Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ^ ' • -*r w . w - ! ri :" v ‘ " r • "" ' ' ' • ” , ,.W. -V - r .;. . . *■ ..... . ,, ■ 1 THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. i'HE LEDGER SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. Wc GUARANTEE ‘I'he 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, OCTOBER 3, 1902. $1.00 A YEAR. THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Rventt* that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Called from Exchanges for Quick Heading by Scores of Husy People. The Spool and Bobbin Factory at Greenwood was totally destroyed by fire a few days ago. Insurance $7,* 000. Anderson is to have another $000,* 000 cotton mill. R. S. Hill, a lead ing business man of that city, is at the head of the new enterprise. Miss Caroline L. Hampton, the youngest sister of Gen. Wade Hamp ton, died Monday afternoon at her home in Waverly near Columbia. The governor has refused to pardon John Dixon convicted in Greenville county of manslaughter and senten ced to five years in the penitentiary. W. K. Meek, a white man about 40 years old employed at the Orr Cotton Mills, Anderson, attempted suicide last week by drinking carbolic acid. Prompt medical attention saved his life. Notwithstanding the additional buildings recently provided at the State hospital for the insane, the in stitution is still overcrowded and only patients whose incarceration is abso lutely necessary are admitted. Young men will guide the destinies of the State for the next two years. The governor, secretary Jof state, at torney general, adjutant general and probably comptroller general are all men in their thirties, |or just a little over. Munson Padgett, a farmer of Edge- field county, while mowing pea vines, drove his team over an old well which was covered by pea vines, and one of the mules went to the bottom, a dis tance of thirty feet. The animal was pulled out several hours afterwards and was all right. Near Green Pond, Colleton County, recently two negroes, Jacob Gillliard and Fred Legare, were scuffling over an old musket when the gun was dis charged and the load took elfect in the neck of a negro named Edwards who was standing near by. Edwards died in about two hours. On Saturday evening about 3 o’clock the ginnery of Hon. Jno.' G. Wolling, of Wolling, S. C., was de stroyed by fire The outfit was a total loss, together with several bales of cotton, a lot of his seed cotton and a quantity of seed. Total loss about $3,500; no insurance at all. Tuesday night Agnes Goforth, of Spartanburg, fell into an uncovered well which is in the pines near the Wofford College baseball ground. She fell 30 feet to the rock curbing below and was badly bruised, though no bones were broken. Her screams were heard and some negroes took her out. Col. J. E. Hagood, of Charleston, sold to J. H. and S. M. Mitchel, of Iowa, 14,553 acres of land located in the northeastern part of Oconee coun ty and northwestern part of Pickens county, for the sum of $32,744 25. Mitcheii Bros., of Iowa, sold the same land to the Southern Lumber Co. for $120,000. Tuesday afternoon about 4 o’clock the little daughter of E. B. Dean, of Spartanburg, was stunned by light ning while standing on the back piazza of Mr. Dean’s house. Dr. Wil son was summoned and the child soon revived. The lightning struck a tree about 15 feet from the piazza and five birds were killed. Smallpox has broken out in a negro settlement near Ora in Laurens coun ty. The negroes are faith curists and have refused all medical attention. They do not confine themselves to their bouses and the governor has been asked by the people living near by to see that the state board of health takes the matter in hand. Last week Gist bridge across Tiger river in Union county fell in with Walter Bishop, his team and colored driver. The wagon was torn up and two of the moles hurt. Mr. Bishop and the driver escaped unhurt. Ben Greer went rushing down to their as sistance on horseback when bis horse fell on him breaking several ribs. He may die. “Oar Monthly,” the Thornwell Or phanage’s publication at Clicton, has received a check for $2 from President Roosevelt for a year’s subscription to the paper. The president took the paper for two of hie boys. The obeok hke been framed and hang In the li brary of the orphanage. It Is proba bly the first check of a president ever received in Clinton. S. H. Nix, chief night clerk of the postoffice in Columbia, died Tuesday night, the circumstances being very peculiar. Death was caused from an abscess on the brain. He was up town the day before. Nix was a colored man who respected himself and was polite to white people. He was editor of The People’s Recorder, and one of the leaders of his race. The Fort Mill Savings Bank,of Fort Mill, was dynamited at an early hour Tuesday morning and it is estimated that between six and ten thousand dollars were stolen. An entrance was effected through the front door of the bank and the vault and safe doors successively drilled and dynamited. A clock on the wall of the banking room had stopped at 3:55 that morn ing, evidently indicating the time of the explosion. Constables Ewbanks and Robbins and Deputy Collector Jones made a big haul near Glassy Rock in Green ville county Tuesday morning. They located and destroyed a still whicn had been in operation only a few hours before as the fire was still in the furnace. Two thousasnd gallons of beer and ten gallons of low wine were seized and a 60-gallon still cap, worm and other fixtures were des troyed. No arrests were made. HU Life in Peril. ‘‘I just seemed to have gone all to pieces,” writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare, Tex., ‘‘biliousness and a lame back had made life a burden. I couldn’t eat or sleep and felt almost too warn out to work when I began to use Elec tric Bitters, but they worked won ders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat anything, have gained in strength and enjoy hard work ” They give vigor ous health and new life to weak, sick- Iv, run-down people. Try them. Only 50c at Cherokee Drug Co. The mantle of charity protects a multitude of ametaur theatrical per formers. Purity. Purity in fiouer ought to be an im portant consideration in every family. In making “Clifton” flour, every grain of wheat is thoroughly cleaned before grinding, and is converted into flour in a hygienically clean, modern mill. The flour is purified, cerated and sifted through delicate silk cloths before it is sacked. Absolute purity is thus assured. The best flour looks very much like any other flour when it is in the sack. The real test is in the baking. That’s where “Clifton” flour excels by every test—excels ih purity and perfection ; in the quality and richness of the bread. Pure flour really does not cost any more than flour that is not strictly pure. “Clifton” flour is guaranteed strictly pure wheat flour, and is sold at a reasonable price. “Clifton” has no rival. There is no better flour sold at any price. Bkansfokd Mills. Owensboro, Ky. It is far better to have a policeman to call you down than to take you UP- Stricken With PitritlyHlM. Henderson Grimett, of this place, was stricken with partial paralysis and completely lost the use of one arm and side. After being treated by an eminent physician for quite a while without relief, my wife recom mended Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, and after using two bottles of it he is almost entirely cured.—Geo. R Mc Donald, Man, Logan county, W. Ya. Several other very remarkable cures of partial paralysis have been effected by the use of this liniment. It is most widely known, however, as a cure for rheumatism, sprains and bruises. Sole by Cherokee Drug Co. The self-made man is often the only one who is satisfied with the job. Appomattox Couiit House. Va , April 10th, 1865. The Bearer, 8. H Rinpey, Sergt. of Co. “C” 15th Regt. N. C. Troops, a Paroled Prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia has permission to go to his home and there remain un disturbed W. H. Yakborough, Col. 15th Regt. N. C. T. The above is a copy of the parole issued to our worthy old friend and gallant Confederate soldier. 8. H. Rippey, when he surrendered with Gen R E. Lee at Appomattox, Va., in 1865. Bergt. Rippey is btlll a stoat old gentlepian and says he would not exchange bis parole for the beat farm in Cherokee county. Yon never hear one girl say that another ’^too young to marry. Get a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets at Chero kee drag store. They are easier to take and more pleasant In effeot than pills. Then tbelv nee Is not followsd by constipation as Is often the ease with pills. Regular size, 25c per box. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWERGHEROKEE. Prom Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Dr. THlmnge'H Sermon Appreeluted nnu Ledger Keader'tt Disappointed Whenever They Miss One—Sunday-School Conven tion Largely Attended. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sept. 30.—Most of our Ledger readers were greatly disap pointed when the paper came last Saturday without the weekly sermon of Dr. Talmage. No part of the paper gives more real pleasure to a great number of its readers than this ser mon. Hardly anyone can be found who has not at some time or other been benefitted by what this learned di vine has said or some particular sub ject or occasion, and we hope the paper will make it convenient to give its readers a sermon each week. The North Pacolet Sunday School Convention which met at Salem last Sabbath, brought together the larg est number of people we have seen at a convention in a long time, and we admit it was a ver/ well behaved congregation taking a'l things into consideration. The afternoon session was set apart for the work of the question box, and this was by tar the most entertaining and instructive feature of the meeting. In conse quence of Rev. S. T. Creech being unabie to be present and preach a sermon many of those attending thought there could be only a morn ing session and failed to bring their dinner baskets. They, or most of them, returned at the noon hour. However, most of the congregation remained and those who took no part in the question box, remained outside and waited for the regular adjournment. In our last letter we spoke of Mrs. Robt. Blackwell being dead. This, we understand, is a mistake. It was Mrs. Blackwood, the widow of the late Frank Blackwood. Our school is expected to start the 20th of October. The patrons met last Saturday and elected Miss An nie Miller to teach it. Tomorrow your correspondent has been invited to meet at Hickory Grove the committe wtiose duty it is to get up a list of men who went from the Hickory Grove, Blue water and Bullock’s creek sections of York county to the Civil war. A long, long list of these names re mains yet to be enrolled, and it’s a great pity the State has lost so much valuable time—to say nothing of money, in trying to get these records. Toe only practical plan ever yet sug gested for carrying out this work ana making it absolutely perfect has been made a ‘botch of,” and seven years have been almost, it not abso lutely lost, in the deal. \Ve want to thank you Mr. Editor, for the editorial in last Friday’s paper under the cup - ion, ‘ The Cotton Mill Children.” That is one of the best things we have read on this sub ject lately, if ever before, and we want vou to keep hitting along this line until things change. The idea of a great strong able-bodied man lounging about the streets having a good time (as he sees it) while his little children, wno ought to be at school, are in the mill working to support, him is too revolting for us to contemplate. We are glad to say ail the men at the cotton mill don’t do that. These are among the best people. But we are sorry to say a large number do and a stop should be nut to it at once, and the man who introduces the plan to carry this out most effectivelly will be a benefactor of his race I’art of the time the flat can run at Howell’s ferry all right. The water in the river is very low now. We are having fine weather for making and saving hay, picking cot ton or doing any other kind of farm work. Mr. and Mrs. John Foster, of Kel- ton, were at Salem during the con- ventiou. The boys will have their debate next Friday night. The subject is: Who was the greatest general. Robt. E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson? You ought to come down, Mr. Editor, and take a band with them some time, and they will take you on a ’possum hunt, too. “Old Flaw” used to come and bring his banjo; but be baa quit. He’s about qnit writing for The Ledger, too. Stir ’em np, old fel low, now and then. For the benefit of those who think that the mineral products of Ghero- kee county are unknown away from boms we «qpy a letter pobllshed In Mnnsso’a Phonographic Ncwa, In Nsw York City, August 1898, page 1,071. This letter is among other business letters published in this magazine and written by Mr. J. E. Munsen in accordance with his work—art of phonography. It says: “Dear Sir: With further reference to your inquiry of September 17th. in regard to antimony in our territory for Messrs. Miller & Price, of your city, your tile No. 19—A: lam in receipt of a letter from the State Geologist of North Carolina inform ing me that ho knows of no occur rence of antimony in that State. For your information, I attach copy of a letter of this date, written by Mr. Price relative to lead ore de posit near Gaffney City, 8. C.” In Mr. Young’s answer to the ten- acre problem he is right in the main. But he said 310 yards, three feet and four inches, instead of 31I-I-9 yards, which would have been shorter. Will that good brother please give the rule by which he worked it? And one that will apply to all similar questions? We regret to learn that Clyde, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Sparks, of Clifton, has been very bad off with asthma. He is a bright little boy and in his suffering he has our sympathies. We hear the county authorities intend to build a new bridge at Owens’ ford instead of trying to re pair the present one. That is a good idea. That bridge has been standing so long that we hardly think it worth spending any more money on. A new one put up right and covered will serves the next generation without a dollar’s expense. We regret to learn that our army comrade,Mr. Jesse Nance, is suffering greatly with cancer. That the Great Physician will make his last days on earth his happies day-, is the sincere wish of his comrades one and all. One question put in the box at the Sunday School Convention the other day was: At what age do people graduate in the Sunday school? This question was answered by some present who had not reached the graduating period—although well advanced in years. j. i, s. Out of Duatil's Jaws. “Wuen death seemed very near from a severe stomach and liver trou ble, that I had suffered with for years,” writes P. Muse, Durham, N. C., “Dr. King’s New Life Pills saved my life and gave perfect health.” Best pills on earth and only 25c at Cherokee Drug store “ What’s good to eat is bad to eat,” says a chionic dyspeptic. Cures Klieunmtisin and Catarrh—Medicine sent Kree. Send no money—simply write and try Botanic Blood Balm at our ex pense. Botanic Blood Balm (B B. B ; kills or destroys the poison in the blood whi :h causes the awful aches in the buck and shoulder blades, shifting pains, difficulty in moving fingers, toes or legs, bone pains, swollen muscles and joints of rheu matism, or the foul breath, hawking, spitting, droppings in throat, bad hearing, specks flying before the eyes, all played out feeling of catarrh. Bo tanic Blood Balm has cured hundreds of cases of 30 or 40 years standing after doctors, hob springs and patent medicines had all failed. Most of these cured patients had taken Blood Balm as a last resort. It is espe cially advised for chronic, deep seated cases Impossible for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheumatism or catarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rich, thereby giving a healthy blood supply. Cures or per manent and not a patching up. Sold at drug stores, $1 per large bottle. Sample medical advice by describing your trouble and writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga. A personal trial of Blood Balm is better than a thousand printed testimonials, so write at once. Admiration often ceases where ad miration begins. Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have had eczema over thirty years, have tried many remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur. I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I have prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it the best remedy for cutaneous affections I have ever known, and re gard it as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours, W. A. Heard, M. D. For sale by the Cherokee Drag Co. The tree of knowledge is not the tree of llf^ A Word to Traveler*. The excitement incident to travel* ing and change of food and water of ten brings on diarrhoea, and for this reason no one ehonld leave home without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by Cherokee Drag Co. THROUGHOUT THE TIB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IntereRting Items CoiiremliiK Our Neigh bors Iteyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Keading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. Arthur D. Cnwlea, of Caldwell, formerly of Ashe, died very unex pectedly at the state hospital Tues day night. He was a half brother of W. D. Cowles, of Charlotte, and was about 60 years of age. Dr. Joseph Wilson, one of the brightest young men of Mecklenburg county, committed suicide Tuesday at his home, Caldwell, near Davidson. The weapon used was a 32 calibre pistol, and the ball entered the right temple, crashing through the brain causing instant death. At the request of State Superinten dent Joyner, the committee of the State Literary and Historical Associa tion met with him in Raleigh Tues day night and arranged t^e program for North Carolina Day in the public schools, which is fixe-’, for Wednesday November 26th, the day before Thanksgiving day. Calvin Elliotte, a negro, committed rape on Mrs. Caieb Brown, 4 miles from Lincolnton Saturday night. Mrs. Brown has a little baby only 4 weeks old. Calvin Elliotte wu- esugni Sunday. Three others, negroes, h«.ve been arrested on a charge of being connected with the crirnt—Till El liotte, Bob Elliotte and Jim White- sides. The grading of nine miles of the ex tension of the Raleigh arcl Cape Fear Railroad between Fi.qnny .'•priogs and Lillingion is compleieu, and the laying of rails will begin in a few days. By December 1 it is said the road will be in operation to Lilling- ton, or rather on this sideof the Cape Fear river in a half mile or less of that town. A fall of 57 feet into an old and un used mine shaft would naturally be expected to result seriously to the one happening to such an experience, but such was not the case with a ne gro, Ben Adams. On Saturday night about 9 o’clock he fell into one of the old openings of the Patterson gold mine near Pleasant Ridge, in Gaston county, and when he was pulled out by a chain half an hour later he was uninjured, save for a few small scratches and a bad scare. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., of Winston, shipped 180,000 pounds of chewing tobacco to F. A. Davis & Son, of Baltimore, on the N. »fc W. Tuesday evening. This com prises what is probably the larg est tobacco shipment ever made. The weed was in ten cars, ail with large white cloth signs on them, bearing the names of the firms to which they were going and the Reynolds Co. A large quantity of the tobacco was Schnapps, one of the Reynolds favor ites. A cyclone struck Monroe at 6:30 Wednesday afternoon. While no lives were lost, considerable property damage was done. Persons who saw the storm say that two clouds, one traveling from the west and one from the south, met just a little southwest of town and the whole traveled in a funnel-shaped mass very irregulary. A great mass of debris caught in the whirl seemed to be driven upward and then downward until it was finally dropped. Some eight or ten store buildings were unroofed and the rain which accompanied the wind flooded the buildings almost instantly. A little boy was smothered to death in a pile of seed cotton at Ansonvilie, near Wadesboro Monday. The little fellow, who was about 8 years old, was a son of Mr. Marshall Tyson, who lives near Ansonvilie. About three o’clock in the afternoon Frank and a number of younger children were playing in a pile of seed cotton at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Tyson, who also lives in the neighborhood of Ansonvilie. Frank dug a hole in the cotton about 30 inches deep. The hole was about the size of bis body at the top and at the bottom not larger than his bead. In some way the little fellow tumbled in the hole, head first and before his plight was discovered he smothered to death. It Is supposed be was in the bole 15 minutes. The supreme court of North Caro lina Tuesday banded down an opinion in the famous Nellie Cropsey case in which James WJloox was charged with the morder of Nellie Cropsey in Elizabeth City laet November. , The court give* Wilcox a new trial. The case li a familiar one to the public. Nellie Oropeey, a beautiful yonng girl, disappeared at night from her home in Elizabeth City. She had last been seen with Wilcox, at one time her sweetheart. Suspicion fell on him, but he was not arrested. Thirty-seven days after her body was found in Pasquotank river and Wil cox was arrested. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. He stoutly declared his innocence and an appeal to the supreme court was taken. Goes Like Hot Cake*. “The fastest selling article I have in my store.” writes druggist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., “is Dr. King’s New Discovery for Comsumption,, Coughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung dis eases, who could get no help from doctors or any other remedy.” Mothers rely on it, best physicians prescribe it, and guarantee satisfac tion or refund price. Trial bottle free. Reg. sizes, 50c and $1. For sale by CheroKee Drug Co. The lucky man is the plucky one who sees and grasps an opportunity. Women And Jewel*. Jewels, candy, flowers, man—that is the order of a woman’s preferences. Jewels form a magnet of mighty pow er to the average woman. Even that greatest of all jewels, health, is of ten ruined in the strenuous efforts to make or save the money to purchase them. If a woman will risk her health to get a coveted gem, then let her fortify herself against the in- siduous consequences of coughs, colds and bronchial affections by the regular use of Dr. Boschee’s German Syrup. It will promptly arrest con sumption in its early stages and heal Die affected lungs and bronchial tubes ! arid drive the dread disease from the s> str m. It is not a cure-all, but it is a certain cure for coughs, colds, and all bronchial troubles. You can get this reliable remedy at Cherokee Drug Co. Get Green’s Special Almanac. Speaking of gloves, three of a kind ftron’t in it wiih two pairs Natural Anxiety. Mothers regard approaching winter with uneasiness, children take cold so easily. No disease costs more lit tle lives than croup. It’s attack is so sudden that the sufferer is often beyond aid before the doctor arrives. Such cases yield readily to One Min ute Cough Cure. Liquifies the mucus, allays iuflamation, removes danger. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Cures coughs, colds, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung trouble. F. S McMahon, Hampton, Ga: “A bad cold rendered me voicel* ss just before an oratorical contest. I intended to withdraw but took One Minute Cough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win the medal.” Cherokee Drug Co. His satanic majesty acts as receiver for moral bankrupts. Spent More Thtto #1,000. \V. VV. Baker, of Plainview, Neb., writes: “My wife suffered from lung trouble for fifteen years. She tried a number of doctors and spent over $1,000 without relief. She be came very low and lost all hope. A friend recommended Foley’s Honey and Tar and, thanks to this great remedy, it saved her life. She en joys better health than she has known in ten years.” Refuse sub stitutes. Cherokee Drug Co. Cupid teaches the young female idea how to shoot. A Dozen Time* a Nlglit. Mr. Owen Dunn, of Benton Ferry, VV. Va., writes: “I have had kidney and bladder trouble for years, and it became so bad that I was obliged to get up at least a dozen times a night. I never received any permanent bene fit from any medicine until I took Foley’s Kidney Cure. After using two bottles, lam cured.” Cherokee Drug Co. Happy are they who don’t want the things they can’t get. Eortj Year*’ Torture. To be relieved from a torturing dis ease after 40 years’ torture might well cause the gratitude of anyone. That is what DeW’itt’s Witch Hazel Salve did for C. Haney. Geneva, O. He says: “DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured me of piles after I bad suffered forty years.” Cures cuts, burns, wounds, skin diseases. Be ware of counterfeits. Cheroke* Drug Co. There are no pure lives without pure hearts. To Cure a Cold In One Dnj Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists Mfund the money if it falls to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig nature is oo each box. 25o. To do is not to be. We ought to be more than we do. Local Cotton Market. The following prloea prevail oo the Gaffney market today: Good middling 8:624 Middling 8:50 LSSU*^-.