The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 16, 1899, Image 3

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♦ / y Not worth paying attention to, you say. Pernaps you have had it for weeks. It’s annoying because you have a constant desire to cough. It annoys you also because you remember that weak lungs is a family failing. At first it is a slight cough. At last it is a hemorrhage. At first it is easy to cure. At last, extremely difficult* quickly conquers your little hacking cough. y There is no doubt about | the cure now. Doubt comes \ from neglect. For over half a century Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral has been curing colds and coughs an J^' jven ting consumption. It cures Consumption also if taken in time. Keep oib: cf d?. Ayer’s cserr? Pectoral Piasters ever fcdBP Kings il yea cougb. &h3ft we send you a bo-'.k on tlJs subject, tree? Oiir r/iodsczl Department. If yon have any what ever aii<l desire the hent moillcal in!vine j ..u can poaxilily obtain, w rite the doctor freely. You will receive u prompt reply, without coat. AcireB8, UK. J. f AVER. Lowell, Maas. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, docs a general BankingandExchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. W. L. JOHNSON, — TKACHKU OF- Vocal and instrumental Music. TKUMS KKASONAHKE. ami M FT I lOHS LATF.sr ADorrED IN CINt INNA I tJ COKI.KGK OF Ml SIC. SI'Et.T A !. KATES TO SCHOOL OK CHI KCH CLASSES IN •SlOil'l KKAUINli and SINOING. 3-2S-3mo J. Clocuii Wau,a< k. .1. < ohak/.ii s otts. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All tmnlin'N'i Ini ri:>ii-<| to us. jflvou prompt itiid vl«orii’. al ti nl ion. ( dlii’c up stairs, ny\t to It. A. Junes ,'i ('o. Piedmont Saving and Investment Co, Greenville, S. C. J > A. rNHL The loan plan of Hds coinpany will l>« found far ruoro duslrvalilt! in i-voi'y way than the plans of Hulldlnt; & laians Asaoelatious. Our plan is a deiinlU' eontract at reasonable rules. J»aiis made tin approved property. J. C. JErreKiES, Local Attorney. Gaffney, S. O. The Pear! Steam Leyndry J IS' rcv«»yiOHt la o|M-r;tiuifr on tnil time and turnlnitout llriit-eliiss work. Keniember us when you want work done. Wo will eall for your package. We also have In operation A First-Class Grist Mill. Wo res|M>etfully solieit your putronafre and ask the people out of town to bring t lielr corn alonii when they coine In to do Iheir sliopplnp-. Will niitke your meal while you aio busy here and you will lose no time. McLemore Bros,, Prop's, TFHNEDTO DAUKNES8 DR. TALMAGE’S GRAPHIC PICTURE OF A GODLESS WORLD. Ueplo,-nl,le Coiulltlon Into W hich In fidelity Would, If It Could, I'luiiuu II „ in a »i t y —— A Lost Uuee Without bitiue Gulduuvu. [Copyright, Louis Klopach, IcM.J Washixotom, May 14.—In this aer- mon Dr. Tahnuge glvea a gliiuyse of what the world would be if the gospel were abolished and tbo human race left without divine guidance. The text i« Acts ii, 20, “The buu bhall be turned into darkness. ” Christianity is the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the up- rolling vapors of skepticism and the smoke of their blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose the archan gels of malice and horror should be let loose u little while and be allowed to extinguish and destroy the sun in the natural heavens! They would take the ceeans from other worlds and pour them on the luminary of the planetary system, and the waters go hissing down amid the tavines and the caverns, and there is explosion after explosion until there are only a few peaks of lire left in the sun, and these are cooling down and going out until the vast continents of flame are reduced to u small acreage of fire, and that whitens and cools off until there are only a few coals left, and these arc whitening and going out until there is not a spark left in all the mountains of ashes and the valleys of ashes and the chasms of ashes. An ex tinguished suul A dead sun I A buried snul Let all worlds wail at the stu pendous obsequies. Of course this withdrawal of the solar light and heat throws our earth into a universal chill, and the tropics become the temperate, and the temper ate becomes the arctic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and fro zen oceans. From arctic to antarctic regious the inhabitants gather in to ward the center and find the equator as the poles. Tire slain ft rests are piled up into a great bonfire, and around them gather the shivering villages and cities. Tiro wealth of the coal mines is hastily injured into the furnaces and stirred into rage of combustion, but soon the bonfiies begin to lower, and the fur naces begin to go out, and the nations begin to die. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, California geysers, cease to smoke, and the ice of hailstorms re mains unmelted in their crater. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at the mast, and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin. All na tions dying, first at the north and then at the south. Child frosted and dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead at tbo hearth. Workmen with frosan band on tbs baminsv and ftosan foot oq tbs ahnttla. ^talar from as* to ml All congealing wintsr. Par- petnal winter. Qloba of frigidity. Hemisphere shackled to hemisphere by chains of ice. Universal Nova Zembla. The earth an ico floe grinding again it other ice floes. The archangels of malice and horror have done their work, and now they may have their thrones of glacier and look down upon the ruin they have wrought. What the destruc tion of the sun in the natural heavens would be to our physical earth the de struction of Chrisitanity would be to the uroral world. The sun turned into darkness I What Atheism Wonld Do. Infidelity in our time is considered a great joke. There are people who re joice to bear Christianity caricatured and to hear Christ assailed with quib ble and quirk and misrepresentation and badinage and harlequinade. I pro pose today to take infidelity and atheism cut of the realm of jocularity into one of tragedy and show you what infidels propose and what, if they are success- I fill, they will accomplish. There are those in all our communities who wonld like to see tire Christian religion over thrown and who say the world wonld he better without it. I want to show you what is the end of this road, and what is the terminus of this crusade, and what this world will he when athe ism and infidelity have triumphed over it. if they can. I say, if they can. I re iterate it, if they can. In the first place, it will be the com plete and unutterable degradation of womanhood. I will prove it by facts and aiguments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and cities and states and nations where the Christian religion has been dominant woman’s condition has been ameliorat ed and improved, and she is deferred to and honored in a thousand things, and every gentleman takes off his hat be fore her. If your associations have been good, you know that the name of wife, mother, daughter, suggest gracious sur roundings. You know there are no bet ter schools and seminaries in this coun try than the schools and seminaries for our young ladies. You know that while woman may suffer injustice iu England and the United States, sire has more of her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. Now, compare this with woman’s condition in lauds where Christianity has made little or no advance—in China, in Barhary, in Borneo, iipTar tary, in Egypt, iu Hindustan. The Bur mese sell their wives and daughters us so many sheep. The Hindoo Bible makes it disgraceful and an outrage for a woman to listen to musie or look out of the window in the absence of her bus) and and gives as a lawful ground for divorce a woman’s beginning to eat before her husband has finished bis meal What mean those white bundles on the ponds and rivers iu China in the morning? Infanticide fallowing in fanticide. Female children destroyed simply because they are female. Wom an harnessed to the plow as an ox. Woman veiled and barricaded and in all styles of cruel seclusion Her birth a misfortune. Her life a torture. Her death a horror. The missionary of the cross today in heathen lands preaches generally to two groups—a group of men who do as they please and sit where they please; the other group, women hidden and carefully secluded k iu a side .apartment, where they may hear tlie voice of the preacher, but may not be seen. No r« finement. No liber ty. No hope for this life. No hope for the life to come. Hinged nose. Crumped foot. Disfigured face. Embrnted soul Now, compare those two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go 11 Christian influences were withdrawn and Christianity were destroyed? It is only a question of dynamics. If an ob ject be lifted to a certaia point and not fastened there and the lifting power he withdrawn, bow long before that object will fall down to the point from which it started? It will fail down, and it will go still farther than the point from which it started. Christianity has lifted woman up from the very depths of degradation almost to the skies. If that lifting power bo withdrawn, she fulls clear buck to thu depth from which she was resurrected, not going any lower, becauB-e there is no lower depth, and yet notwithstanding the fact that the only salvation of woman from degrada tion and woe is the Christian religion —and the only influence that has ever lifted her iu the social scales is Chris tianity—I have read that there are women who reject Christianity. I make no remark in regard to those persons. In the silence of your own soul make your observations. Demoralisation of Boeletr- If infidelity triumph and Christiani ty he overthrown, it means the demor alization of society. The one idea in the Bible that atheists and infidels most hate is the idea of retribution. Take away the idea of retribution and punishment from society, and it will begin very soon to disintegrate, and take away from the minds of men the fear of hell, and there are a great many of them who would very soon turn this world into a hell. The mujoirty of those who are indignant against the Bible because of the idea of punishment are men whose lives are bad or whose hearts are impure and who hate the Bible because of the idea of future pun ishment, for the same reason that crim inals hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this brave talk about people fear ing nothing of the consequences of sin in the neat world, and I have made up my mind it is merely a coward's whis tling to keep bis courage up. I have seen men flaunt their immoralities in the face of the community, and 1 have beard them defy the judgment day and scoff at the idea of any further conse quence of their sin, but when they came to die they shrieked until you could hear them for nearly two blocks, and in the summer night the neighbors got up to put the windows down, be cause they could not endure the horror. I would not want to see a rail train with 500 Christian people on hoard go down through a drawbridge into a watery grave; I would not want to see 500 Christian people go into such disas ter, but I tell you plainly that I could more easily see that than l could for any protracted time stand and see an infidel die, though his pillow were of eider down and under a canopy of veru ilion. I have never been able to brace up my nerves for such a spectacle. There is something at such a time so indescriba ble in the countenance. I just looked in upon it for a minute or two, hut the otatnk of his fist was so diabolic and tk# stfscjgth of Ms votes wee so unuet- •sel I #o*14 not smlos* it. “TbM# is ns hall, there la bo ball* there is no belli" the man had said for 00 years, but that night when I looked In the dying room of my infidel neighbor theie was something on bis countenance which soemed to say, “There is, there is, there is, there isl" The mightiest restraints today against theft, against immorality, against lib ertinism, against crime of all sorts—the mightiest restraints are the retributions of eternity. Men know that they can escape thu law, bat down in the offend ers’ soul there is the realization of the fact that they cannot escape God. He stands at the end of the road of prof ligacy. and he will not clear the guilty. Take all idea of retribution and punish ment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before our cities would become Sodouis. The only restraints against the evil passions of the world today are Bible restraints. Suppose now these generals of atheism and infidelity got the victory and sup pose they marshaled a great army made up of the majority of the world. They are in companies, in regiments, in brigades—the whole army. Forward, march! ye hosts of infidelsand-atbeists, banners fiying before, banners flying behind, banners inscribed with the words: “No God! NoCbristl NoPun- isbmentl No Restraints! Down With the Biblel Do as Yon Pleasel" The sun turned into darkness 1 Woalil Abolish Churches. Forward, march 1 ye great army of Infidels and atheists. And first of all pou will attack the churches. Away with those houses of worship 1 They have been standing tbsro so long delud ing the people with consolation in their bereavements and sorrows. All those ihurches ought to be extirpated; they have done so much to relieve the lost and bring home the wandering, and they have so long held up the idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the 8t. Peters and St. Pauls and the temples and taber nacles into clubhouses. Away with those churches 1 Forward, march 1 ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they scatter the Habbatb schools filled with blight eyed, rosy cheeked little ones who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon and getting instruction when they ought to be on the street corners playing marbles or swearing on the commons. Away with them I Forward, march' re ureal army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they will attack Christian asylums—the institutions ol mercy supported by Christian philan thropies. Never mind the blind eyes, and the deaf ears, and the crippled limbs, and thu darkened intellects. Let paralyzed old age pick up Its own foot!, and orphans fight their own way, and the half reformed go hack to thejr evil habits. Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and with your battleaxes hew down the cross and split up the manger of Bethlehem. On, ye great army of infidels and atheists, and now they come to the graveyards ami the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the sculpture above Greenwood’s gate, for it means the res urrection. Tear away at the entrance of Lunrel Hill the figure of Old Mortal ity and the chisel. On, ye great army of infidels and atheists, into the grave yards and cemeteries, and where you see, “Asleep In Jesus," cut it away, and where yon find a marble story of heaven, blast it, and when you find over a little child’s grave, “Huffer little children to come unto me," substitute the words “delusion" and “sham," and where you find an angel in marble, strike off the wing, and when you come to a family vault, chisel on the door, “Dead olice, dead forever." But on, ye great army of infidels and atheists, on! They will attempt to scale heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile billon bill, and Pelion upon Ossa, and then they hoist the ladders against the walls of heaven. On and on until they blow up the foundations of jasper and the gates of pearl. They charge up the steep. Now they aim for tiie throne of him who liveth forever and ever. They would take down from their high place the Father, the 8un, the Holy Ghost. “Djwii with them!" they ray. “Down with them from the throne!” they say. “Down forever I Down out of sight 1 He is not God. He has no right to sit there. Down with him! Down with Christ!" Tamed Hack to Savatfery. A world without a head, a universe without a king. Orphan constellations. Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated God. Patricide, regicide, deicide. That is what they mean. That is what they will have, if they can. I say, if they can. Civilization hurled back into semibarbarism, and semi barbarism driven back into Hottentot savagery. The wheel of progress turned the other way and turned toward the dark ages. The clock of the centuries put back 2,000 years. Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from your schools, and from your colleges, and from your reformed condition, to what you were in 1H20, when the missionaries first came. Cull home the 500 missionaries from India and overthrow their 2,000 schools, where they are trying to educate the heathen, and scatter the 140,000 little children that they have gathered out of barbarism into civilization. Obliter ate all the work of Dr. Duff in India, of David Abed in China, of Dr. King in Greece, of Judson in Burma, of David Bruinerd amid the American aborigines, and send heme the 3,000 missionaries of the cross who are toil ing in foreign lands, toiling for Christ’s sake, toiling themselves Into the grave. Tell these 3,000 men of God that they are of u<* use. Send home the medical missionaries who are doctoring the bodies as well us the souls of the dying nations. Go home, London Missionary society! Go home, American board of foreign missions 1 Go home, ye Mora vians, and relinquish hack into darkness and squalor and death the nations whom ye have begun to lift. Oh, my friends, there has never been such a nefarious plot on earth us that which infidelity and atheism have plan ned. We were shocked a few years ago been use of the attempt to blow up the parliament houses in London, but if in fidelity and atheism succeed in their at tempt they will dynamite a world. Let them have their full way, and this world will he a habitation of three rooms—a habitation with just three rooms; the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the other a pandemonium. These infidel hands of music have only just begun their concert—yea, they have (jaljr bean stTiBging their iustru- rnetits. I today p*l b«4ove jam their whole programme from baftnaieg unto close. Lb the theater tbs tragedy comes first and the farce afterward, but in this infidel drama of death the farce comes first and the tragedy afterward. And iu the former, atheists and infidels laugh and mock, hut in the latter God himself will laugh and mock. He says so. “I will laugh ut their calamity and meek when their fear cometh.” From such a chasm of individual, na tional, worldwide ruin, stand hack. Oh, young men, stand back from that chasm! You ses the practical drift cf my sermon. I want you to know where that road leads. Mtund buck from that chasm of ruin. The time is going to come (you and I may not live to see it, hut it will come, just ns certainly ns there is a God, it will come) when the infidels and the atheists who openly and out and out and aboveboard preach and practice infidelity and atheism, will be considered as criminals against society, as they are now criminals against God. Society will push out the leper, and the wretch with soul gan grened and ichorous and vermin cover ed and rotting apart with his bestiali ty will be left to die iu the ditch and be denied decent burial, and men will come with spades and cover up the car cass where it falls, that it poison not t j air, and the only text in all the Bi ble appropriate for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah xxii, 19, “He shall be buried with the burial of an ass." In fidelity Will Kail. A thousand voices como up to me this hour, saying: “Do yon really think infidelity will succeed? Has Chris tianity received its deathblow? And will the Bible become obsolete?" Yes, when the smoko of the city chimney arrests and destroys the noonday sun. { osephus says shout the time of the estructiou of Jerusalem the sun was turned Into darkness, but only the clouds rolled between the sun and the earth. The sun went right ou. It is thu same sun, the same luminary, us when at the beginning it shot out like an electric Kpark from God’s finger, and today-it is warming the nations, and today it is gilding the sea, and today it is filling the earth with its light. The same old sun, not ut all worn out, though its light steps one hundred and ninety million miles it second, though its pulsations are four hundred and fifty trillion undulations in a second. The same sun with beautiful white light mude up of the violet, and the* indigo, and the blue, and the green, and thu red, and the yellow, and the orange — the seven beautiful colors, now just as when the solar spectrum first divided them. At the beginning God said, “Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Chris tianity is rolling on, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask iu its light. Men may shut the window blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of spocnlutfon until they are shadowed under their own vajiorlug, but the Lord God is u sun! This white light of the gospel made up of all the beautiful colors of eurfb and heaven—violet plucked from amid the spring grass, and the indigo of the southern jungles, and the blue of the skies, and the green of the foliage, and the yellow of the autumnal wocjs, and the orange of the southern groves, and the red of thu sunsets. All the beauties of earth and heaven brought out by this spiritual spectrum. Great Britain is going to taku all Europe for God. The United States are going to take America for God. Both of them together will take all Asia for God. All three of them will take Africa for God. “Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubhabel thou shult become u plain.” “The month of tbo Lord hath spoken ft." HaHeluiah, amen! A NOVEL CIGAR HOLDER. Cutitiilii Wit it tsmil Po»bCSM*nOm» Murte Kroni it l.oliMter'n 1 Intv. There is a novelty in the shape of a cigar bolder which is being introduced into Kansas City. It is distinctly Eng lish and decidedly uncanny. The holder is made of the inside daw of thu left fin of the deep sea lobster. Captain Maitland of the zoo lias one of the cigar holders, and he has present ed several others to his friends. As one would naturally expect from the cap tain, who has many interesting curios about his person, his possessions are very much out of thu ordinary. He se cured his lobster fin cigar bolder some time ago wbilo on the Atlantic coast. He was In u market place one day and noticed a very line specimen of lobster. The captain is an Englishman, and, having seen and used many of the unique holders, decided that the claw of this lobster wonld make a very fine holder for his Havana. He purchased the lobster and cut off the claw and put it in his trunk. A few weeks ago, struck with the novelty of the thing in a city where even the lobster is not common, to say nothing of the trinkets made from the shell, he got out the shell and polished it. up. It makes an ideal cigar holder. It is about two inches in length, and one side of it is serrated. When it is first used, it is a bright red, the color of a boiled lobster. As the smoko and nicotine penetrate the soft shell it grad ually turns black as ebony. At first the color begins in spots and then spreads entirely over the entire bolder, with the exception of the teeth, which still retain their vermilion hue. In England, where the lobster shell is much need in the manufacture of trinkets, the cignr holder madu of the claw is very common. It is, however, only about one lobster In 50 that is available for this use. The jeweler takes the holder In the rough and polishes it. He puts an amber tip on it and a silver or gold band ou thu large end, and it sells easily. It much resembles a meer schaum, and people who have used these holders for long periods of time say that they get to like the taste jt the lobster holder us much as thu cigar itself. The captain was presented a few days ago with the left paw of a mon key, which was formerly the property of little Edna, who belonged to Bert Scott of the Capital saloon. Mr. Scott was the advance agent of Cole’s, Mid dleton’s and Lumen Bros.’ circuses. The paw has become mummified, and gold bands have been placed around it. It is intended for a watch charm and will hereafter be displayed upon the vest ut the captain.—Kansas City Times. Tk« niahop Wan a M Blooker.” Talking about bishops, the other uft- ssmesB • 44jtlnf»isii»4, stataiy man, clod in ttas fsrbof a lutalstor, was over at tbs flab oMnmlanloM, spending a half hoar iu watching the gyrations of the specimens In the tank. One of the sci entists of the institution, a young ich thyologist, whose papers ou the subject of deep sea investigation are attracting attention throughout the world, hap pened, in passing the tank, to notice the minister. Ho studied the stately visitor for a minute, ami then he walk ed up to him. “Am I right," ho inquired, “iu eup- IKjsing yon to be the Right Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolvlug, Episcopal bishop of Brazil?" “You are," replied the stately man, regarding ids questioner wonderingly. “Well, then, hello, ‘Blookerl’ ’’ said the scientist jovially, holding out his hand. “Why, hello, there, Charlie!" warm ly replied the Right Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, Episcopal bishop of Brazil,, squeezing the young scientist’s hand. Diagram: The two men had been chums iu a boarding school down in Virginia when they were boys, and they hadn’t seen each other since. The bishop’s nickname among the boys was “Blouker. "—Washington Post. Pneumonia, la grippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping-cough readily yield to One Minute Cough Cure, Use this remedy in time and save u doctor’s bill—or the under taker’s. Cherokee Drug Co.. Gaff ney, 8. C., and It. 8. Withers, Blacksburg 8. C. A German doctor has started a theory that most drunkuuds can be cured simply by eating apples at every meal. The acid gas does it. If you have piles, cure them. No use undergoing horrible operations that simply remove the results of the disease without disturbing the dis ease itself. Place your confidence in DeWitt’s Witch Hazel 8alve. It has never failed to cure others; it will uot fail to cure you. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C.. and R. 8. With ers, Blacksburg, 8. C. The cost of maintaining convicts at the Michigan penitentiary is 38£c each day. and the daily earnings of the prisoners average UiUc each per day. Ilojit-Hty U tli<* lt< »t Follcy. Honest goods, honest prices and hon est dealings will bring succtss. Every hour proves it. The last days of the Nineteenth Century show nothing more clearly. We believe this fact and our works demonstrate our belief. Our goods are warranted to be exactly as represented, that is honest; our goods are guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, that Is hon est. If any article o? jewelry of our manufacture does not givo perfect satisfaction we will refund the money paid for such articles; that too is honest. A. 11. Pollock, of Blacksburg, 8. C., has a complete assortment of our goods in his store for sale at prices that defy competition. These goods are made from rolled gold, gold tilled or money will be refunded. W. F. Main Co.. Iowa City, la. Duality Is Dlood Duui». Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. ('tiscuruts.Cundy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lezy liver and driving all im- I miities from the body. Begin to duy to lanisli pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking C’nscarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 00c. THE LATEST COT TON MILL NEWS, Items of Interest to Textile Workers. OPERATIVE PERSONALS The Improvement,* i»n<l Advancements of thu I’ast Wuuk In North mid South Caro lina Cotton Mills and Hosiery Facto ries, Ktc. | Southern and Western Textile Excelsior.! J. W. Mcbee, card grinder, has^ changed from Cowpens to Mills Mill, C-reenville, 8, C. W. A. Gill, late superintendent, Ashvilie, N. C., Cotton Mill, expects to go to Providence, R I. L. II. Holcomb, loomfixer, Clifton, 8. C., Mill No. 2, has resigned, but us yet it is not known where he will pitch. J. B. Moore will resign as boss spin ner at McOoll, 8. C., Manufacturing Company, to take charge of Indian Creek Mills, LincDlnton, N\ C., on or about J une 1st ’99. Lee Dearman has resigned as night carder at the Norwood, N. C\, Cotton Mills on account of poor health. He has taken a position with bis father as contractor at 8pencer, N. C., for (he summer. Hewitt Bros, have sold their Char lotte roller covering shop to Mensing & Bruner, but E. L. Hewitt will con tinue as manager. The Hewitts also recently sold out their shop at Greensboro, N. C. The weave room hands of Henri etta, N. C., Mill No. 1 last week pre sented their former overseer, J. 8. Lamb, with a $10 gold cane, the Methodist preacher making the pre sentation address. A. M. Cobb has resigned as M. M. at Tucuaseige Mill, Mt. Holly, N. C., to take a similar position with Mc- Coll, 8. C., Manufacturing Company, assisting G. li. Spencer, chief engi neer and Master Machayic. It is reported that J. M. Splawn has resigned as general manager of the new Valley Falls Cotton Mills, Lolo, near Spartanburg, 8. C., being succeeded by a Northern man who is putting considerable money into the enterprise. 8. E. Ervin has gone to Charlotte to run the carding and spinning at night in the Alpha Mills. He left the American Spinning Company, Greenville, where he was Sod boss spinner, and .John Thomas of Pacolet succeeds him. L. Banks Holt, the cotton manu facturer of Graham, N. C., attended the Confederate veterans reunion at Charleston, 8, C., last week. Mr. Holt hud as visitors, Mr. Jusltn Ware and wife of Worcester, Mass., the parents of A. L. Ware, superin tendent Oneida Mills. The dwelling house of I). Rodney liarrimun. superintendent, of the F. W. Roe Mills, Greenville, 8. C., was discovered to be on fire Sunday night, the 7th. Fortunately the flames were soon extinguished. The dam age to furniture, etc., amounted to about $.>0, fully insured. J. D. Boseman, superintendent Albion Mills. Mt. Holly, N. C., and Stanley, N. C., Cotton Mills is just up from several weeks in bed, to which he was confined by a severe illness of peritonitis, for which he hud to undergo a surgical operation. He managed to pull over to the ban quet Thursday evening. Beaumont Manufacturing Com pany, Spartanburg, 8. C., have their dyt jhouse completed, a id things in nice working order. This is a large and commodious building and every thing conveniently arranged for dye ing skein yarn. Another additional building will bo erected immediately to he used as a packing room. Capt. David Clark, who has re cently been learning the mill busi ness under Superintendent Giligan at Ft. Mill, 8. C., this week accepted a position as traveling agent for the I). A. Tompkins Company, of Charlotte, selling tiie Mason and other machin ery. Capt. Clark is a fine draughts man, being a graduate of Cornell University. J. K. Stott, who recently resigned as superintendent of Eureka Mills. Chester, 8. C., and who we announced had gone North to take charge of the spinning iu the big Acushnet Mills, Ntw Bedford, Muss., was last week joined by his family from Chester. Mr. Siott has charge of the lin« spin ning and sends us a sample of the 117s two ply mercerised cotton yarn he is making which is “as fine as silk.’’ Cowpens, 8. C., Cotton Mills are making considerable improvements. A TiOx 150 foot addition is now being added. Six new spinning frames and bO looms will he installed immed iately. Tills will give them 10,128 spindles and 254 looms. J. W. Dun ham is superintendent, L. H. Black carder and •spinner, and Chas. Mc- Dade boss weaver. Mr. McDade re cently came from Clifton No. 2. but resigned to accept his present posi tion. • Mill men captured the town offices of Kings Mountain, N. C., at the election lust week. W. A. Mauuey, president of Kings Mountain Man ufacturing Company, was elected Mayor, and superintendent C. E. Neisler of the same mill, and C. A Diiling, secretary and treasurer, of. the Diiling Mill, and T. L. Ware, secretary and treasurer, Enterprise Mills, and J. C. 1’atrick were elected town commissioners, while Capt. F. 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CLINE & LEMMONS, Livery, Feed and Sale Stables# MONTGOMERY'S OLD STAND. First-clnss turnouts; prompt attention; and courteous attendants. PC' - We solicit your patronage. C. JEFFERIES*- GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practices in All the Courts. Collections a Specialty. D. R.Duncan. C. P.Sanders. W.S. Hall.Jr, DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office two doors above Ledger Office. All business attended to carefully and promptly. Special attention given to collec tions. Real Estate For Sale. For sale, on liberal terms, five tracts of land adjoining- Limestone property. Tracts vary in acreage from inq to 70 :j-10. ary in acreage from loia to To :j-10. Also eight lots of the hotel property at Limestone. Excellent building sites and cheap. The old hotel and lot Is also for sale. Apply to B. O. Sams. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Office over R. A. Jonee & Co’s Stcre Can be found at office six days lu the week DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, j- - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 20th of each month ; SOUTHERN RAILWAY. CoudeuBed Schedule of Paetenger Train#. In Effect Muy 1st, 1*99. Northbound. Lv. AtluntM, C.T. •• AtUuats, S.T. “ Nurcross “ Huford. “ Gainesville... “ Lula “ Cornelia. Ar. Mt. Airy Lv. Tycoon, “ Westminster “ benecu “ Cent rid M OraanvlUn!.. “ bpurttiulmrg. “ Dsffnevs. “ Biaeksuurg.. “ King's Mt “ Cn^ti.iiat Lv. Charlotte Ai . Greensboro Lv. CD eensboro. Ar. Norfolk No. 13 • tally V«*. No. as Daily. 7 W a! 12 00 in f> 6'J h 1 00 p 9 DO u 10 OS u 10 ») a lOSfi a 11 2fi a 11 80 g 11 58 SI 1281 m 12 f* p 1 10 p 'i 34 p 887 p (20 p Ml 6 2* i 980 p 9 52 p IQ 2 22 p 2 42 p 8 00 p 8 80 p 4 Ifi p Ar. rrinviilo ArBtchmnni? Ar.Waehlorten * HaltmoPHK. “ Philadelphia. “ Now York .. Ill 26 t> fidHa H 45 P 8 20 a 11 S0_j> Too a 4 8fi p 6 85 p 0 28p 7 08 p 7 «p 8 08 p 8 85 p 8 40 p 0 42 a 8 00 s 10 10 u 12 48 m Tut.Ml| V«s. Koutlihoiiud. No. as No. 37 I tall v. Daily. L;.N. V .k'R.K'P *’ Philadelphia i 3 50 a 6 05 p " Baltimore 6 22 a 9 20 p " Washington. ;U U> a 10 46 p CvTE dunond .. IU 'Olninjif (JTp Lv Danville , 0 02 Lv. Norfolk Ar Greensboro Vet. Ml No. 3tt Dally. 11 50 p 12 50 a 1 80 a 4 28 • 2 00 s 3 42 a 4 21) s 4 87 a 5 02 a A SO a 0 46 s 7 26 a 7 42 a 8 05 a 8 28 a 0 26 a 12 00 u r p 0 90 a tor? ..! 6 IS a Hk P 10 07 p 10 45 P‘J0 68 3 17 a Lv Greensboro.. 7 24 Ar Charlotte ... IQ 00 Lv. Gastonia Id 49 *• King’s Mt.. ’’ USicksburg 11 81 ” Gaffneys 11 40 *• Hpartouburg 12 2« “ Greenville.... 125 “ (.’euti ftl . “ Sern-cA 2 28 “ Westminster. ** Too Oft " Mt. A.rf “ Cornalis “ Lula. ** GaincAvtlle .. " Buford ’• Norcross /r Atlanta, E. T- Ar. Atlanta, C. T. •A'’ s. in. “F’ p. m7 noon. Chesapeake I.ttao Steamer* In dally service between Norfolk and Baltimore. Nos. tr, and 80—Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Limited. Through PuDman sleeping cars between Now York and Now Or leans. via Washington, Atlanta and Mpntgom ♦ry. and also between New York vi&Meinphln viaW^dugton.Atlantaaud Birmingham. 91 rA ton and 0 IU a| 4 65 25 8 66 5m 11 Daily 11 25 U 2 66 a 0 23j lYoTp 610 a 7 37 a 12 05m 1 12 p 1 88 p 2 00 p 2 24 p *15 p 480 p 6 25 p 5 63 p 6 10 p 0 60 p 788 p 7 41 p 814 p 8 40 p 012 p 9 43 p 10 30 p ><•17. Kx. Sun. T3T5 6 36 a 667 a 7 20 a 7 48 a 821 a 0*0 a 0Ml p 880 a N" night. Birmingham. Uevwern Washing- Dining cars Skrve all meal* Dining _ dr a win between Greonsboro and 1 nect ion at Norfolk for OLD POI! ■ Nos. 85 and 80—United btatus Fast Malt an routa. PaLruaodrawfug room aloeping cars Norfolk, ('lose con INT COMFORT. runs solid between Washington and New Or leans, via Southern Railway, A. A W P. R. R. and L. A N. K. li., being com noted of baggage car and coaches, through without change tof passengers of all class**. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between Now York an] New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery and bet we n Charlotte and Birmingham. Leaving Washington each Wednesday and Saturday, ■ tourist sleeping car will run through between Washington and Hun Francisco without ehanga. Dining cars serve all meals euroute. Nos. 11,85, 34 and i2- Pullman sloaulug cart between Richmond and Charlotte, via Dan villa, southbound No*. Il and 33, northbound Not. 14 and 12 FRANK H GANNON. J M CULP, Third V P. A Gen. Mgr.. Traffic MVr. Washington, D. C. Washington, D. U W. A TURK. B H. HARDWICK, Gen’l Pas* Ag’h, Ass’tGen r l Pans Ag’*., W asliingpoi, D. C, Atlanta, Qa