The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 27, 1898, Image 1

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- &&& Mam WE GUARANTEE ^jhe Reliability of Every Adver- "tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. The Ledger P. O. .Stacy. President. J. O. Wari)i.aw. Vice President THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. Capital $50,cco.oo. Wim. buy county claims, receive dej»o»it* and make iUx-rul loans on approved paper. 1>. C. Koss. Cashier. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER *47, 1898. $1.00 A YEAR. THE PARSIMONIOUS MANNER OF DISTRIBUTING THE COM PANY ROLLS Is an Effective Way to Defeat the Ob ject of Getting Up the Com plete Rolls—Notes from Lower Cherokee. (Correspondence ot The Ledger.) Etta Jane, October 24,—It is said that a really smart woman only needs a broom and a dish-rag to get a meals victuals. A newspaper correspond ent must have better resources than that or he will fail. Two or C 'e'o’.ee county's mng ; s- trates, J. \Y. Alexander and I. G. Sarratt, were with Gen. J. F. B. Stuart when that great military chieftain fell mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Ya., Maj 11th, 1804. Gen. Stuart’s hat, coat and pistols were in the Confederate Museum at Richmond during the Confederate reunion in 1890. \Ye had a killing frost yesterday morning—the lirst of the season. Cattle buyers are gathering up all the beef cattle they can find, usually pay'.ng fair prices for them. The man who worries for money might es well go to hornets Rr honey. Xanthippe, the wife of Socra' .-s, is an illustration. When a man is willing to confess his ignoranee he is on the road to wisdom. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Osment are both on the sick list. The C. E. Society had a good meet ing at Mrs. Amanda Lee’s yesterday evening. We hope some of our readers will answer Corncracker’s question this week. The late rains have made several places in the road impassible. Teople are putting up their fatten ing hogs and feeding their drowned co”n, The huntsman’s horn is heard al most any night, an 1 the ‘Toor-Sams” are having a hard time keeping out of the way. When old age strikes a man he don’t often forget it. Mr. Will Luck and T. B. White- side, of HicLcry Grove join planta tions, and Will wanted to deaden (or cut down) a certain line tree and the Doctor objected. Sonrn time ago lightening struck the tree and killed Will’s half of it and the Doctor’s side is still growing. Suppose they are both satisfied. Severa' years ago one of our neigh bors took seriously ill and sent for Dr. in great haste. The Dr. went, and on his return was asked how the patient was. He replied: “Nothing is the matter—only worms and cutting teeth.” The fellow can’t stand to be told of the joke yet. Week before last we made some of the best molasses we have had in many years. Some years ago Aus. Cobb took the measles, and “Uncle” John Jones said they would never be able to harm any one else. We wish some one would conquer the chills in the same way. The rain last Thursday night put a complete stop to farm work and raised the river too high to ferry. Through the kindness of Miss Belle Plaiico and her father, Mr. R. M. Plaxico, of Kings Creek, I am in re ceipt of a full history of the family tree of the McGill family which was drawn by Miss R. Emma Kennedy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kennedy, of Yorkville, and also a grand-daughter of John McGill, Esq., of Clark’s Fork. This, as a work of art, is unique in its execution and contains a full record of one of the oldest, most numerous and widely known families in eastern Cherokee and western York; and it is my pur pose, in the near future, to give the full space so generously accorded me by this paper to a description of it and also to a roll of the descendants. None but the blood relatives are men tioned. It will prove interesting, no doubt, to those relatives and friends now living in this county, as well as to the hundreds in other counties and States; and it will also encourage other ingenious girls and boys to un dertake and carry out a similar work of preserving in tangible form their family records. It is a noted fact that not one-half of the men and women of this country today can give the maiden names of their grand mothers. \Ve know about three gen erations at a t>me, as a usual thing. There are no new cases of chills that I know of to report this week. On Wednesday night of last week Mr. Smith Wood, of Spartanburg, gave a fine magic lantern exhibition attonr home. The scenes—some of tnFm—were qnite interesting and greatly enjoyed, by the little folks es pecially. Among other things the battles of Bull Run, Gettysburg and General Lee’s surrender were shown, as we'l as many revolutionary scenes, battles, etc., among which was Kings Mountain and Cowpens. Bad writing is sometimes a source of fun, as the following quotatioi shows: Not long ago a gentleman, of Cleve land, received a letter from a lawyer. He could not read a word of it, but thought that perhaps his wife, who had once or twice before deciphered bad handwriting for him, could do so. and took it home with him. His wife bad no better luck than he. “Why don’t you take it over to Jimmerson, the druggest?” she said. “They say he can read anything.” He knew it referred to an impor tant law matter, and was anxious about it. So he put on bis hat and overcoat and went over to the drug store. “Can you make this out?” he said. The druggest took it aud glanced it over. He took it to the nearest gas-jet and looked it over again. After a long scrutiny, he inarched to the back of the store and disap peared behind a partition. The gentleman thought that very likely he had gene to get a magnifying-glass. He was gone a little while, and then came back with the letter in one hand and a good-sized bottle in the other. “There you are,” said the druggest. “What’s this?” inquired the gen tleman. ‘Why, your ionic.” “Who said anything about a tonic?” “Why, you handed me the pres cription.” “Prescription?” “Yes, here it is.” “What!” roared the other. “Did you think that was a prescription? It’s a letter from my lawyer about a suit!” The minister who mixes too much truth and Christianity in his ser mons don’t often receive urgent calls from fashionable churches. Some people neglect their charac ter while looking after their reputa tion. The world is full of good Samari tans, but unfortunately they seldem keep a supply of liniment and ban dage on hand. Tt is impossible to train up a child by keeping down all his aspirations. We are informed that the “blind tigers” are getting in some good work in this c" nty. A few of these gentry make their nocturnal visits to places were they get the patronage and endorsements of a reliable con stituency and oilicers of the law are utterally pow )ss to reach them. We are told that motly crowds assemble at certain places (outside of our county) jn Saturday night and Sabbaths days where the time is spent in drinking and card playing. The same ma'' ’ e going on here, too, no doubt. No man is a strictly loyal citizen who knows these to be facts and refuses to bring the offenders to justice. The parsimonious distribution of the company rolls of the State troops of the late war is a most ef fective way to defeat the object of getting up the complete rolls. When the matter was agitated by the U. C. veterans in Columbia in November 1895 it was reasonaliy supposed that when the types were set up that at least as many as one hundred copies of each company roll would be printed and dir‘ributed among the survivors and the families of the dead with a request that any and all casualties might be noted in a blank space provided for that purpose. This was certainly the idea, for the writer made the motion himself and he knows what bespeaks. I now un dersand that only tea (10) copies of each company roll was printed, and I have tried several times to get a copy of my own company and failed. Scores of survivors have applied to me for copies of their company rolls and when refered to headquarters the reply was invariably: “All given out; none on hand.” This was the way the thing was managed and its no wonder that the tax payers are getting tired. Col. J. P. Thomas, the efficient state historian, is now calling for the rolls of several missing companies to be sent in that he may complete the enrollment. Could a sufficient num ber of rolls have been sent out at the start no doubt but that an absolutely correct list of the troops, together with the casualties, would long ago have been secured. There are hun dreds of ex-Confederate soldiers who, though illiterate, could give with wonderful precision the fate of almost every man in their respective com mands, and they would have taken great pleasure in doing so. It was a fatal mistake made in not sending out enough blanks to furnish at least every survivor with one, and also the families of the dead soldiers. The additional copies would have cost comparatively nothing and been of inestimable value to the work. A ship at sea strikes a rock and knocks a hole in the bottom 9x10 inches. The ship’s carpenter has only a piece of plank one foot square. How can he cut it into two pieces so that they will exactly fit the hole? We ought to remember that It is the heat of anger and malice that hatches the chickens which come home to roost. The only kind of advertising that don’t pay is advertising other peo ple’s faults. The best remedy for insomania is a clear conscience. “Mr. , I like you and your sermons very well,” said a gentleman to a devout minister, “only you are too precise.” “Oh, sir,” replied the good man, “I serve a precise God.” If it wasn’t for the rubber coat of pride many people might be saturated with showers of divine grace. “Well,” said the governor of Ma nila, “if this is a Pacific squadron, heaven keep us from a quarrelsome HEWS. one. j. l. s. Written from Willie. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) War. iC, S. C., Oct. 22.—Some peo ple seem to incline to the opinion that a preacher is some kind of a supernatural being, or at least, when a man starts out to preach the Gos pel, he should to a very great ex tent discard his human nature. But, the fact is, and perhaps always will he, that a preacher is a human being just the same as other people are, and a young preacher, say about 28 years old, and living in single bles sedness is jusc as susceptible to the wiles of a pretty girl, even though she be but lil years old, and well grown of her age, as any one else is. We were in the upper part of Saluda township, near the North Carolina line, last Saturday, and found the people of that section wrought up to a considerable degree of excitement, over what they con sidered to be the misconduct of a young divine, who was teaching in that section. The trouble was that the preacher had succumbed to the smiles of one of his lady pupils, and one day re cently there happened, owing to some entertainment in the com munity, to be only this young lady and her little brother present at school and therefore, the preacher proceeded to put in the day in court ing instead of teaching. The lady being only 13 years of age, could not refrain from imparting the knowl edge of the fact to her lady friend, hence the excitement. Late Saturday evening the patrons of the school had decided to meet the divine at the school house Mon day morning and give him his walking papers. Mr. Landrum Nadine and Miss Carrie Allen, both of Willie, S. C., were joined in matiimony last Tues day night the 10th inst. The cows are dying to a considera- b.e extent in this section, said to be dying of sore tongue. Cotton is turning out much better in this section than our people had anticipated. . Cumtux. America’s Greatest. There is no honestly denying the fact that the great consolidated Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers’^shows, which are booked for Spartanburg on Thursday Nov. 3, comprise not only the biggest, most complete and per fect institution of its kind, but far and away the most comprehensive and expensive one ever organized in American or anywhere else. It is a marvel of recreating enterprise, and conduct id upon heroic and progres sive lines, which do credit to its American origin. Its splendidly at tained and steadily maintained re putation, its honorable methods and careful management, its vast resour ces of capital and experience, the signal ability manifest in its executive and advertising departments and its unlimited credit, give it tremendous advantages, with which no other can hope to compete so long as it remains in the field. It will bring more ele phants, more rare wild beasts, more superb horses, more performing ani mals, more eminent artists, more foreign acts and actors, more races, more pageantry, more fun and exhila ration, more instruction and enter tainment, and more for the money, than has ever before been known. The superspiendid double parade is a magnificent sensation. The latest coming woman innovations are the introduction of lady clows and lady ringmasters, who have everywhere made a most pronounced and uproa rious hit. There are also the cham pion male and female bareback riders, and numberless great general perfor mers, trained animals and catchy clowns. It is not only the greatest American show, but the greatest the earth has ever seen, and not only will all of it be here, but the price of admission has been fixed at fifty cents—a scarcely nominal one when the myrial attractions are considered. In addition, special low-rate excur sions have been arranged for on all railroads. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best SMve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Salt Rheum, Fever S«. ^s, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Cords, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures Piles or no pay required. It is gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 centa per box. For sale by The DuPre Drug Co. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. (.Southern und Western Textile Excelsior.! It. W. Mitcham, superintendent Camden, S. C., Cotton Mills has been visiting his parents at Kings Moun tain, N. C. There is talk of building two more mammoth cotton mills in Spartan burg county, S. C., says the Spar tanburg Headlight. The Laurens, S. C., Cotton M'lls now have dobby heads running on 10 looms, and have received the heads for 90 other looms. Highland T. M. Hurt leaves the Park Mills, Charlotte, to become loom fixer with Cherokee Falls Manu facturing Co,, Blacksburg, S. C. Allen Mclnnis of the Salisbury, N. C., Cotton Mill, has given up his place, and accepted a position with the Nantucket Mill, Spay, N. C. K. McGowan, superintendent of the Arkwright Mil's, Spirtanburg, S. C., has bought the rol.'er flour mill there and will also operate it, with a partner. J. A. Smith, the textile machinery man of Bessemer City, N. C., has gone on a Western trip comprising the Omaha Exposition, and a tour through Texas. Sam Belt, an operative in the Reedy River Cotton Factory, was lodged in jail at Greenville, S C., for beating his w'fe. It is thonght the woman will die. A. J. Whittimore has resigned his position as roller coverer with Odell Manufacturing Co., Concord, N. C., and is starting up a shop for E. S. Davis, Rockingham, N. C. Where is Ligo Norman, a slasher tender? His address is desired by T. S. Haskell, boss spinner at Aiken Mills, Bath, S. C. Norman was at Bamberg, 8. C,, when last heard from. T. F. Cummings, the roll coverer with Dilling Manufacturing Co., Kings Mountain, N. C., is soon to sever his connection with that mill. He does not know yet where he will locate. R. T. Grant, second hand in Spartan Mil! No. 3 Spartanburg, S. C., has given in his notice, and in about a week will go to take charge of the Cha‘lotte, N. C , Cotton Mills, suc ceeding C.M. Coble. The Fairfield Cotton Mills, Winns- boro, S. C.. are preparing to build a nice residence at a very pretty loca tion for their superintendent, T. M. Shipp. They are now building four new operatives’ houses. John Schofield has resigned the euperintendency of the Alpha Mills, Charlotte, and succeeded by Carter Eliason, who has been overseer of carding at the Ada Cotton Mills, Charlotte, for four or five months. J. H. Hurt, late overseer of weav ing with Gaston Manufacturing Co., Cherryville, N. C., is returning from Spray to take the room again when it starts. He is now visiting his ur.cle, Rev. A. N. Hinson, near Croft, N. C. Geo. Keller, who has been con ducting a grocery store in Charlotte, N. C., has returned to the mill busi ness, and has taken charge the card room of the Ada Cotton Mills. He was formerly night spinner at the Alpha Mills, Charlotte. Foster Waffard. of the Spartan cloth room Spartanburg, S. C., has taken charge of the cloth room at the Clinton, 8. C., Cotton Mills. W. Foster Farris, who was cloth room boss had to resign on account of bad health. J. T. Kersey, superintendent of the Efird Cotton Mills, Albemarle, N. C., and his boss spinner have both resigned. Superintendent K. J. Davis of the Wiscasset Mills, same place, is looking after the Efird Mills temporarily. J. A. Morris, formerly overseer of spinning for the Anderson, S. C., Cotton Mills, will succeed the late W. R. Roberts as superiutendent. Mr. Morris, will be succeeded by J. W. Roberts, now with the Courtenay Manufacturing Co. A. Knoxville. Tenn., correspondent writes us that he finds the Brookside Mills to be running in excellent shape under Wm. T. Lang, agent and sup erintendent, assisted by I. T. Foster,, In carding, S. J. Terry in spinning, and H. C. Gildard in weaving. The machinery for the 3,000 spin dle equipment of tbo Fountain Inn, S. 0., Cotton Mills will shortly be placed, the boilera being already there. The Charlotte Machine Co., have the entire contract, which em braces Atherton lappers, Saco-Pettee cards, drawing, stubbing, interme diate, roving and spinning frames, etc. The upset price of the Chester, S. C., Gingham Mill, whose forth coming sale we have already men tioned is to take place on Nov. 17, is fixed at $()U,000. Bidders are re quired to deposit certified checas for .$5,000 before being allowed to enter the sale. B. M. Spratt is receiver of the property, having been appointed a year ago. Col. J. E. Hagood, clerk of the United States Circuit Court, is Special Master to conduct the sale. A new cotton mill is to be erected at McColl, S. C., which will make three factories, where ten years ago were only broad cotton fields for miles and miles. The new plant is for the production of fine soft yarns, and will be a private company, to be duly Incorporated. The stockholders areChas. Iceman, T. B. Gibson, F. P. Tatum and A. \V. Morrison. Mr. Iceman is the superintendent of the McColl Manufacturing Co.’s two mills, of which his father-in-law, Mr. Tatum, is president, and Mr. Gibson is treasurer. ♦- Mr. Teal Te.ls How it Occurred. Hicksville, N. C., Oct. 22. Editor Ledger: If you will allow me space 1 will give you the particulars of my narrow escape on Friday even'ng before the second Sunday, inst. It was as follows: I was on ray way home from the Sandy Run Association, and crossed the river at Camp’s ferry at dark. I soon found that I was overtaking a wagon. When my horse's head reached the back of the wagon I saw there were two wagons, (or a wagon and buggy, I didn’t know which) und I supposed there were horses and a driver to each. I hr 1 been driving this way for some time and had never thought but that they knew some one was driving behind them. Sud denly they stopped, and some one said: What are you doing here (or there, I don’t know which.) I sup posed they had met a drunk man, and that he was speaking to them. The next voice was • What are you doing back there? I had the speaker loca ted by this time, as speaking from the front wagon, but thought he was talking to some one in the wagon be tween me and him. I still never spoke, for I didn t know I was being spoken to.’IIe then fired, shooting my horse between the nose und eyes. I heard the blood streaming and asked him what be meant. He then asked who I was. When I gave him my name and told him, he had shot my horse, he apologized as profusely as a man could, and asked me not to give him any trouble, as he would pay the damage if he could. It was Monroe Green who was moving from Henrietta, into the neighborhood of where I live. He had two wagons one tied to the back end of the other. He said when he saw some one behind his back wagon he thought it was two negroes, whom he had met a little before, and that they had turned on him for some mischief. I trust it will make Mr. Green more cautious hereafter, as he was firing on one who was doing nothing more than trying to get home to his wife and little ones. My horse is not dead, as was re ported to The Ledger. He is doing farely well and I think will soon be ready for driving again. _ C. M. Teal. Ravenna Reading. (Corrfwjiondence of The Ledger.) Ravenna, Oct. 25th.—Prof. R. O. Sams of Gaffney was in this vicinity Monday surveying lands belonging to the Wilkins’ estate. We are very sorry to learn that Miss Addie Brown has been confined to her room with sickness for over * week but hope she will soon be out again. Miss Edna Brown also is quite sick. Mr. Henry Littlejohn has a sick child. Mr. Geo. E. Brown, of Spartanburg, spent Sunday here visiting relatives. Mrs. J. W. Brown who has been sick for some time is now much bet ter. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Felix Littlejohn is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Stack, of Cowpens. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Littlejohn are on a visit to relatives near Sprtan- burg. Miss Sallie Green has gone to Union to visit her brother’s family. Mr. J. McCraw of Goucher, has been sick for a few days. a. b. c. Millions Given Away. It Is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be gener ous to the needy and suffering. The proprietors of Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have the satisfaction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asth ma. Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by It. Call on DuPre, Druggist, and get a trial bottle free. Regular size 50c. and $1. Every bottle guaranteed or price re funded. HENRY W. GRADY. His Pita for the Restoration of Con fidence Between the Sections. At the annual banquet of the Bos ton Social Union a few evenings ago, Dr. J. B. Hawthorne delivered an ad dress on “The Present Feeling in the South Toward the Federal Union and the People of the North.” Tremont Temple was crowded, and Dr. Haw thorne’s address captured the large audience. After speaking of South ern patriotism and devotion and the loyalty of the people of the South to the flag of the Union, Dr. Hawthorne continued: The people of this country will never forget the day when another Georgian—that almost peerless child of genius, that oratorical prod ivy, that illustrious journalist, patriot and philanthropist, Henry W. Grady —stood befo:e representative men of New England on an occasion not unlike the present, and pleaded for the re. toration of brotherly confi dence and affection with a fervor and eloquence that seemed to open a new trumpet-stop on the grand or gan of human passioo. That speech was a bugle call to ! le American people to get rid of thei: sectional animosities, prejudices and suspicions, to come together in the spirit of mutual respect and con fidence, and have not only an exter nal federation of States, but a forever- enduring union of hearts and hands. That call was the final message of a Christian patriot as he stood on the very border of the closely-cur tained world, und almost heard the breathings of disembodied spiriis within the veil. Doubtless yon re call the fact that Henry Grady Ivfi that banquet hall flushed with fiver, and that only a week later his great heart was still and his eloquent voice hushed in death. He died literally loving his n ’tion into peace. The vision of restored harmony t nd fraternity which floated before the soul of the great Georgian, in that hour of patriotic zeal und men tal illumination, is, thank God, no longer a vision, but a blessed reality. The snows that fall from heaven and crown our mountain peaks with resplendent beauty are not purer than the affection which Americans everywhere cherish for their system of free constitutional government. The breezes, laden with the rich per fume of our Southern orange grows, are not sweeter than the fellowship which now holds the people of this once dissevered country in the em brace of a true and everlasting Amei .- can brotherhood. My country, what a favored lot is thine! The love of all thy sous en compass thee; the love of all thy daughters cherish thee; and in all their countless sanctuaries thy fuiti - ful people hold thee up to God. Asbury Assertions. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Asbury, Oct. 18.—There has been a great deal of sickness in our com munity for the past two months. The doctors have been quite busy. Our farmers have been quite busy picking their cotton. It isn’t hardly worth picking at the present prices. Mr. J. R. Littlejohn is doing some □ice work with bis new gin. Mr. Jim Byars and family, of Paco- let, visited Mr. B. Barnes Sunday. Dr. Sam Foster, of Sunny Side, was at Asbury Sunday School last Sunday. He spoke of being well pleased with our school, as well as with the girls he met. We expect to see the Dr. back Boon. Mr. J. D. Jefferies, Jr., has got his new dwelling completed. Messrs. John and Eiipbus Shannon went to Gaffney Saturday on busi ness. Miss Lucy Littlejohn left for All Healing last week, where she goes to attend school. Messrs. Charles and Hagood Mabry, of Pacolet, visited friends in this community Sunday. B. D. Wood has built a nice cot tage on his place down here. Our people seems to sell their cot ton as fast as they gather it. Miss Carrie E. Baines is visiting in the Wilkinsville neighborhood. A. 0. Tate, of Grassy Pond, was in this community Sunday. Plow Boy. A Clever Trick. It certainly look* like it, but there is really no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervoua troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitten. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulant to the Liver and Kidneys, is a blood pu rifier and nerve tonic. It cures Con stipation, Headache, Fainting Spells. Sleeplessness and Melancholy, it ia purely vegetable, a mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural rigor. Try Electric Bitters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50c a bottle at the DuiVe Drug Co.