bnrg fee'the county campaign meet
ing. (^ulse a nntnber of our friends
from this side of the river went over
with us, and some went by the O.
R. A C. The morning was rather
gloomy ami threatened rain. Seon
after we arrived ia town we were
satisfied that a large erowd was
gathering and by the time for ths
speaking to commence the streets
were crowded. The beautiful town
park was selected for the meeting
place and a very comfortable stand
was erected with sufficient room to
seat all the candidates comfortably.
The Antioch band, with* Mr. Dixon as
leader, was present and gave us
some good music, which they never
fail to do. Between 3U0 and 400
voters, I suppose, were on the ground,
besides a number of boys of both
colors. Thus swelling the crowd to
perhaps oOU people at the stand and
in hearing of it. Chairman H. A.
Trestcott, Esq., called the meeting
to order and Rev. J. H. Cautheu of
the M. K. church opened fehe meet
ing with prayer. The speakers
were thea Introduced, beginning
with the candidates for Clerk of the
Court, then the Senators and mem
bers of the house. The meeting
continued without intermission or
adjournment until all the speakers
were heard from, (and I believe every
•ne o/ them was present, too.) At
about 4 :30 p. m. the meeting was ad
journed. without anything having
happened, or been said to mar the
peaceful occasion. Each candidate
had a respectful hearing, and in turn
each spoke highly of his reception by
the people of Biasksbur* and(Xe. 1)
Cherokee township. Of vour*?, va
rious questions wsrc asked the
speakeie on the varloue subject* on
which the voters wanted light, but
these did not. at any time, reach a
point where there was uot the best
of etiquette observed by both parties.
I must here express my thanks ta
Mrs. J. N. Thomson, for the hospi
tality i^iown me while in Blacks
burg. She is the proprietress of the
Merchants Hotel, one of tire best
equipped and i might say best man
aged hotels in this county. She is
the widow of my good friend. J. W.
Thomson, late county chairman,
and she deserves the patronage of the
traveling public. She is au estima
ble lady.
We returned to Qalfney over the
O. R. A C. R. R. late in the after
noon. and I spent the night with my
friend Mr. John R. Millwood, where
I enjoyed a much needed rest until I
got ready to start out on my canvass
again.
While in Gaffney Monday morning
August 22, I wrote a letter lor Th<
Lkdgkk, which obviates the necessi
ty of my writing more of my letter
just lure. Monday, August 22, we
attended a protracted meeting at
Draytonville church, and also a po
litical meeting at the old store (pre-
«in«t) that afternoan. Most of the
candidates were present, and those
who were there give the aesembled
voters a talk. There were perhaps UK)
voters present. J. W. Alexander,
Esq., was master of ceremonies. He
conducted the meeting with his ac
customed firmness and decision.
The meeting was called to order
about 2 o’clock ,p. m. and contin
ued until o :30 when we turned our
faces and steps towards the Cowpens
battle ground. I'assing through
‘Gaffney I made my way to the hos
pitable home of Mr. J. V. Whelchel.
four miles from town, where with
my friend, C. W. Whisonant, I spent
the night I must take the liberty
to mention that I was much sur
prised at the wonderful proficiency,
grace and skill with which Mr.
Whelchel's little ten year old daugh
ter (a pupil of Miss Antoinette
Blaolon’e) performed on the organ
while the other children joined in the
aiuging. I have seen crack choirs
make much poorer music than that
quartette of juveniles did that eve
ning until naturee "balmy sweet re
storer'' began to settle down on the
older heads and eepecially on my
friend "Calvin’' who was seriously
thinking over what he would have to
talk about the next day at Eielle.
Next tnorning we were up bright
and early, and breakfasted for the
trip. Mrs. W. kindly furnished us
with a luneheon (for we were re
minded that the barbeeue craze had
not yet struct the battle ground sec
tion.) Mr. Whelchel put a line big
watermelon in his buggy besides a
quantity of sheaf oats for our horses
at noon. Mr. George KI more about
that time cct^e along on his way to
(jeHacy but ahaya*d his notion and
went itflh us to EKc-lfs. I will say
hare that the crops through this see-
tioa are splCnfllf—etpeeially eorn ;
and Me of II l§ ptouted. too. The
people of that Austinn of Cherokee
oounay ore paogpatousand good livers
—hare plenty about them wit boat
stint orostentatlon. Tbej are good,
thrifty people, fti ea*y clrourjtetancpa
andgtmerally well todo. ,2 find tome
of onr old Union county people settled
in this netghberhood, to-wil: Thos,
Whelchell, ttewtge Elmore, Jonae
Blantcm, Jos. Spates, Govan Black,
Goodman Prldtnore, James Burgess,
tir../oe. Burgese, Jf., W. I. Jones,
Mrs. Wan. Byars, and her family. Joe
Byaas, Mr. Tate, and several others
I can’t this moment recall.
We made onr way to Ezell’s where
a large number of citizens had gath
ered So hear the candidates, among
them several ladles, who occnpied
the plaexa of Mr. Ezell during the
speaking. The best of order pre
vailed duriag the meeting as was
also the case at Tln|ber Ridge, White
IMaLtw, Blacksborg and Draytonville.
1 did not eee ajiy symptoms of liquor
drinking or - other disorderly con
duct. The venerable J. H. Ezell
called the meeting to order and pre
sided with his distinguished ability
and fairness. At all the other
tneoflngfl there was an abundance of
meloas On hand and generally p»-
tronWM literally. The speaking
continued without interruption until
about 4 o’cloek p. tn. when it ad
journed and I was made the happy
recipient of the hospitality of my
friend Buck Scruggs and his estima
ble better half. The battle ground
section is peopled with as good citi
zens m the liHlmont section affords.
I defy an assertion to the contrary.
You most go Jftioag these people to
find tfcern oat. They are not going
to eat you up with kindness or feed
you oa flattery. But give you that
old fashioned welcome that means
all them Is ia Hwulhern hospitality.
A few sniffling, boot-lick politi
cians seem to narse the delusion
that the Oowpeas battle field sec
tion will newr be anything but an
obscure, isolated, dark earner of
Cherokee county, where a few tallow
faced demagogues can eway the
minds of its people to su<t their
avrarlcWws perpocec. But they are
mistaken. There is not a spot in
Cherokee coanty. or (perhaps in the
whole Viedsnont section that has
sue* a bright (a>we before it and
klate tttii .verier this-.prediction if
duty. The
great patriotic neart of the Nation’s
Chief Magistrate is turned towards
that spat and the national pulse now
beat* w'th IcMNRiftsed roloclty and
loyelty to the place that made inde
pendence possible. We expect to
see the Cowpens Park bill taken up
just as soon as the more urgent busi
ness of Congress will admit and car
ried through to a successful ending.
For the benefit and amusement of
our young readers will give them a
question which we hope some one
will answer: A banker found a ten
dollar bill and gave it to a bootman
in payment for some work done by
him for the banker. The bootman
gave the bill to his wife, and she
paid it to the butcher that evening
in settlement of his account. The
butcher paid it to a farmer for a
calf, and the farmer paid it to the
merchant, who in turn paid it to the
washerwoman; and she owing the
banker a note of ten dollars, went
to the banker and paid the note. He
received it as genuine, but on closer
examination found it to be a coun
terfeit. Not knowing it to be the
bill found by him he gave it bapk to
the washer-wora«Q, she returned it
to thwTnevalMKti tend #o, step by step,
it went back until It reached tbe
banker. Now, six debts, of ten dol
lars each, were paid before the bill
was discovered to be a counterfeit,
and.the question arises were they
fairly ssttled by the various pay
ments, or was the whole transaction
void? Then, again, whose was the
loss, if any?
Mrs. Mary C. Estes is quite un
well and has been so for several days.
Farmers have a busy time. Lots
of cotton and peas to pick and hay
to cut.
' Those fellows who get drunk on
candidates’liquor will have a long
sober spree-.now. Flattery is the
bridge some walk over ro reach our
good graces.
Some people are so anxious about
their neighbor’s welfare that they
forget their own business altogether.
I made a short visit to the York
side of the river iaat Saturday and
found many friends suffering with
chills.
All the members of the singing
class are requested to meet .,at Salem
church next Saturday to practice for
the convention.
Let there be a full turn out of old
soldiers at Wllkinsville Academy
next Saturday at 11 o’clock a. m. ae
a township pension board is to be
elected.
This Is a great country for railing
poultry. We are told that some
people can raise full grown chickens
between sun-down and sun-up.
Farmers are beginning to realize
the fact that the cotton crop is off at
least one-fourth.
J. I. t.
BlecleffxWg Hrevs.
(Corcc-fli<(iaSHlM oS UtA iwrtUnci
Blacksdouu, (PL <L, Sept. 20.—
Tbe Blacksburg Graded School
opened lust ffth over 130 pa-
plis In attendance, vrtth the follow
ing teacheks lu charge: Mr. N. N.
Cameron, Frioeipal. Blkton. Md.;
MitfS Jessie IxxALawt, Atlanta, Ga.;
Mias Flora Chi>B*«n, Anderson, S.
C.; Miss Elsie CarwUe, Ridgeway, 8.
C. ;Mi** Sallle CarwDo, Johnston,
.4. C. Mr. CajijneMn, Miss Chapman,
and Kies Ouxwile *«*« with ns last
year, and their many Weirds are glad
to See them hack again.
Quito a member of our young peo
ple ure to attend eeltege away from
home thia win ton wrm have already
gone, while otbto* laove this week.
Amongotbatotee. Misses Catharine
Deal and Lubra Lumpkin at the
’ Presbyterian OMkge fcr women,
Columbia, S.C. Misses Lalla Black,
and Florence Dye at Winthrop Wor*
mal College, Rock Hill, S., C. Miss
Zilpah Poildek, Columbia Female
College, Cotomrtfch flk O. Mias Dot
Urqnhart, Limestone Female Semi
nary, Gaffney, 8. C. Mr. Sam Deal,
University of Maryland Medical De
partment, Baltimeee, Md, Mr.
Lionel Black, Louisville Medical Col
lege. Louisville, Ky.
Mr. Jessie Gaston has succeeded
In getting the congreteionai appoint
ment from »his district fer West
Point and learves this fall to take a
course at a preparatory school in the
north pieparatory to standing his
examination next spring.
Miss Annie Davis, of Atlanta, Ga.,
is visiting ths family of Mrs. M. E.
Deal, of this city.
Mrs. Cole, •4 Metrouy, I. C., Is
visiting her coustna, Miss Edna and
Lena Healon.
Mr. Sam Deo) spent several days
with friends In iWhville this weehu
D. M. S.
FLAW’S FAVORITF FRIEND.
TBLL’S HIM A DOUBTFUL PIQ
STORY.
•T“1aw, Granny Pickcy arid Mrs. Picker
Have a Time With the Chinch
Bug4in the Heuse
they Occapy.
Program of N. P. S. S. Convention.
The following la the program of
the North Pacoiet Sunday School
Convention at Salem, Sopt. 25th
1898.
10by Prof. Davto
and choir.
10:20—Devotional, led by the
chaplain. *
10:40—The work in the Town
ships. Brief reports from Town
ship superintendents and schools.
11:0(>—Whtft line of progressive
work has each school prtsent taken
up this year? Arfswered by super-
intaa4*nts utq} h*«di<»r* present.
11:20—Chat pueuent needs atrd
how to meet theut. ’A. R. Phillips.
M. M. Tate, Mf%, \attlejehn.
11:40—NTfc/M k Suuday School
should be mi fe OULeman Kirby,
R. E. Patrick, P. 8. Webber.
12 :U0—Intermission.
1:0U—Song service and prayer for
scholars.
1:20—Value of the teauhers meet
ing. R. W. Whisonant Win. Jef
feries, Sam Whelchel,
1:40—Address—Value of Interde-
denominational Sunday School work.
R. O. Sams, F. F. Whilden, State
worker.
2:00—A Normal drill on to-day’s
lesson. R. O. Sams or F. F. Whil-
dsn.
8:00—Memorial address on the life
and .character sf the late Col. R. L.
Coleman, of LVon County, by J. L.
Stri-11,
3 :in>—Report of committee as to
time and place of next meeting.
4:00—Dismission.
Qlkky—"Do we appreciate the ser
vices of the preacher und the Sunday
School teacher as we should, and do
we give them the encouragement
that tkey deserve at oar hands. "
Committkk.
me
A Cfcfct of Thanks.
Mr. Editor :—Please allow
space in your columns to express my
sincere thanks to my friends in Cher
okee county for their support and
efforts in my behalf in the recent
primary election. While I was de
feated, the very complimentary vote
given me throughout the District is
a source of gratification to me.
It was my determination to con
duct an absolutely fair and clean
campaign and every effort I made
was with that in view. For those
who did not support ms, I entertain
no enmity, and with the judgment of
the majority I am content.
Again thanking those who sup
ported me and with kind feelings for
those who voted against me, 1 am,
Very respectfully,
Wm. A. Barbkr.
Yellow Jaundice Cured.
Suffering humanity should be sup
plied with every means possible for
its relief. It is with pleasure we
publish the following: "Thia is to
certify that I was a terrible sufferer
from Yellow Jaundice for over six
months, and waa treated by some of
the best phyaielans in our city aad
all to no avail. Dr. Bell, our drug
gist, recommended Electric Bitters,
and after taking two bottles, I was
entirely cured. I now take great
pleasure In recommending them to
any person suffering from this terri
ble malady. I am gratefully yours,
i M. A. Hogarly. I^ixlngton, Ky.’,
I Sold by DoPre, Drug Co.
My favorite friend an’ fellow eiti-
r-Mi, .Mjio ro Mize, vra* over to see me
i.to’ther day an’indurin’ our general
eonfiabulations he said:
"Flaw, to’ther day I went an’
beught me a alee pig from a feller
wherein, you understand, he aaid hit
was thoroughbred from tip to tip—
frem startin’ point to stoppin’ point,
you understand, which, you know,
there never was a man brung up by
the hair of the head or tread on the
fhee of God’s green earth what loved
thorough bred stock better than I
do, so I jlst turned in an’ and give
him five dollars for the pig an’ took
it home an’ turned it in my ’tater
patch, which had a close fence around
1*. Next Hiornin’ bright an’ early J
got up an’ went out to look at my
thoroughbred pig, but by gatlins,
they weren’t no pig tbnr to speak of.
I raked an’ scraped the country over,
high, an’ low, for my thoroughbred
pig but no pig could be found in all
the land round about that could be
called mine.
"In the fullness of time, Flaw,”
Mun. went on, "hit become ’taler
digfiii’ tiipe, and what do you think?
Whilst we were a diggin’ ’taters the
piaw split the side of one off uu’
thar, by gracious, was my thorough
bred pig in that ’tater. Yes sir, that
thar blasted pig, had ft a hole in
that ’tatwr an’ the ’later bad growd
up behind the pig an’ that hit was.
Well sir, I was the proudest maa of
my pig yo« ever saw.”
Man is powerful ceoftebuleue at
tTmes an’ whether this pig tail is
raley true or not I don't know; at
any rates he tole it an’ Granny
Picker says she believes that hit’s a
**fahiitiuatien of the tongue an’ not
of the heart.”
There is one ether important fea
ture in this life of experience, which
1 would Respectfully cull your earc-
faW» undivided attowtiea to* You
kncw»i t4» good ..beok says, in se
many words, that there's more pee-
ple goes to tonnest than to heaven—
"many are called but few are chos
en.” Well ;slr, if hit’s that way
’With chinches I have moved ker-
smack dab into chich torment. I
think every bad chinch that’ ever
lived or died is congregated right in
this house. By gatlins, I had jist as
livs to turn in with a bed full of
earpet tacks an’ be done with it.
Th^y look more like a herd of pinch-
ants a crawlin' over the walls than
anything 1 ean compare ’em to, only
they aint got no eertain road to
travel. If ever Ole Flaw was guilty
of tellin’ the truth in his life this is
one of the times; I honestly and can
didly took a bed slat an’ killed hun
dreds of ’em a crawlin’ over the ffoor
the first night we moved in.
Ole Flaw ain’t never cotehed a
nappin’ none to speaK of but, by
gracious, that was one of the times
he was outwitted. 'Way long to
wards midnight a new idy struck me.
I told Mrs. Picker to git the broom
an’ sweep ’em off the Moor an’ make
down a bed whilst I went in the
kitchen an' got the ’lasses pitcher.
After she gat tbe bed made down I
I^Mied a row of them 'lessee all
rfrund it an’ joined ends. We left
the lamp a buruin' an’ crawled in
bed in orderment to get a few hours
good rest before daylight at any
rates, but, by gracious thar weren't
no sleep fer us, any to speak of. I
layed there a few minutes an’
watched them a crawlin' down the
walls mu’ on towards us. Here they
come in pluperfect droves an’ swarms
till they atruck the 'lasses an’ thar
they stopped to a dead stand still. I
could aee ’em a pokin’ of their
blasted heads up an’ a looain’ over
witli wistful eyes, as it were, whilst I
lay thar a thinkiu’ to myself, "Ole
fellers you’ve struck the wrong
chap when you atruck Ole Flaw, I
ain’t a nappin’ none to speak of to
night”—ner 1 wasn’t notber. But
whilst 1 was a thinkin’ of that hit
seems that they had oin a boldin’ of
a conflabalation between tbemselvee
an’ sent the word around the line
fer all at onee every blasted one of
'em made a break fer tbe wall an’ up it
they went—big ones in Lont an’ lit
tle ones a loain’ of no time to speak
of—till th^r got exactly over ue.
then they turned all holta loose an’
hit seemed to me that hit fairly
rained ohlebei fer at least five min
utes. We got up an’ bnllt up a fire
as hot m it was, which, you un
derstand, made ’em worse, but Mrs.
Picker an’ myself took it time about
a sweepin’ of ’em in the fire whilst
Granny Picker come in an’ watched
us for a while, then she lowed,
"Flaw, hit halnt no nee to sweep no
more, let’s leave here for I raley do
bleeve that they hatch oat faster
\ than you can sweep ’em in the fire
to save your life.”
Mr. Editor, you have got a eorre*-
penden what writes for The Lkdgkk
that’s got more gaul, cheek, or
somethin’else of a like aat’re., than
anybody else throughout all the
land of Cherokee. How lie can
muster up the elements necessary to
send in such a batch ef personals—
door nabers a visitin’ from house to
house an’ maby jist to borry u little
coffee or sugar or somethin’ else—is
more than I can understand. The
same old ri{ hooked up every week.
Granny So-»n’-so 80 years old from
Texas or visitin’ somebody in New
Jersey would sorter pass because hit
don't happen every week in the year.
Mr. So-an’so has got a litter of pigs,
or built a new hdg pen. or got the
first ripe punking would be better
an’more up to date news than visi
tin', fer people visit every day in the
week nearly an’ its nothin’ strange or
new. Now, ef Mr. So-an’so has bin
mad with Naber So-an’so fer a year or
two an’ everybody knows it, then in
that case you mought sqy, "Naber
So-an'so who has bin mad an’ a
poutin’ at Naber So-an’so fer such
stated time, an’ who has got roused
up to a sense of his duty over at
Bark Log church, has finally at last
visited So-an’so an’ made friends
with him.” Slim Sam used to have
a sayin—"So-an’so stuck their feet
under So-an’-so’s table”—till by
gracious everybody in the county
got tired of it, an’ I think he did too
after so long a time.
Flaw Picrkr.
The Cheap Dollar.
[Prison Trusty.]
"See here, old Dutchy, I think
yon'vo made a mistake! You didn’t
give me as much sugar for my dvdlar
as you gave that hayseed for his.”
"Veil I shust tell you how dat vas>
Mr. Gold bug Editor. Dot hayseed
say his tollar ish honest; you say
dot silver tollar you pays me Ish one
dishonest dollar, und cost more ash
»7 cents, and so I gif you schust so
much sugar ash you tolt me in your
baper dot tollar be worth. See.”
"Aw, tome off. Dutehy; my silver
dollarjpasses for 100 cents everywhere.
Here! give me the rest of my sugar.”
"Veil, vot for you tolt dese beoples
dot silver tollar be only worth 57
cents.”
"Oh, that is politics, you know.
The dollar is all right. It is worth
100 cents.”
"You schust pick oop dot sagar
aad git tniae store out mil It. (>v
you tolt me dese lies, dem pollyticks
ish lies. Dot vos burly fool make
mit does beople bout dose pellyticks.”
"See here, Dutchy, if you have
confidence in the silver dollar, It will
go all right; anyone will take it for
100 cents.”
"Veil if you just haf confidence in
dot sugar, it goes for von tollar’s vort.
You git oud o’ here, or I vissle oop
my big dog, und he make you git
hoom so quick like you say Shack
Robinson.
Ravenna Locals.
(CorreepondMiee of The Ledger.)
Ravknna, Sept. 20.—Mrs. D. A.
Thomas, of Gaffney, spent a few days
here last week visiting relatives.
Last Wednesday T. G. Chalk was
out riding,- when the horse became
frightened and threw him off. break
ing his krm. It was replaced by Dr.
Downy, of Paeolet.
Mrs. Lou Pate, of Cowpens, ac
companied by Misses Larrie und
Janie Sims came down last Wednes
day. Mrs. Pate will spend a while
visiting relatives and friends.
Rev. F. C. Hickson’s pulpit at
Goucher was filled last Sunday by
Rev. Mr. Sublet. Immediately after
preaching Mr. Hickson baptized'two
young people.
Mr. T. C. Green is convalescing.
Miss Laura Pettit, from Spartan
burg, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. G. L. Pettit, last week.
Mr. Kennedy, of Fair Forest, was
painfully injured one day last week
by the engine which runs from Paco-
let depot to the mills. He was driv
ing two horses and was crossing the
railroad at a sharp curve, not know
ing of tbe close approach of the train,
and before he had crossed the track
one of the cars struck the wagon,
knocking Mr. Kennedy out and tear
ing tbe wagon to pieces.
a. it. c.
Discovered by a Woman.
Another great discovery has been
made, and that too, by a lady In this
country. "Disease fastened its
elulchea upon her and for seven years
she withstood its severest tests, but
her vital organs wsre undermined
and death seemed imminent. For
three months she coughed incessantly
and could not sleep. She finally dis
covered a way to recovery, by pur
chasing of us a bottle of Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
%nd was so much rtlisted on taking
first dose, that she aiept alt night;
and with two bottias has been abao-
lately cured. Her name is Mrs.
Luther Luti. Thus writes W. C.
Hamrick & Co., of Shelby. N. C.
Trial bottles free at DuPre Drug Co,
Regular si eg 50c nod $1.00 v Every
bottls guaranteed.'
THE VOTE DECLARED.
Tbe Democratic Executive Committee
Meet Last Thursday.
The Comity Democratic Executive
Committee met last Thursday in the
court bouse to tabulate the vote of the
county. The result of their labors
showed little or no change from the
tabulated report in The Ledger of
last week. The total results for the
varieus candidates were as follows:
For county officers: Senate—Sar-
ratt 1,024; Butler 888. Sheriff—
Thomas 1,0G8; Ross 843. Super
visor—Lipscomb 1,076; Jolly 847.
For Congress: Finley 1,172; Bar
ber 763.
For State officers: Governor—El-
lerbe 985; Featherstone 807.
Secretary of State—Cooper 839;
Tompkins 714. Superintendent of
Education—McMahans 839; Brown
852. Adjutant and Inspector Gen
eral—Floyd 558; Blythe 1,127. Rail
road Commissioner—Garris 1,080;
Thomas 638.
The committee then instructed
tbe treasurer to pay the managers of
election $1 each out of the funds in
the treasury and to settle all the bills
incurred by the committee. There
will be a small balance in the treas
ury after all bills are paid, so tho
treasurer, Mr. J. B. Bell reports.
The result of the election Was sent
to the chairman of the State Execu
tive Committee, Willie Jones, at
Columbia.
And thus the campaign for 1898,
so far as Cherokee county is con
cerned. is a thing of the past.
All the old officers, with the ex
ception of Senator, one member of
the Honse, sheriff anti coroner, were
re-elected. Mr. Thomas and Mr.
Vinesett will probably be sworn in
and take charge of their respective
offices some time in November.
Senator Sarratt and Representative
McCraw will be admiteed to the
Senate and House at the next meet
ing of that body, which takes place
in January.
Cherokee has in her offices a worthy
set of men and we have no hesitency
in sayiug we believe'they wilt make
creditable officers.
From The Billville Banner.
For ten years we have been endeav
oring to purchase a lot whereon to
erect a building for the Billville Ban
ner; but until recently, when pros
perity struck us, and took up its
abode in our midst, we were unable
to do so. Yesterday the old cemetery
was sold at auction, and we bid it in
for seven dollars. We are now
moving tbe Banner into one of the
taoet commodious vaults it contains,
and we are as cheerful as can be under
the circumstances. We don’t believe
in ghosts. Many of tbe dead in tbe
coniines of our new purchase were
ancient bill collectors, and they got
so tired running after us that they
were glad to rest, and we teel that
they need all the rest they can get.
As news items were short this
week, we contented ourselves with
copying a few of the many epitaphs
scattered around us. lb’s true, they
are now in the class with the dead
matter, but we still think our readers
will be interested in them. Most of
our readers are deadheads anyhow, so
th«y won’t take this graveyard depar
ture amiss. So here goes:
A BRIGHT rUTUKE.
lleneath this plain. pln«> t»ourri Is lyln£
Tho body or Joshua Httrht;
"Cheer up." the parson told him dytnx.
"Your future's very bright.”
Slowly th« sick man raised his head;
His weeplnr friends amazing.
"1’arseu, Its most too bright." lie said.
"For 1 can see it blazlux!"
THOUBl.K IN STOKE FOK HIM, —
Here Spottswood Jnnvsis Miik dead.
On earth he waa a Meaclwr:
‘Til meetthrM wives in heaven," he xaM;
'‘Lord help you." *»ld tl>e pseacher.
A L1FKI.ONO OFFICE-HOLDER.
He's left this world of pain and strife.
And reached the other side;
He held nn office all his life.
ItesiguitiK when he died.
ON A FERTILIZER AGENT.
Six feet beneath this funeral wreath
Is laid upon tnc shelf
One Jerry Jones, who dealt In bones.
And now lie's bones himself.
ON MH. BOBER.
Here where the breexe the blossom shakos
Lies Andrew Johnson Kober;
Ho saw the devil and areut snakes.
Moral; Good folks, stay sober!
HI8 LAST REQUEST.
Dying he said: "Don’t weep for me.
My darling wife—please don't!”
Khe looked as smiling as could lie.
And said:" You bet 1 won’t!’’
NOTE BY THE EDITOR.
The above are all we had time to
copy for tbl« iaeue. Many of them
point a moral, for which we make no
extra charge. All subscribers who
die paid up may expect the same
consideration at onr hands. WcT)
publish their epitaphs cheerfully.
Subscribe now, and get in the paper
when your time comes!
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