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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Ntvsfape in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. r fhe Ledger SEMI-WESELY—PUBLIC HED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Rel.abilitv of Every Adv;r. tiser Whn TT«;es 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. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C. TUESDAY OCTOBEK 15, 1901. SI.50 A YEABj THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Event* tlmt Have Taken Flare from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for yulok Heading by Scores of Bu»y People. The State Fair prospects are good, many entries have been made. The South Carolina conference meets in Columbia in November. A coffin factory of fifty coffins a day has been started at Camden. The police in Charleston are going for the blind tigers. They are show ing them no mercy. It is now $50 00 or 30 days. Will Floyd, the father of John Floyd, who recently killed Joe Vaughn near Jonesville. has been ar rested and placed^ in jail at Union, cnarged with being an accessory to the murder. Corn whisky at the rate of many gaiions a day is being turned out now from the big still established in Col umbia. The Kershaw Era suggests facetiously that this will add length tothestride and momentum to the step “in the direction of prohibit ion." Mr. F. C. Black, engineer, has lo cated the lines and levels for the Cedar Sptings Institute, and con tractor George Waring, of Columbia has begun the work of erecting the same. This building will be a struc ture 62*178 feet, three stories, of brick, and will cost $20 000 Senator B R Tillman has gone West on a lecturing tour. Senator Tillman’s lecture itinerary will em brace the states of Kansas, Nebraska and Oaklahoma. Some of his sub- jecte are, ‘The Race. (Question,” “The South Carolina Dispensary Law” ami The State Control of the Liquor Traffic.” The contract for building a ten thousand spindle cotton mill for Newberry lias been awarded uod the and the work is to go on at once. Newberry already has one of the fin est mills in the Stale, and she is to be congratulated upon "hustling ’ up another ^'ewberry is fast beeom it;g a centre for manufacturing indus tries of various kinds. The Edgefield Chronicle says: There is some talk that Governor McSweeney will make the race again for governor, and there is no doubt about the fact he is being strongly urged to do so, and frequent letters have been rece.ived by Imn from his political friends advising him that his administration has been so suc cessful that he ought to make the race at all events. Governor McSweeney has refused to grant the application for the par don of Joe Feebles, of Hampton county, who was convicted of larceny. The application for the pardon of Harry Copeland, Gadsden Abraham and Jeff Thomas, all of Florence county, who were convicted in 18'Jf). have been refused. Judge Aldrich wrote that he saw no just grounds for the granting of the pardon. The grand jury of Spartanburg county has reported a true bill against ; C. P. Sims, an attorney, for violation ' of the dispensaey law. The warrant was sworn out by one of the consta bles two or three weeks ago. He is charged with selling through an agency, transporting and storing whiskey. Sims says it is a 'alse charge, brought by some of his ene mies, and that be will come out all right. Two young men, Baker Gasq .e and Cottingham, thought they would have a little fun Thursday night near Gallavon, at the expense of a ' skeery’’ darky. The negro took the joke ser iously and fired into the party, the load of bird shot taking effect in young Gasque’s face, neck and chest. Dr. StacKhouse was called and found the young man seriously hurt. The loss of one eye is regarded as inevita ble and perhaps of the other also. Gasque is a steady, sober, industri ous young man. Policemen Wetzel, of Charleston, while struggling with a negro named William Jackson, whom he was try ing to place under arrest Thursday afternoon at King street and Rogers alley allowed his pistol to slip out of pocket and strike the ground. The weapon was discharged once, the bul let lodging in the policeman’s leg. The wound was a slight one. Jack- son was landed behind the bars. The prisoner escaped from the police sev eral days ago while in a patrol wagon en route to the station house. Mr. W. J. Farmer was found guilty in the Florauce city court Friday of violating the health ordinance by re- ! fusing to be vaccinattd, and was find $5 or five days imprisonment. Mr. Clayton, his attorney, immed iately served notice of appeal, and will have the case ready for court here next week. Mr Clayton pro poses to have the validity of compul sory vaccination, thoroughly tested, and in case the circuit court does not raverse the decision, will carry the case to the supreme court. The case is an interesting one. inasmuch as it is the first time the vaccination law has been in a South Carolina court. The Greenwood Journal says: Af ter nearly twenty years an elegant monument has been erected at Mart Gary’s grave in the old Tabernacle cemetery, six miles north of Green wood. The inscription on the west side of the monument gives his name, birth and death : “M W. Gary. March H) 1831; April 9 1881” On thu e»st side are the names of the battles he fought for his country in the war be tween the States 26 in number. On the south side is inscribed the rank of the soldier in the following man ner: C 8. A. Captain; Leutenaot Colonel; Colonel; Brigadier General; Major General ’’ On the north side is: “Jurist, Patriot; Hero, States man.” SADLER-STEVENSON. LOWEO CHEROKEE LOCAL CULLIHGS. Hard to Find Something to Write. GOOD TIMES AT MEMPHIS. Marriage of Two Popular People Tliur.mlay Evening. The Rock Hill correspondent of the Columbia State under date o' the 11th has the following to say of the Sadler-Stevonson nuptials: “A brilliant marriage was that which took place in the First Presby terian church last evening at 7 o’clock. Miss Mary Crawford Sadler, eldest daughter of Mr. Rufus E. Sad ler of this city, and Mr. D Calvin Stevenson, of Gaffney, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, Dr. J. Lowrie Wilson, of Abbeville, officiat ing, The church was exquisitely dressed in a profusion of palms and cut flowers and candles Miss Mar garet Roach presided at the organ and was accompanied with violin by Mr. Edgar E Poag. “The ushers were Messrs. Hewood Moore, Capt Hubert Dunlap, Dolph Friedheim and Theodore Moore. “The attendant* w^ re Mi«s*-s Oor- rie Mobley anH Mr. Jim Beckham, Christine Ruff and Mr Maurice Cobb Rachel Ruff and Mr. Blackburn Wil son Carrie Adams and Mr. Joel Raw- linson. “The little ribbon girls were H< len Elliott O’Neal. Mary Hope (haw ford. Isabel Straite aod Mary Rodd^v! * “The bride, who was strikingly handsome in a beautiful white organ die gown en train and carrying white carnations, came in with her sister, Miss Lillie Earl Sadler. The groom entered with his best man. Mr. W. Speight Adams. “The maido wore white organdie and carried pink La France roses “After the ceremony the party was driven to the station where the happy couple took the train for their future home in Gaffney There were loads of rice on hand.” [Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson are stop ping wdth Mrs. R S. Lipscomb, on Frederick street ] Southern Freight Ottl<-« Improvement*. To those who have been accus tomed to visit the freight office of the Southern railway at this place for the transaction of business there has been a transmutation, and the once dingy little hole in wnieh dweller) the efficient agent Capt. R. M. Gaffney and his genial assistant, Cally Hollis, bus been transformed into a cozy and well appointed f ffice. The change is due to Supt W. B. Ryder, who has charge of this division. It was a nice thing for Mr. Rvder to do and the business people of this place who are compelled to go there will be as grateful to him for this thoughtful ness as will the local railway officials. Now to make the thing complete will Mr. Ryder help Gaffney to get what she deserves, a better passenger waiting room. Col. Tripp to Develop a Summer Reeort. Col. A. Tripp, of Blacksburg, was in Columbia Friday arranging to con duct a party of Columbians on a trip to the mountains of Western North Carolina where Col. Tripp pro poses 10 have a summer colony on the line of the South Carolina and Georgia Extension, of which Col. Tripp is superintendent. The party will travel in his private car “Ball Alley” and other quiet, restful and beautiful retreats are located amot>g the mountains along thi* road which stops at Marion N. C., 30 mills from Asheville. Cotton M i.V Gaffney is paying more for cotton than any city in the State. <>ur streets are crowded with wagons every day and the fl uy staple is going like hot cakes at 8 15 The Gaffney Man- ufactur ng Company alone, bought 260 bates uu last Saturday. In Order to A**i*t the Uninitiated the “Kerner’ Give* Some Kemlnl*cen<-e* of 111* Trip to the Old Soldier*’ Reunion— Personal Paragraph*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane. Oct. 12—For a corres pondent to try to write a letter for his county paper when he has noth ing to write about is like a woman trying to get a meal’s victuals with only a broom and dish-rag. Of course we could give a detail of the neigh borhood gossip, but, that would be come stale and monotonous with our readers. We try to gather something that will interest our readers and ask those we fail to interest to please ex cuse us. By the way we visited Gaffney the first week of court and were much pleased to see the improvement in the court room. Our court house would be a credit to any county in the State. There isn’t a better arranged build ing for the purpose non h of Colum bia that we know of. Bully for our new county. We hear of a number of old Confed erate veterans who expect to attend the reunion at Dallas, Texas, next year. In order to help the uninitiated to better understand the pleasures of such an occasion will give them, wo will relate an incident of the Mem phis rriinion, which it will always be a pleasure for us to remember. About the close of the festivities we had a perfect “love feast” in the parlor of our home in the city unci were joined by several of our comrades Our host, and hostess did all in their power to make the occasion a joyful one to all present. It was a reunion in fact as well as name. The beautiful par lors were nicely d*corated. Pictures of most of the Confederate generals hung upon the wall, and conspicuous among them were those of Lee, Jack son, A. P. Hill. Stuart, Forrest, Al bert Sydney Johnson, .1 E. Johnson. Bragg. B« auregard etc. etc. In the hallwav on the portico, and in al most every room including the du ing hall tiling Confederate flags in grace ful style and abundance. Kentucky. Tennessee Maryland. Virginia. Geor gia South Carolina, Texas and Ar kansas were represented. In the party wa* private John W Tucker, of K- ntneky. who lost both of hi- arms at Forr Donnelson, and ( ol. D.-Bass, of Forrest’s cavalry. 7th Tennessee. He is a veritable Jeb” Stuart—can pick a banjo guitar or autoharp. and play a violin to perfection! He sung “Cheer, boys, ch-er,” a favorite song with F-Tresr’s troopers. We had other music—both vocal and instru mental. Many ladies were in the parlor and enjoyed the meeting In fact several of :hem took part in it Some of them were girls of the six ties who hadn’t forgot the stirring times, neither had they failed to teach their daughters about them. A resolution of thanks was unani mously voted our host and hostess for their kindness to us. and those of us who live to attend the reunion at Dallas. T-xas, next year unanimously agreed to stop over on our return and spend a day in Memphi* with the family of our kind host and hostess. Before final adjournment, however, a young lady. Mis« Sadie Everette. of Bowling Green. Ky., took her seat at the piano and with the assistance of several young ladies and a few of the “girls ot the Sixties.” sung and played ‘The Homespun Dress” to the tune of “Bonn-e Buie Flag.” As soon as she finished Miss Julia Mc Donald of Memphis, too a her seat at the instrument and played and sung that soul-inspiring Confederate dox- ology: Soon, our comrades gone before us to their iMimp beyond the skies. Shall with lis their tents, bv glory guarded, sha'e; We shall be with them and slumber, watched by sleeph-ss angels eyes, TUI we’re waked to answer roll call over there. CHORUS. When the roll is called up yonder. When the ro 1 Is called up yonder, When the roll Is called up yonder, When the roll is called up yonder We’ll la* there. Not wit h shouts and hearts exulting as in days *orever gone. Hush we on to where the battle banners Hare; Hut with footsteps slow and weary and in silence, one bv one. When the signal •sounds will gather over there —CHORUS. Oh, my comrade*, oh. my brothers, by the sacit-d days of yore. And I he ashes of our heroes let us swear That our ImuiiIs of love shall bind us soul to soul forevermore. And when the roll is vailed up yonder we’ll be there, ciiorcs. L *as si'it pi v grand. After this cHch h'd the other good-bye »nd with beat wishes for our hosts «nd their lumily all turned their laces home ward full of praises of Memphis ar d j the Confederate reunion And we i must say here that our hostess put us more in mind of Mrs. Elmiuer Lipscomb than anv one we have ever seen. Capus Scott and William Estis will bear me out in this assertion. Thev all knew Mrs. Lipscomb as a noble good woman. Bam Lee has made us some good molasses. Though the cane is not so good as it was last year we think the yield is fully as good. Our people are much pleased at the prospect of getting a free ferry at Howell’s. Mrs. S. F. Estes has a very sore hn- ger. Col. John C. Carrey, president of Lockhart Mills, was elected modera tor of Enoree presbytery at its ses sion in Greenville last week and pre sided with the dignity of a veteran parliamentarian. We learn that Mr. Perry Hill has been elected superintendent, of the county farm and will take charge of it next January. We are pleased to know that our county commissioners have made ap plication to have the three blind children of Mr. William Sprouse sent to the Cedar Springs Institution where they will receive an education. This is a commendable work on the parr of the county board and we hope they will succeed in it. Of the importance of education the public generally, we fear, have a very inadequate idea More than twenty- five years ago we heard T N Little john. E-q , one of our largest fax payers, say that he was willing to pay any reasonable amount of taxes on i is property to help to educate his poor neighbors’ children. It would enchance its value, bethought, much more than it would cost hire. He considered it a good investment and so it is. We have fine weather for Nron work and people are making good Use of it The announcement ha* been made that Rev. Mr Potter will preach at. Salem on the first Sabbath in No vember. Large quantiti* s of wheat and oats will in all probability be sown this fall and wnter and farmers will try to have plenty of feed early next spring. Some claim that wheat cut and fed in the dough state is as good or barter for stock than oats J L s Thornwell oyphunuKe. The Tboruweil Orphanage at Clin ton now has two hundred clnldr n under its sheltering roof and finds it- seif in need of many things that art nquisimto keep these unfortunate little ones In comfort and the sfu'e of advancement they are entitled to To know this is enough t-» Sfcure .'imple supplies for this time honored institution which has done so much r’or unfortunates in the past For ward your contributions at once, so they can supply the present pressing demands. Send checks or money or d'-rs to Dr. W P. Jacobs. Clinton, S. C. Ask your railway authorities for free transport ation. Took *‘Uh«-Ip’’ Ike Snipe llinitiiiK. S. E. Case, of Thickety. paid The Ledger a visit Saturday. Mr Case is a great sportsman and enjoys many hunts and fishings with bis neigh bors. He recently had our friend “Uncle” Ike Smith with him on a po - sum hunt Mr Case became worried about 11 o’clock p. m., and went home leaving our friend “Uncle ’ I e holding the sack in a snipe hunt, which he continued to do until about 4 i m . when he gave up the sport. “Uncle” lae is a hunter himself. Cherokee Must Act. When will our people realize the importance of Cherokee having an exhibit at the Inter-State and West India Exposition at CbarUstou We call on our women, our business men, and when we say our business men we include farmers, bankers, manu facturers. lawyers, miners, mtrehanrs and every one who works, to go to work for a county exhibit at Charles ton. We urge them to go at it at once and show Cherokee to the world in all her splendor. Magistrate’* Court. Hattie Young, Francis Hale and Rufus Lander were before Magistrate Hall yesterday charged with stealing forty dollars from Wra Thomas. The defeodents were represented bv A. J. Willis and J. 0. Offs and the State by T B Butler The case was hotly contested on both sides. Hattie Young was committed to jail in de fault of a five hundred dollar bond to await trial at the next term of court and Hale and Lander were dis charged. A New SuperiuteiulHiit. Perry Hill a prosperous young farmer was elected at the last meet ing of the boaM of county commis sioners as Superintendent of the county home Mr. Hill is in every way competant and worthy and will assuro- his dutir'H on the 1st of Jan uary 1902. Mr. Hill succeeds Mr. Albert Harman, who has done good ! and appreciated work for »he Home 1 hut now wishes to get back tu his farm. THROOGHOOT THE TAB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. InUireHting Item* Concerning Our N’eigh- t>or* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. 8am Harvey, a cigar maker of Greensboro city, stepped in front of a shifting engine in the Southern yards Thursday and was instantly killed. He was intoxicated and had been taken off the track once. The Wiscasset Mills Co., of Albe marle, has completed the $2000 school building which it has been erecting This *chool is to be equip ped and officered for instructing the children of the mills operatives. The Durham Hosiery Mills states that it will remove to its new plant about November 1. With the 100 new machines to he added the plai r will have a daily output of about 1200 dozen seamless hose and half-hose. The R.-v Hay Watson Smith, of North Carolina, has received a call to tlie pulpit of the Paraville Congrega tional church in Brooklyn which has been vacant since the resignation of Rt-v. M. P. Welcher a few months ugo. A letter from Henderson, says: “Our to.vn is humming with various new enterprises. The cotton mills, the knitting mill, the buggy factory, the ice factory and lanudry make things lively, and all do a very good business. Asheville will immediately have hello connections with the outside world, the Southern Bell Telephone Company having just completed a long distance line to Spartanburg, which will be connected with the longdistance wires of the American Company. The Albemarle Furniture Co. has let the contract for the erection of their furniture factory to 1) P. How ard and WDrk began Monday. The mam building will be two stories high, 50x80 feet, with additional engine room. etc. There will also be another building the same ? ze to be used for a finishing room and storage warehouse. Mr. John Walton, son of Mr Peter kValton, of Wojdside. was held up oetween Salisbury and Woodside at the point of a istol. Mr Walton wa;- returning home when two men who appeared to he peddlers met him ana pointed their pistols at him ar the -ame time demanding his money. Mr. Walton had only 25 cents in his p 'Ckets and this he readily surren dered. Mr. G. W. Davis, of F» yetfeville has just completed a craft unique in steamboat navigationg—i lie ’ Cnrap- beliton Star,” constructed chiefly of driftwood, from the immense quan tities floated down the Cape Fear during rhe high water in summer. It is 35 feet in length by 7 in breadth, and carries a 6 horse-power engine. Mr Davis will ply the river for local freight. A corps of surveyors is at work on the line of the Aberdeen Railroad, seven miles south of Fayetteville. Two terminal points are in view Fayetteville and the mouth of Big Rockfish creek on the Cape Fear. A branch four miles lone will be built between Hope Mills and Bone Creek. Through a seciion ofL-riog great sup plies of timber. The president of the road, Mr. John Blue, has let our the contract »'or the construction of the convict stockade. Miss Bettie Caldwell has been elec ted librarian oi the Greensboro public library, which has just been estab lished. A few years ago there was not a single public library in the State. Now Raleigh Durham. Char lotte, Asheville. Greensboro, and several others have excellent ones, as good as can be found in most small cities. The Stare has paid out the money for some 110 school libraries and some fifty more have been estab lished through private munificence. Most of this has been accomplished in a single year. • Deputy Collector 8. P. Satterfield and a party of raiders destroyed two sowpaw disnllery outfits mar South Lowell 13 mile;- nonh of Durham Friday afternoon. They were the largest moonshine plants ever cap tured in tha? county in one day. Both had copper stills of 125 and 150 | gallons capacity. lo addition to 'he destruction of tlie distilleries 4 (Xm.i gallons of beer and 250 gallons of singlins were desfr >yed Both stills were in operation when the revenue officers made the raid, hut the opera tors escaped They had been run ning 60 •a 90 di«j s. The new iron bridge across the S.u f h Fork river was completed Thursday at which time the county commissioners met to inspect the bridge. They found that the work was not only defective in the trestle approaches to the bridge, but that the bridge was two feet low-r than the specifications called for, and the commissioners refused to accept it. The company having the contract will close the bridge until the matter is adjusted, and this action will cause great inconvenience to the citizens of that part of the county, as the old bridge was was washed away some time ago. A homicide occurred at Duno’s Mountain, four miles east of Salis bury. at 7 o’clock Saturday night, in which the slayer was a white man and the victim a negro. The l.’agedy took place on the road that runs along the side of the mountain, Jim Earnharflt, a young white man, who was taking a spin on a biejele, got into an altercation with the defeased, said to have been started by the lat ter cursing him. The negro was unquestionably drunk and in a vicious mood. Earnhardt stopped and a moment later a buggy contain ing four of his friends drove up and they took a hand in the matter. The negro cursed the whole party in the worst terms and, going tu an adjoin ing nouse came bacR with a pistol in one hand and a rock in the other, saying that they would have to swal low what he had said. He pointed the pistol at William Gleen, one of the party, who had picked up a rock. As he did so. Gleen threw the rock, striking him just above the-ar and killing him instantly. The deceased, Lee Miller by name, was one of a tough cla** of nauroes employed in the granite quarries. At The 1'reHhyterian Church. The services at the Presbyterian church Sunday w<-re of an unuauaily interesting character. In the mor ning Mrs. Westrope sang with beautiful effect “Angels ever bright and fair.’ In the evening Mr. Pot ter continued his studies of Biblecal characters, taking Matthew for his theme and preached a magnificent s-rmon. Mrs. Westrope and Mr. DuPre sang as the evening hymn ^ee, D.y. gut is Failing.” The rendition wh> simply beautiful and Die sermon and singing was t*’e sub- jest of a good deal of comment by i nose who were present. He Cut t he Sheri IT. Sheriff \\ W. f'bomas has been troubled some time with a cy*t on the back (if hi* neck and last Friday night lie and Dr. Uharlev J- IT* ries got into a (impute and the doctor just inserted his knife inti* i he sheriff s necK and removed the incumbrance. For about an hour the doctor whit tled around the cy*t and after he finished the sheriff walked over to the Delmonico and helped himself to an oys'er stew, and while he suffered a little from his contact with the loctor and his knife it did not seem to interfere with his apoetite for oysters in the least. •■Married for Money’* at knlMiri;. At the opera house at Blacksburg on next Friday evening Mr. Jack Core and Miss Fay Carlisle, assisted by an excellent supporting company of players will pre-eut that roaring comedy “Married for Money,” The play will be enterspersed with high class specialties. , Mr. U A. Osborne is the manager of amusements for the Iron City and he makes an earnest effort t * secure the best to be had, ther. fore he should receive a liberal patronage. Run Oxer by » IIiikk)’• Grady Canby, the seven-year old a son of Mr. John Canby, was run over yesterday by a careless negro driving a buggy. Toe little boy was carried ro tbe Cherokee drug store where it was found that he wa* painfully hurt on the head and leg. His wounds were carefully dressed by Dr. Humph ries and are not considered serious. The driver was tried before Mayor Littlejohn this morning. Call Accepted. We learn that the Rev. Mr Boae- man, of Yorkville. has accepted a call to the pastorate of Cheioxee Avenue Baptist church. Mr Boseman ia well known in Guffney where he baa many friends who are pleas* d at the prospect of having his services and him and his family her- among us. Mayor’* Court. The mayor’s cour wu* a tame af fair yesterday morning. Only one offender wa* at the bar of just ice, but he being a rather fr*qu» hi one, got the privilege of tiv- or t weni v-aeven, and not being a stickler aboui small matter.* look the twent \-** ven MrctioK of quarterly < onfercoee Pri silting Kioer W K Meadors will hold *h** regular quarterly con ference i" the Methodist Episcopal chu r <’h Sunday school room n* xt Wednesday -ught a' Sn’clnck. Prayer meeting will be he'd at 7 o clock p. m.