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THE LARGEST Circulation of An/ Nrvspaps in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 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. 16 t 18DL GAFFNEY, S. C., FEUD W, MAKCd 38, 1903 81.00 A YEA It. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Eyents. ALL OVER THE STATE. £vents that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchange* for Quick Reading by Scores of Busy People. $25,000 has been put up by the sporting characters of Charleston to secure the Jeffries-Fitziminons fight. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of James B Brown, colored, who is accused of burning down a Baptist church at Hobersham on Broad river. A young man in Columbia shot several times at his wife who was returning home from the theatre Monday night and also fired at her sister None of the shots took effect. The police are on his track. M \ B. S. Doolittle, has purchased the half interest of Mr. John 1) Humphreys in the Spartan Inn pro perty and hotel business, in Spartan- bu g ond will hereafter conduct the business as proprietor and manager. T is trade was effected Monday. Tuesday night between 2 and 3 a. u . burglars entered the county trea surer’s office at Hampton, cracked the safe and riflad it of all its valua bles. Treasurer Langford states that the lose is about $200. Arrangements were made to get bloodhounds to pursue the robbers. The court of common pleas was engaged Monday with the hearing of the suit $20 000 damages brought by J. F. Fuller against the Bradley phos phate company, Fuller was charged with misappropriation of money en trusted to his keeping some months ago, but he was acquitted of the charge. He maintained his inno cence from the first and he now brings suit for false arrest and de famation of his character. The case will probably be given to the jury Tuesday. Monday afternoon about 0 o’clock a shot was beard in a small bouse in the yard of Dr. Little, who resides at 1501 Washington street in Columbia. Two officers were hastily summoned and found Rita Harris, a small negro girl of about 13 years of age, stretched on the floor with a bullet wound in her skull. On investigation it proved that she had been shot by a negro youth named Jim Singleton, who had been carelessly handling a pistol. She died in a few minutes without any sign or word. Court in Edgefield has been en gaged since last Monday in hearing railroad damage cases. The first of these tried was that of Mrs. Jose Griffin vs. the Southern Railway company. The plaintiff was a pas senger on defendant’s road on the 8th of last May, when the train was derailed, she claiming that she was thrown against a seat and injured. The <»qse was hotly contested fur two uu>e. Messre. J. Wm. Thurmond and S. McG. Simkins appeared for the plaintiff, and the railroad v, s represented hy Messrs. Abney A Thomson of Columbia. Th< jury returned a verdief in favor of ihc plaintiff for $375 00. Maud Udell, the handsome actress of Beaufort, is soon to wed the son of Ogden Doremus, the noted New York physician. Arthur L. Doremus is now at her home in Beau fort making preparations for the wed ding, though her mother is declared for some reason, to frown upon so immediate a marriage. Miss Odell is widely known as a stage beauty. She was with the Castle Square Thea tre Stock company at Boston a long time, then with James Oueil, and latterly with Weber Fields Hurly Burly company at Boston Music hall, leaving it to come south some weeks ago. She has been much entertained ' In Boston society. Information was received in Char leston Tuesday by Exposition officials to the effect that President Roosevelt had finally settled upon the date of his visit to Charleston and had prac tically approved the programme as suggested in regard to his appoint ments for the two or three days that he, with his party will spend in that section. The details show that the original programme will be closely followed and the Chief Executive and his family and friends will be shown everything that is possibly within the reach of the committees during the time that can be given to the trip. The President will arrive in Charleston on April 8th. As a result of an accident at the Orr mill in Anderson Monday after noon Hugh H. Scott, a machinist and engineer, lost his life, Scott was sent to Anderson several w eeke ago by the Westingbouse-Churcb -Kerr ei.nr.puLy to superintend the erection of the new 1,000 horse power engine. Steam was turned on the engine for the first time Monday and Scott was standing by watching its movements. He stepped up on the base to oil a bearing when his foot slipped and he fell ioto’the rapidly moving fly wheel. He was whirled around and hurled to the opposite side of the engine. He was horribly crushed and mangled, both legs being broken and the lower part of his body was crushed. Mr. Walter Biggers, who is mana ger for Mr. W. C. Whitner at his fine place, “Riverview” five miles above Rock Hill, shot Bill Caruthers, one of the farm bands Monday. The shot went through hie left forearm close to the wrist and very effectually stopped the progress of the negro who was advancing upon Mr. Biggers with evident intention of braining him with the rock which he held, Mr. Biggers in his rounds found that the negro had left his plow standing idle and was ‘'loafing.” He remonstrated and the altercation followed. Car uthers seized a rock and started for Mr. Biggers who promptly drew his pistol and stopped him. The wound is a pretty bad one, but not neces sarily serious. Six miles northeast of Saluda, near a settlement road leading from the home of Sion Corley, toward Little Saluda River, in a swamp overgrown with sweet gum trees, was found the body of John Chapman, whose sud den disappearence two weeks ago was mention on Saturday, all Tuesday was consumed by Coroner Gibson and his jury of inquest, and at night fall the investigation had not been completed. The post-mortem exami nation revealed a gunshot wound through the heart, another in the back and a third at the base of the skull. The negro’s tracks, as if run ning, are plainly visible from the plantation road, through the swamp, to where he fell. It is evident, from the nature of the wounds, that the shot in the heart and the one in the neck were fired at close range, while the one in the back was fired at a distance. That the one in the neck was the last shot fired is shown by the fact that the corn stalks and other drift from the river on either side of his head are filled with shot. The murder is a mystery though some are suspected. A KukIiik, K<mrin& Flood Washed down a telegraph line which Cbas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon, la., had to repair. ‘‘Standing waist deep in icy water,” he writes, "gave me a terrible cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors in Oakland, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said I had Consumption and could not live. Then I began using Dr. King’s New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bottles.” Posi tively guaranteed for Coughs. Colds and all Throat and Lung troubles by Cherokee Drug Co. Price 50c and $1 00. The switchmen’s strike on the Northern Pacific has been settled by the acceptance of every condition named by the strikers. The men discharged are reinstated and full pay for time lost is allowed. rr-.M-Ueally Starving- ‘‘After using a few bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure my wife' received per fect and permanent relief from a se- v re and chronic case of stomach trouble,” says J R. Holly, real estate, insurance and loan agent, of Macomb. 111. ‘ Before using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure she could not eat an ordinary meal without intense suffer ing. She is now entirely cured. Several physicians and many reme dies had failed to give relief.” You don’t have to diet. Eat any good food you want, but don’t overload the stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will always digest it for you. Cher okee Drug Company. The American Bicycle Company has discharged 700 men at its Toledo (Ohio) plant since January 1, owing to the falling off in the demand for goods. How to Cure the Urlp. Remain quietly at home and take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as directed and a quick recovery is sure to follow. That, remedy counteracts any tendency of the grip to result in pneumonia, which is really the only serious danger. Among the tens of thousands who have used it for the grip, not one case has ever been re ported that did not recover. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. The membership of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen has doubled since 1894. being now 40,728, against fewer than 21,000 in 1894. Coutrh Hettlrd on Her I.uiikn. ‘‘My daughter had a terrible cough which settled on her lungs,’ says N. Jackson, of Danville, 111. “We tried a great many remedies without relief, until we gave her Foley’s Honey and Tar which cured her. Refuse eub- atitutas, Cherokee Drug Company. BUFFALO HAS TWO PASTORS. Deacons Say the People Ar e Wicked. PUBLIC SCHOOL CORRUPT. Rev. Thomas Dixon Freache* at Buffalo and Stir* the Feuple—Deacon* Say People are Drifting Into HeatheuUm and the Wrath of God Expected. Correspondence of Tne Ledger.! Buffalo, March, 20.—The horny handed sons of toil are busy prepar ing to plant another crop. They are not quite as crazy on cotton as they were twelve months ago, but they may yet need be send to the asylum. The bottom lands have been badly washed by freshets and the upland by heavy rains. It is only a ques tion of time until the farming lands of this country will all be washed away and the farmers or most of them at least will have to either go the cotton mills or the poor house, and the poor negroes, what will be come of them? They will either have to starve or go back to Africa. The political pot is beginning to boil and candidates will soon be rising to the top lik^ bubbles All of them will be crying and pleading for office. They will want the dear people to tpke them up in their loving arms like little crying babes and gently lay them down in some fat office, I have already heard of some threats of mud slinging with some of the pros pective candidates and it would be a very good idea for the exi-cutive com mittee to nip it in the bud by for bidding personalties to be used in the campaign. Require every candidate to behave himself as a gentleman or get out of the race. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Sr , preached at Buffalo last Sunday. The news had spread over the country that he would preach and the congregation was larger than usual. The church was about haif full or possibly a lit tle more. In his sermon the Rev. Mr Dixon said that a man could be liberal and be lost from the good world when he dies. If that be-true, in behalf of the people of Buffalo I will say good bye to the world for them. Over here we have big hearted sinners and close fisted professed Christians. One seems to be about as bud as the other and they are all likely to go to hell together. One of our deacons says that we are drifting into heathernism. An other deacon says that he has never known as much wickedness among the people of Buffalo as there is at the present time and he says that be expects to see the wrath of almighty God poured out upon their heads it something does not check them. It now seems that we have reached such a low state of wickedness that it now requires two pastors to supply Buffalo church and it is doubtful if both of them can save us from the clutches of the devil. If Prof. \V. F. McArthur, the county superintendent of education has the backbone he will investigate the matter. Corruption in the pub lic. school is the cause of Buffalo church havirg two pastors. Some are trying to saddle the biame on Mr A. II. Moore, who is one of the school trustees. Mr. Moore resigned last summer because he could not conscientiously endorse all the dis honest methods connected with the school but was prevailed upon to withdraw his resignation before his successor was appointed. I am in clined to believe that in this particu lar instance Mr Moore was trying to act honestly and conscientiously with the public school money, but still think it Mr. McArthur’s duty to investigate his conduct and either exhonorate him or remove him which ever he justly deserves, but let him have justice by all means. If our county board of education had been any account last summer all this disturbance would have been prevented. Heretofore Mr. McArthur has ignored the wishes of the people of Buffalo and it does seem like he has whitewashed dishonesty and tried to make it look respectable. Come over to Buffalo Mr. McArthur and mingle with the masses of the people a few days and see if the pub lic school money is accomplishing what it should. But you already know that it isn’t. 1 do not wish to do Mr. McArthur any injustice, buc I want him to give the school children of this commun ity and Mr. Moore both justice. I have not touched on what seems to be the worst feature of the situation here and this article had better not provoke a reply. A still tongue makes a wise bead. There is one weak point I shall hit if any one re plies. Keep your beads level Buf falo folks. Bachelor. DISPENSARY PROFITS FOR THE DISPENSARY, They Should Be Used to Run the “Moral Institution.” VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW The Profit* of the Dlspeu.xary Should Go Toward Faying Cost of Lawsuits for Vio lations of the Law and Mot Tax Money- Other Matters. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Willie, March, 25.— 1 The poor we always have with us;” doubtless the rich would be glad to get to stay too. Some people are very charitably dis posed, especially when there is no object near them upon which to be stow their charity. ‘‘Circumstances alters cases;” for instance, when the other fellow needs the assistance you will seldom, very seldom, meet a woman but who has more to do and the poorest health of any other wo man in the world; therefore we are getting to almost believe that the Christian science people are about right in their dogma of ‘‘disconstru- ing altogether of the miod,” that is, as relates to woman ; but, notwith standing all their complaints of their aches and pains there are but f.?w men who had out as soon r.side in the jungles of Africa as in a house over which there is no woman to preside. Mrs. Martha Porter, widow of the late R M. Porter, who died at Gaff ney about a year ago, died at Pel- hum, S. C., about two wetks ago. She leaves seven little children to the mercies of the world. It is very doubtful if the legisla ture had appropriated the profits of the State’s great moral institution, the dispensary, towards paying the cost of the law suits for the violation of the dispensary law, and other in cidental expenses of the law, whether there would be but very little left for the free schools or not. We have known just one case of ‘‘violation of the dispensary,” law to cost the State over five hundred dollars, just in wit ness fees, and which only paid a hundred dollars in fines; however, we get the profits for the free school* and pay taxes to run the law, so we gu.;88 its all right any way, but, it seems to us that it would be more business like to take tne profits of the dispensary to run the dispensary. Simp Taylor who put a load of shot into his brother-in-law’s head some time ago, for which he got six months in the good roads society, (vulgarly called the county chaingang), also a case of small pox, while in the pest house last week ran away. At this writing, he and a negro are in bis mother's bam, near In man, both with the small pox. The farmer ought to congratulate himself upon the fact that farming does pay, whether he gets the profit or not, because all other professions are dependent upon the farm, not only for their profits, but even for their very existence. So brother, you can console yourself with the thought that if you don’t get a profit out of your farm, somebody else does. ‘‘Farming pays” all the same W. R. Johnson and Tom Clayton spent two days in the mountains last wo*, k on a horse trading expedition, but didn’t succeed in making any deals in horse flesh. Our farmers have been making good time the latter part of last week, though they are still badly be hind with their work. Octaves. Ktepprri Into Live Coal*. "When a child I burned my foot frightfully,” writes W. H. Eads, of Jonesville, Va., ‘‘which caused bor- rible ieg sores for 30 years, but Buck- len’s Arnica Salve wholly cured me after everything else failed.” In fallible for Burns, Scalds. Cuts, Sores. Bruises and Piles. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Italy’s Cabinet proposes to make a strike on the railways in that country a strenuous undertaking by classing such an action as a strike of public servants, punishable under the penal code. For the Complexion. The complexion always suffers from biliousness or constipation. Unless the bowels are kept open the impuri ties from the body appear in the form of unsightly eruptions. DeVVitt’s Little Early Risers keep the liver and bowels in healthy condition and re move the cause of such troubles. C. E. Hooper, of Albany. Ga., says: ‘‘I took DeWict’s Little Early Risers for biliousness. They were just what I needed. I am feeling better now than in years.” Never-gripe or dis tress. Safe, thorough and gentle. The very best pills. Cherokee Drug Company. COWPENS CHRONICLES. Farmert. Lnokliiir Se-lou*—Kuntl Delivery Giving Ferfect Satisfaction. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Cowpens, March 26.—Having re cently become a reader of your pro gressive paper, if you will allow me space I will give you a few dots from this part of the county. We are having some fine weather. Farmers are getting a move on them, but they seem to have a serious look on their faces as I meet them hauling out their guano. They seem to be afraid that something will happen to them in the fall. Whenever a farmer decides to plant his whole crop In cot ton, buy all the gusno be can get, buy bis supplies on time, hire all the help he can get, he is in just about as serious condition as be could pos sibly get into in the fall. The grass will get the cotton, the buzzard the mule and the sheriff the man, and the merchant that furnished him will suffer great loss. That will be the con dition of many of them. Our fathers raised hog and hominy, we raise cotton and debts. Fall oats are almost a failure and but few spring oats are sowed. I see in your last week’s paper that some one failed to get his mail a Pow ell’s, and he turns loose his artillery on the postmaster at Cowpens and the R F. 1). It reminds me of a bull dog puppy we once tried to raise. Just as soon as the moon began to get near the full the dog began to bark, and we nor none of our neigh bors could get to sleep for a week or more, so we had to get rid of the dog. It is just what the United States had to do with some of the postmasters at certain places where they were of little importance and establish the R. F. D , which is giving perfect sat isfaction to the farmers and will add much to the prosperity of our coun try. So there will be considerable grumbling wirh those who have lost their job with Uncle Sara and Uncle Sam will receive some dead shots from their friends just because be has told them they must go to work, and that he will not care for them any more. Anxious Reader. Seven Yearn In Red. ‘‘Will wonders ever cease?” inquire the friends of Mrs. L. Pease, of Law rence, Kan. They knew she had been unable to leave her bed in seven years on account of hidney and liver trouble, nervous prostration and general debility; but, “Three bottles of Electric Bitters enabled me to walk,” she writes, “and in three months I felt like a n^w person.” Women suffering from Headache, Backache, Nervousness, Sleepless ness, Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells will find it a priceless blessing. Trv it. Satisfaction is guaranteed. Only 50o. Cherokee Drug Co. The Charlotte police drag net rounded up Tuesday night Charles Graham, a Concord negro, who is wanted in that town for the larceny of money from a negro woman—Mary Moore by name. The woman came down from Concord Wednesday, iden tified the negro and returned to swear out a warrant and later on an officer came down and took Graham back to the scene of his crime. Tin* Will Intvreit Mnny. To quickly introduce fa. fa. B. (Bo tanic Blood Balm), the famoun South ern blood cure, into new homes, we will send, absolutely free, it) 00<) trial treatments. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) quickly cures old ulcers, scrofula, eczema, itching skin and blood humors, cancer, eating, festering sores, boils, carbuncles, pimples or offensive eruptions, pains in bones or joints, rheumatism, ca tarrh, or any blood or skin trouble. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) heals every sore or pimple, makes the blood pure and rich and stops all aches and pains. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) thoroughly tested for 30 years in hospital and private prac tice, and has cured thousands of cases given up as hopeless. Sold at drug stores, $1 per large bottle. For free treatment write to Biood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga. Medicine sent at once, prepaid. Describe trouble and free medical advice given. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) gives life, vigor and strength to the blood. The finest Blood Purifier made. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) gives a healthy Blood supply to the skin and entire system. English shepherds’ wages for 1902, as settled at the annual hiring fair, Hawick, averaged about $200 for the year, with a cow, three bolls of meal and pototo land. Men not paid in cash got fifty sheep. A Severe Cold for Three Month*. The following letter- from A. J Nusbaum, of Batesville, Ind., tells its own story. “I suffered for three months wit^h a severe cold. A drug gist prepared me some medicine, and a physician prescribed for me. yet, I did not improve. I then tried Foley’s Honey and Tar, and eight doses cured me.” Refuse substitutes. Chero kee Drug Company. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Item* Concerning Car Jfelgli- bor* Beyond the Line Which May Fr-ive Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. Robert F. Madden, sport, who is oadly wanted by the police of Greater New York, is supposed to be in Char lotte and the police of that city have been asked to look out for him. On Sunday morning the dead body of Sarah Benge, who had been miss ing from her home at Ronda, Wilkes county, since Feb. 28, was found in a mill pond two miles away from her home by some boys who were fishing. Examination showed that she had been murdered and thrown in the pond. The democratic State committee Tuesday night called the State demo cratic conveotion to meet on July 16.h at Greensboro instead of Ral eigh. This is the first time in a gen eration that a political State conven tion has been held outside of Raleigh. Tl'.e change is caused by unsatisfac tory hotel accomodations in Raleigh, Greensboro having four large hotels, two of them new ones Raleigh peo ple regard the change favorably, be cause they say it will spur up the building of the proposed new large hotel and new auditorium. Mr. J. J. Cobb, of Weldon, who has been missing for several days, was found dead m the canal at that place Monday. He bad been foully murdered. There were three pistol shot wounds ana a wound on the head made with some instrument, supposed to be a hatchet, as a bloody hatchet was found in an old vacant house near by. The coroner’s jury found that be was murdered by par ties unknown to the jury at that time. The doctors who made the autopsy say Mr. Cobb was either dead or unconscious when placed in the water as there was water in the lungs and clotted blood was found in the brain. An unknown white man was struck and instantly killed Saturday night by the Southern's freight train, No. 46, as it was approaching the Yadkin river bridge near Selisbury. The engineer only saw the man the mo ment before he was struck He was then standing beside the track, at the top of the high embankmeot which forms the approach to the bridge on this side. Perhaps he bad just made a desperate dash for safety in crossing the bridge and had not yet collected bis wits, or it may be that he merely made the mistake of standing too near the track in a place where there was little room. No one knows how this was. The skull was injured in two places and almost crushed, no other injuries appeared elsewhere on the cropse. The body of James Waiker, the ne gro who poisoned the whole family of Dr. David T. Tayloe, of the tf'ate board of medical examiners, was founi hanging from a limb of i: gutn tree on the Greenville road just 'out side of the town limits of Washington early Tuesda’ morning. A man com ing to town ran into tiio body, which hung out over the walking path. He hastened into town to inform the au thorities. Coroner Tayloe was sum moned and he empaneled a jury who brought a verdict that the negro came to his death by lynching at the hands of unknown persons. The ne gro was about 19 years old. When some one attempted to use the wires to VVilliamston they found that the telegraph and telephone wires were hoth cut. The lynching party came from the Williamston direction and when the body was found it had not been long since the lynching took place as the body was oot then rigid. A blind tiger wagon went among some negroes io Rutherfordton a few nights ago and offered liquor for sale by the keg very cheap. The kegs held five gallons each and were offered for $5. The negroes, after sampling the whisky, set about to get up the money for two kegs. They succeeded in raising $7 75 and the liberal deal ers concluded to sell and wait till some other time for the balance, $2 25. The negroes at once set about for a division of their purchase. They began to pour, but only a pint of whicky could be poured from each keg. They could bear a liquid shake about in the kegs but it would not come out. They took out the head of one of the kegs by the removal of a hoop. Inside they found a pint flask with its neck ingeniously fas tened to the bung hole of the keg and entirely surrounded by water. Thus they paid $7 75 for one quart of whis key with nine and three-fourths quarts of water to weaken it.