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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any NiVipipj in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE Phe Kei.ability nf Fvery Adver tiser VVno 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. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. HAFFNEY. 8. C. TUESDa*, NOVEMBER f>, 190* 81.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE ' PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Events that Have Taken 1’lace from One End of the State to the Other Culled from ExchanjceH for ^uick Heading by Retires of Unity People. At a negro ball three miles from Williamston the negroes held a “fes- tihule and cake walk ” A number were shot and razired during the night. None were killed, but six were ki.ocked*out. Deputy Sheriif Earle Calvin, of Cluster, was in Rock Hill on Monday night searching for Dan Caldwell, a negro wanted in Chester for assault and battery with intent to kill upon another negro. Caldwell had been arrested by deputy J. F. Wingate. A snake was killed recently in Newberry county which had swal lowed a white door knob. It is sup posed that the snake took the knob to be an egg. The knob was partly encysted, snowing it had been swal lowed by the snake some time ago. Anderson Chisolm, a plumber, while assisting to place a filter on a Wiothrop C oLge sewer pipe in Rock Hill on Tu<siay. was acci dentally struck on the head by a fellow workman and painfully, and it was at first thought seriously wounded. He was attended by Dr. Stevens. Col. N. H. Davis died in Green ville on the 27th ult., in his 82 id year. He was a native of Fairfi-ld county, went to California in 1841), was secretary to his brother. James Davis, who was minister to Turkey. He was on Hampton’s stall during the war between the States and was a gallant uHLer. Contractors A. and C. Wright have thiowu up their contract with the Catawba Rower Company, near Rock Hdl and the work of building the dam is going on under the direction of V c- Prebident W. Harry Wylie, who has been on the ground from the beginning The heavy rains of la*-t Humm r so repeatedly and frequently flood d the base of operations that the contractors have lost consider- ablv Their loss is said to be about $85 000. Chamberlain Smith,one of the hands employed by the Darlington Brick Company at Society Hill, a respecta ble young colored man, made a start ling discovery while eating his dinner ifrom a-tin bucket. After swallowing a few mouthfuls he noticed fine shivars of glass mixed in the food. Smith at once sougUt a doctor, believing he had swallowed some of the glass. No serious effects have been reported. The author of the crime has not yet been apprehended. Attorney General Bellinger is soon to go to Richmond where he is to appear beforS Judge Goff of the United States court of appeals. It will be remembered that last week Judge Simontou was to have heard the argument in the tax case of the Cheraw and Darlington railroad com pany, but that he was unable to do so owing to the fact that he was dis qualified by reason of having at one time been counsel for the railroad company in an original case on the subj-ct. It was then thought that Judge Brawley would hear the mat ter, but now it has been determined • to have Judge Goff consider it. The hearing is to take place in Richmond on Nov. 18. Possessed of unusual Doldness and daring, a thief entered the office of Messenger of Council R. G. O’Neale in the City Hall in Charleston several days a?o and robbed his desks’of a large number of stamps and the office of several year books, dating hack for several years Some of the books are very valuable and can not be re placed. The robbery was committed in broad daylight and for boldness \ and daring is unprecedented It is a I mystery how the thief entered the building, looted the office and escaped without being discovered. The year books which were ^stolen contain many valued records and the fact that some of them cannot be replaced makes the loss doubly great. Why the thief should have stolen the books, which have no intrinsic value, cannot, he explained. It is authoritatively stated that the huge timber dock at the Port Royal naval station will in the near future, be transformed into a basin for the reception of four and possibly six torpedo boats. Numerous pilings will be driven firmly into the ground around the upper edge of the dock and they will be utilized as moorings for the era ft, in the dock The hai-in will t>« Hooded and an outlet. aojiiHted iu such a manner that the rise and fall of the tide in the dock will be governed by the natural rise and fall in the river outside. It is not defi nitely known just when these impor tant alterations will be made or when the torpedo flotilla will be in these waters, but it is understood that the completed plans are in the hands of the chief of the bureau of navigation in Washington. Last Monday the Citadel academy in Charleston was in mourning News of the death of Cadet Lieut. Bath, ’02, was received by telegram Sunday night from Georgetown. Cadet Bath was taken sick imme diately upon his return to the Citadel this fall, but remained there until the surgeon thought it best to send him home. He was one of the brightest boys the school has pro duced. was a man of exceptionally fine qualities and a general favorite with everv one. The corps as a mark of their esteem for their fellow cadet sent a magnificent floral offering to be placed upon his grave. Cadet Bath was entered as a beneficiary cadet, from Georgetown in the fall of 98 and would have graduatedjwith distinction near the head of his class Out of respect to their late comrade, the superintendent had the flag placed at half-mast and ordered the corps to wear the usual emblem of mourning for a period of 30 days. Darlington had two tires Thursday, the first at the Darlington oil mill, and the second, which occurred after night, was at the freight depot of the At iariticjCoast Line. In both instan ces there was great damage done. The whole of the wooden part of the mill was destroyed together with a large lot of cotton in bales The wind was from the north. The gin and factory together with several out buildings were destroyed, including the office, though the books were rescued by employees. Trie fire star ted in one of the gins. There was a gallant fight made by firemen and emplovees to save the building but to no purpose. Ttiis mill is an indepen dent one under the management of Mr Robert K. Dargan. The fire at night was at the freight depot of the Atlantic Coast Line. It is a new building, having been put up recently to take the place of one destroyed by fire not a great while ago. The offi cers had just gone to supper when the fire was discovered. How it origi- nateo no one seems to know. CHEROKEE’S YEOMANRY. They Visit GafTney imU Tol«l Cheerfully of the Crop Outlook. The yeomanry of Cherokee came in Saturday. Every part of the county had its representatives. The tine weather of the past week had civen them line opportunities to work their farms and well have they been doing it Notwithstanding the short cot ton crop and low price, all were cheerful and talking about their farms and farm work. They reported work in ali lines on their farms as well advanced. They say the corn crop has been mostly gathered, and where the streams did not injure it fair crops have been made. The cotton crop is short and the larger portion of ii has been gathered and sold. Most farmers have sowed their crop of oats and rye and some have sowed wheat. The most, however, are still preparing lauds for that grain and waiting to get other crops off the land, which will make it necessary for wheat sowing to be continued through this mouth. They say while (xaflney is still paying the highest price tor cotton that they hear of, the recent de cline in the price of the staple can not be accounted for. They read up on the subject They say that they see that the estimated crop will not supply enougii for what the mills in this country and Europe t-ay they will need. They see that the demand for cotton goods is fair and prices good, and still cotton goes down. Their conclusions generally are, that no matter what the supple of cotton is. whether ttn-re is a 12 000 000 or a (J (MX* Of JO crop nor what price manu factured goods bring, that some where. by some means, some man or combination of men have effected an arrangement by which the man who produces cotton is not to be allowed to receive any more for the staple than it costs him to make it, if even so much If their conclusions be true the cotton planter cannot aspire to he more than a “hewer of wo >d and drawer of water’’ for the manufac turer, and should so diversify his crops as to bo independent of his cotton crop Make his farm a live- at-horoe farm, his cotton crop a surplus that he can sell or keep as he pleunes. Then, and not till then, will fie live without tieio^ under obliga tions to others, and be independent indeed. j—Dr R-' se a fainous optician of Baltimore, arrived in trie eny Mon day ami will be hi VV. ‘Hairy iLdeii- huff’s for one week. LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL COLLINGS. Farmers Blue Over Low Price of Cotton. GOOD CHEROKEE FARMER Mr. Heatty Morris Out AK«tn—Fine Hpecl- iiien of Vineless Potatoes—A New Haby— Slanderers and Tattlera—Personal and Local News. iCorresoondence of The Ledger.i Etta Jane, Nov. 2.—Some of our neighbors on the other side of the Broad went to see the show at York- ville last Thursday and they express themselves a& well satisfied with what they saw. As usual, on such occas ions, an immense crowd was present. Some of the colored people from this side went too. We don’t think some of them siept on Wednesday night at all. Our county superintendent of edu- caiion, Prof. W. F. McArthur, was in this section this week on official bus iness. We are glad to see our friend, Mr. Beatty Morris, is able to get about on his crutches. He was at G«ffney last Thursday with his little son sellinn cotton. Beatty is one of our best farmers and workers. He has a wife and several small children for whom he provides, notwithstanding his very great misfortune in getting his foot and ankle hopelessly crippled in a runaway scrape. Th»f present, low price of cotton has turned things rather blue in the eyes of the farmers. When he applies arithmetical rules to his business the farmer finds that on a haif crop of cotton for which he only received about three-fourths of a fair price he realiz 1 s only three-eighths of what he thinks lie ought to have. Should any other business pan out that way we are inclined to think that it would be followed by a change of method put into operation at once. Y°t the farmer jogs along in the same old rut just as if everything was as he wouid have it. We can’t alcer the seasons but we can change our methods of doing and bring about better results. Mr. Govan Black, of Grassy Pond, has a fine specimen of vineless pota toes he raised ttiis year on exhibition it R. M. Wilkins grocery store in Gaffney. We don’t see why he did not have them. ;r samples of them, at the fair at Columbia this week Mr Black is within >ix miles of the North Carolina line (or perhaps near- ei) and has not the advantage of climate tiiat his neighbors further south have in the potato culture. Yet he makes up for it with his com mon sense methods of cultivation. What tie does his neighbors can do. Beyond a doubt Mr. Black lives in the best farming country in Cherokee county, or even the State of South Carolina for that. There is not a better section of country anywhere, taken as a whole, than that part of Cherokee county lying north of the Southern railway. We regret to hear of the death of Mr. Joe Scott, which took place at Newberry this week. He was raised in this community, and is the son of Mr. H. Thomas Scott, of Spartanburg county, formerly of this county. Miss Minnie Kirby, daughter of Mr and Mrs. W. Coleman Kirby, has a very sore foot which has given her great pain for three months. We hope she will soon recover. At Gaffney this week we called at The L dger office and had a hearty hand-shake with the genial managing editor, and who assured us that from this date the price of The Ledger would be reduced to one dollar per year. He intends to give his patrons the advantage of the reduction in the price of the white paper, which has heretofore been so nigh as to neces sitate raising the price of the paper to one dollar and fifty cents yer year. And he intends to keep it uo to its high standard of efficiency and give his readers the best service obtain able. Success to it. Miss Lizzie Buice, whose afTLction was mi ntiooed in a recent letter, we are glad to say is much better and still improving. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Millwood are rejoicing over the arrival of a girl buoy at their home. It. is said that a prominent Gaffney merchant has promised to give every child horn in Ch> rokee county this year a pair of siio^s. Mothers send in your orders and make him stand up to his prom ise. Mr W A J* lT>-ries is one of the few farmers who has made corn enough tins year to do him. Allan can’t be turned down when industry, plucK, energy and Ht.ri'*i attention to business count T r anything. Early ri ri- from now or can get s hi views «if meteors as they shoot hither und thither these clear morn ings leaving a fiery train behind them. Nothing is more elevating to the hu man mind than a study of the geog raphy of the heavens. Of all the people in the world tat tlers and backbiters are among the worst. There is nothing so delicious to the palate of these emmissaries of Satan as a dish of slander. There ia nothing too pure for their poisoned breath. Some one has said : “So deep does the slanderer sink in the murky waters of degradation and infamy, that could an angel apply an Arch! median moral lever to him, with heaven as a fulcrum, he could not, in a thousand years raise him to the grade of a convict felon.” The whis perer has been the curse of all ages. Since the days of Peter truth has been the victim of falsehood and its enemies have so multiplied that if there were roosters enough in the world to remind us that a lie had been told we would ntvor hear the hens cackle. J. L s. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. The first rain in many weeks fell Monday. T. Davenport and R. A. Jones it Co , have hud substantial brick pavi merits laid in front of their stores. The county Board of Registrars was in its i ffioe yesterday, but it didn’t seem to be doing a rushing business. “Tank” McArthur, one of Gaff ney’-. first-class young business men, ha* accepted a ,o nion with the Smith Hardware company. Forest Gibson, a Gaffney boy, now second hand in the Abbeville cotton mill, wifi return home in a few days to accept a similar position in the Limestone mill. Kendrick & Clary have moved their meat market to the Webster building corner Limestone and Fred erick streets, and Mood Turner is oc cupying their former place with a new stock of groceries. Mr. P. N. Glenn, telegraph operator and express agi-nt at the Southern depot, has resigned and has beenjsuc ceeded by Mr. Yates " e regret to lose Mr. Glenn, hut welcome Mr. Yates to the city and hope his stay with us will be long and pleasant. Wm. A. Turner, who for a long time was the efficient and accommo dating ticktt agent at the Southern depot, has resigned that position to go into the wholesale grocery busi ness with the merchants Wholesale Grocery Comnany of which he is a large stockholder Mr. Turner is not without experience in his new line. .Success follows his every ven ture. Clarence Gray, lately employed at the S. C. G. E depot, has accepted the position of ticket agent with the Southern at this place. Clarence is one of our most trustworthy and efficient young business men and has secured this high position of trust wholly on his merit. We congratu late both the Southern and Clarence and wish for them both the success they merit. Music at Llmetitone. All the music that will he sung by the Choral Society in the May Festi val has arrived and rehearsals on the same will be begun this (Tuesday) evening. A large and enthusiastic attendance is expected. On next Fri day evening Miss Georgie Steedly will give the third program in the se ries of faculty recitals. The follow ing is the program in full: I'KOGKAM. On the Mountains, A minor. Op. 19, No. 1. O rleg Soiuita, A Hat major. Op. 36. Jtcethoven Andante con V.irlazlonl Scherzo, Allegro motto Murcia (unehre sulla morted’un eroe Allegio Berceuse, I> fl tt major, Op. 57 j - Chopin Etude, F minor. Op. 3.V No. 3 t Etlncelles. B flat major, Op. M. No. 6. Moszkowski Concerto. G minor. Op. 35, Mendelssohn ^Molto Allegro con hiocit—Andante Presto —Molto Allegro e vivace accompanied by Mr. George I’ntt Maxim. * Introductory'remarks hy M s. George Pratt Maxim. _ Song Service. The song service conducted at the First Baptist church Sunday even ing, by Prof. George Pratt Maxim, was largely attended and was pro nounced by all present to be a suc cess. The selections were appropri ate and were beautifully rendered. Prof Maxim was at the organ, and it is needless to say thatj^his playing was up to his usual high class per formance, and the singing was fully up to the usual high standard of the choir and eougrega*i"n t'luHhed. Deputy Sheriff Lipscomb, Chief Camp and officer* scented a covey of ‘crap shooters” Sunday afternoon, just outside the city limits, and made a drive for them But the s K oot<rs also scented Do only Lip scomb and his posse at d II w before the officers gut a 'dead s t.” end thus escaped just punishment for Sunday sins a inch could not quite he proven. THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Onr Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. A committee has been appointed to arrange for the formal opening of Greensboro’s pubic library. Two women preachers have been attracting the attention of the curi ous on the streets of Greeufcboro fur the past several nights. Mamie Cowls, colored, of Char lotte, whs badly, if not fatally, burn ed Saturday night hy the explosion of a lamp filled with kerosene oil. Two burglaries, both very daring, were committel in Raleigh’s suburbs last Thursday night. Money and clothing were taken from sleeping rooms. It is believed that some t-x- convicts are doing this line of worn. A Greensboro merchant has hit upon the unique idea of employing a young lady hill collector. 8he is not the least hit persistent, hut is re markably successful in exchanging duns for cash, especially when the bills are against men. The Y"rk road leading over King’s mountain, which for many months has been almost impassible. U being very much improved, about $300 be ing expended on it under the direc tion of Capt. Dilling. The benefit will he lasting, as a stone road-bed is being put down. A special civil term of two weeks of Superior Court has been ordered for Pitt county, to begin December 9 It is the second special term made iif-cessary this fall by reason of the illness of Judge Bryan, who is una ble to do any work. Judge Winston at the n quest of the bar, is appoint ed to hold the term. Guiilford county juries have been acting queeriy of late. Two of three verdicts have been rendered in favor ot the Southern Railway, and to day a jury gave a verdict in favor of the defendant in a damage suit against the city The plaintiff fell into an excavation left bv the street force at d asked for $1 (HJO damages A fellow named Sylvester, hailing from New York posing as a newspa per man and then as a defective at Raieigh forged a check on Uniteo States Commissioner John Nichols for $50, bought a suit of clothes for $11 lO $39 change and skipp'd. His forgery and liight were not rli-- covered until Saturday morning. An agent of the Secret Service de partment ol the government has been in Greensboro for several days inves tigating the butter sold by Greens boro grocers. At several storts he found butterine being sold as butter. The grocers were innocent of the mis take and it is said that none of their customers had discovered it, from which it would appear that butter- ineisnota had substitute for the genuine article. At 11 o’clock Saturday morning Wade Aycock, proprietor of a bar on Goldsboro street, Wilson., was shot and killed hy his clerk, George Gay, who then turned his pistol upon himself and inflicted injuries which, while serious, are not regarded as fa tal. There is no known motive for the crime, but as Gay is said to be addicted to the morphine habit, it is supposed that he was crazy when he did the shooting. Ali the available convicts in the penitentiary at Raleigh have been sent away to work. The brickmak ing has been stopped until spring, shirt factory closed permanently as not being a paying investment and the matress-making is now done at one of the farms and not in the pris on. so that no work now goes on in the latter save the manufacture of convicts’ clothing. All the convicts now employed on farms who can pos sibly be spared will be put on rail* road construction. “Peg Leg” William", who twelve years ago induced 30 (XXJ negroes to leave North Carolina to go further south to work, arrived in Raleigh Sa'urdav and wan f s large numbers of negroes to go to Kansas Tennessee and other suites. When last in North Carolina he had several narrow escapes from mobs, as then there was violent opposition to the exodus he whs promoting. His 'ieense as labor agent was made $1 (.KM) for each county The legialature chree years ago repealed this law and Peg Leg is now welcome. Lous Councill. convicted of crimi nal a'»' .lit on a white woman a d w bo was i* spited three times hy Gover nor Ay cook was hanged at Fayette ville at 10:15 o’cl ck Friday morn ing At the instance of a Catbolle priest. Councill held up a crucifix oa the scaffold and swore that he vaa innocent. Then the priest staled that he believed that the negro aaa no. guilty ot the crime charged. Tbe trap was sprung, hot the rope broke- and a second time the noose had te be adjusted. The negro actnaKy stood upright on the trap during the second ordeal. He was absolutely cool. Dr Thedore Pharr went to C*a» cord Saturday morning and ba- fore noon received a telephone mes sage from his home that his gin houaa and its contents had been baraad about 11:30 o’clock. The property was owned jointly by Dr. Pharr and Mr Garmon and besides the maebia- erv, they lost ten bales of cotton ard 590 bi.-'b'.’.. of cotton seed. Mr. Stallings hud a cotton gin within 75 yards of Dr Pharr’s, and at one time it was in considerable danger of ba» .rig burned i)r Pharr and Mr. Gar mon estimate their loss at $2 000, half covered by insurance. They think the fire was started by a match. Mary Morehead. an unmarried cop or-d woman was shot in her house in .■'evHrsviile, a suburb of Charlotte, Saturday night and her recovery i* doubtful. In the early part of the nigtii the woman received company— several negro men. In the course of itie evening she said that some one in the crowd had stolen money from her and she accused as the thief Melvin Feimster colored, who was in the room. Melvin was angered, and shortly afterward he and the other men left the house. Within an hour after the men had gone some one kiiucked at the door of the woman'll house. Mary opened the door, but could see no one. She closed it again. In a few minutes there waw another knock at the door. When Mary opened the door for tht second time a person that she couid not rec ognize fired upon her with a revolver. She fell sho' through the right lung. MIDWAY MATTERS. Farmer* Huxy Gathi-riug Their Crop*—W. Death of a Child. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Midway Nov. 2 —The farmers are very busy at present, picking cotton, gathering corn, sowing wheat and oats. It looks as every one knows his business, and means to go right ahead, if cotton i.- short and cheap-. Mr. I) F L. Turner, our hustling farmer, has the tinest corn crop oa record. Mr. Turner is no cotton dealer. We are glad to learn that Mrs. Yunie Byars, who has b-en sick for a long time, is somewhat improving. Mrs Preston VV'od. who has gone to Hot Springs, Ark., is some better; Little Loyd Smith, who has been v ry low with dysentery, is slowly improving. Mrs. Booth Harris has gone to Abbeville, where she will spend a few weeks with her ei**ter and friends. After her stay at Abbeville she and her sister will visit 1 their parental Mr. ard Mrs. Robert Nance, in An derson. The death angel has visited the home ot Mr. and Mrs. R L Smitu, and has taken their darling little two- year-old boy from their home. Lit tle Grady was only sick one week, but all that loving hands could do was of no avail; the Lord knew beet- aod took him home to rest. We loved him, yes we loved him, Bu: angels loved him more; And they h ive sweeily called him. To yonder shining shore. The golden gates were open, A gentle voice said. •'Come!” And with farewells unspoken, He calmly entered home. H. 8. VL Love Springs Local*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Love Sikincs, Nov. 3 —Messrs. William Reynolds and George Rey nolds have just returnrd from a visit to the State fair in Columbia. They were very much pleased with their trip, and with the fair. Mr. Aleck Smith bad a big corn shucking yesterday. Mr. A. B. Reynolds had a tin* cow killed a few days ago. He sold the hide for eight cents a pound nod said it brought him $7 If that b* true, it would pay to go into the busi ness of selling green cow hides and quit raising seven-certs cotton. Gikl and hoy. Mayor** Court. The mayor’s court yesterday morn ing was convened on time with only one lone Sunday sinner on the dock. He looked lonesome and shed a rather nonchalant appearance. The charges were preferred, which included “dianrderlv conduct and car rying a pistol ” Then Hie aspect ot affair* brightened up quickly and both sidei. went to work. The mayor, however soon h cvme convinced that tio* prisoner was guilty charged, 'i• d gave him 20 or 30. He took the 20.