Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I THE LARGEST rcaUVion af \\/ N;v*pip! in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. i i s * $ ;* \ 8EMI-WEEKLY--PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. vVE 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. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894. QAFFNEY. S. C.. HtIDVY, JANUARY H. WOS tl.OO A YEAR. THE PAIMETTO STHTE, Items of Interest of Passing Erents. ALL OVER THE STATE. Events that lluve Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchange* for tjtilek Reading by Score* of Rosy People. Governor McSweeney Friday grant* ed a pardon to Roland Nesbitt con victed of larceny in Spartanburg county, sentenced two years on the chain gang. Solicitor Seaso recom mended the pardon. Twine Thompson was shot and killed by Tom Rutledge in the sub urbs of Columbia Christmas day. Both are colored. The quarrel started over some trivial matter. Rutledge surrendered himselfjto the sheriff. There was a fatal shooting scrape between negroes at Lone Starl in Orangeburg county a fews days ago. The inquest over the dead negro was held by Magistrate Buyck. It is said that the dispute which led to the killing was over 25 cents. The ac cused is at large. In Kingstree Friday night, J. B. Chandler, ona of the alleged short postmasters in Williamsburg county, waived his preliminary hearing be fore United States Commissioner Wella and was bound over to United States court, which convenes iu Flor ence next March. Thomas Mitchell, colored, was ar raigned before Magistrate Rouse in Charleston, Friday, qn a charge of shooting and perhaps, fatally woun- ing Lucy' Barrows, colored. The shooting occurred Christmas lEve night in a house iu Bernard’s lot. off George street. It is not known ijust how tlie disturbance began. Lewis Haraes, a negro boy fifteen years old, whose home is in Spartan burg, was seriously Injured Friday morning by a self-inflicted gun shot wound. He was hunting in the woods in the rear of the Converse estate and fell down. The shock caused the gun to go off and the entire load entered the right leg below the knee. Physicians took five pieces of bone out of the leg. They have hope of saving the limb but are not confident. W. L. Thompson, the yaung Charlestonian who was six months ago sent to the state prison to serve a sentence of one year, has been par doned. It is particularly appropriate that this young man should start the rebuilding of his shattered life,j for it is due entirely to the interest ‘taken in his case and unfortunate condition by the good women pf the King’s Daughters that he finds hims* If able to discard the garb of a convict, go back to his wife and children and face the future with hope in his heart. A white man, supposed to be the Rev. James Douglass, alias James B Hamilton, who is wanted in Litbonia. Ga., for bigamy, larceny, etc., and for whose capture a reward of $400 is offered, has been arrested and put in jail at Walterboro. He claims to be an evangelist, but he answers the printed description of tlje man who is wanted iu Georgia. He refuses to give reference and his conduct is such as to make the officers believe that be is guilty of some crime, either the one for which he has been arrested or some other. Near Hampton was enacted a shocking tragedy Friday night last. John Phillips went home crazy drunk and picked up an old musket saying he intended to “clean out the whole family” his wife and a son about 12 years old. He fired at his wife but missed her and ordered his son to re load the gun and chased his mother into the yard with the gun in hit hand. The woman seized an axe in the yard and with this she defended herself. The gun was broken and Philip’s skull was orusbod iu several places by the axe in Mrs. Phillips, Lauds. He died iustautly. .a The Florence Cotton Oil Mill plant *^at Florence, owned by the Virginia- Carolina ChemioAl Company and operated by the Southern Cotton Oil Company, of Columbia, together with several hundred tons of cotton seed, cotton seed meal, hulls, several hundred cords ; of wood and four freight cars, belonging to the Atlan tic Coast Line Company, were des troyed by fire aft 10 o’clock Christ mas night. The value of the mili , plant, buildipgs and machinery • amounts to 000. The value of stock on haimi Including manufao- 1 tured fertiiizfra, amounts to about $40,000. Thf insurance on mill buildings and ynachinery $10 000, ou stock about I^J.OOO. About 8 o’feluck Thursday morn ing on acoouufc of tho heavy fog one of the shifting engines on the South ern ran Into a heavily loaded freight train qo its way to G’eenvllle just below Spartanburg. The freight train was coming in from Cow- pens but on nearing the over head bridge ■ the engineer saw the shifting engine coming toward him and immediately stopped his engine. The engineer on the shifting engine however, being just under the bridge was unable to see the freight on ac count of the fog. His engine ran into that of the freight knocking its cow catcher off and shovfbg the wheel 1 of his own engine up under it. No one was hurt by the collision. The track was soon cleared and the freight went on. Christmas morning about 7 o’clock at Columbia, Preston Mickel, a col ored boy, about 18 years of age, w4s shot and killed by Arthur Vann, an other colored boy about 10 years nf age. It appears tbatPrestou Mickel, Arthur Caroof, Mathew Caroif, Claude Bowen, Chas. McClain apd one or two other boys were out cae- bratiog Christmas. Vann was on ftis way to his work and met the crfijwd of boys on Plain street. They walled along for some distance. Vann mye he did not intend to shoot Miccle. but that Mickle hit him on the mod and in that way struck the trigg» of the pistol and it was accidentally discharged, and that the second ’bal let was fired by his nervousness. 1 The more plausible theory is that the boys got into a fight and Vanulshot Mickel. ENTEHTlININfi JOTS ! FROM ETTl JANE. Happenings of the Past Week in Lower Cherokee. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Int«re«tlng Item* About People and Thing* In tha Lower Section of the County (lathered Up by Oar Regular Corre*pond- ent and Given to Ledger Reader*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, December 25, 1901.— Christmas is here and we welcome it with the following lines from Miss Annie Woodruff: “Bright herald of happiness, Christinas is here. The birthday of Jesus our Kintr, Once more with Its message of love and «ood cheer, While sinners triumphantly sinir. The aiiKels remember that beautiful strain They sanff iu the lonir. long ago. When shepherds watched over their flocks on the plain. The shimmering starlight below. In a lonelv rude manger the Heavenly child Unconscious and innocent lay. While Mary, the angels, and man sln-deflled, Awe stricken, adored Him that day. Oh, beautiful Babe, not Thy mother's fond love Can keep from Thee anguish away; To save us He suffered. He came from alnive, Oli, welcome the wonderful day.” Last night the boys bad a fine time •erenadiog. Brass horns, tin pan? and all manner of noise making in to tell what he knew. Dick is O. K. when you get him in a convention. Mr. J. H. Fowler has oeen suffer ing with acute rheumatism. Several of our neighbors have changed homes this week. Mr. Jeff Blackwell who expected to go to the knitting mill has decided to remain on the farm for another year. He is a natural born poet; nature has done as much for him as it did for Shakespeare, Byron, Moore, Long fellow or any of the great men of antiquity. While he was arranging to sell out and move to the knitting mill he composed the following lines: There I shall shoot my rifle clear At pigeons iu *he skies; To rough corn bread I'll bid farewell And live on factory pies. But since he has declined going to the factory and has rented for another year, he now sings : With country life I’ll be content And farm a little longer; T'> eat corn bred I will consent As lon^ as it kills hunger. J. L. S. THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Holiday*. The holidays in Gaffney have been generally a round of pleasure to our people. All gave up business and joined in the festivities of the season in the homes and the fields. A few accidents have occured, but we are glad to state that they will not re sult seriouslv. Time Extended. The Governor and Comptroller General have extended the time for paying taxes without paying penalty, 10 the first of March. Interesting Item* Concerning Gar Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers, Charlie Ray, a young white man living near Alma, Scotland county, went into Maxton Thursday evening covered with blood, from several se vere cuts in his head and body. He went into McNatts’s drug store, and had the wounds dressed, but refused to give any particulars, or even the name of the party who did the carv ing. News has reached Durham of a dis tressing accident at Mt. Airy in which John Morgan Green, foimerly of that city, lost his life. The particulars are not kn<fwn. The first message received was to Dr. A. G. Carr, asking him to come at once and saving that John M Green was badly burned This message was signed by James R. Green a brother. Friday morn ing a message came simply saying that he was dead. The deceased was an old Durham boy and left here only UWi i.I J|!" - 'Jr,.. v , ^ u„. \lfr- u\U‘ Vf BROfVH RIVER BRIDGE V* H' I V ti< Mr" ’% N: (rr *(C" ),, ^ U ' •-•A" (U~ v- (k (t .,ii ((< l/r' <(f> Vf/"'/ W. 'i": -"V'- \u* BUILT BY THE VIRGINIA BRIDGE AND IRON COMPANY—PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN GREEN. The above is a cut of the new iron bridge recently, built by Cherokee county across Broad river at a point about three-quarters of a mile below Gaffney’s Ferry. The bridge was built by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company, of Roanoke, Ya., which obtained the contract through its Southern representative, Oipt. J. H. Whitoer, contracting engineer of Birmingham, Alabama. The bridge i* 814 feet long and consists of three 150 feet steel spans and 300 feet of wooden approaches, all with a 10-foot roadway. The steel spans rest upon steel cylinder pieces filled with con crete which rests securely upon and are safely anchored to the bed rock of the river. The bridge is 28 feet above low water mark and is fully five feet above high water mark and complete has cost Cherokee county about $7 - 000. all of which the county paid in cash of her own money, and her peo ple are proud of the bridge and feel that they have a good job aud one fully worth their money. Mr YV. J Stover,a master mechanic was in charge of the work for the company and superintended the entire construction and in its con struction has lone credit to his com pany, and himself, and furnished the county what it wanted a good bridge, and in this connection we will re mark that although much of the help was inexperienced not a man was hurt while the work was being done. The bridge is a credit to Cherokee county, to the Y'irginia Bridge and Iron Company, to (’apt. J. H. VVhit- ner and to Mr. Stover and his help. Ilurritlo Lo<li;e Install* Gl]<‘«rs, Correspondence of Tne Ledger.) Blacksburg. 8. C., Djc. 30.—The public installation of the officers of Buffalo Lodge No. 202, A. F. M., of Blacksburg. 8. C., took place 8atur- pay night at the opera house and was witnessed by a large assembly. The following officers were duly installed : J. T. Darwin, \\ . M ; YY'iiliam Jen kins, S. VV ; G. O. Nutting, J. W. ; Phil. R. Freeman, S. I) ; YV. B. Shearer, J. D ; J D. Gault, Tiler; E B. Turner and YV. E Anderson, Stewards; Thomas V. Mays, Secre tary, and A. M Bridges. Treasurer. The address was delivered by past, grand master Orlando Shephard, of Edgefield,‘which was a masterpiece and was highly enjoyed by all pres ent. After the address the members of the lodge and their invited guests, members ttom other ledges, with their wives janl daughters, repaired to the Cherokee Inn, where a delight ful banquet was served. Several Masons from Gaffney were present and the evening was delight fully speot^ KxpoNltlun Hand Hook. Mr. Alfred Collias, of Newberry, was in the elty yesterday represeut- lug E. H. Aul A Go., of Newberry and the Spanish Hand Book of the South Carolina luter-State and YVest Indian Exposition which will be issued bv Messrs. Aul & Go. about the middle of January iu Spanish and will con tain a full description of the Exposi tion, with a catalogue of exhibits. A descrptiqri'of the general resources of South jCar^lina and her rnanufac- tdrlng Interests will exploit the manufaoturlnk' interests of the State and th«.K*»u$ to Spanish sneaking people in Club i and the La tit States. It will be distributed free to visitors at the Exposition and will be mailed to lead jpg buyer* In South America. WATCH Your label aud the da|o, And pay 6oforo ’Tis tpo late. strumeuts were brought into requisi tion. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel and children, of Hickory Grove, are visit ing on this side of the river. No man has a moral right to give reproof who hasn’t first given love. YVe learn that Mr. A. G. McCul lough, of Bamburg, Texas, is ou a visit to his old home Everybody will be glad to see “Add” and shake his paw. VVe welcome him back to old home. The young people are having a fine time Christmasing. Mack Mitchell and Evins Estes are wearing false faces greatly to the terror aud dis gust of the children and cider people too. To Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell, of Hope- well, our heart goes out in the full est impulse of thankfulness for a beautiful supply of confectione of the choicest and most delicious kind given as a Christmas preseut. It con sisted of cakes, candies aud fruits of all kinds. Mrs. Mitchell is one of that kind of good people who scat ters sunshine wherever ste goes. May heaveo’s richest benedictions rest upon her aud her entire house hold Is the wish and prayer of your correspoudeot. If the old saying is true that a moonlight night on Christmas will be followed by a good crop next year we are all right for next jear. Yitlualile Art Calendar Free. Not one of many high priced calen dars offered in the art stores this sea son, will exceed in beauty and real worth the fairy art calendar for 1902 offered by the N. K Fairbank Com pany. It not only eclipses all former efforts of this company, but it undou btedly excels all rivalry iu this line of publicity. It is, indeed, a work of art and must be seen to be appreciated. Tne first of its five sheets is an ap propriate design containing the calen dar proper, the other four being art supplements to the fairy calendar. It would be difficult to choose subjects of greater beauty or utility than those selected for these four art supple ments, which present exquisite figure compositions reproduced from famous Paris salon pictures, paiuted by the world-renowned French artist, Ed ouard Bisson. The four subjects are : “La Fiancee,” the portrait of a beau tiful French women of the brunette type; ‘ Printanea,” the portraiture of a graceful, girlish figure; “L’Echo,” charming for quiet color effect; and “Satanla,” wonderful for richness of coloring. Each of these pictures is faithfully reproduced iu all the beautiful color ings of the original paintings, on heavy plate stock, size 10$ x 13§ These art supplements bear no letter ing whatever, to mar their artistic beauty, aud are therefore suitable for In our; last letter we are made to ' framing and valuable as most excel- say E. A Maoomsou Instead of O. E. Macomson of Sharon. We under stand Olio has a schoolat Sharon in York county. Mr. Mike Sellers want to cover your correspondent with a snow hath If he undertakes it we will make him wish he had let it alone, or at least try We note that our friend, R. M Jolly, was a member of the good roads convention recently field in Greenville, We will wager our repu tation at) judge of the matter that there w4a no better posted road or bridge man in that body than Dick 1 lent reproductions of the four famous paintings mentioned. Each of them is well worthy of being framed for any household, hut each Is provided with a fastener so that it cun be used for decorative purposes. The N. K. Fairbank Company, 227 Dearborn Street, Chicago, are mail- • ng this beautiful art calendar free to anyone returning ten Fairbunk’s fairy soap f vai fronts or sending tweive two-eftfli atamps to them. Rt-turh- ing ten oval fronts, however, is the best aud surest way to obtain, the fairy art calendar. The fronts may be obtained ironi thy cartons of fairy Jolly, ifud oo one who was less afraid j sold by all groYers. a few years ago. He was a son of Mrs. Frances Green, and a cousin of Clerk of Court C. B. Green. He was a tobacconist. YY’hile Governor Aycock was Satur day signing the order for the special court at. Northampton to try Jeter Mitchell, the negro for rapirg Mrs. Lucinda Hill, a white worn :n 70 years old, of an txoellent family, a telegram came saying that the citiztus bad taken Mitchell from the jail at Jack- son Friday and lynched him. The 1 crime wai committed while Mrs. Hill ' was going to her son’s home, some half mile distant, on Christinas day* Her condition is critical. Mr. YVill Jordan, of Crab Orchard township, Mecklenburg county, lost a horse and came near being drowned iu Reedy creek, near the home of Mr. Charles Cross, lost Wednesday. He had spent the day in the city and darkness had fallen when he reached the stream. His hor e missed the ford and stumbled into a deep bole. The horse was drowned and Mr. Jor dan had a hard struggle to reach the bank. He lost all the goods he had In his buggy. He bought the horse in Charlotte last Saturday for $57. The body of Nell Cropeey wae found Monday morning at 10 o’clock In the Pasquotank river, opposite the Crop- sey residence, by two fishermen. The news of the finding Hew over the city like wildfire and within a short while over 2 000 people had assembled on the river bank waiting for her body to be brought ashore The coroner was Immediately notified and select ed a jury of prominent citizens. Two physicians were called on to make an examination of the body. The evi dence given by the physicians does not tend to show* any external or in ternal signs of violence. The body Is without the usual bloated appear ance of one drowned. The head is well preserved. Solicitor A L. Brooks, of Greem- boro, goes to Raleigh to argue the habeas corpus case of the gold brick men before Judge Purnell in the Fed eral Court. He spent last week pre paring the answer and is thoroughly prepared to handle it with skill, hav ing tried the case in the Superior Court of Guilford county. The peti tion filed by counsel for Howard, Hawkins and Daley is very rich. They aver tnat they were imprisoned without due process of law; that oo mittimus was ever issued; that they did not have a fair trial and other rot of a like nature. A copy of the mittimus certified by the clerk and the sheriff is in the hands of the State and will be produced at the trial. Corporal Willie Leolair was drowned at Fort Caswell near Wilmington Tuesday afternoon while returning from Southport in a small sail boat. Leclair, Sergeant Leneker and two privates were in the boat and when in about a hundred yards of the dock the boat capsized. The privates man aged to^jet to the marsh and when they Had done so their other two companions had disappeared. The two men hurried to the Dost aud told what had occurred. Very soon a number of men went out in boats to search for the missing men. Sergeant Leneker was found in about t^o feet of water. He had his arms around a log and was jtotaly unconscious. He had been in the water about an hour. After considerable effort he was res- ucitated. The search for Leclair’s body was in vain. A fearful wreck of passenger train No. 4 Engineer Brinson, Conductor Coleman, was narrowly averted five miles from Goldsboro Thursday morning. At Herrings’ crossing or Spring Bank there is a siding and some one had drawn the spikes and moved the rail at this switch, leaving the signal board white. The train at this point was moving at a speed of fifty miles an hour and fortunately ran right through the switch. Had the train been going east it would have gone into the siding, and there was a car on the siding at a point where there is quite an embankment. The wretch evidently had no designs on the Shoo Fly going east but did his work after this train passed, hop ing to derail train No. 4 which is the regular passenger, mail and express. This train was crowded with passen gers and the narrowness of this catas trophe makes one shudder as he real izes their close call. Probably one of the most brutal crimes ever committed in that com munity was perpetrated in Wilming ton Christmas night by Thomas Rouse, an escaped convict from Kin ston. He struck Minnie Phillips, a little white girl, with a large piece of scantling, and laid her skin open to the skull where it struck. Rouse was at the home of the little girl’s moth er on Cowan street near Cnadbourn’s lumber mill. Mrs. Phillips with her daughter and several other persons was standing in the yard talking. Without the slightest knowledge of his approach, Rouse walked up and delivered a terrible blow, striking the twelve-year old child squarely On her head and she fell unconscious to the ground. Without saying a word he walked back into the bouse. The tender little victim of the most vil lainous assault was taken to Mr. J. D. Nutt’s drug store where her frightful wound was dressed by Dr. E 8. Pig- ford and others who were present at the time. Rous** was arrested. , A I’leuNant A fternoon^ Miss Aadie V. McArthur enter tained in her charming manner h“r grade, at her home on Limestone street, Dec. 25 from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. Each member of the grade repre sented a geographical feature. After trying to guess what each represen-j, ted it was decided that Misses Leila Bonner and Margaret Poag, two of Gaffney’s most charming young la dies, had won the prize—a beautiful box of candy. After the guessing contest was over we were invited into the dining-room where We were served with delicacies too numerous to mention, and at 5:30 after telling Miss McArthur what a pleasant afternoon we bad spent, ws repaired to our homes. Those present were, Misses Olga Foster, Louise Jefferies, Leila Bon ner, Ola Little, Vassey Poag, Dora Scott, Rena Wessinger, Louise Wood, Jessie Lipscomb, Julia McArthur, Iris Littlejohn, Margaret Poag, Lyla and Stella Sarratt, Hope, Cleo and Wilma Gaffney end Cynthia MoCraw, Messrs O. P. Richardson, Brossie Byars, YVofford Lipscomb, Lowry Walker, Earle Caipenter, ‘Draper YVood, Monroe Webster and Frank Gilmer. o. f. and l. j. YVben a wife wears her husband's neckwear she evidently believes iu family ties. Now that w« have the bachelor girl it is only * »tep to the old uiaiU man. A man may have a weak fclce and still use strong language.