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’i 'I'll IS L-* IS I >0 JC K. Si.on per Yeiir. t’lTDLISHKI) Tl'K.SIMV AND KKIDAY HY Kr>. II. DkCami*. 'I'iik Lkdukk is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- bate regular news letters must fur nish their name, n>t for publication, hut for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to jjet them to the olfico by Monday and Thursday mornings. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. Jl. DeCamp. Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will bo published at one cent a word. Heading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. THWAKTKIJ .IU8TICK. Our readers, perhaps, have not forgotten Mrs. Mattie A. Hughes who killed her husband, George W. Hughes,>t Greers, S. C., and after wards figured as the defendant in a trial for murder in the Greenville c >urt. The jury in the case failed to agree and a mistrial was ordered by Judge Townsend. When the case was called for a new trial last Tuesday, the attorneys for the defence moved to knock out the indictment on grounds which are enveloped, of course, in a cloud of words, illumminated here and there with streaks of barbarous L itin or unintelligible French, but which in plain English are, iiiat she has been tried once for this same crime, at some little risk to her pre cious life, and that tlie constitution of the State declares pointedly and emphatically that no person however far gone in iniquity shall have his life put in jeopardy a second time for the same oflense. ' The arguments were heard on Wed nesday and at this writing we have not. been inforitied of the result. Whether the presiding judge sus- tain the motion and threw the case out of court, is not with us the main question of interest. Wc regard the case as only another illustration of the sharp practice of ambitious law yers who would sacrufice law, jus tice, the peace Of society on the al tar of their selfish ambition—a prac tice which has often thwarted justice, d graded law,and forced the people in thedr disappointment and exaspera tion to mete nut what they consid- end j irlicc, in contempt and defi ance of law. And just us long as plain common justice and plainer common sense are to he obstructed and over-ridden by mere legal techni calities manipulated by unscrupu lous lawyers intent only on their own aggrandizement, just so long will the common people cherish a profound contempt for courts and court ma chinery, and in desperate emergen cies will organize their own courts and execute their own laws. Their instincts arc true and warn them that they have no other resource. When crimes are perpetrated that threaten the foundation of society and endanger the peace and happiness of every home, men are in no humor to dally with farces or to pay re spect to weak formalities. There hasn't been a lynching in England since the days cf the Stuarts; nor in Germany since the reign of Frederick the Great ; nor in France since the French Revolution. The reason is, these nations have laws and those laws are executed and hence are respected, trusted, and feared. Now, in the case of Mrs. Hughes, she has not been tried once, what ever meaning or turn may be given to a technicality by quibbling on words. A case is not tried in the plain sense of the word until it is lirished, and it cannot be finished when the jury declares their inability to complete it. The very word “mistrial” implies no legal trial. So far us we can gather from a multiplicity of words without mean ing, a good deal of stress, too, is laid upon the fact that Mrs. Hughes was not present when Judge Townsend ordered the mistrial. How that could have any bearing directly or remotely, palpably or inferential!}', on the justice or unjustice, tbe fair ness or unfairness, of the proceed ings, is beyond the pale of common sense and the range of a..y healthy imagination. We have no desire to prejudice the case of Mrs. Hughes in court. She is entitled to all the benefits that may accrue to her from a fair and impartial friffl,'and the law and the country are cquudy entitled to the benefits which may accrue to them from such a ’ trial. Hut the people are sick of “the law’s delays,” and their patience with legal tomfooleries is well nigh exhausted. Till: WAK HISTORY. The Confederate War History so long promised and expected is at I«»t published and is now being de livered to subscribers by the agents of the Confederate Publishing Com pany Tbe work is issued in twelve large volumes bound in cloth and contain i in all over 5 U00 pages. The relling price is $18.00 for the set. We have found time to give the work only a cursory examination and we confess to a slight feeling of dis appointment in the appearance and the mechanical make-up of the book. The binding is coarse, though perhaps substantia! and durable; the paper is rough, and the type, heavy and unattractive, and altogether there is a mild flavor about it of the time when the word “Confederate” was a synonym for every kind of in feriority except when applied to sol diership. There tbe word mounted into a grandeur that thrilled “tbe storm-cradled nation” with pride, and chained tbe attention and ad miration of the world. Four dollars a volume is a high price for a book in this day of cheap book making—a price that ought to compensate for the best material and the highest class of typographi cal and mechanical workmanship. But notwithstanding these obj--c- t'onabie features, the book is a grand monumental work and ought to be read by every man and woman in the South, and in the North, too, as for that. It is wide in its scope and admirable in its purposes. It gives a complete military history of the South during the bloody period of the Sixties, from a Southern stand-point, and crystalizes the names and fume of thousands of he roic men who otherwise would never have been heard of by future genera tions. It will no doubt be a stand ard work and will remain for all time as a monument to sublime heroism and patriotic devotion. A SCENK OF HORROR. NOTKS AXI> COMMENTS. Captain Thacktson and his street force did some good work on the streets about Limestone. A few more such licks on the main si reel leading up from the college to Cupt. Richardsot/i will put it into a con dition more in keeping with its im portance as a driveway than it lias ever been in before. Capt. Thaek- storj knows how to have things done and if the authorities would just give him the force and the time, (he people who live around Limestone and pay taxes to the town, would soon cease to complain. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Governor Eilerbe is a very sick man. All accounts of bis conditirn indicate that his days are numbered and the number is few. It is sad to think that one so young, so gifted, so honored, and with so much to live for, should be stricken -down in t he midst of all his honors, his hopes, and his prospects. His condition brings home the oft-repeated, but never-learned lesson, of the vanity of worldly honors and of tbe inter futility of many of the things for which men toil, and suffer, and hope. "With equal pact-impartial fate Knock* at tin* palace ami the cottage /ate.” Among the many distinguished visitors whom the Cowpens Celebra tion attracted to Gaffney, there was not one whose presence was more ap preciated by our citizens than that of Mr. X. G. Gonzales, editor of tbe State. Our people honor him for his courage, his modesty in so cial intercourse, his consistency, and ids high-toned integrity. His pen has long been an acknowledged power for truth, honor, and good gov ernment in South Carolina while he has abundantly demonstrated the fact that when patriotism^makes ! the demand, he is ready to dropThe I pen and wield the sword in behalf of j the wronged and oppressed. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The roads radiating in all direc- ! tims from Gaffney are in better ! condition than we have known them before during a resi dence of nearly eighteen years. The road from this place to Cowpens battle ground, we- venture to assert was never before in as good condition as now. Supervisor Lipscomb has done his duty by the roads. This condition of the roads is one out come of the new county, and is due only to the county'. Everywhere a man witii a head on his shoulders may see and feel the impulses of new life which would have been impossible with our county government at Spsr- tunburg. And yet there are perhaps a half dozen croakers and as many soreheads in Cherokee county who still nurse their opposition to the new county and still try to believe that somebody has done them per sonally a great wrong. But they cun no more check the on-rol.- ing tide, than a dog can stop the nioon fromTjhiTiin^iby barking at it. Hark and growl as iw may, the moon will shine on. Solial anil SalUf} hkg. (Spurtauburtr IK-raM, May Editor Ed. II. DeCamp, of Gaffney, was in the city yesterday, circulating among his friends, talking up his town ami extending Invitations to the Cowpens Haltlefmld blowout which occurs next Saturday. Mr. iJeCamp can claim credit for being not only one of the cleverest news paper men in the .State, but the pub lisher of one of the very best news papers. The Ledger is solid and sat isfying. Ti»|i o - I hi- MornliiK tn You, Sir. pjrccnwood Journal.] The Gaffney Ledger is one of the Htate papers whose editorials we in variably look after. Tbe Ledger man gives you something to read and to digest. SLAUGHTERING A CRIMINAL BY THE GUILLOTINE IN PARIS. A W oinn n‘a llt-Hi-rliil Inn of I In- Slioi-k- Init Speelacli* Tliut AI«vh>-n Attrncta tin* Oiitc-ttutu of llii* I’'rt*n4*li Cniiltnl. After the Fearful Knife IIhn Fallen. lu these rushing times we might take for our motto “Something New, Al ways Something New.” Consequently, I imagine that tbo impressions of a woman at the foot of tbo guillotine would not be commonplace. I was pres ent at one performance in the Place de la Ruquette, where M. do Paris and his assistants officiated in tho name of so called justice. Tho horriblo spectacle haunts and racks tho mind and tends rather to rc-euforco the partisans of the abolition of capital punishment. Tho horror of the punishment imposed ren ders a guilty man almost worthy of pity. The sight of a human being, dragged like a beast to tbo slaughter house, up oven to the sinister seesaw, is terrible. I know many people may bo astonish ed that anybody could be moved to pity for the ferocious brute, Carrara, who transformed his mushroom establish ment into a crematory and had no mer cy for tho unfortunate young man, La- marra, whom he threw into the fire after having murdered him for tho pur pose of robbery. I know all that, and 1 do not dispute tho fact that tho Italian was a monster, but that is no reason why wo shonld not bo disgusted at the spectacle which was presented to our eyes and which I will now endeavor to describe with tbo impartiality of a sim ple spectator, without resentment or prejudice, bnt with a heart that revolts against a scene that has neither tho grandeur nor the majesty of a punish ment inflicted, hut rather exhibits tho cowardice and baseness of a vengeance which hidesitself from the light of day. Tbo execution was fixed for 4 o’clock in tho morning, but from tbo hour of midnight tho neighborhood of the Grande Roquctte was swarming with an undulating uml mocking crowd. Jailbirds, murderers, footpads and wom en of tho streets assembled there to see, as they said, “tbo Italian animal short ened. ” Journalists were admitted into tbe narrow spaco so often described, with its five sinister stones and its legendary gas jet which is never lighted except on tbo evening before an execution. There in the rain wo watched the set ting up of that horrible machine which, according to tho legend, Cagliostro showed iu a glass of clear water to the terrified Mario Antoinette. In tho yel low and spectral light of tho gas jet that flickered iu tho wind these prepa rations were hideous to witness. Al most on a level with tbe ground stands tho scaffold with its two arms in tho air brandishing tho sparkling knifo. And I, a woman, in tho presence of these preparations, could not help think ing of tho family of tho wretch whoso head was eoou to fall into tho basket. I thought of his little children, who were at that moment sleeping soundly some where, and of bis wife, equally guilty with him, and who, as it were, pushed her husband into the arms of tbo execu tioner as a last resort to save herself. What remorse will bo hers when they tell her abruptly: “Carrara has suffered his punishment. You aro a widow!” Hut the day was dawning, and tbe lamps were going out. At tho windows and even on the roofs numbers of spec tators wero gathered as if to witness some carnival. Tho sight was heart rending. Mounted gendarmes and sol diers gradually came ont of tho dark- ness, and one might bo inclined to rail at such a display of force at tho execu tion of a wretch paralyzed by fear, who in a few moments would appear upon tho sceuo tied baud and foot. There was some little commotion among tbe crowd when people begun to point at a thin, old man wbo hobbled about with tbo gestures of a dancing jack to see if tho knifo iu tho brass run ners was in good working order. This was Deibler, the executioner, a ghost with a white beard, who adjusted the instrument with tbe indifference of a grocer we'gbing bn goods. Suddenly there was profound silence; the rain was over, beads were uncovered and motionless. Breathless and almost iu agony tho crowd followed with staring eyes tho movement of tho doors of tho prison, which at last opened wide. A suppressed “Ah !” caroofrom many contracted chests, while with pale faces all gazed upon tbe assassin, whose crime tho mountebanks of the fairs pop ularized. Ho was simply frightful to look at, bowed down as he was with terror. Ho did not look liko a human being. Ho looked like a beast. His in telligence was already dead and bis heart bad lest all feeling. Tbo instinct of the animal still remained. The sight was dreadfully sad. What followed beggars description. Tbo executioner and his aids seemed no longer to bo men employed to carry out the ends of justice; they looked like butchers. They seized tho condemned man, some by tho ears, some by tbe legs, while others held down tho center of tho body and kept holding him up to tbe very moment when, with a sudden rumble, tho knife fell, tbo bead re bounded into tho basket and the abomi nation was at an end. But ouo should be present and see tbe pavements covered with blood, the gory knife, the blood spurting from tbe de capitated trunk, tho ignominious wash- ; iug at the nearby fountain and tbe gat- i ters rolling to the sewer a purple color- j ed mud, in order to ho able to compre- | hi ud all tho horrors of an execution in Paris.—Exchange. THADY O’DOWDAS’ BRIDE. A Ciii limn I.euiMiii of the Klnsn of Connniiuht. Far back in tho misty past, when every man iu Ireland was a saint or a king —and, begorra, there was some was both—the great U’Dowdas reigned iu Connaught. They were mighty tine kings and warriors. No butiu them at all for lightin big battles, craukiu a skull after a fair, emptyin a quart or kissiu a party girl, God forgivo them. One line summer’s eveuin Tbudy, tho second son—not the heir to tho crown —was on tho seashor ■ waitiu for the tide. He hud just set his fisliin lines and put down his lobster pots, for, though be was the son of a king and had hundreds of servants, lie was no way prond at all and would put his hand to anything from liftin a creel of turf on an ould woman’s back to drivin tho cow out of the neighbor's field of oats. Well, as I said, he was just waitin, lyin on the rocks wid hisca.«*t on pulled down on his nose (tho .sun was iu his eyes). He was listeniu to a kind of a little song that he didn’t lightly under stand. It was a little drouo, mixin up a kind of bird and tho wind bio win and water play in on the pebbles—a queer sort of a little song that made him won der greatly, so he rested on his elbow, lonkiu round to see what was it at all. He saw just foruinst him where the tide was ont somethin sittiu on a rock covered with seaweed. Ho saw a very white arm movin up and down, comb- in long hair. Ho was puzzled what to do. Ho said to himself, “That’s a dangerous place for bathiu, and it’s mo duty to warn the lady. ” But still, boiu very polite, as become his high station, he did not liko to interrupt a lady's dressiu, hut he decided it was better to vex her itself than to let her he drowned. He just thought he’d seo who it w’as, so ho walked quietly, and when he got near enough to see what was it hut a young girl with beauty there never was the like, and that’s a great word to say iu Ireland, where the party girls are so plentiful. She was combin her hair with the backbone of a fish and Icokin at herself in a pool of water, and a garment of seaweed on her that looked for all the world like brown satin. When she turned her head, combin out tho long hair, Thady, seeiu the beautiful fair and lily white neck, “Alebbe,” says be to himself, “the oth er half of her is a codfish.” fcjo ho jieeped down into the pool, and then he saw two purty white little feet, with pink toes, that couldn’t be matched by any ladit. ; in his father’s court. So he stole behind the crayture and caught the arm that had tho comb. .She turned round in a great fright and struggled hard. Thady told her to bo quiet and come homo with him easy, that ho was a king’s son and would make an honest woman of her, and that there was many in his father’s dominions would he on ly too glad of the offer; bnt she, poor crayture, didn’t know a word ho was savin, and began to cry and look at tho sea. Every now and again she'd make a dart to get off, hut Thady held her firm, when suddenly a lovely neck lace of amber fell off her neck. Thady know by the look of her eye she could not go home without it, as it was by the power of it she could reside at the bottom cf tho ocean. So ho gripped it tight and put it in his pocket, and she walked quiet by bis side to his father’s palace. The onld people raised great difficul ty about tho marriage. As an ould, an cient family, it was fitting they should know who they were bringin with their family; but Thady, never beedin a word they said, married the sea lady, and a purty respectable wife she made, too, and beyond eatin an odd sea rod or bunch of dillisk she was much liko the other ladies. She here Thady four sous, and there was nothin fishy about them, hut as fine children as was iu the province of Connaught. One evenin, when the eld est son was just 11 years old, he told his mother he saw his father hide a shinin, purty thing iu the hayrick when he was buildin it. Next morniu, when tbo family arose, the hayrick was scattered to the four winds of heaven, the neck lace gone and the sea lady disappeared and never was heard of again, bnt when any member of the O’Dowdas family dies tho west coast of Iielaud teems with razor fish.—New Ireland. Fuel mill Ilia Pipe. Some of his friends taunted Tennyson that he conld never give up tobacco. “Anybody can da that,“he said, “if bo chooses to do it.” When bis friends still continued to doubt and tease him, “Well,” he said, “1 shall give up smoking from tonight.” The very samo evening I was told that he threw his pipes and tobacco out of tbo window of his bedroom. The next day he was most charming, thongh somewhat self righteous. The second day he became very moody and ca]tious; tbe third day no one knew what to do with him. Bnt after a dis turbed night I was told that he got out of bed iu tbe morning, went qnietly into the garden, picked np one of his broken pipes, stuffed it with the re mains of tbe tobacco scattered a‘ ont, and then having had a few puffs came | to breakfast, ail right again. Nothing 1 was said any more about giving up to- ' bacco.—Auld Lang Syne. ('oiiinii-nt't-rarnt. Visitors have began to arrive in the city to attend the Limestone College commencement which will be in progress from 4th to fith inst. Limestone commencement draw many visitors to the city from this and other states. The exercises of the college makes friends for the institution and tho hospitility of our peoplo make tin in glad they at tended. The Baccalaureate sermon will be preached Kunday morning by Rev. J. D Hoggins. Monday evening a concert will take place. Tuesday evening tbe literary ad dress will be delivered by Hr. C. C. Brown, to be followed by the com mencement exercises. Loconiolive PiiITm. The cough or pnff of a railway en gine is duo to the abrupt emission of ; waste steam up the chimney. When moving slowly, the coughs can of conrse bo heard following each other quite dis- I tinctly, bnt when speed is pot on tho i puffs come out one after tbe other much more rapidly, and when 18 congbs a second are produced they cannot be sep- i arately distinguished by the car. A loco motive running at the rate of nearly 70 miles an hour gives nut 20 puffs of steam every second—that is, ten for each of its two evliuders. Mori* InrlndlwryUm. Last night about 9 o’clock smoke was discoved issueing from Carroll A Co.’s lime house on Frederick street. On going into the house it was dis- I covered that some fiend had heated a large piece of scrap iron and placed i it in a box in the building and cov ered it with some waste and paper and then piled shingles on it. The fire was discovered before It did much damage, but tbe circum- stances shows ail our fire bugs are not in jail. PROPOSED DEWEY HOME. A'tinirtil I * ii 1 9 rt IfiO'iitlnri W Ha Siii*!** ilio <*Wf. New Youk, June 1 — In order ihat it may l>o clearly under.stool whether it wus Admiral G|s)iur’s intention when he buggested a gift of a residence m Washington to Admiral Dewey that the property purchased should become his personal property and pass to his heirs, or whether it was his intention that it should remain the permanent homo of the ranking officer of the navy to be occupied by Admiral Dewey as loug as he remains at the head of the navy and thereafter to pass to his suc cessors as iine goes ou, the department of history. University of the United States, which has an office iu this city, wrote to Admiral Upshur asking for his idea on the matter: Under date of May 2i) the admiral re plied as follows: “Your inference that it is my prefer ence that a home to be purchased by the freewill offering of Americans for the admiral of the navy should bo occupied by Admiral Dewey as loug as he re mains at the head of the navy and then to puss to his successors is entirely cor rect and I agree with you further that in that form it would be more accepta ble to Admiral Dewey. I have uot moved beyond the initiative iu this mat ter. Others have assumed, most kindly, the work necessary in connection with the raising of funds and to them the proposition herein stated might lie made, although there is a possibility of those subscribing to the Dewey home being unable to give except to him in perpe tuity.” ANTISTRIKE BILL RECEIVED. German Itriclistng Proposes to Do Away With Boycotts. Berlin, June 1.—The reichstag, con- I trary to expectations, received the anti- ; strike bill today. The provisions of the bill are now less strii. 0 'ent than the em- : peror at first intended. The measure provides that whoever threatens to forcibly prevent persons from going to work will be sentenced to ft maximum of a year's imprison menr. Where there are extenuating circum stances a fine of 1,000 marks will be im posed. The samo punishment will be meted out to those who threateu a boycott to compel employers or employes to desist from work, or who, during a lockout, try to coerce employers or employes to yield to their demands, or whoever threatens to maltreat or otherwise mo lest uou.-strikers. Tho bill is not likely to pass before the adjeurument of the reichstag and it is not likely to pass at ali in its present shape. AFGHANISTAN VENDETTAS. (low l>caUl> Hluotl iVu<U Aru Willed In tho Kltybcr 1'aiw. During tho time I have been iu lu dia, writes a soldier correspondent, tho most interesting period was when I was stationed on duty for three months some years back in Landikotal, on the Af ghanistan side of the far famed Khyhor pass. Here I was able to forcibly real ize tho meaning of "vendetta,” as tbe characteristic blood feuds of tbo Afridis are quaiut and interesting. Tbe pass itself is a neutral zone be tween India and Afghanistan, but we ex ercise our dominion over the road that winds its way for 21 miles through the narrow valley. Here, as elsewhere iu Afghanistan, blood feuds aro a recog nized institution among the tribes and last through generations, tho dishonor resting with that family who last suf fered from some defeat or treacherous murder. When an encounter occurs between two tribes occupying settlements ou op posite sides of tho road mentioned, one or other must cross it before commenc ing firing, as firing across the road is prohibited, but on either side they can exercise their friendly feelings toward each other without hindrance. But still quainter is it when the feuds arc between close neighbors. Each family, with near relations, occupies a unmbtr of mud huts, inclosed iu a square surrounded by a thick, high wall of mud, stouc and wood. At one corue of these squares is built a watch tower 80 feet high, where tbe family marks man takes his position and playfully picks off auy unfortunate who shows himself in the next square. Constitu tionals are therefore confined on both sides and limited to nightly prowls.— Strand Magazine. At tlie SltKii of tin* Moth St-hlld. Staying on n visit with Herr and Frau von Bismarck iu 1852, at the time he had snccetded General von Rocbow as ! Prussian envoy in Frankfort, I was walking one morning with my host, who ; had kindly undertaken to show me tbe : Router, as well as some of the other ! sights of the venerable free town, when suddenly wp found ourselves in tho pre | ducts of the old Ghetto. Pointing at a j small, unpretentious looking house with a “red” shield (roth schild) over tbe narrow entrance, Herr von Bismarck said, “That’s tbe cradle of millions, tho | house and shop of old Rothschild, the I famous father of tbe not less famous Baron James—the paron, as Parisians like to call him on account of his pro- i nounced German accent. “Well, the widow of the founder of the Rothschild dynasty—she was point- ; ed ont to mo one day, reclining iu a splendid barouche, with a pair of thor- . oughbrd steppers which Lord Lyons might have envied her—a shriveled np old lady, wearing the traditional wig of the old Jewess, with clever eyes and firmly set lips, denoting no want of character and determination—well, tbe old lady, though inhabiting one of their grand mansions iu the new part of town,” said Herr von Bismarck, “will not sleep outside tbe boundaries of tbe Ghetto, and every evening she returns to tho modest little honsu iu which her husband lived and toiled and died. Bbe says it will bring luck to her children and grandchildren and teach them not to forget tbo bntnble beginning of the world lamed firm and the time when its ; founder sold old clothes in the Ghetto.” —-Uornbill Magazine. $ioo Reward, $ioo. The readers of tills paper will be pleased to , learn that there Is at least one dreaded dis ease that sejeie-e lias lieen able l«> cure in all Its stages and that I-,Catarrh. llaU'sCatarrh ( are Is the only positive cure now known to the mcdleal fraternity. Catarrh lielng a | eonstitutlonal disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hull's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, aetinz direelly upon the blood and mueous surface* of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by I building up the constitution anti assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors ) have so much faith in Its curative powers , that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any ease that It falls to cure. Send for list of ' Testimonials. Address, F. J. CriKaxv A Co., Toledo, O Hold by Druggists, 75c. Hull's Kamlly Pills are the best. Royal Absolutely 'Pure Baking Powder Absolutely 'Pure "N Makes the food more delicious and wholesome Horn tAKmo powotn co. t mw vowk. PIG IRON MARKET ACTIVE. No Holding linek of Kxport Hlilpnicntf to Fill Domestic Orders. Birminghah, Ala., May 29.—The pig iron market continues very active. The recent report of tho purchase of blocks of iron iu the north is causing southern manufacturers to begin to look for sim ilar doings iu this territory. Secretary J. W. McQuoen of the Siosa Iron and Steel company, when questioned today concerning the report that furnaces were holding back export shipments to fill domestic orders which paid better, said that he had heard that some fur naces had oversold themselves. His company had uot done that nor had his company withheld any export demands in order to supply the domestic trade. Eastern brokers are said to be fearful that foreign trade will be indignant at the alleged holding back iu the delivery of orders placed six months ago. It is further charged that Alabama iron makers have been doing this. Ou in quiry, it is learned that this is not com plained of. There are some orders de layed, but as many of the orders from foreign ports were accepted upon cer tain stipulations, delivery has been very good, everything considered. In fact, export shipments of iron from southern furnaces which monopolize that trade, were in the first quarter of the year $1,444 tons, an increase of 3,7o9 tons over the same period of last year. Railroad officials say there is an ex tra amount of iron leaving this district at present, bnt uot very much of the product is going to ports for export ship ment. Another furnace will blow in this week and within a month it is ex pected that the old Vanderbilt furnace, which has been idle for several years, will be in operation. No. 1 foundry iron is still quoted ut $12.30 as a base price. CMKtelar Di-nd lu Madrid. Madrid, May 25.—Senor Don Etnilo Castelar, the distinguished Republican •rator and statesman, who had been ■pffering from an attack of pulmonary 1 •atarrh, contracted last winter, is dead. 1 Itobtnsoii Mud'* Moderator. Piuladblphia, May 25 —Rev. W. J. ■ Robinson, D. D., of Allegheny, Pa., wai •uanimoubly elected moderator of the ! general assembly of the United Presby- * teri^Q church at today’s session. J Noted Animal Painter 111. ** Fontainbleu, France, May 25 —Rosa | longenr, the famous animal painter, ii *iriousiy with congestion of the lungs. . J 1 is of no value when health is in dangtff: What’s of more value? . Piatt’s-up-to-date Tablets. Will break up ( a cold in one day, and for Constipation and , biliousness and all malarial troubles, has no equal. 25c at all drug stores, or by mail prepaid for 25c. PRATT MEDICIN'E Co., Station B, Chicago, 111. Send for sample. GOLD Operation May Prove Fatal. Berlin, June 1. — Professor Locke Richardson, the elocutionist and dra matic reader, underwent an operation yesterday as a last resort to save i.i* life. A malignant cancerous tumor .vas partly removed, but he is not f ~ : to survive. The wife of the or > • -r • a guest of Mrs. Andrew D. Wn 1 .re Ijandscape Painter l> at!. London, June 1.—John Smart, F. - A., K. S. F., the landscape painter. 1 dead, aged Cl ycius. Maynard Mallt-rs. (Correspondence of The Ledger ) Maynard, S. C., May 30.—“Hearts may be attracted by ttssurmd quali ties, hut the affections are only to be fixed by those which are real.” Our farmers are getting very rest less on the account of the continued dry weather. We havt had no rain here to amount to anything in about five weeks, therefore the later plunt- of both corn and cotton is not yet up, and we hear a considerable complaint of there being a poor stand of the earlier planting of cotton, Mrs. M. PL Childers, .Miss Atta and Master Sloan spent last Satur day and Sunday in Anderson county visiting Mrs. Childer’s mother, Mrs. Thomas Childers. We have been having a considera ble ameunt of sickness in our section during the past few weeks. Wheat is looking tolerably fair in this section, but oats, judging from their present appearance, will be al most u complete failure. OCTA YUf. Would Not buffer So .\|;t*ln for Fifty TIiik-m Its Prlvi-. I awoke last night with severe pains In my stomach. I never felt so badly in all my life. When I came down to work this morning I felt so weak I could hardly work. I went to Miller <fc McCurdy’s drug store and they recomended Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrh ei Remedy. It worked like magic and one dose fixed me all right. It cer- ’amiy is the finest thing I ever used f >r stomach trouble. I shall uot be without it in my home hereafter, for I should not care to endure the suff erings of last night again for fifty times its price.—G. H. Wilson, Liv eryman, Burgettstown, Washington C>., Pa. This remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Company. A Sensible '; tiling fur people to do Is to buy goods / where they ran get the best values ! for tho money. Any gj Woman 1 who knows anything kr.ows that j good goods sell for more money than ? trash. It >4 Is Hard to Find ^ anything these days that I can make ■ a specialty of. hence I tell you that ‘ for anything in the Fancy Grocery i and Confectionery line there Is no | better place in the city than my i store. J TOM L. BROWN. CLINE & LEMMONS, Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. MONTGOMERY'S OLD STAND. First-class turnouts; prompt attention; , and courteous attendants. perwa solicit your patronage. D.R.Duncan. C. P.Sanders. W.S. Hall. Jr. DUHCAH, SANDERS & HALL, I Attornoys-at-Law. > Office | wo doors hIhivi* Ledger < Mflco. All business ;ittended to caridully ^nd promptly. Special attention£iveil to collec tions. j s OUTH CAROLINA AND 6E0R6IA f EXTENSION R. R. COMPANT. Schedule No. I. In Effect 12:01 A. M., Sunday, May fist iSgg. Between Camden, S. C., and Shelby, H.C. WEST. EAST. M. | 32. 1st. < ia.vs. | KASTKKN TIMK. 1st ('lass. Passenger — Passenger Daily. Except Sunday. STATIONS. Daily. Except. Sunday. 1*. M P. M r.\ MDKN DKKA Lit W KSTYILLF. KKKSHAVV HF.ATH SI’UtNCS I’LKASANT HILL' LA \< WSTKK KIVLKSIDK SFBINGDKLL CATV Wit A .UNCTION I.I si.IK hock hill NKW Four Tib'/. \ II YORK VII.LE SH AIIO.V HICKORY DROVE Sll Y It N A BLACKS!!! KG KARLS PATTERSON SPRINGS SHELBY e. M. I” .v> < I-’ -4 12 IS II 45 it :<0 ll J) 11 INI in to in ;» in 20 to to in (N> 9 *2 9 ;t7v 9 53 9 07 H 55 s 45 K 20 7 50 7 40 7 w A. M. Between Blacksbui&S.C., and Marion,N.C. JVF-ST. EAST. 11. 2d Class. Mixed. Daily. Except Sunday. 12. KASTKKN TI.MK. STATIONS. 2d class. .Mixer). Dally. Except Sunday. C. JEFFERIES*- GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and 'Counsellor at Law. Practices in All tbe Courts. Collections a Specialty I. C’LOt'UH Wai.i.ack. .1. COR.NP.I.IL’S Otts. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All business intrusted to us, given prompt and i igorus attention. Olllce up stairs, next to K. A. Jones & Co. Thos. B. Uctleh. Hknky Ii. OSSORM BUTLER & OSBORNE, ATTOI* I* « A\V. Gaffney, S. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. tyi’ructiee iu all tlie courts. J. T. MAY, Contractor. ALL WORK AND ESTIMATES GIVEN FERONAL ATTENTION, AND AT PRICES AS LOW AS WORK CAN HE DONE HON ESTLY. 4-lK-tf A. M P. M. X in BEACKSBFRG 9 10 * ;*i EARES K 50 s 4u PATTERSON SPRINGS k 45 9 2o SHKEBV 7 :jo in on EAT 1!MORE r 30 10 to MOORES BORO 7 30 10 2. HENRI ETTA 7 00 10 50 1 OREST CITY o :& ii n IM’THEKEOltDTON li (3 it :i5 MIEEWOOD 5 50 12 on GOLDEN YAEEKY 5 35 12 'C. THERMAE CITY 5 30 12 25 GLEN WOOD 5 05 12 50 MARION 4 45 P. M. W ES I'. 1st Class. i A. i a. I S X Gaffney Division. EAST. ! 1st Class. KASTKKN TIME. lO. STATIONS. I* *-'31 a < r* Come, or call No HO 'phonx I have only a few Tennessee pigs and sboats left, all of which will be closed out at 3c per lb Also I want to sell you some idee beef, |>ork, sau sage, country produce, and poultry; also have a nice stock of fancy groceries, cigar*, tnhacco, fresh fish on every Friday and Sat urday. lee delivered anywhere In town with your beef, pork nitd lisb, all cold. Send us your orders or call and piek for yourself; your trade will be appreciated. L. W. McGUINN, 'Plume No. ft). Uuruett Brick Block, t* M A M c no t; an t; 20 »s 50 »; 4o : in i* M AM HI.Al KSBFRG (.'HER' IK EK I VLLS GAI F.NEY A II AM PM I Train* No. 02 and it connect at Blacksburg' with trains on the Gaffney Division. Train No. connects at Blacksburg with tho Southern R. It.: at Yorkvlilo with tlie C. k. N. W. It. It., going North; at Rock Hill with tbe Southern It. It.; at Lancaster with the L. A It. It.; and at Camden with tho Charleston Division of the Southern It. It. ^ Train No. all connect* at Camden with the Southern It. It.; at Lancaster with the 1,. A <' K. K.; at itock Hill with the Southern R. It., going North; and at Blacksburg with the Southern it. It.. North and South. Train No. *1 connect* with the Southern It. It., at Blacksburg and Marion for all point* East, Ue«t, Norlti and South, ami at Shelby with the S. A. L. Train No. *2 connect* at Marion with the Southern going East and West, at Blacks- burg with tlie Southern it. It , going North~ and South. Trains on the C iffney Division connect< with the Southern K It. AI Moca I freight train* may carry pai»*cu- gets if provided with ticket*. KAMt'KI. III’NT. Pre* Kent. A. TKiri*. Hu perint codent. S. It. LI’VI PK IN,