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* THE LARGEST Circulation of Aoy Ns vspap. in the Fifth Congressional District of o. C. ^ —-——— SEMI-WErKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND PBIDAY. vVE GUARANTE 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 FED. 10. 18»1. GAFFNEY, S. C., KKI DAY, JANUARY 1(), 1902 81.00 A YEAK. THMT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Events that ll»ve Taken I’lact* from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Heading by Scores of Busy People. Andrews Reed, and Loom-Harness works in Spartanburg have been pur chased by the Spartanburg factory and the two will now be consolidated under one manager. The capital stock is $30,000. Officers Thackara and Strickland of Columbia, have succeeded in re covering ajlarge number of blankets, counterpanes and she ets which had been stolen from the Columbia hotel by chambermaids. Several arrests have been made. Two attempts have recently been made to wreck trains on the Augusta road near Moore station. Last week a crosstie was placed between the rails but the tender knocked it oil Joe Rhodes, a colored youth, has been ar rested on suspicion. Tom Chambers, a negro, was killed at a negro “party” near Yaldora, York county, December 2Sih by a negro named Joe Henry, in the lat ter's house. There was already some hard feeling between the two. Henry got his shot gun and Chambers fol lowed him. Henry told him not to advance but Chambers persisted and snapped his pistol at Henry, who raised his gun and fired with fatal effect. The northbound 8. C. and Ga Extension passenger train narrowly escaped a serious wreck last Friday af ternoon. Shortly before the train reached Heath Spring, the axle of the rear truck of th‘e tender broke. The train was traveling at its usual speed, and before it could be stopped many cross-ties were splintered The dam age was repaired by substituting the truck of a freight engine that happen ed to be near. As the result of the accident, the tvain ran fiv« hours late. Fortunately no one was hurt. There was a lively chase through Oakland, a suburb of Rock Hill, on Saturday night late of a negro chick en thief who had run away with a turkey swiped from W. C. Whitner’s hen roost. A negro servant on the place discovered the attempted theft in time to get bold of his revolverand give the robber a bot chase shooting at the fugitive several times and so frightening him as to compel him to drop the squawking fowl. From J. C. Anderson’s place the chase was con tinued on a bicycle, but the thief made good his escape. Constable Scoggins, of the State force, recently seized a wagon con taining 55 gallons of contraband. The wagon was headed toward Union but was detained in Bollock’s Creek township by high water. Cordova Hampton, formerly of Yorkville, but now of Union, an important witness in the case, which comes up for trial at Hickory Grove. The liquor had been seized along with the wagon and team, by Constable Scoggins, of the State. The parties who had it were taken before Magistrate Plexico, of Bullock’s Creek township, and gave bond for their appearance at court. The secretary of state, Tuesday, is sued a commission to another new railroad company which proposes to build 30 more miles,of standard gauge road iu this state. It is to he known as the Pee Deo River Railroad com pany, and the proposed line is to be 30 miles long, three miles of it hav ing already been built, running from Mars Bluff to Allison’s Ferry and Rankin’s Mill, connecting with the Atlantic Coast Line at the latter place. All of the new line will he within the county of Florence. The initial capital stock is to bo $30,000. The corporators are N. 0. Gibson of Winona, W. L Ranain and \V. H. Haigh of Mars Bluff. Somebody turned the switch at the side track near Camp Foruance, about two miles from Columbia on the Greenville road, and as a result a Hat was torn up, the engine was dam aged and a train hand was slightly in jured- The freight tr undue in Col umbia about five o'clock went down running at its usual rate of speed, and suddenly darted on the siding. The engineer reversed as soon as pos sible and succeeded in stopping the train with no more serious result than above mentioned. Investigation show ed that the switch was not locked, and had it been u passenger instead of a freight train, there might have been considerably loss of life. Robert Laboon, J. McMahan, Wal ter Ellis, Will Sheriff and about nine other young white men, charged with riot aud assault and battery with in tent to kill upon the pirson of Sam Southern, w'ere given a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Jamison at Easley Saturday. A. H. Dean of Greenville represented the State, Carey, Mauldin and Blassingame rpe- resented the defendants. As t a re sult of the assault made upon him, Sam Southern is in a critical condi tion, hardly expected to live. The affair is said to have started from the mere shooting of a fire cracktfr by Southern’s nephew. These young men were passing in front of South ern’s beef market at Easley Christ mas eve night and they claim when young Southern fired a cracker it frightened their teams. After the cracker was fired a general fight ensued. A White Man Turned Yellow. Great consternation was felt by the friends of M. A. Hogerty. of Lexing ton, Ky., when they saw he was turn ing yellow. His skin slowly changed color, also his eyes, and he suffered terribly. His malady was Yellow Jaundice. He was treated by the best doctors, but without benefit. Then he was advised to try Electric Bitters, the Wonderful Stomach and Liver remedy and he writes: “Af ter taking two bottles I was wholly cured.” A trial proves its matchless merit for all Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles. Only 50c. Sold by Cherokee Drug Company. The suburbanite who is always run ning to catch a train must also be in training to run and catch it. An Attack of 1‘iicumonla Warded OIT. "Some time ago my daughter caught a severe cold. She com plained of pains in her chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy according to directions and in two days she was well and able to go to school. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years and have never known it to fail,” says James Pren- dergast, merchant, Annato Bay, Jamaica, West India Islands. The pains in the chest indicated an ap proaching attack of pneumonia, which in this instance was undoubt edly warded off by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It counteracts any tendency of a cold toward pneumo nia. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. No, Maude, dear; thfre is no reason why a temperance woman should not wear corkscrew curls. A Hood Kei-oiumcndtitioii. “I have noticed that the sale on Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets is almost invariably to those who have once used them,” says Mr. J. H. Weber, a prominent druggist of Cascade, Iowa. What better recommendation could any medicine have than for people to call for it when again in need of such a remedy? Try them when you feel dull after eating, when you have a bad taste in your mouth, feel bilious, have no ap- pete or when troubled with constipa tion, and you are certain to be de lighted with the prompt relief which they afford. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. In planting out an orchard do not plant more than can be manured and cared for well. A I'rofitulde luyuHtmeiit. “I was troubled for about seven years with my stomach and in bed half my time,” says E.Demick, Somerville, Ind. “I spent about $1,000 and never could get anything to help me until I tried Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I have taken a few bottles and am entirely well.” You don’t live by what you eat. but by what you digest and as similate, v if your stomach doesn’t digest your food you are really starving. Koriol Dyspepsia Cure does the stomach’s frork by digesting the food. You don’t have to diet. Eat all you want. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures nil stomach troubles. Cherokee Drug Co. # Londoners each give on an average twenty-two shillings to charity. Chilli Worth Millions. “My child is worth millions to me,”, say* Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg, Pa. “yet I would have lost her by croup had l not purchased a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure.” One Min ute cough Cure is sure cure for coughs, croup and throat and lung troubles An absolutely safe cough cure which acts immediately. The youngest child can take it with entire safety. The litt'e ones like the taste and remember how often it helped them. Every family should have a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure handy. At this season especially it may he needed suddenly. Cherokee Drug Co. Only five in 1,000 criminals under twelve years of an'e. are Fatal kidney and bladder troubles can always hi* prevented by the use of Foley’s Kidney Cure. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. —Go to S. W. Thomas A Co., for your nice fresh groceries. ENTERTAINING JOTS FROM jTTA JANE, Happenings of the Past Week in Lower Cherokee. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. IntereHtlng Ifi m* About People and Things In tbe LoMt-r Section of the County (lathered I p by Our Uej-uhtr Correspond ent and Given to l.edger Headers. Correspondence of Trie Ledger.l Etta Jane, January 8—To Com rade A. Frank Smith we are greatly indebted for a list of Company F, 18th Regiment S. C. Volunteers, who went from Gowdysville township to the Confederate army. Our neighbors, just across the river in York county, are trying to get up a rural mail delivery route to leave Hickory Grove and make a circuit in the Broad river section and passing Hopewell return through Benton to Hickory (trove again. An agent of P. 0- Department passed over the route one day last week and it is thought that the route will be a prac tical one. Miss Anna McCarley, of Winns- boro, began her school at this place last Monday. She has a large school which is moving along auspiciously. We spent „the day at Hopewell. York county, yesterday very pleas antly. Our better half accompanied us and spent a delightful day with Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell and family, to whom we are specially indebted for enough sweet potatoes to make pies for a week and butter to season them with. Mr. Lewis Thomson, of Spartan burg. is down looking after his farm ing interests at Hopewell. He has many friends in this section who al ways extend to him a cordial wel come. Miss Ella Whitesides is teaching the Hopewell school. Her patrons and pupils think a great deal of her both as a teacher and a lady. Our old friend and comrade, Jim Woolbright has charge of the Thom son mill and is grinding there every day. Jim is a good fellow Col. W. D. Camp, our worthy audit or,.is making his official round taking tax returns. He is at Surratt’s to day. Mr. Adam McCulloch, of Bonham, Texas, who is visiting his old home, came over to see us yesterday while we were away from home. We failed to see him and very much regret it. He will start for his home next Mon day. Everybody likes “Add.” He is a first-rate fellow. Messrs. Johu and Terry Estes went to the roller mill at Gaffney yesterday with wheat. Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards at tended the public sales at Yorkville fast Monday, at which the Smith land was sold for $7.05 per acre. It was bought by Messrs. Newman, Duff and Sydney Smith. Miss Olive McDaniel, of Hickory Grove, is spending a few days in this section. Mr. Gus Harkey, a soldier from the Cuban war. is carrying the mail from Hickory Grove to this place. People can do little but make fires and sit by them this cold weather. Rev. W. H. White preached at Salem last Sabbath. T. J. Estes was ordained an elder and J. W. Brown and H. F. Estes deacons for the church. We regret to learn that Rev. Wil liam Giadinghagin dird at his home near Mercer one day last week. Miss Oregon Estes, who has been spending several days on the York side returned home this a. m. Messrs. H. B McDaniel and Jim mie Strain are building a house at Sharon for Mr. W. L. Hill. Mr. Jam^s G. Garner was over to see us Monday. He is doing some extensive building on the plantation of Messrs. A. D. and W. 1). Douglass, of Winnsboro. He is a Ledgerite, full hedged. The small-pox scare is subsiding. A few cases are Reported on the York side of tbe river, but none near us. From private sources we learn that great preparations are being made at Dallas, Texas, to entertain the U. C. Veterans and their friends next April. Everybody who can should go. The Texans extend a cordial invitation to all who can i.ttend. The railroad rates will be as cheap as heretofore and the veterans will be well taken cure of in Dallas during the reunion. Louisville, Ky., will pull strong for the next reunion of U. C. Veterans in 1908. Success to The Ledger and all its patrons j. i. s. a i.ir, at stukf. If you but knew the splendid merit of Foley’s Heney and Tar you would never be without it. A dose or two will prevent an attack of pneumonia or la grippe. It mav save your life. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. West End Locals. Mr. T. J. Alexander who has been quite sick for the past few days, we are glad to note is out again. Mrs. S. M. Scoggins is quite sick at her home on West Frederick St., with an attack of tonsilitis Christmas passed off very quietly on West End, notwithstanding we bud a few cases of the drunk and dis orderly, but they all managed to get away safely without looking tbe “blue coats” in the face. We understand there are several new dwellings to be erected in West End the coming spring. Mrs. Virginia Thomas and Miss Avie Spake gave a nice sociable and pound party at the former’s home on Brown street last Monday evening Among the invited guests were, Mess. W'alter and Floyd Baker, C. I. Clary, Andy Brown, Robt. Sparks, Logan Warmuth, Joe Spake, Lee Spake, Lewis Waters, Carl Sarratt, W. J. Roundtree, W r . L Belk, Ben Lemons, Monroe Webster, Ellie Parker, etc. The ladies present were, Misses Mamie and Eva Stacy, Eva Anthony, Isabella Blanton, Fannie Simpson, Ida Lemons and Nellie Roundtree, Cora and Eloise Wilkins, etc. The table was spread with many things good to the taste and tempting to the eye, and ail enjoyed the evening most pleasantly. Bird hunting seems to be carrying the day now. Some of our boys al most forget when Sunday comes, they have the hunting fever so bad. Come! Come! The girls of Sunday school class number four of the First Baptist church will serve refreshments to aid in paying the debt of Jtheir church next Friday evening from 4:30 to 10 o’clock, in storeroom recently occu pied by M. Poliakoff. Gelatin, cus tard, cake, candy, fruits and hot chocolate will be served. What’s Your Face Worth? Sometimes a fortune, but never, if you have a sallow complexion, a jaundiced look, moth patches and blotches on the skin—all signs of Liver Trouble. But Dr. King’s New Life Pills give Clear Skin, Rosy Cheeks, Rich Complexion. Only 25 cents at Cherokee Drug Store. Former President Cleveland has agreed to accejit a position on the committee named to settle disputes between labor and capital. Chlldreu Especially Liable. Burns, bruises and cuts are extreme ly painful and if neglected often result in blood poisoning. Children are especially liable to such mishaps because not so careful. As a remedy DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is un equalled. Draws out the fire, stops the pain, soon heals the wound. Be ware of counterfeits. Sure cure for piles. “DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured my baby of eczema after two physicians gave her up,” writes James Mock., N. Webster, Ind. “The sores were so bad she soiled two to five dresses a day. Cherokee Drug Co. Returns from the Cuban election indicate tbe election to the presi dency of Thomas Estrada Palma by an overwhelming majority. A Cure For LuuiImiko- W. C. Williamson, of Amherst, Va., says: “For more than a year I suffered from lumbago. I finally tried Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and it gave me entire relief, which all other remedies had failed to do.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Company. Norway’s coast line is 1.7(H) miles in a straight line, but over 12.000 if followed round the fjords. StopItl A neglected cough or cold may lead to serious bronchial or lung troubles. Don’t take chances when Foley’s Honey and Tar affords perfect secu rity from serious effects of a cold. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. A shipyard at Ominato, Japan, still in operation, was established IHOO years ago. The prevention of consumption is entirely a question of commencing the proper treatment in time. Noth ing is so well adapted to ward off fa tal lung troubles as Foley’s Honey and Tar. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. The ratio of mortality in Switzer land has decreased one-fourth in thirty years. To l ure it C- lil luOlitt l>»y Take Laxative Bromo (Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. VV. Grove’s sig nature is on each box. 25c. The fare on the Kongo railroad for 250 miles is $1(H) or 40 cents a mile. Vncuiuoiitu tint) LaUrlppu, Coughs cured quickly by Foley’s Honey and Tar. Refuse substitutes. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. —Go to S. W. Thomas A Co. for anything you need In fresh, fancy and heavy groceries. They will treat you right. THROUGHOUT THE TARJEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interpsting IleiiiM CoiM-ernluK Our NT-iRli- bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Heading for Hundreds* of Ledger Header*. The Dilling cotton mill of King’s Mountain, has just paid the usual semi-anuuul dividend of four per cent. Governor Aycock, by request, has named Thursday, April 10, as “Ed itorial day” of North Carolina week at the Charleston exposition. It is proposed to have the State Press as sociation, which has 300 members, meet there that day. Mrs. M. A. Stauffer, 81 years old, who lives in Charlotte, was stricken with paralysis Tuesday afternoon. Her entire left side is paralyzed and her advanced age and otherwise fee ble health makes her condition seri ous. Governor Aycock, Tuesday, named Wednesday. February 25. for the hanging of six white men. Such a wholesale execution in one day is without precedent in that state. In each case there has been an ap peal to the supreme court. Four men are to hang at Asheville for bur glary at Emma, Buncombe county, one is to hang at Wilson, for assas sination, this being the first since the war, and one at Lincolton, for bur glary in which a woman was horribly cut, a child born later having birth marks as a result. Armed with a warrant of arrest, Chief Kendrick, of Kings Mountain, aud his assistant, J. L. Ferguson, went out into that town last Wednes day night to capture Nath Lindsay, colored, who had been accused of burglary in more than one instance. In tbe attempt to arrest the negro the officers shot him in the leg aud foot four times. He was able for trial next moaning and was held to court in a bond of $100 which he could not make. He was sent to prison where he is doing fine and is expected soon to recover. A part of the goods stolen were found in his possession when arrested, and there can be little if any doubt as to his guilt. Since his arrest it is learned that he is a great rogue and will steal anything he can get his hands on. Saturday night just alter dark a barn on Wm. Adams’ place between Pleasant Ridge and Gouid, in Gaston county, was burned. Charley Gar rett, colored, lived there. His dog ran up tbe poarcb and barked. His wife looked out and saw tbe barn in a big blaze. Garrett ran and knocked tbe door to the stable down and one mule came out. It had its ears burn ed off and eyes burned out and will be killed to save it from misery. An other mule was burned to death in the stable. Both were good mules and belonged to Garrett. John Cost ner had been hauling roughness and putting it into the barn during the day, preparatory to moving to the place. And it is thought that some matches in the roughness which were nibbled by mice, was the cause of the fire. Garrett had all his fodder and hay burned and Costner lost rough ness. An accident occurred in Concord Saturday morning about 9 o’clock at the bleachery of the Kerr Bag Man ufacturing j Company by which Mr John Brumley lost his life in a most horrible manner. In turning off steam from one of the pipes, he inad vertently stepped backward and his clothing caught on the set screw of a projecting shaft, about three feet above the floor. His body was (right fully mangled by the rapidity with which the shaft was revolving and his injuries were fatal before the ma chinery could be stopped. Dr \V. H. Lilly was summoned but no examina tion was necessary to see that the wounded man was beyond the aid of the most skillful physician. Mr. Brumley diod at 12:30 o’clock with out regaining the slightest conciom- ness. He had been working at the bleachery but a day or two and the sad accident by which he lost his life has thrown a gloom over the whole town. What’s the matter with the South ern and Concord? It, has been com plained of that the railroad has not fulfilled the letter nor the spirit of the compromise fixed upon some time ago when Col. Andrews was there. The most flagrant act of violation of the spirit at h ast is reported on lust Saturday night when Miss Sue Rich mond coming from Milton, bought a ticket in Danville and boarded the train that arrived at Salinbury abuut^ 9 o’clock. S! e whs not allowed to come on but hud to get off aud wait an hour and ten minutes for the next train. She is a young lady of 15 or i(> years and being unaccompanied found it quite a comfortless and in hospitable stay. It is not known what train she came on but having bought her ticket in Danville and gotten on the train it is a very unsat isfactory arrangement that made her get off at all. The complaint is very bitter and promises to precipitate the trouble and cause the stopping of all trains at Corbin street in that place. Saves Two From Dentil. “Our little daughter had an almost fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis,” writes Mrs. VV. K. Hav- ilaud, of Armonk, N. V., “but, when all other remedies failed, we saved her life with Dr. King’s New Discov ery. Our niece, who had Consump tion in an advanced stage, also used this wonderful medicine and today she is perfectly well.” Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to Dr. King’s New Discovery as to no other medicine on earth. Infallible for Coughs and Colds. 50c and $1.00 bottles guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Company Trial bottles free. Sdnor Figarola of Havana has given that city a library of over 3,- 000 volumes, only 300 of which, how ever, are bound. Curex KlieuiuHtidiu or Ciitiirrli through the Blood Costs—Nothing to Try. Would you like to get rid of that chronic rheumatism or offensive catarrh forever? Then take a bottle of Botanic Blood Balm which has cured thousands of hopeless cases that had resisted doctors and patent medicine treatment. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B ) cures through the blood by destroying the poison which causes the awful aches in the bones, joints, shoulder blades and back, swollen glands, hawking, spitting, bad breath, impaired hearing, etc., thus making a perfect cure. Botanic Blood Balm thoroughly tested for 30 years. Composed of pure Botanic Drugs. Perfectly safe to take by old and young. Druggists, $1. Trial treat ment free by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice given until cured. Don’t give up hope, but try B. B. B , which makes the blood pure and rich and builds up the “all run down,” tired body. B. B. B. makee the blood red, giving the skin the rich glow of perfect health. Nearly all the silk of Spain is pro duced in the province of Murcia. This year its value was about $270,- 000 KEMAKKABI.KCt HE FOK C’KOl 1*. A Little Itoy'H Life Saved, I have a few words to say regard ing Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It saved my little boy’s life and I feel that I cannot praise it enough. I bought a bottle of it from A. E. Steere, of Goodwin, S. D., and when I got home with it the poor baby could hardly breathe. I gave the medicine as directed every ten min utes until he “threw up” and then I thought sure he was going to choke to death. We had to pull the phlegm out of his mouth in great long strings. I am positive that if I had not got that bottle of cough medicine, my boy would not be on esrth today.— Joel Dkmont, Inwood. Iowa. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. The blind shampooers of Japan are very sharp and great money lenders, often accumulating wealth by usury. In Bed Four Week* with Lit Grlptie. We have received the following let ter from Mr. Roy Kemp, of Angola. Ind; “I was in bed four weeks with la grippe and I tried many remedies and spent considerable for treatment with physicians, but I received no re lief until I tried Foley’s Honey and Tar. Two small bottles of this med icine cured me and I now use it ex clusively in my family.” 'Fake no substitutes. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. Four p<‘r cent of sailing vessels and two and one-half per cent, of steam ships are lost in a year. Children I’oiNonrd. Many children are poisoned and made nerv >us ami weak, if not killed outright, by mothers giving them* cough syrups containing opiates. Foley’s Honey and Tar is a safe and certain rem> ly for coughs, croup and lung troubles, ami is the only prom inent cough medicine that contains no opiates or otlo r poisons. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. Some fellows aiu ready to stand up for the fair s* x until they find them selves in a crowded car. , The many friends of G H. Hausen, Engineer L. E <k W. If It., at pres ent living in Lima, Ohio, will he pleased to know of his recovery from threatened kidney disease. He writes, “I was cured by using Foley’s Kidney Cure, which I recommend to all, especially trainmen who are usu ally similarly affl cr#d.” For «a , b by Cherokee Dru.- Company*.