The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, August 27, 1901, Image 1
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GAFFNEY, S. C. t TUESDaV, AUGUST ‘^7, 1901.
81.50 A YEAR.
TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE
OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Commanderies Invade Ken
tucky Metropolis.
J. \V. Ifall, an operator at the
CITY GAILY DECORATED ( ' ran l ) y Mills, at Columbia, was
found dead in bed Saturday morning
! at his boarding house. Mr. Hall's
family live in Union and were notifi*
I ed of his death.
OVER THE STATE.
Nt*\vH> Itenifi from Otlmr CotifitleN firoiiprtl
Together.
W. I). Freeman shot and killed
Holland Durham in the government
distillery of the latter's half-brother,
M. C. Durham, near I.audrum, lust
Thursday.
Indications Arc That the Conclave
Will I’rove the .Most No;able Kver
Held—Over o0,000 Visitors Now on
Hand.
Louisvili.k, Aug. 20.—The rush of
Victors to the triennial conclave of
Knights Templar in this city began in
earnest today, ami by night the Ken
tucky metropolis will be completely in
the hands of the invaders.
Trains poured into the city all day,
bearing sir knights aud their ladies.
The streets were filled with marching
detachments, aud the air fairly trem
bled with the music of numberless brass
bands which escorted the various com-
manderies to their headquarters.
Scarcely a buildiug was without its
streamers, or a gorgjous dress cf bunt
ing. Even shop windows were trimmed
in Masonic emblems, aud street fakirs,
not to be outdone, painted Maltese
crosses on the toy balloons they hawked
about.
At local headquarters the opinion was
expressed that tue conclave wnich be
gins tomorrow will prove the most no
table ever held.
It is claimed there are 50,000 visitors
in the city today. Tne Chicago com-
manderies, traveling in trains of live
sections, arrived at upon and made an
imposing spectacle as they marched to
the customhouse, where they separated
aud scattered to their quarters.
imposing Spectacle.
Other commanderies arrived from
Kansas City, Charleston, S. O., Con
necticut, Pennsylvania, District of Co
lumbia (accompanied by the famous
Marine baud), from West Virginia,
New York, Uhio, California
Bin, Michigan,
etates.
fCorgia and other
iy visitors came on regular trains
^ Ind joint d their comrades here. The
’'Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin aud
Oiiio delegations are numerically the
strongest hero at present.
There were reunions today and es
corting of commanderies to their homes
while in the city. The festivities of the
conclave will begin at 8 p. in., when
the grand commandery of Kentucky
and the subordinate commanderies of
the state will give a reception to officers
and members of the grand encampment
at the customhouse.
Grand Master lleubeu H. Lloyd of
California aud Deputy Grand Master
Henry Bates Stoddard of Texas were
given an impromptu reception during
the forenoon because of tne accepted
elate, which makes Mr. Stoddard Mr.
Lloyd’s successor as grand master of
the grand encampment. Sir Knight
Lloyd and the man who is to succeed
him spent an hour in earnest conversa
tion concerning affairs of the grand en-
campmen t.
Both expressed the greatest admira
tion for tiie exhaustive preparations
which have been made to make the con
clave a success.
Governor Yates of Illinois and Gov
ernor Durbin of Indiana have arrived
with the detachments from their re
spective states.
ODD FELLOWS TO MEET.
Over 100,000 Delegates ami Visitors
Expected at Grand Convocation.
InpianapoLIS, Ind., Aug. 20.—Prepa
rations for the seventy-seventh annual
convocation of the Odd Fellows sover
eign grand lodge in this city, beginning
three weeks from today, are now prac
tically finished
Indications arc that the meeting will
attract the largest number of fraternity
men ever assembled at one time. The
committees are counting ou an attend
ance of lOO.OtiO. hiclu4ipg visitors aud
delegates. Every state in tho Union is
to bo represented OthSr visitors will
come from Canada, Nova Scotia, Mexi
co and even from Europe.
Officers of tho Indiana grand lodge
gay the advance arrangements for the
meeting exceed those in advance or any
other meeting they have attended, aud
it is expected that the meeting will be a
record-breaker. The principal feature
of the week will be the parade on Tues
day, Sept. 17, in which 25,000 Odd Fol
lows will appear, 500 of whoni will bo
mounted. The parade is to be reviewed
by Grand Sire aud(Joiumauder-in-Chief
Cable from a jxiiut in Monument Place.
Tho Indiana state fair aud exposition is
to bo held tho same week of the sov
ereign grand lodge meeting.
Ou Thursday memorial services will
be Reid at the ktatueof Schuyler Colfax,
the founder of tho liebc-kah organiza
tion, in University park, aud the golden
anniversary of llebekah Odd Fellowship
Will be celebrated.
There will also bo receptions and
other social events Friday. The “grand
decoration of chivalry” will ke con
ferred and prizes will be distributed.
Played Ills Last Game.
Bai.timokk, Aug. 2(3.—Manager John
J. McGraw of tho Baltimore American
league team announces that he has
played his last game of baseball. He
will retain his interest in the Baltimore
4cam and manage it from the bench.
At present McGraw is in bod with bis
broken knee in a plaster cast. His doc
tor says ho will not be able to play
again this year. McGraw gives no defi
nite reason for his retirement. He has
aaood ikying business hero and is a
heavy stockholder in the local club.
Cotton Company Formed.
Montoomkry, Ala., Aug. 20.—The Ho
man Cottou company is the newest or
ganization in Montgomery. Its mem
bers are among tho oldest, most sub
stantial and experienced citizens of this
place. The company will succeed to the
general warehouse business of the Leh
man Durr oouipimy, aud will operate
tho Alabama warehouse, located at the
corner of Perry and Jefferson streets.
This warehouse has been operated as a
pottou wareuousu fur more than ttu year*
The secretary of state has received
! notice that an application will be
made for a charter for the Blue
Ridge railroad. The company pro-
, poses to operate the Blue Binge rail
road recently purchased.
The 1!) months’ old daughter of
Mr. A 0. Comer, of Alpine, Ander
son county, fell into a barrel of wa
ter standing at the edge of a piazza
of the family residence last Saturday
and was drowned.
\V ork on the dam of the Anderson
Water, Light and Power Company in
I Seneca river, two miles from Broyles,
has been totally suspended for sever
al days, owing to high water. It
is expected that the work will be com
pleted in October.
Three little boys of the Baptist Or
phanage at Greenwood ran away from
| the Institution at 5 o’clock last Mon
day morning and returned ou Tues
day night at Mr. N. O. Farmer’s at
Broyles, where two of them had been
entertained for a month this summer.
A good roads convention will be
held at Edg; field ou September 5). It
is hoped the attendance will be good.
The fallowing gentlemen are among
those who will address the conven
tion: B. R. Tillman, John C. bh p-
pard, 1*. B Mayson, VV. A. Strom and
1 Thomas II Rainsford.
Messrs. W. P. Pollock, former rep-
resentative from Ch^r»w county i n
the general assembly, and. M. J.
Hough, clerk of the judiciary com
mittee, are making the race for tho
house of representatives, there being
a vacancy caused by the death of G.
J. .Redfears. The election takes
place today.
Work will soon be commenced on
the new cotton mill, the Mollohon
Manufacturing Company iu New
berry. Side tracks from the C. N.
A L. railroad to the site selected,
have already been graded and the
ground is being leveled and prepared
for tiie erection of tho building.
Over 80,000 pounds of tobacco ex
changed hands ou the Florence to
bacco market last Friday. It was
one of the biggest and most success
ful breaks of the season. Tobacco
sold remarkably well. Planters were
hi re from several counties. The fa
mous Puddin’ Swamp section was
well represented.
Governor McSweeney last Thursday
pardoned Col. \V. A. Neai, formerly
superintendent of the State peniten
tiary, who was convicted of failing to
turn over tiie funds to his successor.
Col. Neal was over $7,000 short in
1808, but his bondsmen paid the full
amount aud have been repaid by Mr
Neal. He abandoned his appeal to
the Supreme Court, aud bus never
been actually imprisoned.
Johr Murphy, a machinist, attempt
ed to kill his brother-in-law, Frank
Mayatt, a pilot, at 121 Church street,
Charleston, ou Saturday afternoon at
f> o’clock. Mayatt shot twice aud
Murphy wounded him slightly in the
shoulder. Mayntt was sent to the
iniirmary, while Murphy was lodged
at the station house by the police.
The trouble between the two men
grows out of Mayatt’s alleged brutal
treatme t of his wife, who is a sist* r
of Murphy. This is not the first oc
casion upon which the two men havo
been involved in a serious personal
difficulty.
News reached Charleston Sat-
day of the killing of “Wild
Bill” Johnson in a negro cab
in near Adams Pun last Thursday
night. Johnson possibly was the
most dangerous and notorious char-
after that ever infested the mining
districts of Charleston. He has kill
ed a number of men in his time, and
the police there have been watching
for him carefully on account of a par
ticularly brutal murder which he
committed during the early part of
July. Thursday Johnson was locat
ed by Colleton county authorities in a
negro cabin near Adams Run. A
posse was sent out to capture him,
armed with Winchester riHes, and the
deputies opened lire upon the build
ing as soon as they came within
range. Johnson, aa was his wont,
fought desperately but was finally
killed.
A few days ago, about 11 o’clock,
while the men were at work in the
mill, two negroes stole a trunk con
taining valuable papers from the
house of Mr. W. H. Koon, on Factory
Hill, at Union. Mrs. Koon heard a
noise in the room, but the negro had
secured the trunk and departed when
she went in. Hhe at once misfed the
trunk and gave an alarm. Thejieigh-
boring women took the ter in
hand and gate chase. The wo
men scattered, some of them follow
ing, while others made for the road
to cut him off, and Miss Mertie Koon
ran to tho house fora gun. The ne
gro finding himself so hard pressed
concealed the trunk in a gully-' and
covered It over with brush, and made
his escape before they could get a
shot at him. A search was made and
the trunk was found intact. He did
not have time to go Into it.
PRESENT STATUS OF
AFFAIRS ON ISTHMUS
Revolt of the Liberal Colom*
bian Rebels.
UNEASINESS AT PANAMA
Distinguishing Feature of tho Revo
lution is the Actual Support the Lib
erals Are Receiving From Yciirzuc-
la, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
Colon, Colombia, Aug. 23, viaKixos-
tox, Jamaica, Aug. 20.—Tho censorship
here prevents the transmission of politi
cal news or news unfavorable to tho
government.
The revolt of the Liberal Colombian
rebels, now two years old, lately as
sumed a more serious aspect by the
Liberals’ concentrations on tho isthmus.
It is believed they are contemplating
aggressive action.
Couesquently uneasiness prevails at
Panama, the Liberal objective, which
was nearly captured a year ago. It is
not believed the rebels will mclest the
railroad, or interrupt traffic. The re
cent rebel raids along the railroad
amounted to bloodless raiding and the
robbery of Chinese storekeepers, whiou
the presence of a lew government troops
apparently stopped. There is a report
that tiie government is bringing troops
to protect tho isthmus. This will be
difficult, without exposing to rebel at
tacks tho points whence they are taken.
The area of the revolt is extensive.
A noticeably distinguishing feature
of the revolution is the actual support
the Liberals are receiving from Vene
zuela, Ecuador aud Nicaragua, in which
countries liberal goverumeuts prevail.
Colombia’s Couservat’ve government is
popular with the governments of the
countries meutioued; but is pvmlar
with the revolutionary elements iu the
same countries. The situation can bo
likened to a disrupted federation, com
posed of Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia
aud Nicaragua, iu which Liberal aud
"''miservativo partisans are helping each
intriguing together. But,
otner^B^^^^iyg^Lthe political and
being separateuRMHI^^^g^itioual
armed intrigues threaten "
trouble.
It is reported that the Conservativ
revolt in Venezuela agaiast President'
Castro is receiving actual support from
the Colombian Conservatives. Nicara
gua’s threatened revolution will proba
bly be similarly aided on tho occasion
arising. Ihe conditions give ground
for the reports of actual or threatened
international complications between
the countries mentioned, iu which the
Liberals are generally opposed to Co
lombia’s Conservative administration,
whose prophesied downfall is accompa
nied by talk of a federation under the
idea of a Grand Colombia
Colombian government is in straits,
financially, at present.
TURKEY'S PROMISES.
Will Pay an Indemnity of 700,000
Francs to Quays C« inpany.
Constantinople. Aug. 20. — Tho
amount of the indemnity which the
sultan agrees to pay tho Quays company
for interference with its rights is 700,-
000 francs. Tho sultan will also pay
000,000 francs to a Frenchman on ac
count of the seizing of lauds in Alba
nia.
The Quays company renounces for a
year the clause iu its concession regard
ing tho transfer of the quays to Turkey,
only, it is believed, to save nppearaucos
for the sultan.
M. Coustans, the French ambassador,
after making farewell calls on his col
leagues yesterday, left hero today on
board tho Vanltenr for Staniboul, where
he will take the train.
May Mean h urtlier Trouble.
London, Aug. i'G.—The dispatch from
Coustautinoplo announcing that the
French ambassador, M. Coustans, left
there today, is not understood either iu
Loudon or fttris, though it is believed
it means a further difference between
Franco and Turkey. The supposition is
that M. Coustans is taking a holiday.
Chun’s Milieus a Pretext.
Rome, Aug. 26.—The illness of Prince
Chun, a brother of tho emperor of
China, who, witn a Chinese mission,
has arrived at Basel, Switzerland, on his
way to Berlin to apologize for the assas
sination of Baron Von Kettler, the Ger
man minister at Peking, is, according to
a dispatch' received here today from
Basel, a pretext for delay, Prince Chun
having received orders from Peking not
to proceed, us fresh complications have
arisen with reference to tho settlement
of the protocol
Steamers Collide; Four Drowued.
Havre, Aug. VG. — Tho Spanish
steamer Amboto, Captain Mnnoz, for
New Orleans via Norfolk, Aug. 9, for
this port, collided last nivjht with the
German steamer Lusitania, from Ham
burg for Mediterranean porta, off tho
Casket rocks. Four of the crew were
drowned. The remainder were picked
up. Lusitania was a vessel of OHO ton*
She belonged to A. C. DeFreyists & Co.
and hailed from Hamburg. She was
bnilt iu 1881.
Miot Wife and Child.
Birminoham, Ala., Aug. 2(1.—Will
Hudson, a Bessemer negro, is wanted
on tiie charge of shooting his wife and
2-year-old child at that place. The man
had separated from his wife and went
to her home to get his clothes. The
bullet passed through the child’s body
aud lodged in the womau. The child
will die. The womap will probably
recover. _ _ _
Married on Horseback.
KtmiEBroRDTON, N.O., Aug. 20.—One
of tho most unusual marriages that has
over occurred iu this comity was that of
Mr. Okey Uiggerstaff and Miss Lydia
Washburn, near Forest City. They
were married iu the middle of the long
iron bridge crossing Broad river, ou
horseback. Only three witnesses were
present. Kefc 4. ii. Carpenter tied the
kuot,
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
IliipiM-nliiKs him) the Doing* of Our Nt-lgh-
lior* Aero** the Line.
Rev. Jno. A. Wray, of Milledgt-
ville, Ga., is holding a revival at the
Hendersonville Baptist church.
Architect Milburn, of Columbis,
S. C , is desigoiog plans for a new
passenger station at Asheville.
At Cherokee court in Murphy last
week about ;>o persons were tried for
burning a Sanctification church.
The jury acquitted them.
W. B. Mitchell’s son, Earl, win
lost a leg in the Philippine war, has
arrived from thecovalescont hospital,
San hransisco, where he was placed
after his arrival from Manila.
The old Buncombe warehouse on
the corner of Patton avenue and
Bailey street, Asheville, has been
torn down and a handsome street car
building will be erected on the sit«
by the Asheville Street railway.
LOWER CHEROKEE
LOCAL CULLINCS.
Upland Coin Tired by
Much Rain.
Too
Saturday a
week ago B.
Riddle
was killed by lightning two miles
from Burnsville while stacking oats.
A mule was also killed. One son was
rendered unconscious for awhile, hut
another son was unhurt.
The furniture, in the way of special
cases, etc., for the North Carolina
exhibit at the Charleston Exposition,
Is nearly completed. It Is being
made in Raleigh of native oak, and
the designs are artistic.
Ihe fact that the North Carolina
State convicts havo in the past 27
years built over 1,100 miles of rail
road in that State is read with inter
est by the officials at Raleigh. In all
tl.ny have built 20 roads and branch
es.
Miss Kate Friar, aged 2.1 years, wts
instantly killed by lightning at Tar-
boro Saturday. Tho bolt entered the
house above her head, played over
the room, and going to an adjacent
housq severely shocked the occu
pants.
Architect Ii. S. Smith has com
pleted plans for Asheville’s $25,-
000 \. M. C. A. building which is to
be built on Haywood street near the
postoffice. A cut of the building
appeared in the Citizen a few days
ago.
The contract for the erection of
National Bank building,
, Sterling streets,
corner lJnTUmilWBfc^-,* ,, ,
»i . Hotel
Morganton—the old
corner—has been awarded to
W. H. Sloan, of that place, and work
will begin at once.
Richard Harris, a colored man who
was a tenant on the farm of Mrs
Lucy Randolph, near G-eenville, was
drowned near Farkland, in Pitt
county, on Sunday. The man at
tempted to ford the ereei that was
badly swollen and got in where the
water was too deep.
Henry Flagler, Standard Oil mil
lionaire, and Mary Lily Kenan were
married at 10 o’clock Saturday morn
ing at the Kenan homestead by Rev.
1’atton H. Hoge of Louisville. It is
stated by frieuds of the family that
just previous to tiie ceremony Mr.
Flagler presented his bride a certi
fied check for $7,000,000 and $3,000,-
000 iu government bonds.
RUST ATTACKS COTTON.
Di'ntl Deal of -Fruit !><■*!royi-il l»j- \V«-t
AVmtlier IVik-Im-h Ar«* .Nearly all (lone
Tree Itloivn Into a Creek Other Matter*
New* Note'll.
(Correspondence or The Lodger.)
Iyita Jam:, Aug. 23 —Nearly every
newspaper wo see has an account of
some seriuus disaster—railroad acci
dents, vessels wrecked at sea, or on
our inland waters, where many lives
have been lost and property destroy,
ed, storms, Hoods, drouths, sickness
and death. There is no end to this
train of calamities, and still their
admonitions are unheeded. That
these visitations of Providence come
either by His direction or permission
no sane man or woman will deny.
Isn’t it time for us to stop and re-
llect? Whither are we drifting?
Do these events portend good or
evil for ourselves and our country?
On the heels of this train ofdisasters
comes the agitation of great political
questions that we are unable to solve
to the satisfaction of ourselves and
others; and.as we stop to consider we
are impressed with the thought that
our troubles are multiplying and the
evils increasing while we are power
less to overcome them or effect a
remedy.
There must he a cause when there
is an effect. Finite minds fail to
devise a scheme by which tho situa
tion can bo changed.
Science is unable to overcome t! •
obstacles or show the way of escape
Div ine revelation alone can meet
the emergency and correct the evil. !
History repeats itself. Nearly three
thousand years ago the Prophet
Daniel saw and spoke oi what was
coining; Ezekiel knew it; Isaiah fore
told it, and even the minor pnn’iet,
Arnos, speaks of it. Yet all tP-se
authorities have been disregarded
and treated with contempt, “iloin-
mercialism” has come to the front
and crowned tho “almighty dollar.”
“King of Kings” arid whole nations
are worshipping at its footstool. The
brain power in the land is today
golving the great prob-
itical economy,
thousandth
the explosion at Cherokre Kails last
Monday morning in which the three
colored men lott their lives.
Mrs. Mildred McDaniel and her
children, of Hickory Grove, are j
visiting on this side of the river.
During the storm last Monday a
tree was blown in the creek at the 1
Hoty ford on Gilky. Mr. Torn San
ders with his road hands has taken
it out. .j l. g.
A I*lao for the Funner'* Wife.
Correspondence of Tne Ledger.l
In these latter days of ours when
push and hurry are necessary to keep
us apace with the times. In these
days when rest must only mean a
change from one occupation to anoth
er, there is a degrading side toennob :
ling labor that is not properly consid- j
ered, nor is the dues and rights of its i
patient victims protected. I mean |
tiie rights of the wife of many an
average fanner.
I esterday, in our home, the self-j
sacrificing toiler, brutalized by days, |
weeks, months and years of industri- !
al oppression, gave under, and last
night as 1 sat by the bedside of her ,
whom I pledged myself to love, hon
or and protect, aud placed my hand
upon her burning brow and felt the
rapid pulse in the wrists of those j
precious overworked hands, I though
how many » farmer (perhaps thought
lessly) was allowing his wife to en
dure this endless, hopeless, joyless ;
labor.
I have been to town and have seen
mothers, wives and daughters, well
dressed and at their ease while tho
women in the country financially as 1
well oil as their city cousins are en
during a monotoneous routine of nev
er ceasing servitude. Wby is this?
NEGRO’S HORRIBLE FATE.
I'or .%MtHti t Mini Murder Near Win-
«Jn‘*ier, Icon., lie |* < r< ratted.
( it at i a vooga, Aug. 20.—A sneci
truru WiUcUesur, 1 •nu , Kays Heiq
Nolcs, the neyro who criminally
KiifiM i and -hot to death Mrs. CiiarlL,,
V liiuitiiK, wife of a prominent farmtY
ncu' Winciujut, Tumi., last Friday,
•was captured yesterday morning at
Water lank, near Unwan, Tenn. He
was carried to Winchester by his cap-
tors and placed in the county jail.
Cs tier iff Stewart made Dasto to try to
barricade the jail ami protect tho pris-
oner Soon an angry moo of several
hundred citizens gathered about the
jiii!. Assistant Attorney General Matt
N. Whittaker appeared at the jail and
made a siiecoa to ih > infuriatedcitizeu*.
He appealed to tii*- cu.z n- to assist him
iu allaying ex iom-nt aud upholding
the majesty of the law.
ihis appeal w.i- .■•upiilemented by
Judge J. J. Lynch, Captain W. P. Tol
ley. Jes-e M. Littleton, Foster Ramsey
and otners.
N i sooner hail their appeals been
made than several hundred citizens
•rum the neighborhood where tho crime
was committed came up and augmented
the crowd to thou->auds. They swept
forward upon tiie jail, overpowering the
sheriff and ins deputies, secured the
prisoner and started lor the scene of the
crime, 1J miles distant.
Ine mob was orderly, but grimly de
termined. Arriving at a pain: in sight
of tiie scene of the crime the negro was
placed upon a stumpand given achance
to make a statement.
He mounted tiie stump stolidly aud
t t < ri > <»/ • j Iftrt l • . . t- -r
laughed as he began his statement. He
saw:
“i’eliall my sisters and brothers to
meet me in glory. I am going to make
tnat my home. Tell my mother to meet
me where parting will be no more.”
“Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?”
was asked.
just done that becanse I had noth-
Ihe reason is obvious to any one who ingelse’toda"
Uy ii not hai af e ^ ^ C °T ^ tbt ‘ U taken fr, ’ m the
try is not haif as easy to get as in carried to a tree near by, bound to it by
town. Negroes are rapidly enoigrat-| chains and his body satuated with oil;
be
William Monroe, tho rapist will he
the fourth man to be hanged by
Sheriff Wallace of Mecklenburg
county. He officiated at the hang
ing of Joe Jackson, colored, who was
hanged for rape in 181)8; at the exe
cution of Julius Alexander, who was
hanged for rape in 1898; and at the
hanging of William Truesdalo, for
murder in 19IK).
through
his
ids
With a bullet wound
stomach' and a knife cut across
head, Robert Hall, colored, a native
of Cabarrus county, was taken to
Charlotte Friday from Fort Mill, K.
C. He said that he and a negro
named 8id Conner were working to
gether at the big power-dam near
Ruck Hill, S. C. They got into a
dispute over a womau and Conner
inflicted the injuries. Hall is iu a
very precarious condition.
It was printed in a local paper at
Charlotte last Friday that the plant
of the Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer
Company has been bought by the
company representing the Yirginia-
Caroiina Chemical Compay and
which has been buying up plants all
over the Houth. Tiie price paid for
the plant is said to be $125,000.
Fred Oliver was president of the
Charlotte company. The plant is
the largest in the Houth, with pos
sibly one exception, combining oil
mill, fertilizer factory ; and a cotton
batting and wadding mill. The
Virginia-CarolinuChemical Company
is sai 1 to have been seeking for its
control for a long time.
One of the worst freight wrecks
that ever occurred on the Atlantic,
Tennessee Sc Ohio Railroad, occurred
last Thursday afternoon about 4
o’clock. It involved the Winston
freight and occurred just two miles
south of town, and no one seems to
know tiie cause. There were nine Hat
cars and one box car, all loaded with
coal. Heveral of the cars are lying
on their sides on tho roadside and
the coal was thrown out into the
field, probably 25 yards from the
track. Two cars are tquarely
across the track and al! are badly
broken up. The cross-ties were cut
into kiddling wood, rails bent Into all
shapes and the axles of the car wheels
were bent as a child would bend a
straw. No one was on the wrecked
cars, and no one on the train was
seriously hurt. A negro brakotnan
jumped from tho top of a car to tho
ground when he saw the cars begin
to pile up. He was badly jolted but
•ays he is not hurt.
lems of finance a
while not tiie one
part of it is working out
problem; “What is tho chief end of
man”?
Can we expect any better than we
are receiving when we compare the
notes before us and see bow we are
using or abusing the priviliges we
enjoy? If tiie spirit of commer
cialism is not ruling the world today
in every department of our civiliza
tion it at least betrays an alarming
nearness to it.
Laying ail jokes aside, and looking
tho situation squarely in tiie faee, we
are forced to the conclusion that tho
state of affairs in this country is
serious. The present generation has
never had anything like it. With
crop failures here and elsewhere
throughout the land, the helpless
condition of the poorer classes to
better themselves only adds to the
trouble.
Next year this State will, in all
human probability, be convulsed in
political chaos, and the destitution
ofj many of our people of the very
necessities of life will be taken advan
tage of to put men in power wiio will
chasten their constituents with
scorpions instead of whips.
Now is the time to take the matter
into consideration and work for the
future by putting away the strange
gods from among us and setting our
houses in order. Like the Psalmist,
let us take God for our refuge and
our strength and all will be well.
Money is not so much the servant
of the people, as it is their master.
The man behind the sermon is no
longer the secret of its power—it’s
the dollars in front of it.
The highest object in life with some
people is to procure a fortune, rather
than establish a character. Thomas
Jefferson said: “Not a throne in
Europe could stand against the
character of George Washington.”
Were he living to-day ho might
reverse that saying.
Of Francis Horner, (a poor ohB.'ure
Englishman with no extraordinary
talents who finished a long and use
ful life and died at the age of only
thirty-eigut years,) Sydney Smith
says: “The success of his Hfe may
be attributed to his having the Tun
Commandments stamped upon his
forehead”.
Isaac Newton, the Christian philos
opher, who made tho Bible the man
of his counsel, said: “1 should not
wonder if some day men can travel
at the rate of fifty miles an hour.”
To this Voltaire replied: “It was the
reading of the Bible that made u fool
of Newton.”
“To err is human,” is a maxm
that it’s not hard to live up to.
Mr. Dan Baltimore, of Hickory
Grove, came over c few nights ago
for a fox chase.
So much rain has fired the corn
on the upland, and wo learn that in
many places rust has attacked the
cotton.
Mrs. John Edwards and Mrs. J. L
H, whoso indisposition was . met •
tioned in our previous letters, are
both better, wo are glad to say.
The wot weather has destroyed a
good deal of fruit—tho peaches are
nearly all gone.
Home of our people think they beard
ing to tiie cities and towns and tiie
few that remain on the farm are not
forced to exert themselves for a liv-
ing as much as those living in the 1
towns. Then another reason for the!
burdens that the farmer's wife has to 1
endure is the popularity of acountry
homes for city folk?. In summer
when it is too warm and faiigueing for
a mother in the city to cook and take
care of her household, she sends them
to sp^nd awhile, (perhaps vacation
from school) in the country with
a country cousin or friend. I was
amused at Aunt Jemima Slabridi’s
remark to my wife last May. ’Tolly,
we had as well open our hotels as the
summer visitors are arriving.” Je
mima and Bully’s hotels have been
crowded ever since. Town folks
reach your hands into your pockets
and carry your family to somd of the
^y^arnniis springs with which our
statTiTWtt*. *"<1 you wish, give
your tired couTSjjy friends a cordial
invitation to recupW*^ with you.
Turn about is fair play
Wife Lov
'III*; N«MM|IM|M;r US H Itllftlll*-**.
(Augusta ll)‘rsil<l.|
Circulation, news and advertising
all go to make up a newspaper and
all are dependent upon each other
and should work together.
A newspaper without news and
without circulation is worth nothing
to an advertiser.
The way it works out is something
like this:
It is tiie reputation for integrity,
intelligence, and judgment that
should give the newspaper its cireu-
iiition ; it is tiie circulation that gives
it advertising’and it is the money
received for advertising that enables
the newspaper to be sold at such a
price that comes within the reach of
the masses of the people; then the
subscriber receives tho benefit of the
money paid the newspaper for adver
tising, as well as saving money by
reading the advertisements and find
ing where he can get the most for
tho money he spends.
Mr. Gladstone said that the adver
tisements in newspapers were worth
infinitely more to the peuple than
the paper cost them, not to mention
tho news. If you pick up a news
paper well tilled with paying adver
tisements, you may know that the
paper is on a paying basis, if it is
properly managed; it can therefore
he at more expense for news, which,
adding merit to it, enables it to ex
tend its circulation, which result in
duces more advertising and better
rates, and again enables the paper to
become a better medium of news, and
so on ad infinitum, all of which helps
the people, giving them for the same
price a better medium both of news
and advertisements.
a match was applied, and instantly tho
qaivering body was enveloped iu flames.
Laiis were pitched about the burning
body, and soon life was extinct. The ne
gro marie no outcry at any time, aud
died u< stolidly as a stoic.
Ar least (>,000 people witnessed the
horrible fate of the negro.
MOB AFTER HIM.
Alabama Negro Wrote to White Wo
man, Proposing an Klopenieut*
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 20. — The
storehouse aud dwelling of Miles
Brooke-, a negro, at Tnompsou Spring
ui i.r Bessemer, was burned to the grot
yc.s: onlay morning by a mob of wl
cit.zms, who were incensed agains
negro because a day or so ago ho
■i note to Mis. Dau Cutliff, wifq
white rolling mill man, asking*
dope with him.
Several visits were made to
of tne negro, bur he could
found. The mob organized
in,.:ir aud marched iu tne
negro and his wife in ri
iuni decamped and got oui
try. s
Hie moVburucd tiie
ing To rh8 7!
40 or 50 shots into it. The
house of Dau Carson, a negro, was
punctured with rifle and pistol balls,
and lu and his w ife narrowly escaped
death, but no one was injured.
Armed bodies of white men are still
seeking Brookes, determined on ven
geance.
FATAL SUNDAY AFFRAY.
in
A Kitglng, ICiHtruiK Fioo*!
Washed down a telegraph line
which Cbas. C. Ellis, of Li&bon, la.,
had to repair. "Htundibg waist deep
in icy water,” he writes, “gave me a
terrible cold and cough. It grew
worse daily. Finally the best doctors
in Oaaland, Neb., Sioux City and
Omaha said I had Consumption and
could not live. Then I began using
Dr. King's New Discovery and was
wholly cured by six bottles.” Posi
tively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds
and all Throat and Lung troubles by
a Quarrel at Hulls Grove, Ills.,
I wo Receive Dcaiii Wounds.
Seneca, Ills., Aug. 20.—Justin Applo
and George Sinclair of Geneva and
Janies (Jolgou and Edward Kelfe of this
village became involved in a quarrel at
Bulls Grove yesterday. Several hours
later, while on the way to Cayuga Lake
park to take a trolley, the men met
again and resumed tie quarrel, during
which Apple and Smelzer were both
stabbed with a large pocketknife.
Apple died this morning and Smelzer
is not expected to live. Relfe and Col-
gon were arrested, together with two
u< gro women ami two white men, who
are heM as witnesses. One of the lat
ter, it is claimed, saw the blows struck.
. A meric.! n Deserter Captured.
Manila, Aug. 2G.—Pitcher’s first dis
patch from Mindoro tells how Lieuten
ant Hazzard of the Third cavalry, com
manding a troop of Macabebe scouts,
captured tho American deserter How
ard, who, as a leader of the Filipinos,
had been annoying the Americans for
many mouths. Ferguesou, one of Lieu
tenant Hazzard’s civilian scouts, dis
guised as an uixurgcnt, with eight Mac-
abebes, penetrated into the camp of Co
lonel Aliensa, commanding 250riflemen
and 200 bolomen, at night, located
Howard, bound and gagged him aud
led him away without disturbing the
camp.
I nor.nil's of Nurili Carolinians.
Winston-Salem, N. C. m Aug. 20.—
Winston has a citizen who* income an
nually is greater than the salary of the
president of tin* United States. Mr. R.
J. Reynolds will pay an income tax ti is
year on $57,7 )6. A- is generally known,
the income is not taxable until it ex
ceeds the $1,000 mane. In Winston there
arc 07 taxpayers wno e incoan ■ * xcte 1
this amount. Salem has 37 taxpayers
whose incomes exceed $1,000. (
j
Cherokee
$1 00.
Drug
Co.
50c and
of
Engagements are
love; marriage the t^*
I*. T. Thomas, KumtB a.,
“I was suffering from dyi|^ Aen
1 commenced taking Kodol Dyspep
sia Cure. I tooiC several bottles and
can digest anything.” Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure is the only preparation
containing all the natural digestive
fluids. It gives weak stomachs en
tire rest, restoring their natural con
dition, Cherokee Drug Company.
Nrw Coni Company,
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 20.—The Ex-
celsior Goal aim ‘Coke company ha* been
incorporated here witii a capital stock
of $100.0vX> for the purpose oi operating
the pr qiortics of the old Cooling Coal
and Coke company, located in Tusca
loosa, county. The incorporators of the
company ato George 4*. Howard and R.
K Watson, both of Atlanta, Ga. Tha
headquarter* of the company will be in
this city.
Young Lmljr Kllicd by Ligltining.
Tai,% ho, N. C . Aug. 20 — Mu* Kata
I'rta*-, aged 25 y*-ar*. wa* instantly ^
killed by lightning at thu place,
bolt entered the haute above her
played over tn * room, an i going to an
artj iceut house, severely tbocxod
oouupaul*.
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