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. THE LARGEST Circalatioa of Any Nswspaps in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C, ••v 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. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY. 8. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1902 $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. £venta that Have Taken l*Iare from One End of the State to the Other Culled from exchange* for tjulck Reading by Score* of Vuh.v People. The state pension roll has increased I, 200 in spite of the 37)0 deaths. A large adbition has been made to the constabulary force in Charleston. Columbia people say if the State Fair is not held there they will or* ganize a Columbia Fair. The united synod of the Lutheran Church will meet in St. John’s Church, Charleston, on May 7. Aiken is to have a $800,000 tourist hotel before another season opens. It is to be built by Mrs. H. G. Beck with, of Colorado. Eighteen Southern hardware and mill supply firms organized at Char leston, as the Southern Supply and Machinery Di*altrs. On Sunday night the warehou of Swift A Co. in Columbia was en tered by burglars and lard to the amount of $22 was stolen. Near Fairmont Tuesday Constable Ewbanks seized four gallons of contra band whis-key which were concealed under a brush pile in the woods. A gang of robbers entered the storeroom of the Epworth Orphanage in Columbia Saturday night and stole some $80 worth ol provisions. The State Summer School will be held at Rock Hill from June 22nd to July 29th. The State Teachers’ As sociation will meet thereon July 19th. Convict Isaac Johnson, colored, has escaped from the Charleston County chaingang with his entire prison outfit, including bali, chain and stripes. The constables are still making it hot for blind ^tigers in Charleston. Within the.last few days 1 ,(>00 4 bottles and 1(5 barrels of beer and 4(1 gallons of liquor have been seized. The entire force in the Seaboard shops at Abbeville struck Saturday because of the emplotnent of a Col umbia ‘‘scab.” The matter was set tled by the discharge of the “scab.” By the wi'I of the late Mrs. Dr. Maxwell, of Greenwood,Furman Uni versity comes into possession of her extensive and valuable library. It will be quite an addition to the Fur man library. The Atlantic Coast Line has pur chased the Flant System and will as sume control July 1, 1902. After that, date the Southern Railway will have trackage rights over the system for ail its trains. Three new streets in Newberry have been named Montgomery, Mc- Cravy and Millikan, for John H. Montgomery and S. T. McCravy of Spartanburg, and Seth M. Milliken, the cotton mill magnate of New York. Governor McSweeney has received a large number of applications for the Cecil Rhodes scholarship although it will be perhaps months before the authorities receive any commun- , ication from the executors in South Africa. Although there is nothing definite to be stated on the subject, the prob ability is that the consolidation of the Southern and S. C. & Ga. Exten sion will take place within the next few days. Up to Tuesday no such information had been given out to agents. The Bennettsviile Democratic Club was re-organized last Saturday in op position to Senator McLaurin by a vote of 76 to 58. Anti-McLaurin delegates were elected to the county -convention. Senator McLaurin’s friends claim that the election was not a fair test as there £tre 572 names on the Bennettsviile club rolls. A negro whose name is said to be States Gist fell dead on Main street in Union at 10:30 Tuesday. When examined by Drs. R. R. Burry and J. M. Lawson, of that place, they said his heart failed to act. It is believed there was something else the matter with him. Gist weno into the law office of W. W. Dixon and told him that some one had hypnotized him and took $150 from him. He said that he went to Tinsley’s jewelry store and took a piece of gold worth $24. He evidently wanted to consult a lawyer about the matter. Mr. Dixon told him he could not take the case and referred him to B. F.’Townsend, who in turn sent him to Mr. H. L. Scaife. The next seen of him he was lying dead on the street. the Snoddy farm, ten miles above Spartanburg, Clarence Hardy, a young white man, met with a singu lar accident. The mule attached to the plow was not making sufficient progress to please the plowman, and he shouted out to the animal to step lively. Simultaneously the singletree of the plow struck a cockle burr bush and a number of the burrs were thrown upon the air. One of these fell into Hardy’s mouth and in an at tempt to dislodge it he succeeded in forcing it cross-wise further down his throat, and into the windpipe, com pletely obstructing the vocal chord. The lad was rendered speechless aside from severe pain and suffering. The burr was finally removed and Hardy was all right again. George Boinett, 18 years old, of No. 84 Drake street, Charleston, a switch man employed by the Plant System Railway, while at work at the foot of Reid street in that city early Wednes day morning, was run over by the tender of a switch engine and badly crushed and mangled. In some wav he lost his footing while standing on the tender and fell beneath the heavy wheeis. One of his feet was cut off and his left arm was so badly mashed that amputation was necessary. Af- tr - the accident the young man was ’ ed to St. Francis Xavier Infir- y for treatment. Not till after d arrival at that institution did • ioinett lose consciousness. In spite -cf his excruciating pain he was calm ...... 1 ...^1 .4 at »• #1 \ « 4 »WT « 4 and collected and those around him. critical. conversed with His condition is TIioiihmihI* Mmt Into Kvilt*. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. Don’t be an exile when Dr. King’s New Discovery or Con sumption will cure you at home. It’s the most infallible medi cine for Coughs, Colds, and all Throat and Lung diseases on earth. The first dose brings relief. As tounding cures result from persistent use Tiial buttles free at Cherokee DrugCompany. Price 50c and $1.00. Every bottle guaranteed. LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL NEWS ITEMS, Farmers Pushing Their Work During Pretty Weather. THE SCARCITY OF CROWS. A light Rain Needed to Hring L'p Cotton and Corn —Wheat Looking Well—Touch ing Incident In Dallas—Some Dispensary Figure* and their Ingenious Arrangement. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, April 30 —A light shower of rain would do good in bringing up corn and cotton. Farm ers complain of tough land this sprinc. The winter freezes have done very little towards pulverizing the land. Wheat is looking very well—it is growing very fast and is generally thick enough on the ground. So far this spring we have escaped storms or hail and wind. The rains have generally been mild and gentle— without that dash which so often ruins and washes away plowed land. Yesterday Mrs. J L. S.’s turkey gobbler and a rooster got into a fight. The rooster struck and fastened one of his spurs into the gobbler’s goozle (as Az Garner calls it,) and when mater familias ran out to part them the turkey was standing on top of the rooster who was unable to extricate himself. Mr. Jim Smarr, of Hopewell, came over yesterday. “Dick,” your answer to the first suppose Aunt Jennie Clary will say about ii ? The ca‘3 of Samuel W. Mitchell vs. the Woodmen of the World reported n cor last letter resulted in a mis- trial. Mrs. Mary Estes visited Mrs. T E^tes las, Monday. Both of them have been sick neai ly all the year, dnd they haven’t seen each ether during the time. Somebody robbed Professor Comer’s fish nets last we*!. He has been catching a good many fish, but this will in all probability break it up for awhile. The postoffice at Hopewell, York county, has been discontinued and, hereafter, thatsection will be supplied by the rural free delivery service from Hickory Grove. We acknowledge! our||inability to understand the array of figures^ and their ingenious arrangement which appears in the Sunday News of April 27th, purporting to be the amount of dispensary profits that are necessary to give each county $75 per school. The compilation i« made by the Colombia correspondent of the News and Courier and Mr. K^hn is general'v right in what be says and does. In this list we find Greenwood at the head with $6 00; Laurens comes next with $7.00; then comes Cherokee with $9 84; while Ander son, Charleston. Chester, DaHirgton, Fairfield, Georgetown. Richland and Union get nothing. Horry gets $2 - 907 78; Williamsburg $1,890 50; while other counties come in for amounts varying from $51 51 to $1,- 834 20 We are not in a position to throw any light upon this mystery and d n ? t propose to attempt it. We must think there is some inequality somewhere,—some screw loose in the educational machine. It is possible A Ledger 1’rlze Winner. One of the chief virtues so often overlooked by youth, is silence. iriair m W'!ioo|)ing Cough. A woman who has had experience with this disease, tells how to prevent 'any dangerous consequences from it. She says: Our three children took whooping cough last summer, our baby boy being only three months old, and owing to our giving them Chamberlains’ Cougn Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness and came out in much better health than other children whose parents did not use this remedy. Our oldest little girl would call lustily for cough syrup between whoops.—Jessie Pinkey Hall, Springville, Ala. This Remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Some people are born others have fallen in love. ignorant i? • T • ' -■‘T if that some counties have, multiplihe these schools so as to make ted greatest possible demand upon this fund, while others, with a disposition to economize, have taken the opposite course. Our people generally have done what they can to carry out the law. Every child within the school age has been enrolled, so far as we know. Year after year the cry htq been, “Bring out the children and have them enrolled,—it will increase our apportionment of the three mill tax, and give us larger add better schools etc ,etc.” Had Mr. Kohn have had the data to have gone further he might have shown clearly what seems to he an unsolvable mystery. We are not at all in the fault-finding mood. - We only get about three and sudden changes of temperature—raitf^ fc r, bt*$e paid him by his comrades, I one months school each wind and sunshine often intermingled I Ge °-; Gordon said: “My comrades, and w* never pay our teacher over $30 I have been touched many times, ami r l, " ln,,1 Sola tic Rheumatism Cured After Fourteen \ ears of SufferliiK. “I have been afflicted with sciatic rheumatism for fourteen years.” says Josh Edgar, of Germantown, Cal. “I was able to be around but constantly suffered. I tried everything I could hear of and at last was told to try Cnamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I did and was immediately relived and in a short time cured, and iVata happy to say it has not since 'nfJ turned.” Why not use this liniment, and get well? Jt is for sale by Chero kee Drug Co. Many small sins are hatched by the incubator of idleness. ** A (lentle Hint. In our style of climate, with its dtf* igled in a single day—it is no wonder that our children, friends and relatives are so frequently taken from us by neg lected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle;pf Boschee’s German Syrup kept about your home for immediate use will pre vent serious sickness, a large doctor's bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing (3pn- sumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. Nothing is more friendly to a man, than a friend in need.—Flatus. Wliat is Foley’* Kliliiey Cure? Answer: It is made from a pre scription of a leading Chicago physi cian, and one of the most eminent in the country. The ingredients are the purest that money can buy, and are scientifically combined to get their Tuesday morning while plowiogjou , utmost value. Cherokee Drug Co.^- whnfqTpiTArr'Vrcm. What do you Miss Minnie Wooten, of Blythewood, S. C., who is the prize winner of six months subscription to The Ledger. She is not 16 years old yet. This shows you to whnt pretty mid bright girls we are sending The Ledger. question is right but you missed the other. Each man hud an income of $420. The map- is sixty-six square inches on slate, and one amt one nioety-siith square inches to the square tnile. S'ou are entitled to The Ledger three months if you will give your real name. At what time between 9 and 10 o’clock are. tha bands of a watch seven, hyi'fiiftes’ apart? Also forty seconds apart? •V. Ii was a solemn and touching inci- dOpt in the Dallas, Texas, reunion la&b Saturday when Gen. John B Gordon pronounced the reunion exer cises at an end, and by a special invocatfbn asked God’s blessing no}, only upoovthe occasion, but upon the wholfe country. In response to a THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. every^year ‘this old Confederate heart grows.more tepder and loving as the end appears. W|ien the end comes I want your haod^ to bury me, and on my tomb I woiorld have within, “Here lisa a Confederate.” Beyond doubt Gen. Gordon is among the greate8t)Americans living. If not the very greatest. He posses ses all the abjjiile traits of a man—a brave soIdift'ryW eloquent orator, a wise statesman';and a pure Christian gentleman. Like Stonewall Jackson, he is a man of prayer, and that is the secret of his greatness. In all probability he will be at the Greenville reunion tills summer, where bis comrades will have the opportunity to grasp Ids hand before they pass over the river that dividih time from eternity. The question is frequently ask d, What has become of the crows? We see very few oh them nowadays. Usually at this tiiqe’of year they over run the fields and pull corn, but they are not doing so now,. We do not claim for our teach' rs larger salaries or longer terms than other sections get, but we do claim for them and the people they service subs'antial justice, fair treat men t and an equitable division . . of the public money said to be 1 fully identify Neal if he was guilty Interesting Item* Concern 1 hr Our Neigh bors Ileyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Reader*. Walker Hill, a colored boy on the Gastou county chaingang for stealing turkeys, pigs, etc., at Gastonia one year ago. died Saturday of pneumo nia. He had served about a year and had another to serve. Messrs. Finger & Anthony, electro platers of SalLbury, are preparing to move their plant from that city to Lexington, a stock company of $U>.- 000 having been organized by citizens of that place to conduct the business on an enlarged scale. Mr. W. L. Litaker, the brakeman whr> had bis left ankle crushed aud briktu at the 8<>uthern Railway yards in Charlotte Monday night, and was taatn to the Private Hospital, had his leg amputated Tuesday, just above the ankle. He will recover from his injuries. The Ananias Club, composed of the Raleigh newspaper men, will take a little spring outing at Fuquay Springs next Sunday afternoon when the sea son opens at that very popular resort. It appears that the railroad, in its extension,is not to pass direct by the spring, as was hoped. The* Southern Baptist Convention which meets in Asheville, May 9, promises to be the most largely at tended of any of tiie late conventions. The sessions will be in the new audi torium, seating several thousand peo ple. Governor \V. J. Northern of Georgia wiil call the convention to order. It is said be wiil decline re- election. A number of other names have been suggested for the position. A new paper, the King’s Mountain News, will make its appearance Thursday May 8'h, Dr. L. A. Bikle will be editor and Leslie McGinnis and S. L. Ferguson will be proprietors These two young men are both skilled printers and will be sure to get out a neat, newsy paper. It will be a six column home print weekly folio. They have bought the Cherr) ville Observer outfit and moved it to King’s Mountain. Tuesday morning about daylight, while a very heavy rain and thunder storm was raging over Fayetteville, lightning struck and set afire the Rankin Wood Works and Planing Mills of that place, destroying the business office with books and papers, finishing room, store room, etc , but leaving whole the machinery build ing There was insurance of $14,(XK) on the plant, and the loss on the property burned is estimated at $3,500. A fight between Will Boocker and a woman named Lytle, both colored, which occurred near Gorman’s bridge in Buncombe county Tuesday, has perhaps resulted fatally. The cause of the trouble cannot be ascertained. Boocker’s throat w^s cut from ear to ear and at l»£t account he was in a dying condition. Dr. Glenn, the coun ty physician, was called, and when he found him his windpipe was sev ered and he was breathing through hfs neck. His recovery is considered doubtful. The woman was badly cut, but not seriously. Ben Neal, the young white man ar rested in Charlotte Tuesday, was vis ited by Postoffice Inspector Schwan- emberg, of Charleston, who arrived Wednesday,and the inspector believes from all descriptions that Neal is guilty of robbing two postoffices or aiding in the same. The inspector was, however, not fully convinced of Neal’s identity and so wired to Char leston for other parties who could the A. & X. C. depot in Kinston ob served a negro hanging around the depot in a suspicious manner and he determined to keep watch, an well he did, for about 11 o’clock the negro stealthily approached a sealed box car and broke it open, evidently thinking it was filled with merchan dise. Policeman Taylor was notified aud that officer arrested the fellow, rec* gnizing in him the familiar feat ures of Julius Marable, employed at the Gay Lumber Co.’s plant at that place. The officer escorted the dis appointed prisoner to the county hotel and locked him iu. After having been out about two hours Tuesday afternoon, the jury before which the Lowrance brotners were tried in Charlotte returned a verdict of not guilty, and Judge Coble discharged them from custody. Joe ard Henry Lowrauce were charged with he murder of Alexander Gibson at Huntersville last January. The trial began Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock and practically all the evi dence was finished before the court adjourned Tuesday only a few char acter witnesses were introduced and then speeches were made by Solicitor Webb and Mr. Plummer Stewart for the prosecution, and by Mr. E. T. Cansler for the defendants. Charged with assisting other churches in religious worship and with distributing a heterodox class of religious literature, Elijah Fesper- man, a member of the Golgotha Bap tist church, in Dilworth, Charlotte, has been dismissed from the church. H is trial occurred Sunday night be fore Rev. J. B Bowen, pastor of the church, who lives nea*- Matthews, Mecklenburg county ; R v. T. B. Phil lips and officers of the church It is alleged .that Fespermun is a sanctifi- eationa'ist, though he averred that he is no more inclined that way “than a lot of others.” Golgotha church is styled a Gospel Mission Baptist church. A specific charge against Fesperman, it is said, is that he as sisted Mr C. P. Wheeler in holding tent meetings. Hi; Kept Hi* Twelve years ago J. of Hartford, Conn., leg with a rustv wire. Ltfir. W. Sullivan, scratched his Inflammation appropriated for them. We want nothing more and will be content with nothing less. * All this will be explained away in two word* hy those w’hose duty and interest it i* to make the explanation. “Back Fashions” no doubt will be the explanation we will get. But the question arrises, “How did any of the counties get so far behind? So wrhen we sum the whole thing up we conclude that it Is Ahab and not Elijah who troubleth Israel. Farmers ha'6 most of their bottom land* to break up and plant yet. .We hardly think hey will plant them all. as they have been so un fortunate for tile last few years in get’ing them drowned out. The land in many places is so ter ribly washed thst it is unfit to cul Mj. .Goldman Rlrby’s place is being tlvato, and will be idle until It catches overrun with rats, and he waula a up again. J l. H. and blood poisoning set in. For two years he suffered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, “but,” he writes, “I userj one bottle of Electric Bitters and 1 1-2 boxes of Buckien’s Arnica Salve and my 'eg was sound and well as ever.” For Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Halt Rheum, Sores and all blood disorders Electric Bitters has no rival on earth Try them {Cherokee Drug Company will guarantee satisfaction or refund money. Only 50 cents. The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities—Rus- kin. Don’t Start Wronif. Don’t start the summer with a lin gering cough or cold. We all kaow what a “summer cold” is. It’s the hardest kind to cure. Often it “hangs on” through the entireseason. Take it in hand right now. A few doses of One Minute Cough Cure will set you right. Sure cure for coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts at once. Children like it. “One Min ute Cough Cure is the best cough medicine I ever used,” says J. H. Bowles, Groveton, N. H. “I never found anything else that acted so safely and quickly.” Cherokee Drug Co Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more saucy.—Frank lin. and the man wanted. Neal was tried before the Recorder and sent to the chaingang for thirty days for vagran cy. “His paralysis will be all right in a few days,” said an officer. Reports from Montgomery county bring no new developments in the case of the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Ray, of Troy,. A report wa% conveyed to Albemarle Wednesday by the mail carrier that it was being cir culated that Ray had run away, but this, is not believed, as there seems to have been no reasop that could have been assigned for his acting in this manner. Home eight or ten years ago a man named Burgess mysteriously disappeared from the same section and was never heard of afterwards, although diligent search was made for him. The disappearance of Ray bids fair to become as deep a mystery as that of Burgess. Saturday night the watchman at A Fine Patent Flour. The celebrated “Clifton” flour, madec-by the Bransford Mills, Owens boro, Ky., is introduced in this market. The ‘’Clifton” flour is not only one of the finest pateat flours made, but every sack is sold under the registered trade mark of the Anti- Adulteration League, which offers a reward of $1000 to any one who will discover any adulteration in this flour. The proprietor says this means more now than ever, as the pure food law passed by Congress two years ago is altogether inoperative. As evidence of this, he says the Illinois State Pure Food Commission recently analyzed the flour of six different mills, located in as many different states, and found a poison ous mineral known as barytes in the product of every one of them. This mineral is just as white and fine as 'flour, and cannot be detected except by chemical analysis, but its delete rious effects will be felt by anyone who eats bread made from flour con taining it. Having the League's guarantee of purity is indeed a strong point in favor of the “Clifton” brand, to say nothing of its superior quality of a high grade patent flour. The ‘Clifton” will be vigorously pushed ; in this market. For sale by R. M. i Wilkins '& Co., in GafTaey, and Jones A* Duff, in Blacksburg. j