Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Til 10 I^ICI >o IO l<. $1.00 per Year. PUBLISHKl* TI'KSDAY AND FRIDAY BY Ed. II. I)k(-amp. Tub 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The way of the transgressor is hard. Pretty Mrs. Hughes for the 1 third time is on trial for her life in Greenville. Great difficulty was i found in selecting a jury, most of the ; jurors declaring that they had formed previous opinions. We have com mented pretty freely heretofore on this case, and wo shall forbear any additional comments for the present. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Read the article in another col umn from the Greenville News in reference to the American Journal of Health and its editor, and then say if you think we have been unjust or ungenerous in what we have said about the method of that paper and of the men who have encouraged it by co-operating with it. We thank the Greenville News for the timely information which it has given. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It strikes us that for an organiza tion of mature men the Grand Army of the Republic is about the silliest body of men on earth. Everything they do except draws pensions, is as vindictive and hateful as if born of Katan. .las. W*. Kay, department commander of the New York G. A. R., has sent a letter to (Jen. Roe de clining the invitation to take part in the Dewey celebration in New York because of some imaginary slight. Well! Well!! Let the G. A. R. stay out of the procession. It may not he so long hut it will he just as attractive. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Dreyfus has been pardoned, but tbis will not satisfy the world’s sense of justice, for according to the concensus of opinion he has com mitted no crime, and hence is not a legitimate subject for pardon. The announcement of his pardon was re ceived throughout France without demonstration, and viewed as a mut ter of policy, the pardon may pre vent an out-burst of the volcano which seems to be always smoulder ing under the French nation. How- over that may be, Dreyfus will be regarded by all impartial men as a martyr in the cause of innocence as sailed by prejudice and political ras cality. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Let it be remembered that the lynching of negroes is about as com mon in Illinois, the homo of Abra ham Lincoln, as it is in South Caro lina and Georgia. One day last week seven negroes were shot dead by an angry mob of white miners, for no otiier offence than that they had manifested a desire or at least a willingness to work in the mines at wages which the white men had re fused. We’li see now how northern juries will punish lynchers, and what example they will set for the Boutb of upholding law and order. In the meantime, wo suggest to northern newspapers that this is u good time to blow oil their surplus stock of hypocritical cant about the oppres sion of the poor negro. The trust business is assuming an alarming aspect. There is a trust on nearly every article that is being manufactured and sold to the peo ple while there is a trust on the buy ing of tHe product of the peoplf. A man cannot buy a shoe, a gallon of oil, a pound of paper, a package of envelopes or anything hardly that he will not pay a tribute to the manu facturer. The battle-cry of the De mocracy should be "down with the trusts.” There can be no telling where this infamous business will end. It bus struck home. The other day the makers of newspaper formed a tiiiot and advanced the price one-fourth of a cent a pound. This means that we must pay our tribute to the trust. Therefore we say "down with the trusts.” ♦ -♦ ♦ ♦ There is one thing the legislature of (South Carolina could do with credit to the (State, and that is to pass a child labor bill. There is no eense in suckling babes being made to work in mills for eleven hours a day. The mills do not need their labor and parents should be com pelled to support them until they are strong enough to earn a living with out jeopardising their health for life, it maKes our heart ache to see a great big, able-bodied man loafing around and spitting tobacco juice and drinking beer and whiskey while his little six, eight, ten end twelve year old children are confined from day light to dark in the four walls of a huge mill earning the money that he spends. It is time a stop was being put to such unhumanity. The crop conditions remain un changed, and it is now pretty well settled that the cotton crop will be short. Yet the price does not rise. Neill, who is operating in the inter est of English Spinners, predicted before the actual conditions were known that tlx? crop promised to be one of 12,<KK),OOO bales. The conse- quence is that European buyers are holding off, and cotton Js bringing as much in this country as it is.in Liverpool. Another strange feature of ‘he situation is that New York prices are little if any above the prices ruling in South Carolina. The factories in the South are con templating higher prices and they are buying all the cotton they can get, thereby keeping the prices a little still. Things will adjust them selves after awhile, and we still be lieve that the man who can hold his cotton without wronging his creditor will do well to hold it. STATE NEWS. The third trial of Mrs. Hattie A. Hughes for the murder of her hus band was begun in the Greenville sessions court Tuesday. The Hickory Grove cotton mill, York county, was chartered Wednes day. The capital is .jioO.OOO. R. M. Carrol! and others are interested. Tom Rroghton, colored, died in Laurens county on Sunday, it is rumored, from a club blow by an other negro. The coroner is investi gating this case and also another, the premature burial of a child, col ored, in the county. Attorney General Dellinger will peiserially conduct the case against Colonel Neal as he was a State officer and under orders of the general as sembly and the board of directors. Bondsman Dope holds that the hoard of directors of the penitentiary were liable and criminally careless uinl will not pay his share of the bond without a fight. The Columbia Phosphate mills, of Columbia, was sold Tuesday to the Yirginia-Carolina company at $80,- <)<K). The purchase includes the goods and materials on hand. It is considered a very good price. The mill is ten years old but is in good condition. This makes the last of the interior mills to go into the hands of the Virginia Carolina com pany. Mrs. Carrie Bridges Hale, wife of George W. Hale, an old time resident of Piedmont, committed suicide by taking laudanum Wednesday morn ing. A note was found in her cloth ing stating us a reason for her rash act, "that while at all times her husband and his family had been very kind in their treatment of her she had notwithstanding become tired qf life and feeling that her sins had been forgiven her she should seek in death rest in the arms of the Savior.” The last act relative to the distri bution of dispensary profits is not do ing what was intended. Most of the fund on hand is going towards mak ing up the deficiency while the legis lature thought (here would be no deficiency to make good. Greenville county shows deficient of $841 Beaufort, Charleston. Richland, Sumter, Greenwood and l nion are among the counties reporting no de ficiency. Lexington claims deficien cy of $1,388.42. The largest <1* fi- cienoies are from Horry and Ches terfield, which have not yet reported. Concerning <;uffncy I’coplc.- X 'luveland Star. I Shelby gives up clever "Doc” Ross and his estimable wife with genuine regret. Their going away is, a distinct loss to the fown, but we trust that some day their hearts will turn in tiiis direction again and that we will have the pleasure oi welcoming them as citizens once more. The Gaffney City Ladies’ Orches tra. under the management of Prof. W. L. Johnson, will probably favor Shelby with one of their musical con certs at an early day. The orchestra will have the assistance of Miss Min nie Carroll, Gaffney’s star soprano, and of Prof. Barnett, an ecellent trombone player. Ah Well MkiIcuimI Crctty uh Any. [Aiken Journal ami Review.) A merchant in town showed us re cently several rolls of car; et made by the Gaffney Mfg. Co. To all appear ance their carpets were just as well made and of us pretty designs as any thing that comes from the Noith. Gaffney may well he pround of hav ing the pioneer carpet mill of the South and if the Southern people support tills homo industry as they ought to, more will he sure to follow. liiill<tlii|C ii|t a Town A newspaper whose columns over flow with advertisements of business men has more influence in attracting attention to building up a town than any other agency that can bo em ployed. People go where there is business. Capital and labor go where there is an enterprising community. No power on earth is so strong to build up a town as a newspaper will patronized, and its power should be appreciated.—T. DeWitt Talmage. DfitlncHH C'uniiot Ixi Curo'l by locul applU-iitlouH, 11* they cannot reach the alM'UM'd portion of the ear. There Ih only one way to cure <leiifne*». ami that Is l>.y constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by Inllaincd condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tulte. When lids tube gets Inllarned you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, ami when It Is entirely closed deafni-HM Is the result, and iinh'Hs the 1 u Ha in mat ton can he taken out and this tuU) restored to Its normal condi tion. heat log will be deHtroyed forever; nine cases mil often arc caused by catarrh, which Isnolblnu but an Inllaincd condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) that can not be cured by lluir» Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. K J. MlENKY k CO., Toledo, O. Hold by Dnifftfcsis, jic' lUiraYauitiy Pills are the heat. THE BANNER CORN FIELD. ft la a I'wtrli of 8,000 Acres In IlliiioU und w ill Produce 600,000 Itushels. [St. l-oiiis UIoIm*-Democrat.] South of Ava, in Southern Illinois, from the brow of one of the Kinkald hills, can be seen the most magnifi cent field of corn upon which the white man’s vision has rested since the lime the Pilgrims landed and learned to know the merits of maize in hasty pudding. The September sun is pulling the golden color upon 0,000 acres of corn in one great body. This is the banner cornfield of the world. It will give 600,000 bushels of corn, an average of 100 bushels to | the acre. The statement will be questioned. And the people who know most about corn outside of the Americau Botton will be the first to challenge. Even the Egyptians of Illinois look askant at such a claim. But those who have seen the extra ordinary spectacle agree that no where in the world is there such a crop of corn maturing on the same ground space. Even from the nearest hilltop this lield appears to be a solid mass. As fur us the vision reaches the corn extends without apparent break. On closer approach the spectacle is even more impressive. The corn stands at an even height of fi f teen feet. So heavy is it that a man lour rows from the outer edge cannot be seen. At a little distance the edge of the great body presents an unbroken line. Close view shows an occasional dividing boundry in the form of a norrow road or lane. On either side of these lanes the corn rises like a wall high above the wagon. Having once entered the lane the traveller finds it impracticable to turn arouid. The only thing to do is to drive to the other side of the great field. Nobody who lias ridden through the 6,000 acres questions the estimate of 100 bushels to the acre. And nobody who has visited the field since the present crop began to mature can re member to have seen the like of it before. Even the cultivators of this ex ceptional lield admit that they have never had such a crop as this year’s. To them there is nothing unusual in a yield of seventy-five bushels to the acre. In unfavorable seasons they can safely count on lift to sixty bushels. But one hundred bushels for the entire tract is the record- breaker. A. capitalist form the great est corn-raising section of Illinois, the vicinity of Springfield, lust week bought six hundred acres of this ban ner lield of corn. He paid $18,000. A cash otfer of $30,000 for one thousand acres was refused. By way of interesting contrast it may be stated right here that less than ten years ago the ground upon which stands the banner corn crop of the banner corn year changed hands at $1 an acre. Where the banner crop is denting and hardening, within half a dozen years wild ducks had a summer nesting and hatching place. The banner cornfield of the Edited States occupies what was recently Big Lake, in the American Bottom. Water stood at a depth of two feet over anjirregularly formed tract, per haps two miles wide and four miles long in its largest measures. Long ago an abortive attempt at draining was made, but it failed of its pur pose. Big Lake continued to furnish sport to the duck hunters, but was worthless in all other respects. Mr. Whitney Gilbreath, of Avu, began to speculate upon the possibilities of reclamation. The fellow citizens of Mr. Gilbreath are now rather loath to recall the uncomplimentary things they said, about his want of sound st'use in wasting his time with Big Lake. They saw him put into the overflowed land ills money until he owned thousands of acres. They saw a drainage district formed. A steam dredge cut a channel twenty-five Let wide from the lake to the Mississippi River. This ditch ranges from eight to thirty feet in depth. The citizens commenced sarcastically and could hardly be patient until the time to say, "I told you so.” That time never came for them. The water drained from the lake into the cut and passed away, leaving in one body six thousand acres of almost incon- oeivably fertile land. And that is where today ripens this mass of corn which beats the world. Two other lakes have since been included in the drainage district. Canals nearly thirty miles in all have been dug. Where these other lakes were are other bodies of corn two thousand und three thousand acres in extent. They will show yields proportionate to that of Big Luke. But there is only one body of six hundred thousand bushels. Kometliliiif New. [Sunny South. 1 The following is an exact duplicate of an invitation recently sent out to a church entertainment: Hugging Mat< 11. Given to Swell the Church Treasury. Terms: Girls under sixteen, If) cents for a hug of two minutes, or 10 cents for a short squeeze; from sixteen to twenty, f>0 cents; from twenty to twenty-live, 75 cents; school inarms, 60 cents; another man’s wife, $1.00; widows, according to looks, from $3.00 to $10.00; old maids, 3 cents a piece, or two for a nickel, und no limit of time. Preach ers are not charged. Editors pay In advertising, hut are not allowed to participate until everybody else has gotten through, and oven then they are not allowed to squeeze anything hut old maids and school inarms. Truly, we editors are an abused class. A Word to Molhfnt. Mothers of children affected with croup or a severe cold need not hesi tate to administer Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It contains no opiate nor iurcotie>ln any form and may be given us confidently to the babe us to an udult. The great suc cess thut has attended its use in the treatment of colds and croup lias won for it Hie approval and prube It has Received throughout the United Htujifes and In many foreign lands. I'V sals by Cherokoe Drug Company, Itorky Creok li Uh." [Abbeville Medium.] "J. L. S.” has written for the Gaff ney Ledger a pleasant account of a trip made by him to Cornwell’s and Blackstocks, in Chester county. He was horn in that community and must have enjoyed the visit. The Rocky Creek Irish have always been known as the best people in South Carolina. We have many pleasant recollections about Hopewell, and the articles of J. L. S. set us to thinking of the past. We recall the old church with its pulpit and sound ing board, und how we listened to long sermons us we sat by our grand mother who always dressed in black and wore a white handkerchief around her neck. In those days a boy had to pay strict attention to w hat tho preacher said whether lie understood it or not. In those days no man was allowed to take the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper at Hopewell unless he had a "touen’' to hand to the elder w hen he came along. The "token” was a piece of lead or pewter about the size of a nickel. It was of the same use as a countersign in the army, for it told who were friends and worthy to he trusted. The "token” origi nated in the days of the persecution in Scotland when the Covenanters had a hard time getting to worship God according to conscience. The members of Hopewell always entered the church in a "grave and seemly manner” and gave heed to what was said by tho preacher. No "compositions, merely human” were sung in Hopewell, and there was no "chorus of singers,” but the whole congregation "with united voices tunubly ordered” sung tho sacred songs contained in the hook of I’salms "with understanding and with grace in the heart.” The pastor performed his whole ministry, "delivering the truth, not in the enticing words of man’s wis dom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect; abstaining also from an unprofitable use of unknown tongues, strange phrases, and cadences of sounds and words; sparingly citing sentences of eclesiasticai or other human writers, ancient or modern ; faithfully look ing at the honour of Christ, the con version, edification and salvation of tho people, not at his own gain or trlory; wisely framing alibis doc trines, exhortations, and especially his reproofs.” The Hopewell people of today are worthy descendents of tho noble men and women who gave character and standing to that section. They are diligent in business, und given to hospitality, charitable, pious und patriotic. Huh tti-rveil Rome TerniH in[the Tombs. [Greenville News. 1 The Gaffney City Ledger has been busy showing up the pretences of the Journal of Health, of New York, regarding female colleges and brands of whiskey—subjects widely separate but treated with curious impartiality in thut publication. If we under stand the case, the Journal of Health is one of the numerous funny pub lications run in the city of New' York. One of its chief men used to he a reporter for the New York Ad vertiser. Hu had a pleasant habit of appearing in the editorial rooms at remote hours of the night and mak ing demonstrations against his throat with a knife und talking of a revolver with which he purposed to blow out his bruins. After thut he figured us a republican cart tail ora tor in tho campaign of 1806. Sub sequently, after several vieDHtudes, he appeared as secretary of u meet ing against The Ciiristian Scientists at. tho Waldorf-Astoria. Then lie came to the front as editor of Tho Journal of Health. His name is i’lxjebus—Geo. It. I’hoebus. The Ledger need not be afraid to jump on him. He is one of several thousand men in New York who are living en tirely by their wits without any character to back them. Our infor mation is thut Mr. I’lxubus has served some terms in the Tombs, New York, whether under his own name or not we do not knowr If the Journal of Health is his publication, ns we think it is, nobody need consider it seriously. A WONDERFUL LIKE OF DIARRHOEA A I’romlnt'ut \ IrKlitla Editor‘HihI AIiiiohI Given I but W»h liroiiKlit Rin k to I'vr- f<<<-t llt-ultli by Cliumbt'rhtiii'H Lolir, Chol era and Diarrhora Kvnirdy Read JtU Editorial. [From t be Times, lllllsvllle, Va.| I sutT red with diarrhoea for a long time and thought I was past being cured. I had spent much time and money and suffered so much misery that I had almost dec.ded to izive up all hopes of recovery and await the result, but noticing the advertisment of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and also some testimonials stating how some wonderful cures had been wrought by this remedy, I decided to try it. After a few doses I was entirely well of that trouble, and I wish to say further to my read ers and fellow sufferers that J am a hale und hearty man to-day and feel us well as I e*ordid in my life.—(). R. Moore. Hold by Cherokee Drug Co. As a silent partner the hen-pecked husband fills the bill. The great success of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy in tho treatment of bowel com plaints has made it standard over the greater part of the civilized world. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. The performance of the um&te’ur musician is often a music rack. To eat with Appetite, Digest with Comfort and Sleep with Tranquility, take a dose of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine occasionally. For sale by J. 11. Tolleaon A Co. «—— Hell admiration is ample proof that there is no accounting for taste. IndlKeHtlou U tlif (llrvct cause ofdiseuws (but bill UiuiihuiiUh of person* tionuiillv. Stop Ibe trouble lit tliu ou ant with u Utllo i’UJCKl.Y Asti HiTTfcasi It Slrouuibvns ihu ■Uiuiuch and atUs (Jlyesiloij, boia Ujr Cltcru- kac Dins Ut. PASSING OF THE DRUNKARD. Lawyer*, Dm-tor. Editors r.n;l Artist* Who Drink Rave Almost l ulod from vlovv. (Dallas New*.] Drinking men come high in any line of the business, hut entire./ too high in railroading. The railway companies of the United States have lost millions of dollars because of Hie drunkenness of their employees. As the Cleveland Leader explains, whis key, beer, and the operation of rail way trains is a combination which no man tolerates any more. Even distillers and brewers would refuse to ride behind an engineer who was drunk or half drunk. Such a man may be able to make his locomotive groan and bellow ami squall to his own satisfaction, but then- are others. The book of rules, followed rigidly by the New York Central Railway Compay contains the following: "The use of intoxicating drink on the road or about the premises of tlx* corporation is strictly forbidden. No one will be employed or continual in employment who is known to be in tiie habit of drinking intoxicating liquor.” So it is on other roads. Tiie companies are bound to recognize the fact that the public will not patronize trains which are run by whiskey or beer drinkers. Cold business reasons have made American railway companies the promoters of temperance reform. The Southern I’acilic Railway Company by a recent order prohibits absolutely Hie sale of liquors at depot restaurants and on tiie properly of Hie corporation, and this suggests to Hie editor of Ram’s Horn a letter of inquary to manufac turers in respect to their requirements in the employment of men. A num ber of widely Known and successful corporations have replied to the let ter, and in each instance the state ment is made that drinking men are not desired and will not be employed. The secretary nf an important manu facturing company frankly said that "it is becoming more and more Hie case with all large corporations that they are insisting upon strictly temperate employes and are dis criminating always in their favor.” Business and intoxicating liquors do not mix. Lawyers, doctors, editors ami artists who drink have almost entirely f,aided from view. Those who remain are living illustrations of the folly of intemperance. As the Cleveland Leader says: "limes have changed somewhat. Once a talented drunkard mioht have been influential in public. No drunkard cun sit in Congress today und lie respected. In America, at least, the drunkard is a playen-out individual in any place where he may he found.” “Honest Labor Bears a Lovely Face. Th ere is nothing more pleasing to look upon than a hearty, ruddy face, gained by honest toil. They are the saving of the nation, these toilers of both sexes, strug gling for daily bread. c Pure blood makes them able to keep up the daily round of duty at home, shop cr store. If the blood has a taint or ‘im purity, or a run denvn feeling comes on, the one remedy is Hood's Sarsaparilla, America's Greatest Medicine for the blood. Poor Blood—“cMy blood <was so poor that in hottest ueather 1 felt cold. Hood's Sarsaparilla made me 'warm. It is the right thing in the rigid place." Hallie J. Saylor, Woods tcrcun, N. J. tt dfcod'4 SoMufunitta flood s I'ilU <•;(!<• Iht rihs; the non-irriiatiji^and «iii 1 > CHthariii t<< • .;i e \ it U flood’* s ».• $apariJla« Trespass Motice. All |,;uli< 1 air liei'lij l< II ijdilrn lu tics- pass cm I lie laiulH of t lie undiTalimeii for 1 lie purpose of Imiiiiie.'. tishhi^. cutlilljr 11inlier. etc., under full (>■ nal 1 y of Hu* la w. John T. I.irsi omh. I >. S. 1,1 CSCOMli. O-l-luw-lt .Miis. jvii.i.n: E. Cook. must have a plioto^rapli made. 1 have a ne w camera, lensi s und hueU;jrounds. My of hulldlnjr*. landscapes and croup worlc nni’t lie ln-al al the prices. Did youever si r a Hash lltrlil piet lire iVliVl >IC utnlKht'/ It Is jolly pi Hid fun; try one. Siiup-sliot work should he mudo m^rwiciciv nine a. m. and four p. m. to pel Hie best results. Don't worry Ijecauso tiie l>u!>y It Is natural lor some people to kick about their picture*. I Kiiuraiileo work manship and Utiisli. Yours to please, JOHN GREEN. At the tent, next door to \V. E. Thomas. Well, Do Not Forget I am still here al my old stand. Jiuruett lilock. selling more line Reef, Mutton. Ac., than I ever have. As to Country I’rodure. I have an ahundauee fresh every day. such as Sweet Potatoes. Irish I'ntutoes, t'ahbatfe. I leans, Ac. Also a nice Hue of ^ Fancy Groceries, Cigars and Tobaccos, ami Dr cool you I have plenty of Ice and l.cuioiis. Fresh Elsh every Friday a ml Nil- unluy on loo. When you want aiiyililn^ in my lino come to see me or 'phone No, (XI. 1^rcnll < >VHtl-M'H •- will Ire served at W. A. I’eeler'* Restaurant next I'rlduy and Mulurduy nljrld. ami from then on regular. Also FUFliili RKEAO on hand at all limes. W. A. PEELER. nil Results Falaily to Nine Cases Out of Ten—A Cure Found nt Last. Tins foarful (Unease often first appears as a mere scratch, a pimple, or lump in tho breast, too small to attract any notice*, until, in many cases, tho deadly disease is fully developed. Cancer can not be cured by a surgical operation, because the disease is a virulent poison in the blood, circulating throughout the system, and although the sore or ulcer—known tis the Cancer—may be cut away, the poison remains in tho blood, and promptly breaks out afresh, with renewed violence. The wonderful success of S. S. S. in curing obstinate, deep-seated blood diseases which were considered incurable, induced a few do- snairing sufferers to try it for Cancer, after exhausting tho skill of the physicians without a cure. Much to their delight S. 8. 8. proved equal to the disease and promptly effected a cure. The glad news spread rapidly, and it was soon domonstfated beyond doubt that a cure had at last been found for deadly Cancer. Evidence has accu mulated which is incontrovertible, of which the following is a sjiecimen : "Cancer is hereditary in our family, my father, a pister and an aunt having died from this dreadful disease. My feelings may be imagined when the hor rible disease made its appearance on my side. It was a malignant Cancer, eating inwardly in such a way as to cause great alarm. The disease seemed beyond the skill of the doctors, for their treatment dit! no good whatever, tho Cancer growing worse all the while. Numerous remedies were used for it. but tlx Cancer grew steadily worse, until it seemed that 1 was doomed to follow the others of the family, for I know how deadly Cancer is, especially when inherited. I was a ivise 1 to try Swift’s Spe ific (S S. S ), \yhich, from the first day, forced out the poison. I continued its use until I hud taken eighteen bottles, when I was cured sound ami well, and have had no symptoms of tiie dreadful affliction, though many years have elapsed. S. S. S. is the only cure for Cancer.—Mas. S M. Idol, Winston, N. C. r * Our book on Cancer, containing other testimonials and valuable information, will he sent free to any address by tho Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. c MRS. S. M. IDOL. FOUNDED IN 1845, LIMESTONE COLLEGE, GAFFNEY. S. C. li:f: dams i.ooof:, a. m.. i*h. i». Tiie (JaJney City Land and Improvement Company Offers for ssil< lluibl ing l,<it s in t his lh>u rlsliintf town. OsilTnoy city: A Iso Farms near by :in<l in ri-avli of t he Schools of IJint-Minn* Sprtiitfs ami of t Ills place. In lots of from ;,n to loo ai'i-i on lilx-ml tiiiic mios; also Agricultural I.amis to rc-in for Farm pur poses. For l ull particulars apply to J. V. SSAl*S*iY'r'L\ A Kent. N. li All tfv>sp;issi!i‘i on litmlsnf ihiscoinp.'tny, cuttiiiKand removing timber, fishinff or 11111)111)14. ar«‘ forbidden under penalty of Jaw*. 91 a every $20.00 sale of furniture 1 will give youaliand- picture. Now is your chance to Imy furniture cheap get a beautiful picture for nothing. 1 also have an -date line of funeral supplies. T. B. CLARKSON. jf£!r~\’e.\l door to I’ostoliice. T, r Trespass Notice. All pci-sons arc hereby warned not to tres- pn|s on my premises. Any ami all persons dlsrofzardin,: this notice will h • prosecuted to the full extent of the la w H-i'i-law-tt Mauy Lockhaut. Owing to the short crop, low price of cotton, and bard (lines goiiorally, I have <h elded topin and w 1 ip your c 1 ion. tor this s> oson, for £1.10 per ball* for new Arrow 'I cs and ben vy haj-'jfin;.', and Si.ril per bale wlllt fa< lory h luainw and ties. I do this at a sacrlth e Dt help my friends and custom rsni. I cm. In addition to the above low price for frlnntuj: I will f in every Sixth Hale for any of my customer-; Free of Char; e. | will buy all I hr rot ton pdnne I at my friii.s and will pay the highest market, pi ice for tin* same. .My "ilia will be undei the tnanniX’ineiil of J. FI lie Sarratt,. Reinemher I am still in the market for CotUm Seed, and will pay lilKbest cash price f<ir any <|iianliiy. I also ha vc a big lot of I'ayc'intf and Ties cheap. A Iso a bitf lot ef Waifoiis. to tic sol I ric-ap, and lot of liii"; h , to an i vc soon. A Iso Mowers and Rakes to cut ami save your pen vines and bay, and Disc Har row-. to prepare your lands forprain. Also ii hip lot of Guano and Acid for your pralu. Also Lumber of any f ind, forest Pine or Oak. Leave your bill at lay store and It. will lie tilled promptly and at lowest market prices. Al - o a big .stock of '.Mods lit re and at myGofoiih Store, all of which will be sol I ('heap. Don't b-tyapalrof Shoes until you si e my I inand "<-l my prices. Vours to please, H t'.rvr. GAFFNEY, S. C. Sopt. S, 1899. Patronize Sell your Heed io vour home mill, when you can get more for them and buy your hulls and meal for loss than you can got thorn anywhere else. We are ready to buy seed row. Wc will pay yen more for them than anybody. Itcfipectfully, Victor Cotton Oil Company, J. N. Lipscomb, Mgr.