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THE LATEST COT TON MILL NEWS. Items of Interest to Textile Workers. OPERATIVE PERSONALS Tilt; liii|>rovi‘iii.‘iilH an.l Ailiunr.-iii.'iitM of tl.<; Past Wt .'k In North mill Soiilli Caro lina Cotton Alills anil Hosiery larto- rles, Etr. |Southern iiud Western Textile I'xeel sior. It. L. Manning ia now running a sec tion in the spinning room at GalTney, 8. C. Lee A. Fain, who Inis been night weaver nt the Clinton, 8. C., Mills, has resigned. A. .1. Whitto/nore lias been employ ed as roller covercr for the Knoree, 8. G., Manufacturing Company. A. II. llrannon, formerly of CalT- ney, 8. C., lias t»k« n eburgo of the weave room at Forest City, X. C. New looms are being placed in the Forest City, N. C., Cotton Mills and will be running by September loth. The Monbo, N. C., Manufacturing Company are building a large ware house. tho first the company has ever had. Tho Mooresville, N. C., Cotton Mill closed August 21tb, to allow the operatives to attend a largo picnic bold there. J. H Stone, formerly loomfixer at the Louise Mill, Charlotte, has taken a like position with tho Highland Lark Manufacturing Company Char lotte. W. E. Brice, second hand in tho spinning room of the Whitney, 8. (!., Manufacturing Company lias taken a similar position with the Clifton, 8. C., No. 2 Mill. J. H. Curry, who has been roller coverer at Highland 1’ark Manufac turing Compay Charlotte is, we bear, going into the roller covering busi ness at Mt. Holly, N. C. Elmira Cotton Mill proprietors. Burlington, N. C., are putting in two new boilers at their inill. They are Hie largest and innftt improved, and when they are set up and put in place, tilings, no doubt, will hum. The Island CreoK Mill, Cowpens, 8. C., which has been idle for some time, has been purchased by 15, F. Wilkins, and is now running, with Superintendent Farrell as manager. The owner will soon install new ma chinery. t T. Y. Centrell has changed from Clifton, 8. C., Mill No. 2 to (taflney, 8. C. He is second hand in weave room No. 1 Mill. His steady habits and energy have brought him promo tion, and will carry him still higher in the mill business. T. 8. Haskell has accepted a posi tion as night Aiperinlendent with the Monroe, N. (!., Cotton Mills, and bus with him J. J. Carpenter, overseer carding; J. («. Greenlee, spinner, and J. M. Permintor, overseer t wisting, reeling, warping and spooling. One day lust week while 1‘elzer, 8. C., Mill No. 1, was stopped and tho hands were waiting about for the wheels to start up again a little girl named Browning, while rambling about the mill took hold of a live electric wire and burned her hand severely. One of the largo counter Vita at the Hilling Mills, Kings Mountain, N. C., broke lust Monday, causing a stop of several hours in about one- third of Hie machinery of tho mill. It whipped tilings around right lively for a little while, hut fortunately no one was hurt. 8. D. Eubanks, who has been over seer of weaving at the (’Union, 8. C., Cotton Mills for the lasts months, has severed his connection with that company, and will go into the mer chandising business in Spartanburg, S. C., where lie has recently pur chased a house and lot. George W. Turnipseed has accepted a job as section man in the card r'om at GalTney, 8. C., under .lames K. Killian. Mr. Turnipseed is a native of Newberry, 8. C., and has just returned from Florida, where lie lias spent some time with his father's family. He is a good ail round card room man. Tho cotton mill at Clover, 8. C., in York county, is a standing con tradiction to the idea that a cotton mill must have a million dollars capi tal before it can he a profitable in vestment. This mill lias paid its stockholders hack every dollar they put in it, and has been in operation only eight years. J. K. Blackwell, who had charge of all the night spinning at GalTney. 8. C., lias resigned and accepted a simi lar position with the Victor Mill at Greers, 8. C. Mr. Blackwell's suc cess comes from long years of hard work. There are few men of his age in Southern mills who have had as much experience in spinning as ho. One of tho brightest and most promising young men in the South is Warren M. Iliden, who was until recently night overseer of weaving at GalTney, 8. C., hut now with the Spartan Mills, Spartanburg, 8. C. Besides his natural - ability, Mr. Hidon is a hard student and lias had extensive experience in weaving for a man of his few years. A. II. Strong. M. M. of tho Henri etta .Mills No. 2, Caroleen, N. (!., has resigned Ids position, and will he at his home No. 2<»o2 Indiana avenue, Chicago, III., for a short time to take a much needed rest. He has made many friends at Caroleen who regret to see him leave. Mr. Strong is suc ceeded by Mr. Hows and his son from Charlotte; Mr. Hews as M. M. and Ids son as chief engineer. ‘ GENEROUS MR. GARROLL. A I’riHiiliM'iit (.iiffnc) IIiimIiii'Nh Mini En- iIow m u In I- ■>,ruinii I nlvi thII.v. |(lrni’iivilli* Sews.) J. A. Carroll, a wealthy and promi nent merchant and cotton mill man in Gaffney, has endowed u scholar ship in Furman university. Mr. Car- roll is trustee of Furman and is a man Of largo influence in Baptis circles in lids part of the State. He will endeavor to get others to follow his example. For the present the beneficiaries will be named by Mr. Carroll, hut later he will put such n sum on deposit as will annually yield In interest enough to pay for the schoolin'' at Furman of one student. ciicFi piece of silver separately, tho whole service can he cleaned in a few minutes as effectively. After eneh meal the silver should he pul in a pan (kept especially for the purpose), and covered with lukewarm water, to which a teaspooriful of Gold Host Washing Powder is added; set the pan on the range until the wafer gets to boiling point, then lift out each piece with a wire spoon and lnv on a soft linen cloth, wiping them (juicklv with a chamois skin. The pieces so cleaned will he highly polished and look like new. Ilrxv Are ATonr Kidney* » ms I’ll! ruri'all kulnev ...„ liuK ItuUKd) Uu-Cliicacoor N. V. I>r HoM>*' Sparatu* Pills euro all kidney tils. Bam- t»I>- free Add sicrlti— *• ‘ - - FOR “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.”—It. L. Nance, I’rin. High School, BlutTilule, Texas. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, 8. C., and It. 8. Withers, Blacksburg, 8. 0. The man who wants loyalty from his employes should remember that most men are loyal to a dollar. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures obstinate summer coughs and colds. “1 consider it a most wonder ful medicine,—quick and safe.'’— W. W. Merton, Mayhew, Wis. Olier- okee Drug Company, GalTney, 8.(5,, and It. 8. Withers, Blacksburg, 8. C. Edacnto Your Bowels With Cusnirots. CiiiKly (’iilliurlic, cure consiiputioii forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. (ail, ilrtiagisu refund money. 1^01*0rcrr oui* -Oh 1 ALL- See us before you buy your Lawns, Or gandies, Millinery, Oxford Ties, etc. & July 10, 1890. We have added the above line to our stock and will sell NEW SCHOOL BOOKS at publishers’ list price, and our stock of SECONDHAND BOOKS we will sell at great dis count. It will be to your interest to buy your School Books, School Supplies and Sta tionery from us. J. I. SARRATT To tlii! front with ;i Oiir L-,o;ul liirclscll Wsi^oiih just I'oci'ivcd. O.tII ninl so<* my wagons and #‘1 my prices he fore buying. Will soil cheap for cash, or on time with oood paper. This line of wagons is manufactured by the I’irdscll AVa^on Co., of South I»end, I ml., which is one of the linest timber rcoions in America. My line of Groceries, Hardware, Dry Goods, Notions, Hals, Shoes, &c., is complete hero and at the Goforth Store. Don’t fail to jpve me a call when you want a wa^on from the lightest to the heaviest, or any goods usually kept in a General Store. A hio lot of Fruit Jars on hand. Also Fertilizers for your Peas or Grain. J. I. SARRATT. Trusts and Combinations are forming for the purpose of upholding high prices, but the only combination we believe in is the combination of quality, quantity, way-down prices and honest methods, all of which constitute the foundation upon which our business is rap- 11 ic i~vici >oici*. Si.oo per Year. PUBLISHKl> TUESDAY AND FHIDAY JIV En. II. PkCamf. The Ledger 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, hut 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 he published at one cent a word. Reading notices will bo published at ten cents a lino each insertion. T1IK WALTER BOKO BAR. Those of our readers who read, in the last issue of the Ledger, the ac count of tho somewhat ludicrous proceedings of the M alterboro bar, already have a pretty full history of questions at issue between the mem bers of that bar and the editorial writer of t iis paper. But for the benefit of any who may not have seen that account, we give a brief re hearsal of Hie facts. In an editorial written some time ago on our experience with lawyers wo mentioned the fact that a lawyer at Walterhoro had collected money for us and appropriated it to his own use, or at least had never made a re turn of it to us. Tho Walterhoro I’ress and Standard raised a great howl over the charge, and the legal fraternity of^thut place came run ning together for battle. Their in dignation, however, was not so great as to disqualify thorn for adopting the usual formalties, preliminary to tho complete demolition of a helpless foe. These preliminaries consisted mainly in a peremptory demand for the name of the lawyer, of the man who owed tho account, and of tho man who sent the account to the lawyer for collection, together with all the facts hearing on the case. All of the information demanded was promptly given. Tho name of the lawyer was C. C. Tracy ; the name of the man who paid him the money was B. G. O’Bryan, a citizen of their own town ; the name of the owner of tho account was If. B. Griffith. Later we sent them a copy of Mr. O’Bryan’s letter us published in the Ledger last Tuesday, and assured them that the original letter should he produced, whenever necessary. We also requested them to submit tho copy to Mr. O’Bryan for his en dorsement or repudiation, and also to ask him to produce his receipt. It seems that the information so violently extorted from us, has had a wonderfully seductive effect on tho revengeful spirits of the gentlemen of tho Walterhoro bar. The winds cease, and the waves settle down as if Neptune had suddenly raised his head above the angry waters. They meet again, and the fact slowly leaks out “that Mr. O’Bryan has lived in Beaufort for the past several years’’ —away off in darkest Beaufort, be- yon the reach of “mail or telegraph, lost in hopeless isolation far beyond u wide expanse of swamp and jungle, impassable even to the most during explorer. What can the gentlemen of the bar do then but leave Mr. O’Bryan undisturbed in the far away haunts of solitude, and relieve their pent up indignation through a stream of easy flowing resolutions. Mr. O’Bryan being hopelessly inac cessible, and Mr. Tracy denying “that he had done anything crimi nal or unprofessional,” but being unprepared “to make any further statement,” these gentlemen of the bar, declare by preamble that “noth ing has been submitted to the Asso ciation except the unsupported state ment of H. P. Griffith on the one bund and the denial of C. C. Tracy on tho other,” proceed to read the afore-mentioned Griffith and Tracy a mild moral lecture and then how themselves out, Now wo are not personally ac quainted with a single member of the Walterhoro bar, and we have no reason to assert or even to suspect, that, excepting the one whoso con duct we have branded as dishonest, it is not composed of high-toned, honorable gentlemen. But it seems to us that the spectacular exhibition they have given tho public has had rather a ridiculous ending. They issued a high-sounding manifesto which promised much and performed little. We were led to believe by that manifesto that they were de termined to sift to the bottom the charges made against one of their members, and if those charges wore found to be ‘‘unsupported,” to pun ish the man who made them, or if found to he true, to expel from their Association tho unworthy member against whom the charges were made. They have done neither. When confronted with the evidence their energy relaxed, their arder cooled, their rage subsided, and after admonishing us. of our “duty as a citizen,” they virtually delated that the evidence pro and con was about evenly balanced, and that they should have nothing more to do with the case. Wo think that we have some ap preciation of our duties us a citizen, but the duties pertaining to the sup port and maintenance of a family happen to have stronger claims upon us. We have tho proofs of Mr. Tracy’s dishonesty and can pro duce them at any time. Wo can es tablish the validity of Mr. O’Bryan’s letter either in his presence or ab sence. Mr. O’Bryan can show Tracy’s receipt for the money, and Tracy cannot show that he over sent us a dollar. But Walterhoro is over two hundred miles from our place of residence, and we bad rather let Tracy keep his ill-gotten gains and writhe under Hie shame of his dis honesty. than to lose still larger invjnts on him in prosecuting a suit against him. Ho “denied having done anything criminal or unprofessional, hut was not prepared to make any further statement.” We do not know what is Mr. Tracy’s standard of professional honor or what in his estimation would be tho color of an act which miglit be called "criminal and un professional,” hut judging from our experience will) him, wo should think the standard would be low and the color dark indeed. Neither can we judge of tho length of time ho will require to prepare for that “fur ther statement.” It seems to us that a man who has done nothing “criminal or unprofessional” ought to be able to make statements with out much preparation. The Asso ciation calls upon him “to vindicate himself and the profession by taking such proceedings as will result in such vindication.” If this means to proceed against us for libel, we also call upon him to do tho same tiling, and we dare him to make the at tempt. TIIK RACK TKOI HI.KS IN OKOKUIA. The race troubles in Georgia have assumed huge proportions. In Mc Intosh county, a deputy Sheriff with a regular warrant arrested a negro named Delegal, who quietly submit ted, and then with a gun handed him by a woman shot the deputy dead and severely wounded another man with,him. The negro lied and hun dreds of his race rallied to his pro tection and defied Hie constituted authorities. Tho Governor culled out the military, one thousand strong, and for a day or two a bloody battle seemed imminent. The ne groes, to the number of about two thousand, collected in a swamp, and refused to allow Delegal to he re taken. But when tho military sur rounded the swamp and began to close in upon them they became over-awed and sullenly yielded up Delegal to Gen. Lawton, the com mander of the troops. So further Ulood-shed, and what at one time promised to be the beginning of an extensive war, where happily averted. We cite these facts in order to draw a lesson. Such troubles are going to continue, and some of thepe times they are going to spring into fearful proportions, if the better class of negroes do not manifest u different spirit from that which now actuates them, .lust us long us by their silent sympathy or active co operation they encourage the crimi nals of their race to resist the civil authorities, just so long are they putting the seal of their endorse ment on lawlessness and giving ac tive aid to crime. We believe that the lawless ele ment constitutes only u small minority among the negroes, as it does among the whites, but tho law- abiding, peucable negroes, or those disposed to he such, are so soured against tho whites, so saturated with race feeling and tainted with race prejudice, that, whenever one of their member is made to suffer the punish ment due to crime, they become blind to reason and deaf to the de mands of justice and to the claims of citizenship. The safety and welfare of tho ne gro race in this country depend al most entirely on tho spirit and con duct of thejdominant element. Let those who compose this element show the same zeal in hunting down and bringing to justice one of their race who bus committed a tlagrant crime that white men show in ar resting and punishing a guilty white man, and it will do more towards checking lawlessness and promoting good feeling among the two races, than all tho speeches, and sermons, and laws that we have had in twenty- live years. Good feeling and confi dence being once established lynch- ings would necessarily cease, for the motive that prompts them would be greatly mitigated if not entirely removed. Wc don’t believe that a party of white men could ho found in this state who would lynch a ne gro run down and arrested bj men of his own color and delivered to the officers of the law to be punished for his crime. We hope that these words will bo read by the intelligent colored sub scribers to the Ledger, and that through them they will reach the ears of others. The safety, happiness, and pros perity of the negro-race are all to day in the hands of the hotter class of negroes. Are they capable of rising to the full measure of their opportunity? On the answer to that question Lang consequences, the ex tent and magnitude of which are be yond the limits of human contem plation or conception. NOTES ANB COMMENTS. I’ncle Sam is said to be falling be hind with his hills, and Secretary Gage is puzzled to know where the money is to come from with which to support the largely increased army. The receipts did not meet the ex penditures when the army was smaller, and now the problem of how to meet the cost of 510,000 addi tional troops becomes an interesting one. Imperialism comes high, but tho people have yet a few more hard- earned dollars, and Uncle Sam is hound to have them. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Captain Dreyfus lias acquired such world-wide notoriety that the world ought to know how to pronounce his name. If we did not misunderstand Dr. Lodge, who, by tho way, is one of the finest French and German scholars [In the South, or in the North either as far that, tho name in German is pronounced Dri-fus and in French Dra-fu, with the accent in both cases on the first syllable. Captain Dreyfus being a native Ger man, the former pronunciation ought to be given to his name. Coix-prnliiK (In- MuicInlmUt «if ('lH-rok<-<-. Blacksbihu!, S.C., Aug. 2!), 18!)!). To The Editor : Kindly allow me space to say, as another voter of Cherokee county, that I endorse tho views of W. 1‘. Tolbert in the last issue of The Ledg er in regard to tho vacancy in the office of magistrate at tiiis place. As Mr. Tolbert says: “The magistrate at tiiis place has heretofore been appointed without consulting the people. Give us a chance to express our sentiments at the ballot box. That would be dem ocratic.” Many recognize tho fact that as this is an “off year,” so far as elections are concerned, our Senator may not he lookini' as anxiously after tho in terests of tho “dear people” as if it were an election year; yet some of us are inclined to think that it would be to his interests to let tho people say who they want us magistrate at this place before he frantically rushes forward to endorse some one, A Democrat. Blacksburg, 8. C., Aug. 20. Editor The Ledger : Our neighbor, Mr. W. P. Tolbert, in his communication dated August 2ttrd, states that he “understands that the position of magistrate at this place is vacant.” He will “understand” when he consults the office of the chief magistrate of the State, His Excellency, the Governor, that the “place is not vacant.” He further states ‘‘that the magistrate at this place has here tofore been appointed without con sulting the people.” If I am not much mistaken, Mr. Tolbert carried around a petition in his section of the township asking his good neigh bors to sign it’ recommending to the delegation and the Governor, the ap pointment of the present incumbent, Mr. A. M. Bridges, which he signed himself. If he doubts this I respectfully ask him to examine the petitions filed with our delegation. Then you have hud “a chance to express our senti ments.” If Mr. Tolbert will call in the Magistrate’s office he will find these constitutional provisions in the Constitution of 18i)5, Art. 5. 8ec. 20: “A sufficient number of magistrates shall he appointed and commissioned by the Governor, by and with tho ad vice and consent of the Senator for “each county, who shall hoidtheir of fice for tho term of two years and un til their successors are appointed and qualified.” We will see that the office is ap pointive and not elective, and the Senator and the Governor must act on the petition of the people. This they have done and our friend is u party to the transaction. I agree with him when he suggests “that, the matter be left to the vote of the peo ple,” but we will have to change the organic law of the State—the Consti tution—before this can bo done. I have always been of the opinion that all offices should he filled by a direct vole of the people; county commis sioners, township commissioners, magistrates, etc., and I am willing to unite with Mr. Tolbert in an effort to secure the needed legislation along this line. W. Rt-iuarltMl.lt* R<-mcu«. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, III., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hope less victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's Now Discovery for Consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from first dose. Hlio continued its use and af ter taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; now docs her own housework, and is as well as she ever was—Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Cherokee Drug Com pany. Only 60 cents and $1.00, every bottle guaranteed, The far-seeing man usually secs so much that he is too timid to under take anything. All weak places in your system ef fectually closed against disease by DeWltt’s Little Early Risers. They cleanse the bowels, promptly cure chronic constipation, regulate the liver, and fill you with new life and vigor. Hmall, pleasant, sure; never gripe. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, 8. 0., and It. S. Withers, Blacksburg, 8. C. idly growing. Il K tin! wim- Iniyor that (-oiiipitrr-s jfiMxU and prlccN before buying. \V«* have bad siieli a run on our (-heap pants rlosoll out our stork but socurnd auoibi-r lot (rout 25c. pair up. Como and ni-o thorn. The liest wido^ii-avy chuck 6c.; si-i-ond best 4t!, Yard wIdo bb-ach .V. pi r yard. Ynrd whin bleu*-hod iile'bii.'OMrii tMills. I.liiuu dauiuiik tablo covers 25, :» and 5<k>. Outing, all od or* amt prices. Ih-autlful Hllkaleoii skirts, ready niadc, full hIkch and latest style*. Hoys’ overall*, suspenders a in I a.vron fronts 25r. Hoys’ heavy wool knee pants une. Another Int of thul Is-nnilful Hrllilantlne. I'orue qulok before il goes. It Is evident from our constantly tnereus- Ing busineNttfliul the trade apprerlaU'* onr prices, our goods and our way of doing busi ness. Anybody cun sell cheap goods. I sell gissl goods cheap. A beautiful linn of Tapestry and L’arnid* siimulc*. Will measure room ami onlei at- wholesalu prices for you. You should see our Ramus. Kmyinu uud Motiuct Rugs and al prices that astonish. A lot heavy gingham* for shirts. Isiys’ waists and dress styles, cheaper than checks, only tc. a yard. The At wood Suspender, a comfort to the wearer and saves the buttons. 2.'», a,'.. 5n,av. W by you should gel my prices before buy ing elsewhere: quality versus Quantity. 'I'o ohvluie tbi< loss of fridt for making .lams, .lollies and sweet ihlngs for llm table, I buve In a supply for tho housewife, ami It is nice. Ilelmqnb'o'* granulated table salt, always Dry. White ami nice, for butler or table use, In pu|ior boxes, loe. Having bought Hour before the recent ad vance I can still make a very low price on u good article. I ain’t fall to sow a small lot in Rye for win ter grazing,utves color to the butter and life to your stock. Heed here. (iood l.uck Hal. Ing I'owdcrs alvvavs til stock in aiii quantity. ( use or retail. *