The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 10, 1902, Image 1

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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every. Advei* 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 10, 1902. $1.00 A YEAR. fflMGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. CveutH that Taken I’lare from One KniA of the Stale to the Other Called from Exchange* for Quick Heading by Scotch of Ituny I'eople. The l uited States Court will con vene in Greenville on the third Tues day in October. A nepro named Will Haging was committed to lorkville jail from Fort Mill on Monday afternoon on the charge of burglary and larceny. The board of trustees of the State colored college, at Orangeburg, has made its annual report which reflects great credit on the successful work and the economy of the management of the institution. After several months suspension the Keystone Granite Company, of Pacolet, will resume work in a short time on an extensive scale. This quarry is regarded ae one of the finest in the Cnited States, both as to qual ity and quantity. There has been more tobacco sold at Mullins, in Marion county, this season than ever before. Large quantities are brought into town every day and the warehouses find it hard to receive it all. The tobacco taken to Mullics^this season will amount to between 7,0(teVOOO and 000.000 pounds. The hospital for the insane in Co lumbia has just received 700 tons of anthracite coal, laid down in tho yard, for per ton. Dr. Babcock last spring was reliably informed that the price of coaf would go up, and he contracted for that many tons, thus making a great saving to the institution. A wreck occurred at Landrum on the Spartanburg and Asheville road Tuesday night about 11 o’clock. Four cars of a north bound freight train jumped the track while the train was passing the station. Two of them were badly smashed np and the other two derailed, one of them being set across the side track. Nobody was hurt. On Friday last at the cotton gin of Mr. J. A. Hyatt,' at Van Wyck, Lan caster county, Wash Banks, colored, wtes at work under the platform lead ing into the upper story of the build ing, when a cotton bale was shoved out of the building upon the plat form, whence it rolled off, falling upon Banks, crushing him to the earth and inflicting injuries so serious that he died the next day. The negro woman named Emily Bomar, who was killed at the double curve one mile south of Fair Forest station on the Southern Saturday by the Southbound vestibule train, was walking the track around what is known as the double or fatal curve. Four persons have been killed near the same point by passing trains be sides a conductor and some passen gers by a wrecked passenger train. There are ten negro murderers at large from York county, all of them having committed their crimes and fled within the past six years. Two of them killed victims near Yorkville; two near Clover; two near Rock Hill; one in Bethesda township, and three in the vicinity of Catawba Power Company. Although rewards were offered for each of them, there is no information as to their whereabouts. On Sunday night an aged negro, Dillard Lambright, who lived on Alfred Taylor’s place at Taylor’s station, eight miles from Greenville, was killed by the engine of train No. 35 of tho Southern. His body was horribly cut to pieces, the fact being discovered only when the engineer found a portion of the corpse on the engine when it stopped at Greers. It is supposed the negro had been drink ing, as was his habit, and went to sleep or was walking on the track. The rural delivery for the northern part of York county,as originally contemplated by Special Agent How ard, is now complete with exception of a route to run from Bandana ip a loop around the Point section, sup plying the people of that locality. The department has a petition for the establishment of thtf route, and It is understood that Congressman Finley is urging action; but it seems to be impossible to get definite infor mation as to when the matter will be arranged. The infant daughter of Mr. abd Mrs. J. W. Moore, in Bethesda town ship, York county, bad a narrow escape from drowning a few days ago. The little one, who has not long beau a toddler, was out in the bask yard, and fell Into a tub of water. The mother fortunately heard the splash and looking out of the window was horrified to see the baby apparently standing on its head In the tab. Hastening so the rescue, the baby was pulled nut of the water nearly dead. The little one was resuscita ted however, and in an hour or two she was all right again. William Fields, colored, died in the city hospital in Charleston Tuesday morning from the effects of a gun shot wound inflicted by M. Middle- ton, colored, at the Five-Mile cross ing in that city last Saturday evening. Fields was taken to the city Sunday morning, suffering from a pistol ball wound in his back and when he reached the hospital the physicians saw that he was in a desperate con dition. Fields stated that he and several other negroes were playing a game of “skin” when Middleton ap proached from behind and shot him in the back. About midnight of Saturday, Luther Bost, a cotton mill operative, was run over by a yard engine near the Air Line depot in Greenville. When found Bost was alive, his legs and body being crushed. He was taken into the waiting room and died there after an hour or so of suffering. When last seen before the casualty Bost was in the company of Will DeLoach, who was summoned to appear at the inquest but has since disappeared, thus bringing suspicion upon himsejf as Best’s watch and meney were missing when he was found. The coroner adjourned inquest in orderto hear from De- Loach, but at last accounto he had not turned up. He and Bost had been with other friends earlier in the night apd it is likely there was some liquor about. Bost was a young man and leaves a family at the Foe Mill. Goes Like Mot OuireH. “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- eaoes, 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 Cheroaee Drug Co. It is a great mistake to suppose that thecultivation of any one special virtue will be accepted as an offset to the indulgence in a special sin A Typii'iil South Afrlcaii Store. O. R. Larson, of Bay Villa, Sundays River, Cape Colony, conducts a store typical of South Africa, at which can be purchased anything from the pro verbial ‘‘needle to an anchor” This store is situated in a valley nine miles from the nearest railway station and about twenty-five miles from the near est town. Mr. Larson says: “I am favored with the custom of farmers within a radius of thirty miles, to many of whom I have supplied Cham berlain’s remedies. All testify to their value in a household where a doctor’s advice is almost out of the question. Within one mi e of my store the population is perhaps sixty. Of these, within the past twelve months, no less than fourteen have been absolutely cured by Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy. This must surely be a record.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. After all, it is not what is around us, but what is in us; not wbac we have but what we are*, that makes us really happy.—Geikie. Lookout for Fever. Biliousness and liver disorders at this season may be prevented by cleansing the system with DeWltt’s Little Early Risers. These famous little pills do not gripe. They move the bowels gently, but copiously, and by reason of the tonic properties, give tone and strength to the glands. Cherokee Drug Co. Good temper, like a sunny day; sheds a brightness over everything it is the sweetener of toil and the sooth er of disquietude. Don’t Imagine that all flours are alike. There is a difference, a big difference. So much depends upon having {fare, white and nutritious flour that the subject is worthy your careful Inves tigation and consideration. You will be better satisfied in se lecting “Clifton” flour, a fact that everyone who knows anything about flour will tell you. In purity, white ness and quality, “Clifton” flpaF ex cels all other flours. > - Don’t imagine that/ftecause “Clif ton” flour is a high grade flour-that the price is high, for the price is low; in reach of all boufikeepers. Obeap flour Is dear at any price, while “Clif- top” Is tbs least expensive, and lithe very best you oan buy. Bkamsfohd Mills, pivsnsboro, Ky. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Deathn In the County—Salem KlertH Dele- Katen to tke Synod—Plenty of Com Helng KaiHed In Lower Section of Clieroke— Other Paragraph*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jajkig, Oct. 7.—If the report from the U. 8. department of agri culture has anything to do with the price, cotton will go up. Mrs. Askew, mother of Mr. J. V. Askew, of Mount Tabor, died last Friday and was buried at the family burying ground near Kelton on Sat urday, Rev. W. H. White performing the funeral ceremonies. She was a Farr and was well connected in Union county. From reports we will lose two of our neighbors andtheir families—Mr. J. F. Wright and M. C. Comer. We have received a copy of David son College Bulletin of September 1902. It is a nicely gotten up pamph let and is quite instructive. The hour and minute hands of a clock are at right angles at three o’clock; at what time are they at right angles again? Blanche, the infant child of Mr. George Mitchell, died at Lockhart Mill last Friday and was buried at Salem on Saturday Rev. I\ B In gram performed the funeral. ceremo ny, Its mother died about five months ago. We sympathize with the father, grandparents and relatives of the dear little one ; who we have the assurance, is at rest. Ijcw gentle was the Saviour’s voice, When she heard Him say; ‘•J’ivss over the river for I am your guide The Father is calling for time. Sam Strain visited Hickory Grove today on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Strain have a sick baby. It’s sickening to see some children courting when really they ought to be tied to ther mamma’s apron strings and wearing the habiliments of infancy. It is extremly disgusting to see a boy setting beside a girl in church or riding with her, when at the same time he is wearing knee breeches. He may be in line with the young American idea but bis pants will never pass in the French style for they are neither Toulopg nor Tolouse. VVe received a letter from “Uncle Jimmy” this week. He is now loca ted at I’olmyra, Va., and running a newspaper, “Midland Virginian”— nice paper it is. “Uncle Jimmy” is a natural born newspaper man and he always takes ao interest in The Ledger, and we hope he will continue bis letters to it from time to time as he may have opportunity to write. The session of Salem church elected J. L. Strain as delegate to the synod which meets in Columbia on the 21st lust. T. J. Estes was chosen as al ternate. One day last week Mr. Vernon Millwood and Miss Ha Blackwell were married by J. F. Lee Patrick, notary public. There will be plenty of corn raised in this section to supply the needs of next year if nothing befalls it. Under “Personal Paragraphs” in The Ledger of the 3rd inst. we find something which we feel quite cer tain escaped the eye uf the manager or it would not have read just as it does. Mr. J. H. Llttlejonn, to whom it refers, is one of our oldest citizens and largest taxpayers and property holders, and In so far as we know he is just as liberal with his means towards worthy and deserving objects as some other men in Gow- deysville township, and for that rea son we note what is said of him. We don’t believe The Ledger would go out of its way gratuitously to cast ao uncalled for reflection on the hum blest citizeu in the county or State, white pr black. Perhaps some one who tbpttght it a matter of no conse- quenee dropped Ibe item on the man ager’s, desk and it went to the com- poelt.o.r. iGthout his notice. Mr...Jjltt.lejohn is nothing more to us ti)kb .any other reader of The Ledger, jet we bate to think that any thing .should have betm thoughtlessly said pq. gjye him offense. We have always.held to the idea that if people can’t, b.e. spoken of in a pleasant way it’s best not to notice them at all, unless it is a matter of duty to do so. We have just as close-fisted men in Gowdeysvllle township as Mr. Jack H. Littlejohn, and some of them haven’t a single kind word to say for The Ledger either. During the clear nights from now till the middle or last of November star gazers can have a beautiful view of'the heavens, while some of nature’s grandest displays will be made by meteors shooting across space In every direction. We presume that it was under such circumstances as these that the sweet singer of Israel was led to exclaim : “When to the heavens I look up Which Thine own finders formed, Unto the moon and to the stars Which were by Thee ordained ; Then, say 1, what is manthat Iks Remembered is by Thee? Or wliat tbc* son of man that Thou So kind to him shallUlst be?” —J. L. S. HI* Life lu 1’erll. “a 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 1'fe to weak, sick ly, run-down people. Try them. Only 5<lo at Cherokee Drug Co Earnest, active industry is a living hvran of praise; it is obedience, for it is God’s great law for moral exist ence. Stricken With Paralysis. 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 Fain Balm, and after using two bottles of it he is almost entirely cured.—Geo. R. Mc Donald, Man, Logan county, W. Va, 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, spiams and bruises. Sole by Cherokee Drug Co. If we would bring a holy life to Christ we must mind our fireside du ties as well us the duties of the sanc tuary. Natural Anxiety. Mothers regard auproaching 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 inflamation, 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 voiceless just before an oratorical contest. I intended to withdraw but took One Minute Cough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win tho medal.” Cherokee Drug Co. Teacher—W hat is the future of the verb “love,” Jennie? Jennie (sweet sixteen)—to get married. Spent More Tlntn SH ,000. W. W. Baker, of Flainview, 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. Believe that it is all going to come right, even when it seems to be com ing out ail wrong. 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 th* 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 Drug Co While we pray for God to bless us let us pray that He will make us a blessing to him. A Dozen Times » Night. Mr. Owen Dunn, of Benton Ferry, W. 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’* Kidney Cure. After using two bottles, I am cured.” Cherokee Drug Co. Local Cotton Market. The following prices prevail on the Gaffney market today: Good middling 8:fJ7 Middling- •«•••••••••••••«•••• 8:50 THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Iteyoml the Line Which M;ty Prove Eiitertmnlng Keadiiii' for IImnlreds of Ledger Readers. There is always “something new under the sun” these days. The lat est discovery is an apple snake. It was found in an apple by Mr. Webb Hamrick,of Duffer, in Cleveland coun ty. It is ab mr 12 inches long and about the size of a cabbage snake or a nice smooth horsehair, being milky whi te. Henry Campbell, who lives near Lattimore station, eight miles west of Shelby, committed suicide Wed nesday alien.non by shooting him self through the heart with a pistol. His heaiih had been had and was ag gravated by the excessive use of tobac co, which made him very nervous. He leaves a family. He was 50 years old, and a farmer by occupation. Mr. Boh rfuggs, who lives near Jason, in Greene county, shot a man named Charley Odum, who claimed to he a Mexican and a conjure doctor, and the Mexican died Tuesday nignt from tne effects of the wound. 1'he exican farmed on Mr Suggs’ place and they fell nut over the crops. Bot h sho’ at. H -M-h other v• r J t i nr and .VI r Mis'am was strut;* . . i c hut not seriously hurt. A number of young men from Fay etteville joined a posse of young men from Flea Hill Tuesday afternoon in u hunt for big a bear that is running loose in that township. A number of respectable citizens of that town ship vouch for having seen the ani mal. It is probably the same bear that got away from a party of strol ling Russians who were there with a number of performing bears last year. The Amos Owens Cherry Tree Com pany swindling cases came up in the federal court in Greensboro Tuesday and the defendants agreed to pay in $5,000 as restitution money at this term and another $5,000 at the De cember term in Charlotte. This will excuse them from the penitentiary sentence but they will have to serve terms in jail. Rev. T. Bright, Dr. Frank Bright and C. D. Wilkie are the principal defendants. Among the effects of the late Mr. James Cunningham, who, at one time was a member of the police force of Charlotte, was found an old faded picture and a letter giving the des cription of a man wanted in Savannah, Ga., for forgery, for whose apprehen sion a reward of $400 was offered. The finding of the picture soon led to the arrest of a young man who is thought to be the original of the picture. The Savannah authorities have been noti fied and it is thought a detective from that city will come to Charlotte to take a look at the prisoner. Governor Aycock has showed a comparative statement of pardons granted, taking one year of the term of various Governors as an example. Here is the showing made: Governor Vance, January, 1877 to January,1878, 42 pardons, G commutations; Govern or Jarvis, January, 1881 to January, 1882, 42 pardons, 8 commutations; Governor Russell, January, 1900, to January, 1901, 154 pardons. 05 com mutations ;Governor Aycock, January 15, 1901 to January 15th, 1902, par dons 56, commutations, 8. The in crease over the Vance or Jarvis par dons is about 33 1-3 per cent. The office of the Statesville Furni ture Company was broken into Wed nesday night and $50 in currency, be longing to Mr. J. C. Shelton, the treasurer, was taken from the safe, the combination of which Mr. Shel ton had inadvertently failed to turn on when leaving the office late in the afternoon. Entrance was effected by breaking out a pane glass in the window. The roblury occurred be tween the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock, and Robert Winecoff, the night watch man, saw the party leaving and gave him a parting shot. Several checks were in the cash drawer but these were uot disturbed. The roller flour mill, corn mill, cotton gin, etc, of Mr. W. J. Morrison, at Holly Bush, in Cleveland county, were destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Mr. Morrison and wife were in Shelby spending the night, having attended the funeral of Mrs. John Morrison In the afternoon. Sunday morning a telephone message came telling of the loss by firs and Mr. Morrison left for home. The mill contained about $1000 worth of flour, cotton, etc., and all this was destroyed. The loss Is shout $8,000 or $4,000, with only $1200 Insurance. The origin of the fire is a mystery, occurring as it did at a late hour of the night. It was at Hickory, instead of New ton that James Hammond, who is wanted for a muraerous assault com mitted on Superintendent Buchanan, of the Arcade Mill. Rock Hill 8. C., some time ago, was arrested; hut he is again at large. It seems that Ham mond was arrested by the Hickory police, who notified Sheriff Logan of Yorkville. S. C. The fellow refused to go back to South Carolina without a requisition, and Sheriff Logan in structed his Hickory correspondent to swear out a warrant charging his orisoner with being a fugitive from justice and hold him until the requisi tion could be obtained. In the mean time Hammond escaped from the Hickory jail. Tho negro, Calvin Elliotte, who committed an assault on Mrs. Caleb Brown, of Lincolnton, narrowly es caped lynching Sunday morning by a mob who broke into the Lincolntou jail where he is confined. While the would-be lynchers were at work at the cell doors the jailer slipped out and summoned a number of citizens to his aid. Because of the approach of citizens and because of the difficul ty of getting into the cells, they gave up the undertaking. The sheriff ap- oealed to the governor for assistance i and the military companies of Char- hnte were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to go to Lincolnton. All was quiet next day and the governor promised to call a special term of court to try the negro. Cures Klieuuiutisin and Catarrh—Medicine sent Free. Send no money—write and ‘ try Botanic BltiOU ' A 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 back 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, hot 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. The devil often retires from the field only to reoccupy it when the opposition is withdrawn. Thu Wont Form. Multitudes are singing the praises of Kodol, the new discovery which is making so many sick people well and weak people strong by digesting what they eat, by cleansing and sweeten ing the stomach and by transforming their food into the kind of pure, rich, red blood that makes you feel good all over. Mrs. Crunfill, of Troy, I. T., writes: “For a number of years I was troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia which grew into the worst form. Finally I was induced to use Kodol and after using four bottles I am entirely cured. I heartily rec'im- mend Kodol to all sufferers from indi gestion and dyspepsia.” Take a dose after meals. It digests what you eat. Cherokee Drug Co. He who goes away from God must come back, if he ever gets back at all, over the same road. A Communication. Mr. Editor—Allow me to speak a few words in favor of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. I suffered for three years with the bronchitis and could not sleep at night. I tried several doctors and various patent medicines, but could get nothing to give me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which has completely relieved me. — W. S. Brockman, Bagnell, Mo. This rem edy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge youraelf one.—James Anthony Froude. Danger In Fall Colds. Fall colds are liable to hang on all winter leaving the seeds of pnenmo- nia, bronchitis or consumption. Fo ley’s Honey and Tar cures quickly and prevents serious results. It is old and reliable, tried and tested, safe and sure, oontslns no opiatss and will not constipate. Cherokee Drug do. M