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r. J. (J. Wabdlaw. •it. Vice I'n-suient NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. Capital $30,000.00. If. buy county clnlms, receive deposit biukr IIImthI uiiiiis on approved paper I'. Kosn. Cashier. The Ledger. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Eyery Adver tiser W umns Uses the Col* This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 10, 181)1. GAFFNEY" CITY", S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY r>, 1899. $1.00 A YEAR. WHAT CHEROKEE IS LOSING. BY NOTHAVINGTHECHILDREN IN SCHOOL. Lafayette’s Devotion to American’s Cause is to bs Recognized by a Suitable Monument. Notes by J. L. S. parent of his ure so condi- (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Jan. 30.—It is ex tremely unfortunately for the educa tional interests of our county that such a large number of the children are not in school. The reason for this it is not our purpose to discuss here. Wa* presume that every one has a reason of his own. The result will be a shortage in the school fund derived from the constitutional three- mills tax next year, and as long as this policy is kept up. It is unfair to the tax payers, to the State and to the country, which, we presume, wishes t > educate the children within its borders. We un derstand that only the number of bona fide free schools attendants can be taken into the county in pro rating the constitutional school money among the counties. Every should look to the interest children and see that they enumerated. The roads are in a terrible tion. The mud in many places ren ders travel well nigh impassible.* Wheat is making a poor show. In many places there seems to be none on the ground. Ash Wednesday comes on the 15th of next month, and with some peo ple the weal her on that day largely decides the fate of the wheat crop for the year. Mr. i*. B. Love, has started a news paper at Hickory Grove—called the Hickory Grove Sun. We wish him and Unit wide awake little town much success in their new enter prise. We ur n authorized to oiler a nice pocket Bible to each bona fide Sab bath School scholar who will repeat the ll'Jili Psalm verbatim ec iitera- tum by the second Sabbath in May. How many of our readers will under take it? Tiiis is no contest. Each one is re v trded on his own merit. We re rtl. to learn that Dr. J. F. McClunt ey is in ill health at this time. Col. W. I). Camp, Auditor, made his official vi-dt lo this section last week akiriLT returns. As our law makers are now in Co lumbia at work those who wish cer tain laws enacted, or repealed, should apply to them while they are in a position to do something and not wait until they come home home and then jump on them for not doing this or that, or for permitting it to be done. Ibis is unfair treatment of a public servant. Let him know what you want him to do and then hold him responsible for his neglect or failure to make the attempt. Miss Mary McCulloch is now at her home at Wilkinsville spending a few days. !5he has been teaching in some of the lower counties of the State. One of her friends—a Miss Rice—accompanied her. Mr. W. Lafayette Littlejohn, of Jonesville, was in this section last week on business. The C. E. Society met at Mr. W. C. Kirby's yesterday. We ha\e a picture of General An drew Jackson at about the age of 40 years, which has a striking resem blance to Col. Samuel Jefferies at about the same age. The r.eembianco of General Stone wall Jackscn and Rev. A. A. James wa> lir.-,t ca led to < ur attention by a prattling babe. Mr. John Foster, of Clifton, was in this section last Saturday. Tiie man who thinks he knows it nil has never undertook to answer all the i[U siions a child can ask him. Mr. It. C. Patrick has charge of Hon. C. W. Whisonants store while the latter is in Columbia attending the Legislature. The work the Lafayette Memorial Commission is doing towords erect ing a monument to General Lafayette to be unviled at Paris, July 4th, IffOO, is agitating the minds of the patri otic American people at this time, and we would be glad if our young readers would do something for this laudable project in their respective neighborhoods. Already 3,000,000 American school children have raised $50,000 and the work is still going on. By exhibitions, concerts, entertain ments etc., with a small admittance free they raise the money. Every child In our land, however humble, feels like it should take part in this great wont. Those who have read what Lafayette did for our country when it needed help, will feel a debt of gratitude that their hard earned pennies will inadequatly repay. We can never teach our children loyalty to principles unless we encourage them in patriotic work. A few -quotations from history will enable our young friends (and older ones loo) to better appreciate and '.understand the warm feeling between our great Washington and General Lafayette and the latter’s devotion to our cause. At a public dinner attended by members of Congress and others, Lafayette lirst saw Washington. He recognized him at once, lie said, on account of the officers near him, and by his commanding air and presence. Before the close of the evening Wash ington called Lafayette aside, thanked him for his generous devo tion to this country, praised his gen erous conduct, ami invited him to make headquarters at his home. “I cannot promise you the luxuries of a court,” said he, “but as you have become an American soldier you will, doubtless, accommodate your self to the fare of au American army.” The most serious test of Lafayette’s allegiance to American NOT WOUNDED AT COWPENS. MAJOR McJUNKIN’S HAIR BREADT^i ESCAPES. A Hand to Hand Conflict With a Tory in Which His Arm Was Brok- *’l en—How a Death Sen tence Was Delayed. Cowi’KNs, S. C., Jan. 30th. Mu. Ed. DkCa.mp—Dear Sir—: In the lust issue of The Ledger 1 notice that among the wounded at the battle of Cowpens was Major freedom was | Joseph McJunkin who received a ball during that dreadful winter when lie shared the bitter chances of war with the army at Valley Forge. Writ ing of the condition there, La fayette said : “The army frequently passed whole days without food, and the patient endurance of both sol diers and olficers was a miracle which every moment served to re new. The sacred fire of liberty was not extinguished and most of the people hated British tyranny.” In a letter written to General Washington, December 3u, 1777, La fayette says: ‘‘My desire of deserv ing your satisfaction is stronger than ever, and everywhere you will employ me you can be certain of my trying every exertion in my 7 power ceed. I am now fixed to your fate and I shall follow it and sustain it as well by my sword as by all means in my power.” On December 1. 17S1, Washington wrote a letter to Lafayette begin ning: ‘‘1 owe it to your friendship and to my affectionate regard for you, my dear Marquis, not to let you leave this country without carrying with you fresh marks of my attach ment to you and new expressions of the high sense I entertain of your military conduct and other impor tant services in the course of the last campaign.” Lafayette’s reply from on shipboard was, in part: “Adieu, my dear lj|L-n- eral. I know your heart so well that I am sure that no distance can alter your attachment to me. With the same candor, I assure you that my love, my respect, my gratitude for you are above expression.” Lust week T. J. and John F. Estes took a load of wheat to the roller mill at Vorkville. John says he don’t know how he got there for the mud; but he got there. He had to leave his wheat and have the Hour shipped buck on the train to Hickory Grove. He is enthusiastic over the good roads in Cherokee county since he lias seen a sample in York county. John is in favor of the McCraw bi cycle bill, too, since he and Sam Lee had such hard work to keep Major from running into Wilkins Brothers store, at Gaffney, with the buggy to make room for a wheelman on the street. We look forward to the May meet ing at Cowpens battleground with great interest and hope our people will not allow the work to go back ward. The selection of Miss Addie Sams as essayest is an excellent one and will no doubt prove the wisdom of the choice. We are fully satisfied that the fondest expectation of her many friends will be fully realized. The many friends of Ilcv. It. P. Smith will be delighted to read the following clipping trom the Char lotte (X. C.) Daily Observer of the iHth inst: Rev. K. P. Smith, general evange list of the Presbyterian Church, preached Sunday morning at Newell and Sunday afternoon at Amity. He left cn the noon train for Gastonia, his home. Mr. Smith will preach at Pineville next Sunday. He was showing yesterday a map of Ashe.ille 1’resbytery, which he has had made to assist him in his work. He shows the mission points touched and churches established, by green and pink squares. He finds the map of much help.” We have no hesitancy in saying that we know of no laborer in the Master’s vineyard who is doing more or better wo.k than Mr. Smith and we are always glad to hear from him. ‘‘Well done good and faithful ser vant!” The first snow of the season came last Friday night and Saturday. .1. i.. 8. — -• -*•* • - The last of the Cleveland Cuckoos, went out when Culbertson, of Texas, succeeded Roger <). Mills. - • How to Look Good. Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy condition of all the vital or gans. If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look ; if your stomach is disordered, you have a dispeptic look ; if your kidneys are affected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health, and you will surely have good looks. “Electric Bitters” is a good Alterative and Tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys, purifies the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaran teed. Sold at DuPre Drug Co.’s. 50 cents per bottle. in his arm. After some investigation I am satisfied that it is a mistake. Maj. McJunkin does not mention it in his personal reminisences, neither does Mr. Sayre in iiis “Memoirs.” But that he was wounded a little later, there is no doubt. Saye in iiis memoirs of McJunkin says: “Major McJunkin, us has been stated, having received intelligence of Roebuck’s battle, started on his return to Bran don’s headquarters. On the night of the same day (March 1*4, 1781,) while absent from the main body of his command, accompanied by a sin gle soldier, as a scouting ,party, lie to sue- ! j liu j u rencountre with a few Tories and received a ball in his right arm, which measurably disabled him from service for the balance of the war.” A detailed account of this affair is found in the January number of the Magnolia for 1813. It is as follows : “On his return, he. (Maj. McJunkin) and Lawson, one of iiis men, scout ing r.t a distance from the rest of the party, rode up towards a house at night. At the gate they were con fronted by three Tories. Fight or die was the only alternative. He and Lawson presented their rifles at two. Lawson's gun fired then and killed his man; the Major’s gun fired, also, but was a mere squib, and produced no oilier effect than to set lire to iiis adversary’s shirt As Lawson’s an tagonist fell, he jumped down, picked up his gun and shot down the other Tory and passed iiis sword through iiis body. The Major's fire so dis concerted his adversary that he missed him The Major charged, sword-in hand; his adversary fled. His flight on horseback soon caused iiis shirt to burn like a candle. This light so disconcerted McJunkin’s horse that lie could not make him charge the fugitive. After running him a mile to get a blow at him he run his horse along side. At that in stant tiie flying Tory drew a pistol, fired, and the ball struck and broke McJunkin’s sword-arm. His sword was luckily fastened to his wrist by a leather string. As iiis arm fell powerless at his side lie caught the sword in his left hand and drew it off his sword arm, and with a back- handed blow, as their horses run side by side, he killed his man. Lawson’s second man recovered, nothwith- standing he was shot and run through with a sword. "Notwithstanding the severity and inconvenience of the wound Major McJunkin rejoined iiis men and con tinued his march to Brandon’s camp that night. Here his pains became so excruciating chut some of his sol diers cut the hall out of his arm witii a dull razor. For safety during the period necessary for his recovery, he was carried by a party of his soldiers into an unfrequented part of the country lying on Brown’s Creek, and his wants cared for in the midst of a dense thicket. The appearance of his wounded arm beginning to indi cate great danger, one of^his fellow- soldiers, by great exertions and per sonal danger, succeeded in bringing Dr. Ro|s to bis place of concealment. The name of this soldier was Daniel Brown. Under the treatment of Dr. Ross his wound began to heal, and the prospect of recovery to grow bright. But here u new danger ap peared. The Tories learning the place of Iiis retreat, were making ar rangements to march upon iiis party. To avoid this difficulty he was carried by his men across Broad River into tiie vicinity of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Alexander, whose house, says Major McJunkin, was u real La/.uretto for the sick and wounded of our army. Here he took the small pox in the natural way. His mother came over to wait upon him, took the disease and died. Here he remained, how ever, until partialiy recovered, both of his wound and disease. On the 7th of May he returned to his father’s house. The Tories hearing that night of his arrival,a party came next morn ing and him made prisoner. The party was commanded by one Bud Ander son. This party, immediately after his capture, set out towards the Iron Works on Lawson’s Forks. These works have sometimes been called Wofford's, at others, Berwick’s. On this march other priaoners were taken some of whom were killed on their knees begging for quarter. Being arrived at, or near the works, a kind of trial was gone through to decide what should be done with him. The sentence of the court was that he should be hanged in live minutes from the reading of tiie verdict. A ••ope was ti» fi around his neck, he was set upon some kind of scaffold- | ing under the limb of a tree and tin* lope fastened to it. At this moment a party was seen approaching on horseback at full speed. The com mander of those having him in charge ordered the execution stopped till the object of the approaching party ! was ascertained. One of them come j up and whispered something in the | ear of the leader. The leader ordered 1 the execution suspended for the pres ent and commanded the whole party to mount. Th^y hurried away and after beating about the country for a short time, set off in tiie direction <<f Hie BritBh ^.irrieon at Ninety-Six. i The motive of the delay of hi* exe cution was the approach of a part) of Wings, as he afterwards learned. While in the custody of this party of 1 Tories no epithets were too abusive : or insulting to be applied to him with the greatest freedom and fre quency. When "within a mile of the British fort, the party halted for some time for consultation or some other purpose. While here he lay on the ground with his wounded arm resting on his forehead. Another party of Tories came up, their leader believed to have been tiie famous Win. Cunningham. As soon as he i cast his eyes on Major McJunkin lie rushed upon him with iiis sword drawn. Just as the Major expected to receive its descending point, he suddenly wheeled off and said, ‘I was mistaken in the man.' Thence he was curried into Ninety-Six. A court martial was summoned to investigate iiis case. The forms showed were somewhat honorable. He was charged with killing one of His Maj esty's subjects—tiie man that broke his arm. He showed them iiis arm; told them where they met the Tories, and where the man was killed, and asked if it was possible that a man whose sword-arm was broken to pur sue a man a mile and kill him? Gen. Cunningham, the president of the court, said it was impossible, and the whole court concurred. lie was therefore acquitted of the charge, but sentenced to close confinement as a prisoner of war. He remained in jail at this place from that time, about tiie 12th or Hth of May, till a few days before Gen. Green lay seige the place, the 23d of tiie same month. He was paroled with some others, and allowed to return home. Wlren they arrived at the ferry on the Saluda river, they heard of a skirmish that liad recently occurred up that river, and soon a detachment of Greene’s army came in sight. The paroled prisoners were taken by this party to General Greene. Upon consulta tion and advice from Colonel Bran don they turned back with (ireene’s army and remained with it until near the time the seige was raised. They then got an opportunity and returned to their several homes.” Such is the detaih d, but somewhat lengthy account, of Major McJ unkins bitter experience and hair breadth es capes, that virtually put an end to his services during the War of Inde pendence, but it is worthy to be pre served as a memento of one of the heroes of that immortal struggle. Fraternally, J. I). Bailey. —» —— Grip’s Ravages Doomed. So much misery a..d so many deaths have been caused by the Grip that every one should know what a wonderful remedy for this malady is found in Dr. King’s New Discovery. That distressing stubborn cough that inflames your throat, robs you of sleep, weakens your system and paves the way for Consumption is quickly stopped by this matchless cure. 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Americans are the best penmen in the world, and the British come next. — - - • • — To insure a happy new year, keep the liver clear and the body vigorous by using De Witt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little Pills for con stipation and liver troubles. Chero kee Drug Co., Gaffney. R. 8. With ers Sc Co., Blacksburg. FLAW PICKERS’S BIRTHDAY. HE REMEMBERS THE DAY AND MONTH ONLY. Granny Picker Relates a With Story to Him that Caused Much Uneasiness in His Bovhood. To-day is my birth day an’, bv gracious. 1 had to git down the ole Bible an’ bresh the dust from ofl’n it he fore 1 could toil exactly how ole I was. I know what day an’ what month 1 was born, but to save my life 1 can’t remember from one year to the next how many years ole I am. Whilst I was a settin’ around the famly fireside tonight a talkin’ with Granny an’ Mrs. Picker—the widder, as she is want to call herself—a talkin’ of the fleetin’ days which has p ist by an’ gone, you understand, Granny Picker branched away back to her girlhood, or what’s more com mon now, her sweetheart days, an’ begun to tell of olden times way back ynder Hit made me feel like I ust to when I was a little shirttail boy— how I would set an’ listen an’ some times trimble when she would tell of her raw-head an’ bloody bones tales, an o!e witch talcs, an’ ghosts, an’ sitedi like. I remember how she tolo me of a witch story onct what made me shake like a suplejack on pins, you understand, but s;ill I loved to hear it, an - 1 made her repeat it tonight before she turned in for her rest. Hit was somethin’ like this, an’ in her own words as near as J can put ’em down : “Flaw,” she started, “way back ynder, when 1 was a little girl, my granny tole me, un’ I recollect it as well as if it was only yisterday, as how my uncles, Joe an’ Ace, was a plowin’, an’as how my aunts, i’heby, Bithy, an’ 'food, which, you under stand, her right name was Kissiah was a hoein’ in a piece of bottom land, in between two bills, whilst there was a big swamp at the foot of one of ’em. Everything went along lovely as you please until about ten o’clock in the day, then everything got wrong—yes, I should say badly wrong. Ef it hadn't of bin for uncle Joe there would of bin a first-class corpse right kersmuckdab there in the big open field in broad open day light. “You know, Flaw, way back yan- der in them days hit was fashiona ble ter tiie female women folks to wear draw-strings in their, skerts, whilst, you understand, Aunt Toad’s draw-string broke, so she had to fasten her skert elsewise. As I go on down to tell, Flaw, you under stand, she jist pulled the string out an’ tied hit around her neck an’ worked on. A little fiste, which, you under stand, was a pet in the famiy, was a runnin’ of a rabbit on one of the hill sides whilst they was a plowin’ an’ a hoein’ to beat the band down in the bottom. All at onct, as I go on down to tell you, that blasted fiste hushed a barkin’ an’ darted down the side of the hill towards the swamp with his tail betwixt his hind legs at a rate that would in ike a male buck deer ashamed of Iiis si If—s del he jist naterully touched the ground in high places an’ didn’t tarry long enough to survey the low ones—right on through the swamp ho busted an’ then struck u he * line fer Aunt Tood. “At fust, Flaw, they thought he had tarried too long about a yaller- jacket nest but hit weren't long be fore they had made up their minds another way. Somethin' happened right thar an' then that made my blood run cold when I hcarn tell of it an’ I’ll never fergit it ontel I go down into my grave fer the last time, for Aunt Tood was the onliest aunt I liked so well an’ hit was to her an’ to her alone that happened what did. “When that fiste run up to her an’ drupped down atjher feet that draw-string around her neck begun to twist, an' twist, at the knot where she hnn tied it—twist an’ choke, choke an’ twist, whilst, you under stand, she couldn’t do a doggone thing but stand th ir an’ se'eam, an' hit weren’t long fill, by gracious, she couldn’t scream none to speak of. They said she was so black In the face tell she was fairly blue, she was choked so bud, before Uncle Joe could git to her an’ git his pocket knife out to cut the draw-string from around her neck. “Yes, Flaw, you meby mought preach to me ontel doomsday that thar weren’t no witches in those days but you’ll neverjgit me to a bleevin’ of it. That thar witch rode that dog to Aunt Tood an’ then twisted that knot an’ choked her. “There was an’ ole man an' wo man an' two gals what wanted to tend that piece of bottom land that year an’ (Granny wouldn’t let ’em havejit, | so they made their brags that cf they didn’t git to tend it that year tha' nobody el*.' should, an’ a!-, low me, Flaw, to impress it upon your mind that that very piece of i fine bottom land shore (tori laid our. that year, an’the little fGh- didn’t fall short in iayin’ out too, f.-r uncle Asa shot his brains out’n him that same evenin’ an’ iie is now over the river on the other shore so fer as I know.” Granny i’icker bleeves there use to be witches as mutch as she blteves ruin falls down an’ smoke goes up. Flaw 1‘rkkr. • • SHOT BY A BAD WOMAN. A Young White Man’s Indiscretion Causes Trouble. BLArKsnrRu, S. C., Jan. 31.—A shooting affair occurred at this place Sunday night that at lirst seemed a little mysterious. The first intima tion an) one had that such a tiling hud taken place, was when two young men called upon Drs. Anderson and Ramseur about l> :30 o’clock. One of them said that he had been shot and needed medical attention. That was of course given him and it developed that he had been shot in the abdo men and with a 32 calibre pistol. His suffering was relieved and after remaining under the care of Dr. Ratn- seur until about midnight, he left for Gaffney accompanied by the young man who had come with him to the Doctors. They had evidently made up their minds not to teil anything but did say that the one shot was named Os car iiallinun and the other Fred Gaff ney; that they both lived at Gaffney City and had come to Blacksburg on the iSunday morning train, that about 7 o’clock that evening, while in the presence of several, a shot had been fired and it struck Hailman, the place in the town where the shot had been fired, they did not know—claim ing that they did not know enough about the town to say and did not know who fired the shot but did know —that it was accidental. They seemedto lay considerable stress on this point. Later on, however while Hallman was resting, Gaffney became a little more com municative and said that lie thought the shooting had occurred near the branch road to Gaffney and when asked who the excited woman was that had callod him out at the house, said no woman had called him out, only to admit later on that a woman hud done so, hut, that he did not know her name. Monday morning the Chief of l’o- lice here received a message over the phone to arrest Maggie Lane, the most disreputable white woman in the town, who lived near theS. C. it G. R. R. to Gaffney. Shejwas of course promptly arrested but. just in the act of taking her departure. Con stable Gibson and roliceman Hall man took her to Gaffney and placed her it jail to await the result of Hall mans wound. From one of the officers your cor respondent learned that Gaffney had sworn out the warrant for the L^ne woman and said in substance that he and Hallman had known her in Gaffney; that Sunday night, after he and Hallman had a drink, they went to the woman’s house ;that Hall man seemed disposed to “have a little fun,” but that the woman did not seem so inclined; that while Hallman continued to go on with his “devilment.” the woman said she had shot one man before for the same tiling and could do so again, and with that fired the shot. E. a. r. « « • « ►— - - —— Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. 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