The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 10, 1902, Image 1
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GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1902
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THROUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
Items of Interest of Passing
Events.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Uvent* that Have Taken 1’lare from One
Knd of the State to the Other Called from
Exchantge* for OuUk Heading hy Scores
of Ituity I'eople.
In the firemen’b tournament to be
held in Humter, June "25 arid 2<> 1750
will be given away in prizes. Teams
from se\eral cities will take part in
the contest.
An application has been made to
the secretary of state for a charter
for the Corona Cotton Mill to be lo
cated near Anderson. The capital
alack is to be $200,000.
Tuesday afternoon a spark from a
locomotive on the Charleston and
Western Carolina Railway set fire to
ccrd wood of ,f. D. Watts, on the
outskirts Laurens, and 853 cords were
burned.
The Charleston exposition authori-
tf"« have been granted a hearing on
next Wednesday t>< 0 re the house
committee or. industrial arts and
expositions r-iativo to an appro
priation of $15*) f t'J which they de*
tire.
Adam Huger will be hanged at
Monek s Corner on .Fuh 25th for the
murder of Charles Gadsden at Fergu
son, on March 14 Berkeley county
has not had a legal . \ cation forever
ten years and this v. ilLbe the first at
Monck's Corner court house.
Jim Black, who
murdered
M rs.
Jones at New Road, April 22, was
lynched at that place Wednesday
night. He c nfes^ed, implicating
Ford, now in U aiterboro jail, and two
other negroes, one of whom was kill
ed at Ri-venei recently while trjing
to escape arrest.
Cain Ford, one of the four negroes
implicated in the murder of Railroad
Sectionmaster W. W. Jones' wife at
New Road, in Colleton county, on
April 21 last, and who from the day
aft^r the commission of the crime has
been confined in Walterbnro jail, was
lynched about 2 o’clock Saturday
morning.
Loula Bridges, a resident of the
tenderloin quarters of Spartanburg,
died Sunday morning at 2 o'clock
from a dose of morphine administered
by her own bands a few hours before.
Every measure was adopted by the
physicians to save her life, but proved
of no avail. The woman was about
thirty years of age. No cause
assigned for the deed.
is
President Henry S. Hartzog Is to
remain at the head of Clemson Col
lege. This was settled Thursday.
The trustees of the college met in
their annual meeting Wednesday
night. The first matter taken up was
the consideration of the resignation of
President Hartzog, which was ten
dered at the special meeting of the
b ar l three weeks ago. The board
was in session several hours Wednes
day night and again Thursday moru-
ing.
An unusual and fatal accident oc
curred at Batesbt-rg Thursday morn
ing. W. B Jackson, a young man
from Winnsboro, was grinding some
tools at a planing mill, the grindstone
belted to the engine and revolving
rapidly. Suddenly the stone burst
and one large piece struck Mr. Jack-
son in the face. He was knocked in
to insensibility and died an Imur af
terwards. The sail state of allairs is
heightened by the fact that he leaves
an invalid wife and two small chil
dren.
The Third regiment, the South
Carolina naval reserves, acompany of
the I'nited States artillery corps from
Sullivan's Island, and the German
artillery, escorted the famous Phila
delphia Liberty Bell from the expo
sition grounds to the Atlantic. Coast
Line station Saturday afternoon.
Previous to the departure of the bell
from the Philadelphia building, brief
exercises were held, Mayor Smyth
and President Wagner of the expo
sition company attesting their appre
ciation of Philadelphia’s interest in
the exposition by the loan of the
sacred old relic.
Atlantic Coast Line Engineer Fred
P. Grumbling, doing service on the
yards at Florence, lost three fingers
Tuesday night through an unusal ac
cident. He had left his cub for the
purpose of repairing a part of the
locomotive and was in a kneeling
posture with hands on the rail when
a “switched” car “bumped” into the
engine, it was moved only about a
foot, but this was enough to pin Mr.
Grumbling's hand to the rail, sad he
could not free himself nntil the loco
motive had been reversed and run
ahead a little. Mr. Grumbling's entire
hand was severely mashed and
fingers bad to be amputated.
At the recent session of the crimi
nal couri at Greenville, the decision
of the magistrate in the case of \Y il-
liatn Sewing, convicted of the charge
of violating the game law by selling
birds, was confirmed by Judge Gary.
The magistrate sentenced Sewing to
pay a fine of $12 50 or go to the gang
for thirty days. He paid the fine.
Sewing is proprietor of a restaurant
on Main street, and during the past
season sold quail by the wholesale.
He was arrested, tried and convicted,
the case being the first on record of
its kind in this section of the country.
It is hoped by the sportsmen that the
results of the case will keep ottiers
from selling quails.
CROP BULLETIN.
three 1 A STUDY OF THE
CHINESE CHARACTER
It is a Great Mistake to Treat
them as Our Equals.
ARE A LOVELESS PEOPLE.
Comlltlon of Carolina Crops Ah Keported j
by Department of Agriculture.
Columbia, June 3—The average:
temperature for the week ending i
Monday, June 2d, was about 72,
which is nearly 5 below normal. |
There was a maximum of 98 at Clover :
an the 2Srh and 29th. Light frost
was noted in Greenviile, Oconee and
Spartanburg counties There was an
abundance of bright sunshine, early
in tiie week, but generally cloudy
weather prevailed at its close. During
the middle of the week, the relative
humidity ranged from only 3U to 4*»
per cent, of saturation, which had a
wilting effect on vegetation.
Severe thunder storms occurred on
the 25th over the north central and
northeastern counties, accompanied
by damaging high winds, and des
tructive hail, in the east central and
north central groups of counties,
with heavy, washing rains in Lancas
ter county. Light local showers pre
vailed at the close of the week, over
the western counties. While a few
localities were benefitted i y the dry
weather, by far the greater portion of
the iState is suffering for rain, and
tfie need is most urgent in the south
western and northwestern groups of
counties, from A ken northwestward.,
where, over a large portion, no beue-
tioial rains have lallcu in from four to
five weeks.
The week gave favorable weather
for general farm work, and for ridding
fields of grass and weeds, but it was
unfavorable for the growth and de
velopment of most field crops, on
account of low night temperatures
ami dryness.
The growth of cotton was checked,
to a considerable extt-nt, by the cool
weather, which also favored the de-
velpment of lice that now infest a
large partion of the crop. Stands
are good, generally, and the crop has
received unusually good cultivation,
with fields clean and in fine tilth.
Squares have formed in a few local
ities. There was a light improve
ment in the condition of sea-island
cotton.
Corn was also unfavorably affected
by rfae cool weather, but generally
c mtinues to lock well. Bottoms are
being planted, where not too dry,
but cutworms and bilibugs are very
destructive on such lands. Some
fields have been laid by, and early
corn has begun to tassel. In the
western portion of the State corn is
turning yellow.
Tobacco has improved, and now
looks promising, but stands are
irregular in places. Rice is in very
fine condition, with planting still in
progress. Wheat does not show any
improvement, as it ripens, except
that it is a full crop in a few local
ities. Its average condition is poor,
and almost a tailure in places. Borne
has been harvested. Oats are ripen
ing rapidly, and harvesting made
favorable progress under excellent
weather conditions The dry weather
is detrimental to spring sown oats.
Watermelons look well. Cane has
good stands. Large quantities of
beans, white potatoes and cucumbers
are being shipped. Gardens are
generally poor, owing to the dry
weather. Peaches and other fruits
continue to drop extensively, al
though in places fruits of ali kinds
promise to be abundant Peaches
and plums are ripening and ship
ments of the former have begun. A
general heavy rain and warmer
weather would improve crop condi
tions materially.
State .1 nut What You Want, '
There is a lot of the most desirable
trade that no one can get who doesn’t
handle “Clifton” Hour. Users of
“Clifton” can’t be satisfied with any
other kind. “Clifton” has established
a new standard of purity and the
highest excellence. If you have not
used “Clifton” recently, you should
by all all mean's instruct your grocer
to send you a sack when you order
flour again. Don’t let him persuade
you he has “something just as good.”
He may be buying other so-called
patent flour at a little less than he
pays for “Clifton,” and he naturally
wants to push this on you because he
makes a few cents more on it. In
sist on having “Clifton,” if you want
the purest and best.
Bhanskoki) Mills.
Owensboro, Ky.
The ClilnHiuiin in » SIihIIo'.v, Self conceited
fellow.— He Huh no Love for Wife. Home
or Country, and the (ionpel of .Je»UK Alone
Can Make Him Know the .loy of Living.
< Correspondence o* The Ledger.)
Chixkiano, May 2. — I have been
interested lately in making some
I'ti’e study of the Chinese character,
a study which missionaries are apt to
keep up as long a< they are ou the
field. The men at Washington havo
decided that the Chinaman is not th r '
proper man to make a citizen of thf
United fitates, and I understand that
tiiere are no Chinese who are now able
to vote as the negro does Is it
simply because the yellow man is
able to work cheaper than the white
or black, or is there a deeper reason?
In these days when China is before
the world’s eye as it never has been
before, when there is so much being
done for her both in a political way
and in a religious way, would it not be
well if we could understand the Chi
nese nature so us to be able to deal
with them in a satisfactory manner "
I-* it right for us to assume
making treaties and such things.
But to what has there trickery
brought their country? They are
now practically the vassals of the
foreigners, their country’s honor is
trailing in the dust, and they are
poor, tad getting poorer. To be able
to cheat and deceive and 'toneme and
j work tricks on people may be very
| interesting, but it is rot a sign of
either greatness or h eaith of intel
lect or moral recti' ud n .
The Chinese a-p-actically a love
less people. Whether it is the
training of the past, their system of
marriage, or what, I do not know, hut
I am inclined to agree with a worker
who is well acquainted with the Chi
nese that they do not know what
love is. Suppose you wanted to take
a Chinese friend into your confidence
and tell him you are in love with a
girl, and undertake to make ‘-confl
uence” to him. He would not under-
j stand you at all. Why do you not
get the woman, or if she won’t do get
another, one qeingasgood as another,
sj she is a woman and will have
i children. Of course they consider
social position, and money etc., but
not love. They do not seem to love
th-ir parents like we think is right
The men leave their families for long
parinis and do not seem to care espec
ially. I have tried to find whether
it is "elfrepression or it is just insen
sibility. It seems to me it is largely
the latter A people who do not love
their mothers, who do not love their
j wives as we understand it, who do
not seem to have any strong passion
I of love fur anything, how can they all
at once learn to love the Lord whom
that the ' they have newr seen? God is love
THROUGHOUT THE
TAR HEEL STATE,
From the Mountains to The
Sea.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Chinese are in ev^ry respect equal to
the white race and that therefore we
must deal with them just as vre would
with a white race, expecting the same
resultw? I think if we start out on
that principle we will rank-- a great
mi stake to begin with, and liud our-
i st ives many failures. Just as you
see it) the negro God has made the
Chinaman physically different from
1 v'rvvwwvw*.
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You and your friends
are cordially invited to
attend and participate
in the Celebration Fes
tivities at Gaffney, July
Fourth 1902.
us. He is not white, has a sickly yellow
skin. His eyes are always black, or
dark brown, and his hair is always
long and straight, and he has very
little beard,or other hair. He is not
a hairy man. In this he is like the
Indian and the negro. His face is
not shaped like ours, his forehead is
more receeding, and his nose smaller.
He is less sensitive to* physical pain
than the average white man, He is
not nervous. He doesn’t seem to
have any very strong emotions. He
impresses one as being rather phleg
matic and cold. He has strong pow
ers of endurance, even surpassing the
white man in passive patience. Men
tally he is bright and often quick,
though I cannot help agreeing with a
writer som» time ago who said lie is
shallow. 1 thing that is about the
word for it more than any other.
What are the marks of a shallow man ?
Doe of the most prominent is self
conceit. There is no truer indication
of shallowness than self conceit. The
Chinese, especially the so called edu
cated classes, are the most self con
ceited people. I suppose, to be found
on the earth. One of the great diffi
culties in our mission work is to
know how to deal with our helpers on
this very point. As soon as you put
them forward a little and give them a
little responsibility they get so insuf
ferably conceitod that there is no do
ing anything with them, and I might
say that there are few exceptions to
this rule. Atotoer mark of shallow
ness of mind is toe disposition to de
ceive and be cunning. The smart
ness which comes of deceiving some
one is the smartness of a little mind.
It is peculiarly characteristic of the
monkey to be cunning. The negro is
noted for his powers of dissimulation
and so is the Chinese. The highest
form of man is that of the straight
forward man who is truly honest and
has no tricks, and he shows his great
ness by always coming out right in
the end. You know, Chinese diplo
macy is famed all over the world.
They are said to be able to outdo all
the foreigners In shrewd deception in
and Die only people who approach to
the true condition of loving are those
who have had Christ. How desolate
and joyless is this loveless life they
live! The Gosp-I of Jesus alone
can open their hearts and make them
know the true joy of a living love,
love for home, wife and child, love for
parents, love for friends and country,
and best of all love for God. Are we
not doing the best thing for the hap
piness of these people in giving them
the Cross, the very manifestation of
the Icve of God to rnan.
W E. Ckockkk.
K/.t-U KU-IiIiik*.
E/.kll, June 5 —Farm work is well
up at this writing and the crops are
needing rain to draw out the frost
bite that came last week. Small grain
is almost a failure in this section.
The fruit crop is going to be short.
The prospect was good at iirst but
most all kinds are dropping off the
trees.
Mr. Bearden, of Spartanburg coun
ty, was in this section yesterday on
business.
The jurors were drawn luckily, this
section ouly getting one out of crops
and other business—Mr. C Cash.
Several of the young people of
State Line attended a basket dinner
at Hu-ksville, N. C., Saturday. They
report a nice time.
There is to be Rally day at State
Line the third Sunday in June. They
are looking for a large attendance.
Both Sunday school workers and can
didates are invited.
Come on boys, there Is one more
candi iate needed and it is an opponent
for the probate s office. <; i>. s.
How It In Duu«.
The first object in life with the
American people is to “get rich the
second, how to regain good health.
The first can be obtained by honesty,
energy and saving; the second, (good
health) by using Green’s August
Flower. Should you be a despondent
sufferer from any of the effects of
Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Appen
dicitis. Indigestion, etc., such as Sick
Headache, Palpitation of the Heart,
Sour Stomach, Habitual Costiveness,
Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Pros
tration, Low Spirits, etc., you need
not suffer another day. Two doses
o< the well known August Flower wl!l
relieve you at once. Go to Cherokee
Drug Co. and get a sample bottle free.
Regular size, 75 cts. Get Green’s
Special Almanac.
Interesting Ite r iu» Cuiiiernliia Our Neigh
bor* Iteyoinl the Hue Which May Frote
Entertaining Keailing for Huinlrtils of
L fdger Header*.
Henry Perry, of Henderson, resigns
the colonelcy of the Third Regiment
of the-State Guard.
Tne First Regiment of the State
j Guard is arranging for a practice
; march and encampment possibly at
Asheville and Statesville.
The citizens of Forsyth who were
duped by the Amos U*ens Cherry
Tree Company, have decided to enter
suit in the Superior CouD in this
county against the compui.y on the
charge of fraud.
Horace Haywood, colored, and l is
family, who live near Raleigh, i ave
i be*-n poisoned bv arsenic in their
I bread. Haywood is dead and the
omers are in a critical state. The
coroner is investigating.
Reports today from Beaufort coun
ty trucking section say the drought
has done much damage, that the
Irish potato crop will not exceed fif
teen barrels to the acre, while in av
erage years it is sixty barrels. The
drought lias prevailed over five weeks.
Messrs. Borden and Leder, officers
of the Yirginia-Carolina Chemical
Company, are to give out the con
tract at once for the construction of
the new cotton seed oil mill in East
Fayetteville, which, it is promised,
will be one of the most extensive and
complete in the .South.
The extensive lumber plant at Cary
was destroyed by tire Thursday morn
ing. The burned plant and its lum
ber yards cover three acres. About
80 men were employed. The Duke
family, of Durham, is chief owner'and
Jobtl C. Angier is manager To
night’s estimate of the loss is $75,000,
and there is only $15 000 insuiance.
The rate of insurance was 10 per cent.
The fire started in the engine room.
Besides the mill in operation for
three years past in Fayetteville and
the second one under construction on
thr same plot of ground, it is known
that excavations and foundations are
maiked out for a third silk mill,
which, it is believed, will be a dyeing
and finishing mil), whereby every
process of the manufacture will be
carried on here, and this community
will also derive important advantages
from the introduction of skilled labor.
The Sam Jones meeting at this
place closed Monday morning. Mr.
Jones preached at the convict camp
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. He
delivered an able sermon from the
tent to at least 4 UOO people in the af
ternoon. Mr. Stuart deliverea bis fa
mous stump-drugging sermons.and at
its close it was an inspiring sight to
see thousands of handkerchiefs float
ing in the air. This marks a new era
in Wilkes and the whiskey business
is doomed. Two large distillers have
said that they will quit the business.
Never in the history of the county
was such a scene witnessed as that
this afternoon. There was hardly a
dry eye in| the vast audience. Jones
and Btewart have done a power of
good during their short stay here,
which will be felt for years to come.
/
“He came to his death from an un
known cause.” This is the verdict
rendered Monday by coroner’s jury
at Winston-Salem in the case of James
Tesb, who Was found about 5 o'clock
Sunday morning, April flth lying on
the ground in tbe barn of Joseph
Masten, neaf Fairview, with his skull
crushed. The wounded man was re
moved to the hospital that day, vhen
he died next morning. A coroner’s
investigation was held at the court
house on the day of Tesh’s death. A
number of witnesses were examined,
but the jury were unable to secure
evidence sufficient to justify holding
anyone. However, no decision was
rendered at chat time, adjournment
/being taken until some future date,
to await development. The jury met
at 1:30 Monday afternoon wnen they
decided that Tesh came to his death
from some unknown cause.
The county coroner, Dr. T. M. Jor
dan, Thursday investigated the death
of Mr. Jno. M. Dennis, a prominent
farmer and magistrate of this county.
Last Monday it was announced that
Mr. Dennis had died suddenly Hun-
day afternoon at his home. The fu
neral followed Monday. However,
reports began to be circulated that
there was a suspicion of foul play.
Mr. Dennis left tbe house about dark
and was later found dead in the yard.
Now it appears that there were
bruises on his throat and a negro who
seemingly harbored some ill feelings
towards Mr Deunis on account of
listing taxes last year was seen com
ing from the Dennis farm that even
ing. The body was exhumed Wednes
day. The coroner’s jury decided
that Dennis’ death was due to natural
causes. Two physicians and tbe
county attorney were present at the
inquest and investigation.
Policeman George X. Jackson shot
and instantly killed Robert Moore, a
white man, near the Edna cotton
mills at Reidsville Saturday night.
Officer Jackson, in company with Po
liceman C. T. Balsley, bad gone down
to the mill section to arrest some par
ties wanted for an offense and were
sitting beside the railroad track when
Moore, in company with a woman,
parsed. Before arriving opposite the
officers, the woman told Moore of the
offic 's’ presence and Moore then
cursed the policemen. Just us he
pa««ed them Moore pulled out his
pD ol and whirled, pointing the
weapon at Mr. Jackson. The officer,
realizing that he was in a critical pr •
dicamer t, also took out his pistol
and fired instantly, the ball taking
effect to the left of Moore’s nos< and
penetrating the brain. A coroner’s
it quest was held this morning and
Policeman Balsley and tne woman
who was with Moore testified that the
offi -er acted in self-defense. Other
witnesses testified that Moore threat
ened to kill any policeman who offer
ed to arrest him. He lived here
about three years ago and was of bad
character. He came here to work in
the mills and is said to have escape
from a squad of convicts somewhere
in this Srate. He has a wife and
child at Norwood. The '>oay was bur
ied at thj potter’s field >f Gretnview
Ceraeten Sunday afte>joon.
A DELIGHTFUL DANCE
Given l>> the Yount; Men of the City Com
plimentary to the College Girl*.
One of the most del'ghtful and
thoroughly enjoyable dances ever
given here was given by the young
men of the city, complimentary to
the young ladies of Limestone Col
lege.
The young ladies in their dresses
of filmy white presented an array of
loveliness which baffi-s description.
Tne german was gracefully led by
Mr. Robt. Muuro with Miss Edna
8arratt.
The dancing was kept up until the
wee sma’ hours of Saturday moniing
when the sweet strains of ‘Home
Sweet Home” reminded the dancers
that the close of amost delightful affair
had come, and aii reluctantly turned
their steps homeward.
Excellent music was furnished by
Bill Allen’s Orchestra from Spartan
burg
Among those inattendar.ee were:
Mr. R. M. Munro with Miss Edna
Sarratt, Mr. Culbertson with Miss
Eva Ross, Mr. R M. Rogers with
Miss Lillian Wood. Mr H. P. Duff
with Miss Lillian Hopper, Mr. Dever
Little with Miss Lucy Barton, of
Anderson, Mr. Anthony Sarratt with
Miss Gertrude Little, of Black-burg,
Mr. Harry Byars with Miss Lee
Blytb. of Greenwood, Mr. Ed. Byars
with Miss Hart, of Yoikviile, Mr. C.
W. Hames with Miss Myrtle Gaffney,
Mr. 0 P. Richardson with Miss
Ethel Murray, of Beech Island, Mr.
Chas. Humphries with Miss Gwait-
ney. of North Carolina, Mr. Robt.
Lipscomb with Miss Ethel Ford, of
Bennettsville, Dr. Paik Thompson
with Miss Myrtle Sarratt, Mr. Robt.
Swofford with Miss Ehoff, Mr. E. C.
Taylor with Miss Minnie Goforth,
Mr. J. F. Carson with Miss Nellie
Barton, of Anderson, Dr. C. T. Lip
scomb with Miss Frances Fort, Mr.
Floyd Baker with Miss Rosa Rey
nolds, of Greenwood, Mr. Edgar
Peeler with Miss Alina Lynch Mr.
A. Gus Turner with Miss Lillie Parish.
Stags: Messrs. J. E. McArthur,
Louis Wood, Paul Morgan, J. A.
McAlister, Wofford Humphries, M.
Goudtlock, Isbam Richardson, Tank
McArthur, F. G Stacy, D. C. Ross,
M. Smyth, Joe Osborne, John Snead,
Jas. B. Richardson.
Chaperones: Miss Munro, Mr.
•and Mrs. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs B.
L. Hames, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Good
ing, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Lipscomb,
Mr. and Mrs Eiutn, Mias Wardlaw.
An Aged Man Dead.
Mr. U. S. Campbell died at the
residence of his son, Mr L. I! Camp
bell, on Race street on the (itb Inst.,
after an illness of several months, in
his seventy-seventh year. Mr. Camp
bell was born and educated in Ireland
and came to the United States with
his father when be was about
twenty-two years old and settled in
Carbondale Penn. He was an engin*
eer and was employed for many years
by many of the railroads of that sec
tion. He came to this state about
four years ago, since which time he
has been living with bia eon when be
died.
The furneral services were conduc
ted at the residence by Rev. Arch C.
Cree on tbe 7th, and the remains
were buried at Oakland cemetery.
The pall bearers were: H. L.
Spears. J. B. Bell, W. W. Thomas,
W. C. McArthur, J. Eb. Jefferies and
Henry Gaffr.ey.
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