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. THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, F. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. A PEACEFUL NEGRO. Wo do not presume that the press of South Carolina means to even have the appearance of dictating to Gover nor Heyward in the matter of the murder of Allen Petidleton near Honea Path on the 17th, inst, but we believe it Is offering some mighty good advice. Rowdy white men should be made to respect a peaceful negro just as much as a rowdy negro is made to respect a peaceful white man.—Gaffney Ledger. Our contemporary has a strange idea of a “peaceful negro” if he puts Allen Pendleton in that class. If what is said by good citizens is true he was peddling North'Carolin^ block ade whiskey throughout the country oh the Sabbath day and sold Jim Mocjre enough to make him a litMe reoWcss, and when he was in no per sonal danger seized the stripling, helpless in the hands of such a giant, and stabbed him in the cheek, twice in the shoulder, slashed his arm near ly off. then drove his long bladed knife from the back of his neck through the throat until it came out under the chin and then kicked his body from him into the dirt.—Abbe ville Medium. I-iet us assure the esteemed Medium that our understanding of the affair was different from what its under standing is. We simply read the special dispatch telling of the trag edy, and, having no reason to believe that the dispatch misrepresented mat ters we commented accordingly. However, we will leave off the name of Allen Pendleton and the place, Honea Path, and then reiterate what we have already said. In addition, we want to say if Pendleton were The aggressor, and brought on the trouble then the law should have been allow ed to put him to death, and not a mob. When the mob took the law into Its own hands the mob became the law breakers and. such being the case, the mob should be punish ed We have no sympathy with mob law under any circumstances, be it a white mob or a black mob. The law of the land should be surpreme at all times. NOTES AND Ct'MME IT8. Jordan on the cotton situation. Both these gentlemen tell in more forcible and elegant style than we posalbly could to hold cotton and we can only add that we trust, for the best inter est of all, that Southern farmers will hold their cotton. • • • If the Southern patrons of bucket shops would withdraw their patron age they would do much towards making the price of cotton go up. Just so long as the Southern gamblers go to the bucket shop and bet that cotton will go up, just so long will Northern gamblers do all in their power to put the price down; and they will put it down, too, for they have more money than the South erners. Let Southerners desert the bucket shops for one month, and then Southern farmers can get their own price. As matters now stand the Southern gambler in cotton futures is a menace to Southern cotton grow ers. If a man is no earthly good he is always asserting that he’s as good as anybody. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and until the last f^A years was supposed to be Incurable. Fora great many years doc tors pronounced it a local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pro nounced It Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutionol treatmut. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the only con stitutional cure on the market. It Is taken internally in doses from 1(1 drops to a tea- spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cu'e. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address. t \ J ORKNEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall’sFamily Pills are the best. Col. T. B. Butler went over b* Pel ham last week to make a new county speech. This is Hie proposed new comity in which Greer is interested, and from the manner in which the people are taking hold of the subject it begins to look like there is going to be something doing over there. * * « We yield much ol our space today to a synopsis of Mr. Smith’s speech last Monday and to an address of Mr. Abbott Bros. Furniture and House hold Goods. Full line of Organs and Sewing Machines and Sup- pAieS. LIMESTONE STREET, GAFFNEY, S. C. Opposite Maness' Market Mr. Bryant on. Good Roada. Editor The Ledger:—If you will allow me space In your valuable pa per, I would like to tell the people of Cherokee county what I saw and learned on my recent visit to Char lotte to see the good roads of Meck lenburg county, N. C. I personally Inspected a portion of their improv ed roads, also their chaingang, and found them to be in fine condition, the finest I have ever had the pleas ure of inspecting, and there is ijo reason why Cherokee county could not have as good roads as these. They are graded nearly to a level and the macadam runs about twelve inches deep and is as solid as the rocks of Gibraltar. The consideration for a road is not how much your team can pull, but how much your wagon will carry. The way these roads are construct ed the farmers along the road to be built, haul the rock out on the road and receive 40 cents per square yard for their rock, so the farmers that are more interested in the roads and assist in getting the rock are the ones that receive the benefit, or rather get the improved roads. There is no reason why Cherokee county don’t have as good roads as any county in the Union. We have the rock and the citizens that are interested in the good roads movement who will deliver the r ck. So why not have the roads? It is reasonable that, we can have them and I, speaking in behalf of Chero kee county, will say that it is only a short time until Cherokee county will be equal to the foremost county in the State for goods roads. T. L. Bryant. The hoard of commissioners of Rutherford couniy this week sold an issue of $100,000 Rutherford county 41-2 per cent, refunding bonds to Seasongood and Maxer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, at $101,000. The bonds are to be dated January 1st, 190G, and are to be payable as follows: $:!,000 on January 1st, 1907, and $3,000 annu ally until January 1st, 1916, $3,500 on January 1st, 1917, and $3,500 annu ally until January 1st, 1936. There were about twenty representatives of bond houses in New York, Chica go, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chatta nooga, Atlanta, Asheville and Spai- tanburg, and the bidding was very active and spirited. NOTICE. 1 have made arrangements with the publishers by which I can sell one hundred copies of “Reminiscences of the Civil War,” By Gen’I. John B. Gordon, — for $1.25 less than heretofore. — That is, $2.25 for the cloth and $2.75 for the Morocco binding; or I can furnish the book in paper binding postpaid for $1.50 upon receipt of that amount or its being deposited to my credit in either of the Gaffney banks. J. L. STRAIN. Oct. 10, Imo. The season's first cold may be slight—may yield to early treatment, but the next cold will hang on longer; it will be more troublesome, too. Un necessary to take chances on that second one. Scott’s Emulsion is a preventive as well as a cure. Take when colds abound and you'll have no cold. Take it when the cold is contracted and it checks inflamma tion, heals the membranes of the throat and lungs and drives the cold out. . Send foe free sample. SCOTT « B0WNE, Chemists 409-415 Peart Street, Hew York SOc. and $1.00 • • • All druggist* J. B. Cash, of Rock Hill, was fire pon Thursday night on one of tt idence st eet- in that city and ha narron escape from death or s ms injury. It is said by witnesse •t the shooting was done by a ma T»»ted Vo-t'in. Hut t* 10 in +l -•ase have not been ^brought out. Mer ton was arrested soon after the shoot ing and placed under $25 bond for shooting in the city limits. Aftet- wards when a warrant was sworn out for his arrest on the charge of at tempting to take Cash’s life he could not be found. Children hardly ever learn not to te!l the truth before they can talk. « it Right? should lose $4.20 to let a dealer make 50 cents? A dealer makes 50 cents more on fourteen gallons of ready- for-use paint, at $1.50 per gallon, than our agent does on eight gallons of L & M. paint and six gallons of linseed oil, which makes fourteen gallons of the best paint In the world, at $1.20 per gallon; the property-owner loses just $4.20. Is it right? It only requires 4 gallons of L. & M. and 3 gallons linseed oil to paint a moderate sized house. Ten Thausand Churches painted with Longman & Martinez L. & M. Paint. Liberal quantity given to churches when bought from Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney; Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg. , Singing Convention. The next session of the Broad River Interdenominational Singing Conven tion will meet with the Piedmont church Saturday before the third Sunday in November, 1905. Saturday. Meet at 10 o'clock a. m. Devotional exercises by chaplain thirty minutes. 1st subject: WTiose duty is it to conduct the song service in the church? Speakers, C. A. S. Campbell and others. 2nd. The importance of music in religious services. Speakers, Rev. A D. Davidson and Rev. C. M. Teal. Intermission one hour. 1st. Is there any study greater than that on music? Speakers, Geo. Feagan and Rev. J. H. Smith. 2. The responsibility of the mus’c teacher. Speakers, Rev. F. C. Hick son and M. B. Scruggs. Sunday. Meet at 10 o'clock a. m Devotional exercises by chaplain at thirty minutes. Singing lesson by Charlie Vassey of thirty minutes. Sermon on music by Rev. D. E. Dortch at 11 o’clock. Intermission one hour. Afternoon to be ievoted to singing, conducted by B. Ray. Do not doubt that the self-made man will be a good thing—If he ever gets himself finished. Don’t cry over spilt mlilk. Call the cat. CLERK’S SALE. Pursuant to the decree and order *0! the Court of Common Pleas for Chero kee county in the case of John W. North vs. Harry R. R. North, Carlyle North, et. ah, I will expose to public sale, at Blacksburg, S. C., on Satur day, November 4th, 1905, between the hours of 12 noon and 2 p. m., that lot or parcel of land in Blacks burg. on Shelby street between the Iron City Hotel lot and the Lee lot. The lot to be sold has a frontage on Shelby street of fifty (50) feet, is uniform in width, and runs back (northeasterly) one hundred amt thirty-four (134) feet. (See deed from Charles M. Green to Florence C. Thomson, recorded in R. M. C ot- fice for Cherokee county, in Book “E.” P. 211.) The sale will be made in front of the Iron City Hotel at the southern corner of the said building next to the lot to be sold. Terms of sale: One-half cash, and the balance on a credit of six months with leave to the purchaser to pay all cash. Credit portion of hid must bear interest from the day of sale at the rate of eight per cent, per annum, and be secured by bond of the pur chaser and mortagage of the premis es. Purchaser must pay for all pa pers. and must comply with the terms of sale within thirty minutes after the sale, and in default of compliance, the Clerk will re-sell the lot on the same day, at the same place, at the purchaser’s risk for cash. J. Eb. Jefferies, Cl’k. C. C. Pi’s. Geo. W. S. Hart, Plaintiff’s Atty. Pub. in Gaffney Ledger Oct. 13th, 20th, 27th and Nov. 3rd. Make Your Grocer Give Yon Guaranteed Cream of Tartar Baking Powder Alum Baking Pow ders interfere with digestion and are un healthful. Avoid the alum. Through their attorneys, Wright & Carlton, the heirs of the late J. S. Pender, of Salisbury, have instituted a novel suit against the Southern railway for $10,000 damages sustain ed in the death of Mr. Pender. The deceased was a painter by trade and a month ago while returning from work, at Albermarle, to his home in Salisbury, he died in the coach in which he was riding. His body was not discovered until after the coach was placed on the siding on the yards, having reached Salisbury at a late hour at night. The plaintiffs ciaifn that the defendant company should have removed Mr. Pender from the car when it was apparent that he was dangerously ill. The legal points at issue have never before been submit ted to a North Carolina conrt. Star Theatre Three Nights Commencing Thursday, Oct. THE Gapon-Pollock Stock Go. In a Repertoire of High Class Plays Prices: 15, 25, 35 and 50 cents. Secure seats at The Ledger office. ^ i i r < jt 1 *. 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