Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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✓1 i'* f -•* . ■ *?• . .. .. ' . • ' .-7.-7.tcw; • *i s k$y . ‘ v L THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District, of 8. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Whu Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper In All that the Word Impllee and Devoted to the Beet Intereets of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1904. tMO A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. The eight-year-old soa of President R. R. Pell, of Converse college, Spar tanburg, while playing on a barrel, rolling It about, balancing his weight on the barrel, fell and broke hie left arm Wednesday afternoon. The arm was broken in two places between the wrist and elbow. Dr. L. J. Black at tended the lad and set and bandaged the limb and the boy is getting along nisaly. Mr. J. W. Ashley has been con victed before the intendant of Honea Path of disorderly conduct, loud talk ing and swearing. The offence was committed several weeks ago. Ash ley was represented by Gen. M. L. Bonham and B. F. Martin, of Honea Path. W. O. Graydon, of Abbeville, appeared for the prosecution. The defence appealed and the appeal will be heard at the February term of the court of sessions. Ashley was fined 630. “Josh” Ashley, who has been a member of the house before, was elected to the legislature in the recent election and in the primary he headed I the ticket. James Sizemore, colored, died at | Clemson College Wednesday night from the effects of a blow on the head with a stick in the hands of Bill Greenleaf, colored. The trouble be tween the two took place on Friday, the 19th of November. “James,” the head waiter at the Clemson slub ho tel, had sold “Bill,” a hand at Clink- scales’ livery stable, a pair of shoes on which “Bill”, still owed a dollar. This caused bad feeling. Bill cursed James because he kept asking for the money, and “dared” him to come down to the stable. James went and Bill knocked him in the head. Green- leaf has disappeared. The damage suit for $65,600 against the Southern Railway brought by the family of the late James L. An drews, of Greenwood, has been com- promised. The road offered to pay $10,000, and this amount has been ac cepted. The death of Mr. Andrew* wag unusually sad. He was one of the best known business men of Greenwood and at the time of hi* death was president of th* Dur*t-Am- drews company, a large wholesale and retail general merchandis* son- cern. He was standing in a oar watch ing the unloading of some flour and while so doing the car was moved by a shifting engine and Mr. Andrew* was thrown out violently oa tk* ground and sustained injuries from which ks died a few days later is a hospital ia Augusta, Ga. Th* mutilated body of Mack Ander son, colored, was found Wednesday morning not far from hi* bom*, ala* miles northwest of Chester. Ander son lived on Mr. H. A. Brakeflld’* place and was alxuit 21 year* old. Th* coroner's investigation show* that he had been taken from hi* house Tuesday night some 140 yards, foaly murdered and robbed of $i0. A bl<x>dy axe and other evidences prove the murder a very atrocious one. Ander son was known to have some money, which fact he had unfortunately com municated to other negroes of the neighborhood. Arthur Williams and Jim Sanders, l>oth colored, were ar rested on suspicion, and lodged in jail Thursday. Coroner Gladden is con tinuing his investigation, with the aid of a detective, and probably other ar rests will he made. % King street, in Charlesto*, witness ed a scene of excitement agaim Thurs day night, almost in th* very spot where the trouble occured Wednesday night between the po’ice aad the *a- dets, as a result of the dispensary eon- stable* searching Schiaderessi's es tablishment. The constable* seined a People Going and Coming Beyond the Broad- Blacksburg, Nov. 28.—Mr. Charlie Whisnant, of Charlotte, N. C., spent Thanksgiving day at home with his parents. Mrs. King, of this place, went up to Patterson Springs to spend Thanks giving with her son, Mr. Lee Roy Springs. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bridges, of Salis bury, N. C., are visiting relatives In town. Zeb Bettis, of Paran section, was in town Thursday. Mr. J. B. Blalock and family are spending a few days in North Corollna among relatives and friends. Mrs. B. M. Thompson spent Thanks giving day at Hollis, N. C. Mr. Gus Deal, of Columbia, is visit ing his mother, Mrs. M. E. Deal. Walter Belue, of Clemson College, spent Thanksgiving day here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Belue. James Blalock went up to Patterson Springs Thursday. Mr. Will Uealen, of Slice, N. C., has been In town a few days visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Healen. Miss May Shiver is visiting in Hick ory Grove, the guest of Miss Lula Smith. Col. Moorehead, of Hickory Grove, was seen in our town Thursday. Miss Katheleen Gadsden, of Lime stone College, spent a day with Miss Lucy Pollock last week. Miss Mayme Blalock and little brother, Walter, spent a few days in Gaffney last week. Mr. Goode, section master on the Southern railroad, at this place, has been quite sick hut is now improving. Miss Ethel Maxwell went down to Rock Hill Friday. Dr. Garland and Miss Eunice John son, of Gaffney, were in town a few hours Thursday. M. S. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. PfIESS COMMENTS ON THE ELECTION. CLIFTON CHRONICLES. WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THE DISPENSARY. Blacksburg, Nov. 26.—Mrs. D. D. Gaston left Tuesday for a visit to her daughter at Forest City. Pat Freeman spent Tuesday in Charlotte on business. Mr. Torrence, of Cherokee Falls, was in town Monday. Mrs. Will Finley and sister. Miss Sal- lie, are in town visiting Mrs. E. R. Turner. Mrs. H. M. Gaines and little daugh ter have returned from a visit to rel atives In Columbia. • Wm. Gaston, of the Buffalo section, wa* In town Tuesday. Mrs. George Eaves has returned from a visit to relatives in Marion, N. C. Dock Gwinn, of Spencer, N. C., is in town for a few day*. Ml** Mlt Hopper, of Gaffney, is the gueet of Miss Mamie Gnaton. “Caph” J. R. Ban tell attended court at Yorkvill* Monday. Mlase* Anna and Mary Faulkner w*r* In town Wednesday for a while. Mr. John Byars, of Cherokee, vis ited his grandfather at Patterson Spring* Sunday. Mr*. W. A. Graham and children ar* visiting Mrs. Charley Whisnant. Mr*. Peake and littla non, Tom, want to Hickory Grov* to spend Thanksgiving. Dr. W. E. Anderton and wife left Thursday for a visit to R**k Hill. Mary and Jami* Wkisonant spent Thursday with relatival at Smyrna. Mr. and Mrs. Cka*. Baber spent Thursday in Shelby, N. C. Miss Lula Smith, of Hickory Grove, spent Thursday with Miss May -Shiver. Personal Paragraph* Concerning Pop ular People and Short Item* of General Interest. ' Wilkinsville, November 25.—This community has been saddened by the death of one of its best young men— Mr. William A. George, who died at his home on the evening of the 23rd Instant, in the 36th year of his age. His popularity was attested to by the large congregation which attended his funeral yesterday. The funeral ser vice was held at Wilson’s Chapel and was conducted by Rev. F. C. Hickson, of the Baptist church, of which Mr. George was a member. The order of service was: Singing "Nearer, My God, to Thee” by the congregation; reading the 14th chapter of Revela tion; prayer, singing, “In Thy Cleft, Oh Rock of Ages;” sermon from the text, Rev. 14:13; and prayer. The pall bearers were: J. Eb. Jefferies, J. R. McCullock, Joe Humphries, Charlie Mabry, J. C. Jefferies and James R. Service. Mr. *Hickson’s talk was gratifying not only to the family and friends of the deceased, but to the large num ber of acquaintances who knew but little about his private life and char acter. He was what we might call a model young man, having at an ear ly age in the providence of God been placed at the head of his mother’s family, where the management of the farm and all the duties connected with it had the tendency to develop in him a Trait of business sufficient to meet the responsibilities and duties which the invalidity and death of his father thrust upon him. These he met and attended to with a success remarkable for otae of his years and experience. He connected himself with the Bap tist church at Abingdon Creek when quite young, and for many years has held the office of church clerk, which duty he faithfully discharged. Though he had been in ill health for a long time, and little hopes of his final recovery were entertained by his friends, yet no one thought the end so near or sudden. Not even all the members of the family were present when- he breathed his last. He leaves a widowed mother, sev eral brothers and sisters, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. He was buried in the family bury ing ground at his home *ear Wilkins ville. The sudden fall-off in the price of cotton has had a dispiriting effect on the farmers who yet have cotton to sell. As usual, Thanksgiving services were held at Salem yesterday. No minister being present a number of talks were mad* and a paper was road by Sam J. Strain, on the special causes we have for giving thanks and the proper way in which to discharge that duty. The scrlptur* read and songs sung were appropriate to the occasion. We regret to find our old friend, Mr. John Service, of Mercer, is suf fering from erysipelas in one of his legs. Mr. Service is one of our oldest and best citizens and has been an act ive business man all his life, which makes his suffering and confinement the more to be regretted and harder Lif* of An American Fireman. “Lif* of an American Fireman.” a wonderfully life-like picture in the Louis Salisbury Exhibition, is so real and so accurately enacted, both by the | to endure, pictures and sound effects, that one al- Thanksgiving day was observed by mo*t believes that he is at a real city our It. F. D. carriers and we had no fire. The firemen ar* seen entering! mail yesterday. th* burning building and rescuing the One of our neighbors under a sud- mother and child, who but a moment j den burst of generosity has proposed small quantity of liquor there Thar*-. ^ l***]?™ ^ day afternoon and they returned to th* place at night when the two Sehi- aderessis opened fire, which waa re turned, about fifteen or twenty »hot* being discharged, but the only casu alty was a slight wound In the hand of on* of the Schiadorressis. He was arrested but later was bailed at the station house. Constables Bateman, Williams, Patterson and Wright par ticipated in the raid and returned the fire of the owners of the place. The raid netted seventy quarts of whis key, brandy and wine. At 6 o’clock Thursday afternoon the Thornwell orphanage seminary build ing at Clinton caught fire in the roof ifrom a defective flue and was burned to the ground. Workmen had just fin ished testing a new furnace and the building had been closed for the day. The fire was discovered early but as the town has not yet put in its water works the efforts to put out the flames were of no avail. The fire soon reached an' 85-foot tower and became huge pillar of flames. Efforts were then diverted to the protection of the McCormick, a dormitory building on the orphanage campus and the recita tion hall of the Presbyterian college, hot*. *>f which were threatened. Both buildings were adequately protected. The loss is $8,000, with only $1,000 of insurance. It falls, therefore, as a heavy blow upon an Institution which only a few days ago had a similar loss, from which It had partially re covered by donations. before had given up all hope of ever l>eing rescued alive. The firemen fight th* flames valiantly, but the tor rent* of water seem to have no effect and th* pretty home is completely de stroyed. This exhibition will be pre sented at the Star Theatre Friday night. Died at Eighty Two. Roehelle Dawkins, a worthy and highly respected colored man who died July 28th, at the age of eighty two. He left a wife and four children to mourn for him. Rev. R. C. Camp bell conducted the funeral services at Mulberry Chapel. The Secret of Succe«s. Forty million bottles of August Flower sold in the United States alone sine* It* introduction! And the de mand for it is still growing. Isn’t that a fine showing of success? Don’t it prove that August Flower has had unfailing success in the cure of Indi gestion and dyspepsia—the two great est enemies of health and happiness? Does It not afford the best evidence that August Flower is a sure specific for all stomach and intestinal disor ders?—that it has proved itself the best of all liver regulators? August Flower has a matchless record of over thirty-five years In curing the ailing millions of these distressing com plaints—a success that is becoming wider in its scope every day, at home and abroad, as the fame of August Flower spreads. Trial bottles, 25c; regular size, 75c. For sale by Chero kee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cow pens. —Quilts from 85c to $2.00 Sarratt’s. at J. I —Blankets from 60c pair at J. I. Sarratt’g. to $4.00 per —Ladies’ Underskirts from $1.00 to $5.00 at J. I. Sarratt's. to give away four or fiv* nice pigs, about four months old, to the first ac ceptable applicant. No others need apply. The ginning season is pretty well over with. The Wilkinsville oil mill company thinks it can meet the public demand by ruunnig its ginnery one day in each week. Mrs. Martha Sanders, of Pacolet, is visiting friends and relatives in the Wilkinsville section. She was a Mc- Kown, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McKown, late of this section. Mr. Dave Fowler, one of our most progressive farmers, is exchanging hts cotton seed for cotton seed meal, with which he expects to fertilize his next year’s cotton crop. Thanksgiving day was observed by many in the usual way. No accidents or mishaps have yet been reported, but they are likely to come in later. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Goforth gave the young people and their friends a pound party last night. A large crowd was present. Much comment Is being made upon the manner in which Webster and other standard lexicographers are be ing murdered in the spelling of Christ ian names. But one came our road the other day in which a smart Aleck tried to fool a young man by writing him a letter and signing a young la dy’s name. It makes Webster and al! his cohorts blush with shame at their ignorant use of sounds. Phonetics is knocked into a cocked hat. More of it, brother. You hit the bull’s eye, sure. We have a special local free deliv ery mail service which is doing and has done much service In this compiu- nity. j. L. S. Sentiments of Various Papers on Cherokee’s Act of Voting Out the Dispensaries from Her Borders. When seventy-five per cent, of the qualified voters In a community say away with the dispensary, it is evi dence overwhelming that the institu tion has passed the point of further tolerance by a patient and long-suffer ing people. That is how it stands in Cherokee county.—Greenwood News and Views. • • • Cherokee county. South Carolina, has voted down the dispensary by an overwhelming vote, and the good peo ple of that county deserve great praise for their action, especially from the people of this county, for the State “booze shop” at Blacksburg was the Mecca of our drinking class, and they will now have to go to more trouble to get their booze.—Kings Mountain Herald. • * • Ben Tillman lost one of his political hell-holes when the good people of Gaffney, S. C., arose in their might on the 8th and voted his dispensary out of the city. We raise our hat to Bro. Ed. H. DeCamp, of The Ledger, for the fearless fight he made against the miserable den. If the dispensary w’as wiped out of South Carolina. Tillman would be politically as dead as Parker and Davis.—People’s Paper, Charlotte. N. C. • • • It may appear a little late, but we want to extend our congratulations to our friend, Ed. H. DeCamp, of the Gaff ney Ledger, for the splendid fight he put ut) against the dispensary, and the ’success that came to those who worked with him in voting out the dis pensary. It was an overwhelming vic tory, and it was a fine day’s work for the people of Cherokee, for it will mean the saving of thousands of dol lars to the toilers of that county—the saving will far out-balance (he increase of taxes to pay constables to enforce the law.—Wateree Messenger. • * • The Lantern, Chester’s semi-weekly paper, has rounded up six years of usefulness, and has started upon its seventh year in a new dress, made of a fine quality of goods known as Bre vier. The Lantern is, all things con sidered, the best semi-weekly paper in th* State, and that is saying a good deal, for the Newberry Observer, YorkTille Enquirer, and Gaffney Led ger ar* mighty good papers. The Lan tern lives up to its -name; it gives light, and its editor, Mr. J. T. Bigham, is a gentleman and a scholar, and abov* all he is a devout Christian sev en days In the week. And he has opin- i*ns and convictions of his own and has the manhood to back up his con victions. For the past six years of its existence it has always been on the side of right, and not a week has passed that we have not read it. Long may the editor live to send forth The Lantern to shed its bright rays of light, is the sincere wish of the Johns ton News.—Johnston News. * * * Cherokee’s Happy Riddance. The constables heretofore stationed in Cherokee have been withdrawn and the dispensaries checked up. Com missioner Tatum was notified officially on November 14 and at once notified : Chief Constable Hammet. Chief Fant. j who has charge of that division, was then notified and the constables with- j drawn. Governor Heyward will now give the matter a test and will watch with interest the outcome. As was 1 stated some time ago there will be no j constabulary in Cherokee until there; is complaint that the law is being vio- lated.—A. Kohn, in Charleston News i and Courier. i _ Dry Throats at Gaffney. The dispensary at Gaffney was closed the day before election never to open any more, the dispensary be ing voted out. Some of the boys in . Gaffney have been making a run on Atlanta and Charlotte, so an inform ant says. The boys are complaining of the peculiarity of thirst and there is no ready relief, “I Uidn’t know it was going to be this way,” remarked a man the other day. But the “moral institution” is gone and likely to stay gone. The night after the closing of the dispensary a car load of whiskey was placed in the siding to be shipped to Columbia. About ten o’clock a freight backed to to get it but the seal had been broken and some of the con tents gone. The dispensary people urged the conductor to hitch on the car and take it on, but he refused and left it standing till it was resealed.— Gastonia News. Personals and Locals from the City on th* Pacolet. Clifton, Nov. 28.—Dr. W. R. Rich ardson, the versatile editor of th South Carolina Christian Advocate, deliver ed one of his strong sermons at the Methodist church yesterday morning to a large and appreciative audience. Mrs. W. J. McDowell whose health has been failing for nearly four years, left last Thursday for the John Hop kins hospital where she will undergo treatment for a complication of diseas es. Her many friends trust that she will be restored to health very soon. •Miss Claudy Johnson, a popular young lady of Ridge Springs, spent Thanksgiving with the family of W. C. Allen. She is one of the efficient teachers dt White Stone. Prof. E. D. Byars, representing the Union Central Life Insurance Com pany, spent Saturday in town on busi ness connected with tho company. Prof. Byars is classed with the best insurance solicitors in this Piedmont section. Cotton has taken a stump which has a tendency to make those who are waiting for little prices to wear wry faces. Two R. F. D. routes have recently been established in this county, one leaves Converse and makes a very circuitous route taking in the B. F. Hammett place, while the other strats from Clifton and takes in some very important points, but as to just what route it will be taken, we have not as yet been advised. There is, we learn, a number of applicants for the posi tion of carrier. One of the mills shut down Satur day in order to widen and deepen the ♦ ail race. The shut down will only be of short duration. Dr. W. K. Gunter spent Sunday with his brother. Dr. Sam M. Gunter. Billie is a good demtist and a clever gentle man. Mrs. John Smith, of Spartanburg, assumes charge of the Clifton hotel today, by Mrs. Emily White resign ing. Mrs. Smith is a lady of large ex perience in the hotel business and no doubt will make a success of the busi ness here. Several of the Clifton people attend ed the dedication services of the First Baptist church of Spartanburg yester day. This is the finest church in the city if not in the State, for which the Spartanburg people feel justly proud. • W. C. A. THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. MONTGOMERY MEMORIAL. Presented in His Memory by S. M. Milliken. [Spartanburg Journal.] An artist representing the firm of Walter Janes & Co., of New York, de signers of memorial windows, some time ago arrived in the city for tho purpose of directing the placing of the handsome memorial window at the Baptist church which is presented by Seth M. Milliken to the memory of the late Capt. J. H. Montgomery. The window, which was shipped in several sections, arrived several days ago, and is now being placed in the edifice on the east side, facing Dean street. It is decidedly the most beautiful work of art of the kind in the city and without doubt in the State. Its cost was $3,000. The window com plete is in three parts, the body meas uring 10x6 feet and on either side of the largest panel Is a smaller one, each corresponding in size to the other. A narrow intervening wall separates the side windows from the main panel. Centered within the largest is a re production in colors of Hoffman’s mas terpiece painting. “Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock.” The window mentioned above has been placed in position and presents a beautiful appearance. Item* of Interest Concerning Ohio Neighbors In the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Reader* Work on the New Hope Valley Rail way, from a point between Merry Oaks and New Hope, within eight miles of Durham, ia progressing very rapidly. About twelve miles of the twenty to be graded has been completed. It is proposed to have the entire twenty miles completed by June 1st. A street car on the Proximity line in Greensboro struck Willie F. Har- vel, a 7-year-old boy, Tuesday after noon and knocked him down, his head striking a cross-tie. His skull was fractured and he was rendered uncon scious. He is now at the Greensboro hospital and his physicians report him to he resting very well, though he weis still unconscious next day. Shortly after 2 o’clock Wednesday morning the police station in Char lotte received a telephone message from Pineville saying that a shooting affray had occurred there a short time after midnight, at a negro gathering there. Burt Douglas, a Charlotte ne gro, shot Sandy White. Douglas’s mother resides on the southern out skirts of the city, and officers went to the house to watch for him. A number of Asheville sportsmen I engaged in a bear race in the Lookout mountain section of Beaverdam coun ty Tuesday. A hear that had been caught in a trap was turned loose, and after being given a good start a pack of hounds were also released. The hear was chased for about a mile when it turned on the dogs and showed plenty of fight, holding at hay the en tire pack of nearly twenty hounds. The animal was shot and killed by one of the hunters and was placed on exhi bition in the city market. Mr. Adam Hartley, an employe of tho Southern Railway shops at Soen- cer, had a frightful and dangerous ex- oerienco Tuesday night wh > imar costing him his life. Hr detailed to do some work in ... . new smokestack, which is about 80 feet in height, Mr. Hartley was some distance from the bottom when in some unaccountable manner he fell to the ash pit below, sustaining what is feared a fracture of his skull, be sides other severe injuries. He was promptly rescued from the pit by fel low workmen and medical attention rendered as soon as possible. The injured man was carried to his home in Salisbury and it Is thought will soon recover. Wednesday night at the Seaboard yard* In Charlotte, D. M. Stewart, a yard conductor,• suffered a very pain ful acident. He waa placing a re-rd’er on the track.« It slipped. The engine moved and drove the car wheel unon Mr. Stewart's hand. The car h°el caught hla hand between th» ro aile:- and the rail. He was taken at ^n^e to Jordan’s drug store and placed un der the care of the Seaboar l u-- | geons. He has a plenty of sand, hut MONTH’S MEDICINE ON TRIAL. Generous Offer to All With Weak Di gestion or Stomach Troubles. With every box of Mi-o-na sold, Gaff ney Drug Co. give the following guar antee bond, assuring the purchaser that the money will he returned if af ter a month’s use, the remedy has not given satisfaction; GUARANTEE BOND , We hereby agree to refund the money paid for Mi-o-na on return of empty box, if the purchaser tells us it has failed to cure dyspepsia or stomach troubles. This guaran tee covers two boxes, or a month’s treatment. Price, 50c a box. (Signed) —Just received a shipment of sin gle-barrel breech-loading shot guns to go at $4.00 each. J. I. Sarratt. —25 men’s Suits $2.00 each. Sarratt. J. I. Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining unclaimed in the postofflee at Gaffney, S. C., for week ending Nov. 28, 1904. A. Broullet, Reese Camp, Chas. P. Du Bose. Ora Good, C. O. Green, (2), I Abner Hammett. I>ock Hopper, Thos. I Jeter. Waltber Jefferies, W. M. Mose ley, J. J. Mayner, L. M. Price, W. B. Price, Miss Hattie Jefferies, Miss ! Mary Manning, Jesie Stevenson. Miss Mary E. Turner, (2), Hamlet Wilkins, Jim Westbrooks. Please call for advertised letters One cent due on each. A. R. N. Folger, P. M. ‘—Buy your shot gun shells from J. I. SarrattA Anyone whose food does not digest as it ought, who has to take thought about when and what to eat, should take advantage of this generous offer of Gaffney Drug Co. Mi-o-na is almost invariably suc cessful in curing stomach trouble of all kinds, from an acute attack of in digestion to a chronic case of dyspep sia. By its use new rich blood Is made the weight increased and health restored. If Mi-o-na were not successful in .99 cases out of 100, an offer like this would bo ruinous. This offer shows the great faith Gaffney Drug Co. have In tho health-giving powers of Mi-o-na and you should begin Its use at once. Try it for a month anyway. If it fails to help you, tho cost Is abso lutely nothing. \Ahile If It does what is claimed for it, tho expense is trifling. '• WANTED—100 customers to buy 100 Overcoat* from $2.00 to $10.00 each. J. I Sarratt. —100 Petticoats $1.00 to $3.50 eacii J. I. Sarratt. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1 a year. it was* distressing to see his ‘vie »rim- | while the surgeon cut the g’ov' i ff his wounded hand. Under the •• ill road grime on his face it was bite with pain. He was resting v/t!l at last account. A white man named Josep’: “JU, between 45 and 50 years of age, was arreei.od by the police of Durh;. Wed nesday morning on two clergy rf forgery. He was locked up r^d > a given a hearing before the mayor n ect morning. Ellis, it was alleged, f g al one order on Lea, Warren & Co- •nuy I for $15, and another on Pope, PPev & Pollard for $2<i. Both orders b- ! the name of E. H. Veazoy, a justice of t h * peace living in the northern p\ t .' W e county, affixed to them, the ware housemen, knowing of Mr. V^'zey, ‘promptly cashed both orders. '”h n arrested Ellis had in his po j se s on another order on Lea, Warren p Co., this order beiag for $15 and sign d by E. H. Veazey. Mr. Veazey is ao*o nf- nent farmer who sells much tobacco at Durham. The notes simply n '-^d the warehousemen to let “Mr. Jo o h Ellis” have $15 or $20, as tho.c e might be, and that he would settle next week when he came in with tobac'* >. The warehousemen, knowing M". V^a- zey as well as they did, did not u e L- tate to let the man have the mou >y W. R. Murray, of Durham, who Fri day was the principal actor in the ter rible tragedy in which he shot ’o death his uncle, J. S. Murray, wa • Saturday afternoon released from cos- today. He gave bond in the 'm o of $20,000 for his appearance at the next term of court. This conclu ion a< reached without a decision from t e coroner’s jury. Solicitor Brooks, who was there directing matters for the prosecution, and his associate, Jud 'e W. P. Bynum, of Greensboro, o i- ployed by the relatives of th«‘ d* • • ed, reached an agreement with ho counsel for the defendant that P wa not a case of murder in tho fi st de gree and was bailable. The atto n vs then agreed that a bond of *20 000 would he sufficient. This was te- ’e - od and was accepted, being approv <1 by both the coroner and the miyor, who has held the prisoner on n war rant Issued a few minutes after th"-- tragedy of Friday. The bond • • j i tided in the sum of $61,500, and the men who signed the bond are easily worth more than half million dollars.