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t THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District, of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of'Every Advertiser Whp Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 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., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1904. 91.00 A YEAR. mUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Quite a serious forest fire raged on Paris Mountain Thursday night. The Holmes cottage became ignited, but the damage was slight, as men sent from Greenville to protect the prop erty soon extinguished the blaze. It was thought at one time that Hotel Altamont and the adjacent cottages were in danger, but none of them was damaged. The rain which came at 4 o’clock next morning extinguished the fire at all points. William Green, better known as “Cagie” Green, dropped dead on Blos som street near the South Carolina Cotton Oil mill in Columbia Friday afternoon from heart, failure. He was the well known street vender of ice cream blocks in the summer and fish and oysters during the winter season. Greeri was vending fish in the south- errt part of the city and as he was serving one of his customers he sud denly fell forward across his cart and died without a word or a struggle Tie . coroner was notified and after viewing the body had it removed to Van Metre’s morgue. The inquest was held at It o’clock Saturday morning. William A. Smith, a well known citi zen of the northern part of Marlboro county, was killed in a peculiar and horrible manner between his home and Cheravv Saturday night. He had been to Cheraw with a load of corn and was returning after dark. In some way his foot got caught in the stay chain and he fell under the wagon in front of the wheel. The wheel ran against and partly on top of Mr. Smith’s body, 0 but could not roll entirely over, as he was dragged forward by the chain in front. The mules ran for about a mile and dragged the unfortunate vict'm. with his body supporting the wheel ly^^and preventing it from revolving. Dr. B. H. Thurman, a prominent physician of Cheraw. was shot and killed by George W. Carmes, a tenant on his farm, Tuesday. The shooting took place about a mile from Cheraw, and the only eye-witnesses were Mrs. Carms and a negro man and woman. According to these, Dr. Thurman went tc«he house where Carmes lives and in a quarrel with Mrs. Carmes drew his pistol. Carmes, driving up about that time, snatched the pistol from Dr. Thurman’s hand and struck him on the head with it. At this the pistol fired and Dr. Thurman fell, dying im mediately. The post mortem exami nation showed two bullet holes in the back of the dead man’s head. Carmes has surrendered to the sheriff. The largest verdict ever rendered in a damage suit in this State was that in the ease of Mrs. Dorothy H. Brick- man against the Southern Railway for the death of her husband when the jury m Yorkville, after being out three hours, returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $55,000. The amount sued for was $75,000. Mo tion for a new trial was heard Satur day. The suit grew out of the death of Engineer Henry C. Brickman, who was killed in the Fishing Creek wreck on the Southern Railway on Septem ber 3, 1903. A consent verdict of $1,000 was reiurned in the case of Fred C. Poag against the Southern Railway for injuries received in the Fishing Creek wreck. Two consent verdicts for $300 and $400 were returned in the case of Partlow. colored, against the Catawba Power Company. Judge Townsend granted the order of Attorney Dennis Friday requiring Magistrate McCoy to give a prelimi nary hearing to the alleged lynchers of the negro Bookhard, who are now confined in the penitentiary at Colum bia. The motion was opposed by So licitor Hildebrand, who contended that the hearing should not take place for the reason that the prisoners had been taken out of the custody of the magistrate. It was explained by Mag istrate McCoy that he had refused to hold a hearing, not with any intention to deny justice to the prisoners, but because he had been advised by his attorneys that he was without author ity in the matter and he was prepared to act as the court might see fit to or der. With the notice of the grant of the order requiring the magistrate to give a preliminary hearing to the ac cused, it was decided to have the hear ing at George’s Station on Wednesday, December 7. Sheriff Morrison, of Berkeley, attended the hearing and per sonally served the papers upon Magis trate McCoy. LIVED TO GREAT AGE. Now Mr. James Wood, of Pacolet, Ninety-two. [Correspondence News and Courier.] Mr. James Wood, of Pacolet, cele brated his 92nd birthday last Satur day. He was born under the first administration of James Madison. In 1808 there were only 17 States and 135 electoral votes. Of these Madison, then called a Republican, received 123, and Charls C. Pinckney, a Federalist, 47. George Clinton received the 6 votes of his own State, New York. When Mr. Madison was elected to the second term there were 18 States and 218 electoral votes, of which he re ceived 128. DeWitt Clinton, of New York, received 89. When Mr. Wood was about eight months old Madison approved the declaration of war against Great Britain. When he was old enough to vote Andrew Jackson was looking after and pressing the Nulliflers of South Carolina. He has lived under all the administrations except those of Washington, John Ad ams and Thomas Jefferson. In his youth his neighbors were the Kirbys, Tollesons, Browns, Quinns, Mitchells, Bryants. Drapers, Joneses, Gores and Bateses, then over between Pacolet and Thickety there were the Lip scombs. Littlejohns and Wilkins fam ilies. When he was born there were, no doubt, men and women in the neighborhood whose memory of events ran back to 1750, several years before there was a white settler h: this sec tion of the country. The Pacolet neighborhood was then known as I ■'Buzzard Roost,” and it kept that name uitil about 1850. The families men tioned above met not far from where the depot now stands, and had their militia musters, horse races, jumping matches and fights. Some of the older citizens can do doubt point out the old race track. In 1812 there were no towns in the upper part of the State except the court house villages. Pinck ney Court House was then a promi nent place. The newness of our country may be illustrated by the fact that the lives of two people cover all our history as a Republic. Mr. Wood’s and his father’s lives ran back in our history to a time when we had no president. Tomorrow Night at Limestone Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening J. William Jones, D. D., former chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia, late chaplain of the University of Virginia, and chaplain-general of the United Confederate Veterans, will deliver an address in the auditorium at Lime stone College, at 8:30 o’clock, under the auspices of the Lodge Historical Club. There will be no admission fee, and everybody has a cordial invitation to go down and heir this learned gentle man. 'v —Rubbers at Carroll, Carpenter & Byers, at special prices. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1 a year. NO BOARD OF CONTROL. Governor Gets Opinion on Status of Cherokee Case. Attorney Gtneral Gunter Saturday gave, at the request of Governor Hey ward, an opinion as to the board of control of Cherokee county. A few days ago the governor received a let ter from the chairman of the board asking the status of the board and the opinion on the matter is as follows. Hon. D. C. Heyward, Governor, Colum bia, S. C. Dear Sir:—Your letter enclosing a communication from N. H. Littlejohn, chairman of the county board of con trol for Cherokee - county, requesting to be advised as to the status of that board since an election held in that county, which resulted in voting out the dispensary, has been considered. This election was held under an act approved February 25, 1904, (page 485), which directed that in the event that a majority of the qualified elec tors of a county vote against the dis pensary, then no dispensary shall be established there, and any dispensary already established shall be closed. After considering such sections of the dispensary law that refer to county boards of control it is clear that after an election resulting as the Cherokee county election, the county board is relieved of all duties and compensa tion, as the compensation is paid by the local dispensaries. The county board is a governmental agency, and there being no further trust or duty involved the agency terminates. The term “officer” involves the idea of the performance of some function of sov ereignty: hence it follows that where such function ceases the office no longer exists. Under this act. there is nothing to hold the office in abeyance and as soon as the dispensary is voted out the board becomes functus officio. Very respectfully, U. X. Gunter, Jr., Attorney General. Real Estate Transfers. The following lots of land were sold yesterday at the court house: By the Clerk. The Blackwood land, 214 acres, in Gowdesville, to W. B. Blackwood for $1,1G5. P. C. Davis lands—lot No. 1 to W. P. Self for $175. Lot No. 2, dwelling and brick store, for $1,290. Lot Nos. 1 and one-fifth acres to John S. Black for $327. Lot No. 4, to W. W. Thomas for $57. Lot No. 5, to J. S. Black for $54. Lot No. G, to T. Robbs for $52. Private Sale. The Byars place, containing 3G5 acres, was sold in three tracts and brought from $9 to $11.50 per acre. The Robbs place, containing 283 acres, was sold in two lots, and brought $2,550. Hurt by a Firecracker. Last Saturday afternoon Andrew Wood, colored, threw a firecracker in the face of Norman Gregory, a col ored boy. in rear of the Cherokee Drug Co. building, which injured his right eye, producing hemorrhage in the anterior chamber. Dr. S. H. Griffith is attending the boy and hopes to soon restore hts sight. The firecracker ex ploded just as it struck the eye of the boy. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE, MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. THE SIEMANS RECITAL. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest ^ Wilkinsville, Dec. 2.—We have a cold, wet morning that has put a stop to outdoor work and people are en joying the big fires. Your correspondent has just re turned from a trip to Clifton, where he spent two days this week with friends. Along the line of travel we find people sowing their wheat. Most or it is put in in first class order. The land was in fine fix and we may rea sonably look for a good crop next year. Mrs. J. L. S. has just received a consignment of fruit trees from the Tennessee Nursery, sent her as a present by Mr. J. W. Smith, of that firm. She is a very popular lady but, poor creature, like many other good women of Cherokee county, she has a poor excuse for a husband. We took dinner yesterday with our good friend, Mr. Dock Littlejohn, of Asbury, who is one of those farmers who makes farming pay. He has one of the most hospitable homes in Cher okee county, where the wayfaring man will be made to feel perfectly at home. The farmers in the Asbury section generally seem to be in good shape. They are about done gathering cotton and are breaking up and manuring their lands for wheat sowing. The chaingang has done some good work on the knoll near Mr. L. C. Ma bry’s home, in grading the hill be tween his house and Rehoboth church. The fall in the price of cotton is a great disappointment to those who haven’t sold yet. The new rural free delivery route from Pacolet by Trough Shoals, Gow- deysville, Grindall Shoals, and back to Pacolet, went into operation yes terday. The neighbors killed some hogs this week. But the weather is not suffi ciently cool to encourage much kill ing. Mrs. Mary E. Hill, of Etuwah coun ty, Alabama, is visiting relatives and friends in this county. She has been gone from this State forty-nine years next February. She is a friend to The Ledger, and has been taking it for several years. Rev. W. H. White will deliver a free lecture at the school house tomorrow night. Today is the forty-fifth anniversary of the execution of John Brown, the noted insurrectionist, which took place at Charlestown, Va. The White Plains farmers seem to be getting along well. Most of them have made good crops. Mrs. S. F. Estes is right sick. So, also, is Mr. John A. M. Estes suffer ing with muscular rheumatism. Mr. John Whitlock, of Jonesville, sent us word the other day that he was on his way to Gaffney to get his liquor supply for Christmas. If he had let us know it we could have told him to get it in Spartanburg, as we had to do. You will find prohibi tion prohibiting in Cherokee county, sure, John. Get it in Spartanburg, or in your own county. We can’t get it ourselves in Cherokee. Jimmie Strain is cutting timber to make him a new house. Mr. Jesse J. Mabry, one of the old est men in Cherokee county, is get ting right, frail now, though his gen eral health seems to be right good. Mr. John Estes has bought the Davidson place and is improving the buildings on it. J. L. S. A Pianiste of International Reputation at Limestone College. This fine recital was given in the college auditorium Saturday night be fore an exceptionally appreciative au dience, Miss Siemens, the artist, being recalled several times. Those who did not attend missed a rare chance to hear the best in music magnificently rendered by an artist of international reputation, who is giving her second series of recitals before the colleges of the South. This wonderfully gifted young lady of only twenty years of age gave us a long and very difficult program, play ed with a superb technic and abandon, and wonderful expression. The hand position and elbows well out, illustrated well the principles of piano technie taught in this college, and will be an object lesson to those students who attended the recital, as nothing else possibly could be. It is to be lamented that more of the down town students were not present, as hearing an artist like this is a large part of a musical educator. It is also to be regretted that more of the people of Gaffney did not attend, as it would have shown their appreciation of good music. THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN Mr. Gettys the Winner. The following is a report of the num ber of bushels of corn raised on an acre of land by those who took part in the contest for the ton of fertilizer offered by The Ledger: M. g. Gettys 76^ Bus. L. F. Blanton 66 Bus. J. M. Daniel 54% Bus. M. B. Vassey 28% J3us. The above report shows that Mr. M. E. Gettys has won the ton of guano. The methods of preparation and culti vation adopted and pursued by the different contestants will be published in The Ledger from time to time later on. —The latest attraction is The Gaff ney Drug Co., in their new quarters, op posite Commercial Hotel. —$5.00 Overcoats for men and boys, for only $3.85, at Carroll, Carpenter & Byers. % Subscribe for The Ledger, $1 a year. Beaverdam, Nov. 12th, 1904. Mr. Editor.—In compliance with my part of the contract in a contest on acre of corn, I hereby give my work. In October of last year the land was turned with a two-horse plow, several inches deep. In April of this year I put three loads of stable manure and seven loads of rotten muck out of the woods. Then I turned with a one- horse plow. In two or three weeks I ran off the rows four feet apart, dril ling 350 pounds of guano, dropping the corn two feet in hill. After the corn came up and was large enough, I ran around with two furrows. In a week or ten days I put in two hundred pounds more guano in the run-around furrows, with two more furrows. In two or three weeks I burst out the middle with a hoeing. This ended the work. M. B. Vassey. —30 long Cloaks, assorted styles and colors, at 25 per cent. off. On sale Friday, Dec. 9th, at Carroll, Car penter & Byers’. —The Silks at 49c at Carroll, Car penter & Byers will surprise you. Score One For Cherokee. [Sumter Herald.] That was a most significant election which was held in Cherokee county last week. The question was on the retention of the dispensaries in the county, or abolishing them under the provisions of the Brice bill. Strenu ous efforts were put forth by the dis pensary advocates to carry the day. Senator Tillman was appealed to, and though the matter was a local one, he responded, and made a speech at Gaffney, the county seat, a short while before the election and argued for his “baby,” as he sees fit to term the dis pensary. It was all to no avail, how ever. and the once redoubtable Sena tor learned when he read the result of the election that his pronunciamento no longer carries with it the weight which it did once, as the people are voting and thinking for themselves. By a vote of about six to one they re pudiated the liquor machine, regard less of the fact that under the law they imposed an additional tax upon them selves. So far as this tax is concern ed, however, we do not believe that the people of Cherokee will ever have it to pay, as the next legislature will, without doubt, strike out this provi sion from the law. The overwhelming defeat of the dis pensary in this one county is a finger post carrying a warning which the dis pensary machine would do well to heed before it is everlastingly too late. There has been much talk of corrup tion in the management, and there is no doubt that many, very many, people throughout the State believe it to be true. Certainly, where so much smoke is, fire may be found if search ed for with enough energy and persis tence. This paper has been a consis tent advocate of the dispensary, as a far better thing than the old-time bar rooms, when conducted properly, but it is time for the “great moral institu- iion” to purge itself thoroughly if it is to be continued. Much of the credit for the outcome of the battle in Cherokee is due to Edi tors DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, and S. Frank Parrott, of the Cherokee News, the latter of whom is a brother of the popular and efficient clerk of the court of this county. Both these editors were “agin’ the dispensary,” and labored ardently, assiduously, and most effectively to defeat it. Their labors were not in vain, and Cherokee is now without a dispensary within its borders. Henceforth their efforts will be directed to seeing that the law against blind tigers is strictly enforc ed. else the last state will be worse than the first. none jumped. The passenger coaches were uninjured. Waged a Good Warfare. [The South Carolina Baptist.] A great fight has been fought, and a great victory won. The free holders of Cherokee county, by a popular, vo luntary, free exercise of their suffrage, have closed up the liquor dispensaries in that county. No one claims the leadership in this popular uprising on the part of that oatient, long suffering people. May this be the beginning of the end of the present dispensary dis pensation. Cherokee is out and out for prohibition. It is so in name. May it be so in reality. Otherwise the last state, or condition of things, may be worse than the first. This is the time for unceasing prayer, for using every precaution, for unrelenting effort and for wakeful watching. We crave for ourselves and for our brethren a clear insight to discern what most needs to be done in the present religio politico status of things, and a firm resolve to do it, whatever may be the final is sue. To be sure, it is the part of Christian prudence to plan wisely, and then lay to and do the thing—the most important and imperative thing—and do it with a hearty good will. If needs be, let other things, let everything else wait, till the duty that lies near est to hand be done. Let each of us seize upon and make the most of the golden opportunities offered for doing good, knowing that we only have a few good years here for active service. Every considerate, observing, thought ful Christian earnestly desires to make and leave a lasting impression upon the world for good. Items of Interest Concerning Due Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers Telegrams received at Raleigh, both from Greensboro and Jonesboro, state that the bank of Liberty, Randolph county, was blown open by dynamite Thursday night and robbed. It is un derstood that $3,000 were secured by the bandits, who, according to the lat est report, were flying toward Greens boro with a posse in pursuit. The successful Democratic county and legislative candidates, together with a few invited friends, banqueted at the Hotel Berkley Thursday night, enjoying an evening of feasting and good cheer. Clerk-of-the-Court Marcus Owen was toastmaster, and during the evening a number of toasts were responded to. The guest, list included a number of the most prominent, poli ticians in the party in that city. Mr. Will Grady and Mr. W. B. Bow den, both of Dudley, Wayne county, engaged in a free fight, in which one or more deadly weapons were used. Grady was cut on tho throat, inflict ing one ugly wound. It will not prove fatal, however. Mr. Bowden, who is a justice of the peace in his township, had an arm broken. It is thought that an old grudge of several months’ standing was the cause of the trou ble. Grady went to Goldsboro for medical treatment. Mr. T. H. Stanton, a hardware mer chant at Goldsboro, sustained severe j injuries at his home Wednesday night, j He is having extensive improvements | made on his house. Wednesday ev-1 ening, when the workmen stopped for the night, they left a hole open on one of the porches. On entering the house Mr. Stanton fell through the hole, breaking his left shoulder and giving him a severe shaking-up besides. He is getting along very well, and his friends hope it will Only be a tempora ry inconvenience. Prospects of the successful mining of coal at Walnut Cove, in Stokes county, appear now to be bright. For years coal has been used locally, it cropping out above the surface at many points in the vicinity. Some months ago a coal mining corporation, known as the Virginia Anthracite Coal Company, of Camden, Va., se cured leases on five thousand acres of lands in and surrounding Walnut Cove, and has been formed to develop and operate the North Carolina prop erty. The Coal company, with head quarters at Walnut Cove, has plenty of capital, and began actual operations two weeks ago. Wednesday reliable information was received at Goldsbo ro that a six foot vein had been struck just back of the Methodist church of the village, and that the same vein had been found at two points, one a mile^ below the first point, and the other two miles below, and that every indication showed a rich, easily- worked deposit of anthracite coal. M. M. High, a carpenter by trade, was arrested Thursday night at the boarding house of Mrs. W. F. Snyder, on the corner of Graham and Eleventh streets, in Charlotte, by Deputy United The Beginning of the End. [Greenwood Journal.] Last Tuesday Cherokee county voted the dispensaries out by an over whelming majority. There were 1,- 522 votes cast for no dispensary, and 349 for the dispensary, making a ma jority of 1,173 votes in the county who declared themselves against the sale of whiskey by the State, and we trust that the most of these votes are against its sale by any one. In other words that they are prohibitionists. It will be seen that Cherokee takes on herself the penalty imposed by the amendments to the Brice bill which forces her to raise a tax for the en forcement of thq dispensary law with in her borders which will amount to $1,700 or $1,800. Besides she loses the profits which were formerly realized by her from the sale of liquor amounting to that much or more. But the latter are no profits at all. No town or community ever made any thing from a business which debauch ee her citizens. It could well afford to.pay any reasonable amount to keep such a business out. It would pay from a financial standpoint to say nothing of the moral advantages. We believe that the beginning of tho end, for the dispensary, is at hand. Cherokee has sounded its death knell. The good work will go on until it will be swept from the State and that will be a glorious day. But some very sympathetic folks are wishing to know what will be done when the dispensary is put out. And they are talking in a very doleful way about the reign of the blind tiger. Could we believe them, every blind tiger in the county will take up his abode in Cherokee county. We be- live that the dispensary is a most faithful ally of the blind tiger, and that its removal will be most disas trous to him. We have faith to be lieve that he will find it very warm in Cherokee county. The people who are against the whiskey evil are not very much alarmed about the situation when the dispensary is abolished. It is the other fellows who are shedding tears. When that time comes we be lieve that the citizens of South Caro lina who represent the manhood of the State will prove themselves equal to the emergency. . The Victory in Cherokee. [Baptist Courier.] We congratulate the people of Cher okee county on having voted out by such a great majority the State rum shop. The vote against the dispen-. sary was three and a half times as great as that for it. This thrownig off of the State whiskey shop was done in the face of the tax whicn will now be levied upon the county because it chose to cleanse itself from the three dispensaries which did business with in its limits. This tax is the amend ment contrivance by which the dis pensary champions sought to kill the Brice bill. It is a tax which the peo ple are to to required to pay as the price of ridding themselves of an in stitution which is corrupt and degrad ing to the people. Whiskey drinking takes the money of the people by the hundreds of thous ands of dollars. It impoverishes them, makes unhappy homes, fosters murder, degrades men’s minds and morals, and weakens their bodies. The vast deal of money it costs might bet ter be burned in the fire. It literally gives no useful return. And yet for the privilege of voting out this insti tution. through which the State has provided that the people shall swap money for the means of degradation, the State taxes the people. If they encourage corruption, all is well: if States Marshall Vance Scoggin, on the | they are too noble to tolerate it, they chanre of sendimr obscono mnttpr innst nnv fnr if’ Thna Hnac charge of sending obscene matter through the United States mails, the warrant being sworn out by Postoffice Inspector T. M. Reddy. High formerly lived at Derita. and three years ago married Mrs. Sallie Hartness, who, he says, represented herself to be a wid ow of the name of Mrs. Elliott. The couple lived together for two years, when High discovered that the woman had a living husband in the person of Lee Hartness, who is at present an inmate of the county horde. Differen- must pay for it! Thus does the State seek to debauch the conscience of the people, and put a premium on the in dulgence of the baser appetities. The Cherokee people declare, though, that it is economy for them to pay the unjust tax rather than have the dispensary. For, besides the tens of thousands of dollars which that in stitution utterly deflects from all use ful ends, it costs more to maintain the extra machinery of the law needed to punish the criminal made by the dis- —If you want to fret married that’s your business, but if you want to buy a pretty Xmas present that’s our busi ness. We have something that will suit you, and our prices are right. The Gaffney Drug Co. —But speaking of girls, have you ever seen such a sweet line of sta tionery as The Gaffney Drug Co. have opened up at their new store? ces at once arose between the pair, pensary than it will cost to pay the which ended in a separation. The wo-; unjust tax. man went to Durham, where she has 1 since lived. High moved to Charlotte I Mr. Switzer Fails. and took rooms at Mrs. Snyder's. In ! Gaffney people were very much sur- April, May and July, of this year, High prised yesterday morning when it was mailed to the woman whom he had married a number of letters which are said to be of an obscene character. These letters in some manner fell into the hands of Postoffice Inspector Red dy, who caused the arrest of High. There was a head-on collision on tho Southern at East Durham Thurs day night at 9:30 o’clock. Tom Trol- linger, colored, fireman, was probably learned that Mr. Morris Switzer, pro prietor of The Dixie, had gone into bankruptcy; his liabilities being $20,- 000 and his assets $8,000. It was thought that Mr. Switzer was doing a good business here; and the news of his misfortune was quite un expected. The Secret of Success. . Forty million bottles of August tatally injured, and Jack Price, yard Flower sold in the United States alone conductor, is suffering from scalded since its introduction! And the de feet. Trollinger has a badly broken an- mand for it is still growing. Isn’t kle and knee, his right leg is cut, and , that a fine showing of success? Don’t he is scalded and probably internally' it prove that August Flower has had hurt. The men were moved to the unfailing success in the cure of indi hospital. The collision was between gestion and dyspepsia—the two great- through freight No. 183, west-bound, I est enemies of health and happiness? and the Oxford & Clarksville passen- ] Does it not afford the best evidence ger train, tfhich was being taken to that August Flower is a sure specific “V” * i w « .j ^ a jj s tomach and intestinal disor- the “Y” to turn round. It is said that the headlight on the freight was not burning, and that the crew of the ders?—that it has proved itself the best of all liver regulators? August other train did not see the approach- Flower has a matchless record of over ing freight until too late to stop. The thi’ ty five years in curing the ailing crew on the other train saw the light millions of these distressing com- of the passenger engine and was slow-’ plaints a success that is becoming ing down at the time. The freight en- wider in its scope every dav, at home gine was of the big hog kind and was and a’ oad, as the fame of August not used up very badly. The other Flowe spreads. Trial bottles, 25c; engine was literally torn to pieces, and regular size, 75c. For sale by Chenv the wonder is that any one lived kee Drug Co., Gaffney: L. D. Allison, through the wreck. The freight was Cow pens. in charge of "Ben Lloyd, conductor, and Fred Burroughs, engineer. C. G. everybody has something com- Snell was fireman. Neither of these pHn.entsry to say about The Gaffney was hurt, although It was said that Dm. t^o.’s new store.