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'I'ii io iwicncrioi*. $1.00 per Year. PllHI.ISIIKI> TUKSDAY ANI> I'KIHAY BY Ed. II. DkCami*. Tiik Lkdokr is not responsible for U»e views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write 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 bo published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. A TA1.K WITH FA KM KKM. Every section of our country, so far as we have learned, lu>s been visited with bountiful rains, end the improvement in the crops is almost magical. Many a farmer will be surprised and delighted to see fields of corn, which he had considered past all hope, come out and make a fairly good crop. Providence is tak ing better cure of the farmers better than they are taking of themselves. It is safe to say that there is less enterprise manifested in farming than in any other lino of business. There has been some improvement in tools and methods, hut the im provement does not at all keep pace with the demands of the times. More study, more science, and more enterprise are needed. '1 he farmer must, in a measure, make himself independent* of droughts, storms, frosts, worms and most of the con tingencies to which his crops are ex posed. A few men have demonstrated that this can be done, but too many of our farmers appear to be utterly indifferent to the possibilities that lie before them. They act us if they had reached the limit of achieve ment in their avocation, and move on from year to year in the same old ruts. They need to catch the spirit of progress, and they can do this in no better way than by coming into contact with progressive farmers. There is a man here and there who is making the farm pay, and pay handsomely, lie bailies the droughts and the Hoods, be outwits the worms and the bugs, and be fills bis burns with generous crops while his neigh bors’ fields are blighted and their burns are empty, lie dresses bis wife and daughters like princesses, pays his debts, educates his children, and lives the life of a king in his rural dominions. ile does all this with the same general opportunities that his neigh bors have had, with the same sea sons, in the same climate, on the same quality of land. Vet his neigh bors struggle on from year to year, with no improvement in the outlook; gathering scanty crops, strained to make ends meet, unable to educate their children, and perhaps to pay their debts, always in a strain, al ways behind. What pleasure is there in such a life? What chance is there to cultivate the social vir tues, or develop those intellectual and moral qualities which dignify and ennoble human life? It needs no argument to prove that the difference between the two pictures which wo have drawn, is to he found in the men themselves, and not in their surroundings. The one in a large measure creates his sur roundings; the other, is hampered and circumscribed by the prevailing conditions. Now, what one man does, another man may do. We repeat that a majority of our farmers need to come into closer contact witli the progress ive men of their class, in order that they may hear their views, profit by their experience, and above all, eateli a portion of their spirit. Vet so content are our farmers with the present conditions, that it is difficult to convince them that there is any better way of doing than that which the are practicing and which their fathers before them practiced. This paper exerted itself both editorially and locally to pre vail on the farmers of Cherokee to send representatives to the conven- tion of wheat growers, which as sembles today at (Jreenwood. Rut the appeal elicited no response, and, >0 far as we know, failed to awaken the slightest interest. There seems to be no hope of any rapid or im mediate advance towards higher agricultural Ideals. Nothing hut stern necessity and its slow evolu tions will hririL' them about. \OTF Tin: A I* I* 1(01'It I AT ION. There seems to he a good deal of indilfcrence, and wu hear of some little opposition, to increasing the bonded debt of the town for the pur- poso of completing the waterworks and establishing a plant for electric lights. Of course it is disappointing to us all that the money has not held out to accomplish all that we expected. Rut it Is just what hap pens to every one of us in most of our private enterprises. Who of us keeps our expenses ft it Ifm the calcu lated limits/ Who lias built a house in (inffney during the last five years, that did not cost more than ho ex pected. We venture to assort that there is hardly a mm in town who can project the expenses of his family for one month, with any degree of accuracy. It is too much then to expect of our committee of public works that they should forecast to a dollar the whole cost of an enterprise with so many ramifications and in volving so many contingencies as that of the waterworks. Home of those contingencies were beyond the range of human fore sight. Nobody could tell that the engineer would got sick, thereby causing a delay of a whole month. Nobody could see that during that month prices of material would go up from 2fi to fid per cent, thereby adding thousands of dollars to the cost of the enterprise. Nobody could tell exactly how many streets it would be found necessary to sup ply with water mains or how far out these would have to he extended. It is very easy to grumble and complain. It is sometimes a strong temptation to some of us to make ourselves felt by obstructing the pro gress of others who are weighted down with public burdens which we ought to he helping to carry. Rut the right thing to do, is to take a reasonable view of the whole situa tion and to give to those who are laboring intelligently for the public good, our hearty endorsement and unswerving support. The present contract for electric lights, we are told, will soon expire. The system as now operated is inade quate to the needs of the ^growing town, and it would be economy and common business prudence for the town to operate an electric plant in connection with the waterworks, as one engine will supply the power for hotii. The demand for electric lights is increasing and will con tinue to increase in a steadily ad vancing ratio for years to come. Limestone College wants them now and is willing to pay for them. Many of the growing streets are without them, and must have them. It will not be long before they will not only pay expenses hut will be come a source of revenue to the town. The same may he truthfully pre dicted of the waterworks. A com plete system, once in satisfactory operation, will not only pay its own way, hut will in a few years provide a sinking fund for liquidating the original cost. Under these circumstances the town must go forward and give us a complete and satisfactory supply of water and lights, or sacrifice in a large measure the ijdS.tHK) already spent and subject itself to ail the humiliation of ignoble failure. We hope that every property holder in town will recogni/e the exigencies of the situation, and then will sign the petition for the election and vote for the appropriation. IN IT I.TCKFI) KOSTON. A Roston dispatch of the tUh inst. says: "TTir<-c thousand |>«*<>|)l<! pub) 10 cents ad mission to I’oople’s Tcmiik; toilitflit to see Miss Jewett and the Baker family. Mrs. itakcr furnished the sensation of tin* eve niiiA.'. While J.W. Hutchinson, the while- haired abolitionist .slntrer. w as s!in,'in^ ids son};, “The tjitherhood of fiod and the lirotherhood of Man.” Mrs. Baker expe rienced jrellKimis exhilaration. Site Imp lied her little son, Willis, who had been sleeplin; in her arms, and strode around the platform, rolling her eyes and waving her arms. A do/en people conducted her to a scat. Among the ot her speakers were Kev. Justin I*. Fulton and Miss Jewett. Cun it he poMsible that the acene described in the above paragraph took place in Roston, the huh of the universe, the domicile of culture, the Helicon whence flow the spark ling waters of learning that make glad our whole land? Miss Jewett, a young woman who combines in equal proportions the hysterical and the histrionic, and who possesses all the venom of Harriet Reueher Htowe without being endowed with a spark of her genius, lias stepped before the footlights to play the role of champion of the negro race whom, she believes, the barbarous people of South Carolina are grievously op pressing. She shows her belief in the “brotherhood of man” by ignorantly denouncing the goqd peo ple of her own race—ethnologicully of her own race, we mean—who live in the South, and holding up for sympathy and succor another race, inferior in every particular, full of the airogance of ignorance, danger ous to the social ordtr of the country, and educated by fanatics and fool friends into an intense hatred of the whole white race. Think of the vulgarity of the exhibition referred to in this dispatch! lirop a dime in the slot and see the widow and chil dren of a slaughtered negro. The ob ject, we suppose was to raise funds for Baker's family. Cun it he that a Boston audience needs to huvexlts sympathies roused by the shudders which the sight of the victims of violence causes, before they will give of their abundance to the “man and brother” or those whom he has left. Is the stimulus of the morgue needed to stir the moral nature? Can the Idle of righteous indigna tion he moved only hy such a calo mel dose of horror? Vulgar, un speakably vulgar. We note that among the progeny of the witch-burners gathered on that occasion was the Rev. Justin l>. Fulton, who as an ambassador of the skies and minister of the Gospel of Lovejcan show two claims to heaven— his hatred of the Catholics and his hatred of the South. Rut though he makes a groat noise he is only a lit tle gun—one-harrol, small calibre, flint-lock, mnz/Je-loader. <*lv«* I s 4■ood Koudn. Gkaksy Pond, August S, 1S1MI. Mr. Editor: As I think over the road question and travel around over the country and see the condition of the roads and look at the poor teams of mules and horses and Gie broken wagons 1 cannot help hut ask you to let me warn the farmer of the tax he pays out in the wear and tear of wagons and mules. While he only pays ijfl.UO for road taxes he had bet ter come out and say to the iegisla- lature “give Cherokee good roads and let the young county stand at the head of the list for good roads.” There is but one way to do this, and that is to go down in your pocket after the money. The present law has not given satisfaction. Its multiplicity of provisions are not understood. Many are imperative, and some tire colossal failures. Road improvement has not been commensurate even with the revenues expended. Poll tax paid in labor, us under the present law, yields hut slight returns, and cannot he depended upon for highway im provement. The injudicious expendi ture of road funds is the rule rather than the exception. In only a few instances has any’ system been adopted looking to permanent im provement. Generally speaking, the roads are badly located, no grades have been established, no under drainage of the road hod has been provided for, and the surface drainage, if any, has been crudely and imperfectly done. Cul verts are temporary makeshifts, bridges are cheap and dangerous structures, all indicating that the ad vice of a competent engineer is a ne cessity in economical and successful road construction, and that the work should he directed hy a skilled road builder. The road law should ho re vised, and all revenues for road pur poses, both poll and property tax, should ho in cash. Where a system is perfected for the economical and judieijus expenditure of the present available revenues, the people will promptly respond to any reasonable demand for increased road tax neces sary to material and permanent im provement of roads. I want the readers of this paper to read this, and stop and think and asa themselves this question : How much more does it tuko to haul a cord of wood, say from 1\ 1*. Goforth’s mill, as the roads arc at present? or say put them on a grade of one foot in sixteen. And 1 will say again, that the break downs of your wagons, and the feed that you would have to give extra, would make your taxes amount to $7 each year that you would get rid of if the roads were made right. Ob, hut I hear some poor fellow at the shop, with his wagon broken down, saying that it will cost too much to talk about making good roads. I say, brother farmer, come out on the Lord’s side and light and work for good roads. Let that bo the password. Lot me hear from some other brother fanner on the road law. R. M. Joi.i.y. (iood Advice. “Burdette gives good advice, as follows: “There are young men that do not work, my son ; but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even; it sim ply speaks of them as old so-and-so’s boys. Nobody likes them, nobody hates them; the great busy world doesn’t even know that they are there. So find out what you want to he and do, son, and take oil your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less deviltry you we apt to get into, the sweeter will he your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the bet ter satisfied will the world he with you.” The Appetite of u tioat. Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose Stomach and Liver are out of order. All such should know that Dr. King’s New Life Fills, the won derful Stomach and Liver Remedy, gives a splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regular bodily habit that insures perfect health and great energy. Only 2f> cents at Cherokee Drug Company. Secretary Gage says he will not re ply to the last letter of the Civil Ser vice Reform League. All weak places in your system ef fectually closed against disease hy DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. They cleanse the bowels, promptly cure chronic constipation, regulate the liver, and fill you with new life and vigor. Small, pleasant, sure; never gripe. Cherokee Drug Company, Gailney, H. 0., and R. S. Withers, Blacksburg, S. C. Ex-Senator Stephen \V. Dorsey, of “Htai' Route” fame, is visiting Wash ington. “Our baby was sick for a month with severe cough and catarrhal fever. Although we tried many remedies she kept getting worse un til we used One Minute Cough Cure, —it relieved at once and cured her in a few days.”—B. L. Nance, I’rin. High School, BlutTdale, Texas. Cherokee Dru" Company, GalTncy, S. 0., and R. S. Withers, Blacksburg, H. C. Don't Tobnfco Spit and hmoke lour IJfr Avraj. To quit tobaero easily nrul foree-r, be muff nolle, full of life, nerve and visor, take No To* Mac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men ntrong. All druggiuta, fiOq or 11. Cure guaran teed Booklet and nuuiplc free. Addresf blcrllug Uemedg Co , Cnleago or New York. THE LATEST COT TON MILL NEWS. Items of Interest to Textile Workers. OPERATIVE PERSONALS Tlu» I inprovt*iu« ut h ami .\<!\;t iimnrnt s of ; tin* I'asl Week in North and Soulli Cam* ! linu Cotton MIIIm anil Hosiery I aeto* ries, Ktc. (Soulhern and Western Textile Kxeelslor.l M. Gulbrandson, formerly with the Highland 1’ark weave room, Char lotte, is now at Chester, S. C. J. R. Withers has resigned as Sec retary and Treasurer of the Alpha Cotton Mills, Charlotte, after a few months occupancy. Capt. W. H. Day, promotor of the Florence, S. C., Cotton Mills has gone North to interest monied men in the undertaking. Chas. Kce, boss spinner at llolt- Morgan Mills, Fayetteville. N. C., is otf on a few days vacation visiting his folks at Gastonia, N. C. The Gaffney Manufacturing Com pany, is making preliminary arrange ments for doubling the carding and spinning capacity of mill No. I. J. IT. Hurt, boss weaver in Gaston Mills, Cherryville, N. C., is spending tlje four days this week while the factory is shut down, at Gaffney, S. C. M. I’. I’etteo, second hand in spin ning at Gaston Mill, Cherryville, N. C., has changed to Gaffney, S. C., and is succeeded by J. W. Short from Gastonia, N.C. J. H. Creekmore, late overseer with Kinston, N. C., Cotton Mills, has accepted the position as night carder and spinner at Cabarrus Col ton Mills, Concord, N. C. T. J Digby, the well known over seer of weaving, formerly of Clifton and lately of Henrietta, took charge of that department of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company on August 1. The addition to the Dallas, X. (!,, Cotton Mills will take the form of a new weave shed to which all the looms will be transferred, and the present weave room filled with spin ning. The Trenton Cotton Mills, Gas tonia, X. C., have postponed until next year Die erection of their new mill. They have to wait a long time on the delivery of the machinery is one reason. J. K. Blackwell has recently been made overseer of the night spinning of t he Gaffney Manufacturing Com pany. Mr. Blackwell is one of the best young spinners in the South and is highly esteemed hy his employers. Jno. W. Ballard, boss carder at Gastonia, N. C., Cotton Mill No. 1, lias become superintendent of the Yivan Cotton Mill, Cherryville. N. C. This is the MOO spindle carpet warp mill started by Rudasill A: Aderholdt. The Victor Manufacturing (Join- pay Greers, S. C., notifies the Secre tary of State that its capital stock is increased to ijiffoO.OOO. They started with •foO.OOO capital, and have been stolidly advancing. J’rint cloths is the product. Geo. F. Rrietz, boss spinner at Wis* casset Mills, Albemar), N. C., has en* gaged J. F. Lockey boss spinner of the Belmont Mills, Shelby, N. 0., as section hand for sixty-two Whitin spinning frames. Mr. Lockey is working a two weeks’ notice. S. R. Rhea, engineer and M. M. of the Bamberg, S. C., Cotton Mills while grinding a tool last week got several pieces of emery and steel in his right eye. They were removed by a physician, and the eye is im proving, although still much in- llamed. T. S. Haskell, late overseer spin- ning.Clinton, S. C., Cotton Mills, has accepted the job of night superinten dent at Monroe, X. C., Cotton Mills, and will take charge on August *20 His family will continue to live in Charlotte awhile, where he moved two months ago. \V. G. I’erry, formerly with the I’iedmont, S. ('., Cotton Mills, hut now with the Enoree, S. C , Cotton Mills, has projected a new cotton mill, the site to he just beyond Seneca, S. C., on the Southern Rail way. There is said to he little doubt that his enterprise will he fully rea lized. A. B. Brannon, who has hern second hand and overseer of weaving of the CulTney Manufacturing Com pany since the starting of mill No. 2, has resigned to accept the position of overseer of weaving witli the Florence Mills, Forest City, N. C. All who have been associated with Mr. Brannon regard him as one of the most promi sing young business men in this sec tion. The knitting machine experiment which has been going on in the Wis- cassett Mills, Albemarle, N. C., by another firm has proven so successful that a separate two-story knitting mill is now to he erected in Albe marle. Jus. \V. Cannon, President of the Wiscassett Mills, says that work will commence on the erection ot the ki.lttii g mil | n t^o weeks, the building contract having been awar ded toll. A. Brown. It has been named the Windermere Hosiery Mills. The new mill for I'nion, S. 0., is to he incorporated into a separate company with T. C. Duncan at its head. The capital stock is fixed at :|ii'»(H 1,000 and the incorporators are T. C. Duncan, A. H. Foster. Kuislie Nicholson, J. A. Fant, W. E. Thom son, W. H. Wallace, William Mon roe, W. It. Walker, of I'nion; A. S. Wattles, of Canton Junction, Mass ; R. B. Hopkins and Morris Whitridgo, of Baltimore. The equipment as al ready announced will he 60,000 spin dles and 1.200 looms. The company is named the Buffalo Cotton Mills. WHITE MAN TO RULE Kingship Is Abolished by the Interested Towers. "KESNU” TlUS SCOUT DOG BITS. “Bill Arp” Did Not Simplify the Subject. DARTLETT TRIPP RETURNS A rAI]l ° V N0BLE E0YS ’ United Stnto Commissioner to Apia Tells Hotv tho Fighting Natives | Were Disarmed and n Form of Local Self tiovrrnmcnt Agreed Upon. San Fkancisco, Aug. 7. — Bartlett I Tripp and Baron Sternberg, tho Ameri- | can and German members of tho Sa- I he I real iiii iiI I liat a Itoj liln s llit Sisli-r and Ainlln-r is a Trm- Itidrv to lli.it liar- il«d«T--Ni i};liliorliooil \i « s Notes oi' l.on- rr I lieroki e. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jam:, August 12.—Wo hear questions frequently asked: “What an- t t rril 'ly injure rd, if not completely dost royr< 1. This . with the hi nils on t lie ' t • H M t side of II iroud rivt r Ik 1 OOgillg to r Hpt. John Ml ni z. and t hat along Buff •lit* < r«r. .-k, ih i tlx fioi ;t f inning sect mn i n (fiier il- vCM CUM iy. it III! the d< sl rn<*l» (Ml ( 1 til 1 icat cal a mil y to the ' M 1 ' V is We II as to the i 11 < 1 i \ idn.-tl n.i . i. m r . U ’it 1, M l Mil irn (hut the Bioii i 1 Ri ver ;\S- SOCl; ut : »n will uni te with t he l» t’ll) 1 UI- vtillc * chi Itch in aholit two \\ ei l< s. lilts I t he first ! Hi , tha ( Ml' it h<»dy has wit h Hint church, , UImI wo fee! quit e sure the Dray t <iii v i i I e people will give it a cordial grt-e ting. They moan commission, who arrived in this j an! days/ and recent !y we hfn o city Sunday cu tho United States steam- ! H quite a number of explanations, ship Badger, xvill leave for Washington tonight. among which is one from “Bill Arp,” that is about as .satisfactory as any, On hoard Lite Badger are 3,500 rifles i although he by no means exhausts which the commissioners took from the followers of Mataufu and Malietoa Tauu. In speaking about these arms Mr. Tripp said: “The commissioners on their arrival at Apia May 13 saw at once that the natives would have to ho disarmed if peace was to tie restored and the com mission placed in a position to accom plish anything definite. All the while people on (lie islands, including the na val officials and the missionaries, thought disarmament was impossible. The commissioners made up their minds to have it done. Mataafu and his chiefs were sounded on tho subject. They wore told that tho Malietoa Tana people would be compelled to give up their arms if they did so. Negotiations were carried on quietly, but in a determined manner. “The Mataafa people wanted to know if they would receive pay lor their guns. We had no power to reimburse them. We promised, however, that after peace was established and we returned homo that they j the* subject or simplifies it. There is j so much superstition ledgi d in the ■ minds ot intelligent people Hint it is hard for them to accept a reasonable theory. From all the fields of astror- | omic.il observation wo gatln r less real informal ion on this particular subject • communication trom this part of the than any other with which they deal. ! vineyard, nevertheless a few | Tho finite mind can’t comprehend tho M 0 *** from this section may not 1 subject. Just think of a solitary star j j (Sirius, the brightest in the celestial ! arc an unostentatious, hard working honest people and will do all in their power to make the occasion a pleas ant one. We have always thought that that church should have been called Mount llnreb instead (if i k'uyfnnvillc. Our knowledge of scriptural geography, and also the history of tho place, leads us to this conclusion, j n. s. IN THt OLD DOMINION.?:: ‘*1 nrit •!iiumy **of :t \ isit to t h:* If oute of IIis Cliihlhootl. iCom-sporDlonue of The Ledger ) Man('Hi:sti:i(, Ya., Aug. !). — Editor of Ledger: — Your many readers may not be particularly interested in- a prove altogether uninteresting. It was tho pleasure of your correspond- galaxy), one hundred and thirty thou- 1 (s l u ' 11 * *he past i wo monttin in ! sand millions of miles from our eari.li, | | held in position hy an omnipotent | . hand; obey ing the mandate of an : ■ omniscient will, and exerting an oni- j J nipresent inlliHiiee on creation, and i j we can inly exclaim wiGi the i'.-alm- 1 the city of W ashington, D. G. s.ion' eoniTtensafed for i their arms or Uie latter would bo re stored to them. “On May “1 last the Mataafa people suvremioreri to us 2U0 guns. General surprise was expressed at their action. The Mulietoa Tauu faction a day later also tendered their arms, the latter in cluding 70d rifles from the English war ship at Apia. Thu Mataafa people soon came in with tlm remainder of their weapons Tho commissioners will re commend that tho natives bo paid for their guns. “Now as to tho form of government tho commissioners have agreed upon for tho r'amoan islands, we think wo have acconipli.slied something definite. The proposed government provides for a white man as administrator of the is land- tiio governor general, in other words. Ho will take the place ot a Samoan king. By having a white ad ministrator in supreme control, it is tho hope of tho commission that peace will be permanent in tho islands. There will also be consular representative:, but their authority will be more cur tailed than at present. The natives will be allowed local self government. The idea of the commissioners is to let the natives govern themselves as tar as possible.” Mr. Tripp admitted that Chief Jus- tic j Chambers had returned to this country with the intention of resigning. Ho denied that, there had been any fric tion between Justice Chambers and tee commission and insisted that ail along there 1ms been the utmost good feeling. Ho did not know ut what time Clmm- ist : “Tin e heav t * 11S (11 ceilin' 1l lie glory of God a .nd tin ? firm ament i -hovvet ii ilis : handiwork.’ ) “Nitflil lllitn hi 1 ilit IIN UUIne li-ll IV ills, l.riel i (icy re news 1 lie soun<i: Wide ; IS 1 lie 11 (*; t V rlis ON Y.' 11 i >' 11 lie sils. To 1 urn 1 la* a :i son . round ’ '{o wn :slle with tli is siihje ct \a io tin d how inlini t< -;im; illy stna 11 a part we are in t lie we irk of <. •seat ion. •‘What is mu n that '1 'holt irt mm dfiil of iiii I j > j) . Mr. and .Mrs. John Estes a ire visit - ill; X fiiem Is ill 'I ork ci unity. M rs. allie 1 ngram is teac filing at (id ovdey.-. ville. M rs. J me Wi II W00( 1 is visi ling t he family’ o ;,. i f Mr. M ilie Seilers, her son- Jil 1 t4 • 1 ucle < Jrorg- Byars , of Gaff ary, was in t his St ction this we ■A n;. after his farming interests. Rev. Mr. Crocker began a protract-* od meeting at Elhethel last night. Master Wells Littlejohn, son of Dr. C. M. Littlejohn, of Gaffney, is visit ing Ins friend Mr. Boyce \\ hisonant, at Wiikinsvilie. A young man in tho neighborhood objects to the water in our well be cause ho says its too fresh. Some young men in this communi ty take their sisters with them when they go to see tho girls. Boor excuses an* worse t han none. < >ur thanks are due Mr. ('. F. In- miin for an abundant supply of his choice watei melons. They are of the . is thu jj/ou can learn human nature, ' what man is in his natural ! State, and what lie is when led a way i by nvcrice ami an unnatural reward ! for many services supposed to ho | rendered, but not rendered to tho i powers that he. This is a city of of fice-holders—hero you will find per sons from every portion of the United States, male and female. 1 met and became acquainted with several from South Carolina, wild are office-hold ers in some of the different depart ments. Several times Coi. Farrow was asked after. He seems to havo had many friends here. Micro are thousands of persons employed in the different departments with good salaries, and bill little work to do. Every body sivni 'i to have plenty of money and it is spent in the city very luvi-hly. ! stopped over ill that old histori cal town of Fredericksburg which 1 had not visited before in forty years -the place where 1 was horn and raised, and visited the old house in which I lived. It is still in good condition and occupied. Out of the present population 1 only found tour persons who I knew when 1 lived there. 1 met the sons of many of (lie old citizens, with whom 1 re in acquaintance and seemed newt very d to see Oil on account of (Meekly vuric and :.r * t qua to or better than the famous Bradford Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Byars visited hers would resign nor did he know what i l '- and Mrs. G. I*. Inman yesterday, effect the resignation would have. “Yes,” Commissioner Tripp went on, “we prepared a confidential report re garding the tight at Samoa lust spring. 1 cannot dir-ems the character of mine nor even mtinnite whom I think re sponsible for the unfortunate lors of life. Considerable damage resulted from tho bombardment and claims ag gregating $500,000 are being ptepared. Tho commissioners had no authority in that matter.” NO TROOPS AT CLEVELAND. Police to Cope 'With Any Disturbance That May Occur. Cu.vi.LAxn, Aug. 7.—For the first time in over two weeks the city tonight will ho practically without military protection. All of tho troops will bo relieved from guard duty today. Two of the six Fourth regiment companies now guarding the burns of tho Consoli dated Street Railway company will ho relieved from duty entirely. The other four companies will be withdrawn from the barns to tho central armory. The withdrawal of the troops leaves the police to again cope with any dis turbance that may take place More people apparently used tho Big Consoli dated cars m order to reach tho business portion of tho c ity this morning than on any day since tho present strike began. Mill Doubles Its Capacity. Cnattaxoooa, Aug. 7.—The Rich mond Hosiery company of this city, em ploying 250 hands, in which New York capital is interested, has made arrange ments to double its capacity at once and erect an underwear knitting mill in ad dition to the hosiery department. An additional expenditure of $100,000 will be made. The company today shipped two solid carloads of hosiery to Texas, this being the largest shipment of the kind ever made from a southern milk Cavalry Leuven For Manila. Washington, Aug 7.—Troops A, D and M, Third cavalry, left Fort Meyer, Yu., today for Seattle enrouto to Ma nila. Troops D and A left on the Penn sylvania road. Troop M goes over the Baltimore and Ohio to Chicago, where it will be joined by other commands. Five other troop* of tho Third from Fort Ethan Allen will join tbo command at Seattle. The mounts for tho cavalry men accompany them in especially con structed stock cars. A Death Kn III I lie Ileut. New Oim.kanh, Aug. 7.—-Yesterday evening a young man named Frank Starr, a native of Detroit, Mich., was prostrated by the heat at the residence of Mr Reilly, 2tl'J Constance street. Tho ambulance was called, t ut before its arrival the man expired and the coroner was then notified. Ho was au E.k and a veteran of the late war. Ikow Are Your KlUiu-y* f Dr Itobtiii'Sparucu* I’HHcureall Mdiu-v UN. Sam- plulruv. A<til KWifluu Kciuody Co..CM c-unu or N. Y■ To Cure Cuiii«lIpatloit Forever. Take Cuscarcts CauUy Cathartic, loo orSSe. It C. C. C. tail to cine, druggists refund uiout-y Wanted.-~A case of chills that Flint’s Chill Tonic will not cure. Cherokee Drug Co. Wo regret to hear of the death of Mrs. J. ii. McKissiek, which occurred ut her home in Union la-*t Sabbath night. She was a daughter of our old army comrade Thomas Gilliam, of Santuc, and one of Union county’s best women. She came of Revolu tionary ancestry on both sides and was an enthusiastic advocate of the Cowpens Battle Ground Bark. It was upon that field that her ancestors distinguished themselves as American soldiers. She earnestly desired to he present at the May celebration this year, hut her delicate health would not permit. She was a noble Christ ian woman, in the fullest meaning of Unit term, and her place will not he easily lilleft. She was one of The Led ger’s truest friends, and we greatly sympathize with her family and friends in their irreparable loss. 1*11 b«* arc her joys hryoml | he si*y. Where all with her is peaee ; No wanton li|»s or envious eye (’an see or taste her hliss “Blessed arc the dead who die in the Lord.” J. R. Boole, Esq., of Sunnysido, paid.us a visit yesterday. We regret to learn that Mr. Lester Mason, of Bine Grove, has typhoid fever. Rev. J. If. Dickson, of Sharon, will preach at Salem, mxt Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Aug. Kith, iTtli and LSth, and Rev. C. A. B. lennings, of I nion, is expected to hold a com munion meeting there the third Sab bath in September and Ik ginning Uri- day before. Mrs. Betsy Hartford, un old and highly respected lady of this neigh- full last w< c y. horhood, hud which she is suffering great! injuries arc painful if not serious. The Surratt Brothers are making preparations to rebuild tho Thomson mills on Thickoty creek. Dr. Sydney Sarrutt is treating Mr. F. A. Goforth’s wounded foot, of which we spoke in our last communi cation. Mr. Bon Goforth, who has been spen ling a few days in Gaffney, re turned home yesti rduy. The colored people have a big meet ing going on at Walker’s Church. List night they were to have the 0 iristian walk. The rains have been going round us for several days this week hut we are still in the dry streak. Miss EtluiiSarratt is staying with her brother, Dr. S. G. Surratt, ut Skull Shoals. Great credit is due the o!d< r brothers, Sydney and Judson Surratt, for their cure of their sisters and younger loot he rs. That orphan child is peculiarly beloved who bus found loving brothers or sisters to look after its welfare—they come next to the parent—and the highest evi dence of a gentleman is shown by the manner in which u hoy or man treats his mot her and sisters. Rev. J. T. Fowler begins a series of meetings at Mesopotamia today at 11 o’clock, lie will he assisted hy Ret. I. M. Isom in a day or two. We regret to hour of the destruc tion of crops in the upper and east ern part of tho county hy tho army worm. We hear that the crops on the line Gaffney lands on Broad river my acquaintance With their father. I’liis visit brought hack incidents of mv’ childhood which I shall never forget. I was sorry to see un account in the “Ledger" of the death of my old friend If. M Holmes. Ho was • g'tit lernan of sterling integrity, and a great friend t > many about Gaffney who have had need of his services. Cln rukeo county has lust another g >od ciUzm, that of Mr. Win. Jones. Whilst not intimately acquainted with Mr. Joins ! have always heard him spoken of in the iiightest terms. This reminds me very forcibly that we are all passing “over the river” very rapidly. Tho old must die, and the young may die. We are about to elect congress men, senators and other public of ficers in this State, and there are many who wish to serve the dear people, and many who will be left. Richmond and Manchester are on the upward grade. Some big im provements are soon to he made in railroad matters as well us munu- fact tiring. What has become of “Old Flaw?” I don’t hear any from him now-u- diiys. Usi nr Jimmy. l)l»4'ov<-rt-il by it Woman. Another great discovery has been made, and that too, I.y a lady in this country. “Disuise fastened its clutches upon her in 1 for seven years she withstood its severest tests, hut her vital organs were undermined and death seemed imminent. For t dree mont hs she coughed incessantly and could not sleep. She finally dis cover'd a way to recovery, hy* pur chasing of us a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, and was so mucli relieved on taking first dose, that she slept all night; and with two bottles has been abso lutely cured. Her name is Mrp. Luther Lutz. Thus writes W. C. Hamrick A Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial bott les free at Chi rokee Drug Compum. Regular size otic and ■fl oo. Every bottle guaranteed. Augusta J. Schcehter. 22S Madison avenue, New York dislocated her jaw by yawning. Irritating stings, bites, scratches, wounds and cuts toothed and healed hy Di Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve,—a sure and safe application for tor tured flesh. Beware of counterfeits. Cherokee Drug Company', Gaffney, S. C., and R. S. Withers, Blacksburg, 8. (J, HUurate Your IJor.o-l* Witli ('anmivtii. (Xillinrilr, cur. coii*upaltoii forever. l()o, av. if C. C. C. fall, (!ru^;o •:(*refund inon* y. ** I have used your valuable CAHi'A* Ht.l'S and find them perfect. Couldn't do. without them. I hove u.-ed them forsoino llttie* for inditfe-: >.i utul biliousness and nm now eem plft. ly cured. Hecouiinend them, to every*ciie. Ohoe tried, you will never be without them In the family.” Low. A Makx, Albany, N. Y. 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