The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 19, 1899, Image 1
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GAFFNEY CITY. S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1899.
f
British Commander Repulsed
at Tugela River.
rout. That I.ust it Contary.
To wear your grandfather's coat
would not seem much of au honor, but
to John Chinaman it is the greatest
felicity. Not only is the common loolc-
| lug, shapeless blue blouse of bis an-
j ecstor prized because it v his ances-
j tor’s, but because of its intrinsic value.
1 The clothing usually worn by (ho Chi-
' nose is of the purest silk and costs any-
IlIG LOSS IN MEN AND GUNS j
Tone of the N wspitpers Is Extremely j
Pessimistio mid Some Say England j
Stands When* S!u* Did When Aiuerl* (
Ctin Colonists Were Fighting.
Loxnox, Dec. 18.—The war ofiico hat!
teceived a dispatch announciug that
General Bulier has met with a serious
whert* from $100 to $-•*0 a suit.
As a nation the Chinese object to
wearing clothing of any other kind, and
centuries of experiment have taught
them how best to make up the costly
caterpillar thread into the most dura
ble form. On this account the Chinese
dress, though of purer material, has
none of the sheen usually associated
with silk, a peculiarity which has re
sulted in the erroneous Ideas as to their
composition. All the garments are
reverse, losing heavily in men, besides
31 guns. General Duller was attempt
lug to cross tl.o Tugela river. Finding
io impossible to oueot his object, ho or-
ciereu a retirement m order to avoid
a gieater loss
The following is the text of General
made in China and are only exported
for the personal use of Celestials in
foreign countries.
Owing to their cost, however, they
are only purchased at long intervals,
each garment being of so durable a
character that they are handed down
to the third and even the fourth genor-
Ijulier’s dispatch announcing his re-
v orse:
*T regn i to report a serious reverse.
1 moved in full strength from our camp
rear Chioviuy at *J o’clock this morning.
There are two fordable places in the
Tugela river and it was my intention to
lorce a passage through one of them.
They are about- 2 miles apart.
•Oily intention was to force one or the
other with one brigade, supported by a
central brigade. General Hart was to
attack tho iett drift, Gonoral Hildyard
the right road and General Lyttletou
v/as to take the center and to support
either.
“Early in th* day 1 saw that General
Hart would not be able to lorce a
passage and I directed him to withdraw,
lie had, however, attacked with great
t uliantry, and his leading battalion, the
Connaught ranger.*', i fear, suffered a
I rent deal. Colouel I. G. Brooke was
teriously wounded
“1 then ordered General Hildyard to
advance, which he did, and his leading
legimont, the Last Surry, occupied Co-
Imso station and tho houses near the
bridge. At that moment I beard that
tho whole artillery I had sent to sup
port tho attack, the Fourteenth and
Sixty-sixth field batteries and six naval
3 2-pounder quick lirers, under Colonel
Long, had advanced close to the river,
in Loug u desire to bo within effective
range.
Hot Fire at (Pose liange..
"It proved to be full of tho enemy,
who suddenly opened a galling fire at
close range, killing all their horses, and
the gunners were compelled to stand tc
their gnus.
“Some of the wagon teams got shel
ter for troops in a donga and desperate
efforts were being made to bring out the
field guns. The fire, however, was too
hevero, and only two were saved by
Captain Schofield and some drivers,
whoso names I will furnish.
“Another most gallant attempt with
three teams was made by an officer
whose name I will obtain. Of the Ifc
horses, were killed, and as several
drivers were wounded, I would not al
low another attempt. Unsupported by
artillery, I directed the troops to with*
uraw, whiih they did in good order.
“The Fourteenth and Sixteenth field
batteries suffered severe losses, too.
“Throughout the day a considerable
force of the enemy was pressing ou my
flank, but was kept back by mounted
men under Lord Dundouald and part ot
General Barton’s brigade. Tho day was
intensely hot and most trying on the
troops, whose conduct was excellent.
We have abandoned ten guns and lost
by shell fire one.
“The losses in General Hunt’s brig
ade are, I fear, heavy, although the pro
portion of severely wounded, I hope, is
not large The Fourteenth and Six f y-
ninth field batteries also suffered severe
losses We have retired to our camp at
Chievley. ”
CiiiS'-d a I'.inic In liondoii.
atiou. Wear appears to rather improve
them than otherwise, with the result
that the coat of the father or grandfa
ther often lias more intrinsic value
than the newer and less worn articles.
—Omaha World-Herald.
The WiiIIm Han Down.
The Irishman who went up in tho ho
tel lift without knowing what it was
did not recover easily from the sur
prise. lie relates the story in this way:
“I wint to the hotel, and, says 1, Ts
Misther Smith in?’
“‘Yes,’ said the man with the sojer
cap. ‘Will yez step in?’
“So I steps into the closet, and all of
a suddint he pulls the rope, and—its
the truth I’ze tolling yez—the walls of
the building began running down to
tin* cellar.
“‘Oeh. murther!’ says I. ‘What’ll be
come of Bridget and the children which
was left below there?’
“Says the sojer cap man: ‘Be aisy,
son*. Tiiey’ll lie all right when yez
come down.’
“‘Come down, is It?’ says I. ‘And
it Is no closet at all, hut a haythenish
balloon, that yez got me in!’
“And wid that the walls stood stock
still, and he opened the door, and there
I was wid the roof just over my head!
And, begorra, that’s what saved me
from going up to the hovins intirely!”
—Irish Independent.
Dnlilinn For Food.
It Is an Interesting fact that when
the dahlia was introduced into Europe
it was not as a (lower that it was
valued, but as a vegetable. The plant
is said to be really akin to the potato,
and it was thought that it would prove
an important addition to our food re
sources. The single variety seems to
have been imported first, the Marchion
ess of Bute having introduced it about
100 years ago. it came io us from
Madrid, the Spaniards having, it is be
lieved, found it first in Mexico, and it
was introduced into Franco as well as
England.
A few daring adventurers appear to
have made trial of it as au edible root,
but it is never an easy matter to popu
larize a new article of food, and the
tuber of tin? dahlia did not take ou. If
it had done so, the probability is that
we should never have troubled much
about its cultivation as a tlower. We
never do grow things for fruit and
flower, too. and if we had sacks of
dahlia bulbs in Covent Garden we
should have had no dahlia show at the
Crystal Palace.—London Correspond
ence.
IIIh Opinion of SlinkeKpenre.
There is a story going about coucern-
As may have buen expected, tho des
perate strait of the British arms in
{South Africa, as revealed by the defeat
of General Bnller at Tugela river, where
at one stroke he lost treble tho number
of guns Wellington left in tho hands of
Napoleon during the six years of fight
ing in the peninsula, while adding tc
The determination of tho authorities tc
send every available man to tho front,
caused something in the nature of a
momentary panic among tho public,
which was reflected on the Stock Ex
change, as already cabled.
It is long since the tone of the news,
papers and tho comment in the clubs
and other resorts have been so chastened
and pessimistic. Some of the Comments
go so far as to say the crisis is so far-
reaching that Great Britain stands
“where she stood over a century back,
•when the American colonists, men of
British and Dutch blood, were inarms."
The Evening Standard declares the
situation calls for ail the equanimity,
determination and perseverance of tne
empire and demands the immediate
calling out of all tho volunteers, em
bodying all the Uitlatiders expelled
from the Transvaal, to guard tho lines
of communication, thus freeing all the
regulars for service in the fighting lino.
The Star urges the commandering “of
all the great English Atlantic liners for
transportation of reinforcements’’and
says the country must ‘Tot herself the
task of plucking victory out of defeat,’ 1
adding:
"The guilt of tho government in super
seded by the danger of the empire. We
are thinking of a hostile Europe; we
are thinking of India, and whatevet
happens, we implore the government
not to move another man from Calcutta
or Bombay. We remember tho mutiny.’
To Bi-cognlzthe Itoers.
\\ ASHiNGTOjf, Dec. Id.—Iloproseuta
five Sulzer of Now York has introduced
a joint resolution declaring that a staff
of war exists in South Africa, accord
ing beiligerout rights to tho Transtaa
government and protesting against fht
“barbarous manner in which tho wai
has been conducted by Great Britain.’
ing a famous man of letters who vis
ited Washington recently, lie appear
ed at but one dinner party. There
he sat next the young daughter of a
noted naval oilicer. Her vocabulary
it; of a kind peculiar to very young
girls, but she rattled away at the fa
mous man without a moment’s respite.
It was during a pause in the general
conversation that she said to him:
“I’m awfully stuck on Shakespeare.
Don’t you think he’s terribly interest-
lug?’’
Everybody listened to hear the great
man’s brilliant reply, for as a Shakes
pearean scholar he has few peers.
“Yes,” ho said solemnly, “1 do think
he is interesting. 1 think he is more
than that. 1 think Shakespeare is just
simply too cute for anything.”—Y*'ash-
iugton Boat.
ConUj- I.t-HHonw.
“What’s tiiat there young man’s
business?” asked Mr. Darvenu.
“He’s a tutor, I believe,” replied his
wife.
“What does he tench?”
“One of them old sciences. I s'pose,”
answered Mrs. Parvenu. “1 ain't just
sure what it is, but last night Maybelle
told me he was giving her some lessons
in osculation.”
“Well, 1 s'pose she's got to be edu
cated,” returned tin- old man. “I only
hope he won't charge no fancy price
for his lessons.”—Chicago Post.
Slt-tiriffiMt IVntnre.
“I have seen Brother Bruggetts grow
from a poor young man to a middle
aged millionaire,” said the aged minis
ter, “and it lias not changed him one
bit. When he first entered my church,
be established tho habit of putting a
quarter in the plate every Sunday, arid,
though ho lias since grown rich, lie
puts In Ids lia cents,” Indluunpolls
Journal.
Church!!! l-t Uccupi ured.
I/u’.knz > M AitQt:i:/,, Delagoa Bay,D<»c.
18.—It is rumored that Mr. Churchill,
the newspaper correspondent who re
cent'.y escaped from Pretoria, has b;e;
recaptured ai Watcrfulboveu, about 1-all
way between Pretoria and Furtugursi
territory.
Why Hi- ‘Wns Wiiki-rul.
“Didn't sleep a wink last night,” said
the dyspeptic. .
“Overwork ?”
“No; I heard one of those songs about
slumber sweetly, sweet dreams be
thine, and the confounded tune kept
running through my head all night!”—
Washington Slur.
Lieutenant brumby
DEAD IN WASHINGTON
Georgian Succumbs After an
Illness of Three Weeks.
FLAG OFFICER TO DEWEY
He Ilaispcl tho Stars and Stripes Ov>r
Manila and on His I to turn to Anisr*
lea Was 1’reseiit.cd Witliu Handsome
Sword In Atlanta.
Washington, Dec. IS.—Lieutenant
Thomas M. Brumby, Admiral Dewey’s
flag officer at the battle of Manila bay,
died in this city yesterday after au ill
ness of about three vTfeeks.
The immediate cause of death was blood
poisoning that came from a glandular
LIEUTENANT THOMAS M. BKCMET.
•welling which was one of the compli
cations with tho typhoid. The swelling
was in tho left side of the face and neck.
An operation was performed several
nights ago and seemed to give relief,
but the tissue of the parotid gland was
destroyed and there were internal
troubles.
Lieu'enant Brumby’s sister, Mrs. Hay
ward, of Marietta, (ia., was with him
when the end came.
Tho funeral and interment will be at
Atlanta.
Lieutenant Brumby was 44 years old
and unmarried. He was appointed a
naval cadet from Georgia, entering the
service on Peps. 29, lb7b, and his pres
ent commission dates from Aug. 24,
1S9.*. Practically all tho time during
tho last two years he has been with Ad
miral! Dewey.
In his report of tho battle of Manila,
Admiral Dawey spoke in very compli-
memtary terms of the services and gal
lantry of his flag lieutenant, and recom
mended that he be advanced some num
bers ou tho list of lioutonuut.s. His rec
ommendation was adopted by tho navy
department, and the name scut to tho
senate, but together with a number of
other promotions made by the depart
ment, failed to be acted upon.
Lieutenant Brumby was presented a
sword by the legislature of Georgia on
Oct. 2(i. He remained in Georgia some
days after that, and returned to Wash
ington about the middle of November.
Ou Aug. 19, 189S, at tho fall of Ma
nila, Lientenaut Brumby lowered tho
Spanish colors and hoisted those of the
United States—the first American flag
to fly over the Philippines.
The death of Lieutenant Brumby,
while not unexpected, was a great shock
to Admiral Dewey. The relations of
the two men for several years past have
boon very intimate, and a strong friend
ship had grown up between them.
Lieutenant Brumby went out to the
Asiatic station with the admiral, and
had been with him until they both re
turned to the United States several
months ago.
In his capacity as flag lieuteuat to the
admiral, Lieutenant Brumby was
thrown with his chief practically all
the'time, and acted as his personal rep
resentative in many matters of detir
delegated to him by the commanding
officer. He was regarded by Admiral
Dewey as a bright, energetic and capa
ble assistant, while the devotion of the
latter to the admiral was something
marvelous.
Tho burden of his thought during the
latter days of his illness, when his
mind was wrecked with delirium,
seemed to bo regarding his work for the
admiral. Admiral Dewey was unre
nutting in his attendance to him until
his condition hocame precarious, and
visitors were not allowed to see him.
BURNED TO WATER’S EDGE.
Steamer State of Kansas Destroyed
at New Muilrbl.
New Madkiu, Mo, Doo. 18.—The
steamer State of Kansas of the Tennes
see River Packet company burned tc
the water’s edge today while lying t
the foot of Main street. All the passeu
gers escaped, but several hundred bales
of cotton, considerable freight and bag
gage were destroyed. The total loss is
estimated at $500,000.
The State of Kansas left Memphis
last night for northern river points,
loaded with general merchandise. The
cargo included fifteen hundred balee
of cotton consigned to eastern
bnyers.
The State of Kansas had been “tied
up” at tho Memphis wharf for three
months past and began her first winter
trip last night. The passenger list was
light.
River men hero state the loss should
not exceed $50,000. Captain Don A.
Marr was iu charge of the vessel.
Governor Borrows Finn!-.
Coi.UMMA, S. O., Dec. 18 —Governoi
MeSweeuey has arranged to borrow
$2,000 with which to have- the state
board of health fight the sunllpos
trouble. The arrangements have beon
made and us needed the money will be
paid out. Governor McSweeuey took
the position that tho public health de-
minded heroic remedies and if money
were needed it must be had.
A ll*-n Knlli-r (:<>nvleti-il.
Macon, Doo. 18 —Alien Fuller, b
negro, has boon convicted of the mur
der of Mrs Eugenia Pottle and sen
tenced to hung on Jan. 5. The jury
was out only 15 minutes.
Took lllni n< Ills Word.
The faculty of terse and foieoful
speech is ordinarily an advantage, but
occasionally a man gets hoisted by his
own epigram. A li Ming young New
Yorker who was recently established
in a branch of the oil business hud set
out to get the patronage of a certain
firm. The head of the concern was re
luctant to make a change.
“The oil we have been getting has
hot been unsatisfactory,” said he, “and
I fail to see why we should make a
change. Are there any extra induce
ments you can offer? How do you pro
pose to improve on the old quality?”
“lu this way,” was the prompt an
swer. -“I propose to give the business
my personal attention. I intend to put
some of my brains iuto every barrel of
oil we send out.”
The rejoinder pleased the old gentle
man, and he became a customer.
A few mouths later thf- hustling
young man was obliged to make a jour
ney, and in his absence, through some
oversight, tiie quality of oil was allow
ed to doterlorate. It was quickly noted,
and a letter on file in the office records
one of the protests. It reads: “Gentle
men—When we were induced to use
your product, wo wore assured that
Mr. Blank put some of his brains into
every barrel of oil. We deeply regret
to observe that Mr. Blank is threatened
with paresis.”—Washington Star.
A Thrifty Scot.
A good story Is told by an English
tourist who staid for a week in apart
ments in Aberdeen, the “Granite City.”
“I had heard,” lie says, “of the canny
folk of Aberdeen, and my experience,
short though it was, proved that rumor
had rightly estimated the character of
tilt people. The streets are granite,
the houses are granite, and the inhab
itants are granite, and when they have
a granite baby they give it a ball of
granite for fear it should break any
other toy.
“1 had a granite landlady, and one
day when I was going fishing her
son volunteered to accompany me. 1
piovided the lunch, the rods and the
lines; he provided the worms—dug
them up in a neighbor’s garden with a
borrowed spade. I caught Hi trout; he
ate the lunch and broke my best rod.
When we got home, 1 made a present
of 14 of the fish to my granite landlady
and asked her to cook the other two
for my tea. She did and charged me
threepence for the dripping in which
they were fried!”—London Answers.
Men an Created.
The glittering generalities of Thomas
Jefferson that all men are created
equal and that the right of life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness is inaliena
ble, have been the texts for many in
jurious instructions. They are rhe
torical flourishes, meaningless to the
gentleman on the scaffold and In Sing
Sing, who pursued the fleeting phan
tom of happiness with the jimmy of
the burglar and the dagger of the as
sassin. Men are not created equal
physically, morally or intellectually,
nor in aptitude, opportunity nor condi
tion. % lt is perhaps accurate to say of
the ^oOO.OOO.OOO inhabitants of the
eartli,no two are created equal. Nature
is incapable of uniformity ami detests
equality as much as she abhors a
vacuum. One is made to honor, an
other to dishonor, as one star differetli
from another star in glory.—John J. In
galls.
The Flunre Dickens Cnt.
Satirists are not able to perceive
their own absurdities. That is a well
known failing and as old as the hills.
The first great English writer to come
over here and create a furore was
Charles Dickens, and certainly no man
ever lived who had a sharper eye for
the grotesque in personal appearance,
especially in dress. According (o all
accounts, his make up was something
appalling. My old uncle saw him In
New Orleans and used to swear he
looked more like a caricature than a
human being. lie curled Ids beard,
used corsets, sported red waistcoats
with lavender pantaloons, carried two
watches with gold chains around his
neck and wore rings outside his gloves!
Just think of it!
A nappy Thought.
The spontaneous and happy wit of
the late Isaac II. Bromley, for many
years a writer of New York Tribune
leaders, is recalled by the example be
low:
One day in The Tribune office the
veteran journalist Charles T. Congdon
was talking of the delightful reading
he had found in Bayle’s Dictionary
am! remarked that if he were ever in
jail he would be quite contented with
that book.
“Of course you would,” said Brom
ley. “If you had Bayle, you could get
out.”
GettlnK' Out of a Corner.
“What a beautiful lounge!”
“Yes. That’s a birthday present from
my husband. He always gives me a
present that costs him as many dollars
ns 1 am years old.”
“That’s nice of him. It reconciles
one to growing old. By the way, 1
have a lounge nt home like that, but
not nearly as fine, and we paid
for It.”
“Is that afl? This—this didn’t cost
►'early ns much as that.”—Chicago
Tribune.
A Moilernte Mini.
“How much is this soap a cake?” ‘
“Take two for 15 cents.”
“Two? Do you think 1 buy soap by
the wholesale?”—Fliegende Blatter.
No trait of character is more valuable
to a woman than the possession of h
sweet temper. Home can never lie*
happy without it. It is like the flowers
tlial spring up in our pathway, reviv
ing and cheering us.
The curiosity of others enables Nome
men to make n good living.—Chicago
News.
THE LATEST COT-
TON MILL NEWS.
Items of Interest to Textile
Workers.
OPERATIVE PERSONALS
Tho Improvements ami Advancements of
the Past Week in North ami South Caro
lina Cotton Mllhi and Hosiery Facto
ries, Ktc.
fSoutlieru and Western Textile Excelsior.!
John Gosnell has returned to Euo-
ree. S. C., as loomfixer.
A. E. McDonell has left Enoree, S.
C., to take a position in Pelzer, S. C.,
Mill No. 4.
The Victor Manufacturing Com
pany, Greers, S. C., have placed a
repeat order for humidifiers.
J. V. Hawks, night spinner at the
Edna Cotton Mill, Reidsville, N. C.,
is quite ill with rheumatism.
The Roanoke Mills Company,
Roanoke Rapids. N. C., will add
twenty more dobby heads to their
looms at once.
J. F. Miller, of Cohoes, N. Y., and
Sandersvilio, Mass., is now overseer
of carding in the Erwin Cotton Mill,
Durham, N. C.
H. H. Boyd, of New Bedford,
Mass., succeeds K. J. Davis as su-
perintendant. of the Wiscasset Mill,
A Ibemarle, N. C.
B. B. Higgins, loomfixer at the
Roanoke Mills, Roanoke Rapids, N.
C., is visiting at his home in Ruther
ford county, N. C.
Al the annual meeting of the Lock
hart, S. C. t Cotton Mills in Spartan
burg, S. C., a semi-annual dividend
of .3 per cent, was declared.
Superintendant Jno. Gilligan, of
the Edna Cotton Mills, Reidsville,
N. 0., was in Fort Mill, S. C., on
business one day last week.
Geo. A. Howell, secretary of the
Edna Cotton Mills, Reidsville, N.
C., spent several days of last week
with his family in Chariotte.
C. 11. Gray has resigned as over
seer of weaving at the Millfort Mill,
Fort Mill, S. C . and will locate for
the present at Rock Hill, S. C.
Superintendant Jones, of the Roan
oke Rapids, N. C., Cotton Mill Com
pany, is busy these days erecting a
car load of spinning machinery.
F. L. Robbins assumed the
management of the Kesler Manu
facturing Company’s Mill, Salisbury,
N. C.^ytsterday, December 18th.
J. L. Carr, formerly of the War
wick Mills, Augusta, Ga., has gone
to Elon College. N. C , to accept a
position in the Altamahaw Mills.
J T. Cole, formerly of Henrietta,
N. C., Mills, has accepted a position
as second hand in the spinning room
of the Wisscasset Mills, Albemarle,
N, C.
T. W. Haddle, overseer spinning at
the Roanoke Mill, Roanoke Rapids,
N. C., will spend Christmas with
relatives in Washington and Balti
more.
H. P. Torrence, for some time
overseer spinning of the Kinston, N.
C., Cotton Mills, has accepted a like
position in the Norwood, N. C., Cot
ton Mills.
The annual meeting of the Spar
tan, S. C., Cotton Mills was held in
Spartanburg, S. C., last week. A
semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent,
was declared.
B. H. Henderson, who has been
dobby loomfixer at the Roanoke
Mills, Roanoke Rapids, N. C., for
some time, will go this week to ac
cept a like position at the Blue Ridge
Mills, Petersburg, Va.
Jas. Wilson, formerly loomfixer,
but who is now merchandising, is
filling the position in the Edna Cot
ton Mills, Reidsville, N. C., made
vacant by the resignation of Mr.
Couch, former loomfixer.
A. S. Winslow, of Fall River Mass.,
has been made overseer of carding
and spinning in the Erwin Cotton
Mill, Durham, N. C., in place of
Thos. McNeeloy, who is now superin
tendant of the Norwood, N. C., Mill.
J. E. Simpson has resigned as sec
tion hand in the weave room of the
Ossipee Cotton Mills, Elon College,
N. C., to take a position with the
Draper Company', starting new looms
in the Fulton Bag and Cotton M^lls,
Atlanta, Ga.
C. C. Clark, second hand in the
spinning room of the Edna Cotton
Mills, Reidsville, N. C., has resigned
and will return to his former home
in Bessemer City, N. C., where he
has accepted a much better position
with the Southern Cotton Mills Com
pany.
A fire broke out in the cotton ware
house of the Charlotte, N. C., Cot
ton Mills last Sunday evening. It
might have resulted seriously had
not assistance been at hand to put
it out. Two hundred bales were
damaged. The loss amounts to
about $1500.
Tlie brick work on tho main build
ing of the Cox Manufacturing Com
pany mill, at Anderson, S. C., is
about done, and the splendid houses
being built for the overseers of the
mill, though net quite complete,
present h tine appearance. M. P.
Pitts, formerly of the Poe Mill,
Greenville. S. C , will ho the super-
intondant of this new mill.
It Is reported from Spartanburg,
S. C£., that John A. Law, cashier of
the Spartanburg Saving Bank, is
promoting a scheme to raise $200,-
000 to b,uild a new cotton mill in
that town. Spartanburg county, S.
C., is already one of the largest man
ufacturing counties of the South,
containing the Spartan, Clifton,
Pacolet, Whitney, Arkwright, and
numerous other mills. The new ad
dition to the number of mills would
materially increase its productivity.
AFTER PRECIOUS METAL.
The Mcbbi-s. tiulbiKlierri ITacing Machinery
at Willie.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Willie, Dec. 14.—W. W. Whel-
chel, after spending one year in Pick
ens, has again become a resident of
Willie. Mr. Whelchel says that
next morning after he got back here
his old cow gave about a quart more
milk than she had usually given; ho
had two roosters that hud never
crowed before, that woke him up
crowing; that his wife was much bet
ter looking; that his children were
more playful, and that his old watch,
which had not run any in two months,
struck out to running as soon as he
got here, and has been running and
keeping good time ever since. All of
which ho ascribes to the joy of again
getting back to Willie.
The Messrs. Gallagher have put
up machinery near here for the pur
pose of separating the “precious
metal” from the rocks, in which we
wish them much success. The Mes
srs. Gallagher are pretty well known
in Gaffney—one of them having spent
two years there in the photograph
busines, and the other considerable
time in and around the place pros
pecting for gold.
E. H. Mason, the export miner of
this section, has been in the moun
tains of western North Carolina for
several months superintending the
prospecting forces of Messrs. Hering,
Harris it Co. They have recently
opened up a Mangonese mine near
Brevard, N. C., which they have now
disposed of; and will next give their
attention to the “double-branch”
veins of Rutherford county N. C.
Notwithstanding the short crops
this year, our farmers seem to be in
splendid shape for the making of an
other crop. There has been more
wheat planted and more new houses
built in this section than we have
ever known before in one season.
It seems to us entirely unneces
sary to tell the readers of The Led
ger that The Ledger is second to no
Semi-Weekly paper of the Piedmont
region of this state, because those
who lead the paper know it already
and those who do not read it, would
not know it no way.
We anticipate eating our Christ
mas dinner with our aged mother,
Mrs. Mary S. Whelchel, near Gaff
ney. A merry Christmas to all of
our readers, the editor and manager
of The Ledger included. Octavus.x
FROM THRIVING UNION.
JiufTalo It. R. Kaplilly ITogreKHinK.—Negro
Hurl lu the Oil Mill.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Union, S. C., Dec. 15.—Extensive
preparations are being made among
all classes and professions for the
closing activities of 1899. The mer
chants have a bountiful supply of
goods arranged for trade which is
dull, judging by the number and
size of bundles carried away by the
customers.
Work on the Buffalo railroad is
progressing rapidly. As it appears
in the near future, the sound of the
locomotives will bo heard in that
direction.
Eddie Benson colored, became en
tangled in some part of the belting
at the Oil Mill yesterday and came
near losing his life. One can never
be too careful while at work with ma
chinery.
Several hales of cotton are brought
to town during these sunny days.
Remnants held to supply a few lux
uries for the holidays.
A few porkers are being killed here
and there. The supply is not what
it could be by any means. There
are few farmers now-a-days—only
people living in the country.
Mr. J. L. S. appears to be unable
to locate the fault as to tho irregu
larity ot the public school system.
It being a public institution the
fault may never he located, hut in a
few years hence if there is any real
benefit derived from the system
there will have to be some changer
made.
While visiting in some portions of
Cherokee county recently, your
scribe found that The Ledger has a
large number of colored friends and
patrons. Among them are Ben
Trice, G. Littlejohn, Jake Mont
gomery and others. Colored people
can make no better Investment than
to subscribe, and read some good
newspapers. It is surprising to note
how few compuringly do so.
Lkdukk Reader,
Tliero nr« uninn Simple Iti-mnlif-H indiR.
pi-nwible iu any family. Among tlu-so, the
experience of years assures us, should ho
recorded Pain-Kii.i.er. For both internal
mid external applicatioim we have found it
of great value; especially can we recom
mend it for colds, rheumatism, or fresh
wounds and bruises.—Christian Km. Avoid
substitutes, there is hut one Titin-Kdk-r,
Terry Davis'. Trice 25c. and 50c.
Deautj 4a Blood Deep.
Clean Mood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
•urities from the body. Begin to-day to
vanish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, 25c, 50c.
$1.00 A YEAR.
CURRENCY BILL IS
PASSED BY HOUSE
^ '
Measure Has a Majority oi
Forty Votes.
100 FOR AND 160 AGAINST
Eiglit Democrats, Messrs. Clayton,
Denny, Griggs, Fitzgerald,Uupperr,
Scud der, Tlu.ycr and Wilson, Auswei
"Aye.”
Washington, Doc. 18.—Tho currency
bill pnssod the house today by a vote of
190 to 150. The following Democrats
voted for the bill: Clayton of New
York, Denny of Maryland, Driggs ot
New York, Fitzgerald of Now York,
Ruppert of New York, Scndder of New
Y’ork, Thayer of Massachusetts, Wilsou
of New York.
Almost every seat in tho hall wai
occupied when tho house convened. The
vote upon the currency bill, which wai
to be taken immediately after tho read
<ug of the journal, was respous-ible foi
the lull attendance.
Under the terms of the special ordei
with the currency bill neither a motion
to recommit nor asubsiitute proposition
was in order, and the vote was taken
directly upon the passage of the bill.
The result was a foregone conclusion,
as it commanded every Republican vote.
The interest in the vote, therefore, cen
tered only in tho record of Democratic
disaffection it would show. •
It is expected that the bill wiil be sent
to tho senate during tho preseut week.
It will be referred to the committee on
finance. This ccmmittee expects tc
make its report soon after the resump
tion of busluess iu the new year.
The chairmen of the various commit-
S ecs wore announced by Speaker Hen-
icrsou today.
A MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING.
Wuiiiitn of Mormuii Hciit-f Admits
Killin'; an Intruder.
Charlotte, N. O., Doc. 18.—There is
now beiug investigated at Dobson, ths
county scat of Surry county, N. O., one
of tho most mysterious murders evei
committed in North Carolina.
About the middle of November, Mrs.
b'arah Wallace, a woman iu full sympa*
thy with Utah and Representative Rob
erts’ manner of living, came to Dobson
and reported that she had. ou the night
previous, shot and killed Sol Simpson.
She returned home, and found, as she
claimsr that while she was away to sur
render to the authorities, some one cume
with a wagon and removed tho dead
body, which she had left lying in front
of her door.
Tho body had been secreted, and sc
far no trace of It has been found, though
dilligcut search has now been made.
Some sour days ago tho father of the
murdered man, not hearing anything
from his missing sou, and having heard
those reports, had warrants sworn our,
with the losult that Mrs. Wallace ig
now iu jail, and the search for the miss
ing corpse continues. It seems now
that she implicates a man of some stand
ing and fair means, and, if the body is
ever found, Surrey county will have a
highly sensational and complicated
murder trial.
Her story is now that this man was
with her, and that they knew Sol Simp-
sou was coming. As she had no way to
defend herself, the man gave her his
pistol and then retired. Simpson
knocked for admittance, and Mrs. Wal
lace informed him that she did not care
for his company. He declared he would
come in any way, and after two heavy
assaults ou tho door with a rock the
door fell and Simpson started to enter.
As he reached tho threshold she fired
the pistol, and he fell. Then, as she
claims, she went to Dobson to surren
der, and while she was there the body
was removed and secreted.
Gal (road Surd For $20,000.
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—J. T. Couch of
Durham. N. G., father and administratoz
of L nwood Couch, has instituted suit
for $20,000 against the North Carolina
Railroad company. Linwood Couch,
who was iu tho employ of the railway
company, was killed at Funatnn, a sta
tion between Durham and University,
on Sopt. 39. He was a bn.kc-mau, and
while chaining a car who e diawhead
had pulled out was crashed to death.
It is claimed by tho plaintiff that big
son’s death was caused by negligence oi
the company.
Otllci-r Goes For Hunter.
Atlanta, Doc. 18. —Governor Candlei
has designated John W. Rogers, a Pin
kerton detective, to go to Tangier, Mo
rocco, and bring to Atlanta Thomai
Hunter, formerly auditor of the At
lanta n’"t West Point Railway com-
{ )any t who recently left here with •
urge i.iscrepancy in his accounts. Rog
ers will leave at once.
('out Output For the Y< ar.
Birmingham, Ala., Doc. 18—State
Mine Inspector J. doB. Hooper esti
mates that Alabama’s coal output for
the year 1899 will bo 6,500,000 tons. He
says that tho Increase iu production
dnring tho last throo months has been
something enormous, and that the year’s
total will be a record smasher.
Colonel Moa Critically HI.
Chattanooga, Dec. 18.—Colonel S. B.
Moe, one of tho leading citizens of the
city, and who was General Sheridan’s
chief of staff during the battle of Mis
sionary Ridge, has been stricken wi.J
cerebro-spinal meningitis and very gravs
fears are entertained for his recovery.
Five Votes For Johnston.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 1& —Re
turns from primaries hold in Jackson,
Morgan and Macon counties indicate
that Governor Johnston won in all of
them, thereby secoriug 5 more votes fat
United States senator in tho next gen
eral assembly.
A Failure In New York.
New York, Dec. 18—The Produce
Exchange Trust company of this city
has closed its doors. A notice upou ths
door says the company has suspended
payment peudiug an examination of its
hooka.