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1 i i i "I'nic i-vicnoicw. BV' Ed. II. DkCami*. PUBLISH Kl> TUKSDAY AN’U FRIDAY SI r.sci; I I’TIONIDKH'K: Ciish in advuncp, per yeiir.. . $1 00. On time, per year The Ledger is not respoiwib • •»' the views of correspondents- Oorrespondents who do not <• nf - bute regular news letters must nisli their nau/e, not for publictitioi., but for identification. \Trite simrt letters and to the point j to insure publication; also endeavor to got them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. CaMs of t hanks will bo published i at one cent a word. Heading notices will be published | at ten cents a line each insertion. Obituaries will be published at five ! cents a line. All corresoondcnco should be ad dressed to Ed. IF. DeCamp, Manager. Till', m toim s. The Legislature promptly appoints a committee to investigate dispen sary matters, and wo suppose that committee will go to work vigorously. There will be the usual monotonous task of listening to criminations and recriminations; of unearthing plump, healthy frauds, which in the moral atmosphere and hazy sunlight of the upper stories of the dispensary will vanish into “airy nothings,” or at least shrink into excusable pecca dillos; of sending for those much de sired “persons and papers,” that are always persistently and conspicuously absent; and of doing and suffering all those nameless things which at tach to the work of an investigating committee. If the committee are really intent upon discovering the whole truth, they have a hard tUsk on hand and are doomed to disap pointment. If, as may be reasona bly expected, they succeed in dis covering enough of truth, to continn what the public already knows, that there have been dishonesty, mis management, and corruption among dispensary officials, the question then remainsj^what will the Legisla ture do? ►Suppose it undertake to punish the rascals as they deserve, and employ an entirely new set of men to handle and deal out dispensary goods. Is there any assurance tiiat the new set will be any better than the old? Suppose it follow the (iovernor’s ad vice, abolish the boards, and get one man of high character to assume pretty much the entire responsibility of the management. Can such a man easily be found who will engage in such a business and if found, can he In come sponsor for the individual j the evils ot drink, we might ho por- j suaded to think that the end justifies | the means. Hut it does neither ' This merciless extortion is felt mainly I by the poor—by helpless women and children whoso husbands and fathers j are overcome by habits which they an not strong enough to control j W’c do not assert positively tha* the | dispensary has in * diminished the | amount ol whisky consumed; hut wi do assert that there is no . | evidence of the fact. On the other j hand if we are to judge by external evidences, we must say that they | all point to the fact that there is as ! much whisky used now as there was before the establishment ‘of the dis pensary. The amount of crime I * * ! usually traced to the influence of i whisky is as great ns formerly; the number of confirmed inebriates has not been perceptibly diminished; the mayor's courts anil the circuit courts are as busy as ever. This whole whisky question ought to be subfnilted to the people to he settled as they think best. (Jovernor MeSweeney’s argument that it would stir up strife and interfere with material progress, is too weak to deserve notice, being nothing but the flimsy pretext of a politician. The people have hud this question on hand once before and settled it with far less strife and bitterness than were stirred up by a few design ing men over questions that had ho real existence; and but for the be trayal of the people by their repre sentatives, the question might have remained settled forever. THE COWPENS BAT TLE GROUND PARK. Interest is Being Awakened In It. OLD MONUMENT TO STAY. II Wiis Eri'rtrd l»> Hit* WiiMliington l.iglit ■ iirniilry of (Tiiii'leMloii—TIk* M:iy <VI<- brill ion I’roKnun Soon to bo ArruiiK* ,( l n.v (In* Com in) Itco. The members of the Cowpens Hat tie tiround .Memorial Association arc certainly not idle. The committee, composed of W. T. Horton, I). A. Thomas and It. I\ Scruggs, recently appointed for the purpose of securing the necessary land around the old monument, have succeeded in getting about 12 acres. Thus it will be seen that there will be a park on the bat tlefield. And ic is hoped, and there is no reason to believe otherwise than that the Ft ’ 'ral government will lend its aid and assistance, that is, make it a National Hark. There is a bill now pending bef >re the House of Representatives, Ifoduced by the lion. 1). E. Findley looking to that end, and it cannot 3 believed that the other members of our delegation in the House, as well as our Senators, will do anything but their utmost to secure its passage. As soon as the weather permits, it is the intention of tl o association to hold a meeting on th. battlefield, at which the programme for the May celebration will be arranged. The Secretary and Ireasurer of the F80M GAFFNEY TO SAN FRANCISCO. Across the Continent in Seven Days. SOME PRETTY SCENERY. An Inti-n-Htin£ Story \V«*U Tolil by Ki-v. \V 10. froi-kcr-Mr*. Crot-k«-r In I'litiKiiiMl by tlm Tri|i iinil M:uli; sii-l. by tin' DiimI.— Kiifi; Arrivul in CliinkiiiiiK. (Correspondence of The IjOdaer.) Ciiixkianu, China, Dee. II IS'.)!).— “At last we are oil” we said, as the . ^ .... i i >. j you in Cherokee countv and don t go train moved cut of Gaffney towards to Arizona. I suppose there is no Atlanta Thursday noon, Nov. 2. A dispensary in Arizona, at any rate It’s last wave out of the car window at i 11 ( i r >' state. Even the little prairie loved ones, » i—L- f-milinr I ,l °g 8 sitting about the holes looked canon very int( resting, spanned ly an iron bridge over thro * hundred feet high. You look across the roll ing plain and it looks level and m - broken, but ns you go, suddenly you find yourself on the brink of a tre mendous big gully. Southern Arizona lucks rain. In fact that is the trouble with that whole region. A few villages seem to bo able to subsist along the rail road and in some parts of the State are cities and towns. When you go down to Yono spring in the heat of a day’s work, mop the sweat from your brow under the cool ing shade, loosen your collar, and reach for the gourd and dip it into the sparkling depths, and then lift the cooling water to your thirsty lips, remember the blessings God has given m si \ of t hi wnole army 1 ii piojos t cossary to manu m,ii , ! 1 , .ii at ions it is plain i.i •.ii but iIn blind partisans of the di-peiisiuy .-y •• in that the fault is in the fystem itself The remedies proposed will be as futile as would be attempts to purify a stream which Hows from an impure reservoir, or to cure a case of anasarca by cutting off the patient’s hands. According to no principle of a republican form of government can the state have the right to assume a monopoly of any branch of business, and thereby debar private citizens from engaging in the same. When ever it does so, the state becomes a tyrant exercising its power accord ing to its own whims and caprices rather than regulating it by the principles of justice and equality. And it matters very little whether the authority of the state, in such a case, is vested in one man or in a legislature or parliament. Whiskey is either a legitimate commodity of manufacture and sale, or it is such an evil that it ought to be forbidden by law, just us the law interdicts lotteries, Mormonism, ob scene pictures and mail matter and many other tilings that affect the material and moral welfare of the people. _ If it is a legitimate commodity, then the state has no right to say to one of its citizens that he shall not deui in it. If it is not, then on what ground can the state go into the busi ness? It is true that in the present association has been in correspond- Wiien the people can be trusted to I ence with the Washington Light In- elect Governors and Legislatures, I f lin try of ( harleston, and we take the . , .i . liberty of publishing the following we shou d infer that they are capu- J , .. , ° . J 1 I correspondence; hie of deciding what they want done | r> , A< , KS1U . K( , s c J)e . 18 with whisky. If they are not, who I j. e. Cogswell, Esq., Charleston, is? I S. C.: Di:ak Sir—Having been informed tiiat you are the commanding officer of the Washington Light Infantry,! beg to call your attention to the fol lowing : A short while ago the Cowpens Hat tie Ground Memorial Association was organized for the purpose of collect ing and preserving all historical mat ter relative to the famous battle of Cowpens, and also to induce the Fed eral government to establish a Na tional Hark at tiie place. So far the efforts of the association have been very gratifying. In the course of investigation it has been found tiiat the monument erected on the battleground by the Washington Light Infantrj, April 22, IS'ffi, has been almost totally destroy ed by vandals, so much so tiiat water is getting inside and lienee damaging, if it has not already ruined, what may have been placed there in the way of writings, etc. N w. it i- the desire of th" assoria- t i i i t. rebuild i he mo"ti m. iii •hi i' M It. WKMM.IMl's l.l ( Tl Ki:. We did not hear the lecture on Stonewall Jackson delivered in Spar tanburg by Mr. Wendiing last week. It was well advertised, and as the sub ject was an attractive one to South ern people, there was a crowded house. We have not heard one who did hear it express an opinion as to its merits or demerits. From the report, given without comment in the Spartanburg Herald, we draw two conclusions; One is, tiiat Mr. Weud- ling is not the man to lecture on Stoneft'all Jackson, tiie lecturer being a northern man embued with north ern ideas and sentiments, and ren dered incapable by life-long environ ments of appreciating the motives and principles that controlled and shaped tiie life of such n man a* Ja'ks to ! : .... t,. i.'.; i.i i 1(1 i\ «i * 11 . w ;H 1 In p ’l »Sl Jauhsoii .•> cn irui ;• t a i ^miii '•! in great events of iiis life, in gave utter ance to words that arc an insult to the memory of the great Christian soldier whom he professed to honor, to t no memory of every brave and true man who followed him to death, as well as to every living man and woman in the South today who is worthy of the cause for which over two hundred thousand heroes laid down tiieir lives. When u man tells ns tiiat Jackson was a hybridized Huritan and Cava lier, raised up by God to he the typo and forerunner of an amalgamated nation, and that by inference the vin dictive hordes that hounded him and iiis countrymen to death and made their beautiful land a desert, were all performing a holy work ordained of God, we want to tell him that he is a canting, Huritanical hypocrite who missed his only chance of receiving adequate rebuke in tins life by failing t ' occupy a position in front of Jack- son and iiis men. We suppose Mr. Wendiing got something like one hundred and fifty dollars for such cant as this before a Southern audience and congratulated ! himself on having scored quite a sue- ces. . t , 'iin> it*-1 ic.uyv i . :i i\ i g any S'tqai i tir.t itifrct ion witn >ui first obtain ing y ur permission. In behalf of tlie association I there fore write to ask that you call the matter to the attention of tiie compa ny at the earliest possible moment, and hope that we will not only he j permitted to rebuild the monument hut have your ai i and assistance. Yours truly, Edward A. Trkscot, Sec. and Treas. Cuwp ns Hat. Ground •Mem. Ass. ^ Charleston, S. G.. Dec. 211 IS!)!). Ed A. Irk.scot, Blacksburg, S. C.: Dear Sir—Your favor concerning the Cowpens Monument is duly re ceived. As requested, I presented the same at tiie regular monthly meeting of tiie corps last night. The whole matter was referred to our committee on burial grounds and monuments, T. G. S'mons, M. 1)., chairman. We shall be giad to assist you in any way in preserving the monument now erected or even in erecting a new monument, provided the old one is preserved also. You know new mon uments can he erected at any time, but it takes years to make an old one. The tradition in our company of the erection of this old monument is quite romantic. We do not want to destroy this romance. Advise me of your in tentions—we will help. Yours very truly Ju.n s E. Cogswell. Every one remembers the celebra tion on tiie battlefield last May Under the auspices of the Memorial Asso- a last look at familiar scenes, ar.d we are of! on a journey of about yoOO miles to make our homo in a strange land, expecting to be gone at least several years. We entered a ear known as a “tourist car,” a kind of second-class Huliman. Our sleeper was clean, had a conductor and black porter, and was full of through pas senger, most of them having taken the train at Washington and hound for California. The conductor gave us berth No. 1). We had a ticket us long as your arm, which we gave to our conductor; we were not troubled about tickets any more. No passen gers got olT or on at the stations, there was no changing of ears, so we settled down to make ourselves at home for a seven days trip across the southern part of tiie United States. After getting started oil tiie first question which generally comes to one is, “What about our fellow trav elers?” A couple of nice looking old ladies, some younger ladies, u big, fat old sea captain, a red-eyed man who always was singing or whistling, tiie conductor’s mother, and some children; but look, Bessie said, at those “negroes.” But they were our fellow citizens from Hawaii—preach ers who had been to Boston and were now returning. They were Hawaiian pastors. There was one returned missionary on board with his familv. One young lady had u bird cage and was taking herself to California to be married. In Atlanta we were joined by Miss Daniel, .Mr. Clark and Mrs. West, a naval officer’s wife on her way to Manila. Miss Daniel came to Japan and was married. Thursday, Thanksgiving day, at six o’clock in tiie evening to ReV. Mr. Clark, of our mission. An account of the trip to Atlanta would not hijourtieubu'O int resting, hut the next morning niter leaving Atlanta we found oursiUvs in tiie Mi' nr I -•uMi'm Mi.-M-sippi i r> itir ■ g tin- early luortiing we had glimps-s <>i tiie broad water of the Gull of Mexico. Our car was left on the street in New Orleans about ten o’clock. I got out to buy some fruit from an old woman on the street and came near being left. The car was carried down an incline track to a huge ferry boat, and we were all carried across on tiie bosom of tiie “father of waters.” On tiie west hank of tiie Mississippi we were hitched to the Southern Hacific train. Our train milled out towards the sun- HOWELL FERRY BOAT SEMINS UNSAFE. In Use a Long Time and Tim ber Water-Sobbed. BATTLE GROUND PARK. Cherokee One of the lient AdvertUeil Coiiiitie-H in the State—I'niHiieetiiit; for Oolil in Lower Cherokee—Nrii;hh<irhi>i>d News. (Correspondence of Tiie Ledfjor.) Etta Jane, Jan. B>.—Those in po sition to know best say that the ferry boat at Howell’s ferry 8 get ting unsafe. It has been in use for a long time and the timbers water-sobbed. Mrs. Jane Smith, of preach at •1 o'clock, field there are dry. Cute, funny little doggies they are—I wonder how they live. There was a young doctor on hoard from ' wljo8e i! l f >es9 has been reported in Tennessee going to California, who | this correspondence lieretofore,we are got some Mexican money and went j glad to say is getting better, and from seat to seat showing it to all the passengers, and he said ho had nr- runged to have one of those little i puppy dogs sent to him. Fancy the { Hopewell, entertained for her re- iittle fellow exchanging the wide free plain for anybody’s yard ! We crossed the Colorado river in the night. Fariy the next morning the train was stopped. 1 got out, I jumped on the sand and made my I way forward to see what was the mat- j ter. It was still dark, and our train was lying like a giant worm on the darkened plain. I saw tiie lights of | another train ahead. 'I asked a train j man what was the matter with the | freight. I thought I was polite, hut ! he snapped out, “Broke in two, 1 told ! you.” When the day arrived it re- i veaied level stretches of sand with 1 bar*' sandy mountains in the distance, j It was California. How dilTerent from i our dreams of that land of orange groves and vineyards. The old sea hopes are covery. The citizens of the Cowpens Bat- ! tie Ground section are waiting pa- ! Gently for the development of their | section, and the establishment of a ! National Hark there. What will be done is hard to tell just at this time. ! We are inclined to tiie belief that if our own country people fail to do | anything, and congress actually re- ! fuses, then the next best thing to try’will be to call upon men who have both tlie means and patriotism to carry on the work. This can and will he done, we think, should all : others fail. Cherokee county with its natural ! and artificial resources, say nothing j of its historical interest, is one of ’ tiie best advertised counties in the j State if not in the entire South. Tiie water, and what captain looked out across tiiat hot, | eyes of the manufacturing, mining dusty desert and said that lie walked ; and agricultural people of the nation, through it before the advent of tiie are centered on it and watching for railroad. j opportunities to invest. During the morning the train stop-j We have often heard it said that ped at a little station whin* there was : nothing ever turns up unless some body turns it up, and this is literally true. In reading over the Governor’s message we are struck with some very pertinent assertions which we hope our law m ikers will note, ru der the head of education we will lie pardoned for taking the following ext ract: “Anv legislation that will foster pa 1 ms, change ! Great tali beautiful growth of many { kinds, and some littie cottages em- ! bowered in the shady green. Just a little oasis in that great desert. They say it is thedryest place in the world. Consumptives go there in the last stages of tiiat dread disease. After and miles of this arid is Southern California that we read about. How like tiie journey of life. We go through this dreary world, hut if we are found faithful at last we come to tiie green fields, and can walk beside tiie lasting rest. Los Angeles, “The Angels,” called ; so perhaps because some weary trav eler there struck a pure stream of 1 water, after the desert—I do not know—hut it is beautiful city, a : many Dowered city. Now comes the last stages of our journey, about lot) miles to San Fran- j yon invest capital that will give cisco. The next dav linds us in upper 1 ever increasing return and central California. What a change! Rain, rain, and carpets of green grass on ail uncultivated places. Great level fields as clean as a garden. Great teams of from six to twelve mules going out to plow. Mountains hung with watery cioudsin the background. Then leaving these things our train runs beside a great broad river, tiie : Sacramento. tVe pass the landing | stage of the largest ferry boat in tiie ; world, enter a city, pull up under a .-et and we felt wo had begun our ^ ( «n r shed, and, with a jerk, our car journey in earnest. i stops. We are dusted oil by r John, How can I give you a picture of the j the porter, gather up our luggage, countries we passed in the next livo4]jno John, the porter’s broad palm, days. We passed through Southern with a little silver, and we are on the Louisiana, Texas, a part of New platform, shaking hands with Mr. Mexico, Arizona and California. In | Halen, who is there to meet us. Louisiana are the sugarcane fields. We rush to a stairway, climb up. go aiong a passage-way. and enter a great room about twice the size of an ordinary church, filled with seats, and then we are on a ferry boat ready This industry lias been very great, hut now Cuba and Hawaii are coining into competition. Last year Hawaii produced forty million dollars worth of sugarcane; the sugar question [ to cross the hay to the city of Sail and the cotton question are very much alike. The sugar cane is raised in a liat, marshy country—it looks as if fever hangs in clustering lestoons from the swampy trees, and the leaves tremble with ague. It takes about two days or more to cross Southern Texas. Tiie first day out it is a beautiful country, hut gradually we run into tiie edge of what is prop erly ealied the "great American desert.” We saw great herdti of cattle grazing in the fields—more Francisco. The harbor had many vessels of various kinds, big sailing vessels, war ships, steamers, etc., hut we were sick with grippe and tired out with seven days of a crowded train and dust. We had arrived 2D hours late and our ship was to sail the next day at 1 o’clock. We were both of us sick all tiie time we were in San Francisco and so did not see much of the city. We will tell you i f our ocean voyage in another letter. ! We arrived safely in Shanghai Dec ,, r . elation. It was a great success. A We are in favor of the system of j | )eau{ ;f u | ( | U y ( at1 immense crowd, lectures now being adopted in most j arrangements perfect, and above all . tiie eloquent and patriotic words of h° u js, though we went over one liuii- and Mrs. Giles Hill, died at her home cattle in one sweep of Hie eye than j Oth, after twenty-seven days on tiie some of us have ever seen before in ; st . a> Very truly. our lives. At some of the stations | \v. E. Crocker. wore the famous cowboys. One day ! we were stopped by a wreck and I inatii or .ww* KitUe mil. ma le only about two miles in twelve ' Miss Ellie Hill, daughter of Mr. of the towns large enough to furnish | the audiences. As a factor in eauca- stngc of public sentiment, not many j tion thelyceutn need not, he much less self-respecting men will engage in selling whiskey. Then does not whatever odium attaches to the in dividual engaged in such a business, attach in a much larger measure to the state engaged in the same busi- m s's? (Lun the state make (lie busi ness respectable by engaging in it itself, and that, too, for the profit to j women, he realized? The state has constituted itself effective than the pulpit; but great care and discrimination should be ex ercised by those who select Hie lect urers. It is not every man v\ho has a glib tongue and a knack of telling stale jokes that ought to lie permitti d, much less paid, to exhibit himself be fore an audience of intelligent men Tin; Wfiitliitr Culi-iiilur. 11 j One of the best calendars of the big trust, not by buying out compe- : season is the “Curdui Weather Chart titors us oilier trusts do with some j and Calendar for 1!)00,” published by show of fairness, hut by crushing out Chattanooga Medicine Company, all competition by arbitrary force. Having seized tiie whole business, it proceeds to excel all other established trusts in its greedy extortions and arbitrary exactions. It buys whisky at one dollar to one dollar and a quarti r per gallon and sells at from fi o to eight dollars a gallon t h r> by t txing every mun eh u- t •>. q > from three hundred i > > iglit u i- . nt r ci id. thu manufacturers of McElree’g ! Wine of Curdui ami Thedford’s Black Draught. The Lodger office has just received one from the pub lishers, which consists of twelve sheets of paper, R!x20 inches in size, all fastened together with a gilt tin strip and a bra-s loop hanger. Each sio ei. contains the cali ndar f >r one in lit it in large figui'i s l hut can b * M '■ II 1 III' I. / I I j u n rd to this pm it reformed th arc .ilfi -I stand a lew enpiu cuiT il by s* tiding age stamps to the town. A e und< r? s ol 11 can be si - fen oin* cent, pi»*l- ClutUunocga Med* drunkard or perceptibly (lliiiinished jeino Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. tiie Hon. Amos J. Cummings, of New York. But the celehration this May will he a still greater success, and will no doubt include the restoring of the monument in all its pristine glory tiiat now staniis on tiie battlefield, and probably l lie erection of another, and will he participated in by tiie his toric Washington Light Infantry. T\\ n l.itt It* IjOCJiIm. Mayor Littlejohn hud several of fenders before him yesterday morn ing. Net results .jilO.OO to the city. The many friends of .foe McArthur are glad to see him on Hie streets again after some weeks of severe ill ness. No IHkIiI to I gillie**. The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, hut one who would bo at- triudive must keep her lieuith. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will let ru*rv(*ous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause phupies, b.otehes, skin erupti ns and i ►X'v'ch-d complexion. E'eotric l!it' 'he hi »t medicine in the ieh, liver and 1 I 1 pill' ; :je Itlllllll, 11 g vrs s 1 ring nerves, bright eyes, •uii itiih, velvety skin, rich complex ion, D will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down in valid. Only 50 cents at Cltcrokoo Drug Co. in this city on the 12th inst., after dred miles to do it Dust and desert begin with the same letter, and we were four days in j MX ' “J 8 ‘H' 1083 °f pnemonia, in hi r tiie dust. My wife became sick with | fifteenth year. sore throat, cold, fever and hone-ache, Thus in the bloom of youth lias undone day had to lay in the berth all one been taken from a happy home, day. I have heard of many others who were ufTeCted the same way in this dusty region. Our train climbed up through a beautiful mountain region, though tiie hills were hare. We stopped un der u great boulder on a horse shoe curve, and out in the level space en closed by tiie curve, we saw the rail road camp, a typical western scene. Just u littie beyond on a grand plain where the horizon seemed an infinite distance away, we read on u board. “Highest point on the Southern Fu- cilic Railroad, 5t)l<) feet.” Surely us We rolled swiftly along our train seemed running into the crack of tlio west. El Huso, Texas, is in the midst of a I sandy, barren country, with a few mountains around, and only a mile from the lino of Mexico, and right 1 near the line 4 of New Mexico. The ! stone wiii - h marks the corner of 1 lex.is, New Mexico, and Mexico was l pointo i out to us only a few hundred ! .sards from the railroad. Mo travel* 1 *d all day through a stony, fully I country, filled with cactus and thorny growth of scrub—u wild, des olate country truly. M e saw some of the canon formuGon, though on rather a small scale, thul makes Col orado so funioim. There was one fr>.tn loving parents and brot hers an t sisters to happiness and rest beyond the river, happiness and rest eG rnal. Miss Ellie Hill was u young lady of many high traits of character, of charming mar.m i ami person, was a consistent mt mher of Abingdon Hap list church, and lived up and lived i but that a majority of that body will up to and died in her comforting faith. Tiie remains w. re hurled at Frovidencr on hmt •Saturday in the presence of a large g>tlhi ring of rela tives ami friends, which was hut a slight testimony of the high regard in which she was held. The funeral serviced were conducted by Rev. M. F. •Samples WiihIiIiii* I'Vutliur ritlouK. Feather pillows need washing once a year; choose a bright sunny day; fill a large tub half full of water that is almost boiling hot, and dissolve 'ft' miles region we come to green valleys, beau tiful groves, oranges, grapes, semi- I and encourage our common schools tropical growth of every kind—tiiat j should receive your hearty approval amt endorsement, for you may foster and build colleges as you please, the fact remains that a vast majority of our children can never avail them selves of a collegiate training. If "still waters” of ever- ! the means are available, it is within the range of possibility for all of them to obtain a common school educa tion and thus be equipped for tiie proper discharge of the duties of citizenship. Intelligent citizens make intelligent voters. Educated mothers rear intelligent citizens. M'lien you put money in education you can neither be lost nor squandered. To secure efficiency in our common schools three tilings are of paramount importance: First, you must iiave tiie means with which to operate them. Second, you must have edu cated and consecrated teachers. Third, you want intelligent and effi cient county"superintendents of edu cation.” Most of those who partook of it are fulsome in their praises of Sam Strain’s birthday dinner. Sorry such occasions don’t come oftener. Thursday and Thursday night we had an almost incessant rainfall and the water courses were higher than they have been in many months. The Surratt brothers have started their corn mill and it is doing very good work. So we are told. .Messrs. MY'ight, Comer. Blackwell, and Jimmie Strain went over into York county last Monday and bought a lot of pigs. On account of the rain our school was not in session last Thursday. Tiie Union Times can’t get the question settled as to when the 2C'h century begins. First one hobs up on one side and then another on tiie other and so the contest goes on. The editor is holding up Ins end of the argument against great odds. Although we boast of living in a civilized and a christianized land, yet when we see white people moving tiieir goods and chattels along the public highway on the Sabbath we don’t know so much about it. Cer tain it is we have nothing to boast of. Considerable prospecting for gold lias been going on near us, and ex perts with samples of ore are now testing the northern markets as to its value. Before tiie close of the i present year we may reasonably look I for great developments in tin* mineral | resources of our country. Cherokee county lias some line ore-bids that j have never been touched yet. W’e do not propose to invade the Slate house and lecture our members of t he General Assembly us to what they should do or leave undone in re gard to the liquor question. This has been discussed pro and con on every occasion and we have no doubt yards per minute; which w ing. mid by how many seconds? If B had done iiis best running on his lirst half mile would it have changed its result, and if so, why so? Rev. J F. Marion will 8 dem on tiie 21st inst., at C> mmunion service will l> on tiie lirst Sabbath in February at li a. in. Freparatory services will be held on Saturday before at 11 a. m. The Ledger pertinently remarks: \\ hen you m set a Cherokee funner from over the Broad, just fix yourself to hear a fi rmer talk wheat, and rest assured that you are listening to one who knows what he is talking about. To which we say, Amen _ .r. i. s. WEDDING AT AMTIOCH. Air. Iliitulirit-lit iiiiit Miss UarkneNH night Thiir Troth. CCorrospondence or The Ledger.) Near Blacksburg, Jan. 1:1—I iiave recently returned from Antioch church where I attended the marriage of two of the most popular young people in this portion of our county— Mr. W. R. Hutnhright and Miss Min nie Harkness. These are of the most renowned and progressive families in this part of what was once the north west corner of York county. The wedding ceremony was per formed at 7 p. in., tho 10th inst., by Rev. J. D. Bailey, of Cowpens. The church was beautifully decorated and very well tilled with as well behaved an assembly (with one exception) of \ >ung people as I have ever met. The wedding march was played by Miss May Westbrook, and as the beautiful strains reverberated throughout the spacious building, perhaps for the lirst time in tiie his tory of the church, the bridal couple inarched up the aisle, pre ceded by the groomsmen and brides maids, to where the minister awaited them, who in a few appropriate words pronounced them husband and wife. The bride was elegantly attired in a rich cream colored dress with veil of same color, while the groom was clothed in the conventional black. The groomsmen were, Messrs. Rush Dover, Gill Hambright, George Lo gan and Mark Hatterson ; the brides maids, Misses Lillie Hardin, Lizzie Hambright, Julia Mullinax and Ma mie Hambright. I truly hope that no clouds may ever darken the sky of this happy young couple. l. b. d. la tin- I.egisLitiire, The General Assembly is making fair progress with its work. Chero kee’s Senator and Representatives aro attentives to their duties. M T e no tice the following measures intro duced by them of local interest. SENATE. Mr. Surratt—To amend law in ref erence to appointment of magistrates so far as it relates to Cherokee coun ty, Referred to committee on coun ty offices. Mr. Sarrutt—To empower the county commissioners of the respec tive counties to use funds collected for specific purposes for other pur poses when such funds are not sub ject to use within one year. Referred to ii nance committee. HOUSE OF KERR ICS K NT ATI V ES. Mr. McOraw—To authorize probate court of Cherokee to be provided with records in certain cases commenced in counties of York, Spartanburg and Union. 1 i Nature * I * Babies end children need J j proper food, rarefy ever medl* | f cine. If they do not thrive j [ on their food something h | f wrong. They need a littie | help to get their digestive 7 machinery working properly. SOtsjon COO LIVER OIL WiTH HYPOPHOSPMTES of LIME 4 SODA see tilings in the right light and act conscientiously. Yet we cannot help referring them to the lecture of Rev. Albert Barnes, tlio subject of which was, “The Throne of Iniquity,” taken from tiie !)lth Fsalm and 20th verse. “Shull the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief as a law?” Mrs. June Bishop is unwell. Since the rains set in the roads are getting had and people who have tiieir cotton to haul oil to market yet will Iiave trouble. M’e understand that a Miss Miller, 1 will generally correct this I difficulty. I If you will put from one- | fourth to half a teaepoonful 1 in baby’s bottie three or four I times a day you will soon see | a marked improvement. For | larger children, from half to I a teaspoon'u!, according to ate, dissolved in their milk, if you so desire, will very soon show its great nourish ing power. If the mother’s milk does not nourish the baby, she needs the emul- j sion. It will show an effect ! at once both upon mother and child. Sor. a rut fi.se, all druggift*. SCOTT * noWNi., ChcmUtt, New Yorkl H* — M ii■ iH 1 ■ II II mi i Min enough Gold Dust Washing | of Rock Dill, will teach the tSunny Fowder in it to make a good suds; put ono or two pillows in, according to si/', uml push them up and down and ruli them between tiie hands un til clean, if one so I- is not enough, use two or in re; rinse in clear warm water, wring ns dry us possible and hang them out; when dry, shake Well, and they will bo as light and soft as new pillows, j side school this season. Here is it question for our readers to solve, at it we will lie glad to give the mums of those who gels the cor* i’t’ct/ ho8vv (■ r i A and K run a mile race. A runs (lie whole course ttl the uniform rate J of J2() yards per minute. B rums : the lirst half mile til ii(K) yards per j minute, the second half milo ut dlO 4 FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. * r ) Gaffney, S. C..’