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THE LARGEST Circulation of An/ Ni-vspap; in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AHD 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. 16. 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 528, 1908. 81.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE ■ PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Advents that Have Taken Place from One Kml of the State to the Other Culled from KxchaiiK<>« for Oulek Keatln.jt by Store* of Bu*y People. President Wilson, of Converse Col lege, has tendered his resignation to take elTect at the close of the present session Rev. Dr B. F. Wilson has tendered his resignaMon as president of Con verse College in Spartanburg. The resignation is to take effect in June next. Union county buys her supplies for the poorhouse and chaingang from the lowest bidder, to be furnished as needed, Fant Brothers have the con tract this year. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Rogers Company of Charleston, a new building and loan concern. The corporators are W. L. Rogers, L. L. Castleberry and W. C. Harrison, and the capital stock is $2,000. Rev. J. 1). McCullough, I). D., died at his home at Walhalla on the 22nd inst. Dr. .McCullough was one of the oldest divines of the Episcopal church the State. He had done a great Work for his church and the advance ment of the Master’s cause and was revered and loved by all who knew him. It is rumored that a trade is on for the purchase of the Truth newspaper in Spartanburg by J. T. Harris, pro prietor of the Spartanburg Herald. Mr. Harris said that no deal had been closed, but that negotiations were going on. In the event of the sale The Truth will be consolidated with the Herald’s semi-weekly edition. Congressman Finley is asking con gress for an appropriation of $118,000 with which to make a survey and carry out certain improvements on the Great Pee Dee river to Cheraw, and on the Wateree to Camden. He had the desired appropriation in the last river and harbor bill that was killed luring the closing hours of the last session of the senate. Officer McAbee of the Spartanburg police force went to Greenville Thurs day and delivered to Supervisor Speegle an escaped convict, George Smith, colored. Smith escaped from the Greenville county gang in Sep tember last and has been at large un til he was arrested in Spartanburg a day or two ago. At the time he made his escape, Smith had only thirty ad ditional days in which to finish his sentence and then he would have been given bis liberty. Judge Benet handed down his de cision Tuesday in the case of John Forest against the Charleston Orphan Asylum which was argued before him last week on a motion to issue a tem porary injunction against the city {Ap propriating any money to this insti tute on the ground that it is a secta rian institution. The teachers and caretakers in the orphan asylum are Sisters of Mercy, but the institution is controlled by a board of commis sioners, elected by the city council, and composed of men of different re ligious beliefs. Judge Benet refused to issue the injunction. The C. & D. local freight train was wrecked near Florence Friday after noon by the breaking, it is said, of a box car axle. Five cars were ditched, two of them being torn to pieces. No one were hurt. The wrecking train and crew was sent out at once from the Florence shops, and about four o’clock Saturday morning enough of the wreckage had been cleared away for the 0. & D. passenger to go on to Florence. Two tramps who were beating a ride were thrown from the top of the cars. One of them fell un der the cars across the track and was bruised by several timbers falling upon him. * Mr. Boyd, the State’s Indian agent in charge of the Catawba Indian res ervation in York county, curried a valise full handsome Indian pottery to Columbia on Wednesday. They weBe sent to Senator Graydon as a testimonial of appreciation of the Indians of his efforts in their behalf last year. These relics consisted of vases, pipes, etc. The work is really admirable. Agent Boyd says that there are now about 7.') men, women and children on the reservation. Of these about 2<J are full breeds, one of them being over SO years of age. Dur ing the year not a single Indian has died while several papoosts have been added to the community. Last Wednesday evening about 7 o’clock a telephone message to Cap- twin W. L. Roddey of Rock Hill stated that an attempt to take the life of Mr R. Walter Patton had been made by unknown parties at Roddey’s sta tion, about eight miles from that place. Mr. Patton left his storeroom to close a window shutter in the rear of the building and some one fired at him twice. He called to those in the store and said he had been shot. Some one secured a gun and fired at the fleeing man. but he es caped. It was found that Mr. Patton had not been injured, though both shots had taken effect, one striking some books in his upper right vest pocket and the other taking the second button from his vist. There was filed with the governor last week a very strong petition for the pardon of W. M. Player, who was convicted of robbing his dispensary and sent to the state prison. Player has been in the penitentiary for some time. He is the member of a good family and has a family of his own, consisting of about 12 children. He has steadfastly denied his guilt from first to last, saying that robbers held him up and robbed the dispensary. The petition is an unusually strong one. being signed by representatives and county officials, ae well hs many of the leading citizens of the county. Senator Williams of Williamsburg county called on the governor and made a strong personal plea for exec utive clemency, representing that Player has suffered sufficiently and keenly and that now his health has failed. No action has yet been taken in the case, as the petition first goes to the solicitor for his consideration. Rosa Howard, colored, nf Charles ton, was burned to death about six o’clock Saturday morning at her home, 1") Wentworth street. The woman was fifty-two years old and very infirm, and it is supposed that, while sitting before the fire, she made an effort to rise from her chair and tpppled over into the flames. The coroner held an inquest over the re mains and the jury rendered a verdict of "accidental burning.” The unfor tunate woman was alone in her room at the time the accident occurred and her door was locked. Her screams were heard by a negro woman who lived in a room up stairs. She rushed to the Howard woman’s room, but she had to break the lock before she could gain entrance. When she did succeed in forcing an entrance Rosa Howard’s recumbent figure was a mass of flames and death had already brought merciful relief from dreadful torture. She dashed several buckets of water on the prostrate figure, but before the flames were quenched the body was a charred mass of smoking flesh. A GOOD SCHOOL. Tlie Country Around Mevy Improving Un der Its Inlluenee. (CorrespondencA of The Ledger.) Stevy, Jan. 25.—If you will allow me a few lines 1 will appreciate it very much. Our country is improv ing very fast, if weddings and good schools are signs of improvement, and we know that good schools ought to improve any country. We have one of the best schools at (’enter View that is in the country, and we have a line teacher. He has a sub scription school, from the ages of twenty-five down to five years old. He has from forty-five to fifty-five scholars, coming from three to four miles away. Some of the children went to school to Mr. Young before, is why they come so far He is Hind to them and they have learned to love him. One of our writers has said that there were twelve children in this neighborhood who had not gone to school one single day. He cannot point them out on our side. I will agree that parents should send their children to school all they can ; but I think that education without mother wit, and brother love, does not amount to much. We wish some one would make a law to bind the trus tees to sign teacher’s certificates against whom there is no complaint, or have no trustees at all. Let the preacher attend to his churcii affairs, ; which we think he is capable of do ing, and let the demijohn man at tend to his demijohn, and bo very careful or it might leak. Then per haps the parents will try to send their children to school four months in the year I have heard of children being bound to old folks but I never heard of old folks being bound to children. I once was blind but now I see; 1 love my children and I think they love me; and I hope that L. B. D. will write to me. u J p. —Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents, the best spring medicine at any price. S. B. Crawley A Co. — Housekeepers who demand the best use Blue Ribbon lemon am vanilla flavoring extracts —You will miss it all if you fail to go to the special sale of Hosiery on Thursday ami Saturday at "The Hust lers”—Battery old stand. —Special -ale of Ladles’ and Gents’ l oderwear on Thursday and Sat unlay only at "The Hustlers.”—Battery SPLENDID TRIDDTE TO GENERAL LEE Delivered to Daughters of North Carolina Veterans BY MR. J H. TUCKER. The Speaker Touched Upon the CaurteH of the War, and the Kise and Kail of the Confederacy, and Ended Witli a Glowing Eulogy Upon the “I,ion of Arlington.’' vCorrespohdence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Jan. 24—Rev. R. P. Smith, of Asheville, N. C., has our thanks for a copy of the address of Mr. J. H. Tucker before the Daught ers of the Confederacy, N. C. veterans and schools, of that city, on the oc'- casion of the celebration of Gen. R. E. Lee’s birthday last Monday. Were it not for its length we would be glad to copy every word of it for our Ledger readers. It is in tone and keeping with the many eloquent ad dresses delivered throughout the country on that memorable and praiseworthy occasion, and we know of nothing that our readers will ap preciate more than what we may gath er even in a somewhat garbled man ner from it. After giving an account of the causes that led to the war tne speaker traced the subject through out the rise and fall of the Confeder acy. giving an account of the Impor tant battles and brilliant victories as well as reverses of our armj, in much the same manner and figure as did Col. H. P. Griffith, at Limestone Col lege, the same day on the same occas ion. Among other things Mr. Tucker said: "But God did not intend the dis memberment of the Union. Success of the Confederacy meant a divided nation. Grant could not defeat Lee. God did it to save the American union and to strike the shackles from the arms of 400,000 slaves. Lee could not be whipped. Do you believe it? Go ask your history why McClellan changed his base and turned his back towards Lee and sought shelter under his gunboats? Go search the battle fields of Mechanicsville, Gaine’s Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Frazier's Farm and Malvern Hill and ask the bones of those who fell iu the Sevn days battle’ if Lee could be whipped. Tell me after those bloody battles why Pope succeeded McClellan in command of the Northern array— could Lee be whipped? Go to the bloody field of Second Manassas and see the shattered boys in gray hur ed in power against the combined armies of l^ope and McClellan See them routed and sent headlong into Wash ington and tell me if Lee could be whipped! See him with 40.000 men again meet McClellan with 100,000 picked soldiers at Sharpsburg and ask the bones of 12 000 of McClellan’s best soldiers if Lee could be whipped. Tell me, ye students of history, why at this time did Burnside succeed McClellan? Could Burnside whip Lee? See him at the bead of 125 000 troops and hear their martial tread as they cross the Rappahannock and march upon Lee at Fredericksburg. Hear the cannon roar and the shriek of shrapnel and shell; see the blue lines waver, stag ger, rally, waver again and fleu and tell me ye bleaching bones of 13,000 dead if Lee could be whipped. But Burnside is succeeded by Hooker; surely Hooker can defeat Lee. He has recruited the shattered army of Burnside and now stands at the head of 130,000 soldiers—Lee 00,000. Ob serve the discrepancy. I bear the tramp of marching hosts; they meet at Chancellursville ; the conflict is begun; Jackson crushes the right wing of Hooker's army hut falls in the conflict; Lee presses the advant age gained by Jackson’s charge and himself charges ugon the gillantfoe and 25 (HKJ are left upon the field of buttle to tell the world that Lee could not be whipped. Meude succeeds Hooker. -The battle of Gettysburg is fought: Lee’s invasion of the North is checked; he returns to Virginia and Grunt, returning victorious from the West, is sent to conquer Lee. McClellan, Pope, Burnside and Meade had failed, and now Grant will try. He Is commander of nearly a million soldiers. His army is easily recruited by its bounty system. The resources of the South were exhausted—there were no recruits, no commissary Lee has fought many a gallant battle and has led his conquering legions to victory, hut many ol his gallant hoys had fallen and there were none to take their places. The few that are left are tired, footsore and hungry, but no braver soldiers ever trod the plains of Marathon or stood iu the pass of Thermopylae. Grant began his movement with 175,(HM) of the flower of the Northern army—the best equipped soldiers that ever lined up in battle. Lee met him in The Wilderness’ with less than 50,000 men with hearts of steel, braver than the Old Guard of Napoleon. Can Grant whip Lee? Undar such cir cumstances if he can’t, then Lee can’t be whipped. Reverse the posi tions and Lee would march into Rich mond in 24 hours. The great generals met in unequal contest. For two days the mighty struggle of Grant’s proud columns are hurled against Lee’s lengthened lines and held in check. The encounter shifts to Spottsylvania Court House and four days of seven a bloody battle raged. Again the scene of carnage shifts and at Cold Harbor Lee hurled his shat tered forces against Grant’s oncoming phalanxes and drove them from the field. With all the soldiers that Grant could command, with the boun teous resources of the government at his back, Grant lost in that campaign (iO.OOO men (a greater number than Lee had in his army) and it took him nine months to reach Richmond, and then only after Lee’s little army was famished and exhausted did they leave the trenches around Richmond. No, Lee could not be conquered in battle, and the future historian will record that Lee was greater in war than Alexander or Hannibal, than Caesar or Von Moltke, than Napoleon or Wellington, than Washington or Grant. ‘Tllustrous hero ! You may search the world’s brightest records but never can such again be found. Grand, imposing, awe-inspiring, a country that can furnish generals like these and their commands, backed by the wealth of this republic, can look the chivalry of earth in the face and defy the world. But why pronounce eulogies upon these heroes of a lost cause? Why stand here 37 years after Lee passed his sword to Grant and Johnson to Sherman, after the princi ples of the South had been conquered and her fondest hopes slain, after vis ions of glory and freedom had been dismissed? Because it is our duty to make known to our posterity the noble heritage bequeathed to us by the heroes of the ‘Lost Cause.’ Be cause we should declare it to the world as the future historian shall name it. Because gratitude to you old soldiers who responded to the call of your country in time of war, com pel us to meet you in times of peace and take you by the hand and press you to our hearts and say, 'God bless you—we love you still and will never forget you.’ You have no apology to make for the part you took in that war. We believe that that great struggle was war and not rebellion; that principle underlay the sacrifice you made; that the convictions were as strong as those who wore the blue, and if she went down, God bless the boys in gray, they went down with their faces to the foe fighting for con viction.” After eulogizing the North Carolina troops and the part they took in that struggle under the leadership of Pet tigrew and Hill and Hoke and Ran som and ;Vaoce and others, the speaker concludes : "Let me declare to you in this presence, and let it be told to our children and to our chil dren’s children that while we honor the memory of the fallen dead and laid love, {the cause for which they down their lives, yet we rejoice today that the fate of that war was held in the almighty hand of an omniscient God; khat slavery was swept from the Southern domain and the American union was saved from the wreck of war. Glorious old union! Star Spangled Banner! Long may it wave over the land of the free and home of the brave.” j. l. s. To I'roiwTi Coiiinieiicenit-iit Sermon. Dr. C. H. Stakely, of Montgomery, Alabama, will preach the commence ment sermon at Limestone College at the approaching commencement in June. Dr. Stakely is one of the most able and eloquent divines in the United States and Limestone College and her friends are congratulating themselves on the good fortune they have bad in securing his services. —You’ll be sorry if you do not attend the special sale of Ladies’ and Gents’ Underwear at "The Hustlers” on Thursday and Saturday only—Bat tery old stand. Don’t miss the special sale of La dies’ and Gents’ Underwear for Thurs day and Saturday only at "The Hust lers”— Battery old stand. — Remember the place for Thurs day and Saturday only is at “The Hustlers”—Battery old stand. — Water-ground meal at J. C. Lip scomb A- Co’s. —Ths size of a woman’s shoe de pends on whether she is wearing it for an afternoon walk or to sit in a chair and show off her feet. —Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents, drives away the blues and tnaitea life worth living. —Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents, the great tonic and appetizer. —Be sure you have the proper bait when you IGh for compliments. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. interrstiiiK tteiii* Concerning Onr Xelijli- bor* lieyniHt Hie Line Which May Prove Entertaining KeailiiiK fur Ilundreil* of Ledger Header*. The machinists’ strike on the Southern Railway at Spencer which has been on since last May, has been declared off by the Salisbury union, so far as the local situation is affected. It was found by the county officials at Winston that the saws used there in the various escapes of prisoners were made of steels from the corsets of female prisoners. As the result, all the corsets have been taken from the women. There are four cases of smallpox in Gaston county. One is the negro from near the Arlington, who was taken to the county pest house; the other three are Mr. Dan Biker and his son and daughter at High Shoals. Mr. Baker, who caught the disease from a bale of cotton which came from Lowryville, S. C , Is now nearly well. Of course, his house is under quarantine. Mary Johnson, a negro woman from Charlotte, stole two rings Thursday from the home of Mrs. J. D. Ennis, of Salisbury, both of them of consid erable value. The negress called at the home of Mrs. Ennis and made in quiry. No one was at home but Mrs. J. H. Ennis, and while she was absent for a few minutes the negress stole two rings from a jewelry case. At the preliminary hearing she was sent to jail to await the February term of C0U”t. Edwin Davis, a small colored boy, i* in the Charlotte tombs, being cared for by the city. Davis has a badly burned foot. Going from Y'orkville, S. C., last Friday, night overtook him and he built a fire in the woods and lay down to sleep. Some time during the night Davis awoke to find that bis left foot, and not the wood, had been furnishing fuel for the flames. He managed to hobble to Charlotte and at the police station told bis story to Chief Irwin, who has since allowed him to remain in the tombs. His foot, especially all of his toes,is badly roasted and he will be unable to walk for sometime. John Farmer, an operative at one of the King’s Mountain mills, went to Spartanburg last Friday and that evening made inquiry of a nice look ing man where he could stay for the night. The mao of whom he made inquiry quickly proposed to show him to a room in which he himself slept and told him they would be the only occupants of the room iu which there were two beds. Mr. Farmer had in his pocket $110 and on counting his money next morning found that he was short $00. He knew no other to g'Jt his money except his room mate, and on this belief had the fellow ar rested. He was tried, but found not guilty, though Mr. Farmer still be lieves him the robber. Annie Holbrooks, one of the women who is thought to be implicated in the tragedy that was enacted near Huntersville Saturday night, was brought to Charlotte Wednesday night and placed in the county jail It is said that another woman who is suspected may bj jailed in the next few days. The father of young Whit ley, who escaped with the Lawrence brothers, was in Charlotte Thursda> trying to arrange bail for his son. Mr. Whitley claims that his son was only with the Lawrence boys and was not a party to the shooting. Sheriff Wallace learned Thursday night that the Lawrence boys were seen in Ca* harms county since the tragedy. Warrants were issued and sent to a number of points in Cabarrus. At 2 o’clock Sunday morning Mr. Frank B. Deane, a traveling salesman fur the Kansas City Backing Com pany, fell down the elevator shaft at the Central Hotel in Charlotte and suffered concussion of the spine. Mr. Deane had left the hotel office to go to his room and was preceded by a bell boy, who proposed to take him to the second floor in the elevator. The use of the elevator had been dis continued for some hours, and the iras burner inside It was not lighted; but the elevator boy. supposing that the elevator was at the landingon the office floor, pulled open the sliding door and Mr. Deane immediately stepped forward and fell 10 feet, strik ing ot his back in the basement of the hotel. The injured man did not lose consciousness, though he was In great pair, and unable to walk. As sistance was given him promptly and he was carried to his room, a physi cian being summoned. The physician says that Mr. Deane’s injuries while painful and severe, are not at all dan gerous. Governor Aycock has been seen in regard to one of the • gold brick - ’ men now serving their sentence in Raleigh. Mr. C. M. Conby left after talking to :he governor about E L. Daly, whom he claims was a dupe of the other men. Mr. Conboy is connected with the police department in Chicago, and his interest in Daly is because Daly's wife is an acquaintance of his family. He went to Washington and was commended in his efforts by Sen ator Mason, of Illinois. He saw Sen ators Simmons and Pritchard and then came to Raleigh. He says that Daly was a gold miner in the Klon- dyke and had about $2 500 when he was roped in by the other men who wanted a miner to talk of gold mines. This, he says, is Daly’s first offence, though not the first of the other two. Governor Aycock gave no intimation of any intention to lighten Daly’s sen tence, which is for seven years. The other two men are in fer ten years apiece. THE STATE Y. M. C. A. A Great Convention Of The State’* Eine*t Type Of Yunus; Manhood. The Annual State Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associ ations of South Carolina will convene this year in Columbia, Feb. 8 11. The gathering already bids fair to be one of considerable strength. It will differ in many respects from other couventions held. The open ing session will be held on Saturday evening, and the closing session on Tuesday night. Sunday will be a red letter day in Columbia. Nearly all of the pulpits of the city will be oc cupied by prominent delegates and speakers. In the afternoon a mammoth meet ing for men will be held in the Opera House. A chorus of male voices will lead the singing. Mr. L. A. Coulter, of Richmond, Ya., a speaker of rare power and ability, will address the meeting. TheColumbia Associatioin qonfidently expects to see a thousand of the men of the city at this great gospel meeting. On Sunday evening there will be three or four mass meetings in the principal churches, addressed by prominent Association men. Among whom are Messrs, C. L. Gates of At lanta, T. S. McPheeters of St. Louis, and F. S. Goodman of New York City. Monday and Tuesday will be de voted to the discussion ot problems which affect men and boys. A well known Association worker is to open a discussion on work among the men and boys in factory districts and it is expected that this will be a topic of absording interest. Students from fifteen different In stitutions of learning are coming; delegations of active, wide-awake young men are coming from the towns and cities. Altogether it will be a strong army of determined young Christian war riors that will take possession of the Capital early in February. The State Executive Committee, through the columns of this paper, extends an especial invitation to the Christian men of the State to attend this convention. Any man who is interested in the welfare of the men and boys of South Carolina is invited. It will be necessary for him, however, to secure a delegate’s credentials, and this can be done by writting A. G. Knebel, State Secretary Y. M. C. A., Charleston. S. C. Parties desiring fuller imformaiion should address him. There will be reduced rates on all the railroads. The people of Columbia will enter tain all delegates. Mayor’* Court. The mayor had a li »ht docket yes terday morning. Or." man of the col ored persuasion was tried for throw ing a roca at another man and hitting his own wife, and was given an option on five or twentv-five. He took the twenty-five and joined the good roads train. Two or three others were touched fur a dollar each, which they paid. —A farmer in Addison, Me., has a sheen which in one season yielded two fleeces, one black as ink, and the other white as snow. —Blue Ribbon flavoring extracts go twice as far as the ordinary kinds. Try the<n. —Ask S. B. Crawley & Co., about Sure Cure S .rsapanila, 5<> cents. — You need to take Sure Cure Sar saparilla, 50 cents. —Special Sale of Hosiery on Thurs day and Saturday only at "The Hust lers”—Buttery old stand. —Remember the special sale of Hosiery for Thursday and Saturday only at "The Hustlers”—Battery old stand.