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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Ns vspapc in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. ■ WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1C. 1894. GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902 81.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Events that H»ve Taken I’lac'c from One Eud of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Ouiek Heading hy Score* of Busy People. The Florence hotel was slightly damaged by fire on Monday last. The Confederate Monument at An derson will be unveiled on the 18th, Lee’s birthday. Gen. Wade Hampton, the gallant old Confederate general, has been ill from an affection of the heart, but is reported as improving when last beard from. A negro at work on the Baptist church steeple in Florence, fell to the ground, struck on his head and got up and walked way. The distance was fully 50 feet. Warren Richardson, charged with the killing of 1’orter at Hamilton Ridge, has been admitted.to bail, it being manifest that Richardson acted in self-defense. Twelve families of white people recently moved from Virginia to Lake City, in this State to engage in the culture of tobacco. They are not renters but purchasers. The Southern Bell Telephone Com pany is now putting in a system in Union. The work is in charge of E. R. Robinson, and the central office is located over Dunbar’s handsome beef market. Will Hancock, of Cheraw, was en joined on Wednesday the 1st, from taking a lot of hands away from Flor ence to work on a railroad in Flori da. Had he started them the day be fore he would not have violated the law. An Orangeburg farmer shot an other about a cow. It seems that a Mr. Segrest took up a stray cow the property of Mr. Miller. Segrest was shot three times and is in a dangerous condition. Miller surrendered to the sheriff. Nearly 100 negro men left Florence county this week for the turpentine farms in Georgia and Florida. Agents are in various parts of the State try ing to secure hands to go South, in the turpentine business although it is unlawful for agents to solicit help to leave the State between Jan. 1 and July 1. The third annual meeting of the South Carolina Fire Agent’s Associa tion was held in Charleston Tuesday, President John B. Reeves of Charles ton presiding. A large attendance of agents was present. President Reeves welcomed the agents and read his an nual report, which was then discuss ed by the meeting and action taken upon the recommendation. He de clined re-election having served for three years. He was succeeded by William Goldsmith. Tom Teppus, about 2d years old, an unmarried employee of the Catawba Power Co., Rock Hill, lost his life on Wednesday evening about G dO while attempting to cross the Catawba river in a small boat, which also contained his two brothers. The father of the men had warned them against trying to cross near the dam and had gone further up the river to cross, all four men being on their way home from the dam. The boat was capsized by running against a rope stretched across the river from the dam. The two other brothers were picked up from |the rope. The company fired three dynamite cartridges but failed to recover the body. J. W. Yarn, a boarding house keeper at Beaufort, choked bis wife almost to insensibility the other day. Yarn and bis wife and State Constable Crocker, a boarder, were seated at the table. Mrs. Yarn upon leaving the table told Mr. Crocker that she would like to speak to him after he finished dinner. Mr. Yarn objected to this, whereupon Mr. Crocker retired to his room. He had hardly reached it be fore he heard screams for help. He rushed to where the screams came from and found Mrs. Yarn pinned to the wall by her husband who was choking her. Mr. Crockar being a strong man soon rescued the woman from her drunken husband. Thursday near Reidville while two littl^ school children were going to school they were rudely accosted by a negro man. They immediately ran from him screaminsr. Later the same negro attempted to enter the house of T. 0. Fowler. Mrs. Fowler was the only one at home. She screamed and her cries were beard hy some men working near. The negro lied immediately and was pursued by T. O. Fowler. Mr. Fowler caught the man and he resisted by striking him with an iron rod and trying to draw a pistol. Mr. Fowler drew his pistol and shot him, the hall entering the neck. The would-be rapist was brought to the city this morning and lodged in jail to await trial. Just beyond the overhead bridge in Spartanburg where the S. U. & C. and the main lines divide was a scene of great confusion Friday morning due to a wreck which occurred there about twelve o'clock Thursday night. The track on both roads was torn up for some hundred feet or more and the engine was left on the ground in a dismantled condition between the two tracks. Four freight cars were derailed and badly smashed up. two of these being loaded, one with flour and meal, the other with wheat. The contents of the cars were damaged •’ery little. The cause of the wreck seems not to be understood. It was either due to the track giving way or the engine jumping the track. The wrecked train was a through freight for Columbia and was being pushed around to Main street by the yard engine. There was no one hurt se riously, the conductor, Bob Moss, having his leg sprained somewhat. Train 35 for Atlanta was delayed seven hours, as also was an extra from Knoxville bearing exposition passengers. Prof. W. L. Jnhndoii. I News and Courier.l _ Mr. VV. L. Johnson, a representa tive of D H. Baldwin & Co., piano and organ manufacturers of Cincin nati, is in the city, registered at the Hotel Iroquois. He is here for the purpose of looking after the installa tion of Baldwin &, Co’s., exhibit at the Exposition. The Ohio concern has gone to considerable expense in getting up their display, which, they claim, will be one of the best of the kind on the grounds. D. H. Baldwin it Co. were among the first firms to enter enthusiastically into the work of raising funds for a Cincinnati building at the Exposition here. Mr. Johnson has held a trustworthy po sition with the Cinnati establishment for a number of years and he is es pecially qualified in every particular to attend to the placing of the Bald win exhibit. “Cincinnati is greatly concerned in the welfare and success of the Fair,” said Mr. Johnson yesterday. “In the next few weeks visitors from that city will begin to arrive here in large numbers. As soon as the peo ple arrange their affairs for the be ginning of the new year they will start out for Charleston.” Messrs. Baldwin & Co., are fortu nate in having Prof. Johnson repre sent them. He is from Gaffney, knows a piano like his A. B. C.’s is a fine performer,a courteous gentleman, and was a gallant Confederate soldier from start to fiinish. North Lliuedtoue St. New*. Mr. Will Westmoreland, formerly of this place, but now of Hickory Grove, was in the city last week vis iting his sister, Mrs. C. L Craner. Miss Carrie Nelson, of Bullacks Creek, is spending the winter with Mrs. M. A. Wilkerson on Limestone street. Mr. A. B. Brannan, the boss weaver for the Gaffney M’f’g Co., has moved into Mr. J. R. Killian’s house on Cher okee avenue. The Gaffney M’f’g Co. have to run part of No. 2 mill at night on account of one of the boilers being out of fix. The Supply Mill is running part of its plant now. Miss |Carrie Wilkerson returned home last weetc after spending a week with friends and relatives at Bul locks Creek. Reader. Anbury I.uotln. Correspondence of Trie Ledger.| Asjjukv, Jan. 13—There was plen ty of fun at Asbury this Christmas. There were parties, sociables, and everything the young people wanted in the way of chances to court. We are sorry to report that Miss Rossie Foster is ill, and hope to see her out soon. Miss Agnes Lipscomb has decided not to return to Limestone for the second term There are quite a num ber in| the social circles of Asbury who are glad to hear this. Ysbury’s school seems to be pros pering, judging from the number of pupils and the amount bf work done} There seems to be a good stand of wheat in this section, and as it has not all come up the farmers feel con fident of a good stand and plenty of “cake” for 1902. Tlie l.cdger liouinliig. Twenty-seven Cherokeeans came in Saturday and subscribed for The Ledger. Quite a good number did the same thing yesterday. These are every day occurrences and we assure our friends that we appre ciate such manifestations of their ap proval and also that we will not relax our efforts to keep The Ledger the best semi-weekly in the State. ENTERTAINING JOTS FROM ETTA JANE. Happenings of the Past Week in Lower Cherokee. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. IiitcrrHtlng Item* About Peopleuml Thing* in the Lower .section of the County tinthereil Up hy Our Kegultir Correspond ent uuri Given to Ledger Render*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Jan. 11,—Yesterday we spent the day very pleasantly with Mr. Adam G. McCullough, at his mother’s near Sarratts. Mr. McCul lough now lives in Bonham, Texas, and is on a visit to his old home. Everybody was glad to see Adam. He will return home next week. Mrs. McCullough is a very old lady. She was a Goudelock—sister of W. L. Goudelock. of Gowdysville, who is well and favorably known to a majority of Cherokee county. Mr. T. D. Goudelock expects to go to the reunion at Dallas, Texas, next April. He was a member of gallant Company F. of the 15th South Caro lina Regiment. Mr. J. G. Kendrick, of Sarratts, who has had the so-called smallpox is up and well again. It never hurt him, only made him a little sick. The last few days have been favor able for wheat and oats Several fine porkers have been killed in this county this season. Our friend L. C. Mabry killed one weighing (>60 pounds and Mrs. Aman- deville Goudelock we learn killed one eight months old that weighed 350 pounds. Several others have killed but we are unable to give the weights. One of our neighbors, a new comer, complains that bis rest was broken up last night by a break-down in the neighborhood. The young people ought to have more respect for the comfort and feelings of their superiors in age and keep a little more quiet. We hope that our road authorities will look after some of the bad places in the public roads and have them and the gully bridges and drains re paired just as soon as possible. We learn that our friend and neighbor Mr. T. L. Robbs, is having chills. Mr. L. M. Hartford, of Jonesville, was in this section yesterday. Mr. James Woolbright has returned from the cotton mill and has taken charge of the Thomson mill. We are told that a bachelor trustee in one of our neighboring counties made it a rule to require each lady applicant to send him her picture, with her application, and the result was he finally married a school teach er. U. S. Senators Tillman and Me- Laurin have our thanks for seeds sent the patrons of this office from the agricultural department. We will puolish the roll of the sol diers who went from Gowdyville township to the war as soon as the same is completed. T. M. Littlejohn, Esq., one of our county commissioners, was in this section one day this week looking after his farming interest. He has served the people continuously for about thirty years either as magis trate, school trustee or county com missioner, and he is withal one of our most prudent, intelligent and impar tial public officials. He speaks hope fully of Cherokee county’s future, and looks forward with an unwaver ing faith to a material reduction of our taxes in the near future. As a vigilant guardian of the county treas ury he is opposed to everything that savors of extravagance. The roads are getting better during the last few days. Dr. Sam Foster, of Union, has been in this neighborhood looking after his affairs. A few days ago one of our neigh bors said in the presence of his daugh ter: “I don’t believe I will renew when my time is out with The Led ger. We take The Home and Farm, The Constitution and other papers and we can get along without it.” To which the daughter replied,” “Well, pa, when you leave off The Ledger you’ll miss it.” That girl would make the best boy in the coun ty a sensible wife (but she don’t take it after her father)—it’s her mother. Who ever hea d tell of a person get ting his home or county news from a foreign paper. Today Miss Anna McCarley was summoned home to see her brother in Abbeville county, who is lying dan gerously ill with hemorrhage of the lungs. Misses Hall and Aby Boyles, Jr., of Home, passed here today from a trip to Hickory Grove. —Go to S. W. Thomas <fc Co. for anything you need in fresh, fancy and heavy groceries. They will treat you right. VIEWS FROM; GROVER. Fiinn II*ikI* nre iKcttrce himI Condition* DinheartenliiK.j (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Grover, Jan. 18 —Plant less cot ton and make your own home sup plies, hasjl been the tune for several years past and indications point to the fact that the people are going to continue the old way—giving advice but not taking advice. In other words, they will not practice what they preach. But this is a serious time with many farmers throughout the South. It is a time for many when they should and must decide and pursue the course that is most likely to furnish them a livelihood. Many are leaving the farm and going (o the cotton mills, and in some cases it is advisable, while in others it is a serious mistake. There seems to be more hands now to make the cotton into cloth than there are hands to furnish the material. It is a difficult task to secure a suitable hand, or in fact, one of any sort in some locali ties. In the year just passed, many tenants let go their crops and tried something else. This is very hard on the land owner. But last year was disheartening enough to cause a tenant to abandon his crop, that is in some cases. Corn lands that should have made several hundred bushels made only a few bushels. Last year was against the farmer on every side. The season was unsuita ble for the making of almost any kind of a crop. There was too large an acreage planted in cotton, with poor production and low price. Corn is scarce and one dollar per bushel, with the chances of going higher about the time that many a poor farmer will have to buy. In many cases there was a large store bill to pay and other debts that could only be partly paid by selling at auction everything the poor fellow had. leav ing him to face this cold winter with no provisions on hand; nothing with which to purchase his little children shoes, nor the many things that his poor wife needs so .much. It is bard for a man in this condition to hope for the best. It is so hard to pay such an enormous price for what he buys and get little or nothing for what he has to sell. He is thrown from the spring of the year to the fall of the year as the cow-boy throws the lasso, and the mortgage rope snaps around him and bolds him fast. The farmer is unorganized and the trusts and every other sort of devil ment help to pull him down. We should always look on the bright side but we can do this and yet see the conditions as they now exist. It is easy to find poverty in the large cities—they are found and get help, but what helpor encouragement does the poor farmer get? It is every man for self, along that line, and its “root pig or die.” We do not mean to say that there Js no love nor fym- pathy in the human heart, but hu man love and sympathy by Itself will not serve as food and raffaicftli ‘ Poets sing of the joy that is to be had in the farm and the sweetness of childhood In the country home. They sing of the purity of our Southern womanhood. Yes, but there are hun dreds and hundreds of girls over our Southland, as pure and sweet as any on which the sun ever shone, that are ruining their health by doing a man’s work. They have very little time to gather wild flowers and the scent of the “fields and meadows” are not so very sweet to them. We are taught to get our bread by the sweat of the brow. Yes, it is honora ble to work but the trouble is, the sharpers get what the sweat of the brow has made. But: Amonir the rich, itmotw the poor, Sorrow will uHllct from door to door. If wo iiro ureiit or If we iiresrmill. Death is u fate for one and all. Bes Hoover. Lee’* Hirtliday. The Winnie Davis and Moses Wood chapters, of the Daughters of the Confederacy, will celebrate the birth day of Gen. R E. Lee, at Limestone College, on Monday the 20th inst., and have invited the Jake Carpenter Camp of Veterans, the Smith Lipscomb Camp of Sons, and the public generally to attend. They insist on all old soldiers in the county being present. An appropriate program has been arranged and we trust the occasion will be well attended. . Th« Mayor’* Court. The mayor’s couft Monday morn ing was a small affair, only one un fortunate offender had to answer, and he for misconduct, incident to un unfortunate habit. While he knew it was wroof* ' do as he did, His Honor t jtied hirn a fact to sus tain his loruknowledge in the shape of a small fine, which he paid. —Go to S. W. Thomas it Co., for your nice fresh groceries. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IntrrvHtiiiK Item* ConrerniiiK Onr NH^R- lx>r* Heyouil the Llue Whleh May Prove EntertHluMig UeHiliiig for Uiiiiilreii* uf Ledger Header*. Van Fuller, negro outlaw, charged with barn burning and euspicioned of murder in Orange county, was cap tured in Virginia Friday morning and brought, to Durham over the Norfolk and Western road Friday night. He was taken to Hillsboro on the early train Saturday morning. Information comes from Durham that Mr. J. B. Duke has ordered from an Italian sculptor a design for a heroic bronze statue of President Mc Kinley. Mr. Duke, it is understood, wishes the South to erect the first memorial to the martyred President and will place this figure in the col lege park of Trinity college at Dur ham. Mr. H. N. Pharr, of Charlotte, ad ministrator of D. H. Hartness, has brought suit against the Southern Railway for$30 000. The deceased met his death the 11th of March while in the employ of the Southern. Mr. Pharr h 3 appointed Messrs. Jones, Tillett and Kirkpatrick as council for the plaintiff. The case will probably come up at the spring term of the superior court. It will no doubt be a matter of in terest to the people of North Caro lina. and possibly a surprise, to know that the late Wiley Rush, of Ashe- boro, died of smallpox—more espec ially since it was reported that be died of congestion of the lungs, says Mr. H. A. Chappell, writing to the News and Observer. Mr. Chappell says Mr. Rush contracted smallpox at Gastonia, while attending the Methodist conference there. Louis Hoskins, a thick Hoped “coon” from Matthews was placed un der arrest in Charlotte. Friday morn ing, as answering the description sent from Concord of a negro Todd Foard. Hoskins denied that he had ever been out of Mecklenburg county and said he had never been farther North than Charlotte and had lived his life in peace and quiet near Mat thews. The negro wa sustained in his claims by several parties near Mat thews. He was given his liberty. The work of the superior court in Raleigh under the deliberate and careful direction of Judge Allen, is progressing at a moderate gait. Many of the cases are of minor importance, yet as violations of law they require time and attention. The case of Henry Perry, a white man who will stand trial for his life, is the only im portant case on the docket this term. A special venire of one hundred men was ordered yesterday from which to summon a jury and the case set for trial next Monday morning. Fire, which originated from an un known source, wrought a damage of between $5 000 and $0 000 at the plant of the Angola Lumber Company just beyond Hilton Park, in Wilming ton. The damage was to a pair of dry kilns and their contents, consist ing of 100,000 fe6t of lumber, and it was only by dint of hard work and excellent fire appliances at the mill and in the city, that the entire plant was saved. The fire originated on the inside of the kiln and had gained considerable headway when discov ered. Ray, the little five-year-old child of Mr. Joe Massy, near Holly Springs, Wake county, was so badly burned last Monday afternoon that the in juries produced death the following morning. The little fellow went out to help his older brother burn off a piace of broom straw and not notic ing the danger he was in, soon found himself entirely enveloped in the flames. His mother ran to his assist ance but ere she could extinguish the flames her clothing, too, was in a blaze and but for the help of her hus band and others she would have suf fered the fate of her little one. Mr. and Mrs. Massey were both badly burned. Ray was a bright little fel low with long curly hair and his place can never be filled in the hearts of those who loved him. Dr. I. W. Faison, of Charlotte, was in a runaway Friday morning, but as luck wovld have it he and his driver escaped injury. Dr. Faison and driver were coming up West Trade street in a buggy. At the postoffree they met un automobile. The horse became frightened and the gentleman run ning the autowoble stopped. Just as Dr. Faison passed, the automobile started again and the horse attached to his buggy made a whirl, upsetting the buggj and throwing Dr. Faison and driver out. The horse continued up West Trade and in front of the First Church the buggv struct a wood wagon and was badly torn up. The horse continued to drag the frag ments of the vehicle until he reached a point In front of York Bros, and Rogers, where he was stopped by a negro drayman. Neither Dr. Faison nor the driver were injured but the buggy is almost a total loss. The climax to the alleged friction and attitude of rivalry and antagonism which is said to have existed all along between the Elizabeth City citizens’ committee and the municipal officials came Saturday in the form of two damage suits for $10 000 each. The plaintiffs are Mayor T. B. Wilton and officer W. C. Dawson, each of whom seeks the sum named from members of the citizen’s committee. The match which set off the volcano of unrest was applied in the form of a signal statement from four members of the committee which inferentially charged the officials, not only with suppineness in solving the Cropsey mystery, but in the committee’s words, “they have at all times seri ously handicapped our efforts by their actions and manner of treatment.” They alsojcharged Chief Dawson with wiring the release of a Cropsey sus pect whose identity they were pre paring to investigate. Saturday** Crowd. Saturday was crisp and cold, and quite a good sized Saturday crowd was in the city. Every portion of the county had representatives, and a more orderly gathering of people is seldom witnessed. Every one seemed to have business and to be attending to that business, and incidentally talking of their plans for the present year. From several sections, we hear that farm labor will be scarce, but laud owners are adapting themselves to the conditions, and will plant more spring oats than usual, and will util ize improved implements and thus keep to the front with their farm operations. While our people have killed a good many hogs, they report pigs for the present year scarce and say that those having a surplus are getting good prices for them. Cherokee cannot escape the effects of low priced cotton on unpropitious seasons, but she has a plucky people and will pull through 1902 in good shape and will advance her maternal interest as much as any county in the State. KeMKimi* Service at the Jail. Sunday at 3:30 p. m., the Rev. W. R. Potter, pastor of Limestone Street Presbyterian church, accompanied by several ladies and one male mem ber of his congregation, went to the county jail, pursuant to an arrange ment with Sheriff Thomas, and con ducted the first religious service that was ever held in the jail for the ben efit of the prisoners by any pastor in Gaffney. The sheriff arranged seats in the corridor of the jail and chang ed things around so that all the prisoners could be present. Mr. Potter read appropriate selec tions from the scriptures, and preached an able and feeling sermon. The hymns sung were opportune se lections and beautifully rendered by the good .Christian women present. This was good of Mr. Potter and the good women with him, to remem ber the unfortunates in this way, and we trust that these services will be continued. They are right and we know the prisoners appreciate them. A few young men went with the sheriff to the services. Civil Service Coumil**loa. The U. S. civil service commission will hold examinations at several places in each state during March and April, to secure young men and women for the government service. 9 889 persons secured positions last year through these examinafions. Probably 10,000appointments will be made this year. All appointments are for life and for most positions only a common school education is required Salaries at appointment vary from $(>G0 to $1200 a year with liberal promotions afterward. Politics is not considered. There Is less competition in the southern states than in other parts of the country. This affords a good oppor tunity for people Detween 16 and 45 years of age. Those desiring places of this kind can get full information about them, free, hy writing the Columbian Correspondence College, Washington, I). C.. and asking for its civil service catalogue, number three. Ulitry-Outlirie. Mr. Robert Clary and Miss Sarah GuthrieJ were married at Limestone Mills on the 12th inst., by R. F. Gibson, N. P. We congratulate the young couple and wish them a prosperous and happy future.