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£-5 ■ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Ne wspafe in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to, the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. 11 —’— • ' ' 7 r -i- KSTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY. 8. C.. TUBlfm \ Y - SEPTEMBEJ 1901. 81.50 A YEAB. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE, Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Kvents that Have Taken Place from One Entl of the State to tlie Other Culled from KxchaiiKeN for (Juick Reading by Scores of Rusy People. Dr. James MacJames, the famous ^’baseball pitcher, died it) a Charleston hospital Monday. A few weeks ago he was severely injured by his horse running away with him, which caused his death. Governor McSweeney has restored R E Stansill, of Hamberg hiscitizan- ship. He was convicted when quite young of forgery and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. He de sires now to join the United States army and begin life anew. On good authority it is stated that Judge 0 W Buchanan will not stand for re-election to the bench in the third judicial circuit One of his friends in another county has made the positive assertion that Mr, Bu chanan would withdraw. However, there is nothing official. George Parker, of Spartanburg, the colored boy who thought Charlie Ma bry, the chaingang guard, wouldn’t shoot, and who has been getting good attention at the county jail from Dr. Cudd. of Spartanburg, is up and was carried back to the gang Wed nesday. He was shot through by a Winchester ball three weeks ago and is now out of danger. It is proposed to have a competitive drill and battalion parade at Colum bia during Fair week, and the com mittee will make the arrangements as soon as the finance committee fixes the amount that will be available for prizes. The present purpose is to get two or three of the best companies in each of the three regiments to enter the contest and give an exhibition drill. Thomas Going, of Union, was put on trial for the murder of J. M. Splawn, a cotton mill boss, last week. Going was discharged and being dis pleased with Splawn went to his office and shot him. After a long trial the jury reported Sunday that | they could not agree. They were out IDjhours. Ten were for acquital, one for murder and one for man slaughter. Robert Draper, an 18-year old ne gro, near Cowpens, shot and killed a two-year-old child of Mary Johnson Sunday evening. The child was cry ing and Draper threatened to kill it. if it did not quit. He got a single ^ barrel shot gun and fired, the shot entering the head of the child causing instant death Draper says the shoot ing was accidental. He was arrested and is in prison Thursday evening the boilers for the heating apparatus at the State capitol were steamed up by Engineer Elkin, the purpose being to heat the building throughout every night from this time on in order to thoroughly dry out the walls which have been dampened by exposure to the weather while the new roof was being put on the structure. The secretary of state Thursday gave the necessary order. It is proposed to erect a tablet in memory of the late J. Gordon Coog- ler. The first suggestion publicly made came from the pen of Dr. E. 8. Joynes of the South Carolina College! The many friends of the deceased printer poet have taken kindly to this, and some of the noble women of Columbia have started a movement which will allow the people of that city to express in substantial form the esteem in which Coogler was held at home. Some time ago 8. VV. Mitchell, of Hickory Grovw, York county, entered suit against the local camp of Woodmen of the World, and also the National order for |15 000 on account of certain Injuries received while he was going through the initiation ceremony. After that com plaint was made he had to undergo a syrtfical operation and owing to injur ies he asked leave to demand the com plaint and fix the damages at 150,000. Gabe Anderson, colored, has been lodged in jail in Greenville, to an swer the charge of complicity in the murder of Hendrix Bolling, who was killed a few weeks ago in Hudson alley. Anderson made his escape af ter the killing and was captured at C'gapobellM, whence he was taken to Greenville by Deputy W. D. Whit mire. Joe Westfield, the principal In this killiog, was convicted at the recent ter/n and sentenced to two years In tb* penitentiary. J. T. A pelue of Laurens, reports the strangest coincidence of late months. Last full he was raisldg three fine fox hounds when the presi dential campaign was going on He named them Bryan, McKinley and Roosevelt. On election day Bryan di sappeared and lias not been at home since. On the day President Mc Kinley was shot, the second dog Mckioley, disappeared He will now watch the third to see what the new president is going to do. A recruiting station for the United States army has been opened in Spar tanburg. It is under the direction of Oapt J. E. Clussflck, whose head- (ju »rters is Columbia. Corporal J W. Ricks is in direct charge. The sta tion will be open for a week at the Windsor HoLl The government needs several thousand new men and hopes to get a good number at Spar tanburg. but the naval enthusiasm two months ago seems to have waft ed most of the material away. News reached Anderson Tuesday of the terrible bereavment that has be fallen the family of Mr. Walter Hoi liday, of ihe Toney Creek section of that county. Three of his children iiHve died in less than a week of dip- theria. Two of them were buried in one grave lust Friday, and another died Tuesday. Their uges were ten months, four years, and six years, re spectively. To add to the horror of the family’s situation, another child is sick with the same dread disease. Miss Concha Belanger, the unfortu nate young woman who has been a charge upon the police of Atlanta for some time pending correspondence between the governor of South Caro lina and the governor of Georgia us to which state should take her into its insane hospital, is at last in the hos pital in Columbia She was brought there Tuesday and is in good condi tion, Just at present she seems to be more unfortunate than m<ntall> troubled She seems very glad to g t to the hospital and has been given good quarters there. Three additional artillery compa nies have been assigned to Sullivan’s Island by the secretary of war. The numbers of the companies are not known, nor can it b» definitely said when the companies will arrive. It is thought that the new companies will arrive just about the time the barracks are completed. The as signment of three additional com' panics will greatly increase the strength of the post. There are at present two companies at the post 3d and lOih, and the three other companies at the island garrison. Magistrate Beckham of R »ck Hill, was called to Catawba Junct on Mon day afternoon to accord Henry Green and Lester Vaughan, colored boys aged respectively about 15md ISyears a preliminary hearing in a charge preferred against them of throwing a rock at a passenger coach on the Sea board Airline train on the 15th in stant. Tne testimony was such as to warrant the Magistrate in sending Green to jail to await trial in the cir cuit court, while Vaugh in was held a-* a material witness. When the rock was thrown the latter was on the train opposite from Green, but there seems to be no doubt as to the latter’s guilt. Constable James Alton. G. L Cooley. H. L. Bell and Deputy Col lector E A Aiken, of Greenville, left that city Saturday night with the in tention of bagging some larger game than could be caught in their neigh borhood, and on Sunday about 9 o’clock they returned with a white man, a mule and buggy, a Winches ter rifle, and four cans which con tained several gallons of corn whisky, which werejeaptured by them about eighteen miles north of the city in the Dark Corner, and the officers claim that it was not a very good night for game. The man they cap tured is named Ben Fuller, and he lives near Chick Springs. Tuesday Magistrate P H. McGowen of Spartanburg, decided that the evidence in the case against Pollard, the negro who has the contract for transporting' the mail to and from the depot to the postofflee, in that city, was overwhelmingly against the defendant and he was accordingly convicted. It will be remembered that Pollard was charged with having from time to time received food for his horse under suspicious circum stances. The oats and fodder were stolen from Cudd’s stable in Spartan burg, by an employe who left them back of the building where Pollard from time to time found them He was sentenced to pay a fine of flo.OO or give thirty days labor on the chain- gang He will pay the fine, but U is not known what action the postoffice authorities will take in view of the conviction of a government employee in the state court. Hta® Didn’t Wrurn MmhU. But her beauty was completely hidden by sores, blotches and pim ples till she used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Then they vanished as will all Eruptions. Fever Sores, Boils, Ulcers. Carbuncles and Felons from its nse. Infallible for cuts, Corns. Burns, Scalds and Piles. Cure guar anteed. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. ECHOS FROM THE FLOWERY KINGDOM. A Trip on a Steamer up the Yangtse River. A DEVASTATED REGION. Condition of th«- Cliiiu-se Empire Morally, riiysii'aUy and Spiritually—No I’lty in the Heathen Mind-Missionaries in Demand— Another Outbreak Hinted At. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Chinkiang, China, Aug. 14 —It is a bright August day, and 1 am on a river steamer going up t e Yangtse river to spend a few days in the Kuliug mountains. There is a south west breeze blowing, and cloudy ••thunder heads” lie about the hori zon beyond the blue, gray and purple mountains. There is a big freshet'jn the river—the yellow flood covers both banks which can be indistinctly made out by a fringe of trees or reeds. Beyond the banks the whole valley is covered as far as the eye can see with yellow water, away to the foot of the’hills 1 Saw thr e cows ard two sheep grazing on a little bank which looked hardly big encyigh to stand on in the midst of a yellow sea. stretching back to the hill perhaps twenty miles. Whole viil :ges,hundreds of them, are seen standing haif sub merged, in some, many of the boosts have fallen in heaps. What a peace ful scene! Look out across the picied lakes of water, with trees t dii gin green clusters, and behind ail the blue ribs of the mountains, the qun t sky smiling down on it all! But yonder is a blot on the scene—a iilte cityjof grass huts—refugees from the drowned villages. Everything 'hey possess is destroyed—which to begin with was very l.t le—their crops ruined, no food and no hope for any fur another year. How many people are in this frightful condition? You start at the mouth of this river and travel up on a swift steamer for perhaps a week, passing through a valley from ten to thirty miles wide, for the most part rich and a few weeks ago filled with a population such as only China can produce— tens of thousands of villages, hun dreds of thousands o p30ple! Wh , it is said ten thousand people wetu drowned up at one place near the river! Now this whole valley has been covered with water for more than two weeks. At Chinkiang tne water came up into the streets, and some of the warehouses bad to move their merchandise. The water has risen about forty feet in some places from low level. I climbed a hill and looked down at a flooded district. The water was all in the bouses from one to four or five feet deep. One mem ber of a household, I could see was sitting with his feet doubled up under him in the middle of water and deso lation. One man was trying to deal with a refractory pig, which didn’t like the water. One family, with bedding, were wading about waist deep along the road, going home probably. As I write I raise my eyes and look out of my cabin window and s^e a whole village standing in the water. One house looks as if the water were up to the eaves. I have heard several natives repeat the word “famine.” When I read of the floods and storm destroyed cities in America and how Christian symoatby quickly sends relief. I can feel the contrast with this heathen land. In the first place, no one makes much effort to make public the terrible condition of the flooded valley, and in the,next place there is not much pity or plan of relief in a heathen mind. I heard that in one place the Chinese had sent bread to those who were driven from their homes. But there is no organized relief which can set them on their feet again. It is this kind of desperate situation which produces robbers rioters and boxers. Down south of Chinkiang some thirty miles is, found traces of coal. A mine could be opened; thousands of people regularly employed, and money brougnt into the country. But tbe mandarins are too selfish and superstitious to do anything. China’s condition.in general is very bad now. The rulers have only yield ed to the hand of necessity. There is nu heart in this peace making. They have lost force, lost money, lost pres tige and tens of thousands of lives, besides having their country and government disorganized; and adding to their other ills the menace and burden of a standing army of foreign ers on their own soil. The atmosphere is not clear at all. The daily Shanghai paper even goes so far as to hint that there may he an outbreak compared to which last year’s affair would be child’s play. On the other hand some Chinese are friendly and missionary news is encouraging. Telegrams from the state wnere so many were killed b u g for missionuries to return, as many as can. Hunan has been opened to mission work, a state hitherto closed The Chinese are everywhere reported friendly to missionaries. It was my good fortune to baptize four last Monday—the first I have baptized in China. One of them came about fiftv miles on purpose to be baptized Others are seeking the Way. I have been preaching nearly every day all tbe summer ti’l this week. W. E. Crocker. HICKORY HAPPENINGS. Dentil of n Little Boy —School* In Full HIn*t, ami Other New*. Correspondence of Tne Ledger.) Hickory Grove, Sept. 24—Fred die I, son of W. J. and Anr in Moor head, departed this life on Saturday last, aged 3 years, two months and twenty-ooe days. He was a bright little fellow and the idol of the house hold, and he was loved by all who knew him. Soon his race was run; short was his stay on earth; yet long enough to ta»te of the bitters of earthly life; long enough for his lit tle life to leave its impression upon the hearts of his parents. "A little while on earth he spent, ’Til Uml tor him an angel sent.” The graded scnool is in full bits’, numbering eighty scholars. Mr. Sam Latham is principal and Miss Ivu Brown, of Rock Hill, is assistant. The prospects are very encourag ing for u bn; increase in students. Our townsman, J. R Myrtin, has several contracts for building houses at Rock Hill J. B is a mover; you can’t keep him down. Solomon says; ‘ Seest thou a man diligent in his bufiuess, he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” The brick yard and saw mills are busy. There is purely something ahead, and we will find it out later Oi'. There has been no to ton on tie market here up to this time. Mr. John D. Whiteside is buildh g a gin house here and will be ready m a few days to commence work. The Orphanage is getting on nicely. There are fourteen inmates, male and female. Ran A Certain Cure for Dyaeutery and Diar rhoea. “Some years ago I was one of a party that intended making a long bicycle trip,” says F. L Tayler, of New Albany, Bradford County. Pa. “I was taken suddenly with diar rhoea, and was about to give up the trio, when Editor Ward, of Laceyviile Messenger, suggested that I take a dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy. I pur chased a bottle and took two doses, one before starting and one on the route. I made the trip successfully and never felt an ill effect. Again last summer I was almost completely run down with an attack of dysen tery. I bought a bottle of this same remedy and this time one dose cured me.” Sold by the Cherokee Drug Company. If the average girl knew which side of her bread tbe butter was on she would shorten her matrimonial ca reer by prolonging her courtship. After the bottle has been used, rinse it thoroughly in warm water, then fill with warm water containing a teaspoonful of Gold Dust Washing Powder, and let it stand, shaking every now and then. If rubber tube is used, let it remain also in the wa ter. Rinse through several clean waters. Gold Dust is much more ef fective than soap to clean them, as it removes all specks and motes cling ing to the sides of the bottles. Love, like lightning, seldom strikes twic ein the same place. That’s why widows usually marry for money tbe second time. Geo. W. Lane. Pewarao, Mich., writes: “Your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the best remedy for indigestion and stomach trouble that I ever n^ed. For years I suffered from dyspepsia, at times compelling me to stay in bed and causing me untold agony. I am completely cured by Kodol Dys pepsia Cure. In recommen ling it to friends who suffer from indigestion I always offer to puy for it if it falls Thus far I have never paid.” Chero kee Drug Co. A man’s declaration that a woman is bis first love should be read like a Chinese book—the last page first. Norris Silver, North Stratford, N. H.: *1 purchased a bottle of One Min ute Cough Cure when suffering with a cough doctors told me was in curable. One bottle relieved me, the the second and third almost cured. Today I am a well man ” Cherokee Drug Co. When a man is hunting for some thing in the dark he is apt to find a lot of things he isn’t looking for. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Brorno (Quinine Tab lets All druggists refund the money if it fails to nure. E W Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS, Intereftting Item* Concernlm; Our Nelch- l>or* Beyond the Line Which May I’rove Fntertaln ng Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. There is living in Caswell county a lady who has a horn growing out of the back part of her head. It is about five inches long and curves down toward the back of her neck. It is loose and shakes as she walks. The woman is about 74 years old and is quite active and lively. She is not sensitive over the unusual growth on her head. Bud White, the negro who gave Officers Pitts and Summerrow of Charlotte, such an awful tustle on East First street some time ago, is in the toils. He was arrested in Sharon township Tuesday morning by Con stable W. H McGinn and was carried immediately before Recorder Sbau- nonhnuse on his arrival in Charlotte. A hearing of the case was arranged and White now rests securely in the county jail. Policemen Pratt and Martin of Twin City, made a successful raid on a blockade dive at that place about five o'clock Sunday afternoon. The officers visited the place conducted by Florence Scales and a (search revealed 150 bottles of beer, one jug and a half-gallon bottle containing mean whiskey, jq addition, Floreoce a large supply of ‘‘soft g66d^!.• ,, The policemen did not interfere with the latter however. The woman put up $25 in* cash for her appearance before tbe mayor. Governor Aycock Wednesday of fered a reward of $200 for Victor Hilliard, who is a •'chroDio horse thief.” Hilliard has been in the habit of hiring horses to drive out in the country, and then selling them to a farmer in some out-of-the-way section which could not easily be reached by telegraph. He hired a horse from Mayor R. J. Southerland, of Henderson, and sold him to a farmer in an adjoining county. Mr. Southerland offers $25 reward him self, and the Governor offers $200. Three shooting scrapes occurred at Gold Hill, near Salisbury, Sunday night, one of them of a very serious character. John Terry, a negro man of bad repute, was shot twice from ambush. He stated at first that he had no idea who shot him. Later, with two bullets in him, he made an ante-mortem statement, believing that he would die, in which he said that he had been shot by John Cot ton. There has heretofore been trouble between Cotton and Terry on account of the intimacy of the latter with Cotton’s wife. It is believed Terry will recover. A serious accident occurred in Charlotte Wednesday morning by which a little negro boy named Miller lost three fingers and a part of his thumb as a result of being run over b> an electric car, whose approach was not seen by tne boy. He decided to get out from the rear of the sprinkler and started towards the street car track. He was struck by an approaching car and knocked to the ground falling partially in front of the wooden fender just ahead of the wheels. This fender perhaps saved the boy’s life as bis body was shoved off the track and out of danger. Tbe largest single item of tax col lection ever made in Buncombe coun ty was made Monday. Geo. Vanderbilt gave the county tax collecter a check for $12 000, being the amount of his taxu» in Buncombe county for the year 1901 Mr. Vanderbilt has now under construction thirteen more residence buildings in Biltmore vil lage. Five weeks from now he will leave Biltmore with his wife and child f"r bis Fifth avenue home in New Yora, where he will probably spend the winter unless be should decide to visit Tacoma, Wash., wnere be owns the leading bank, much other real estate and a magnificent residence. « Walter Rice, a young negro of Grover, att-mpted to board No 12 north bound passenger about a mile south of King’s Mountain Saturday afternoon ai 5 o’clock As the train was making thiity miles an hour, he failed to get on of course at that speed, and was knocked headlong to (he ground He was taken up and carried to King’s Mountain, where he died Sunday of his injuries. He was injuiiedm tbe head and probably iniernaliy. Rice gave as his excuse for leaving his h m« which w.i» 1 • the country near Grover, that the colored people w^re having a hig association not far from nis home, and not having clothes suitable to wear, did not want to see the other people pass by his home creating s desire to go also. Judge W. S. O’B. Robinson of Raleigh, has declined to grant the mandamus prayed for by Mr. H. 8. Ward, as attorney, against the North Carolina Corporation Commission, to force them tc reassess railroad prop erty in the State for taxation, io- creftsing tbe valuation of the property from $42,000,00 to $l^,QQQOOO^. And Mr. Ward has servrd notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. Judge Robinson announed his decision when he convened the Wake Superior Court for the day’s session Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. It .was, however, not until later in tbe day that he signed the order declining the mandamus. Sam Grier, the mascot at the Char lotte cotton platform, died Wednes day morning at 3 o’clock after aa illness of several weeks. Sam was probably known by more people in Mecklenburg county than any one negro H^ find been at the platform since .1883 and always conducted himself in a manner that gained the respect of both white and black. There was never a time that Sam failed to do his duty to those over bim He was honest, industrious and humble He knew his place and always could be found there Those in charge of the platform will see that Sam’s body is given a decent burial. He died without much of this world’s goods but he leaves be hind a name that stood for honesty and uprightness. Maj. Joe Morehead of Greensboro has in his possession a smooth-bore, hint and steel buck gun, five feet eleven inches in length and whole ^ itooked—that is the stock rnns/fjf. the muzzle, Tbig w&j the property of Caleb Crews, of Granville county, and used by him at the battle of Guilford Court House in 1781 Ho also has a powder horn of that period and a buckskin shot bag also used in, the battle, all now the property of tbe Guilford Battle Ground Museom* a presentation of pitriptjQ d»nbs. The major is having pictures^ of these taken to aid Mr. Mullins, of Ohio, in the manufacture of a statute true to life of a North Carolina mill- kiaman of 1771—-the pioneer of American liberty who at that date set the Revolutionary ball in motion. The police of Greensboro Tuesday afternoon arrestea and locked up I>. L. Carrawin, a white man who has been boarding at the Wood House in that place for some few we^ks, on n charge of the larceny of $100 front Policeman Barnes, who boards at the same place. The story the poliee tell is that some time ago Carrawin forged a note on one of tbe bank*, was overtaken and with bis father gave a note for the amount. Tbo note was due Tuesday and when Car- rawin went in to pay it an officer nabbed bim. It was for $100 and Officer Barnes says it was his money he was using to pay it with. Barnes* trunk was broken open and tb« money abstracted some time Tues day. He says he bad some of tbe bills marked and knows what he Is talking about. All the money, with the exception of a $5 bill, was re covered Cure* KheumatIhiii or Catarrh through tlMB Blood Conts—Nothing to Try. Would you like to get rid of that chronic rheumatism or offensirra catarrh forever? Then take a bottle af Botanic Blood Balm which has cared thousands of hopeless cases that bad resisted doctors and patent medicia* treatment. Botanic Blood Balm (B. 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