The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 20, 1903, Image 1
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GAFFNEY. S. C.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER
1903.
$1.00 A YEAR*
MUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
of the negro killed refused to receive
or have anything to do with the body
and it was buried by the white men
present at the inquest. .Everything
was quiet and no further' trouble was
anticipated.
Items of Interest of Passing SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.
Events.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Kvent. that Have Taken Place from One
End of the State to the Other Culled from
Exchange, for ^jnlck Reading by Scores
of Busy People.
Mr. Enoch Rice, who owns and
’ operates a large ginning business at
Belton, got his hand and arm entan
gled in the machinery about the gin
Thursday morning in some way, and
sustained an ugly and painful injury.
A five-year-old lad, son of Jim
Adair, colored, of Laurens, Thursday
afternoon managed to get hold of a
pistol while the family were absent
and accidentally shot himself through
the body. The wound proved fatal
in a few hours.
After being twice sentenced to be
hanged an attempt is now being made
to save Brown Rodger’s neck. It
will be remembered that Rodger was
the negro who killed Rodger Fant at
Santuc and was tried at the last term
of court and found guilty and tried to
appeal to the supreme court, but the
request was not granted and Rodger
was again sentenced to be hanged
Nov. 13.
Milt Jackson, colored, was shot atd
instantly killed at a negro boarding
house at Appalachian mills, near
Greers, Friday night. As a result of
the killing Thomas and Major Moore,
colored, are in custody, the former
being the one who fired the fatal shot
and the latter being held as acces
sory. From inquest testimony it ap
pears that after supper the three were
playing with weapons and the gun in
Thomas Moore’s hands was accident
ally discharged.
While raiding a house near
Vaughan’s disti'lery south of Green
ville late Wednesday night, State
Gonstable M. S. Davenport shot and
dangerously wounded John Dandy,
colored. In a desperate scuffle the
negro got hold of the pistol and it
was discharged, the ball passing en
tirely through the abdomen. The
negro was taken to Greenville, where
an operation was performed Thurs
day morning. Physicians say their
work was successful and the wounded
man has a splendid chance to recover.
Wednesday night Constable Charlie
Maybry, accompanied by Will Gil-
reatb, went to the house of a negro
Dan Odom, near Landrum, to arrest
a young negro, Nig Williams. The
negro resisted arrest and fought May
bry and Gilreath furiously for a long
time, all the while trying to cake
Maybry’s pistol away from him.
During the scrimmage the negro
chewed Maybry’s thumb pretty bad
ly and finally succeeded in getting
hold of Maybry’s throat, and almost
choked the constable to death. While
in this position the negro was shot by
one of the boys in the back, the ball
passing through, lodging in his breast.
It is thought the negro will recover.
Conductor Ed. Turner, of Blacks
burg, one of the injured In the Fish
ing Creek disaster, has brought suit
against the Southern Railroad Com
pany for $20,000 damages. He is
still confined to his room and honse.
Mr. J. W. Rhyne, the father of Fire
man Fred Rhyne, has also entered
salt for $40,000. Their attorney is
Mr. C. D. Ladeon, of Atlanta, and the
complaints were filed in Yorkville.
Banker Marvin Morrow, of Blacks
burg, whose leg was so badly frac
tured in the wreck, has so far im
proved that he is able to sit in an in
valid chair and be wheeled down to
his place of business, but still suffers
from weakness of bis spine and
nervous system.
A two-year-old child of J. J. Kel
ley, who lives three miles above Bel
ton, was run over Thursday afternoon
by the through freight train on the
Columbia & Greenville branch of the
Southern Railway. The child was
playing on the track, and the engin
eer did not see it until too late to
stop. The engine and the tender
passed over its body, but the child
was between the rail* and it may be
that it was not fatally injured. It
was bruised considerably, and one
leg was broken, and was unconscious
at 9 o’clock Thursday, but physicians
who were in attendance were in hopes
that it wonld recover. The home of
the child’s parents is within 100
yars of the railrod track.
A race riot was reported as being
Imminent in Vangbanville, Newberry
county, Friday night. The whole
trouble resulted over the fact that
young Clarence Brooks shot to death
a negro who attempted to slay him in
^ bis father’s store with a heavy iron
weight. The jury of inquest said the
killing was justifiable. The Sheriff
Friday afternoon was requested to go
to Vangbanville with a posse or Mod
his deputy. The sheriff was sick, and
Deputy Johnson, with about fifteen
persons from Newberry, left that
afternoon for the scene. The relations
The city street force is now macad
amizing Broad street.
The first frost of the season in Gaff
ney was seen yesterday morning.
Rev. W. T. Thompson preached at
Betnesda, in Spartanburg county,
Sunday.
At the close of services at the
Presbyterian church Sunday, Mr. S.
Frank Parrott was installed an elder.
Cotton opened in Gaffney yester
day at 9.40, went to 9 47, and then de
clined and was sold in the afternoon
at 9.80.
There is a dealer in dispensary bot
tles in Gaffney who now has 15,000
bottles on hand, and has shipped
more than 10,000 to the dispensary in
Columbia before this year.
The advance in the price of
cotton the last of the week caused a
good deal to be placed on the market.
About two hundred and fifty bales
were sold in Gaffney Friday.
Z. A. Robertson is putting a coat
of plaster on tne outside of his brick
store corner of Limestone and Robin
son streets. The work is being well
done and will add much to the ap
pearance of the building.
The Southern Railway has about
completed the side track and coal
chute at the city light and water
station. These improvements will be
a great convenience and will be
properly appreciated by the city.
T. T. Gilmer has sold a half inter
est in the Pearl Steam Laundry to
his brother, C. T. Gilmer. They will
add some new machinery soon and
in every way keep the Pearl up to
its present and past high standard.
V.’e were shown, Saturday morning,
an Indian pipe by Mr. J. W. Gaffney,
which he dug from a ditch on his
farm. It will hold about a gill and
has four places for stems. We sup
pose it was made for a family smoke.
Geo. J. Williams, organizer of the
National Retail Grocers Association,
is insisting on Gaffuey being repre
sented at the convention of merchants
of South Carolina, to be held ia Co
lumbia on the 27th and 28th instant.
When the dispensary was opened
Saturday afternoon and the grand
rush was made, a calculating boy, of
about twelve, who was watching,
said, “Look at them, the dispensary
will make as much tbit evening as
it would if it had staid open all day.”
Cards have been received in the
city from Mrs. Livingston, announc
ing the approaching marriage of her
daughter, Miss Clara Kilpatrick, and
Dr. Daniel Park Thomson, on the
28th inst., at two o’clock p. m., at
her home at Seneca, South Carolina.
Services were held in all the church
es Sunday morning, but owing to the
revival meeting going on at the First
Baptist church,there were no services
in several of them Sunday evening in
order that such of their congregations
as wished to, might join in the revi
val services.
The Gaffney Lodge No. 43 I. 0. 0.
F. met Saturday night, and having a
large lot of work to do the Degree
Team of Spartanburg Lodge was pres
ent by invitation to assist in the
work. A number of new members
were initiated into the order and a
general good time is reported.
Roland Gaines, who has for some
time been outside man for the city
light and water works plant, has been
regularly installed as chief engineer
at the power-house and Charles B.
Cox, lately employed by the Gaffney
Supply Company, has accepted Mr.
Gaines’ former position.
Wm. Ramsey, Jr., died at bis home
near Grassy Pond on the 9th inst., in
his twenty-fifth year, and was buried
at State Line. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. J. M. Smith.
Mr. Ramsey leaves his wife, one
child and his father and mother and
several brothers and sisters, to mourn
their loss. They have the sympathy
of their friends.
To Protect the Game.
Recently there has been some com
plaint of the violation of the game
laws by hunters and dealers and for
information of all concerned, the fol
lowing is printed:
Sec. 533, Acts 1902: It shall be un
lawful for any person in this Sta x te
between the first day of April and the
first day of November, in any year
hereafter, to Icatch, kill |or injure, or
to pursue with such intent, or to sell
or to expose for sale, any wild tur
key, partridge, quail, woodcock or
pheasant, or between the first day of
March and the first day of November,
any deer, or at any time during the
year, to oatob, kill or injure or to
pursue with snob intent any of the
birds named in this section; nor
shall any persons destroy or rob the
nest of any of the said birds; and any
person so doing shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon oonviotion
thereof shall be fined not more than
$20 or imprisoned not mors than
thirty days.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
IN LOWER CHEROKEE
From Our Correspondent at
Etta Jane.
PERSONALS AND LOCALS.
Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap
penings In Lower Section of the Coanty
Gathered Up by Oar Regular Correspon
dent for Benellt of Ledger Readers.
(Correspondence of The Ledger. 1
Etta Jane, Oct. 17.—From all ap
pearance this morning the dry weath
er is at an end for the present. It
has been a great blessing to farmers
in allowing them to get their fodder
and hay housed and cotton picked.
In a few weeks the cotton would all
be open. There is no top crop of
cotton this year.
Ttere will be many changes among
the farm hands made for next year.
Good farm hands are hard to get and
they command fancy prices for their
labor. But shoddy, unreliable ones
stock the market. There is no con
fidence to be placed in many of them
and farmers will do well-to let their
lands be idle rather than be bothered
with them. A change every now and
then is heathful, anyway.
Farmers have been very busy get
ting their cotton out and forage crops
housed before the cold, wet season
sets in.
Dr. L. R. Black will soon have his
house ready for occupancy. He
has built a very comfortable cottage
on land bought of Mr. C. W. Whiso-
nant, on part of the old Davis place,
near Owens’ ford.
Some of our people haven’t finish
ed making up their molusses yet.
Merftrs. J. F. Wright and J. H.
Fowler are under treatment for can
cer. A specialist who came from
Danville, Va , is located at Mr. Elias
Inman’s, near Bullock’s Creek
church. She treated Mr. Inman for
cancer successfully a few years ago.
Mr. Jack Kendrick is kept busy
ginning. The cotton crop will soon
all be gathered and ginned up and
most of it sold.
A few of our neighbors have been
fishing with hook and line. This,
as a past time, has about played out
now.
We regret to lern that Mr. James
Scoggins, of Hicory Grove, is lying
very low at his home. He has been
in declining health for several years.
Besides he is a very old man. He
has a great many friends within the
range of The Ledger’s circulation who
will regret to learn of his illness.
Mrs. Good, an elderly lady of Hick
ory Grove, is also in the same con
dition. The recovery of either of
them :s very doubtful.
Miss Ethel Strain has been com
plaining of being unwell for a day or
two.
Mr. Ed. Hames, of The Ledger
force, was in this section a few days
ago. Why he didn’t call on us we
very well understand, and of course
we excuse him, as long as he keeps
as good or better company than we
are. Come again,Ed., you will never
regret getting acquainted with our
people. We’ll tell you what they
think of you when we find it oat.
The Ledger force is made up of as
fine and gentlemanly a set of young
men as can be found in Cherokee
county.
Mr. W’ade J. Pridmore, of Sarratts,
gave us a call yesterday.
Prof. T. J. Moore will teach the
Sunnyside school this winter, so we
understand.
The Messrs. Kell, of Blacksburg,
who have the contract for putting up
the houses for the Wilkinsville Oil
Mill Company, will soon finish their
work.
The whooping congb is getting bet
ter in this neighborhood.
Ed. Edwards thinks two dollars is
too much for a marriage fee. Fifty
cents will be a plenty, he says.
Mr. Noah Boice, of Jonesville, has
done some photographic work in this
section lately and will be back next
week to deliver it.
We metour old friend and neighbor,
Mid Mayner, at Gaffney a few days
ago and he was very anxious to see
and make up an acquaintance with
our lieutenant, Mr. 8yd Miller. Well,
Mid, come down and we’ll give you
an introduction to him.
8yd is one of the boys you read
of in the papers and an acquaintance
with him is very well worth the time
it takes to make it.
If Will Darby, of The Ledger force,
don’t stop having so mnch to say
about our manuscript, we will have
“Syd” to call at the office and attend
to him. Our other fighting lieuten
ant has other work on hand, but it
doesn’t take all bis time to attend to
it, and if 8yd needs any help he can
get it. 8o look out,Will, j. l. s.
—J. C. Robinson, the well-known
jeweler of Chester, will have on dis
play at the store of the Cherokee
Drug Co., Friday Got. 28, a select
line of diamonds, watches, jewelry,
silverware, etc. The people of Gaff
ney and vicinity are Invited to call
and luepeot Mr. Roblneon’s line.
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Millinery: Styles in Making: Out Door
Garments: Waists and Styles.
Rough white beavers in millinery
have a style all their own and are
often£trimmed in a manner to pro
duce the strongest possible contrast,
as for example, a covering of tulle
over the crown or encircling folds
around, with finish of summer blos
soms, among which roses have the
highest position. The above re
marks, however, do not hold in many
cases, for trimmings on the style of
hat just mentioned, are often very
daring. Now and then an immense
bird with wide open wings reaches or
perhaps exceeds the exaggeiated cir
cumstance on which it lies and forms
the sole garniture, or cruel in their
close succession are seen tiny white
birds that form almost entire cir
clets about a very wide crown.
SHINEY BEAVERS
are in great numbers and preferably
trimmed with mirror velvet and silk
figures largely, either laid smoothly
or in shirtings and throughout the
world of millinery,. shirtings in ma
terial both thick and thin, are a lead
ing style. Ostrich plumage is very
conspicuous, lending of course, an
air of elegance that is possible to no
competing garniture. Lace, too, is
important, forming a summer-like
foundation, but always in connec
tion with heavier fabrics.
SKIRTS
which have been the subjects of
much speculation and imprudent
prophesies, remain largely the same
in contour as formerly, the effort to
bring in fullnessness as to the latter,
compelling a concession to prevail
ing fancies, by a close adjustment of
drapery about the hips, the majority
still clinging and tight as ever as to
the upper portion. In connection
with skirts, moreover, too much can
not be written in praise of the Lily
Hair Cloth Flounce. Circular in
shape and made of the lightest and
best hair cloth, it imparts to a dress
skirt or petticoat, a style possible to
nothing else, quite preventing an un
seemly flapping in of material. To
protect the lower flounce, it is neces
sary to bind the same and greatly to
be recommended is the 8. H. & M.
new velvet braid which can be quick
ly attached by one sewing only and
affords an elegant finish and perfect
protection. Incredibly perfect too,
in its resemblence to silk, is the new
material Pres de Soie. It is ad
mirably suited to slip skirts and pet
ticoats, having the appearance and
rustle of taffeta silk, but far more
lasting. As it comes in fast black
and new shades, every woman can
make trial of it to her satisfac
tion. In
OUT POOR GARMENTS,
preference is given to tight fitting,
three-quarter lengths. Especially is
this this the case in regard to gar
ments en suite with the dress, though
applicable to coats in general. But
for independent garments, there is
variety in shape and length, running
from short jackets to long and quite
enveloping examples. Some are
close; others full and destined to flap
ungracefully in wintry blasts. In
coat sleeves also, there is much room
for choice; some being close from
shoulder to wrist. Many show full
ness below the elbow, with close cuffs
and others are examples of bagginess
from a short distance below the
shoulders. Eton jackets are seen
once more, but in limited numbers
only and now and then on a tight,
three-quarter or long coat, may be
seen a partical Eton to the waiat
line. The new Etons, too, are apt io
have longer fronts than formerly,
this probably in deference to the
stole fronts that are so fashionable.
DRESS SLEEVES
do not depart essentially from for
mer styles and small bishops hold
their own against large ones. A
sleeve of the summer is good for the
winter and ia this the economical can
well rejoise. Undersleeves too are
more of an element in sleeve adapta
tions than formerly, and as the effort
to modify or discard full waists has
failed, contours in general do not
signally differ from those of summer.
Lucy Carter.
An Extra Term of Court.
The Gaffney bar has asked Chief
Justice Pope to order an extra seesion
of the court of common pleas for this
county, and requested him to appoint
Mr. J. E. McDonnel, of the Winns-
boro bar, as special judge to preside.
W. A. McWhorter and J. E.
Garret, two prominent and successful
Pacolet river planters of Grindal,
were bueiuess visitors in the city
yesterday.
Luther Bonner, of Goucber, was
selling cotton in the city yesterday.
Natla faction.
It is always a source of satisfaction
to know of a remedy that can always
be relied on In emergencies and when
accidents occur, such a remedy is
Elliot’s Emulsified Oil Liniment. It
Is the most serviceable Accident and
Emergency Liniment ever produced,
and is just as satisfactory Id all cases
where a Liuimsot Is required —Gaff
ney Drug Co.
THROUGHOUT THE
TAR HEEL STATE.
From the Mountains to The
Sea.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh
bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove
Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of
Ledger Readers
Saturday afternoon, a boiler ex
ploded at High Point Brick Co.’s
plant at High Point, Younts & Coun
cil, proprietors. No lives were lost,
although the concussion was felt
some distance.
Governor Aycock Saturday sent to
Charlotte two commissions; one for
Pat H. Williams, as first lieutenant,
and the other to Mark W. Williams,
as second lieutenant of the Charlotte
artillery company.
A new bank, to be known as the
Hickory Banking and Trust Com
pany, has been organized at Hickory.
J. F. Abernethj is to be president
and W. C. Kenyon, now of Nevton*
cashier. The capital is $85 000.
Self and Wbitner, attorneys of
Hickory, have entered suit against
the town of Taylorsville for $2,500
damages in bihalf of one Harve Tay
lor, who alle ;es that he was injured
by a fall on the streets of that town
some months rgo.
The case of W. A. Conner vs. the
Highland J ark Manufacturing Com
pany of Ct irlotte, for $10,000 dam
ages for tl loss of an arm, was non
suited Frii ay after the evidence was
in, Judge Neal hddiug there was not
sufficient evidence to warrant the
action.
John Wagner, colored, who was
working with a steam shovel gang oo
the Seaboad Air Line Railroad at
Polkton, Anson county, was killed
last week by a shovel full of dirt from
the machine falling on him from a
height of 30 feet. He was so badly
crushed that he died in a few mo
ments.
At the meeting of the State Daugh
ters of the Confederacy in Asheville,
the following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. F. A. Olds, of Ra
leigh; Recording Secretary, Mrs. H.
A. London, of Pittsboro; Correspond
ing Secretary, Mrs. R. H. Lewis, of
Raleigh; Treasurer, Miss Mary
Oliver, of Newbern; Register, Mrs.
L. Smith, of Charlotte.
Mr. Fred W. Eubanks, a young
man of Hendersonville, has entered
suit against the State board of dental
examiners for $5,000 damages and
caused a writ of mandamus to be ia-'
sued iu an effort to force the board to
license him to engage in the practice
of dentistry. This is one of the most
unique and novel lawsuits ever insti
tuted in North Carolina and doubt
less the bearing will attract a good
deal of attention.
Saturday between seven and
eight o’clock at Barnardsville, tewnty
miles from Asheville, Dr. J. V. Jay
killed with a claw hammer, bis three
children, aged two, four and six, and
then attempted to burn his house.
Passing neighbors discovered him at
this stage, bound him and extinguish-
ed the fire and the sheriff went to
bring him to jail. The cause is sup
posed to be a craze from long con
tinued drunenkness.
About 11 o’clock Friday night in
Raleigh, a negro,William Stancil, was
shot and stoned by two white men,
Ed. Abrums having done the shooting
and John Russell having thrown the
rock. The pistol ball took effect in
the negro’s side and the rock broke
the skull just above the left eye.
The white men were abusing two
negro women in a disreputable sec
tion of the city when Stancil inter
fered, threatening to have the white
men arrested.
A cat met with a peculiar death in
Salem Tuesday. The feline ran up
an electric light pole near the old
Fries Woolen Mill, and jumped on
a short circuit of two ten thousand
volt wires. A man who witnessed
the suicide says when the cat struck
the wires a ball of fire about two feet
in circumference, flashed up. The
animal was torn to pieces and the
electric plant at the Yadkin river sus
pended operations for five minutes,
for which the cat was responsible.
Deputy Sheriff J. A. Baker, of
Laurinburg, while in the performance
of bis official duty Tuesday had a
rather unusual experience. He bad
a civil summons to serve on Rose
Graham, and had previously been in
formed by her that she would paes
through Laurinburg en route for her
home in Proctorville on that day. He
went to the train for the purpose of
serving the summons, and not seeing
her, asked her daughter where she
was. She pointed to a coffin that was
being unloaded from the baggage car
and said, "There she is.”
We discontinue each subscription prompt
ly at Its expiration. So watch your label and
the date and renew before ’tls too late.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
People Ton Know and People Ton Don’t
Knon
C. P. Teale paid The Ledger a visit
Saturday and renewed.
J. C. Plonck, president of the Cher
okee Manufacturing Company, came
to the city on business Friday.
J. J. McCraw, of the upper part of
the county, visited us Saturday and
renewed.
Dr. Forest McKown, of Cherokee
Fulls, paid The Ledger a vist Friday
and renewed.
Messrs. Gus Bridges, J. V. Bridges
and C. E. Blackwood, of Blacks
burg. paid The Ledger a visit Friday.
Two of them joined The Ledger band.
Mrs. Ann R. Waters paid The Led
ger an appreciated visit yesterday
and renewed.
Cant. John D. Jefferies was in the
city Friday.
Rev. |W. R. Potter is attending a
meeting of the Synod at Cheraw.
M. M. Tate and his son. Master
Roland, came to the city Friday.
W. L. Gaston, a prominent planter
from across the Broad, was in the
city on business yesterday.
A. S. Smith, and R. T. Morris, two
Love Spring farmers, came to the city
Saturday.
P. S. Webber spent some time in
the city Frday.
W. P. Love, of Love’s Spring, spent
sometime in the city yesterday.
Roy Webster, a popular Gaffney
boy, now a student at Wofford Col
lege, came home Friday and spent
Saturday and Sunday with his father,
Judge J. E. Webster.
Mrs. Charles K. Gould, of Spartan
burg, is in the city visiting her sister
Mrs. Pierson, on Race street.
J. T. Robbs, of Grassy Pond, was in
i the city yesterday.
J. (3. Smith, of Harris Lithia
Springs, was in the city Friday.
H. D. Mathis, a hustling Pacolet
river farmer, came to the city yester
day on business.
Dr. 0. G. Falls, of Kings Mountain,
N. C., was in the city Friday.
Magistrate Wm. E. Mabry, who
has been sick some time at his home
near Grindal, was in the city yester
day.
McD. Thompson, of Spartanburg,
was among the visitors in the city
Saturday.
Mr.and Mrs.Sam Turner,of Earls, N.
C., were in the city yesterday, visit
ing relatives.
J. C. Mills, of Rutherfordton, N.
C., was a visitor in the city Friday.
Hon. Wm. Jetferies’was in the city
yesterday.
Moses Littlejohn, of Ravenna, came
up to the city yesterday.
Mr. Cleveland Robbs, of Grassy
Pond, spent some time in the city
yesterday.
South Carolina and Attgasslnatlon.
The Inquirer has been careful not
to join in with those newspapers that
are condemning South Carolina as a
State because of the miserable failure
of justice in the Tillman case. There
must be some honest men in South
Carolina to speak up in defense of
the Commonwealth. It is not right
to condemn a whole community un
heard. But if the acquittal of ex-
Lieutenant Governor Tillman does
not arouse public indignation to a
high pitch, then the barbaric senti
ment which seems to have pervaded
the jurymen must be taken as rep
resentative of the sentiment of the
State at large, and South Carolina
will richly deserve the contempt that
all honest men are heaping upon the
beads of the ignoble twelve.
Is it possible that South Carolina’s
notion of chivalry embraoes cold
blooded anassination? There was a
time when South Carolina believed in
fair fighting. Is it possible that a
man can be permitted to walk the
streets with a revolver in his pocket
ready for instant use when be sights
a political enemy, can shoot that un
armed enemy down and be received
by society as a hero? We shall see.
Already twelve men have declared
that it is no crime to kill an unarm
ed man. Has Tillmanism brought
the morals of the people to such a
low standard that there is general ac
quiescence in the verdict? It will be
interesting to note that.
Kentucky, a plundered, stolen
State, ie torn up from end to end in
a desperate political struggle. The
honorable men of Kentucky are striv
ing their utmost to make it possible
after election day for the State to lift
Its head once more without fear of
drawing the earcastic fire of every re
spectable State in the Union. As
Kentucky is on trial before the peo
ple today, so is South Carolina. The
Commonwealth has been kicked and
caffed by Tillmanism, and now we
are to see whether Tillmanism has
dragged it so low as to make it care
less of outside opinion and of Its fu
ture.
For the honor of the once proud
Commoowealth it is to be hoped that
its popular indignation will respond
promptly to the ocsaslon, will resent
in no meaningless words the blot,
the fearful blot, that a contemptible
jury has put upon it, and will deolare
its utter horror of the proposition
that unarmed men may bs assassina
ted on the public highways and given
no possible opportunity to defend
themselves.—Philadelphia Inquirer,