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$1.00 per Year. P(»RLIHIIKI) TI'KKDAY ANI» KKIOAY BY^. En. II. DkCamp. The Leooek is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. W’rite short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. OAFFN'KY’S GOI.DKN Ol’roRTt'NITY. Probably the greatest wr ter that the world has ever known said : ••Tliere is n tide In the ae.ors of men Wliieli. taken at the Hood leads on to fot- t une. The same thing may be said of towns, for what is a town but an ag gregation of individuals? Last week OalTney had a distinguished visitor in the personage of Hon. Theodore Jlierck. Mr. Bierck is a resident of Europe, but he is interested in the Oairney Carpet Manufacturing Com pany. He came here on a visit to his nephew, Mr. J. E. Bierck, the president and manager of that com pany. He has gone to Minneapolis, Minn., now, and what we may say may never reach him, and therefore we feel more at liberty to express our.-elf. He impressed us as being a wide-awake, liberal^ gentleman. He told us he was most favorably impressed with Callney, and that al though he had lived in Charleston and Macon, Ca., some thirty years ; ago he believed (Jaffney’s future was as bright as most of these larger cities, that he now had interests in Callney and he wanted to see this cily outstrip any other in the line of progress. Mr. Bierck assured us that there was capital in Europe that was daily seeking investments and that the promoters of enter prises who went there from the Pnited States never once mentioned the great possibilities of this great Southland—they were always talking of the East and West and North but the South was never mentioned. Mr. Bierck wanted some printed in formation about CalTney and Chero kee county but we had none to give him. He assured us that if we would gather up some facts and statistics concerning this section that he would take great pleasure in distributing this information among his friends in Germany and interest them in Gaffney, in Cherokee, in South Carolina. Mr. Bierck returns to Germany in about two weeks. He has promi. ed to write some let ters to The Ledger and we in turn have promised to send him all the information we can get. We want him to become so deeply interested in Gaffney that he will close out all his business across the ocean and move to Gaffney. We want bina to become so deeply interested that be will induce any number of good citi zens lo move to Gaffney. We want good citizens; the other kind we can do without. In this connection we would like t) ask what has become of our Busi ness Men’s Association? What has become of the proposed descriptive pamphlet of Gaffney? These things must be kept alive and we want to see them move to the front once more. The tide is rising and if our citi zens are true to their record they will take it at the flood. If they i eglect it they will find the rest of the journey, “in quicksands and shallows” us tire poet has further told us. Let that pamphlet be forth coming. The writing and printing can be done us soon as the facts are gathered up. TIIK SITt ATION. The Cubans are sullen and dissatis fied. Not even the three millions of gold sent over by I'ncle Bam has charms to soothe their savage breasts. Ne one can tell exactly what form tha.dissatisfaction will assume, or exactv how it will express itself; but it » certain that the work of pac ification ^ Cuba is far from com- rt^Jetc. rn to the Philippines wo find thorrtP^^BWSan-rttltTihg In and our forces falling tack for lack of men to hold the ground already ac quired. Bo, just at this time expan sion is not expanding. The elements aje mighty warriors. Cold annihi lated the grand army of Russia and humbled the proudest conqueror of history; darkness killed Stonewall Jackson at Chanccllorsville and checked and demoralized his charg ing columns that were fast annihila ting the “finest army on the planet;” and heat and rain in the Philippines are mightier forces than Dewey’s fleet and Otis'and Lawton’s armies. During the period of Rome’s “ex pansion” the temple of Jannus stood open for seven hundred years, there by indicating to tiie people that their armies were waging war all that time in some part of the world, spreading, us they no doubt claimed, t he bless ings of Kwtnun civilization and relig ion over the benighted regions of the earth. No doubt further, Destiny | look hand and impressed Roman rulers with the overwhelming convic tion of their duty to the out-lying nations of barbarians. History repeats itself. Tliere will never be a time in the coming centu ries when there will not bo the same argument for still further expansion as that which is now used—when the fiats of Destiny will not be just as arbitrary as they are now—and so we see no reason why this expansion business may not go on expanding until it shall burst like the Roman expansion did, and vanish in “the eternal night of ages.” AN IMPORTANT OKCISION. An important decision has been rendered by the state supreme court affecting tiie maturing of Building and I.oan stock. According to decis ion, whenever a borrower shall have paid up tiie amount borrowed with legal interest the mortgage against him shall be surrendered and the debt cancelled. In a word, the court holds that tiie borrower from a Build ing and Loan is not a copartner, as the companies claim, and is not re sponsible for any part of the losses which tiie company tnay sustain. We believe that this is a righteous decision and that it will afford great relief to many who are in the clutch es of the Building and Loan Associa tion. Tiie decision, however, if we understand it, will apply only to cases in this state. Those who have borrowed from Associations located in other states will probably have to seek relief in tiie I'nited States court. NOTES and comments. This is to notify the public in gen eral and a few chronic kickers in particular that Gaffney is going to have a celebration on Tuesday, July 4th, 1899. We invite you all—the public and tiie kickers—to join and we will endeavor to make you have an enjoyable time. We want all of Cleveland, York, Lnion and Spartan burg to join us, and as many others as will. Let us make tiie Fourth a day long to be remembered. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The crop prospects within the lim its of our observation are not encour- aging. Wheat may be well headed and grained, but is generally so low that it will be saved with difficulty, if saved at all. Without rain in a very short time, spring oats will be a complete failure, while the full oats can hardly be harvested. Gardens are sorrv and potato patches keep them company. Of course tiie main crops of corn and cotton are not suf ficiently advanced to indicate how they will come out. The neat little monument erected in 1852 on tiie field of Cowpens by the Washington Light Infantry has met witli ruder treatment at the hands of man than of time. It has been so defaced and mutilated that it is no longer possible to read tiie in scriptions, and it stands only as a monument to the reckless deprav- pravity of humun^ature, and, as an Insult and a mockery to the noble sen - timent tiiat placed it there forty two years ago. We do not believe that this desecration is justly chargeable to tiie people who live around the battleground. r«)ple who behaved as they did ’ait Baturday are incapa ble of sucli a meanness. We think the work has been done by strolling vagabonds and relic-seeking vandals. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Reports continue to come from Manila to the effect that the affairs of Aguinaldo and his followers are in a bad way, and that the war is nearly over. It is possible that if we could hear directly from the Filipinos it would be the Americans who were showing signs of weakness. The af fairs of the enemy are always in u bad way according to the story of the opposite side. It is assured tiiat Aguinaldo actually weeps over the situation. That may be true and still no sign of weakness nor defeat. We have known men to be come so angry that they cried, and they proved to be in a very danger ous mood about the time the tears began to flow. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Wireless telegraphy is one of the probabilities of the near future in fact it is already here on a small scale, and tiie scale will almost cer tainly be extended. At a recent con vention of Railway Telegraph Sup erintendents held in Wilmington, N C., several successful demonstra tions were made in this wonderful art or science, or whatever it may be called. Nature is giving up her se crets one by one in these latter days and there seems to be no practical limit to the researches and triumphs of the human mind. The wires at tached to our telephones may soon be discarded as encumbrances, and no man can say positively that tiie time will not come when a man may put his mouth down to the ground and rebuke a ‘ heathen Chinee” on tiie oilier side of the globe or start a sound wave through the air that shall wake up some sleeping sinner on the planet Mars. THE '‘KERNEL" AT THE REUNION, Things that He Heard and Saw. INTEBESTING INCIDENTS Tin- Mott! YerltuMe Cun federate Troupers Were Ci\mp ClieatliHin, of Nattlivllle. and tiie “Tar Heeli*”—The Pyroteclinleal llls- play Wednesday Evening. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) We got a little off in our narrative and should have said more of the veteran parade, as that is what we went to see and talk about more than —or as much as—anything else. While the troops were marching and counter-marching, falling into line wo were anxious to see the most veritable looking Confederate troops, and we think in this Camp Cheat ham, of Nashville, Tenn., took the lead. They wore tiie old fashioned homemade clothes, dyed in walnut root colors, had their canteens, haversacks, blankets, guns and bayo nets—just as they did while follow ing thoir immortal chieftain. They came up in columns of fours—all robust, hearty, stalwart looking Tennesseeans, from fifty to s seventy- five years of age. Tiie cavalry wore their sabres as usual, with yellow cords around their hats. Immediately in rear of tiie column was the ('amp of Sons of Veterans, from Nashville, dressed just like their fathers, but without tiie accou trements worn by the former. Tiie boys had been drilled to know how to perform their part in the scene. While tiie band kept playing the old veterans and boys “marked time” to the music. They carried their old battle-flags with Shiloh, Corinth, Murfreesboro, Franklin and Cliicka- nrmuga inscribed. These had been riddled with bul.ets. No less than six men had been shot down with some of them. My attention was attracted to a very small boy in the rear file of fours and I made my way to him to find out who he was and all about him. His name was Frank Anderson, aged six years, of Camp Cheatham Sous of Veterans, of Nash ville, Tennessee. He was doubtless the youngest soldier in line that day. I had tiie pleasure of going with Master Frank in a row boat out to board the famous war ship Raleigh, which lay three-fourths of a mile from the wharf. Tiie Virgina camps, R. E. Lee, A. P. Hill and Pickett, were beautifully uniformed in Confederate grey, but they were without tiie other accou trements with which our Tennessee brethren were supplied. Nothing at tracted more attention than one of the guns of Stuart’s light artillery. The North Carolinians made a splendid show, too. They wore tiie old Confederate grey, with canteens, haversacks and blankets strapped on their shoulders. Each member of one camp, (a large one, too), had sticks about tiie size and length of a hoe bundle, which they carried as guns. On tiie top of each of these sticks hung a small bucket about the size of u snuff box. labelled “Tar” in large letters. These, or most of them at least, seemed to be farmers. Its a fact, the Bouth Carolinian is no prouder of the palmetto than the North Carolinian is of ’‘tar,” an amblem of their sticking qualities. Before 1 get through I have much more to tell of the “Tar Heel” at the reunion. Outside the states of North Caro lina, Tennessee and Virginia tliere was no great amount of State pride shown, as we could see. All did fairly well, though, but these three excelled the others beyond a doubt. Bouth Carolina had about 2,600 veterans enrolled, and perhaps that same number scattered here and there over the city sight-seeing. Georgia claimed to have 8,000 veter ans on the grounds besides a corres ponding number of women and sons of veterans. It would be a great pleasure for us to repeat in full Dr. Veddee’s ode on the memorial occasion, but space forbids. It was full of both learning and pathos. Just after dark on Wednesday, 10th inst., I went the baseball park to see the pyrotechnical display and witness the battle of Manassas. More than we can imag ine this was a realistic scene. Before the battle began the armies could be seen in camp in sight of each other. Confederate bands played “Dixie,” “Bonnie Blue Flag,” etc., while tiie Federal bands played “Yankee Doo dle,” “Star Bpangled Banner,” etc. The troops began to maneuver. Picket firing increased into a skir mish, and then to a regular line of battle. The different lines would fire and fall back; then rally and come back at the double quick, fire volley after volley and retreat. Artilhry was brought in that added greatly to the magnificence of the scene. We pity the martial spirit of a man who does not admire the sublimity of an artiilery dual. Cannons were placed in porition and handled with all the dexterity of veteran artillerymen in a bona fide engagement. The fortune of tiie day hung seemingly in an even balance for a long time, first on one side, then on the other. The boys in grey at last made a charge and routed tiie boys in blue, who were scattered to the four wiuds, as it were. Here tiie cheering was deafening as the army marched over the battle field in charge of its priso ners to the tune of Dixie, played by the bands. The sham battle in Co lonial Lake that night was no less interesting to all who saw it than was the battle of Manassas. Fully ten- thousand people saw this animating scene. Tiie point, of attack was Fort Bumter, built on Colonial Lake. Beve.ul small boats, Hying tiie Con federate Hag, stormedr the fort, and to these were added four first-class battle ships, four cruisers ani two torpedo boats. As the huge fire balls struck the sides of the fort they would sputter into the water, while the torpedoes would send a cloud of spray into the air. For nearly three-quarters of an hour this bombardment went on. Tiie whole ol the western part of tiie city was beautifully illuminated during this scene. It was more like a real battle fought on sea than an imitation of one. Mr. George 8. Legare, of Charles ton, chairman of the committee on amusements, managed this scene with great credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the thousands who witnessed it. j. i.. s. WHAT A ROSE DID. Mrn. Flaw Tlekli-n tin- OKI Mhii'h Funcy Once More. f This season comes the nearest a suitin’ of my taste of any other sea son in all the year. When I note the green leaves an’ buds a growin’, the daddy an’ mammy birds a singin’ of their sweet songs of summer to cheer an’ animate the little hearts of the little big mouthed pair of twins they watch with unceasin’dili gence, the bees a bummin’ in their happiness of new life agaiiij when the sweet flowers peep up in ail beauty to breathe tha sweet refreshin’ air of spring an’ take on new life. When tiie nimble squirrel seeks tiie sweet red tasseled maple an’ jumps from limb to limb a helpin’ of his self to the sweet delicate dainties which he may find there; when the polk sallit ushers forth in ail its ten derness an’ palatableness to supply the wants of the poor au’ needy; when tiie butterfly with his calico wings an’ velvet body, Hits here an’ there workin’ diligently for the dew- flavored sweets in every flower, when the streets, churches, roads, and so fortli are adored with sweet faced women with their butterfly dresses, bummin’ bird huts decked with the exquisite beauties of art, an’ rosy tinted ribbons tucked, vowed or puckered up in tasteless beauty, then it is tiiat ole Flaw wants to take ids self back to his boyhood days; when in calico body an’ knee britches I used to go to Sunday school, hunt birds nests, wade in the branch;an’ hunt hornyhead’s beds an’ watcii the little red minners a swimmin’ over it, an’ when I used to tarry long in the wild strawberry patches an’ partake of tiie sweet flavored delicacies God, in his thoughtfulness, lias provided for tiie pleasures an’ lit ppiness fer little boys an’ girls, but hit is all over with ole Flaw now. Tiie strawber ries have lost tliaff delicate flavor peculiar to olden times, my feet are smothered an’ hot, my steps are slower limn then, Sunday scliooi only serves to run me back to boyhood to lament of the bygone days of bliss an’ happiness, whilst, ef I were to pull off my shoes to play in the branch now tiie sharp edged rocks, which used to be round an’ smoothe, would gore the blood from my feet at every pace an, finally at last wind up with u bad case of pneumonia, ments, story telling, etc. In short or somethin’ else, an’ a little Pick er would be in every bend of tiie road a cryin’ for bread. In speakin’ of springtime, roses an’ pritty women I wouldn’t forgit to tell how tiie widder beat me into tiie front yard t’otiier mornin’ an’ aginst I got out she had done an’ got a priity rose an’ was a waitin’ to pin it on my coat. W’hilst she was a pinnin’ of it on she glanced one of her familious glances into my face an’ hit run my mind way back to our courtin’ days which, you under stand, was full of love, plots, uir- casties, fool notions an’ so forth. In them days I thought I didn’t need a tiling else on earth but a wife; thought 1 needed a wife to sew but tons on my britches, now, bless gra cious, I’ve got the wife ail right but hits the hardest matter to keep britches for her to sew the buttons on that I ever tried to Jo. But as I go on down to teli you, that smilin’ glance she give me was some what faded an’ careworn to what it used to be but I could see in it that same witchery what run me a fool in my young days way back yander an' it creates tiiat same feelin’ at the heart to-day as then. After we got married, you understand, tills pinnin’ on of roses an’ so forth stopped an’ I tell you i.it was a surprise at this late day to have tiie widder pin on another rose. All through the day I would notice the rose an’ every- time I would notice it I would think of tiie widder, raley, hit put me in mind of my ole courtin’ days more than anything that has happened in a time. That whole day I listened fer In r to ax me fer money to git her a hat, new dress, pair of shoes, or somethin’ else, but she didn’t; she only wanted money enougli to go to Charlotte on the 20th of May. Wo men folks are awful sweet an’ good at times but ef you’ll watch right dost there’s somethin’ at the bot tom of it every time. Flaw Pickul A New Church. The second quarterly conference of Gaffney circuit, Spartanburg District, convened at Wilson’s Chape! on the 25th inst, and appointed a building committee consisting of Rev. 8. T. Creech, H. I). Wheat. I). J. Holt and M. V. Fitzgerald for the Limestone Street Methodist Episcopal church South in this city. This is a working committee and means that work will soon begin and be pushed vigorously till the church is finished. , Tiie plan is beautiful in design, and is in every way up-to-date for a house of worship. Thomas Thurman, deputy sheriff of Troy, Mo., says if everyone in the United States should discover the virtue of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles, rectal troubles and skin diseases, tiie demand could not be supplied. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, B. C., and It. 8. Withers, Blacksburg B. C. Tiie leaf of the banana is usually six feet long by two feet wide. Tiie flowers are pink. Nothing t niial to I’hkki.v Ash Hitt mis for m-moving thut sluggish. Mlious ft-i-llng, so common In hot weather. It creates strength vigor, appetite anil cheerful spirits, liolil by (Therokee TirugCo. THE LATEST COT TON MILL NEWS. Items of Interest to Textile Workers. OPERATIVE PERSONA LS ROYAL Absolutely'Pure Bakino Powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome HOVAI RAKINO POWOtlt CO., NEW VORK. The linproveiiieiitH ami Atliuiiceii.entR of the 1’attt Week in North anil South Caro lina Cotton MIIIm anil IloMlery Faeto- rlen. Etc. | Soul hern ami Western Textile Excelsior.1 The Worth Manufacturing Com pany Worthvillc, N. C., are building a new mill dam. .Some capitalists of Abbeville, S. C. are moving to organize another cotton mill company there. The Elm Grove Cotton Mills, Lin- colnton, N. C., are erecting an addi tion 48 feet wide and twelve bays long. W. T. Ward has. since he left his overseersliip at Gaffney, S C., been setting up Mason frames at tiie Poe Mills, Greenville, S. C. Henry Penney, who lias been mas ter mechanic at Roanoke Rapids, N. C., lias given up bis position with tlio intention of entering a locomotive line of work. Jno. M. Mehaffey has resigned as boss weaver at the Moore Cotton Mills, Taylorsville, N. C., and is now located at Spartanburg, S. C. He was succeeded by Samuel Austin. Superintendent Arthur L. Ware, of tiie Oneida Cotton Mills, Graham, N. C., is off on a Northern trip, taking in the Washington Peace Jubilee, and visiting his former home in Philadel- pha. J. J. Rodgers, superintendent Eno- ree, S. C., Cotton Mills is limping about from the effects of running a nail in his foot while attending the recent Confederate’s reunion at Char leston, S. C. Ed. C. Holt, of Burlington, N. C. f who is establishing the new $259,000 cotton mill at Wilmington, N. C., re cently purchased a beautiful seashore cottage at Wrightsvilie Beach, a few miles from Wilmington, to which his family liaved moved for the summer. Dr. J. P. Ewing, of Dillon, 8. C., has recently purchased a knitting mill outfit for the purpose of manu facturing men’s half hose. Hie mill will be lilted with fifteen machines and will employ about twenty-five operatives He expects lo begin work at an early day. Maurice P. Anderson, secretary and treasurer of tiie Ada Cotton Mills, Charlotte, is in had health, and iius been granted an absence of 30 days. He will go to his home at Statesville. N. C., for the present. Capt. David Clark lias been selected to fill the po sition during Mr. Anderson’s ab sence. A. II. Bixby, of Lowell, Mass.. Ma chine Shop, has finished setting up tiie New Lowell cards in the Wal- | halla, 8. C., Cotton Mills. The work ; is running lively there; Bass weaver B. R. Westmorland lias swallowed up the big pile of warps of C. E. Gail- lard, boss cardes and spinner, but tiie latter thinks lie will regain tiie ad vantage The $30,000 of improvements to tiie Huguenot Mills, Greenville, B. C. are now in progress Two additions and a handsome office are being erec ted. A 60 foot addition is being made to the east end of the mill, and a 36 foot addition to the west end. The increase in room will be utilized for enlarging the capacity of the cloth room, the number of spindles and the loo i.s. R P. Scruggs, the superintendent of Henrietta, N. C., Cotton Mills No. I, has given up that position and will look after his farming interests for a time. The mill is now in charge of J. H. Pleasant, a young man of Ash- ville, N. C., who has been studying the mill business in several Northern and Southern factories, and was working through tiie Henrietta Mill when he was made superintendent. A correspondent at Greenville, S.C., writes that the recent annual meet ings of mill companies in that vici- nty showed fine profits. “For in stance, the Amarican Spinning Com pany, capital $125,000 shows net pro fits of $37,000; the Piedmont Mills, over $125,000; the Huguenot Mills, $68,000, and others in like propor tion. Now while these prifits seem large, the profit for the current year will be mucli larger. The Poe Mills which made $24,000 for twelve months last year is now making $6,- 000 per month net.” Tiie stockholders of tiie Cherokee Cotton Mills, Blacksburg, 8. C., held their meeting last week. A dividend of six per cent, payable July 1st, was declared and also a dividend of six per cent payable November 1st. The mill was indebted in the sum of $40,- 000 at the commencement of the year but the report of its officers allowed that by January 1st next the debt would be paid in full. This too after just adding last month much new machinery, including a complete 2.300 spindle equip merit, including over 100 looms, which gives them a total of 10,000 spindltui and 500 looms. J. A. Carroll is president, R. P. Rob erts, secretary and treasurer, and J. C. Plonk, superintendent. W. M Gallagher, of Bryan, Pa., says: “For forty years I have tried various cough medicine. One Minute Cough Cure is tiie best of all.” It re lieves instantly and cures all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Co. Gaffney, B. C., and R. 8. Withers, Blacksburg. 8. C. A window glass trust has been formed which will control 93 per cent, of the productive facilites of the United States. There is a time for all tilings. The time to take DeWitt’s Early Risers is when you are suffering from con stipation, biliousness, sick-head- ache, indigestion or other stomach or liver troubles. Cherokee Drug Co , Gaffney, B. C., and K. B. Withers, Blacksburg. B. C. CASE OF MRS. MAYBRICK. Kugland IttTuscs to Purctoii lli« Uti- fortiiunte American. Washington - , May zy.—Great Brit ain has again refused the request of the United States that Mrs. Maybrick He pardoned. This is the result of another application made for her release by Am bassador Choate, who has just cabled to Secretary Hay the answer he has re ceived from the British foreign office. Sincere regret is expressed in official circles that the British government is still unable to see its way clear to free ing the hapless woman. Despite the discouragement attendant upon the re iterated declination of Great Britain to grant the request of this government, it is the intention of the administration to continue its efforts in Mrs. Maybrick’s behalf. I I Spain About to Hepudlatc. New Yokk, May 20.—The Times’ London financial correspondent cabjes: Poor old Spain seems about to throw up the sponge and apologetically repudiate. No one expected any government there to admit bankruptcy squarely; your Spaniard has far too much dignity to do anything of the sort. But au indi rect admission does just as well, so the next debt coupon is not to be paid until the cortes votes the new budget with fresh taxes, which is not a job of light ning express order. * rn—m-j Is Bay | Tmim? 1 If so t there must be some | 1 trouble with its food. Well ! babies are plump; only the J sick are thin. Are you sure f the food is all right ? Chil* \ dren can’t help but grow; j £ they must grow if their food * I nourishes them. Perhaps a j f mistake was made in the | past and as a result the di- I * gestion is weakened. If that j i is so, don’t give the baby I a lot of medicine; just use I I your every-day common i ) sense and help nature a { | little, and the way to do | I it is to add half a teaspoon- I ? ful of j SCOH’S i EMULSION j to the baby’s food three or! four times a day. The gain | will begin the very first day | you give it It seems to { correct the digestion and gets the baby started right { again. If the baby h nurs ing but does not thrive, then the mother should take the emulsion. It will have a ( good effect both upon the mother and child. Twenty- J five years proves this fact. Soc. an4 $1.00, all druggists. J SCOTT & BOWNK, Chemists, New York. I Storm ut .Hartoii, Iowa. Omaha, May 29.—Chicago, Milwau kee ami St. Paul railway officials hero received reports today indicating that last mght’a storm at Marion, la., was not so serious as at first reported. A severe thunder and rainstorm swept througii the town, causing washouts and other minor damage, but no one was injured. Adrian liraiiii Electrocuted. New - York, May 29.—Adrian Braun was put to death by electricity in Sing Sing today for the murder of his wife. Acurreutof 1,800 volts was turned on at 9:17 a. in , and at 9:19 Braun was de clared dead by the attending physicians. A second sbo-k was given tor 10 sec onds. The execution was successful. A Frightful Itluoih-r Will often cause a horrible Burn, Scald. Cut or Bruise. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, tiie best in tin* world, will kill the pain and promptly Inal it. Cures Old Bores, Fever Bores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. Only 2o cents a box. Cure guaran teed. Bold by Cherokee Drug Co. Educate Your Kuwels IVifh Cnscarets. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, Z5e. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. CLINE & LEMMONS, Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. MONTGOMERY S OLD STAND. 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N W-TC “ reiuova. tha desire for tonao-u. r“' out nervous dial rasa, asps, Una, purifies tha blood, I stores lost manhood. t<r In health, nervs and pocket- book. boies •Old too, 000 .a liny euros TO B AC from „ own druggist, who 111 vouch forua. Take It with _ . .pallrolly, persistently one box.fil. usually cures; tboioa.t? M, f inranteed to cure, or we refund money, lagfiMaekyCa., (klesge. fio.ir.al, ken lark. W. L. JOHNSON, — TEACHKR OF - Vocal and Instrumental Music. 1 Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co’s Store. Can be found at office six days in t he week NOTICE. I carry in stuck a lino of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, ( rockery, Hardware, Tinware, Glassware, Groceries, Tobac co, and a general line of mer chandise, all of which 1 sell cheap for cash. I rv one of niv safety oil earns ; cannot run your lamp over, (’all to see me and get my prices. Respectfully, I. M. PEELER. Letters of Administration. I‘y -I L Webster. Esip, Probate Judge. WlIRHKAS. .1. Ell. Jefferies, an ( Ik. C. C. Pieii v made suit lo me, lo giant him letters of adiiiiiiisiralionol il,.-. Mat,- (1 f and elf eels of Mrs. A. <\ Loss, deceased. 1 liesc are therefore lo eite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Mrs. A. (’. Russ, deceased, that they bi‘ and appear hefoie me, in the court of probate, to he held at Gaffney ( jty. S. <\, on Monday. Jnly.td. bba. next after publi cation thereof, at U o'clock in the forenoon, to .show cause, if .my they have, why Hie said Administration should not he granted. Given underlay hand, tliis i'.uli day of May, A. !>., IiWJ. .1. E. Wkbstkk, 5-22-6tfw Probate .lunge. Ordinance Exempting Taxes. AN ORDIN A NcK Exempt ing Maim fact or h h from Municipal Taxes for a Period of Five Years. Hk it ORDAIN rn by the Town Council of Gaffney City, in Council assembled and by authority of tiie same. Section I. That all manufactories Inn ing a paid up capital stock of at least Twenty Thousand Hollars, established within the corporate limits of Gaffney City since tiie time tiiat the Constitution of the State lias allowed cities and towns to exempt from taxation manufactories established within their limits or to lie established at any time hereafter up to tiie first day of January. I'.W, lie, and the same are hereby, exempt from municipal taxes, except for school pur- IMiSes and license taxes, for a peri'm| of fi v*> years from t he date of the estublishment of such manufactories; and the word establish ment is construed to mean the dutcufihc original charter. SEC. 2. That any bona tide Increase in the capital stock or permam nt improvement or addition made to any uianufaelory, or man ufacturing plant, amounting to Twenty Thousand Dollars or more, within tic cor porate limits of GutTnry City since the time that the Constitution of Hie Mate has al lowed cit ies and towns to exempt from taxa- tion manufactories established within ihclr limits, or increased or made, as aforesaid, hereafter up to the first day of January I'.fJtl: shall lie subject to the exemptions pro vided In Section I of this ordinance from tiie date of the allowance of t he said increase of tiie capital slock hy the Secretary of State. Sec. j. Thut any and all manufactories in Gaffney taking advantage of the exemp tions herein granted shall, within thirty days after tiie passage of ihls ordinance, tile with tiie Clerk of tin* Town Council a sworn statement of the date of its Charter, all amendments thereof, tin* afiiount of its capital stock, and all increase thereof, or if it lie a new manufactory, It shall, within thirty days after receiving Its Charlci of incorporation, tile with the Clerk of tiie Town Council, a sworn statement of tiie amount of Its capital stockand the dateof its Charter. Tiie Clerk of tie Ttiw n i'ounci 1 is hcichv rci|iilrcd to list the properly of any manufacturing company for taxation which full* to comply with lids Section. Hkc. 4. Thai tie- exemptions contained ill Sections 1 aiel 2 of lids ordinance shall ap ply to the plants of manufacturing com panies, including their real estate, tene ment houses, factory huiidliig.x and ma chinery, the raw materials used hy said manufacturing companies In their husim-MK of muutXfucturlug. and tin- manufactured products of said companies, and nothing TERMS REASON A 111,E, and METHODS LATEST ADOPTED IN CINCINNATI! COLLEGE op Mimic. SPECIAL RATES TO SCHOOL OR CIIPRCH Cl.ASSES IN SIGHT READING and SINGING. :i-;x-;tmo Done and rutitied in Tovyn Council setiihly this I he I'Uh day oi May, |*.m. V II. Lrm.EjoiiN. \V. II. Ross, Clerk, Inteiidcii J tiisordinance is subject to ratittealho a majority of the <|.iall!!cd "doctors of i.'wuof Gaffney cit> at an election to Itch! for thut purpose on the ;<|»t day May, IMw. N. II l.rrri.Kjoiifi, W. 11. Ross. Clerk. lutcudi u