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/ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY -PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE ! The 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, JANUARY 15, 1904. *1.00 A YEAR. * LAW MAKERS MEET AT STATE CAPITAL. 1 Jfirst Days’ Proceeding of Gen eral Assembly. soldiers, to attend the funeral, as fol lows: Messrs. M. P. Trioble, <>t Anderson; VV. E James, of Darling ton; J H. Brooks, of Greenwood; Jeremiah Smith, of Horry, and J. W. King, of Florence. WEDNESDAY’S SESSION. The most- important matter before tne general assembly yesterday war the tax commission’s report. A r license tax on certain corporations i- TRIBUTE TO GEN.GORDON. recommended and a “more vigilant and fearless performance of duty” is AH.embiy of south Carolina urged. The report shows that upon the basis of the appropriations for I 1903, there is need of increasing the State’s revenue by the annual sum of 1180,000 and by such an additional THROUGHOUT THE NEWS UF THE WEEK PALMETTO STATE.I IN LOWER CHEROKEE ' . Items of Interest of Passing From Our Correspondent Events. Etta Jane. at ALL OVER THE STATE. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. The General Met Monday and Set the Wheels of Legls latlou In Motion—KfHolutloiin on Deatli of | Gen. Gordon—Other lluslness. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Columbia, 8 C, Jan. 12:—The general assembly of South Carolina was called to order at noon yerterday. As this is the middle of the term, the work of organizatkn required littie time and before adjournment the wheels of legklation hud been set in motion to theixtent that in ea( b branch of the law-making body new measures had been introduced. Early in the day it developed that an effort would he made to pull off the elections at the earliest possible date, and in each house resolutions looking to that end were presented. Th ere has been only one death in either branch of the assembly, and only one resignation. Few are de tained on account of sickness or by business and the attendance yester day was very full. In the senate tbejmattar which was most impressive was the iact that the splendid portrait of the gaiiant Gor don of Georgia was shrouded in crepe and from its elevated position the likeness of the chivalrous Southerner looked down in benediction upon the deliberative body of a state beloved as dearly as his own. THE SENATE. Toe senate passed .an uneventful day session on its opening day. The roll call showed that Hi members were present, After an opening prayer by R-v. W. I Herbert of the city. Lieut. Gov. Sloan audressei the body. A committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Sharp, Stackhouse and Wil liams, was appointed to notify the governor that the senate wus in ses- Mion and ready for business. On mo tion of Dr. Dean the house was noti fied that the senate having been duly organized was ready for business. The governor’s message was pre sented by his private secretary and read in the usual manner. Several appointments were an- uouced. J. E. Watson having resigned as doorkeeper J. J. Watson, of Green wood, was given the position. Mr. A. D. M:Fadden of this city was ap pointed bill Mr. Butler, sum as will, in the course of time, accumulate a fund sufficient to put the State on a cash basis. The com mission suggests as one source for additional revenue whit is commonly designated as a license tax, and that the same be imposed as follows: 1. An annual license of three mills on the gross income of all rail road companies, express companies, street railway companies, navigation companies, water works oompa ii^f, power companies, light compa' iee, telephone companies, f elegraph com panies, parlor, dining and sleeping car companies, exercising the right and privilege of doing business, or operating under the authority of any grant of authority or permission by the State, whether by the direct en actment of the general assembly or otherwise. And also upon ad foreign, non-resident corporations engaged in like business and exercising similar rights and privileges, a condition u > ! on which said corporations may Jo j business in this State. 2. Aa annual license of one-half j of one mill upon the capita! stock of all other corporations exercising the right and privilege of doing busiue | or operating under and by virtue of the grant of such power by the State ; and also a like license upon all other foreign and non-resident corporations doing business within this State, ex cept those corporations hereinbefore numerated in paragraph 1, and also fire, life and accident insurance and -urety companies; provided however, chat in the case of the foreign and j non-resident corporations referred to | in this paragraph, the said license] shall be based upon the value of the property of such corporations used within the State in the conduc of I their buistiess. The committee furthtr rec >mmend that said license be fixed and assessed under such regulations as may be prescribed by law and that the same be paid into the State treasury for i the use of the State on or before the i first day of April in each year. The committee further suggests I a tax of one per centum on all per- ; sonal estates of deceased persons of clerk in the absence of - the net or clear value for distribu who is detained on ac- tion, of $10,000 and over, to be paid count of illness. ! to the State treasurer for the use of After the reading of the governor’s the State special message on the death of Gen. The committee further John B. Gordon, Senator Aldrich in- ; that the income tux law be Events th»t Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Colled from Exchanges for (jnlck Heading by Scores of Busy People. The governor has completed bis re port as to pardons grante i in 1903 Of offenses grave enough t > put the convicts in the penitentiary only fif teen were granted, which is quite a falling off from previous records. For chingaug offenses the pardons and commutations were about the same. There are several cases of interest in the United States Court in Colum bia this week. There is one against Lawrence Copeland, the postmaster of Bethune, who is charged with em bezzling the funds of his office to the amount of several hundred dollars Cooeland is now in the Richland jail and it is understood that he *111 plead guilty in order to secure the mercy of the court. Jesse Brown and Joe Humbi't, colored, were landed in the county jail in Greenville Tuesday bv Sheriff Gilreath on suspicion of being iin plicated in the shooting of Park Sex ton which occurre.near Grove Station in Greenville county, Saturday night. The assault on Sexton, by which he received a severe and probably fatal wound in the side, was reported to Sheriff Gilreath Monday afternoon late. While (>. R. Horton and C. S. Ma- ree, Furman students, in GreenviTe, were in attendance upon their respec tive classes Monday morning some unknown party entered their room at the dormitory and walked off with practically everything the young men possessed in the wav of wearing ap parel. The thief or thieves removed several suits of clothes, underwear, shirts, collars and other garments from the young men’s trunks, also re moved Hie contents of the bureau draws besides two overcoats. The loss of the young men amounted to something like $i0. The State has now on band enough monev >.. un the government until next November, or u: til taxes come in, $407,143 74 and if the State was lutereMliug ParagntpliM ttud Uecont llap- peulugtt in Lower Section of tlie County Gathered L'p by Our Kegular CorreMpon- dent for Benefit of Ledger Ueaderti. •Correspondence of The Ledger, i Etta Jane, Jan. 12.—With the death of Gen. John B. (fordon. the greatest man of the age passes from the stage of action. His place as commander of the U. C. veterm s can never be filled. He was a typical American a d no man on ei her^ide of the conflict where he won his dis tinction has done more (or e.-en to much) than he to allay the bittern* *s engendered by the the civil war. He admired by the fair-iuinuni i eo- pie of the North no less than the South. He could command as large and enthusiastic an auaieuee in li .- ton as in his own b one c'ty. All hi i vritn g and speeches wsre gulden with t he utmost c ire and propriety Nothing ever escaped his lips or pet to stir up the smouldering fires h> j tween the sections or to keep the old sore running la fact, he was one of those men who did his fighting at the righs time and in the ri^o j way; while some of our woald-o- | great men never got mad enough to light until ali opportunity to figi.t had passed away. The name of John Brown Gordoi will go down in history as one of th< greatest men of the 19.h century. Mr James Morris, who has beei sick w ith pneumonia, basso for re 1 covert d us to be able to get out arm , vtilk about some. Little Archy Strain is quite unwell, and has been for a few days. He has i WRECK ON SOUTHERN. Detail** of the CoIIImIou of Two 'Freight* Near Blacksburg. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Blacksbukg, Jan. 12—A serious hi ad-on collision occurred yesterday evening about six o'clock, 2 miles of this place on the Southern li. R., in which both engines of the two freight trains were almost totally wrecked and a number of box cars completely destroy ed. The two train* —Lt 72, north bound, and 2nd (13, southbound — were running at about 10 miles an hour. As both trains turned a curve | in a deep cut the engineers and fire- ; men instantly realiz-a their danger and jumped. Engineer Martin, of 2nd G3, had his nose broken and was badly bruised about the body. He is said to be from Greenville. His negro fireman by tbe name of Curetou had his right thigh badly fractured and a shoulder dislocated. Engineer Hmith, TMGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. of 1st 72 escaped without an injury, as did his white fireman. An Irish hobo by ihe name of John Lilly, on the southbound freight, was found under a coal car, fastened by timber and iron — a heavy chain btMtig drawn tig.it a -toss bis neca. As a resuit of considerable energy dis played by some young men of this place, lie v is lurten ou 1 badly oruisec and with his ng it leg broken. Later on the body of a negro man. horribly mangled, was (aken out from under the debris Hi? name is said t» be John Guyton. He was an extra fire man and said to be from Shelby, N ! 0. All the injured were promptly: brought to this place and given pro-! per attention bv Dr. J. T. Darwin, surgeon for the company, meantime, it is said thieves Interesting Items Concerning Oar Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Beading’ for Handredii of Ledger Keaderit Governor Aycock appoints the fol lowing delegates to attend the Nat ional Convention of Road Makers at Hartford, February 10th : 8. T. Kel sey. P. H. Hanes. 8. L Patterson, J. ] A Holmes and E. L. Daughtriuge. Charles Austin, a negro employed as u butler by Mrs Lottie Cobb at 87 Madison avenue. New York, was held without bail Tuesday on the charge of the murder of a negro at Lewis ville, North Carolina, in March, 1902 Thomas Bragg Heartt. of Raleigh, grandson of Governor Thos. Bragg, gets $l.f>00 damages from the Inter national Correspondence School, of Scranton, for slander. The school appeals to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. H. P. Cranford, of Woodleaf, Rowan county, was painfully injured at, Barber’s Junction Saturday. He was struck by a freight car and knocked down. Mr. Cranford was taken to the hospital in Winston, and In the ! Wtt8 *t first that his injuries were at I ' vere 8er ious work at the wreck. A large shipment ; A band of three Italians with two I 01 liquor was found on one of the j bears was run into by south-bound trains, and some parties, clack and ; passenger train No. 14, near Saluda white, took an advantage of tne mis- i at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning Oue fortune and readied iheir homes | bear was killed and oae of the men about daylight drunk and with some j f a t a ny injured. The wounded mac other property of the company was carried to Saluda, where he will It is said that 1st 72 had right of j be taken care of until he dies or re- ! track from Gaffney to Biacksburg and I -overs. I that through carelessness in reading i ] orders by engine- r and *■ . ic or ot I lhe P emteDt '* rv ,rr ' in « J d today lo 12nd 63 to'go to Ifilf ie .— .I *v: k some symptoms of pneumonia. Bascumb Osment, who has been “ CKl w Ul ' visiting friends and relatives in this d. section, expects to return to his home First Baptist Church N«»t«*. in Craighead county, Arkansas, next ()q next Sabbath at II o’clock week. We made a trip into the Gowdtys- ville neighborhood yesterday and took dinner with Mr. John A Haraes. Mr Hames is well known through out Cherokee county, and even be yond its bounds, as one of its best citizens as well as farmers, and bis home, farm and general surroundings ! near enough to attend. Sabbath school at 9:45. Let all whose names are on the roll try to be • - * > .r: I** the Ral- aouud Railway, be- concurrent resolution as suggests amended so as to provide an income tax of one- half of oue per centum on all incomes of $1 000 and over, instead of the and ex j. H. trodaced u follows: “Whereas, it has pleased the A1 mighty to end the brilliant earthly | present schedule of rates career of that brilliant soldier and j emption. statesman, Gen.'John B. Gordon, of Georgia, and “Whereas, at a trying and critical period of this state became to our aid and rendered voluntary services of such value and devotion aa entitles, „ t r him forever to be known as a friend Iowa of the people of South Carolina; now, therefore be it “Resolved by tbe senate and house of represtutatives of South Carolina,. , ... that a committee be raised to attend 1 eve 5 did 1U ll(e the funeral of Gen. Gordon and co pay the state’s tribute of respect to his memory. “Said committee to be composed of bis excellency the governor or such member pf the executive department as he may designate, the chief justice run strictly on a cash basis this would be all that could be appropria all go to prove that fact. He is now ted. but such wi'l not be the case, j turning his land with a two-horse The total claims against the Stan , j plow preparatory to planting another including notes and other matters of crop His lot, stables and cow stalls this kind, amount to $516,779 95 are filling up with home-made fertil- and the cash balance amounts to izers with which he has already $206 983 08. There is outstanding, brought bis farm to a high state of j however, including the $89 000 so- ] cultivation. He has sown different cured by Senator Tillman, which the 1 kinds of small grain for feed and graz General Assembly may olace to the : ing purposes for his stock, general fund, $776,937 61. This Mr. Hames is one of that kind of makes a total of $983 920 69 and i fHrmersjwho has a place|for everything ! with the $516,776 95 subtracted from and everything in its place. His this there will be a balance of $467,-1 plows are not lying about tbe place 148 74 like they were,’ knocked off and Sunday morning about 4:30 o’clock ! tbro ^ n dow “ ltl9t * ettr “ 8 if furnish 100 coi eigb <fc Pamlico ginning at Raleigh, January 20th; also to furnish 100 to Guilford county Dr. for the public roads for one year Simms will preach on “The Duty of Seventy five convicts, now at Hills- Memtere to the Church ;” at 7 :30 p. ! bor ° K*ttkg ballast for tbe Southern .. ru c* „ m „ .. ,, Railway, will be taken there, m., “rhe First Temptation.” All members are invited to be present. The Supreme Court has granted a A cordial invitation is extended to n pw trial to Cassel and Gardner, the citizens of the town, visitors in the employees of the R tter Lumber C^m- city and to country people who are i P&ny, who were convicted at Morgan- present; new scholars will be wel comed and assigned to classes. A Very CloHe Call. “I stuck to my engine, although every joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain ” writes C. VV. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman, of 1 ou dre lind h^lp or water could the Wilton mill, church and school house in Greers was discovered to be I was weak and | be seclire fi the pale, without any appetite and all 1 t’ urnef l- It is run down. As 1 was about to give up, I got a bottle of Electric Bitters, and after taking it, 1 felt as well as Weak, sickly, run down people always gain ne* life, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guara i teed by Cherokee Drug Co. Price 50 cents. would never be of any more use. But they are hung up where be can get any one or any kind he wants at any whole building was tim «- 4 Hl8 C0W9 and horse8 have a great loss to the good, dry, warm stalls with plenty of mOI. The building cost over $7,000, iitte # r [or bedding where they are and had only been erected about comfortable in the coldest weather, four years The company had only! .^r* Hames is treasurer of the buiid- a beautiful new lD S committee who are putting up a and this besides QbW church building near the Holmes graveyard, to be used as a uo.on church. The work is progressing fairiy well, and contributions are Cold Wave Couiiuic. If you have Rydale’s Elixir in the of the supreme court or such member ] bouse when a cold wave is coming, of the judicial department as he may designate, three senators to be ap pointed by the president of the senate and five membeis of the bouse of rep resentatives to be appointed by the speaker of the bouse. “Resolved that the sergeant-at- arms of the two bouses taka tbe ne cessary steps to carry these resolu tions into effect.” THE HQU6E When it was ascertained officially that a quorun of the house was pres ent,Speaker Smith ascended the dais on which is the speaker's chair and announced: “The Ideliberations of tbe day will be opened with prayer by tbe chaplain.“ The Rev. R N. Pratt then delivered bis invocation. At tbe conclusion of his prayer Mr. W. T. Aycock, of Columbia, was sworn in to succeed the late Hon. John M jMaster, of Richmond. Tbe first new business was a reso lution by Mr. Aull fixing Friday as tbe time for tbe holding of the elec tion of an aesot late justice to succeed Mr. Justice Woods; for a state libra rian; for two directors of the state penitentiary, and for chairman of the board and two directors of tbe state dispensary, and for a liquor commis sioner. Tbe resolution was adopted. The senate resolutions in regard to Gen. Gordon were unanimously you need not fear attacks of Bron chitis, Pneumonia, Coughs, Colds, etc. Rydale’s Elixir taken when at tack begins never fails to check the progress of the disease. It is equally successful in chronic casis of throat and lung diseases. i Gaffney Drug Co. recently purchased piano for the school an organ and several hundred dol lars’ worth of books and over $1,000 worth of property belonging to the Odd Fellows’ was totally destroyed. It is thought that the tire started in the auditorium, as the night previous the Odd Fellows had an oyster sup per in the hall and it is supposed that tire was left in the stove. The insur ance will partly cover the loss. Saturday night, of last week as Mr. John M. Willeford, who liv*s in the Mt. Holly jsection of York boun ty, was passing through a new road in the blackjacks about three miles south of Rock Hill on the way home ward, met a large, burly negro man. Entertaining no fear whatever of an assault, he guided his horse slightly Mr.Stacy Elected. At a meeting of the shareholders of the National Loan and Exchange Bank of Columbia held in that city •on the 11th inst., F. G. Stacy, presi- J dent of the First National Bank of Gaffney, was elected oue of to? •di rectors It is one of the largest money institutions in the State. The president's report showed the de posits on baud to be nearly one and a half million. AN OPEN LETTER. To the People of Gaffney. From the Cherokee Drug Co. To Whom It May Concern : Of late there lias been a good deal of discussion in Gaffney in regard advertised medicines and their value coming in sufficiently to encourage ! the committee that the building will i soon be ready for use. 1 —the papers are full of them. Mr. Hames tells us that he has re- We w,4nt t0 9a y t0 e v «ry mao. ceived contributions to this work woman and child in Gaffney that we from the most unexpected sources believe the most valuable preparation i'his is truly gratifying. The Ledger of cod liver oil—the best tonic, recou- has been instrumental in calling struetor, health restorer and siretgth people’s attention to this laudable | creator—*e have ever sold in our enterprise and it has been listened to store is Vinol. Mrs.Sdllie B.Ingram is teaching the ; Gowdeysville school. tin la*t summer of murder in the second degree for killing Dockery and Fortner. The decision eliminates much of the evidence on which the State relies, and will give the prose cution up hill work at the next trial, which will be held at tbe April term. Mr. Aldrich Tuesdny introduced a bill in the Senate for the erection of a statue of Gen. Nathaniel Greene on the battle field of Guilford Court House. In the erection of the statue and in making preparation for the site $25,000 is appropriated, the site to be selected by the Sejretary of War. The condition to rendering the sum available is that the site so se lected shall be conveyed free of cost to tbe United States. It is believed that this bill will pass. Tuesday Mrs. Parschall Long, of Edgecombe county, went to Raleigh with her husband an i sheriff Bullock to identify Joe Battle, a 22 year-old negro, who is charged with having feloniously assaulted her in August last Mrs. Long said: "Battle would not turn his face; he showed all signs of guilt. I will swear he is t 0 ; the right man He is much lighter in color. That is b cause be has been in prison.” Battle was taken to Raleigh to prevent lynching. He will be kept in jail there until his trial at Tarboro the first week in March. Killed. There is not un uebe or pain that :au be reached externally that cannot be 1 Killed in a few minutes by the to one side to allow the negro to pass, use of Elliott’s Emulsified Oil Lini- ; pm, the fellow, instead of attempting ment. Rub it on the affected part ! to pass, reached for the bridle of Mr. ar 1 the pain will soon disappear. Full Willeford’s horse, demanding at 1-2 pint bottle, 25 cents. Gaffney! the same time that he thould Drug Co. ! surrender his money. Mr. Willeford The Most Frightful Cough. answered that he had no money and It’s the croup. Isn’t that so? You surae time dealt the would-be A serious stabbing affair occurred at the Aurora Cotton Mills in eastern ; Burlington, Monday afternoon. Two Vinol is not a patent medicine, it operatives of the mill, named Floyd contains no injurious drugs, and it j j ohll90Q at)( j Jesse Cook, each about actually does contain all of the medi-; jy years of age, had some dispute on cinal curative elements taken from i Sunday, and bad blood exited be- fresh cods’livers, but without a drop , twe eo them. At the dinner hour of oil to upset the stomach and retard ; Monday Cook sent for Johnson and its work, and, moreover, it is deli- asked him to apologize for the lan- cious to tbe taste. guuge used This Johnson refused *o Vinol acts first upon the stomach, I q, and, striking Cook in the face, as York county, by Rev. W. G. Neville, i tones up the digestive organs, creates cook alleges, turned to run. Cook of Yorkville. j. l s. aD appetite, purifies and enriches the made four terrible ga.-het with a blood and strengthens every organ in p„cket Knife in Johnson’s bacK, head Naved From Terrible Deitth. tbe body to do its work as nature in- i and neck One gash in the back was 1’rof. T. J. Moore has a good school at Sunnyside. He has bad several years experience as teacher and we look for good results from bis work this year Mr Walker Goforth was married last week to Mrs. Della Kellar, of hear it just about midnight, when everything is so still—tha’, dry, bark ing, choking cough. You never can forget the first time you heard it. Don’t forget this, either—Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral quickly cures the croup. —What drug store are you going to patronize this year? Why not try The Gaffney Drug Co? You will find ; everything fresh and new and receive courteous treatment. “Give your blood a cleaning.“ Rbeumaolde clears out all the Im adopted and the speaker appointed a i purities that make you ill. Ask your committee of five, all ex-Confederate druggist's. robber three hard blows in the face with a riding bridle be was carrying This either stunned or blinded tbe negro and Mr. Willeford, being un armed and seeing his opportunity, put whip to his horse and escaped. Tbe negro was unknown. Wonderful Nerve Is displayed by many a man en during pains of accidental Cuts. Wounds, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sore feet or stiff joints. But there’s no need for it. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve will kill the pain and cure tbe trouble. It’s the best Salve on earth for Piles, too. 25s, at Cherokee Drug Co. and $100 Trial Cherokee Drug Co. ! tended. I Vinol is recognized throughout the , world a< the greatest strength creator : for old people, weak, sick y women 1 and children, nursing mothers and : after a severe sickness. Vinol cures backing coughs, chronic ; colds, bronchitis and ail throat and lung troubles. Uuequalied to create an appetite and to make those who , are too thin, fat, roty and healthy. Viuol is sold everywhere on a posl for all throat and lung Uve guarantee that, if it does not Guaranteed Bottles 50c give satisfaction, the entire purchase The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt, of Bargerton, Teno., saw her dying and were powerless to save her. The most (killed physicians and every remedy used, failed, while consump tion was slowiy but surely taking her life. In this terrible hour Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption turned despair into joy. The first bottle brought immediate relief and Its continued use completely cured ber. It’s tbe most certain cure In the world troubles. j eight inches long, and each of tbe others was of a s rious nature. John son lies in a critical condition, and grave doubts o' his recovery are en tertained. Bottles Free at money will Drug Co. be refunded. Cherokee —Let us fill your prescription. We use only tbe purest drugs. Watch our prices. Tbe Gaffney Drug Co. —Do you need a good razor? We qandle the Joseph Rogers brand. Tbe Gaffney Drug Co. Found a Cure for IudlK«***tion. 1 use Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets for indigestion and find that they suit my case better than any dyspepsia remedy that I hare ever tried, and I have used many diff erent remedies. I am nearly fi.'ty- one years of age and have suffered a great deal from indigestion. I can eat almost anything I want to now.— Geo. W. Emkky, Rock Mills, Ala. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaff ney, 8. 0., and L D. Allison, Cow- pens, S. C.