Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 3 i A I - \ ■ :v, SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE Tht 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., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1902 81.00 A YEAR* THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Brents. ALL OVER THE STATE. Bwita tliat Have Taken Place from One Bnd of the State to the Other Called from Rxchange* for Quick Beading by Score, of <Baay People. A alight earthquake shock was felt St Hopkins Saturday morning. Columbia now has a society for the prereutlon of cruelty to animals. Mrs. Virginia D. Young is writing a book on the prominent women of tiouch Carolina. Orangeburg has been chosen as the place of meeting next year of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. The State reunion of the Confede- rate veterans will be held in the city of’GreenTille the 6tb, 7tb and 8th of August. Another mill is to be built in the suburbs of Greenville. It will cost $200,000 and John 1. Woodside is to be president. The state board of assessors raised the railroad assesment more than a million dollars at their meeting in Columbia last week. Mrs. Beckwith, a wealthy western woman, is going to build a $5100,000 hotel at Aiken, much to the disgust of the northern cottagers. The Seaboard Air Line is contem plating having a line built from Beth- uneto Kershaw by way of Haile gold mine. G. W. Cavin, engineer, was fatal ly injured in a head-on collision on the Atlantic Coast Line near Char leston Sunday morning. Tbirty-nine candidates, all male, and two of them negroes, have appli ed to the State board of medical ex aminers for license to practice. A lump of dark colored substance, supposed to be u meteorite, fell in *he yard of T. W. Hulsall at Charles ton Monday. An extra term of cou rt has been or -der«tl fur Kershaw County tojeonvene the first Monday ip July, Judge-elect Turdy presiding. forecast Officer Jesunofsky of Char leston reported the presence of vol canic dust from Martinique floating in the air Wednesday. Sumter, Union, Bamberg, Laurens, Aiken, and Greenwood have each .made bids for the removal of Colum bia Female college. ^ Walter Edward, who is accuscdl of murdering his wife iu Laurens a few 4ays|ago, has been^graoted bail in the sum of $2 500. In a few days the Seaboard Air Line will file a deed of indenture with the clerk of court in each county in the State, to cover $70,000,000 worth •of bonds. Dr. Jessie M. Thorton of Virginia has been elected physician for Con verse college. She is a gradute of tbe Women’s Medical college of Bal timore. A negro attempted to bold up and rob T. D. Cardwell in Columbia Mon day. Mr. Cardwell defended him self till a friend came to bis assis tance and the negro escaped. A negro attempted an assault upon a sixteen-year-old girl in Fort Mill Saturday. Several suspects have been arrested and a lynching nar rowly averted. Congressman Latimer has intro duced a bill for tbe relief of the Char leston exposition. It proposes to appropriate $150,000 to pay its in debtedness. J. B. Duke, the millionaire Tobac co dealer of Winaton, N. C. has placed orders for a million dollar cotton mill to be located on Catawba river, at Great Falls. Chester county. The governor has appointed Dr. W. W. Kay of Richmond county to be a member of tbe board of regents of tbe State hospital for tbe insane to suc ceed Anthony White, deceased. A* delegation from the board of directors of the Jamestown exposi tion to he held at Hampton Roads, Va!, iu l'J07 spent Monday aud Tues day at Charleston studying the Charleston Exposition. J. E. McGrath, a young man in the employ of W. B, (Smith Whaley A Co., of Columbia, forged a check for $5 (Saturday, using the signature of bis employers. He has been ar rested. W. H. Hodges, a flagman on the Heaboard Air Line, went to sleep on the track while on duty near hwan- sea (Sunday morning and was prob ably fatally injured by the train he bad been sent to Hag. It is announced that the Charles ton and Western Carolina Railway and the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Rallway|will build a new de pot and make other improvements at Laurens to tbe amount of $15,000 the work to begin June 1. Senator McLaurin’s nomination to tbe vacant judgeebip on tbe court of claim will probally be sent to the Senate within the next few days. It was announced at tbe White House Wednesday that tbe President bad already picked his man for tbe place and that none others need apply. A few night ago Wm. Vangban, a colored fireman on the Seaboard, fancied be saw a headlight ahead of his train which was tbe fast mail from Florida and running at 60 miles an hour, and before tbe engineer couid stop he jumped from tbe engine. His skull was crushed and his body badly bruised. He will probally -re cover. The board of trustees of Clemsou College will bold anothor meeting at the college on June 4. Speculation is rife as to just what will be done at this meeting, but tbe matter of Pres ident Hartzog’s resignation will like ly come up for settlement. It is not known whether another president will be elected or the present one re tained. Everything has been mov ing quietly at the institution since the settlement of the recent difficul ties with the sophomore class. Sight Whk Her Terror. “I would cough nearly all night leng,” writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alexandria, Ind., "and could hard ly get any sleep. I had consumption so bad that if I walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood but, when all other medicines failed three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery wholly cured me aud I gained 58 pounds.” It’s absolutely guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c. and $1 00. Trial bottles free at Cherokee Drug Co. drug store Borne women dress to please men and some to worry other women. Don't Mturt Wrooff. Don’t start the summer with a lin gering cough or cold. We all koow what a “summer cold” is. It’s the hardest kind to cur§, Often it “hangs on” through the entireseason. Take it in band,right now. A few doses of One Minute Cough Cure will set you right. Bure cure for coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all throat aud lung troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts at once. Children like it. “Ooe 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. Tbe man who cannot be ruled by Some Woman cannot rule men. SnvM Two Trom Death. “Our little daughter bad an almost fatal attack of whooping cough aud bronchitis,” writes Mrs. W. K. Hav- Hand, of Armonk, N. Y., “but, when all other remedies failed, we aaved her life with Dr. King’s New Discov ery. Our niece, who had Consump- tiou in an advanced stage, also used tbia wonderful medicine and today ahe is perfectly well.” Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to Dr. King’s New Discovery as to no other medicine on earth. Infallible for Coughs and Colds. 50c end $1.00 bottles guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Company. Trial bottles free. The kiss that burns is tbe caress of a Scorpion. •A ChatteiiooffM Druggikt'a Statement. Robt. J. Miller, proprietor of tbe Read House Drug Store of Chatta nooga, Tenn., writes: “There is more merit in Foley’s Honey aud Tar than in any other cough syrup. Tbe calls for it multiply wonderfully and we sell more of it than all other cough syrups combined. Cherokee Drug Company. • A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. Want* Other* to Know. “1 have used DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for constipation and torpid liver and they are all right. I am glad to indorse them fur I think when we find a good thing we ought to let others know it.” writes Alfred Heinze, Quincy, III. They never gripe or dis tress. Sure, safe oilis. Cherokee Drug Co. When a man starts a conversation by saying bo’s a friend of yours look out for some inpertinant remarks, Foley’s Honey and Tar is peculiar ly adapted for asthma, bronchitis and hoarseness. Cherokee Drug Co. LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL HAPPENINGS. to ' , News of the Week Gathered for Ledger Readers. BY OUR CORRESPONDENT < Interesting Items Almat People end Things In the Lower Section of the County Gath ered up by Oar Begalnr Correspondent and Given to Ledger Beaders. (Correspondence of Tbe Ledger.) Em Jakf, May 28 —These cool nights are decidedly against the cot ton crop and make it look sickly these mornings. But tbe warm sunshine through the day gives it life and keeps it growing. Fires and thick clothing are comfoitable these mornings. In a few days with good weather and health farmers will have brought it to a stand—which is nearly one- half the battle in raising it. The stands are generally good in this sec tion and people have kept up well with their work, but it has kept them moving. While in Gaffney yesterday we noticed a planter in tbe hardware store of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Go., made by Mr. Caldwell, of Fairfield county, S. C , which is destined to r evolutionize our other farming. It plants it in hills, thus dispensing with the tedious pains of chopping it out. It puts the hills seven, four teen or twenty-eight inches apart as desired. Any farmer who is one will tell you that the most critical time is in getting it thinned out. This planter does this part of the work at the planting. Thus it comes up already thinned out and nothing else is to be done but go ahead with the plow. * We are not merely writing for the purpose of advertising the Hardware Company’s goods. W’e want tp say to our brother farmers that they can aave themselves (and often their wives and daughters too) many, a hard days work by adopting this labor saving device. All over tbia country we find white ladies pulling the hoe as If for dear life (and its no disgrace to them either) trying to get their crops thinned out. The timely suggestion of the name of Col. H. P. Griffith for the com mander of the second brigade of South Carolina Veterans meets onr cordial endorsement. While there are many distinguished veteran soldiers within the territorial limits of tbe second brigade, we know of none better qualified to discharge the duties than Col. Griffith and we hope to see him unanimously elected. We regret to bear of the d ath of Mrs. Mary Whisonant, of Blacksburg, which took place in Atlanta day before yesterday. Mrs. Wbisouant was tbe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Ham brick, of York county, just across tbe river, this place. Her father was killed at tbe battle of Seoood|Manassas. He was % member of the 17th South Caro lina regiment. Tbe deceased was a pupil of tbe writer and much be loved by her friends and associates. We enjoy Uncle Ives’ letter from tbe re-union, also that of T. M. Lit tlejohn, Esq., write again gentlemen. A modest yonng lady who don’t care to see her name in print too of ten gives an answer to tbe question proposed (we believe) by an-over-tbe- river correspondent sometime ago, about the ages of father, son and grand sons. Tbe father is 59$. the •on 39$ and tbe grand son 10$' years old respectively. Our thanks are due Rev. 8. T. Creech for a present in tbe shape of a nice bat. Perhaps this good brother if be cannot be instrumental iu effecting a change in tbe heart he can improve tbe appearance of tbe bead and thus rush tbe farmer through tbe latter. However we take the intent for tbe act and thank him just tbe same, only adding this request, that when be ’turns Ms ser- monic batteries loose upon tbe world, the flesh, and the devil be will not ceSHfl firing until he makes the other fellow feel as bad aa we do at least, for we are told, misery loves com pany we are told. Henry Jenkins, colored, we under stand was summoned to attend a magistrate’s court at Gaffn*»y;y« 8 ter- day as a witness in an important case growing out of a horse swap. We met our old comrade W. J. Vau*h aud his son Ira, at Gaffney yesterday, whitherjthey had gone on business. j , H Every man who has money is abused for not buying things other peoole want to get rid of. Dickey’s Dyspepsia Cure cures in digestion, sour stomach, heartburn, costiveness, gnawing and burning pains at pit of stomach, sick head ache. Try it. Oue bottle will give you relief. 8. B. Crawley Jc Co. GRAND OLD LIMESTONE. “Batter"Talk* of the Fourth of July and the County Candidate*. (Correspondence of Tbs Ledger.) Limestonb, May 25,1902 —For the first time we write from our new place of abode, though 'tie from tbe grand old campus near tbe beautiful college, and tbe ooe thing uppermost iu our autlolpatioua is tbe eelebration that’s coming July the 4th. Well, to come down to recent events and occurrences, we notice first tbe “candydatee” so pure, so lovable, they are a dear set of gentle men courting tbe d$ar people with sugary gab aud flattery speeches; after meeting a man a hundred times a year and only get a grunt for a good morning until he becomes a eandi- aate, then it’s a hearty handshake and how do you do. May the time come when tbe people will have more “sameness” about them, if we are going to*pas8 a grunt for a good morn ing. Whatever takes place grunt on, don’t change because you are a can didate unless you mesu to forever keep up tbe practice whether elected or defeated. We like to see men be manly at all times, in all places. We desire to make one nomination, viz: we nominate "Bashelor o' Buffa lo” for superiotendent.of education. Come out old fellow, we’ll guarantee you ooe vote besides a good prospect on this side of the Broad for many more. As to our representatives let’s try to elect a man who will make a law for the two races to school their own children We are tired of pay- irg for the education of negroes. We do not ehject to their having an edu cation, but we do object to the white people having it to pay for. It can and must be remedied. Our people are an office-seeking people and it seems that when they get it they for get everything else except drawing their pay for putting in time. We want to elect some one that will work, some one that’s got “the get up and get there” about him. We wish to throw no slurs upon any of our old officers; so far as we koow they are gentlemen of the first type, but their works iu offices are about the average. We want some one who will do a little more than the average. To put it plain, if we give you five hundred dollars per year we want you to do $500 worth of work. That’s fair, honorable, and honest. We’ll stop at this, and if ther’s noth ing more said we’ll keep our mouth shut also, aud let politics run her course. We read uncle “Ives” letter with pleasure. Hope he will come again and tell us about tbe territory in the west. Buster. Death mt Grassy Fond. (Correanondenca of Ttao Ledger.) Grassy Pond, May 25.—Just as the suu began to cast bis rays of spark ling light across the green hills, just as the birds began their singing, Mrs. Landrum Wood passed from this world to another. Mrs. Wood bad been in bad health for a good while, and while her death waa not unex- peoted it waa-most ebocking. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Swafford, the latter deceased. She married|Mr. Landrum E. Wood, who, with a number of little children, mourns her lose. We oan truly say that a good woman has fallen. How often have wa seen her before a large claes of little children in tbe Sunday school, bat now bow often are we going to mica her. Before her death •be told those that were trying to comfort her that she was not afraid to go, for she was going to dwell with the shining ones. A good and gentle wogoan gone to her rest—“servant of God, well done.” “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept tbe faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown.” These words may truly be applied to the thoughts of that good womao iu her last moments. Tbe interment took place at Grassy Pond Baptist church on Monday fol lowing, where a large number of rel atives and friends had gathered to pay a last tribute to the deceased. The entire community shares tbe sorrow of the family in their sad and irreparable loss, but they can in thought be comforted by knowing that in sight of her church, beneath tbe shades of the oaks she lies sleep ing o. “Do the birds come and pick up the breadcrumbs from your hotel lawn?” “They used to before my wife began to make her own bread.”—Judge. Kuuilnjr Night Merrier*. Because of the commencement sermon at Limestone College Sunday morning June Isc there will be no preaching at the Bufora Street M. E. church, South, in the morning. How ever. there will be the umiu! Sunday school at 10 o’clo< k a. m , and the preaching services at 8:30 o’clock p. m. A solo will be sung by Mins Wil liams. The public cordially invited. W. H. Hodovs, Pastor. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting I term* Concerning Onr Neigh- !»ors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Beading for Hand reds of Ledger Beaders. Edgecombe and Nash connty far mers report good raios ^everywhere and not a bill of tobacco is missing. The tobacco crop of Warren coun ty, unless some unforeeen accident befalls it, will be much larger this year than for several years past. Robert White, colored, was sent to the Edgecombe roads for two months from tbe mayor’s court on Monday, for entering an unoccupied dwelling at night. Mr, Cicero Williams, of Dover, owes a hen that lays from ten to eleven eggs every week. She lays every day, and every other day two eggs- Most excellent reports come in from every section of the country of the excellent condition of the crops The prospects for a good crop are very bright and the farmers are in high spirits. Three women laid buggy lash on an objectionable woman at King’s Mountain Wednesday because seme of their relatives had been to see her. The ladies plead guily and were fined $1 00 and cost. R. H. Trollinger’s family of Gas tonia have been finding pieces of of glass iu their flour bought from the stores. Such carelessness on the part of manufacturers is dangerous and due care should be exercised by tbe consumers of flour. J.B. Ayers, a deserter from the United States navy, was captured in Charlotte. Ayers joined the navy about the first of April and says tbe reason be deserted was because they required him to eat Pext to a negro. He will be taken to Portsmouth to night by Officer Johnson. Major Clegg found on the Milligan place in Concort township the larg est white oak tree be thinks be ever saw. Three feet from the ground the tree measures 18 feet in cir cumference and its great limbs make a shade that is 91x93 feet in diame ter, measured by a surveyor’s chaip. This tree is a veritable giant of tbe forest. Rev. J. A. Hoyle tells of a mad cow he saw at Maiden Friday.. The cow was in a stall and all tbe sym- toma of hydrophobia. She would bite a etickjjust like •{fnrioos dog and would run towards any one approach ing. Tbe cow belonged to Mrs. Sal- lie Trott. Mra Trott has lost six cows and aix sheep from hydropho bia recently. Tbe annual campmeeting of the N. C. Annual Conference, of tbe Wes leyan Metbodiat cbnrch will be held in the grove, near tbe Aven mill in Gastonia. Beginning the 16th of July and continuing ten days. This meeting will be held for tbe promo tion of Christianity in tbe conversion of sinners and tbe entire sanctifica tion of believers. Snoday afternoon a cyclone passed through Southern Gaston county. Forests in some places were leveled to tbe ground. Orchards were blown down. Heavy hail did great damage to tbe cotton, corn and gardens. Rain was incessant and in many places tbe bail broke ont window glass and the rain flooded the bouses. Tbe tornado went in an eastern direction bearing a little to tbe north. A head-on collision of two freight trains on tbe Southern occurred Wednesday morning one mile east of Marlon. Joe Williams, a colored fire man on one train was killed and both engineers, Wm Eagle and McRherry were badly bruised, especially Eagle. There was no fault on the part of the conductors as they bad different or ders as to where they should pass. W. C. Sherrill, of Miller's postoffice neighborhood, in Davidson township, reports that several weeks ago the 10 months old child of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis, swallowed a number of pins, ten of which passed through tbe child without the child showing any sign of injurous effects. When Mrs. Davis discovered what the child had doue, on examination, she ex tracted quite a number from its throat. The child is^now Id a healthy condition. A Wilmington liquor dealer has of fend the uidermaii of that city $3<l.- 000 for an exclusive liquor license— in other words for the privilege of controlling the retail fire-water busi ness. The offer has formally gone to toe Board of Aldermen and the ap plicant has given bond to guarantee the application. As the matter stands now the municipality receives $15,000 for liquor license from fifty odd sa loons. Some of the Wilmington at torneys believe tbe proposition could be legally accepted, while others think tbe granting of an exclusive business privilege of any nature would be a violation of tbe State's anti-trust laws. Tbs proposition is certainly novel and tha outcome will be await ed with interest all over the State. Tbe Amerioao Cigar Company has definitely decided to establish a large branch factory in Greensboro. A letter received by Xe-Mayor Z. V. Taylor, president of tbe Greensboro Industrial Association, from Mr. H. W. Cobb, second vice president of the American Tobacco Company, at New York, conveys the annonnee- ment of tbe decision of tbe company. Mr. W. 8. Lucket, who bas charge of tbe machinery and construction for tbe company, will arrive in Greens boro, aod Monday will immediately begin to make the necessary arrange ments for equipping tbe factory aod putting in condition the large build ing tendered the company free of rent for two years by the association. It is the purpose of tbe company to also establish an immense storage plant in Greensboro, bat definite ar rangements fur that purpose have not yet been perfected. A Fireman'* CIohc Call. “I stuck to my engine, although every joint ached a’ d every nerve was racked with phi .,” writes C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa, "I was weak and pale, without any appetite aud all run down. As I was about to give up. I got a bottle of Electric Bitters and, a'ter taking it, 1 felt as well as I ever did in my life.” Wean, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Price 50c. Hume said that Tacitus was the ablest writer that ever lived, aod himself tried to model his style on that of the Roman historian. Won’t Follow Advice After Faying For In a recent article a.promioent phy sician says, “It is next to impossible for the physician to get his patients to carry out any prescribed course of hygiene ordiec to tbe smallest extent; he bas but one resort left, namely, tbe drug treatment.” When medi cines are used for chronic constipation tbe most mild and gentle obtainable, such as Chamberlain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets, should be employed. Their use is not followed by consti pation ae they leave tbe bowels in a natural and healthy condition. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Let ue be true. This is the high est maxim of art and life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue and of all moral antbority. Whooping Congh. A woman who has bad experieoca with tbia disease, telle bow to prevent any dangerous consequences from it. She says: Our three children took whooping cough last summer, onr baby boy being only three months old, and owing to onr giving them Chamberlains’ Cough Remedy, they lost none of tbeir plumpness and came ont in much better health tnan other children whose parents did not use this remedy. Our oldest little girl would call Instily for cough syrnp between whoops.—Jessie Pinkey Hail, Springville, Ala. This Remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Many a deluge of trouble bas come out of a plot flask. Sciatic BheumatUin Corad After Fourteen Year* of Suffering. “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 bear of and at last was told to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I did and was immediately relived and in a short time cured, and I am happy to say it has not since re turned.” Why not use this liniment andgetweli? It is for sale by Chero kee Drug Co. Tbe invitation to lean on tbe Lord is for tbe weary, and not for tbe lazy. Will Cure Consumption. A. A. Herren, Finch, Ark., writes, “Foley’s Honey and Tar is tbe best preparation for coughs, colds and lung trouble. I know that it has cured consumption in the first stages.” Cherokee Drug Co. An authority says that a ton of dia monds is worth $3'*,(XX) (XX> ToCnrea Cold In One liny Take Luxativo Bromo (Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig nature is ou each box. 25c.